- Starfish have no brain.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
- Bulls are color blind.
- A can of SPAM is opened every 4 seconds.
- "Babe" was played by over 48 pigs.
- Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
- Lip stick contains fish scales.
- The Poison Arrow frog has enough poison to kill 2200 people.
- The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
- Kidney stones come in any color from yellow to brown.
- Women blink twice as many times as men do.
- The McDonalds at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario is the only one in the world that sells hot dogs.
- A bowling pin only has to tilt 7.5 degrees in order to fall down.
- The first episode of Leave It To Beaver aired on October 4, 1957.
- Beaver Cleaver's locker number is 9.
- The first flushing toilet seen on TV was on Leave It To Beaver.
- Jerry Seinfeld's apartment number (on the show) is 5A. In the old episodes it was 3A.
- The life span of a taste bud is ten days.
- Pi has been calculated to 2,260,321,363 digits.
- The billionth digit in Pi is 9.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Some Useless Facts...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
More Inspirational one liners and quotes
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Smile, it increases your face value.
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
- Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all-he's walking on them.
- It's your aptitude not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude.
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
- Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.
- It is not the position, but the disposition.
- Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
- Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude.
- For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
- Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
- Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Inspirational one liners and quotes
- Failure is always temporary, only giving up makes it permanent.
- Do a little more every day than you think you can.
- Character equals destiny.
- When character is gained, everything is gained.
- The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Be critical of both new ideas and accepted wisdom.
- Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.
- People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.
- A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
- If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
- We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
- To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Monday, December 17, 2007
Some Quotes from Fountainhead
- "A house can have integrity, just like a person, and just as seldom."
- "People were his protection against people. Howard Roark had no sense of people."
- "One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name."
- "Worry is a waste of emotional reserve."
- "There is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
- "Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched."
- "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- "Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential."
- "His face was closed like a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that."
- "Show me your achievement - and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
- "She could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known."
- "They talked quietly, with a feeling of companionship such as that of an old married couple; as if he had possessed her body, and the wonder of it had long since been consumed, and nothing remained but an untroubled intimacy."
- "I am a man who does not exist for others.
- "...the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him."
- "I have come here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. . . . It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing."
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Perfection one liners
- Perfection is an illusion we all aspire to achieve
- being perfect is boring...if u have flaws,u r interesting.
- I cant change myself becoz it is difficult to alter perfection.
- Do not confuse Excellance with Perfection,Excelllance we can aim for,perfection is totally God's business!
- Practice never makes a man prefect, perfect practice does that!!
- I've achieved PERFECTION only others differ on my views.
- I m perfect at perfection
- perfection....an illusion created by a lazy soul who doesn't wanna improve.
- Nobody is perfect, I am Nobody.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Collection of Best One Liners on Work --- Murphys' Law on work
- If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.
- People are always available for work in the past tense.
- If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- At work, the authority of a person is inversely proportional to the number of pens that person is carrying.
- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
- You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.
- No one gets sick on Wednesdays.
- When confronted by a difficult problem you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, 'How would the Lone Ranger handle this?'
- The longer the title, the less important the job.
- Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.
- An 'acceptable' level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
- Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
- All vacations and holidays create problems, except for one's own.
- Success is just a matter of luck, just ask any failure.
More One Liners on Work --- Murphys' Law on work
- Mother said there would be days like this, but she never said there would be so many.
- Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back. This is what I'm doing wrong.
- Everything can be filed under 'miscellaneous.'
- Never delay the ending of a meeting or the beginning of a cocktail hour.
- To err is human, to forgive is not company policy.
- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing.
- Important letters that contain no errors will develop errors in the mail.
- The last person that quit or was fired will be the one held responsible for everything that goes wrong - until the next person quits or is fired.
- There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over.
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