quotations

Picard: "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we've lived. After all Number One, we're only mortal."

Riker: "Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever."

On my fortieth birthday. :)

"I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind."

-- Emily Bronte, from Wuthering Heights

Wise man that Lincoln.

Wikiquote of the day:

"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." -- Abraham Lincoln

In a previous life, I was Robert Benchley. Perhaps.

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

— Robert Benchley

Margaret Atwood (attributed):

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."

"For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting."

-- Robert Benchley

"To even mention all the things the bird must constantly keep in mind in order to fly securely through the air would take a considerable part of the evening... The bird has learned this art of equilibrium, and learned it so thoroughly that its skill is not apparent to our sight. We only learn to appreciate it when we try to imitate it."

-- Wilbur Wright