Quote-o-rama:
The Ninth Miscellaneous File
"Truth never damages a cause that is just." -Mohandas Gandhi [Crowd chants "U.S.A.!"] "It's a shame, Tony, that Tupelo, Mississippi isn't part of the U.S.A." -Bobby "The Brain" Heenan "Be the inferior of no man, nor of any be the superior. Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart." -William Saroyan "Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning." -George Eliot "In America, to look a couple of years younger than you actually are is not only an achievement for which you are to be congratulated, it is patriotic." -Cynthia Propper Seton "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." -Henry Ford "It is only believers in the Fall of Man who can really appreciate how funny men are." -Malcolm Muggeridge "The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination." -Louis Kronenberger "Nothing says 'pro wrestling' to me like a teddy bear. And give both companies credit, as they slapped tiny t-shirts on the cheapest bears they could find. Gund these ain't. Still, it was something they could shill to parents who brought their 3 year old daughters to events in which grown men sliced their heads open with razor blades. Say what you will about both companies, but you have to give them credit for not missing out on any potential customers." -R. D. Reynolds, wrestlecrap.com "The cruelest response to someone in pain isn't to say the wrong thing, because the wrong thing can be remedied. 'I'm sorry. I care. I just said the wrong thing.' It's to say nothing. Silence you can never take back." -Carolyn Hax "Because of this recall thing, experts say the number of people running for governor has reached 500 people. We need to bring in Simon from 'American Idol' to thin out the herd." -Jay Leno "To make the obligatory social criticism kind of comment here, the bursting of the Internet bubble has proven that information technology is just another technology." -Neal Stephenson "Journalists like to tell stories. Besides a dislike for math, it's probably what draws most reporters get into the profession in the first place." -Dante Chinni "Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other." -Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia "Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." -Britney Spears Aubrey: Come, PeeJee! We mustn'y tarry! We have justice to dispense. Davan: What's up with Aubrey? PeeJee: She's starting to develop a god complex. Davan: What do you mean 'starting to'? -somethingpositive.net Tony Schiavone: Well, Duggan is at a disadvantage in this type of match. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: He is at a disadvantage when he wakes up. "The past is never dead - it is not even past." -William Faulkner "The idea that they may have invented cool lasers but not everybody can afford them is sort of the premise on which we work. Lasers take you to a science-fiction place that I feel has been covered too much." -Joss Whedon, FilmForce interview "Most importantly, he was no Jake Busey, and really, that's all we're asking of our nepotism these days." -fametracker.com "Once again the Linux faithful have proven to be a super-talented group of hackers that produce stuff that is pretty much irrelevant." -OXM "President Bush held his first full press conference in over five months this week. He announced that the war on terrorism is continuing, much, much more work needs to be done on the economy, and Saddam Hussein has not yet been captured. And then he said, 'I'm going on vacation for a month.'" -Jay Leno 07:59:18 [Rob A.]: There's no gay love in the Star Wars universe. 07:59:25 [Rob A.]: Otherwise.....wookie love, woah. "I don't go to sleep at night, I job to my blankets." -tasslex, wienerboard.com [Commenting on Hulk Hogan's theme song.] Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: That's my second favorite song. Gorilla Monsoon: I'm almost afraid to ask - what's your favorite? Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: All the rest are tied. "To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself." -Einstein, Sept. 18, 1930 "Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster." -William Randolph Hearst "The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose." -Tori Amos "Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins." -Edith Wharton "Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good news for Florida residents who now live in the second flakiest state in the country." -Conan O'Brien "If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which he has inflicted on men, he would kill himself." -Alexander Dumas "The system of making television allows for strong individual voices, like Joss's. Movies are always made by committees, and the writer is not at the head of the committee." -Jane Espenson "We cannot defend freedom in Berlin and deny it in Birmingham." -Walter Reuther Kharisma: But I think we need to focus on the important things here. A pretty girl will no longer be harassed, and for that, the world thanks you. Davan: Oh, goodness! You mean I've at long last earned the favor of attractive society? I'm sent all a-twitter! Kharisma: It's not that exciting. The 'favor' is just a sticker that says 'I helped a pretty person' but I'm sure you'll find a use for it. -somethingpositive.net "Pat Robertson is insane. Just because he smiles and wears a nice suit doesn't mean he's any less of a whack job than all those wild-eyed urine-stained nut bags who babble on street corners about Jesus through a bullhorn. And he's getting desperate because after you've agreed that the purple Teletubby is gay, where do you go?" -Bill Maher "The United States is putting together a Constitution now for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It's served us well for 200 years, and we don't appear to be using it anymore, so what the hell?" -Jay Leno Tony Schiavione: This is a great town. