| Author | Quote |
Topic |
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| E. Wagoner, Harold | "The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams. " | Dream |
| Eastman, Max | "The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. " | Art |
| Eastwood, Clint | "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. " | Movie |
| Ebert, Roger | "Every great film should seem new every time you see it. " | Movie |
| Ebert, Roger | "Most of us do not consciously look at movies. " | Movie |
| Ecker, Frederick Hudson | "I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job. " | Business |
| Eco, Umberto | "But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. " | Life |
| Eddison, Sydney | "Gardens are a form of autobiography. " | Nature |
| Eddy, Sherwood | "Faith is reason grown courageous. " | Faith |
| Edgerton, Doc | "That's the nature of research - you don't know what in hell you're doing. " | Science |
| Edison, Thomas A. | "There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. " | War |
| Edison, Thomas A. | "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. " | Business |
| Edison, Thomas A. | "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. " | Friendship |
| Edison, Thomas A. | "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. " | Business |
| Egan, Greg | "Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. " | Society |
| Ehrlich, Jerry | "At Wabash, everybody sinks or swims together-everybody, even our salespeople. They aren't on commission. They participate in the same compensation system as everybody else. " | Business |
| Einstein, Albert | "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. " | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. " | Religion |
| Einstein, Albert | "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. " | Business |
| Einstein, Albert | "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. " | Business |
| Einstein, Albert | "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! " | Patriotism |
| Einstein, Albert | "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. " | Intelligence |
| Einstein, Albert | "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. " | Intelligence |
| Einstein, Albert | "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. " | Life |
| Einstein, Albert | "Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. " | Nature |
| Einstein, Albert | "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. " | Love |
| Einstein, Albert | "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. " | Patriotism |
| Einstein, Albert | "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. " | Technology |
| Einstein, Albert | "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder." | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time. " | War |
| Einstein, Albert | "All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have. " | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. " | War |
| Einstein, Albert | "I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research." | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. " | War |
| Einstein, Albert | "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. " | War |
| Einstein, Albert | "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. " | Art |
| Einstein, Albert | "Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. " | Success |
| Einstein, Albert | "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " | Science |
| Einstein, Albert | "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. " | Science |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. " | War |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. " | Peace |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. " | History |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. " | Peace |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. " | Society |
| Eisenhower, Dwight D. | "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. " | War |
| Eliot, T. S. | "You are the music while the music lasts. " | Music |
| Eliot, T. S. | "Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. " | Art |
| Eliot, Alexander | "So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. " | Art |
| Eliot, T. S. | "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. " | Poetry |
| Eliot, T. S. | "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. " | Poetry |
| Eliot, T. S. | "Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. " | Love |
| Elizabeth II, | "I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. " | History |
| Elliott, Vicky | "Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red. " | Art |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock | "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. " | Life |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock | "Every artist writes his own autobiography. " | Art |
| Ellis, Albert | "The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. " | Love |
| Ellis, Alice Thomas | "Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life. " | War |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock | "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. " | Nature |
| Ellis, Henry Havelock | "There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. " | War |
| Ellison, Larry | "Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. " | Technology |
| Ellman, Lucy | "Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women, men menstruate by shedding other people's blood. " | War |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. " | Friendship |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere. " | Friendship |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "The only way to have a friend is to be one. " | Friendship |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. " | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "All mankind love a lover. " | Love |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. " | Education |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. " | Friendship |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. " | Peace |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Science does not know its debt to imagination. " | Science |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science." | Science |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss." | Science |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! " | Success |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Pictures must not be too picturesque. " | Art |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. " | Dream |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "It is not length of life, but depth of life. " | Life |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. " | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. " | Life |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. " | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Earth laughs in flowers. " | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. " | Nature |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "All life is an experiment. " | Life |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. " | Intelligence |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. " | Friendship |
| Emerson, Ralph Waldo | "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. " | Nature |
| Engelbart, Douglas | "The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. " | Technology |
| Engle, Paul | "Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. " | Poetry |
| Eno, Brian | "I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. " | Technology |
| Ephron, Nora | "It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work. " | Movie |
| Epicurus, | "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. " | Friendship |
| Epicurus, | "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. " | History |
| Erhard, Werner | "You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. " | Love |
| Erksine, John | "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. " | Business |
| Ervin, Sam | "Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft. " | Science |
| Esar, Evan | "Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. " | Business |
| Esar, Evan | "Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either. " | Business |
| Escher, M. C. | "We adore chaos because we love to produce order. " | Art |
| Escher, M. C. | "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. " | Art |
| Escher, M. C. | "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. " | Dream |
| Escher, M. C. | "Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? " | Art |
| Euripides, | "Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. " | War |
| Euripides, | "Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. " | Love |
| Evans, John | "The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it. " | Technology |
| Everett, Edward | "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. " | Education |
| Ewing, Sam | "Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. " | Success |
