A reader asks: I was following a blog on Carepages where this guy had some pithy quote from pop culture almost every day. No one remembers all those lines! How can I be as cool as Steve?
Oh, reader. You probably can't be quite as cool as he is. But here are some suggestions...
Check out Quotegeek. Very fun.
We ran a search on HOPE. Found these (among others...)
Red: Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Movies > The Shawshank Redemption
Gloria: Joanie, you are now a world-class hopeless romantic.Joan Wilder: No, hopeful. Hopeful romantic.
Movies > Romancing the Stone
Man can't help hoping even if he is a scientist. He can only hope more accurately.
Love Against Hate
Personalities > Karl Menninger
For you patient searchers (you know who you are!) try Fagan Finder's Quote Search. Here there are 20 or 30 different quote search engines to try! It's hard to imagine you won't find something good here.
We're always looking for great research quotes. We know. It's not the most fascinating subject to everyone. So as an experiment, we tried some of the engines...
From Quotez
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
From Board of Wisdom
one of our all time favorites (you may have heard this from us before!)
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein
From Said What
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates
And if you're more in the mood for a good cliche, check out Cliche Finder.
Until next time!
We're collectors of knowledge. We're students of culture, of industry, of life. We're researchers. We carry a badge. We are Scherer Cybrarian.
2.19.2007
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