I prefer my "quotes of the day" to contain food references, or something edible. If you said "potato cannon", I'd be all over it, especially if it catapulted baked Idaho spuds with butter and sour cream.
"Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time, that they elect governments to do it for them." -Terry Pratchett in "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents"
"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens, men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings, and the champagne, and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach, while his motor boats slid into the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends, his Rolls Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties from the city between nine in the morning, and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Monday morning, all eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops, and scrubbing brushes, and hammers, and garden shears, repairing the ravages of the night before." - a prescient F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, (published in 1925, and well before the '29 crash), observing the flush years of the 20's, and how the working classes tend to clean up the excesses of the wealthy.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho, writer
"Sh** in, sh** out." So true. No wonder we've become a society of mediocrity, lagging behind so many countries of the world. So many of you are "anti-immigrant," but at least the immigrants are more focused on working than the latest Kim Kardashian tweet>
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan, astronomer
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist
