Quotes4study

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

J.D. Salinger

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Groucho Marx

The voice of God and the voice of Nature. I cannot be wrong if I listen to them. Sometimes, when uncertain of a voice from its very loudness, we catch the missing syllable in the echo. In God and Nature we have Voice and Echo. When I hear both, I am assured. My sense of hearing does not betray me twice. I recognize the Voice in the Echo, the Echo makes me certain of the Voice; I listen and I know. Natural Law, Eternal Life, p. 238.

Henry Drummond     Beautiful Thoughts

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.

Anthony Liccione

Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing.

_Carlyle of his father._

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. ― Groucho Marx

Funny quote of unknown origin

Guessing is missing= (the point).

_Dut. Pr._

With the meal there was karaoke. As the Chinese waiters brought the food, everyone at the restaurant sang “shanson,” the gravelly, syrupy gangster ballads that have become some of Russia’s favorite pop music. Shanson reflect the gangsters’ journeys to the center of Russian culture. These used to be underground, prison songs, full of gangster slang, tales of Siberian labor camps and missing your mother. Now every taxi driver and grocery plays them. “Vladimirsky Tsentral” is a wedding classic. Tipsy brides across the country in cream-puff wedding dresses and high, thin heels slow-dance with their drunker grooms: “The thaw is thinning underneath the bars of my cell / but the Spring of my life has passed so fast.” At the Chinese restaurant Miami Stas sang along too, but he seemed too meek, too obliging to be a gangster.

Peter Pomerantsev

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

Gloria Naylor

Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers.

Tom Lehrer

If imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing when purchased, do not

use.

These days I’m missing everything. I’m haunted by music; music I can hear, but never play again. Melodies that taunt me note by note, mocking me with the simple fact that they exist.

Katja Millay

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car

payments.

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Elie Wiesel

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.

Haruki Murakami

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Alyson Noel

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

in our apartment. I don’t even remember getting into the car with her.” “She’s missing, Jacob.” “Missing?” he said, sitting up in bed despite the pain. “But she must’ve been in the car with me. How could they have rescued me and not her?” “You were inside the car when they found it. She wasn’t.” “But that doesn’t make any sense.

G.P. Ching

There's no music in a "rest," that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance, and courage, and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.--_Ruskin._

Maturin M. Ballou     Pearls of Thought

The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point — our recognition of the proper goal.

Kelso, Louis O.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I was ripped out of the water and thrown and smashed into a thousand pieces that I can’t put back together. I don’t know where they go. And there are so many missing that the ones that are left don’t fit together anymore.

Katja Millay

Few things are less understood than the conditions of the spiritual life. The distressing incompetence of which most of us are conscious in trying to work out our spiritual experience is due perhaps less to the diseased will which we commonly blame for it than to imperfect knowledge of the right conditions. It does not occur to us how natural the spiritual is. We still strive for some strange transcendent thing; we seek to promote life by methods as unnatural as they prove unsuccessful; and only the utter incomprehensibility of the whole region prevents us seeing fully--what we already half-suspect--how completely we are missing the road. Natural Law, Environment, p. 256.

Henry Drummond     Beautiful Thoughts

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to 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.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact

mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Perhaps I'm missing the gene for making enemies.  :-)

        -- Larry Wall in <199708040319.UAA16213@wall.org>

Fortune Cookie

Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and one of the reels is missing?

        -- Rich Little

Fortune Cookie

1648 files (84%) out of the files that I mirror disappeared.  Since

my delete threshold was set at 90%, all those files are now missing</p>

from my hard drive.  It's going to take a loooong time to fetch those

again via 14.4kbps!

        -- Brian C. White

Fortune Cookie

If anyone has seen my dog, please contact me at x2883 as soon as possible.

We're offering a substantial reward.  He's a sable collie, with three legs,

blind in his left eye, is missing part of his right ear and the tip of his

tail.  He's been recently fixed.  Answers to "Lucky".

Fortune Cookie

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

        -- Groucho Marx

Fortune Cookie

If imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing when purchased, do not

use.

