November 2009
1 post
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King (via enquotations)
October 2009
5 posts
September 2009
1 post
August 2009
2 posts
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
– Napoleon Hill
June 2009
2 posts
May 2009
5 posts
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...”
– Rene Daumal
“It does not matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius
“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap.”
– Carrie Snow (via quote-book)
“You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe...”
– Bones, The End in the Beginning
“I don’t know what’s worse: getting older or getting wiser.”
– Callen, NCIS:OSP
April 2009
1 post
“You can tell whether a person is clever by his/her answers. You can tell whether...”
– Naguib Mahfouz
February 2009
1 post
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”
– Ernest Rutherford
January 2009
7 posts
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
– Yogi Berra
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
– Douglas Adams
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard Feynman
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“इंसान की ख्वाहिश की इन्तहा नहीं, दो गज़ ज़मीन चाहिए दो गज़ कफ़न के बाद|”
– a dialog in the movie Fanaa.
“Only dead fish swim with the stream.”
– Malcolm Muggeridge
“‘Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign ignorance.”
– Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)
“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you...”
– Howard Aiken, American computer scientist
“Speak the truth but leave immediately after.”
– Slovenian proverb
December 2008
15 posts
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in...”
– Winston Churchill
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
– W. B. Yeats in The Second Coming.
“Why did Mozart compose music?”
– Jonas Salk’s response when asked why he chose research over practising medicine.
“ਕਿਰਤ ਦੀ ਲੁੱਟ, ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਖਤਰਨਾਕ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੁੰਦੀ
ਪੁਲਿਸ ਦੀ ਕੁੱਟ, ਸਭ ਤੋਂ ਖਤਰਨਾਕ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੁੰਦੀ...”
– ਅਵਤਾਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਪਾਸ਼
“With four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle...”
– John von Neumann
“Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
– Unknown
“Some day your entire life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s...”
– Unknown
“ਝੂਠਾ ਇਹੁ ਸੰਸਾਰੁ ਕਿਨਿ ਸਮਝਾਈਐ ॥
This world is illusory, but only a few understand...”
– Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“A [person] is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.”
– John Barrymore
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
– Thomas A. Edison
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
– Anthony Robbins
“Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water;
After enlightenment: chop wood,...”
– An old Zen saying.
November 2008
8 posts
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly,...”
– Yann Martel in Life of Pi.
“Orgel’s Second Rule: Evolution is cleverer than you are.”
– Francis Crick
“Blessed are those who are forgetful; for they get the better even of their...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Cast a cold eye. On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”
– W. B. Yeats’ epitaph.
“The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser
“What is man that thou art mindful of him?”
– Psalm 8-4
“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on...”
– Douglas Noël Adams
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 2008
7 posts
“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to...”
– Jonas Salk
“The First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and...”
– Unknown.