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You Had Better Make Some Noise: Words to Change the World
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"Owen Meany, who rarely wasted words and had the conversation stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water..... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain, untouchable...."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction...
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence - economic, political, even spiritual - is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together."
"Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said, (SG-1 episode 200)"
"Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but we won't let them paint FUCK on their airplane because it's obscene."
"Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
"... they had held each other out of loneliness and fear and curiosity and lust and hope that this time they would find something beautiful. And in the morning they would find sheets that looked like a geographical terrain, and perhaps an overturned ash tray on the rug beside the bed, and no trace whatever of the face of love."
"The Milky Way was like a moraine of stars. Sounds of distant water clicking through a patch of meadow, the wind in the pines; black spiky horizon all around, the smooth airy gap of the pass behind. It was a blessing to feel so tired in a such a place. They had made the effort it took to regather, and here they were again, in a place so sublime no one could truly remember what it was like when they were away, so that every return had a sense of surprise, as if re-entering a miracle. Every time it felt this way. It was the California that could never be taken away."
"Of the millions who watch sports events, a vanishingly small percentage can play any of the games they watch with anything approaching professional skill, yet virtually all understand the rules well enough to appreciate what they see. The public must then, in the same way, understand science if it is to react intelligently. They must at least be capable of following the game, even if they can't play it."
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experieince."
"We cast this message into the cosmos. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some - perhaps many - may have inhabited planets and space faring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message: We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill in a vast and awesome universe."
"The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone."
"Aeschylus wrote: 'In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'"
"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair,
"Sometimes science is just doing a really good job of measuring something that nobody has ever measured before."
"... Henry Adams, the great nineteenth-century historian. He was writing just after the battle of Shiloh in April of 1862. The two days of fighting had produced more casualties than all previous American wars combined: the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War--in two days! This is what Adams said, "I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Some day science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race will commit suicide by blowing up the world."
"Children believe in monsters and adults tell them that there are no monsters, but that is not true. They are inside steel tubes within steel tubes, in the ground and under the sea and sometimes in the air. They contain unimaginable power, the very fires of hell and death itself. There are monsters indeed, and we made them, and they are out there, waiting...."
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
"If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is too valuable to this country to be halted for too long if a disaster should ever happen."
"Her method was rigorous and messy. She presented great clumps of uncapitalized, misspelled, and unpunctuated words, and demanded the clumps be put into proper sentences, meticulously punctuated and correctly spelled. She then corrected the corrections; the final document - she employed a system of different colored inks - resembled a much revised treaty between two semiliterate countries at war."
"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."
".... I see angels and ariels in leather and in chrome, swoopin' down from heaven to carry me home. And he gave her one last kiss and died. And he gave her his Vincent to ride."
"The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in the American Army, is growing into fashion.
He hopes, that the officers, by their example as well as their influence, will endeavor to check it. That they and their men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessings of heaven on our army if we continue to insult it by our impiety and folly.
Added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and/or despises it."
"[The media] has so much bullshit that there is enough left over to start two law firms and a Christian bookstore."
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
"Mr. President, the American people vote for the sizzle, not for the steak. It is only after, that the poor bastards have to bite into the fat and gristle."
"Christian Religion is based on the economic policy that dead people don't ask for refunds."
"What makes men chase women they have no intention of marrying? The same urge that makes dogs chase cars they have no intention of driving."
"My mother always told me that in this world you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. I recommend pleasant. You can quote me on that."
"The intrigue also has become an attractive nuisance for conspiracy buffs who offer explanations embellished by rumor, fantasy, misinformation and outright paranoia."
Philo T. Farnsworth invented and made the first public demonstration of electronic television in 1934 and has been forgotten by history. His name was Philo T. Farnsworth, he was a genius and he deserves to be remembered. Never buy a television set from RCA!
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
"The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
"Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing."
"Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it."
"All roads lead [away from] Rome."
"A truck carrying copies of Roget's Thesaurus over-turned on the highway. The local newspaper reported that the onlookers were "stunned, overwhelmed, astonished, bewildered, and dumfounded."
"We got two varieties of pilots around here: we got yer prime pilots who get all the hot planes, and we got yer pudknockers who dream of gettin' the hot planes. Now what'll you two pudknockers have."
"I hate telephones. Telephones are for illiterates. That is my new motto."
"Anything that can be invented, has been invented."
"Good times and riches, and son of a bitches: I've seen more than I can recall."
Bill Gates: That's just pride fucking with you.
It is everyone's duty to discuss the occasional conspiracy theory via email so that anyone actually conspiring to search for people discussing such things will be flooded with hits.
"My name is August West and I love my Baby best.... more than my maker, though he is no friend of mine."
