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Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
Arthur C. Clarke
Life
Best
Day
Hide
Space
Will
One Day
Outer
Outer Space
Some
Proof
Fact
Come
Perhaps
Wit
Well
Overhear
Intelligent
Forever
Intelligent Life
Here
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke
Impossible
States
Distinguished
Possible
Something
He
Wrong
Almost
Scientist
Very
Elderly
Certainly
Right
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
Barry Gibb
Home
Family
You
Matter
Before
Else
Secret
Come
Make
Sure
Because
Got
Anything
Anything Else
Your
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson
Fear
Prisoner
Hell
Greater
Than
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
Ben Kingsley
Love
Son
People
Father
Young
Think
Other
Wishes
How
How Much
His
Juliet
Uplifting
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Young People
Avenge
Much
Each
Two
I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.
Benny Hill
Day
Better
Smoking
Thought
Cigarettes
Gave
Took
Back
One Day
Out
Take
Looked
Well
Smoke
Up
Afford
Oh
Again
Then
Her
As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.
Bernard Sumner
Emotions
Our
Adolescence
Physically
Adulthood
Mature
Childhood
Behind
Human
Human Beings
Lag
Then
Beings
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bernard Williams
Time
Somebody
Take Advantage
Every
Every Time
Weakness
Take
Advantage
Little
Grow
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
Bill Nighy
Man
Seriously
Sleeves
Kind
Disabled
Know
Operate
Without
How
Am
Shirt
Jacket
Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen
Beer
Man
Give
Lifetime
Hour
Teach
Brew
Waste
There are people you are madly in love with and thought you could never live without, and suddenly you break up and think, 'What was I thinking?'.
Boy George
Love
You
People
Thought
Live
Think
Thinking
Madly
Could
Never
Without
Up
Break
Break Up
Suddenly
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
Brian Clough
Day
Job
Say
Particular
Built
Rome
They Say
Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
Bryan Procter
Smile
Nature
Light
Summer
Throne
She
Oh
Night
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Charles Babbage
Knowledge
Every
Increase
Tool
New
Well
Becomes
Labour
Human
Each
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematics
Nile
Magnificence
Study
Like
Begins
Ends
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness
Life
Dance
Through
Leads
Mistress
None
Same
Grand
Us
Ceremonies
Route
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton
Love
Relationship
You
Woman
Inspire
Will
Herself
Runs
Above
Over
Cannot
Yours
Fill
Her
Brim
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton
You
Nothing
Say
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
Charles Darwin
Man
Habits
Hairy
Descended
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens
Home
Strong
Word
Stronger
Spirit
Magician
Strongest
Spoke
Name
Answered
Than
Ever
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens
You
Business
Men
First
Other
Rule
Would
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
Wonderful
Reflect
Every
Other
Secret
Fact
Mystery
Human
Creature
Profound
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley
Age
Long
Past
Earth
Say
Some
Spirit
Never
Wrong
Dead
Left
Romance
Romantic
Chivalry
I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
Charlie Chaplin
Christ
President
Back
Further
Go
America
Use
Jesus
Jesus Christ
There's a great club in London called The Secret Sundays, and it's on a Sunday afternoon and it's outdoors, and it's mainly Italians that go, and they all look great, and they're dancing on the tables, and life's a party, and they're totally into the music, going mental, and that's when dance music is really fantastic, I think.
Chris Lowe
Life
Music
Great
Dance
Sunday
Party
Club
Think
Dance Music
Secret
Dancing
Sunday Afternoon
Sundays
Outdoors
Tables
London
Totally
Mental
Mainly
Look
Go
Italians
Going
Afternoon
Fantastic
Really
I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
Christopher Lee
Music
Heavy Metal
Power
Tremendous
Because
Metal
Heavy
Fantasy
Associate
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