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: They should tear it down and build a slum. "President Bush is leaving to go to Crawford, Texas, for a 35-day working vacation. This should go over big with all the people taking a can't-get-work vacation." -David Letterman "One is easily fooled by that which one loves." -Moliere Cat: I am going to make a gazillion dollars. Girl: You are going to make babies cry. www.catandgirl.com "No good deed goes unpunished." -Clare Boothe Luce "The goal is to deny the American occupation force the ability to pacify Iraq, to prevent the Americans from winning the hearts and minds of the people. If Iraq is in constant chaos, the United States can never move on to the next stage." -Loren Thompson, military affairs analyst Gorilla Monsoon: I don't know who's the legal guy in the ring. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan: Danny Davis, the referee. "One of the paradoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out." -Ernie Pyle "Modo et modo non habebant modum." (By and by never comes.) -St. Augustine Davan: So, would it ruin the moment if I asked you what your name is? Branwen: Well, I guess it's better you ask now then find yourself screaming out "Oh, unnamed goth girl! Love me like that," during sex. -somethingpositive.net "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into." -Mahatama Gandhi "The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it." -Don Marquis "no, my hate is overpowered by my apathy. and he/she/it sits too far away" -Michelle T. "The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other." -Marya Mannes Jason: ...But why electrical tape? I know it's black and all, but wouldn't duct tape hurt less coming off? Goth Girl: You're not the first to ask that. If you ask me, duct tape just screams 'cheap, easy slut.' -somethingpositive.net "Now I ask you - I ask you in quiet tone of voice: Is the helicopter a machine of pleasure? Is the helicopter a love machine? Turn it on." -Revolting Cocks, "Gila Copter" "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." Revelations 22:14-15 "I am frustrated with Washington. It has gotten totally partisan. We are not serious about anything except the next election." -Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." -"Parkinson's Law," by C. Northcote Parkinson Joe: You've got a pickaxe, too! Let's get some help here! Big Todd: What kind of manager would I be without a pickaxe? The kind that gets butchered in a pickaxe fight. _Average Joe_ "If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." -John Kenneth Galbraith "Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself." -James Stephens "Willow started getting sexier and cooler and more empowered. Alyson is too cool and sexy to remain nerd-girl for too long" -Joss Whedon "At least I'll die with the knowledge of why you built that Lego red light district." -Jason, somethingpositive.net "I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past." -John Maynard Keynes "Seriously, would someone please tackle Donald Rumsfeld and lock his ass up until our 'Countries-Destroyed-To-Countries-Rebuilt' Ratio is closer to '1'?" -get your war on, www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/home.html Davan: Funny how I'm more nervous at the total abscence of a threat of violence. Aubrey: That's years of conditioning hard at work. -somethingpositive.net "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt "To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman." -George Santayana "You gotta believe me, Mike. When a woman hires someone to cut your car's brake line, she isn't playing hard to get." -Davan, somethingpositive.net "A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." -Oliver Wendell Holmes "It's kind of contradictory for them. You bomb them and three roads over you're fixing the school." -Army reservist Carleigh McCrory, on the Iraqis "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." -Ambrose Bierce "Paying off these weddings is going to take a heck of a lot longer than the few hours the party lasted, maybe longer than the marriage lasts." -Howard S. Dvorkin, president of Consolidated Credit Counseling Services "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy." -Ayn Rand "I considered buying tickets to see _Dumb And Dumberer_ and sneaking into the movie, but I couldn't decide whether that was more or less embarrassing. I'm still not certain." -televisionwithoutpity.com, review of _From Justin to Kelly_ "OK, which one of you put the metaphor stretcher on 'HIGH'?" -truemeaningoflife.com "My one biggest priority of the show is that Aly becomes a sex symbol, and now she has - so I'm very happy