"Politics is the womb in which war is developed."
"Hatred is *not* a family value."
"Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers."
"Government is a monopoly. It forbids competitors."
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; [if] it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
"You're now sober enough to realize "Drink Canada Dry" is a slogan and not a personal challenge."
"Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
"An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys."
"I'll tell you what war is about. You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting." ".... bomb Vietnam back into the stone age..."
"LeMay was one of the coldest of America's cold warriors"
"Our freedom was not won a century ago, it is not won today, but is in our hands, and we are no longer marching by ones and twos but in legions of thousands, convinced now it cannot be denied by human force."
"As you know the Telecommunications Decency Act of 1996, recently passed by the craven halfwits in the American Congress, makes the mere mention of life's tenderer mysteries, let alone one's more tender body parts, a crime. Yes, dear Vicky, braying neo-Fascist religious squirrels, on a crusade to save us from ourselves, have sought to destroy freedom on the Internet and the First amendment right of free speech all in one kamakazi orgy of neanderthal recidivism."
"I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right."
"Society is improved one life at a time."
"A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain. "
"1 JPEG=1K Words."
"My guitar wants to kill your mama."
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt."
"It's a five O'clock world when the whistle blows; no one owns a piece of my time. I've got a five O'clock me inside my clothes, thinkin' that the world looks fine, yeah......oh oh hehe oh ohoh oh oh, oh oh he......"
"Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human intelligence for long enough to get money from it."
"GRILLING: The term given for the best way to prepare Bratwurst for devouring - on a charcoal-fired grill, outdoors. Weather conditions or temperature have no bearing on the task as true Grill Masters will face any peril of nature to prepare the succulent little sausages they have come to love." "Out here 'Due Process' is a bullet."
"Hukt on fonix wurkd four me."
"The 'Christian spirit' which persecutes the gay and lesbian community is the same as that which perpetrated the Crusades on the Arab world, which outlawed Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon, and Darwin, which justified the enslavement and segregation of African-Americans, which kept silence during the Holocaust, and silenced women as spokespeople for God. As it always was, this cruel spirit is still in error."
"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites."
Friend: Do you have a hobby?
"...putting hundreds of thousands of people in jail using illegal police methods. In 1995, state and local police made roughly one million arrests for possession of drugs. Such arrests should require a search warrant, yet very few warrants were used. In hundreds of thousands of cases, otherwise honest police feel justified in illegally searching people and then lying about it under oath. They call it 'testilying' or 'white perjury.' In cities all across the country, thugs with badges have planted evidence, sold drugs, and committed other drug-related crimes that are often protected by a police code of silence... In the minds of many law-enforcement officers, the enemy is automatically guilty and must be destroyed."
In response to the question on the final exam, "Where was the first hydrogen bomb detonated?" A student wrote: "May 25, 1978, Northwestern University. A police officer was injured when the bomb was detonated." How is that for completely failing to understand the question?
" Total U.S. nuclear weapons built, 1951-present: 67,500. Peak number of weapons in U.S. stockpile: 32,500 in 1967. U.S. nuclear bombs lost in accidents and never recovered: 11. Number of U.S. nuclear test blasts in the Pacific: 106. Number of U.S. nuclear tests in Nevada: 935. States with most deployed nuclear weapons: Washington and Georgia (1,450 each). Number of secret Presidential Emergency Facilities built for use during and after a nuclear war: 75. Number of high-level radioactive waste tanks in Washington, Idaho and South Carolina: 239. Amount of plutonium still in weapons: 47 tons."
"Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream."
From Nacems: My cats would say they really resent not having thumbs. They cry to get into the bedroom and my husband will tell them how to open the door ("Put your hand around the knob with your thumb on top...oh, wait...you don't have a thumb..."). Or when they cry for the special canned food we keep in the cupboard, after using their nose to open the cupboard door, my husband will try to explain to them how to use the can opener ("Lay your thumb on top of this flat part and twist...oh, wait...you don't have a thumb..."
"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself."
"I think we'll find a Martian sooner than we'll find a politician with the courage to say that the drug war is an overblown fraud."
"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
"Bill Gates' 10-foot video-conferenced head appeared."
"Corruptisima republica plurimae leges." (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.)
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you"
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
".... when I went to school all I had was a pencil and the kid sitting next to me. If he had really applied himself I could have been somebody."
"I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed."
"Board the windows, up your car insurance, and don't leave any booze in plain sight. It's St. Patrick's day in Chicago again. The legend has it that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. In fact, he was arrested for drunk driving. The snakes left because people kept throwing up on them."
