| Linux People: 931 of 1231 |
The kind of danger people most enjoy is the kind they can watch from
a safe place.
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 932 of 1231 |
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
-- Irving Howe
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 933 of 1231 |
The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 934 of 1231 |
The Least Successful Defrosting Device
The all-time record here is held by Mr. Peter Rowlands of Lancaster
whose lips became frozen to his lock in 1979 while blowing warm air on it.
"I got down on my knees to breathe into the lock. Somehow my lips
got stuck fast."
While he was in the posture, an old lady passed an inquired if he
was all right. "Alra? Igmmlptk", he replied at which point she ran away.
"I tried to tell her what had happened, but it came out sort of...
muffled," explained Mr. Rowlands, a pottery designer.
He was trapped for twenty minutes ("I felt a bit foolish") until
constant hot breathing brought freedom. He was subsequently nicknamed "Hot
Lips".
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 935 of 1231 |
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes
so many of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 936 of 1231 |
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 937 of 1231 |
The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the
societies in which they occur.
-- A.N. Whitehead
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 938 of 1231 |
The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.
-- H.G. Wells, "Time After Time"
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 939 of 1231 |
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two
chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-- Carl Jung
|
|
| |
| Linux People: 940 of 1231 |
The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't.
|
|