Fortune Cookie

    Festivity Level 1: Your guests are chatting amiably with each

other, admiring your Christmas-tree ornaments, singing carols around

the upright piano, sipping at their drinks and nibbling hors d'oeuvres.

    Festivity Level 2: Your guests are talking loudly -- sometimes

to each other, and sometimes to nobody at all, rearranging your

Christmas-tree ornaments, singing "I Gotta Be Me" around the upright

piano, gulping their drinks and wolfing down hors d'oeuvres.

    Festivity Level 3: Your guests are arguing violently with

inanimate objects, singing "I can't get no satisfaction," gulping down

other peoples' drinks, wolfing down Christmas tree ornaments and

placing hors d'oeuvres in the upright piano to see what happens when

the little hammers strike.

    Festivity Level 4: Your guests, hors d'oeuvres smeared all over

their naked bodies are performing a ritual dance around the burning

Christmas tree.  The piano is missing.

    You want to keep your party somewhere around level 3, unless

you rent your home and own Firearms, in which case you can go to level

4.  The best way to get to level 3 is egg-nog.

Fortune Cookie

Excellent time to become a missing person.

Fortune Cookie

Do not use if printed inner seal is broken or missing.

Fortune Cookie

Besides the device, the box should contain:

    * Eight little rectangular snippets of paper that say "WARNING"

    * A plastic packet containing four 5/17 inch pilfer grommets and two

        club-ended 6/93 inch boxcar prawns.

YOU WILL NEED TO SUPPLY: a matrix wrench and 60,000 feet of tram cable.

IF ANYTHING IS DAMAGED OR MISSING: You IMMEDIATELY should turn to your spouse

and say: "Margaret, you know why this country can't make a car that can get

all the way through the drive-through at Burger King without a major

transmission overhaul?  Because nobody cares, that's why."

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.

        -- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"

Fortune Cookie

We'll be more than happy to do so once Jim shows the slightest sign

of interest in fixing his proposal to deal with the technical

arguments that have *already* been made.  Most engineers have

learned there is little to be gained in fine-tuning the valve timing

on a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine when the pistons

and crankshaft are missing...

        -- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on NANOG

Fortune Cookie

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and

B is for biff, which reads all your mail.

C is for cc, as hackers recall, while

D is for dd, the command that does all.

E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and

F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.

G is for grep, a clever detective, while

H is for halt, which may seem defective.

I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and

J is for join, which nobody uses.

K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while

L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.

M is for more, from which less was begot, and

N is for nice, which it really is not.

O is for od, which prints out things nice, while

P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.

Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and

R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.

S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while

T is for true, which does very little.

U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and

V is for vi, which is hard to abort.

W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while

X is, well, X, of dubious fame.

Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and

Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

        -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX

Fortune Cookie

The Worst Prison Guards

    The largest number of convicts ever to escape simultaneously from a

maximum security prison is 124.  This record is held by Alcoente Prison,

near Lisbon in Portugal.

    During the weeks leading up to the escape in July 1978 the prison

warders had noticed that attendances had fallen at film shows which

included "The Great Escape", and also that 220 knives and a huge quantity

of electric cable had disappeared.  A guard explained, "Yes, we were

planning to look for them, but never got around to it."  The warders had

not, however, noticed the gaping holes in the wall because they were

"covered with posters".  Nor did they detect any of the spades, chisels,

water hoses and electric drills amassed by the inmates in large quantities.

The night before the breakout one guard had noticed that of the 36

prisoners in his block only 13 were present.  He said this was "normal"

because inmates sometimes missed roll-call or hid, but usually came back

the next morning.

    "We only found out about the escape at 6:30 the next morning when

one of the prisoners told us," a warder said later.  [...]  When they

eventually checked, the prison guards found that exactly half of the gaol's

population was missing.  By way of explanation the Justice Minister, Dr.

Santos Pais, claimed that the escape was "normal" and part of the

"legitimate desire of the prisoner to regain his liberty."

        -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"

Fortune Cookie

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

Fortune Cookie

    A German, a Pole and a Czech left camp for a hike through the woods.

After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,

one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed.  They killed

the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.

