Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.

- Richard Franck -

Hey, hey, dragonfly
I’d like to ride with you tonight
Take in your show, take up your life
Dragonfly, I really like your style

- Fernando Ortega -

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow.

- Barbara Walters -

If all the seeds that fall were to grow, then no one could follow the path under the trees.

- Akan proverb -

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

- Cavett Robert -

Those old Greek gods are not just poetry and legend. In them the Ancients personified living realities -- intelligence, beauty, love, or lust, which are still at work in our hearts, and which fashion our persons. The language they speak is that of image and myth, which touches the person much more directly than the explicit language of science and the intellectual dialectic of the modern world.

- Paul Touriner -

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban -

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

- John Milton -

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

- French proverb -

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

- Patrick Young -

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

- Cicero -

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

- Anthony J. D'angelo -

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

- Elizabeth I -

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

- Anacharsis -

Rust wastes more than use.

- French prverb -

Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.

Az állatoknak csupán két nagy csoportja, az emberek és a hangyák, folytatnak jól szervezett tömeges hadviselést.

- Charles H. Maskins -

Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping.

- Unknown -

Veni, Vedi, Visa: Jöttem, láttam, vásároltam.

- Ismeretlen -

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.

- Unknown -

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

- William Baldwin -

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people.

- Thomas Sowell -

I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves! ... HEY! What time is it?? My TV show is on!

- Calvin (Bill Watterson ) -

The hermit doesn't sleep at night, in love with the blue of the vacant moon. The cool of the breeze that rustles the trees rustles him too.

- Ching-an -

Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth, Only dazzle to lead us astray.

- Thomas Haynes Bayly -

Up to 140,000 species per year may be the present rate of extinction based upon upper bound estimating.

- Wikipedia -

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

- Oscar Wilde -

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

- Carl Gustav Jung -

God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

- John Masefield -

Everybody loves Hypnotoad.

Mindenki szereti Hypnobékát.

- Futurama -

I don't know why I pick up other people's trash. I guess those of us who do have more respect for our community and the beauty of this land than those who throw trash on it. I just can't stand to look at it.

Nem tudom miért veszem fel mások szemetét. Talán mert vannak akik több tiszteletet éreznek a közösségért és a föld szépségért mint azok akik szemetet dobnak rá. Én képtelen vagyok ránézni.

- Lois Brobst -

You need three things in the theatre--the play, the actors and the audience,--and each must give something.

A szinházban három dologra van szükség - a darabra, a színészekre és a kozonségre - mindegyiknek adnia kell valamit.

- Kenneth Haigh -

Every seed knows its time.

- Russian proverb -

Minden mag tudja mikor jött el az ideje.

- Orosz közmondás -

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

Minden harmat cseppben és eső cseppben egy egész menyország van.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

It's pleasant to look on the rain, when one stands dry.

- Dutch proverb -

Száraz helyről kellemes az esőt nézni.

- Holland közmondás -

He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne.

- Russian proverb -

Aki nem kockáztat soha nem kap pezsgőt.

- Orosz közmondás -

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A repülés : megtanulni, hogyan téveszd el a földet amikor zuhansz.

- Douglas Adams -

All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

Mindenhol a világon, az ember által ismert környezeteken és területeken, egyre veszélyesebb időjárási mintázatok és pusztító viharok vetnek véget az éghajlat változásának létezését firtató hosszú vitának. Nemcsak, hogy valós, de itt is van, és a hatásai létrehoznak egy riasztóan új globális jelenséget: a mesterséges természeti katasztrófát.

- Barack Obama -

Friends are like puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that puzzle will never be whole again.

- Unknown -

A barátok olyanok mint egy kirakós darabjai. Ha egy elmegy, az az egyedi darab nem pótolható, és a kirakós soha nem lesz teljes többé.

- Ismeretlen -

It is a wretched position to be dependent on others for support.

- Latin proverb -

Nyomorult helyzet mások támaszától függeni.

- Latin mondás -

Young twigs may be bent, but not old trees.

- Dutch proverb -

A fiatal ágakat meg lehet hajlítani, de öreg fákat nem.

- Holland közmondás -

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

Az ember egyformán képtelen látni a semmit amiből kiemelkedett és a végtelent ami elnyeli.

- Blaise Pascal -

There are things known, there are things unknown, in between are doors.

- Unknown -

Vannak ismert dolgok, vannak ismeretlenek, a kettő közt ajtók.

- Ismeretlen -

God postpones, he does not overlook.

- Turkish proverb -

Isten elhalaszt, nem szemet huny felette.

- Török közmondás -

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Csak két féle képpen élheted az életed. Az egyik, mintha nem is lennének csodák. A másik mintha minden csoda volna.

- Richard Carshaw -

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?

A világ lassan forog, nehogy kicsorduljanak a folyók és a tavak, a vizet a kezében tartja, az égboltot a vízben. Mégis mi a víz, ami ezüstöt önt magából, és megtartja az eget?

- Hilda Conkling -

God writes straight with crooked lines.

- Spanish proverb -

Isten egyenesen ír görbe sorokkal.

- Spanyol közmondás -

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Eképpen az árnyék a fénynek köszönheti születését.

- John Gay -

Rise early, and you will observe; labour, and you will have.

- Portugese proverb -

Kelj korán, és meg fogod látni, dolgozz, és a tiéd lesz.

- Portugál közmondás -

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Amit hátra hagysz az nem az ami emlékművekbe van vésve, hanem az ami beleszövődik mások életébe.

- Pericles -

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

A valóság csupán illuzió, mégha elég állandó is.

- ALbert Einstein -