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I like life -- it's something to do.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.
There's a difference between knowing something and realizing it.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.-- T. S. Eliot
"Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective."
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.-- Carl Sagan
Nothing true is popular, and nothing popular is true.
If I'm not always happy, that doesn't mean I'm doing something wrong. It means I am doing something real.-- Laurie Seligman
Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.-- Kin Hubbard
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.-- Fran Lebowitz
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.-- Arnold Glasgow
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Bullshit, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies, but does not contain, adequate meaning or truth.
Occam's eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest solution is bound to have something wrong with it.
Glamour is that indefinable something about a girl who has a large bosom.-- Andy Rothman
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.-- Lily Tomlin
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.-- Ogden Nash
Law of Refrigerator Observation:
If a cat watches a refrigerator long enough, someone will come along and take out something good to eat.
"Every man is afraid of something.That`s how you know he`s in love with you;when he is afraid of losing you"
"Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere."-- Dorothy Galyean
"Most people do not watch TV because they want to watch TV. They watch TV to relieve themselves of the burden of finding something actually enjoyable to do."
Part of the difference of learning something by interest or necessity is how we file it, with what urgency, and how we think of it when we think of it again.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.-- Marie Osmond
Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and are always bothering us to do something for them.-- Oscar Wilde
If I sit here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something.-- S.R. McElroy
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.-- George Bernard Shaw
[A] thing is symmetrical if there is something we can do to it so that after we have done it, it looks the same as it did before.-- Richard Feynman
"Whenever I say something they find hard to hear /
they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear."-- Ani Difranco (Pretty Girl)
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.-- Mark Twain.
Men are like a fine wine.
They start out as grapes, and it's up to women to stomp the living shit out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.-- R. Pirsig
Relationships are like sharks, Liz. If you’re not left with several bite marks after intercourse, then something’s wrong.-- Jenna
"There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something."-- Thomas Alva Edison
'Anything that happens, happens'
'Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.'
'Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.'
'It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.'-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Being abstract is something profoundly different from being vague... The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.-- Edsger Dijkstra
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.-- Edsger Dijkstra
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.-- Albert Einstein
Adultery: Putting yourself in someone else's position.
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."
Every time I have to pipe something into awk I get this mental picture of a big fat seagull with stdin connected at the wrong end.-- Arther van der Harg (a.s.r.)
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."-- Pablo Picasso
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
[Not to mention, butterfly would be flutterby. Ed.]-- Doug Larson
There are three ways to get something done:
(1) Do it yourself.
(2) Hire someone to do it for you.
(3) Forbid your kids to do it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.-- Albert Einstein
"You know how sometimes the last sentence you said, like, echoes in your brain, and it just keeps sounding stupider? and you have to say something else, just to make it stop?"-- Angela Chase (my so-called life)