My wife and her sister watched the funeral. I thought Elton John's rewording of, "Candle in the Wind," was particularly tasteless. He should have just played, "Funeral for a Friend," from the, "Yellow Brick Road," album. Very tacky. Very trite. It actually made me kind of angry. I will never be able to enjoy that song as much again. I felt that using it demeaned both Marilyn's memory and Di's.
"I set half the clocks in my house ahead an hour and the other half back an hour Saturday and spent 18 hours in some kind of space-time continuum loop, reliving Sunday (right up until the explosion). I was able to exit the loop only by reversing the polarity of the power source of exactly e*log(pi) clocks in the house while simultaneously rapping my dog on the snout with a rolled up Times. Accordingly, I will be in late, or early."
"People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"The cagey kleptomaniac collegians kept the copper clapper they copped in the closet, contrite but incapable of confessing until conditions cooled. Cowards!"
"I've been struggling with reality for 35 years now and I'm happy, Doctor, I've finally won out over it."
"CORONER: Well, let me put it this way. The man's brain was sitting in a jar on my desk. But I guess it's possible he could be out there practicing law somewhere."
"White men came and killed them, but they haven't really gone."
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a person's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
"The free state offers what a police state denies -- the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual."
" How many fighter pilots does it take to change a light bulb? Just one. He holds the bulb, and the world revolves around him."
"The four G's of good government: God, gates, guns, and get the hell off my property!"
"A dirty thought is just like a virus: it can kill all of the clean thoughts and just take over."
-"Bar-be-que (bar-bi-q) n You bought groceries, washed lettuce, chopped tomatoes, diced onions, marinated meat and cleaned everything up, but he "made dinner." -"Children (chil-dren) n What men become when they get the flu."
"We think you are crazy for expecting us to tell you who we are. You see us as you want to see us..."
[Beware of lecturers discussing] "ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams" [and] "Australopithecus spiff-arino." [and] "trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix"
"No animal alive can outrun a greased Scottsman."
"I love you like a great big rock! How big? Like a twenty-two mile, nickel-iron asteroid aimed straight at the middle of Iowa. KKKAAAAAAAAABLAM!!!!! We're talking one helluva lot here. :^)"
"Life is what happens when you make plans..."
"Look. I don't like you. You're a liar. You smell funny, and besides, my MOM buys Foster Farms."
"Adventure? [Egg sandwiches?] A Jedi craves not these things."
"Oh I wish, I wish I hadn't squished that fish."
"Dog for sale: eats anything and is fond of children."
"Self righteousness is the art form of our time."
"Two "buttons" I like: Don't look at me in that tone of voice. I'm pink, therefore I'm SPAM."
"The other day my daughter told me to "Grow up!", but she's the one with a safety pin in her navel."
"What is this place? It is Branson, Missouri. My dad says that it is what Vegas would be like if it were run by Ned Flanders."
"You are hearing me talk."
When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the beautiful baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what's inside, since most people can't read English.
"I didn't have a normal teenage life. A few girlfriends, a few dances, but mostly I was fighting, burning cars."
"I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami."
"It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters."
"If you look up the word Superfluous in the dictionary, there is a picture of Vanna White. Hell, the letters don't even turn anymore, they are switched electronically by somebody off camera when she touches them!"
"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."
"I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners."
"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner."
The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons, setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
"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."
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
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"In cyberspace nobody can hear you scream."
"I guess I'll have to pass on being the first middle class white boy with a B- average in space."
"What do a Divorce in West Virginia, a Tornado in Kansas and a Hurricane in Florida have in common? Somebody's fixin' to lose them a house trailer."
"If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people with all existing ratios remaining the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans. 51 would be female; 49 would be male. 70 would be non-white; 30 white. 70 would be non-Christian; 30 Christian. 50% of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people and all 6 would be citizens of the United States. 80 would live in substandard housing. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 1 would be near death, 1 would be near birth. Only 1 would have a college education. No one would own a computer."
"When you enter the ocean you enter the food chain, and not necessarily at the top"
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play"
"Computers are worthless - they only give answers."
"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up."
"I'm nothing if not redundant. I also repeat myself."
"There are those who see the world in black and white, and they manage to be okay.
There are those who can not tell black from white, and they will fail.
There are those who see every shade of grey in the world, and they are doomed forever."
"I vow to hone my coffee cup handling skills to the point that I can stand up in a kayak being tossed in a typhoon, and still not spill a drop. "
Q: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Brain: "It must be inordinately taxing to be such a boob."
I found the following tidbit of info in the 1999 sport fishing regulations for the State of California: "Bullfrogs may be taken only by lights, spears, gigs, grabs, paddles, hook and line, dip net, bow and arrow fishing, tackle or hand."