about that." -Joss Whedon, FilmForce interview "Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding." -Bette Davis "(Once they start replacing the Ss with dollar signs, you know you're in trouble.)" -fametracker.com "It's a pretty good world Americans have had to live in for the past 80 years. I hope that when future generations are exposed to the history of the era they get something besides war, Watergate and Monica Lewinsky." -Andy Rooney, 2002 "On receiving an interrupt, decrement the counter to zero." _Count Zero_ by William Gibson "Captain Sparrow is almost completely gay, but the difference between 'almost completely gay' and 'completely gay' gives an actor like Depp all the room in the world to have a ball." -http://angryflower.com/ "If I fail, they [the film industry] write me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart." -George A. Romero "Two words: Fan fic. Utter rubbish." -Joss Whedon, FilmForce interview "When I was in high school, I met Stan Lee at a comic convention and had him autograph my first issue of Savage She-Hulk. Someone asked him how he felt on having written such a bad series as She-Hulk. He replied 'I'm my own biggest fan, you've got to be.' That has always made a lot of sense to me, owning up and being proud of your work, no matter how bad it is. That's why I'm here." -Davan, somethingpositive.net "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." -Theodore Roosevelt "Forlani is certainly beautiful, but when you can't beat Kate Beckinsale in head-to-head combat, you know something is fundamentally flawed." -fametracker.com "Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." -Edward Bulwer-Lytton "...If I knew how many _Child's Play_ movies there were, I would never admit it to another human being." -televisionwithoutpity.com "The most attractive thing, that as a young man was also the most frustrating thing, is the fact that it always has been ne big place in which these characters interact. The DC Universe always feels like a bunch of discreet elements where, in order to get from somebody's comic to somebody else's comic, you practically need a passport, or at least a long bus ride. Whereas you always feel that Marvel is, for good or ill, it's a universe. As a kid that was incredibly frustrating because in England, where comics came over as ballast on ships, the only rules were every Marvel comic would be continued in a different Marvel comic. That was rule one. Rule two was you would never find that comic." -Neil Gaiman "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." -Norman Douglas "Things are getting more and more shiny - like we are slowly evolving into raccoons." http://godamonginsects.com/photolife/ content/20035/25.html "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." -Tacitus "My past might as well be Saturn, for how far away it is and how likely I am to return there." http://www.catandgirl.com/ "I wish we lived in a world without spoilers - but we never will." -Joss Whedon "Curse you, Tomb Raider, for breathing life back into a genre that was better off dead." truemeaningoflife.com "They call me the godfather of techno now. I don't even like it." -Gary Neuman "You want anarchy?! This is anarchy! Where the stronger rule the weak, and guess where your place is, Pugsley? Anarchy is your sixth grade gym class for all eternity! I'm so sick of little shits like you who found a single website on anarchy that you didn't even read completely read and now think you're an expert on chaos! Where's your discordia now, bitch?!" -Davan, somethingpositive.net "Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor." (When love is not madness, it is not love.) -Pedro Calderon de la Barc "You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning." -Jane Addams "As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still; it is we who move in infinite space." -Rainer Maria Rilke "You have to live in this country. In order to function, the children have to adapt. Prom is a rite of passage. You don't want them to feel like they don't belong." -Faisal Haque, whose daughter Fatima helped organize an all-girl Muslim prom "Religion is a temper, not a pursuit." -Harriet Martineau "The wattage of celebrity has cheapened because they are absolutely everywhere." -Kim France, editor in chief, Lucky "...more than any team specifically I love the sport. I can watch any two teams play. I love the fact that there's all of this intellectual planning going on: uh, all these coaches on headsets, with diagrams, and computers going crazy and then hut hut hike: chaos. All the plans go out the window. Nothing works. And it becomes just brute force. I love that - that combination of just heavy planning and chaos. It's very exciting." -James Marsters, 2003 "I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful." -Bob Hope "Love demands infinitely less than friendship." -George Jean Nathan "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "The little I know I owe to my ignorance." -Sacha Guitry "Naturally the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." -Hermann Goering, at the Nuremburg Trials "Insane wizards are an important part of the D&D economy, keeping inefficiently-designed catacombs stocked, adventurers busy, and dealers in magic items happy. Kind of like