Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
Edward H. Dreschnack
If I need a cause for celebration Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind I rely on my imagination And I dream of an imaginary time.
Billy Joel
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.
Ray Bradbury
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
Steven Wright
People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.
Unknown
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.
Peter Drucker
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Peter F. Drucker
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.
Charles Dickens
In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day
W. H. Auden
The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.
Ian Wilmut
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.