In Oklahoma around 1999-2000, I heard someone eulogizing a loved one on the local news and this is what he said: “Even when he had nothing, he would share it with someone who needed what he had.” I had to write it down.
“When the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.” — Abraham Maslow
“No matter where you go, there you are.” — Buckaroo Banzai
A lesson in scale: If the Earth was the size of a ping pong ball, the Sun would be about fourteen feet in diameter, approximately five football fields away (488 yards). The speed of light would be 2.1 mph. The nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would be about 75,000 miles away.
“Are you classified as human?”
“Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”
–from The Fifth Element
“The man who looks at a mole on his brow every day when he shaves may not see that it is changing; the physician who sees it once a year may easily recognize it as cancer.” — from Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Some people see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “WTF?”–Me (with apologies to George Bernard Shaw)
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you care about the environment, it is actually better to eat a salad in a Hummer than a cheeseburger in a Prius.” — Bill Maher
Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters — no real ones — but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren’t there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
Ripley: Most of the time, it’s true.