the WPA, only with bushier eyebrows. " -Lore, bookofratings.com "[Dumb and Dumberer is] not the worst movie ever made. Far from it. And for that undeniable fact, my friends, fear for the republic." -Desson Howe, washingtonpost.com "I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world - constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being, but it is the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating." -Lorraine Hansberry "The door to the past is a strange door. It swings open and things pass through it, but they pass in one direction only. No man can return across that threshold, though he can look down still and see the green light waver in the water weeds." -Loren Eiseley "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." -Oscar Wilde "Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions." -Henry R. Luce "Peace without justice is tyranny." -William Allen White "Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does." -Anne Roe "The Morning After: This is often the best part--the most intimate meal of all, with no pretensions, no small talk, no makeup. There is a great potential for dinner to be a disaster, but it is entirely possible to fall in love at breakfast." -Min Liao, http://www.thestranger.com/current/chow.html "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost "There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win." -Elie Wiesel "Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel." -Renata Adler "True excellence is rarely found, even more rarely is it cherished." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "DAMMIT. Is it too much to ask that Evil not be so FUCKING STUPID all the time?" -www.televisionwithoutpity.com "Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations." -Niccolo Machiavelli "About 15 or 16 years ago, I really got pretty tired of fending off questions about what I used to do with my [penis] in the early seventies. My suggestion for people with prurient interests is to go through the 30 or 40 bios on me and pick out the rumour of their choice." -David Bowie "Spider-Man also apparently gained the proportional black belt of a radioactive spider." -Eric Brennan, rpg.net "Carrot Cake Soup is like the taste of watching girls make out." penny-arcade.com "If this young man ever learned how to act, he'd be dangerous." -Stephen Hunter, on Keanu Reeves, washingtonpost.com "I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it." -Laurence Olivier "The people no longer believe in principles, but will probably periodically believe in saviours." -Jacob Christoph Burckhardt "The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means." -Napoleon "Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it." -T.S. Eliot "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." -Medgar Evers "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon." -Sen. George Aiken (Vermont) "If I gotta recap this stuff, I'm taking y'all down with me." -www.televisionwithoutpity.com "It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery." -Moncure D. Conway "In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current." -Thomas Jefferson "History is the ship carrying living memories to the future." -Stephen Spender "More than a few of Shakespeare's plays have never been documented on film in any meaningful way. In spite of rumors, it now looks like Martin Scorsese's biopic of Dean Martin will never happen. Sergio Leone had plans to shoot a mammoth restaging of the siege of Stalingrad, but he died before he could fulfill those plans. Someone did manage to make The Lizzie McGuire Movie, however." -Onion AV Club, theonionavclub.com "Never lose your temper with the press or the public is a major rule of political life." -Dame Christabel Pankhurst "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either." -Robert Graves "This is not a show where we are going to be ripping children apart." -Gail Berman, Fox entertainment president, on "American Juniors" "Morality is moral only when it is voluntary." -Lincoln Steffens "The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens." -Wendell L. Willkie "I realized a long time ago that a belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all." -Evelyn Scott "Ten years from now I'll be boring, crazy, or dead, and the scary part is I don't know which of those I prefer." catandgirl.com "We do not ignore the sufferings of the Jews throughout history. And in exchange, we hope the Israelis will not turn their backs on the sufferings of the Palestinians." -Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian prime minister "You see tornadoes on TV and you see them in movies, but you don't realize what they can do." -Amanda Fager-Maghe "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." -Sir Arthur Wing Pinero "Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object." -Laurence J. Peter "The little brat's caused a big stir in this county. As soon as she's capable, we're planning one heck of a big shindig." -Gregory Lynch Sr., father of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch "Try wrestling with a lion. Try catching a rabbit, using only your bare hands. Try surviving in a forest. Just peel away all `culture', and you'll see what humanity really is: a rather clumsy, weak and ill-equipped