This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
In sensory experience I always experience myself and the world at the same time, not myself directly and the Other by inference, not myself before the Other, nor without the Other, nor the Other without myself.
World |
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Mother |
Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal
Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.
I have been doing the photography all my life but I’ve only been doing the manipulations for about four or five years. What takes most time in the production process is the planning. With good planning the other steps don’t take so long. If I have a good idea I will add it to my list of projects that I want to realise. The photography, for me, is a way to get material because my work is created on a computer afterwards. From the idea to the final image, it can take between a week and a month.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Men |
If you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi
Absurd |
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
Raising a family wasn't something I put on my resumé, but I have to ask myself, would I apply for the same job again?
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive
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When we are young we are often puzzled by the fact that each person we admire seems to have a different version of what life ought to be, what a good man is, how to live, and so on. If we are especially sensitive it seems more than puzzling, it is disheartening. What most people usually do is to follow one person's ideas and then another's depending on who looms largest on one's horizon at the time. The one with the deepest voice, the strongest appearance, the most authority and success, is usually the one who gets our momentary allegiance; and we try to pattern our ideals after him. But as life goes on we get a perspective on this and all these different versions of truth become a little pathetic. Each person thinks that he has the formula for triumphing over life's limitations and knows with authority what it means to be a man, and he usually tries to win a following for his particular patent. Today we know that people try so hard to win converts for their point of view because it is more than merely an outlook on life: it is an immortality formula.