Quotes
I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. --Isaac Newton
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. --Mark Twain
It is the dice, in fact, that play God with the universe. --King Luca
I'm not schooled in the science of human factors, but I suspect surprise is not an element of a robust user interface. --Chip Rosenthal
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. --Harry S. Truman
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not even sure about the universe. --Albert Einstein
Close your eyes and imagine that I'm nice. --Beautiful South
You're ignorant, but at least you act on it. --Hobbes, to Calvin
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. --Ken Olson, World Future Society Convention, 1977
A kind cow is always better than a cruel cow, but so often in life, we can't choose the cows that lick our heads. --Dale Smith
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it. --W.C. Fields
The masses, alas, are asses. --from an article on peterme.com
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. --David McIntosh
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. --Mark Russell
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. --George Eliot
You can't be a real country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER. --Frank Zappa
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. --Margaret Atwood
a poem:
of lives living in the edges.
Your hair full of forgetfulness,
your face pure praise.
So clarity is decorated with mistakes!
--Rumi
They had a lurid altercation, in which they damned each other's souls with frequence. --Stephen Crane
In watermelon sugar the deeds were done, and done again, as my life is done, in watermelon sugar. --Richard Brautigan
They call me a right-winger, which is an insult -- I'm simply a racist and a separatist. --Tom Metzger, leader of the White Aryan Nations
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. --Henry Adams
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors. --Rudyard Kipling
I sometimes think that the absurdities of the French, philosophical and otherwise, result from the beauty and seductive elegance of their language, with which they can talk themselves into anything. --Lance Morrow in an article about a French law that allows disabled children to sue if their mothers were not given a chance to abort
Ask not what your country can do for you! Ask why is your country, and specifically parts of Northern California, so lame and hick like? --Erik Ryan
I was warming up to him, but that was just the generic effect someone more pathetic than I am has on me. --Jonathan Lethem
Indeed I am an avowed atheist. Maybe more so now than ever. Never hear about meta-righteous militant monsters attacking anyone in the name of, you know, skepticism. --Mark Morford
I think quoting yourself is lame. --Rebecca Campbell
Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. --Tom Dreesen
Like the word 'salsa,' Java is cool because it's fun to say out loud. --from "Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days"
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei
We have always found the Irish to be a bit odd. They refused to be English. --Winston Churchill
Who did I see that had a nice rack? --Leslie Zemenek (actually referring to cooking racks, but i came into the conversation a bit late)
Don't you hate pants? --Homer Simpson
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. --Matt Groening
a valentine's poem:
The rocks cut her tender feet,
And the brambles tore her fair limbs.
There came a companion to her,
But, alas, he was no help,
For his name was Heart's Pain --Stephen Crane
I can hear my mother saying, 'Every old sock meets an old shoe.' Isn't that a great saying? 'Every old sock meets an old shoe.' --Kate Bush
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. --Kingsley Amis
Although, so far there's no known treatment for death's crippling effects, still everyone can acquaint himself with the three early warning signs of death: one, rigor mortis; two, a rotting smell; three, occasional drowsiness. --Henry Gibson, Kentucky Fried Movie
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. --Tallulah Bankhead
I'm an evil god. I terrorize people. --Luke Edwards, coolest kid in the world, talking about his part in the Greek mythology play he wrote with some kids at school
To be indulgent to others and severe with oneself was just another trick of pride. --Jean Paul Sartre
I'm convinced that web pages are nothing more than modern day confessionals. --Darby Shields
I was on the bus with a crazy man. He kept talking to me about Coors. --Fawn Tracy
Down in the mystic, hidden fields of his little dog-soul bloomed flowers of love and fidelity and perfect faith. --Stephen Crane
I don't have any skin, but that's just the way it goes. --Morrissey
Quoting is good, stealing is bad.