Smithsons Anchorage Quotes

#1. Three-hundred million years from now, the only thing that will matter is whether you're in Heaven or in Hell.

Mark Cahill

#2. Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'?

Wu Cheng'en

#3. Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,
And makes it fearful and degenerate;
Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.

William Shakespeare

#4. It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

George Santayana

#5. Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

Jon Anderson

#6. The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English's time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft of a rigorously exacting nature has been cast to the margins of the culture.

John McWhorter

#7. When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

Bankei Yotaku

#8. At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

Jane Pauley

#9. It's not a bad thing to play second fiddle if the first chair is a virtuoso.

J.T. Sather

#10. I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

George A. Romero