Only? Shit, the only thing they didn't mention was blowing them out of the water with high explosives!
9 APR 98: Did you hear that the Buddha's tooth arrived in Taiwan today? They literally rolled out the red carpet at the hatch of the tooth's plane. They then took the tooth to the site of a recent airline crash. Many people expressed their hope and belief that the tooth will alleviate the dark cloud (figurative this time) that has settled over their country in the last few months.
"It isn't over 'til the woman with the eating disorder uvulates."
"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away."
"Little slab of meat In a wash of clear jelly Now I heat the pan"
"I'm making a man, with blond hair and a tan, and he's good for relieving my........... tension."
Dogbert's New Ruling Class MOTTO: "I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either."
"Rose tint my world and keep me safe from my trouble and pain."
"I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection."
"I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up!"
"Superman never made any money for saving the world from Solomon Grundig. And sometimes I despair The world will never see another man like him."
"In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king."
"When the going get's wierd, the wierd turn pro."
"The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later they were both eaten by a killer whale."
"That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. ...... We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now abed Shall think their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
"If you're going to bottle up your feelings, you'd better pickle them first."
"However for us, no expense can be spared in the pursuit of life, love, happiness and blowing stuff up."
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is two wolves attempting to have a sheep for dinner and finding a well-informed well-armed sheep."
"Give me your tired, your poor, your bald, spotted masses..."
"The boat sank, get over it"
"It felt like a six hundred pound gopher, going forty-five miles an hour."
"Don't bother me with your conscientious scruples. After all, the thing's superb physics."
"... now, it's okay to dose & eat!"
"I haven't had this much sex since I was a Boy Scout leader."
"The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine."
"Bumming out teenagers is like shooting fish in a barrel."
Curator: "Animals are like people, Mrs. Simpson; some are difficult because they have been mistreated or had a hard life. Some of them are just jerks."
"And all this time I've been smoking harmless tobaco."
"UNIX *is* user friendly. Its just picky about who its friends are!"
"All Bibles are man-made."
"The Monkees weren't about music, Marge. They were about rebellion and social upheaval!"
Histor-tainment Channel Hyperbole Quote: "Peril has always been a passenger on the railroads!"
"640K (of RAM) ought to be enough for anybody."
"... cats are basically just cute little killing machines."
"We be got da worstest schools in da united states."
"Do not meddle with the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and good with ketchup"
"Excuse me, but 'Proactive' and 'Paradigm'; aren't these just words dumb people use to sound important?"
"A man who envies our family is a man who needs help."
"There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness."
"There are only three white blues players, and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them."
"If you're not buying recycled products, then you're not recycling."
"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life, to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"
"Have you ever noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels. I write, "Could you throw this away for me? Thank you.""
"Here's what happened when Dan Quayle invited me to dinner. My wife accused me of covert right-wing activities; Janet speculated that she had married a closet Republican, or a secret golfer. I promised her that I didn't know Dan - I'd never met him. Then we both calmed down and read the rest of Mr. Quayle's letter. Everything was correctly spelled, which was both a shock and a disappointment..."
"Who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me."
"He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science."
"One day, one of their number would write a book about all this, but none of them would believe it, because none of them would remember it that way."
"The last of man's great unchained beasts lies lapping at my door. I would be glad to give it what it wants, but it would only ask for more."
"It's a good day to be indigenous."
"A friend will help you move. A true friend will help you move a body."
"Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders."
"Religions are cages of the mind."
"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought."
Another fortune cookie: On the front it reads, "Happiness is often a rebound from hard work." On the back are lottery numbers!
"Actually, if it meant moving to easy street, I'd stoop unnervingly low. I'd sell secrets to the Russians. I'd take the picture of Princess Diana. I'd publish my spouse's manuscript under my name. I'd eat bodily waste of another human. I'd tell the British about the Boston Tea Party. I'd buy Manhattan for $24. Or Alaska for two cents an acre. I'd leave Superman in a room full of Kryptonite. I'd fix the World Series. And much more. So would most people. So would you, even though you would never admit it."
"...it was in the pink tradition, I'd say, but above the average pink in pazzazz, like a pink that had been drinking gin since lunch and wanted to dance."
"... transferred to a period, a rare other time period, when I, me, would've been a happy standout, highly esteemed and just crushingly, crushingly special."
"A guy can walk into a store wearing the uniform of his favorite sports team and no one thinks anything of it, but if I walk into the store dressed like a Vulcan, I'm a big geek."
"We're monkeys; we'll go."
"... chaos at least has an open architecture."
"Do your work. You never know when routine life will delight and surprise you."
"I am always reasonable."
