ipod touch quotes

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? ~George Carlin



Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard



From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. ~Andre Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925



Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk. ~Mark Twain



The goal of all life is death. ~Sigmund Freud



Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. ~James Harvey Robinson, The Human Comedy, 1937



A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski



Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson



Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Browne



Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked. ~Jeff Pesis



Does "anal-retentive" have a hyphen? ~Alison Bechdel, 1990 Dykes to Watch Out For calendar (Thanks, Chelsea)



Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. ~From the movie Finding Forrester



A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen



A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson



All mothers are working mothers. ~Author Unknown



Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new type program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ~Art Buchwald, "Adding Insult to Injury," Have I Ever Lied to You?, 1966



Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. ~James Thurber



No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ~Booker T. Washington