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It is a good thing to in your mind be able to seperate the artist from the art.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize. (Steel Magnolias)
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.-- George Orwell
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.-- Plutarch
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.-- H. L. Mencken
In a church bulletin: This evening at 7 P.M. there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".-- H. Allen Smith
In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" came out as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead."
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."-- Sidney Poitier
Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor): That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."-- Richard Harkness
From the 'Rules for women':
Women wearing Wonderbras and low-cut blouses lose their right to complain about being stared at.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.-- Oscar Wilde
Take it from the staff of a five-cat house: A group of cats is a "conceit." They'd like to be a "pride" but that would fool no one.-- Morely Dotes
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
"The Hindenburg crash had 62 survivors and 35 fatalities. Of the 35 deaths, 27 resulting from jumping from the airship. Many of the remaining 8 deaths resulted from burns and injuries due to the ensuing diesel fuel fire."-- Dan Egnor
Just about all real intellectual activity starts from the understanding that *there is a problem here*, especially in things we take for granted.-- Arnold Zwicky
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.-- Samuel Butler
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.-- Douglas Adams