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Famous Quotes - August 2006

Finger-Painting and Wet Benches

August 31st 2006 06:20
"Tell a man there are 300 Billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.” Jarger

Ahh… this quote made me chuckle, probably because it’s so true! We know it’s impossible to actually see for yourself if there actually are “300 Billion stars in the universe”
but I think that because it is a number as large as this – whether it is of stars in the universe, cells in the body, or atoms in a rubix cube – it just has to be true!


Because the fact of an apparent wet bench is more down to earth (no pun intended) and because we can test right there and then if this statement is actually true then why not touch it and see? I think deep down, we’re all just kids, and want to be reminded of our childhood when we finger-painted in preschool and looked at our hands and smiled when we saw how colourful they were…

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Yes, But Is It ART?

August 30th 2006 04:37
“This morning I looked down at my unmade bed and decided that it was art and I should not destroy it.” Anonymous
Yes, but is it art?

What a logical idea! I’ll definitely be giving this excuse to Mum when she whines about the state of my room tomorrow morning. “Sorry Mum. But I need to express myself. It’s art you see!” It might not work though, considering I don’t have an artistic bone in my body (a popular family joke, at my expense, is what my art teacher wrote on my report in year 8 - “Ceramics is obviously not her thing” – what a cow! I was crushed).

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Pushing Your Luck, Lying Down on the Job, Bending Over Backwards...

August 29th 2006 04:26
“Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running off at the mouth, stretching the truth, bending over backwards, lying down on the job, side stepping responsibility, swimming against the current and pushing their luck.” Anonymous

I agree with anonymous. Too many people are constricting their exercise regimes to just acting out these idioms. My elder sister is a fan of jumping to conclusions. If something of hers is out of place she has a habit of bending her knees right down and shooting off so high into the air that she gets her head stuck in the ceiling! Or taking a more literal approach, she’ll run into my room and violently accuse me of using up all her moisturiser.
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Men Making Money - Women Wanting Wealth

August 28th 2006 00:50
“Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.” – Anonymous

Tsk tsk tsk. Whoever wrote this is an obvious chauvinistic bimbo. If this claim is valid, then by the same token - women are like bank accounts. I don’t get how such a quote can be said when over the last few decades women have gained more financial independence than ever before.
Hmmm... he earns a bit of money - he's a potential!
Women no longer have to consist of stay-at-home Mums or part time secretaries - we’re out there getting degrees, professorships and travelling the world! And now this determination is reducing the need to bag a guy with loads of cash.
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Running a Red Light

August 25th 2006 04:18
“A careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light.” - Henry Morgan

Hmmmm…. probably not a good idea, considering those on a green light possibly wouldn’t hear your honking until you were literally on top of them. I personally have never completely ran through a red light. Like most drivers, I’ve been at that stage where you see the lights go yellow so you floor it but then they change red at the last microsecond and you’ve only just broken the law. You then hope to God there were no cops around.
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People With a Permanent Positive Attitude

August 24th 2006 06:40
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

Good quote Albright. I’m sure everyone knows at least one permanently happy person, who’s always laughing (even when stuff isn’t funny) and with a consistent positive attitude. I know two such people and they amaze the hell out of me.
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Holding Back Progess: Committees and Accountants

August 23rd 2006 04:57
"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants." - Charles J. C. Lyall

Something stood out for me in this quote. I am a strong beliver in committees holding back human progress. Well, meetings really. Ok, sometimes an efficient meeting could be an effective way to get things done, but in many cases I’ve seen – it isn’t. Take the work meeting for example. People see the whole thing as an excuse to have a break and socialise, but just as they’re getting into it the meeting starts and they’re expected to shutup and pay attention.
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David Letterman - Misleading Statistics

August 22nd 2006 04:13
“USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.” – David Letterman

America’s favourite late night talk show host is having a go at misleading statistics. I’ve heard many of these supposed ‘statistical’ claims aimed to sway you one way or another.
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Paul Lynde - Talking about Dinner at Lunch

August 21st 2006 00:47
“At my house, the main discussion at lunch was what we were going to have for dinner. Salads were either macaroni or Waldorf.” – Paul Lynde

Paul Lynde was an American comedian and actor who died in 1982. He played Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie. He voiced the role of Templeton, that obese, over-eating rat in Charlotte’s Web.
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Samuel Goldwyn - Verbal Contracts

August 18th 2006 02:00
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" - Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was a widely known motion picture producer who died in 1974. He was a partner of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Hollywood film studio, which bears the famous “Leo The Lion” logo.
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The Beatles Rejection

August 17th 2006 06:48
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting The Beatles, 1962.

