Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012



Interesting quotes


"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have
was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse
with those people."


 J. Danforth Quayle



"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." -- J. Danforth Quayle


"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."-- Vice President Dan Quayle


"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." --Vice President Dan Quayle


"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89


"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88


"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89


"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89


"May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world." -- The Quayles' 1989 Christmas card. [Not a beacon of literacy, though.]


"Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88


"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgementsin the Future." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"The future will be better tomorrow." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88


"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89


"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a *part* of NATO. We have a firm commitment to
Europe. We are a *part* of Europe." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"Public speaking is very easy." -- Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88


"I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"I love
California, I practically grew up in Phoenix." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in
L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle,
5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)


"Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/18/92


"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." -- Vice President Dan Quayle,
9/22/90


"For NASA, space is still a high priority." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90


"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90


"The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Vice President Dan Quayle


"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system." -- Vice President Dan Quayle

Thursday, April 12, 2012


VERY INTERESTING QUOTES

·        Men are like steel; both are worthless when they loose their temper.
-- Source Unknown

·        What if "the hokey pokey" is REALLY what it's all about?
-- Curtis Spencer

·        We are the people our parents warned us about.
-- Jimmy Buffett


·        Those are my principles, and if you don't 
like them...well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx


·        The nice part of living in a small town is that when I don't know what I'm doing, someone else does.
-- Source Unknown

·        USA Today has come out with a new survey-apparently, three out of every four people make up 75 percent of the population.
-- Dave Letterman

·        You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R.
-- Dennis Miller

·        Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein

·        Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?
-- Mark Twain

·        A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
-- G. C. Lichtenberg

·        I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain

·        Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
-- Groucho Marx

·        I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
-- Charles Shulz

·        Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
-- Ambrose Bierce

·        I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
-- Oscar Wilde

·        Plagiarists at least have the quality of preservation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli


·        I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Mahatma Gandhi


·        Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy -- the mother.
-- Claudette Colbert

·        If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Flip
Wilson

·        I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.
-- Mark Twain

·        A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
-- Source Unknown

·        If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.
-- Groucho Marx

·        The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
-- Mark Twain

·        He has not a single redeeming defect.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

·        When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
-- John Mortimer

·        Last night the creative juices were flowing but today I am merely a vast wasteland of random thoughts.
-- Peckeroy

·        From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx

·        In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.
-- Len Deighton





·        My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
-- Cole Porter





·        He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Source Unknown

Saturday, February 4, 2012


INTERESTING NAMES AND PROFESSIONS
  • Bankers, Wallowa County, Oregon: Cheatham & Steele
  • Chorister, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey: Justin Tune
  • Gynaecologist, New York Hospital, New York City: Dr Zoltan Ovary
  • Chairman, Tetley Tea Company, London: Tetley Ironsides Tetley Jones
  • Dentist, Roslyn Heights, New York: Dr. E. Z. Filler
  • Phlebotomist, St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth, UK: Lavinia Blood
  • The national Director of Surgery at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C.  Dr Blades
  • Plumber Worcester UK: Mr Turner-Heaton
  • Lloyds/TSB Bank Manager, Waterlooville, UK: Mr F. Knox
  • Mr. Vice, Malefactor, New Orleans, Louisiana. Arrested 890 times and convicted 421, probably a record (International Herald Tribune)
  • Interior decorator, Reading, UK: Derek Paynter
  • Municipal Tax Collector, Brazil (Financial Times): Cardiac Arrest da Silva
  • Funeral Director, Sydney, Australia: C. D' Eath and Sons
    [Will once knew a Mrs Pine-Coffin from
    Devon, UK but she was an owner of holiday cottages not an undertaker]
  • Landscape Gardeners from Salisbury, UK called: Budd and Bush
  • Silent Movie Organist, Rochester, New York: C. Sharp Minor
  • Central City, Kentucky automobile salesman: Henry Ford Carr
  • Never Fail is a builder in Tulsa, Oklahoma
  • Mr Robbins is a renowned ornithologist (bird scientist and bird-bander) at a Federal wildlife research center in Maryland, USA. He is co-author of the guidebook "Birds of North America".
  • This one does fit in at all with the others but we couldn't resist it: Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet, Commissaire de Police, Paris, France in the 1930's
  • David Bird is an ornithologist.
  • Scott Constable is, of course, a policemen.
  • Helen Painter is an artist.
  • Raymond Strike has to be a Trades Union leader.
  • Shona Shears cuts people's hair.
  • Steve Adore is a dock worker.
  • Dr Joseph Babey is a paediatrician.
  • Dr Djerk works as a psychiatrist.
  • Bertha de Bleus is a jazz singer [sounds suspicious to me says Will].
  • And yes, Dr D'Eath is a surgeon.
  • Alan Ball, English footballer who played in England's 1966 World Cup winning team.
  • Anna Smashnova, tennis player.
  • Billy Drummond, American jazz drummer.
  • Bob Flowerdew, gardener and Gardeners' Question Time panellist.
  • Bob Rock, rock music producer, including Metallica and Bon Jovi.
  • Brenda Song, singer.
  • Cecil Fielder and his son Prince Fielder, baseball players.
  • Jaime Gold winner of 2006 World Series of Poker
  • Chuck Long, former NFL quarterback for the Detroit Lions and the Los Angeles Rams.
  • Henry Head, an English neurologist.
  • Igor Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales .
  • Learned Hand, judge.
  • Lord Brain, neurologist.
  • Marc Rich, billionaire financier.
  • Margaret Court, tennis player.
  • Margaret Spellings, Education Secretary under George W. Bush.
  • Peter Bowler, cricketer who was, in fact, primarily a batsman.
  • Pippa Greenwood, plant pathologist and "Gardeners' Question Time" panellist in the UK.
  • Scott Free a defence attorney.
  • Thomas Crapper, manufacturer of Victorian toilets. Please note that the word "crap" predates Mr Crapper.] .
  • Tiger Woods, golfer [A wood is a type of golf club].
  • Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter, Olympic Gold medalist, 100m and 200m world record holder.
  • William Wordsworth, poet.
  • Larry Speakes - Ronald Regan's Whitehouse spokesman.
  • Lord Judge - Chief justice in England.
  • Chris Moneymaker - Poker player.
  • Stephen Rowbotham - British Olympic oarsman.
  • And last but not least Usain Bolt.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Interesting...



Ram Changmao has created an unbreakable connection with  hind Chunzi, and nearly all time they spend  together. Employees of the park for wild animals in Kunming in Yunnan province say that ram fit into a herd of deer, and eventually assumed the role of alpha males. Thanks to this Changmao is  free  to  mate with other females in the herd, even when is the Chunzi  still his favorite.



 
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