    "What do you think?" said the the first ranger.

    "The Czech is in the male," replied the second.

Fortune Cookie

"Whatever the missing mass of the universe is, I hope it's not cockroaches!"

        -- Mom

Fortune Cookie

Base 8 is just like base 10, if you are missing two fingers.

        -- Tom Lehrer

Fortune Cookie

QOTD:

    "It's hard to tell whether he has an ace up his sleeve or if

    the ace is missing from his deck altogether."

Fortune Cookie

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car

payments.

        -- Earl Wilson

Fortune Cookie

Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"

until you are told that those rooms are "punched out."  Once punched out,

we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.

        -- N. Meyrowitz

Fortune Cookie

> I thing you're missing the capability of Makefiles.

        It takes several _hours_ to do `make' a second time on my

machine with the latest glibc sources (and no files are recompiled a

second time).  I think I'll remove `build' after changing one file if

I want to recompile it.

        -- Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org>

Fortune Cookie

mittsquinter, adj.:

    A ballplayer who looks into his glove after missing the ball, as

    if, somehow, the cause of the error lies there.

        -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends

Fortune Cookie

The computer can't tell you the emotional story.  It can give you the exact

mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

        -- Frank Zappa

Fortune Cookie

Strange things are done to be number one

In selling the computer            The Druids were entrepreneurs,

IBM has their strategem            And they built a granite box

Which steadily grows acuter,        It tracked the moon, warned of monsoons,

And Honeywell competes like Hell,    And forecast the equinox

But the story's missing link        Their price was right, their future

Is the system old at Stonemenge sold        bright,

By the firm of Druids, Inc.        The prototype was sold;

                    From Stonehenge site their bits and byte

                    Would ship for Celtic gold.

The movers came to crate the frame;

It weighed a million ton!

The traffic folk thought it a joke    The man spoke true, and thus to you

(the wagon wheels just spun);        A warning from the ages;

"They'll nay sell that," the foreman    Your stock will slip if you can't ship

    spat,                What's in your brochure's pages.

"Just leave the wild weeds grow;    See if it sells without the bells

"It's Druid-kind, over-designed,    And strings that ring and quiver;

"And belly up they'll go."        Druid repute went down the chute

                    Because they couldn't deliver.

        -- Edward C. McManus, "The Computer at Stonehenge"

Fortune Cookie

"Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--"

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

"What! don't you know about it yet? He doesn't know--imagine that! Why, he's shot himself. Your uncle shot himself this very morning. I was told at two this afternoon. Half the town must know it by now. They say there are three hundred and fifty thousand roubles, government money, missing; some say five hundred thousand. And I was under the impression that he would leave you a fortune! He's whistled it all away. A most depraved old gentleman, really! Well, ta, ta!--bonne chance! Surely you intend to be off there, don't you? Ha, ha! You've retired from the army in good time, I see! Plain clothes! Well done, sly rogue! Nonsense! I see--you knew it all before--I dare say you knew all about it yesterday-"

Fyodor Dostoyevsky     The Idiot

To whom Ulysses, toil-worn Chief renown'd. Not long will they from battle stand aloof, When once, within my palace, in the strength Of Mars, to sharp decision we shall urge The suitors. But thyself at early dawn Our mansion seek, that thou may'st mingle there With that imperious throng; me in due time Eumæus to the city shall conduct, In form a miserable beggar old. But should they with dishonourable scorn Insult me, thou unmov'd my wrongs endure, And should they even drag me by the feet Abroad, or smite me with the spear, thy wrath Refraining, gently counsel them to cease From such extravagance; but well I know That cease they will not, for their hour is come. And mark me well; treasure what now I say Deep in thy soul. When Pallas shall, herself, Suggest the measure, then, shaking my brows, I will admonish thee; thou, at the sign, Remove what arms soever in the hall Remain, and in the upper palace safe Dispose them; should the suitors, missing them, Perchance interrogate thee, then reply Gently--I have removed them from the smoke; For they appear no more the arms which erst Ulysses, going hence to Ilium, left, But smirch'd and sullied by the breath of fire. This weightier reason (thou shalt also say) Jove taught me; lest, intoxicate with wine, Ye should assault each other in your brawls, Shaming both feast and courtship; for the view Itself of arms incites to their abuse. Yet leave two faulchions for ourselves alone, Two spears, two bucklers, which with sudden force Impetuous we will seize, and Jove all-wise Their valour shall, and Pallas, steal away. This word store also in remembrance deep-- If mine in truth thou art, and of my blood, Then, of Ulysses to his home returned Let none hear news from thee, no, not my sire Laertes, nor Eumæus, nor of all The menials any, or ev'n Penelope, That thou and I, alone, may search the drift Of our domestic women, and may prove Our serving-men, who honours and reveres And who contemns us both, but chiefly thee So gracious and so worthy to be loved.