species with a ridiculously big head." -Exit Mundi http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Emke/exitmundi.htm "SARS has been our country's 9/11. It has forced us to pay attention to the real meaning of globalization." -Xu Zhiyuan, Chinese columnist "The only joy in the world is to begin." -Cesare Pavese "People who are born to be hanged are safe in the water." -Mark Twain's mother "I actually had a crush on an actress and I wrote the play about that situation. I cast her and I cast myself. Five minutes after working with her, I realized I really didn't like her that much. I had to live with that for four months. I learned a bit of a lesson." -Mark Frost "May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion." -Dwight D. Eisenhower "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose." -Billie Holiday "The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous." -Frederick Douglass "If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements, corrupts even more." -Barbara Tuchman "I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from." _Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill_ "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." -Hannah Arendt "No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing." -Boris Pasternak "To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." -Elbert Hubbard "Liberals and conservatives are two gangs who have intimidated rational, normal thinking beings into not having a voice on television or in the culture. Liberals and conservatives are paradigms that mean nothing to anyone other than the media." -Jon Stewart "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban "Life is one long process of getting tired." -Samuel Butler "Getting shot at wasn't really that bad. It was the getting shot part that sucked." -U.S. Army Sgt. Jamie Villafane "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." -Sir Winston Churchill "That's nice, Jason. Did I ever introduce you to my special friend, awkward silence?" http://www.somethingpositive.net "[Mark Frost] carries himself in a way that a lot of people who don't know him might see as arrogant or snobby. That's only because he speaks in complete sentences." -Jeff Freilich "We live in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become not just tragic but preposterous. With such weapons, there can be no victory for anyone." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1964 "What have you been reading? The gospel according to St. Bastard?" _Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill_ "For example, there's a spell listed entitled 'Against every Wild Animal, Aquatic Creature and Robbers.' In the event that you are simultaneously attacked by a wild bear, Aquaman and the Hamburglar, this spell will have your back." -rpg.net review of FATAL "If power corrupts, being out of power corrupts absolutely." -Douglass Cater "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." (Entries should not be multiplied unnecessarily.) -William of Occam, English philosopher "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." -Stanley Kubrick "The folks who know the truth aren't talking. The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up." -Tom Waits "It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business." -Gertrude Stein "We must be willing to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it." -H.L. Mencken "Any man should be happy who is allowed the patience of his wife, the tolerance of his children and the affection of waiters." -Michael Arlen "Arab pride is at stake here. American propaganda said it was going to be so quick and easy, meaning we Arabs are weak and unable to fight. Now it is like a Mike Tyson fight against some weak guy. They don't want the weak guy knocked out in the first 40 seconds." -Khalid M. Batarfi, Saudi newspaper editor "More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much." -Phineas T. Barnum "One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too." -Theresa Helburn "A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." -Pearl Bailey "The force that rules the world is conduct, whether it be moral or immoral." -Nicholas Murray Butler "If selling babies for profit is wrong, I don't want to be right." http://www.catandgirl.com/ "Look, never mind. Just hope that you never roll 100 for the row of any hoard or dead body. That way, there will never be more than a 6% chance of any lame ass magic items appearing, and thus you won't end up fighting your fellow adventurers over a Cursed Dildo of Adhesion or a Condom of Continuity and then wondering where your goddamn life went so wrong." -rpg.net review of FATAL "Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter..." -Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping" "It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test." -Mahalia Jackson "Only the mediocrities of life hide behind the alibi 'in conference.' The great of this earth are not only simple but accessible." -Isaac Frederick Marcosson "Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance." -Hendrik Willem van Loon "And isn't it telling that when Saddam's regime sends out a flack to read a statement or to interview a fellow propagandist such as Peter Arnett, he wears a uniform. When they send soldiers out to fight, they're more likely to be dressed in civvies." -Clifford May, National Review "We are all citizens of history." -Clifton Fadiman "Temperament is temper that is too old to spank." -Charlotte Greenwood "I feel like Nick Nolte looks." televisionwithoutpity.com "Everyone's nervous - it's natural to be nervous. If you're not nervous you're a cowboy - and this is no time for cowboys." -Sgt. Maj. Ray Lane, 22nd Signal Brigade "Imagination rules the world." -Napoleon "Every burned book enlightens the world." