149Adam QuinnWhen you're fairly apathetic you can solve almost any problem.
148Naldo MontoyaBarry... a riot's just a party you didn't know you were throwing.
147RoxetteTasty like a raindrop...
146Dr. Carol MarcusLet me show you something that will make you feel young, as when the world was new.
145James T. KirkYoung... I feel young.
144Buck GeorgeBUCKA nice, pithy tagline should go here, but I think it will be a random quote of mine.
143Van HalenPHOTOWhile she watches I can never be free—such good photography!
142AnonymousProcrastinators make the world go 'round... eventually.
141Buck GeorgeBUCKYou can't expect too much out of a Monday
140René MagrittePHOTOCeci n'est pas une pipe.
139Isabelle [from <i>Hugo</i> (2011), played by Chloe Grace Moretz]PHILOThis might be an adventure... and I never had one before.
138Alice Eve"Like" is a helpful word. It vocalizes the comma.
137Maggie (r.e. Water Droplet Man, 1/9/17)POETHe looks like dirty water on a blank place at the end of time.
136Buck GeorgeBUCKBeing a programmer is a lot like being a janitor. Somebody is always coming along and pissing on your work.
135Leonard CohenPOET"Poetry" is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing.
134Tom SachsPHOTOCreativity is the enemy.
133A.J. ToddPHILOThe real story is in the margins.
132Emily Dickinson (last words)POETI must go in. The fog is rising.
131David Hockney (from Visiting with Huell Howser, KCET)PHOTOYou always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.
130ancient Buckzen proverbBUCKOne must learn to find his own silence amongst the noise.
129Buck GeorgeBUCKPeople try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.
128Thomas MertonPHOTOEach particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.
127Brian Eno (Oblique Strategies)PHILOThe most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten.
126Thomas MertonPHOTOThere is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
125Holden CaulfieldNULLI'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
124Leonardo da VinciPHOTOWhere the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
123Albert CamusPHILODon't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
122Vincent van GoghPHOTOIf you hear a voice within you say, "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
121Pablo PicassoPHOTOInspiration exists, but it must find you working.
120PlatoPHILOWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
119Dorothea LangePHOTOThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
118A.J. ToddPHILOThe acceptance of imperfection is a grace.
117Noam ChomskyPOETColorless green ideas sleep furiously.
116Victor WootenMUSICLessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out.
115David BerlinskiPHILONo man is obliged to be what he might have been.
114IBMCSCIOther product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies.
113Sylvia PlathPOETThe worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
112Jack HammPHOTOThe artist is the creator and what is seen is simply raw material... The optical is always optional.
111Noam ChomskyPHILOEducation is a system of imposed ignorance.
110Leonard CohenPOETbetter than poetry / is my poetry / which refers / to everything / that is beautiful and / dignified, but is / neither of these itself
109Leonard CohenPOETThere is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
108Robert FrankPHOTOBlack and white are the true colors of photography. They symbolize the hope and despair to which mankind is forever subject.
107The WallflowersMUSICI can't get the girl with the Spanish tears out of my mind.
106Leonard CohenPHILOIt's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.
105MaggieNULLDaddy, the next time you have a surprise, get a doll. A princess doll.
104Harry CallahanPHOTOThe mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.
103Walker EvansPHOTOStare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
102BrassaiPHOTOThe purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.
101Bob DylanPHILOYou say you lost your faith, but that's not where it's at. You had no faith to lose and you know it.
100Steven SoderberghNULLIt's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.
99Jackson BrowneWhat you see revealed within the anger is worth the pain.
98Tony L. CorbellPHOTOEveryone needs to work to create their own voice... but please use good grammar.
97Joe McNallyNULLSeems [Google] management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.
96St. AugustineCSCIThe good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell.
95Victor WootenMUSICYou are never more than a half-step away from a right note.
94Carlos SantanaMUSICIf you're afraid of your feelings then you shouldn't be a musician. How do you find your own voice? Learn to get out of your own way.
93Eric ClaptonMUSICI'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
92Rich MullinsPHILOPsycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port.
91AnonymousNULLIt should be dark by nightfall.
90Buck GeorgeBUCKThe other pastures are greener because more cows have been crapping on them.
89Buck GeorgeBUCKYou can get to everywhere from almost anywhere.
88Buck GeorgeBUCKMake every Daily Double a true Daily Double, and live every day as if it's Final Jeopardy.
87Jack's bossPHOTOCan I get the icon in cornflower blue?
86JackPHILOThis is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
85Buck GeorgeBUCKI have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
84Buck GeorgeBUCKI love a good non sequitur.
83St. Francis de SalesPHILONever be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
82AnonymousCSCIDeclare variables, not war.
81Scott BlackNULLYou know, the Germans spoke Nazi.
80Henry David ThoreauPHILOThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
79German proverbPHILOSo fängt es immer an. [It always begins this way.]
78Buck GeorgeBUCKStatistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.
77G.K. ChestertonPHILOIt is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
76G.K. ChestertonPHILOThe madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
75George Orwell, 1984PHILOBeing in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
74G.K. ChestertonPHILOThe aim in opening one's mind, is the same as in opening one's mouth—to shut it again on something both solid and nourishing.
