Greg Fischer's Personal Web Site Personal - Quotes Because almost every interesting thing we say was probably said by someone else first "Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having." -- D. H. Lawrence (A Modern Lover) "[When you are choosing what to do with your life, choose wisely, for as the hammer pounds the anvil, so too does the anvil pound the hammer. In choosing what we will do, we are choosing who we will become]."--Robert Russell "We should show life neither as it is nor as it ought to be, but as we see it in our dreams." -- Anton Chekhov (The Seagull, I) "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -- Carl Sagan [I'm waiting for the Sagan vs. Chekov Battle Royale] "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty" -- Mahatma Ghandi "I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again." -- Bart Simpson "Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love." -- M. Kundera (The unbearable lightness of being I, 4) "No, vertigo is