"...model aviators consider model rocketeers to be hopeless pyromaniacs who indulge in a fascination with fire and smoke while cluttering up the air with ugly, little plastic parachutes."
"The secret to staying calm in a crisis is not having all the facts."
"At this time and I am taking you class because I fell it to an internet job at my work."
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"If you feed her, she will eat."
"I'll do the things that need to be done. Souls are for liberal arts majors, Noonan. I was an engineer."
"What a sour little doodad the telephone is, and what little good news we get from it!"
"A Fermi Question, named for the physicist Enrico Fermi, is a question which requires estimation of physical quantities to get an answer. For example: If you could make crab cakes out of every horseshoe crab that ever lived, what would be the cost of vegetable oil to fry them all?"
"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth... could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio..."
"Today's champion is tomorrow's crocodile shit."
"And the cops wonder why everyone hates them. Even when you're the victim they treat you like you're a criminal or stupid. Nothing but a bunch of self righteous thugs."
"It's better to burn out, than it is to rust; the king is gone, but he's not forgotten."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"Some day this war's gonna end..."
"You're my blue sky. You're my sunny day. Don't you know that it makes me high when you turn your love my way...."
"Thirty-nine thousand screaming teenagers most certainly can be wrong!"
"How are you going to distinguish between competent, relevant answers and blasts of hot air from people barely less ill-informed than you are?"
"... most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you... and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it is actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeek out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have the chance to learn."
"I believe the Battle of the Network Stars should be fought with guns!"
"That supersonic blowtorch of his has the glide ratio of a grand piano."
"Stress management: it is the difference between pushing your husband down the stairs and just thinking about it."
"Nothing is more buoyant than Helium because nothing weighs less than Helium."
"Rules are for those who would be ruled."
"This jacket worn in grateful memory of the dear animal who gave her earthly life to protect an aviator from wind and cold."
"It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams..."
"As an earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said - and calenders."
"... just a mouthful for a dolphin, but the last dance for a flounder..."
"Are you trying to give the public eyeball conjunctivitis?"
"If you water it and it dies, it is a plant. If you pull it out and it grows back, it is a weed."
"A person is a person, no matter how small."
"You people need a new sheriff."
"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
"You taught me to question authority, [dad]." "I meant Nixon, not me."
"I don't need sensitivity training, you strident, power-mad tart!"
"...trying is the first step towards failure."
"...since the Summer of 1983, the RAND Corporation had been carrying out a study for the U.S. Air Force examining the possibilities for exploiting the high energy release from matter-antimatter annihilation."
"...antimatter research is possibly the most important and vigorous of the fourth generation nuclear weapons research and development programs."
"An object at rest can not be stopped."
"That's the trouble with a reputation for eccentricity; after you've got it, even the most ordinary behavior looks odd, just because it's yours."
"Americans are lazy and violent. We can't even be bothered to get out the car to shoot somebody."
"I show up. I listen. I try to laugh."
"I occupy a chair at the University."
"Guns don't kill people; physics kills people."
"Don't go for the geniuses; they never want to sleep."
"Thank you for complying with sammich day. I hereby declare sammich day to be a success. I hereby declare sammich day to be over."
"That shit don't mean nothin' to me; if I let the monster out, you're gonna do what it wants."
"It had been a startling day for young Copperfield: most of the morning confined in an enema bag carton; his first attempt at flight; his long fall through the weeds; and then sitting on that dead man's face. What next? young Copperfield wondered."
"What a sense of security Homer had felt in that moment of laughter with friends in the enclosed dark of the moving car, and what a sense of freedom the car itself gave to him - its seemingly effortless journeying was a wonder to Homer Wells, for whom the idea of of motion (not to mention the sense of change) was accomplished only rarely and only with enormous strife."
"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?"
"I'm down with Bill Gates. I call him 'Money' for short. I call him up at home and make him do my tech support."
Marine Forecast: "The Marines will be pissed off and highly serious today. There will be lots of pushups and running, close order drill, and gunnery practice at the range. Marines will continue to be pissed off into the foreseeable future. A pissed off Marine advisory is in effect from Point Marina to Point Lobos through Saturday. That is all."
"The creator of our universe wanted human beings to become space travelers. We were given a moon that was just far enough away to require the development of sophisticated technologies, yet close enough o allow us to be successful on our first concentrated attempt."
"I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world."
"I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief..... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."
"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell, but it goes like mad!"
"It is a pain like one percent of being kicked in the balls, only it goes on for three days."
"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parenthesis."
"Sittin' on a fence, that's a dangerous course. You could even catch a bullet from a peace keepin' force."
"She was in a frictionless, three-dimensional environment, like a huge ice rink, where Newton's laws held sway in their bare simplicity."
