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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs. -- Christopher Hampton | |
| Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. -- Christopher Plummer | |
| Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux... (By cbbrown@io.org, Christopher Browne) | |
| I'll burn my books. -- Christopher Marlowe | |
| In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man." -- Mark Twain | |
| It is possible by ingenuity and at the expense of clarity... {to do almost anything in any language}. However, the fact that it is possible to push a pea up a mountain with your nose does not mean that this is a sensible way of getting it there. Each of these techniques of language extension should be used in its proper place. -- Christopher Strachey | |
| Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same rate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more efficient would the current models be? If you have not already heard the analogy, the answer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75, it would do three million miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enough power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II. And if you were interested in miniaturization, you could place half a dozen of them on a pinhead. -- Christopher Evans | |
| Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. -- motto of the Christopher Society | |
| Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same rate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more efficient would the current models be? If you have not already heard the analogy, the answer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75, it would do three million miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enough power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II. And if you were interested in miniaturization, you could place half a dozen of them on a pinhead. -- Christopher Evans | |
| Our swords shall play the orators for us. -- Christopher Marlowe | |
| The fashionable drawing rooms of London have always been happy to accept outsiders -- if only on their own, albeit undemanding terms. That is to say, artists, so long as they are not too talented, men of humble birth, so long as they have since amassed several million pounds, and socialists so long as they are Tories. -- Christopher Booker | |
| The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley | |
| Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. -- Christopher Morley | |
| ======================================================================= || || || The FORTUNE-COOKIE program is soon to be a Major Motion Picture! || || Watch for it at a theater near you next summer! || || || ======================================================================= Francis Ford Coppola presents a George Lucas Production: "Fortune Cookie" Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Harrison Ford Bette Midler Marlon Brando Christopher Reeves Marilyn Chambers and Bob Hope as "The Waiter". Costumes Designed by Pierre Cardin. Special Effects by Timothy Leary. Read the Warner paperback! Invoke the Unix program! Soundtrack on XTC Records. In 70mm and Dolby Stereo at selected theaters and terminal centers. | |
| There's a way out of any cage. -- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), stardate unknown. | |
| Fess: Well, you must admit there is something innately humorous about a man chasing an invention of his own halfway across the galaxy. Rod: Oh yeah, it's a million yuks, sure. But after all, isn't that the basic difference between robots and humans? Fess: What, the ability to form imaginary constructs? Rod: No, the ability to get hung up on them. -- Christopher Stasheff, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself" | |
| If you float on instinct alone, how can you calculate the buoyancy for the computed load? -- Christopher Hodder-Williams | |
| What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. -- Christopher Fry | |
| Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. -- Christopher Morley | |
| My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. -- Christopher Morley | |
| There is no sin but ignorance. -- Christopher Marlowe | |
| Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. -- Christopher Marlowe | |
| Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. -- Christopher Lascl | |