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Refusing to speak to someone is what children do when they've outgrown tantrums but haven't learned sarcasm yet." -Carolyn Hax "You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty." -Sacha Guitry "News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead." -Evelyn Waugh "Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return." -Colin Powell "Who will give me back those days when life had wings and flew just like a skylark in the sky." -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore "We're not just truck drivers. We're truck drivers with guns." -Lt. Col. Bob Weinkel, describing a Marine supply convoy. "When it's over, you feel very smart and you talk about how that film was very intelligent and how it dug into the intellect and what makes a man and what is evil and where is the line. And then you go home admit to yourself that you were a little bored, but you feel bad for admitting it." -the Self-Made Critic, Brunching Shuttlecocks "The line of least resistance was always the most difficult line in the long run." -Peter Cheyney "We are not cowards, but what is the point? I've got a rifle from World War II. What can I do against American airplanes?" -Iraqi colonel Ahmed Ghobashi, after surrendering "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Robert Frost "Breakfast is served all day in Hell! Who wants more bacon?" www.dieselsweeties.com "Let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy... He will not thing that, having the Ring, we may seek to destroy it." -Gandalf, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "Some of you are suggesting it might be a problem on my end, that maybe I have a shitty connection? That hurts. That is like a guy telling you his marriage is going down hill and you say 'well did you ever think that maybe your dick is too small?'" http://www.penny-arcade.com/ "Le sens commun n'est pas si commun." (Common sense is not so common.) -Voltaire "Wars on nations change maps. War on poverty maps change." -Muhammad Ali "I reign only through the fear I inspire." -Napoleon "i like it to be pretty" -Wendigo "So how is midget training with my favorite hexslinger going?" http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "He who is not with us is against us." -Vladimir Lenin "Must be a pretty small ghetto." -commentary for the outtakes of _Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter_ "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." -Oscar Wilde "Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht." (The history of the world is the verdict of the world.) -Friedrich von Schiller "To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers - or both." -Elizabeth Charles "How many will be brave enough to return when they feel it?" he whispered, his gleaming red eyes fixed upon the stars. "And how many will be foolish enough to stay away?" -Lord Voldemort, _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_ "Asian horror movies are so far superior - that's why we're remaking all of them." -director Eli Roth "The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it." -Sir Winston Churchill "The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing." -John Lennon "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." -Lillian Hellman, before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1952 "Never confuse motion with action." -Ernest Hemingway "Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude." -Katharine Fullerton Gerould "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." -Kahlil Gibran, 'The Vision' "The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -James Baldwin "Is it still brave if I didn't know?" www.dieselsweeties.com "Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which makes it certain that what they dread shall happen." -Dame Rebecca West "I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent." -George Sand "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." -Helen Keller "We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. " -Napoleon "All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!" -Kurt Vonnegut "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -Abba Eban "There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water." -Kate Chopin "It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper." -Errol Flynn "Nothing restores your faith in humanity like a water-skiing squirrel." -Peter Carlson, washingtonpost.com "It's hard for me to work closely with a girl and not completely fall in love with her as a person." -Josh Hartnett, interview, 2002 "More tears have been shed over men's lack of manners than their lack of morals." -Helen Hathaway
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