Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

Henry David Thoreau


The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

Charles Krauthammer


A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Thorstein Veblen


No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

George Washington Carver


I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God�s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

Jerome K. Jerome


It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.

Unknown


Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

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International stock market quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:44:56 GMT
Frankfurt - The following index quotations were noted on the world's major stock markets.New York Dow Jones 12,770.0612,828.68(-58.62) New York NASDAQ Comp.2,488.29 2,492.26(- 3.97) TokyoNikkei13,926.3014,160.09(- 233.79) Sydney All Ordinaries 5,916....

They said it: Champions League final quotes - Times Online

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:07:00 GMT
Sir Alex Ferguson: “That’s the first penalty shoot-out I’ve ever won. “When we missed the penalty kick (from Ronaldo) we thought we were in trouble but I thought we deserved the win. “We had the best chances. In the second half they had ...

Leading Proxy Advisory Firm Glass Lewis Recommends Stockholders Vote ... - Forbes

Wed, 21 May 2008 17:20:00 GMT
Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) today announced that Glass Lewis & Co., a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommends that Coinstar stockholders vote FOR the re-election of all three of the Board's incumbent directors -- Deborah Bevier, David ...

FACTBOX-Reuters Summit-Top quotes from TMT summit executives - Reuters

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:10:00 GMT
May 21 (Reuters) - Reuters has invited executives from the world of technology, media and telecoms to talk about their businesses and issues surrounding their industries. Here is a selection of quotations taken from the event, which is being held in ...

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Great Quotations

Quotations:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"


I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky


I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Jean Paul Richter


Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Rush Limbaugh


America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

Will Durant


Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Patrick Henry


It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.

Lois McMaster Bujold


It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

Oliver Wendell Holmes


The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

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UPDATE 1-FACTBOX-Reuters Summit-Quotes from tech and media execs - Reuters

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:57:00 GMT
(For other news from the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, click here ) (Adds quotes from New York summit) May 21 (Reuters) - Reuters has invited executives from the world of technology, media and telecoms to talk about their ...

Stock & fund quotes - ninemsn

Thu, 22 May 2008 01:13:00 GMT
TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. crude oil futures surged to a fresh record high above $135 per barrel on Thursday as a weaker dollar and falls in U.S. crude oil inventories triggered buying. The front-month July NYMEX crude contract rose as high as ...

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Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Quentin Crisp


The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

Clare Booth Luce


They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit


What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Niels Henrik David Bohr


We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

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Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:43:16 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

Fine silver quotations Tuesday: $18.036 ounce (Canadian Business)

Tue, 20 May 2008 17:03:02 GMT
The Canadian Press May 20, 2008 - 12:43 a.m. TORONTO - Handy and Harman fine silver quotations in Canadian dollars: Friday $18.036 oz., $579.86.; Thursday $17.588 oz., $565.45 kg.

Der Mann für ungewöhnliche Rollen - Rheinpfalz

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:07:00 GMT
Johnny Depp im Pech: Auch die grandiose Rolle des mordenden Barbiers in Tim Burtons düsterem Musical-Thriller "Sweeney Todd" (momentan im Kino) brachte dem talentierten ...

Frankfurt Stock Exchange quotations (EARTHtimes.org)

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:43:16 GMT
Frankfurt - Frankfurt Stock Exchange closing prices in euros. In brackets the point movement of index/price movement of stocks against previous quotation: ...

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