Oh what a fatal mistake! The Decca Recording Company must have been kicking themselves ever since. We all know just how popular The Beatles were in their time – and even nowadays, everyone has heard of them. Well I suppose they did release more than 40 different singles, albums and EPs that reached number one in the UK alone!
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Edward Abbey - Keeping the Shrink Away

August 16th 2006 02:39
“A drink a day keeps the shrink away” - Edward Abbey

Edward Abbey was an American author and essayist who died in 1989. I like this rhyme he modelled off “An apple a day keeps the Doctor away”. In modern times, with everyone stressed from countless hours at work, traffic and attempting to run households as well, I think it’s important to have a relaxing drink at the end of the day to just de-frag.
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Beer comes from God - Benjamin Franklin

August 15th 2006 03:49
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” - Benjamin Franklin

Now I’m not sure that this intelligent man - who was a famous scientist, inventor and diplomat – could ever have said something as dim-witted as this quote.
He had many profound things to say, such as "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes", “Time is money” and “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”, so I reckon Benjamin must have been in a pretty casual mood to utter the above quote about beer.
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Success - Not For the Heir...

August 14th 2006 01:39
"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."- Michael Korda

This is a good way of defining success as it excludes all those people who are just left with massive fortunes and don’t really accomplish great success on their own – so the distance between their origins and their final achievement is shorter than the self-made millionaire.
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To Err is Human - Alexander Pope

August 11th 2006 02:12
“To err is human, to forgive divine” – Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope was an English poet of the early 18th century, generally regarded as the best of that time. This idiom comes from his work “An Essay on Criticism”. The aim of this biblical quote was to show that all people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people act in a Godlike (‘divine’) way when forgiving others.
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Benjamin Franklin: Death, Taxes & Rug Sales

August 10th 2006 04:35
"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." - Benjamin Franklin

Since you are devoted readers of my blog, I’ll let you all in on a little secret; Benjamin Franklin was misinformed, for it’s not just death and taxes that are certainties of this world, it’s death, taxes… and RUG SALES!
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Chaos & M.C. Escher's Drawings

August 8th 2006 22:53
"We adore chaos because we love to produce order." – M.C. Escher

We’ve all seen M.C. Escher’s work - his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions. There was one such piece called Relativity which has a bunch of stairs going in all directions, all in their own 2 dimensions but which intertwine with one another. Another work, entitled Waterfall features water that seems to flow upwards.
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Einstein and Nuclear Weapons

August 8th 2006 06:39
"I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV; with sticks and stones." – Albert Einstein

I reckon Einstein’s thoughts here have something to do with the discovery of nuclear energy during his time. From memory, I believe he essentially provided the foundation for the development of nuclear weaponry through his work in physics, and regretted ever being a part of it.
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Blackadder - Rowan Atkinson on Charlie Chaplin

August 7th 2006 00:35
“I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.” Rowan Atkinson (on Charlie Chaplin)

This quote is from Blackadder, an English sitcom that originally ran in the 1980’s. Starring Rowan Atkinson, each series of this show was set in a different period of English history beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917.
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Men & Commitment

August 4th 2006 01:29
"If you never want to see a man again say, 'I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children'. They leave skid marks." - Rita Rudner

One question guys, WHY IS THIS!?!? What’s your problem? It’s a positive thing. The whole human population that has ever existed has come about because of getting together with someone, making some sort of commitment (this is a more recent thing, earlier Homo wasn’t exactly a monogamous genus) and finally, the most fundamental of life - reproduction.
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Ugly Airports & Uncomfortable Seats

August 3rd 2006 05:37
"It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear." - Douglas Noel Adams

That’s right. Airports are ugly places – and not just on the outside. They continuously deal with overly fatigued people with messy hair and disoriented gazes. It’s not much fun having to wait on an uncomfortable airport chair in Singapore for 4 hours for a connecting flight to Paris at what your body feels is 4am, not being able to sleep for fear of missing the next flight.
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Woody Allen & Watching Sport

August 2nd 2006 00:00
"What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop?" – Woody Allen

Now I’m not the average Aussie who’s a fan of watching sport. Especially things like
rugby and to a greater extent – golf. Although I couldn’t help but watch a couple of World Cup Soccer games when Australia was in it, (otherwise, why bother?) - there was just so much excitement about it everywhere that I couldn’t resist!
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Einstein and Uni Subjects

August 1st 2006 06:37
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year." – Albert Einstein

I actually disagree with Einstein here (is that legal?) because although we “cram all this stuff” into our minds whether we like it or not, there is always a reason we are doing so. For example, I can’t stand plant biology (who really cares? Plants are boring!) but had to study it for my degree in human physiology, to compare plants to humans in different ways.
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