73Fr. Dwight LongeneckerPHILOLike the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.
72Buck GeorgeBUCKThere are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers.
71Matt CudaNULLDaughters are fun and they don't pee in your face when you change them.
70anonymousNULLLife is like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.
69Jeff KinardNULLCats don't have masters, they have staff.
68Buck GeorgeBUCKWoodstock's over. It's okay to go home and wash off the mud.
67AngieNULLI just wanted to share some space with you.
66Jann ArdenMUSICEvery voice inside my head is telling me to run like mad!
65Kernighan and Plauger, The Elements of Programming StyleCSCIDon't patch bad code—rewrite it.
64Michael Kennedy, professor of History, High Point UniversityNULLThere is no way in hell that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
63James HerriotNULLNo animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat....
62Albert EinsteinNULLI have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.
61Buck George, I think (this sounds too good to be me)BUCKMan's worst enemies are boredom and discontent.
60Johnny CashNULLYou know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.
59bumper stickerNULLVisualize whirlled peas.
58Jim RockfordPHILOThis is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.
57Buck GeorgeBUCKThe universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.
56Isaac NewtonPHILOI do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
55Mark TwainNULLFirst get your facts; and then you can distort them at your leisure.
54Bertie WoosterNULLYou can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing.
53Roderick SpodeNULLNothing stands between us and our victory except defeat!
52ELOCSCII met someone who looks a lot like you. She does the things you do. But she is an IBM.... She tells me that she likes me very much but when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear.... Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace, and kiss her interface. Till then, I'll leave her alone.
51Butch Cassidy (as played by Paul Newman)PHILOI've got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
50Paul SimonMUSICYou read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost.
49General Chuck YeagerNULLUnfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.... If I auger in tomorrow, it won't be with a frown on my face. I've had a ball.
48The WhoMUSICI asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary but he couldn't help me either. They call me the seeker.
47Ben Shelander, flight instructorNULLLet's head toward those clouds over there.
46Werner HeisenbergNULLThe more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
45Paul SimonMUSICThe words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.
44Green DayMUSICSometimes I give myself the creeps.
43Green DayMUSICI read the graffitti in the bathroom stall like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall.... It didn't say much but it only confirmed that the center of the earth is the end of the world.
42Green DayMUSICI beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies.
41Ernest T. BassNULLI talks through my nose so'st I can talk whilst I eat.
40Homer Simpson, improvising lyrics to Chumbawumba's "Tubthumper"MUSICI drink a whiskey drink, I drink a chocolate drink. And when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink.
39Harvey DangerMUSICHear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring!
38Albert EinsteinNULLIt is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements—indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
37Chuck Yeager (as played by Sam Shepard)NULLSometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed.
36Bob Cecil (13013)NULLBe sincere whether you mean it or not.
35Bob Cecil (13013)NULLFanaticism is redoubling your efforts when you've lost sight of your goals.
34R. Andrew Mitchum, Ph.D.PHILODon't think of prayer as an obligation, think of it as opportunity.
33William Shakespeare, on computer programming (Macbeth, Act I, scene vii)CSCIBloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
32Hercule PoirotNULLThe impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearance.
31Kilgore Trout's fatherNULLMy boy, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles—champions every one.
30Kilgore TroutNULLTing-a-ling! Ting-a-ling!
29Charles de MarNULLI have been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy.
28Charles de Mar (on skiing)NULLGo that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.
27Charles de MarNULLThis is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?
26Buck GeorgeBUCKWe'll burn that bridge when we come to it.
25Albert EinsteinPHILOThe important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
24Albert EinsteinPHILOFew are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
23Albert EinsteinPHILOIt has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
22Douglas AdamsNULLA common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
21Sarah McLachlanMUSICWhat is it in me that refuses to believe this isn't easier than the real thing?
20Dianne ChambersNULLThoughts can't cross your mind, Sam. The bridge is out!
19TotoMUSICI seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become.
18Charlie BrownNULLDon't you know a sarcasm when you hear it?
17Lucy van PeltNULLOf all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie-Browniest.
16front of a T-shirtNULLI left the house for this!?
15front of a T-ShirtCSCIThere are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
14Buck GeorgeBUCKWhen you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else.
13Steve WozniakCSCINever trust a computer you can't throw out the window.
12Albert EinsteinNULLEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
11Albert EinsteinNULLE=mc2
10Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)NULLThe gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty.
9Cook Out marqueeNULLMeticulously prepared chargrilled chicken oreo shakes.
8Mark TwainNULLLife would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
7Yogi BerraNULLBefore you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
6Woody AllenNULLIt's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
5Groucho MarxNULLBefore I speak, I have something important to say.
4Chinese fortune cookieNULLDo not follow the instructions of this fortune.
3Paul SimonPHOTOLong ago it must be, I have a photograph.
2Jack HammPHOTOWhat in life is more important than people? Take people away and there's not much left. Take people out of art and art becomes lonesome.
1Bob KristPHOTOCarrying a camera on vacation pretty much guarantees you won't see anything worth shooting.