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer."
"Cash, every movie costs two thousand one hundred eighty four dollars."
"Mark point A. Then mark point B. Only one line, AB, can be drawn through these two points. Say that events, happening hadon by hadon in the unimagineably brief slice of reality that is the present, are points. Connecting these points would then create lines, and the lines figures - figures that would give shape to our lives, our world. If the world were a Euclidian space, this would make the shapes of our lives comprehensible to us. But the world is not a Euclidian space. And so all our understanding is no more than a reductive mathematics for the world. Language as a kind of geometry."
"Science is a system of knowledge, Paula. Not a comfort."
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public."
"I got a good Christian raisin' and an eighth grade education, and I don't need y'all treatin' me this way."
"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives is that they don't know how poorly off they are."
"The three most useless things to a pilot are the altitude above you, runway behind you, and a tenth of a second ago."
"That's not a goddamned ocean, it's some kind of a fucking mudflat. The English Channel is only about twenty feet deep. I bet the fucking periscope's sticking out of the water!"
"Everything around me suddenly turned into lines, black on white. It was a wiring diagram and ancient too, for there were symbols for thermonic valves - vacuum tubes - in it. And I was plugged into it, for I couldn't move and I had the feeling that if anybody turned up the gain, I'd blow out. I just realized that all of the valve symbols were caricatures of faces I knew..."
"I'd be pissed off too, but I don't have the time."
"Many of students are able to many of their courses in by attending classes one day a week."
"They ought to begin wars with a course in basic training and end them with a course in basic forgetting."
"Today the country has the fastest, the quietest, the most heavily armed submarine in the world."
ADM: So, we're discussing gays in the military, huh?
"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear."
"I hope I die before I get old!"
"They belonged in the field. That was where they worked. But this was a school, a place where young children came to learn about the world and to prepare for the future. Bannon was a soldier whose job it was to close with and destroy the enemy by fire, maneuver, and shock effect. In short, to kill. He had no business here, in a place of the future.The two hurried down the corridors in silence so as not to offend the spirit of the school."
"It's only an insecurity about being consistent that makes people not believe in god."
"I'm aware that I hung on the windy tree - swung there nights all of nine;
gashed with a blade bloodied for Odin, myself an offering for myself
knotted to that tree no man knows wither the root of it runs."
"The Mac is the elegant tool, and the PC is the tool that the majority of people use. It's still astonishing to me that people use PCs. It's like using the butt end of a screwdriver in place of a hammer."
"You can't make an omelet without nuking the existing social order."
"For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky."
"When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all ."
"NATO is like 'take your daughter to work day'."
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
"I know what all the words mean, but I don't know what the hell you're saying."
"It was the way we had over here: we'd cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid. It was a lie, and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies."
"She's my always companion; man, that's all I ever wanted."
"Did she understand it when they said
"Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me, I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a daughter listen to reason."
"What is the current starting salary of a San Jose Police Officer Recruit?
"You're so mother humping odd that I can't take my eyes off you."
"Think globally, shoot locally."
"Oscar was one of God's own prototypes--a high-powered mutant of some kind who was never even considered for mass production. He was too weird to live and too rare to die."
"The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the Sixth Reich."
"She looks like she knows the Dewey Decimanl System and isn't afraid to use it."
"The television just keeps staring at me with it's one large, menacing eye, recording my reactions and behavior for use against me at some later date."
"The only people who do any good in this world are whores and bar tenders, and that's it."
"He could list that he was a reader and so had still available an important means of relaxation and escape. At the same time he was more than a mere reader in that he knew also the means of research through books, and thus possessed a powerful tool for reconstruction"
"Did you hear about how the dislexic sports announcer lost his job? He announced the winner of a Stock Car Race."
"Critics are people who come onto the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded."
"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
"Though so much had happened, and even though he might be deeply moved by that great experience, yet still he was the observer - the man who sat by the side, watching what happened, never quite losing himself in the experience."
"Three days ago I was a private, Sir!"
"Few claim to have seen one, and even fewer believe in them."
"With the garbage that is Swordfish and the stinking, radioactive fart of a film that Tomb Radier promises to be, things look bleak for action movie fans."
paraphrase: "When the only tool you have is a hamnmer, every problem begins to look like a nail."
"Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
"I know the argument. But he says that the male army was a survival of the screening function delegated to the non-breeding males in the prehistoric pack. He says it was a curiously consistent fact that it was always the older males who sent the younger males into battle."
"Life sucks right now, so my natural inclination to go off about stuff is just increased by not having anything positive to occupy my already angry and cynical mind."
"A bear is just a REALLY big dog."
