quotes on kites

If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution. ~Author Unknown



Long, beautiful, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen... I adore hair! ~James Rado and Gerome Ragni, Hair



If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. ~Kahlil Gibran



Don't water your weeds. ~Harvey MacKay



In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' ~Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"



No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. ~Ambrose Bierce



There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics. ~Gregory Benford, Timescape



As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. ~Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity



When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. ~Tuli Kupferberg



Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Poker: the art of civilized bushwhacking. ~Nick Dandalos, attributed



What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~Henry David Thoreau



I think a photography class should be a requirement in all educational programs because it makes you see the world rather than just look at it. ~Author Unknown



Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding



What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third. ~Leo Durocher



Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb



A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. ~Steve Martin



Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost



Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. ~Tennessee Williams



The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. ~Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science, 1972