Quotes – Part 1 – Various

Here is my first installment of my quotes section. This will feature now and then on my blog. Hope you’ll find this interesting. I obtained these from Quotations Page, Brainyquote and Quoteland.

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it” Sir Winston Churchill (Statesman)

“I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they’re no good. I don’t throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight” Johnny Cash (Musician)

“Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” Bob Dylan (Musician)

“I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. ” Sheryl Crow (Musician)

“The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun. ” Jerry Seinfeld (Comedian)

“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet. ” Rodney Dangerfield (Comedian)

“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another. ” George Carlin (Comedian)

“You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. ” Al Capone (Criminal)

“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it’s the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. …Science fiction is central to everything we’ve ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don’t know what they’re talking about. ” Ray Bradbury (Writer)

“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word ‘war’, therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. The peculiar pressure that it exerted on human beings between the Neolithic Age and the early twentieth century has disappeared and been replaced by something quite different. The effect would be much the same if the three super-states, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. For in that case each would still be a self-contained universe, freed for ever from the sobering influence of external danger. A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This — although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense — is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace” George Orwell (Writer)

Winston Churchill – Wikipedia
Johnny Cash – Wikipedia
Bob Dylan – Wikipedia
Sheryl Crow – Official Site
Jerry Seinfeld – Wikipedia
Rodney Dangerfield – Official Site
George Carlin – Official Site
Al Capone – History Files
Ray Bradbury – Official Site
George Orwell – Online Literature