42: Sitatarkiv

Ukens sitat 2010

Uke 41 2010: Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. - Don Wood
Uke 40 2010: Det regner på den gode og det regner på den onde, dog langt mer på den gode, for den onde stjal hans paraply. - Charles Bowen
Uke 37 2010: I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle
Uke 35 2010: They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.- Andy Warhol
Uke 34 2010: I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.- Anna Quindlen
Uke 6 2010: What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. - George Bernard Shaw
Uke 2 2010: Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed. -Irene Peter

Ukens sitat 2009

Uke 50 2009: Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? - Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes/Tommy og Tigeren)
Uke 49 2009: In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'- Dave Barry (Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide)
Uke 48 2009: Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Uke 47 2009: Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I will--tomorrow! -Gloria Pitzer
Uke 45 2009: The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable. - Arundhati Roy
Uke 42 2009: Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.- Abraham Lincoln
Uke 41 2009: A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. - Alyce P. Cornyn-Shelby (Procrastinator's Success Kit)
Uke 40 2009: I 'm not insae, my mother had me tested! - Sheldon (Big Bang Theory)
Uke 39 2009: The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. - Gustave Flaubert.
Uke 38 2009: Det er vogsomt at lege med elefanter. - Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt)
Uke 37 2009: I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute. - Rebecca West
Uke 36 2009: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid. - Marcus Aurelius
Uke 32 2009: I do not like to write - I like to have written. - Gloria Steinem
Uke 31 2009: Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. - Gene Fowler
Uke 30 2009:It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich
Uke 29 2009: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
Uke 28 2009: A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann
Uke 27 2009: Alle gjør feil. Kunsten er bare å gjøre dem når ingen ser på. - Peter Ustinov
Uke 26 2009: I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young. - Fidel Castro
Uke 25 2009: Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. - William Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing)
Uke 24 2009: Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary
Uke 23 2009: There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams
Uke 22 2009: Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. - Blake Clark
Uke 21 2009: Å leve er ikke nok. Solskinn, frihet og en liten blomst må man ha. - H. C. Andersen
Uke 20 2009: Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastionate now, don't put it off. - Ellen DeGeneres
Uke 19 2009: My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. - Mary Todd Lincoln
Uke 18 2009: Wear the old coat and buy the new book -Austin Phelps
Uke 17 2009: Man taler om ungdommen som den lykkeligste tid. Jeg vil pinedød ikke ha den opp igjen - all denne sanselige galskap, dumhet, forfengelighet, alt det sludder. - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Uke 16 2009: Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. - Oscar Levant
Uke 15 2009: I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. -Garrison Keillor
Uke 14 2009: Don't you call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease! -C-3PO
Uke 13 2009: I en tid hvor det overalt i samfunnet kreves utdannelse og ekspertise er etterspurt, er erotikk og politikk de to områdene hvor man fortsatt nærer en overdreven tillit til amatører .- Palle Lauring
Uke 12 2009: The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. - Russell Green
Uke 11 2009: Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. - Edgar Bergen
Uke 10 2009:Det er ikke bare å ergre andre, du skal også ha glede av det selv. - Piet Hein