"Jenna Bush's Federally Protected Wetlands Now Open For Public Drilling"
"If you are receiving an EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION (EAN) from the Whitehouse:
1. Regular programming will be automatically interrupted and the station will carry all presidential messages LIVE until the EMERGENCY ACTION TERMINATION (EAT) is sent.
Obviously, this is for The Big One. If you decide to bolt, please switch the white panel to the AUTO position so we can automatically let the rest of the free world know that the End is Near."
"I want everything to be in one [grocery] bag, and I don't want the bag to be heavy!"
"Women enjoy being in a relationship more than normal people."
"I'd like to be in Program Planning, actually, but unfortunately I've got a degree."
"If the radiance of a thousand suns
"If you can remember the sixities, you weren't there."
"Superstition was probably the first abstract creation of human intelligence. It would probably be the first abstract creation of any new intelligence."
"Genius is the capacity for seeing what is not there."
"All I ask is that you just give me millions of dollars, and I will stop complaining, and I will stop bothering you!"
"In that bewilderment of happiness too great to be borne, he awoke. The insides of his hands were moist, and his heart pounded. As he looked around the familiar room, that happiness faded out like a dying light, and in its place succeeded a woe, equally unutterable."
"Sometimes he found himself... escaping into the happiness of fantasy. He realized that he had always had something of this tendency. At times it had been an advantage, as when it had enabled him to readjust imaginatively when he had been left alone. But now he was escaping because the reality seemed to bleak to be faced. Repeatedly, a line of poetry, from the wide reading of all those years, came into his head when he tried to breast reality: Never glad confident morning again!"
"Here's the apocalypse, children! You wake up in your apartment, and you discover to your horror that you are inside the store. You are on the shelf! You go out on the fire escape and you discover, to your horror, a gigantic tourist is reaching down your air shaft!"
"Suicide. The word had a hissing trapped sound, like a snake squirming through a small crevice. It slipped between the tongue and the roof of the mouth like a convict on the lam. Suicide."
"Only one thing that bothers me, and that's a feeling I get from time to time that I'm a character in some bad writer's book and he's already decided how things are going to turn out and why."
"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."
"People always want to believe that truth can be best viewed by shining a light on it. Light is nice. Light is lovely, but truth is most often found in the dark, in the corners of our unconscious, because truth is seldom beauty. Truth is ugly and frightening, and makes us want to believe in a god. Truth is cold, and has no compassion for how you are feeling, or what you want. Truth is seldom beauty, and truth is seldom pleasant, and it can hardly ever be found in a field of wild flowers on a sunny Spring day, or in a church of any religion."
"[Bin Laden] is the Where's Waldo of Islamic terrorism."
"God forgive our sins. Those we have committed and those we have yet only dreamed of."
"Stop the planet, I want off. I keep wishing that a small, efficient ship would drift silently out of the sky, and a couple of comfortably dressed people would stroll out and say, 'Oh, there you are! We are so glad to have found you. We must apologize for accidentally stranding you here as an infant. Living on this primitive planet must have been just awful for you! We are going to take you home now, and we are hoping that you will accept a position as Chair of the Department of Earth Studies at the University.'"
"I'd rather stay here, with all the madmen, than to perish with all the sad men roaming free."
"President Joe once had a dream.
They called it the prayer, its answer was law
Please don't believe in me, please disagree with me
"She's insatiable in appetite. What a drive!"
"Mr. Burns, we found a Brazillian soccer team working in your reactor core."
"It has been said on television recently that we should thank our veterans. If you want to thank your veterans, the best way is by refusing to willingly give up the freedoms they died for, in exchange for a false sense of security."
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence --- economic, political, even spiritual --- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
"What [he] would later consider was that this image [JFK, Jr. saluting his father's passing coffin] might stand as the representative moment of our country's most golden century, which had also died, although we are still marketing it."
"Jerry: Would you do us a favor? Would you have a drink and let us smell you?
"Doug Stephan: the amazing, talking sphincter! For hours and hours, every night, he just talkes right out of his ass. And I am forced to listen to him."
"I've often wondered while wandering among the aisles, hopelessly lost, if young Americans are issued with maps of Walmart at school and then have to answer questions such as 'Take me to the pet section from the CDs' and 'Next to which section are the cosmetics?' at a special end-of-the-term exam."
"The most moving image is that of the four year old JFK Jr saluting his coffin. With world-shocking deaths everyone seems to remember where they were and how they heard the news, as though that makes us part of the event somehow. Watching it all I just wish that it hadn't happened and feel that nostalgic bitter-sweet pain of knowing there is no way to turn back the clock."
