A fine group of quotes. Ariosto fits right in with the ore contemporary quoters, things have not changed a lot. Claude Pepper is wrong about green bananas - I still buy the metaphorical green bananas, mine are books by authors who aroused my curiosity and I must read something of their work and books by authors I love and I still have not read all their work. Too many books, too little time, one does the best one can

Francisco de Quevedo Quotes Spanish - Writer September 17, 1580 - September 8, 1645 We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. Francisco de Quevedo In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! Francisco de Quevedo Marquis de Condorcet Quotes French - Philosopher September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794 Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. Marquis de Condorcet Edgar Mitchell Quotes American - Astronaut Born: September 17, 1930 The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there. Edgar Mitchell You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. Edgar Mitchell I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state. Edgar Mitchell Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time. Edgar Mitchell I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base. Edgar Mitchell We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. Edgar Mitchell We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation. Edgar Mitchell My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator. Edgar Mitchell Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form. Edgar Mitchell We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there. Edgar Mitchell At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military. Edgar Mitchell I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth. Edgar Mitchell Rita Rudner Quotes American - Comedian Born: September 17, 1955 I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. Rita Rudner I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.' Rita Rudner I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. Rita Rudner Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. Rita Rudner My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' Rita Rudner I love to write jokes and that's all I think about. Rita Rudner When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. Rita Rudner My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. Rita Rudner Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. Rita Rudner I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down. Rita Rudner Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire? Rita Rudner My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. Rita Rudner I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again. Rita Rudner While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch. Rita Rudner Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable. Rita Rudner On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.' Rita Rudner Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? Rita Rudner Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Rita Rudner Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet. Rita Rudner I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. Rita Rudner In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. Rita Rudner We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. Rita Rudner I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose. Rita Rudner Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. Rita Rudner Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. Rita Rudner A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax. Rita Rudner It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was. Rita Rudner I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. Rita Rudner They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one. Rita Rudner The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. Rita Rudner Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. Rita Rudner I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body. Rita Rudner I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling. Rita Rudner If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good. Rita Rudner I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal. Rita Rudner The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' Rita Rudner I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. Rita Rudner There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better. Rita Rudner My Vegas act is how I make my money. Rita Rudner When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third. Rita Rudner My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh. Rita Rudner I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique. Rita Rudner Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act. Rita Rudner Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it. Rita Rudner I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs. Rita Rudner I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night. Rita Rudner I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy. Rita Rudner If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention. Rita Rudner I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me. Rita Rudner I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money! Rita Rudner I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it. Rita Rudner I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around. Rita Rudner Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence. Rita Rudner You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it. Rita Rudner I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience. Rita Rudner Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate. Rita Rudner

Carl Sagan proves tht a scientist can also be a mystic, I like that

Maxwell Anderson Quotes American - Playwright December 15, 1888 - February 28, 1959 The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Maxwell Anderson If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. Maxwell Anderson This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. Maxwell Anderson There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. Maxwell Anderson He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson J. Paul Getty Quotes American - Businessman December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976 Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. J. Paul Getty The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. J. Paul Getty Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. J. Paul Getty The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. J. Paul Getty In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. J. Paul Getty The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? J. Paul Getty I've never been one to bet on the weather. J. Paul Getty You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. J. Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. Paul Getty My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. J. Paul Getty There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J. Paul Getty If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. J. Paul Getty Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. J. Paul Getty If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. J. Paul Getty The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. J. Paul Getty You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. J. Paul Getty I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. J. Paul Getty Five wives can't all be wrong. J. Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. J. Paul Getty My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. J. Paul Getty My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. J. Paul Getty Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. J. Paul Getty My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. J. Paul Getty I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. J. Paul Getty Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. J. Paul Getty I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. J. Paul Getty What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. J. Paul Getty I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. J. Paul Getty There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. J. Paul Getty I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. J. Paul Getty How does one measure the success of a museum? J. Paul Getty No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. J. Paul Getty Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. J. Paul Getty I can afford to say what I wish. J. Paul Getty I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. Paul Getty There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. J. Paul Getty Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. J. Paul Getty I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. J. Paul Getty A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. J. Paul Getty A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. J. Paul Getty During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. J. Paul Getty The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. J. Paul Getty Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. J. Paul Getty I am - and have always been - a Methodist. J. Paul Getty Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. J. Paul Getty I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. J. Paul Getty Oscar Niemeyer Quotes Brazilian - Architect December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012 Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. Oscar Niemeyer The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. Oscar Niemeyer Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. Oscar Niemeyer I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. Oscar Niemeyer There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Oscar Niemeyer The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. Oscar Niemeyer Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. Oscar Niemeyer Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is invention. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. Oscar Niemeyer I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. Oscar Niemeyer For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. Oscar Niemeyer I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. Oscar Niemeyer My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' Oscar Niemeyer Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. Oscar Niemeyer I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. Oscar Niemeyer It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Oscar Niemeyer I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. Oscar Niemeyer Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. Oscar Niemeyer When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Oscar Niemeyer I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer Muriel Rukeyser Quotes American - Poet December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980 Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. Muriel Rukeyser The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Muriel Rukeyser The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. Muriel Rukeyser In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Muriel Rukeyser I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. Muriel Rukeyser Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser Exchange is creation. Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. Muriel Rukeyser A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. Muriel Rukeyser I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter. Muriel Rukeyser The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight. Muriel Rukeyser I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. Muriel Rukeyser I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence. Muriel Rukeyser It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. Muriel Rukeyser Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. Muriel Rukeyser One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' Muriel Rukeyser Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. Muriel Rukeyser