Planning

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
- Daniel H. Burnham

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- Gloria Steinem

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
- Richard M. Nixon, 1913 - 1994

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration.
- Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 - 1931

I wake up every morning determined both to change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day a little difficult.
- Elwyn Brooks White, 1899 - 1985

Marilyn Monroe

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public; talent in privacy.

No one ever called me pretty when I was a little girl.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
- All from Marilyn Monroe, 1926 - 1962

About:

Norma Jeane Baker was born at Los Angeles on 1 Jun 1926 to an unmarried film cutter. Her mother, emotionally unable to raise a child, left Norma Jeane to be raised by foster parents but pushed the idea of becoming a movie start on her weekly visits. She married at sixteen and worked in defense plants while her husband was overseas, an Army photographer spotted her and helped her start a modeling career. Her film career started in 1946 and as Marilyn Monroe was the most bankable name in Hollywood in the fifties. Despite her hard work and her box-office success, not to mention affairs with both John and Robert Kennedy, she never felt secure.

Nakedness

Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.
- Charis Wilson

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude. I hope to make you use your imagination.
- Hedy Lamarr, 1913 - 2000

In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
- Horatio Greenough, 1805 - 1852

Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.
- Janet Lembke, Skinny Dipping

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
- Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

Voice

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.
- Barry Neil Kaufman

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.
- Bertha Flowers

The voice is a second face.
- Gerard Bauer

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
- Germaine De Stael, 1766 - 1817

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
- Richard M. Nixon, 1913 - 1994

Speak the truth in a million voices. it is silence that kills.
- Catherine of Siena, 1347 - 1380

Patrick Henry

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against the painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation - the last arguments to which kings resort.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
- All from Patrick Henry, 1736 - 1799

About: Patrick Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia on 29 May in 1736. Memorial Day in the US is a day to remember those who answered the call to take up arms and serve this country in military service. He was one who gave voice to one of the earliest such calls, the call to risk life to gain liberty, to throw off the yoke of British colonial government of the original colonies.

Ian Fleming

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

A woman should be an illusion.

I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man.
- on meeting Sean Connery

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
- All from Ian Fleming, 1908 - 1964

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn - then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.
- Harry Reasoner, 1923 - 1991

About: Ian Fleming was born at London on 28 May in 1908. His grandfather was an associate of J.P. Morgan and his father was elected to Parliament in 1910. He was educated at Eton, then Sandhurst, Munich, and Geneva Universities. His first career was as a stockbroker, his first exposure to espionage was as a journalist, but he did have actual intelligence experience behind a desk as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence (the model for M) during WW II. He left the service intent on writing "the spy story to end all spy stories" and wrote Casino Royale in three months. There were a total of fourteen Bond novels but twenty movies so far, the franchise was simply too valuable to stop filming when all of Fleming's text had been used.

Wealth

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
- Andrew Carnegie, 1835 - 1919

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
- Euripides, 484 - 406 BC

Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
- Jean de La Bruyère, 1645 - 1696

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830 - 1916

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Greene

Hot and Cold

Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
- Elwyn Brooks White, 1899 - 1985

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
- Franklin P. Jones

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
- Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

If the temperature in the bathtub is raised only one degree every ten minutes, how does the bather know when to start screaming?
- Marshall McLuhan, 1911 - 1980

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William Butler Yeats, 1865 - 1939

Heroes

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
- Aristotle, 384 - 322 BC

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant bonus.
- Edmund Hillary

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896 - 1940

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
- Solomon Short

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not graven only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
- Thucydides

The trouble with superheros is what to do between phone booths.
- Ken Kesey