quotes for pics

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity? ~Steve Polyak


A hard man is good to find. ~Mae West


They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez


If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ~Frank Lloyd Wright


Reality is not always probable, or likely. ~Jorge Luis Borges


In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. ~Benjamin Franklin


When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul. ~Michelle Delio


There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. ~Rebecca West (Cicily Maxwell Andrews), "The Harsh Voice," There Is No Conversation, 1935


Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. ~Hannah Arendt


When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to find they are not it. ~Bernard Baily


Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. ~Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1823


A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole. ~Mac O'Grady


Camping: nature's way of promoting the motel industry. ~Dave Barry, Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need


We can't afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that's a risk we can't take. ~Barack Obama, 2007 Dec 27, Des Moines, Iowa


How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~Niels Bohr


Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. ~Steuart Henderson Britt


No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958


For me, yoga is not just a workout - it's about working on yourself. ~Mary Glover, "Health Profile: Yoga leaves aches and pains behind," Arizona Republic, 6 April 2004 (page E3, article by Connie Midey)


Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet. ~Dan Bennett