Lex Luthor = knowledge preceeds victory, ignorance preceeds defeat

unknown = people are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until you drop them in hot water

Thomas Dewar = minds are like parachutes, they only function when open

Mr. Prakya = if you want to soar like an eagle, don't hang with the turkeys

unknown = KISS - Keep-It-Simple-Stupid

unknown = most guys are like sheets; for about a week, you want them on your bed and then you go and change them. but a select few are like the blanket you had as a little kid, you take him everywhere, show him off to all your friends and you never let him go

unknown = love is when you look someone in the eyes and you don't just see the colour, you see into their soul

unknown = as you slide down the wooden bannister of life, may there be no splinters pointing in the wrong direction

unknown = 'tis better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you're not

unknown = a man that makes you cry, isn't worth your tears. a man who's worth your tears, won't make you cry

unknown = if you're falling off a cliff, try to fly, cause you've got nothing to lose

unknown = you might just be one person in this world, but to one person, you might BE the world

unknown = don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things

unknown = I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe

Bernard Lown & Evjueni Chazov = we live in an age of unprecedented uncertainty. life on earth is perilously poised at the precipice of extinction. never before has man possessed the destructive resources to commit global suicide / we must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. it does toh belong to them. they are not free to doom generations yet unborn. they are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim it's future

René Descartes = cogito, ergo sum [I think, therefore, I am]

unknown = civilized man has marched across the face of the earth and left a desert in his footprints

David Pimentel = if all the people in the world enjoyed a standard of living and energy consumption similar to the US average and the world population continued to grow at the rate of 1.7% per year, the world's fossil fuel resserves would last a mere 20 years

Santiago Ramon y Cajal = [the man] I am the prodilect object of Creation, the centre of all that exists . . . [the tapeworm] you are exalting yourself a little. if you consider yourself the lord of Creation, what can I be, who feed upon you and am ruler in your entrails? [the man] you lack reason and an immortal soul [the tapeworm] and since it is an established fact that the concentration and complexity of the nervous system appear in the animal scale as an uninterrupted series of graduations, where are we cut off? how many neurons must be possessed in order to have a soul and a little rationatlity?

Maurice Strong = a citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy that has to last the citizen of a developing country his entire life

unknown = the devil can quote the Bible to suit his purposes

Ethan Hawke [Gattaca] = we now have discrimination down to a science

Grace Adler = my love for you is like this scar - ugly, but permanent

Aristotle = a true friend is one soul with two bodies

Terminal 5 = whimsy can be flimsy