Quotes - Part Fifteen

 

171.                   This is the AK-47 assault rifle, the preferred weapon of your enemy, and it makes a distinct sound when fired at you, so remember it.

--Gunnery Sergeant Hightower (Clint Eastwood), Heartbreak Ridge

172.                   When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick is off knives.

--Lauren Eden

173.                   Every time I drink milk, I remember my roommate who used to put powdered milk in his milk so he could drink “more milk per milk”.

--Avery Edison

174.                   I’m desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

--Dave Edison

175.                   The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

--Ehrlich

176.                   May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.

--Egyptian blessing

177.                   Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

--Albert Einstein

178.                   As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

--Albert Einstein

179.                   Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

--Albert Einstein

180.               Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

--Albert Einstein

181.               I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.

--Albert Einstein

182.               If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

--Albert Einstein

183.               Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

--Albert Einstein

184.               Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

--Albert Einstein

185.               The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

--Albert Einstein

186.               Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

--Albert Einstein

187.               You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

--Albert Einstein

188.               We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?  There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.

--Albert Einstein

189.               When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be president of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

--President Dwight D. Eisenhower

180.               There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

--Marc Elias