BOOK XVI     The Odyssey, by Homer

"A coat of black cloth, trowsers of black wool, a silk waistcoat, boots and linen." On the margin there stood: ex-ambassador, and a note which we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were white, a vague button-hole yawned at one of the elbows; moreover, one of the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid upon his heart, its function was to conceal the absent button.

Victor Hugo     Les Miserables

But the duke noticing that Oliverotto, who had remained with his band in Sinigalia, was missing--for Oliverotto was waiting in the square before his quarters near the river, keeping his men in order and drilling them--signalled with his eye to Don Michelle, to whom the care of Oliverotto had been committed, that he should take measures that Oliverotto should not escape. Therefore Don Michele rode off and joined Oliverotto, telling him that it was not right to keep his men out of their quarters, because these might be taken up by the men of the duke; and he advised him to send them at once to their quarters and to come himself to meet the duke. And Oliverotto, having taken this advice, came before the duke, who, when he saw him, called to him; and Oliverotto, having made his obeisance, joined the others.

Nicolo Machiavelli     The Prince

"And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing gentleman's clothes.

Arthur Conan Doyle     The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

It seemed that somewhat late on the afternoon of the day previous, while three of the stranger's boats were engaged with a shoal of whales, which had led them some four or five miles from the ship; and while they were yet in swift chase to windward, the white hump and head of Moby Dick had suddenly loomed up out of the water, not very far to leeward; whereupon, the fourth rigged boat--a reserved one--had been instantly lowered in chase. After a keen sail before the wind, this fourth boat--the swiftest keeled of all--seemed to have succeeded in fastening--at least, as well as the man at the mast-head could tell anything about it. In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens. There was some apprehension, but no positive alarm, as yet. The recall signals were placed in the rigging; darkness came on; and forced to pick up her three far to windward boats--ere going in quest of the fourth one in the precisely opposite direction--the ship had not only been necessitated to leave that boat to its fate till near midnight, but, for the time, to increase her distance from it. But the rest of her crew being at last safe aboard, she crowded all sail--stunsail on stunsail--after the missing boat; kindling a fire in her try-pots for a beacon; and every other man aloft on the look-out. But though when she had thus sailed a sufficient distance to gain the presumed place of the absent ones when last seen; though she then paused to lower her spare boats to pull all around her; and not finding anything, had again dashed on; again paused, and lowered her boats; and though she had thus continued doing till daylight; yet not the least glimpse of the missing keel had been seen.

Herman Melville     Moby Dick; or The Whale

"So I can fire when I like!" said Pierre, and at the word "three," he went quickly forward, missing the trodden path and stepping into the deep snow. He held the pistol in his right hand at arm's length, apparently afraid of shooting himself with it. His left hand he held carefully back, because he wished to support his right hand with it and knew he must not do so. Having advanced six paces and strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been shown, fired. Not at all expecting so loud a report, Pierre shuddered at the sound and then, smiling at his own sensations, stood still. The smoke, rendered denser by the mist, prevented him from seeing anything for an instant, but there was no second report as he had expected. He only heard Dolokhov's hurried steps, and his figure came in view through the smoke. He was pressing one hand to his left side, while the other clutched his drooping pistol. His face was pale. Rostov ran toward him and said something.

Leo Tolstoy     War and Peace

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