--------------------- MAG's fav.quotes 2007 ---------------------------------

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth" - JFK. 

"You may very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment" - Ian
 Richardson (1934-2007) as Francis Urquart.
 
"I'm free!" - John Inman (1935-2007).

"Never, Never, Never!" - Dr. Ian Paisley, 1986. 


"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First,
ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you
and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely
discussed, people at the top generally have no friends". - Boris
Yeltsin

"Power is the ability to do good things for others" - Brooke Astor
(1902-2007)

--------------------- MAG's fav.quotes 2008 ---------------------------------

"Goodnight then: sleep to gather stength for the morning. For the
morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and the true,
kindly upon all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of
heroes. Thus will shine the dawn. Vive la France!"

- Winston Churchill (radio broadcast, October 1940) 

"You can't have them all!" - CdV

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the most important.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock
Holmes)

----------------- 2009 transmitted via my twitter account -----------------

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" -Walt Disney

"Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take,
towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden". - T.S. Elliot.

"Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing
nothing & being nothing" - Aristotle.

 "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny
 can only be grasped one link at a time" - Winston Churchill.

"A good #SKA site selection process: the loser feels disappointed but
not cheated" -J. Womersley.


“The look on his face was something you see only a few times in your
life..." - Gene Kranz (wrt MCFD & Challenger disaster).


There was no such thing as "optical astronomy" until radio astronomy
came along - Woody Sullivan, at the Richard Stromfest.

"... a quick slurp, and back to me Clive" - Keith Floyd (1943-2009)

"All things are possible but happen less and less" - Deacon blue.

"Very enthusiastic, tons of questions, but incredibly LOUD lot...." -
 Ralph Wijers exhausted from first class for 120 freshmen.

"LOFAR is pure passion" - Andre Gunst.

"This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing
nothing" - On Chesil beach, by Ian McEwan.


"3 of Gordon's, 1 of vodka, 1/2 of Kina Lillet. Shake until it's
ice-cold, add a large thin slice of lemon" -I.Flemming, Casino Royale


"Galileo liked wine a lot!" - Franco Pacini, IAU2009. 

According to the BBC Radio Scotland Funny bits podcast there are 2
types of men: "thick and good-looking or thick and ugly!"

"1201 alarm... we're go. Same type. We're go" Charlie Duke.

"However hard I'm working and however tired I am, I make sure I just
enjoy every single second of my life" - Richard Branson

"You can do anything, but not everything" - David Allen. 

SKA is the limit! - CdV. 

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" - Walt Disney.

QotW: "Contrary to rumour, I own more ties than pairs of shorts", Phil Diamond, January 2010.


Who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering & tried to heal it, saw war & tried to stop it - RFK's Eulogy - EK.


QotW: We were only the tenants of this world. We have been given a new lease, and a warning, from the landlord -2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd.


QotW: He's making a list, Checking it twice; Gonna find out who's naughty or nice. Santa Claus is coming to town! -Coots & Gillespie


QotW: The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep..." - R. Frost


QotW: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life - Winston Churchill.

It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well... And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, One and All"-Dickens

QotW: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" - Winston Churchill.

QotW:Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. T.SElliot

QotW: "A good #SKA site selection process: the loser feels disappointed but not cheated"-J. Wormsley.

QotW: “The look on his face was something you see only a few times in your life..." Gene Kranz (wrt MCFD & Challenger disaster).

QotW: There was no such thing as "optical astronomy" until radio astronomy came along - Woody Sullivan, at the Richard Stromfest.

"Just one more thing..." - Peter Falk "Columbo" (1927-2011). 

"Some spouses get off on radio telescopes, some don't" - Richard
Schilizzi, June 2011.