Jack Kerouac

Accept loss forever.

Anna Akhmatova

I should be proud to have my memory graced,
but only if the monument be placed... here,
where I endured three hundred hours in line
before the implacable iron bars.

Jack Bruce

Well I like everything but my first love
has always been piano because when I
started out there was a piano in my
house and it was there so I just
started tinkling on it really so it's
always been my first love.

Lao Tzu

A leader is best when people barely
know he exists, when his work is done,
his aim fulfilled, they will say:
we did it ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

Alien - an American sovereign in
his probationary state.

Jane Addams

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious
and uncertain until it is secured for all of us
and incorporated into our common life.

Chroucho Marx

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Hilaire Belloc

I have wandered all my life, and I have
also traveled; the difference between
the two being this, that we wander for
distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Ambrose Bierce

A total abstainer is one who abstains from
everything but abstention, and especially
from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Joel Barlow

There are many advantages in their
being accustomed to the use of arms,
and no possible disadvantage.

Franz Kafka

Always first draw fresh breath after
outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Louis L'Amour

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the
man who angers, for each rage leaves
him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.

Johannes Sebastian Bach

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor
of God and the permissible delights of
the soul.

Edsger Dijkstra

Computer science is no more about computers
than astronomy is about telescopes.

Lenny Bruce

Every day people are straying away from
the church and going back to God.

Anne Sexton

Death's in the good-bye.

Paul Kantner

Compared to what they were, rock concerts
now are like business meetings.

Alan Perlis

A year spent in artificial intelligence
is enough to make one believe in God.

Robert Frost

A bank is a place where they lend
you an umbrella in fair weather
and ask for it back when it begins
to rain.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A poet is a nightingale, who sits
in darkness and sings to cheer its
own solitude with sweet sounds.

Joseph Brodsky

Cherish your human connections: your
relationships with friends and family.

Boris Karloff

The monster was the best friend I ever had.

Salvador Dali

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys
only what it considers to be shackles
limiting our vision.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure
of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.