Cliburn Tank Quotes & Sayings

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man. — Jean Shepherd

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful?
Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to be dependent on any external circumstances and rules dictated by the mainstream society.
It does not matter where we live and what we possess. When we love and support ourselves unconditionally choosing to be ourselves as much as we can, this is for us, Being Successful. — Raphael Zernoff

Those who haven't been exposed to the hypocrisies of a civilized education react to things 'naturally', as they happen. It is in the here and now that they are either happy or unhappy, joyful or sad, interested or indifferent. — Henri Charriere

Gower is the first English writer to use "history" as an English word. He regularly rhymes the term with "memory," for to his way of thinking history and memory are correlative. That is, without history, there can be no memory; and without memory, there can be no history. But the point of historical knowledge is not to enable people to live in the past, or even to understand the past in the way we would expect a modern historian to proceed; rather, it is to enable people to live more vitally in the present. — Russell A. Peck

First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist, nor any other.
Second, whatever I was looking for
was always you. — Rumi

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. — Garchen Rinpoche

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. — John Lydon

I am not a person that is particularly tethered to fashion, which I think is obvious to anyone who's seen me. — Janeane Garofalo

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare

Basic problem is that all models are wrong - not got enough middle and low level clouds. — Phil Jones

I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie. — Scott Ritter