stepfwd’s most recent Quotables

I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.

“Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?”

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticise me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.

I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.

Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne

Stupidity is a talent for misconceptions.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

The past is a pebble in my shoe.