| Author | Quote |
Topic |
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| A. Jaffe, Charles | "For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. " | Business |
| A. Jaffe, Charles | "Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do. " | Business |
| A. Jaffe, Charles | "Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. (Quarter=two bits)" | Business |
| A. Jaffe, Charles | "It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. " | Business |
| Abbey, Edward | "For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! " | Nature |
| Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem | "I've had enough success for two lifetimes, my success is talent put together with hard work and luck. " | Success |
| Ackerman, Diane | "Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains... " | Nature |
| Ackerman, Diane | "Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. " | Nature |
| Acton, Lord | "I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. " | Business |
| Acton, Lord | "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. " | Business |
| Acton, Lord | "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. " | Government |
| Adam, Mike | "Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. " | Science |
| Adams, Douglas | "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? " | Religion |
| Adams, Scott | "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. " | Art |
| Adams, John | "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. " | War |
| Adams, John Quincy | "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. " | History |
| Adams, John Quincy | "To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs. " | History |
| Adams, Ansel | "There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. " | Art |
| Adams, Ansel | "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. " | Nature |
| Adams, Douglas | "Life is wasted on the living. " | Life |
| Adams, Henry B. | "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. " | History |
| Adams, Ansel | "You don't take a photograph, you make it. " | Art |
| Adams, Ansel | "Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. " | Nature |
| Adams, Scott | "Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. " | Business |
| Adams, Ansel | "The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. " | Art |
| Adams, Ansel | "Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. " | Art |
| Adams, Douglas | "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. " | Religion |
| Adams, Scott | "Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. " | Business |
| Adams, Ansel | "There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. " | Art |
| Adams, Douglas | "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. " | Experience |
| Adams, Henry B. | "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. " | Science |
| Addison, Joseph | "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. " | Education |
| Addison, Joseph | "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. " | Imagination |
| Adenauer, Konrad | "History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. " | History |
| Adler, Stella | "Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. " | Art |
| Ager, Cecelia | "Miss Hepburn's voice was lilting along as before: She is oblivious of her impact. Or inured to it. Or stuck with it. " | Art |
| Aguilera, Christina | "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? " | Movie |
| Aiken, Howard | "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. " | Business |
| Alberti, Leon Battista | "When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. " | Science |
| Alderson, M. H. | "If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. " | Success |
| Aldington, Richard | "Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. " | Patriotism |
| Alexandria, Rodan of | "Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. " | Science |
| Ali, Muhammad | "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. " | Friendship |
| Ali, Muhammad | "The man who has no imagination has no wings. " | Imagination |
| Ali, Muhammad | "I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. " | Peace |
| Alighieri, Dante | "Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. " | History |
| Allchin, Jim | "I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we. " | Technology |
| Allen, Steve | "Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking. " | Nature |
| Allen, George | "People of medicore ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. " | Business |
| Allman, Dr. David | "The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will. " | Science |
| Alsop, Stewart | "Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. " | Technology |
| Alsop, Stewart | "Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people. " | Technology |
| Amiel, Henri Frederic | "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. " | Intelligence |
| ammarskjold, Dag H | "The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. " | Peace |
| Anderson, Hans Christian | "Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. " | Nature |
| Anderson, Jack | "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. " | Business |
| Andrews, Julie | "All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. " | Love |
| Angelou, Maya | "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. " | Music |
| Aniston, Jennifer | "I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
" | Business |
| Annaeus Seneca, Lucius | "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. " | Business |
| Annan, Kofi | "Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. " | History |
| Annas, Dr. George J. | "The more things doctors are able to do, the more likely that at least a few doctors won't do them. And the result will be more people suing for negligence. " | Science |
| Anthony, Susan B. | "Failure is impossible. " | History |
| Appleton, Sir Edward | "I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. " | Business |
| Aquinas, Saint Thomas | "There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. " | Friendship |
| Aquinas, Saint Thomas | "Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. " | Love |
| Arbus, Diane | "A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. " | Art |
| Archimedes, | "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. " | Science |
| Arendt, Hannah | "The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. " | Dream |
| Aristotle, | "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. " | Friendship |
| Aristotle, | "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. " | Education |
| Aristotle, | "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. " | Friendship |
| Aristotle, | "Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. " | Education |
| Aristotle, | "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. " | Art |
| Aristotle, | "Wit is educated insolence. " | Intelligence |
| Armstrong, Neil | "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. " | History |
| Arnold, Matthew | "This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. " | Society |
| Arp, Jean | "Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... " | Technology |
| Ash, Mary Kay | "Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. " | Science |
| Asimov, Isaac | "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. " | Science |
| Asimov, Isaac | "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. " | Science |
| Asimov, Isaac | "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' " | Science |
| Asimov, Isaac | "Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. " | Religion |
| Asimov, Isaac | "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. " | Computer |
| Asimov, Isaac | "John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. " | War |
| Asimov, Isaac | "Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. " | Business |
| Atwood, Margaret | "The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. " | Love |
| Auden, W. H. | "When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. " | Science |
| Auden, W. H. | "No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. " | Music |
| Auden, W. H. | "What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. " | Art |
| Auerbach, Berthold | "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. " | Music |
| Augustine, Saint | "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? " | Government |
| Aumonier, Minnie | "There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. " | Nature |
| Aurelius, Marcus | "Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. " | Science |
| Aurelius, Marcus | "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. " | Life |
| Aurobindo, Ghose | "To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. " | Religion |
| Austen, Jane | "To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. " | Nature |
| Avedon, Richard | "My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph. " | Art |
| Avishai, Bernard | "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway. " | Computer |
