A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
what is lighter than a feather and not even the strongest man in the world can carry it
I am a fathers child and a mothers child, yet I am not a son. Who am I?
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.
Funny is an attitude.
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
what's black when you buy it red while your using it and white when you throw it away what is it?
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
A man hits a part of an elephant with a stick. A few seconds later the part of the elephant the man hit disappeared. Then the man won a whole lot of money. What is the man doing?
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
i have a bed but never sleep. have a head but never eat. I always run and never walk. i have a mouth but i never talk. what am i?
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
if it took 3 men 3 hours to dig a 3 foot hole who long will it take 2 men to dig a half a hole?
Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
When there is fire in me, I am still cold When I own your true love's face, you will not see me To all things I give no more then I am given In time I may have had all things and yet I may keep nothing What am I?
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.
Before mount everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain?
There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
What can not be seen. can not be felt can not be heard or smelt. it lies behind rocks and rills under mountains and hills
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
When I was at home, I felt loved and safe. My sisters were always a safe haven for me. I knew they would always play with me and make me feel like I was one of them.
I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.
When 360 = 12 When 1/2 = 30 And when 300 = 5 What am i?
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
If you were locked in a concrete room, with no windows and no doors, and all you had inside the room was a bed and a calendar, how would you eat and drink?
It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.
What is red and shaped like a bucket?
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.
When was meat so high?
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
I have four legs and am covered withe spots but I also go in the water and can go back on land. what am I?
By adding a single line to the following equation. Make it correct 5+5+5=550
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.
I am a thing that spiders make. I am white and thinn but if you see me in a moniter I am multi-colors. What am I?
I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
Love is friendship set on fire.
When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
i am black and white and full of words.i know ive been read. what am i?
What was Marie Curie's fitness program on the airwaves called? Radio-Activity
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
This thing all things devours: Birds,beast,trees,flowers; gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to medal; Slays kings, ruins town, And beats high mountains down.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit, don't you think?
WHEN YOU KMOW WHAT I AM I AM SOMETHING BUT WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM THEN I AM NOTHING. WHAT AM I?
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
There is a boy and his dad who had a crash.The dad died. The son was survierely injured. When he was about to be oporated on the doc. said "I can't oporate on him 'cause he is my son." How?
My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'
first think of the person who lives in disguise, who deals in secret and tells naught but lies. next,tell me what's always the last thing to mend,the middle of middle and end of the end? and finally give me the sound often heard during the search for a hard to find word. now string them together, and answer me this which creature would you be unwilling yo kiss?
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
which word starts with the letter 'e', ends with the letter 'e' but only has one letter in it?
Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Silence is a source of great strength.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
A man says: "Brothers and Sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son. Who was he pointing at?