Karl and Angela Rees

“We can’t do everything for everyone everywhere, but we can do something for someone somewhere.”

"That's okay.  I had headphones."

- A passenger sitting in front of us, in response to us apologizing for how annoying Thomas' screaming for half an hour had been.  Note that neither he, nor any other passenger, refuted the fact that Thomas had been "annoying."

"Now I know how your dad's mom felt whenever he came home to visit."

- Karl's mom, commenting on how she gets so excited every time Karl comes to visit because Karl fixes her computer.  (Karl's dad would often go out to Odessa to fix things around the house for Karl's grandmother).

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "

-Thomas A. Edison

"In the land of ice and snow
Up among the Eskimo
There's a college known as Oogie-wawa.
You should hear those college boys
Gee, they make an awful noise
When they sing their Eskimo tra la la.
They've got a leader, big cheer leader, oh what a guy!
He's got a frozen face just like an Eskimo Pie.
When he says, "Come on, let's go!"
Though it's forty-five below
Listen what those Eskimo all holler:  read more »

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

- Albert Einstein

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new."

~Rajneesh

'Whenever I get a bee in my bonnet, I find it helps to take my hat off.'

- Jimmy James ("Newsradio")

"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. "

- Will Rogers

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

- Chinese Proverb (especially applicable after we realized we'd forgotten the great quote we thought we'd use this week from a Saturday conference talk).