"I feel confused. Low, depressed, so humble next to his honesty and yet equally repelled by it. Why do some people experience so much more than others and then are flawed by the pain? I know he's desperately trying to connect with people, but the air is too raw."
"I know what I am in the plan; I'm a man, and so is Lola!"
"Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
"Mother and [first] baby are the same age."
"Life is based upon a perfect math or your arm would be too short to wipe your butt."
"He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock."
"He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was...."
"I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch Sailors' eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
"My experience with delusion is that they work better if you don't over-analyze them."
"And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. Farewell to all sentiments that gladden the heart. I substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked!"
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
"Have you noticed that if you listen to pigeons long enough, they start to sound like they are saying 'looser'?"
"If you lock the demons in the basement, they are going to blow up the house"
"I make no secret of it. It's a mixture of some excellent opium for which I made a special trip to Canton in order to get the purest quality, and of the best hasheesh grown in the Orient. You mix these two ingredients in equal proportions and make them into pills, which you swallow when you need them."
"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."
"[The house] was now alive, singing and flourishing, like those houses which we cherished for a long time and in which, when we have the misfortune to leave them, we involuntarily leave part of our soul."
"Remember the good old nineteen eighties?
"I told him we already got one!"
"CNN: Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld's proud tool of government propaganda since 1979."
"Just 'cause I'm a school teacher, 'don't make me a pussy!"
"Harness the Homeless"
"Defenestrate Your Television"
"I wish for you, what you wish for me."
"Cirocco liked space, reading, and sex, not necessarily in that order. She had never been able to satisfactorily combine all three, but two was not bad."
"I'll flay myself alive for you, I'll climb 'till my hands and feet are bloody wrecks. And when I die, just write on my tombstone that I died like a soldier. Kick me when you're ready to go."
"Tattoo! Fetch me a drink, you diseased garden gnome!"
"And yet in her eyes there was something unreadable, something that did not want to be read, the determined blankness that in predator animals conceals hostile calculation, and in prey forms part of an overwhelming effort to seem to have disappeared."
"The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place."
"Sammy felt.... that he would rather not love at all than be punished for loving. He had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel."
"When I was young, I carried a gun, but I never got the chance to serve."
"Do you know what's green? Well, I am, for one thing. It isn't easy being green, but it's all there is to be, and I like it. It's what I want to be."
"Eventually, everybody gets shot."
"I want it done. Get it done!"
"They give you cash, which is just as good as money."
"Good news has no clothes."
"Offspring can be disturbingly illogical, yet profoundly fulfilling. You should anticipate paradox."
"No judge is entitled to interpret an ink blot on the grounds that there might be something under it."
".... said she married herself an architect. Kept her warm, and safe, and dry. She would have liked to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie."
"Anyone with any sense had already left town."
"When asked what a 'minority opinion' is, the man replies, 'Kill Whitie!'"
"We exceedingly regret every event that may cause embarrassment to your administration, but we derive consolation from the reflection that your judgement will discern what is right, and that your usual prudence, decision, and firmness will surmount every obstacle to the preservation of the rights, peace, and dignity of the United States."
"They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some end in view, or something which levels off as soon as the end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with; it is a way of life."
"Now I've heard there was a secret chord
"I'm not going to get into a debate over civil liberties consequences if pigs could fly. They can't fly."
"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"I do like sad songs. They make me want to lie on the floor. Lewis the Bear. Lying on the floor."
"[At NASA] We range from the people at the Cape who fill the tanks with fuel and push the big red button to the folks in Cleveland who are trying to figure out how to get the blue light to come out of the warp nacelles. "
"Visualize success, but don't believe your eyes."
"....this makes perfect sense in a 'I'm-a-clueless-frigging-boob' sort of way!"
"I wish I were in Tijuana, eating barbecued iguana."
"I was once told that I should imagine the words '...in bed' at the end of every fortune cookie I read. It is pretty funny, and I have thought of a new one. At the end of every declarative statement you see or hear in advertising (especially on television) add the words, '....if you are not very smart' and see how well it works."
"The Captain was the last to jump, the first to hit the ground, and he ain't gonna jump no more!"
"Come away, O human child!
"I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his."
"I once had a dream that I could change pumpkins to coaches
"There may or may not be atheists in any foxholes, but one thing is certain: there aren't any celibates."
"To some extent, sanity can be a form of conformity."
"Adventure is a sign of incompetence."
"God only knows what the other two were up to in there!"
"Take me to the shopping mall. Buy me a rubber band."
"Love matches, as they are called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
"The cellular customer you are calling has traveled outside the service area. Please hang up and return to a simpler way of life."
In regards to organized crime and labor unions: "What men did after work is what made us rich. No need to screw them at work as well."
"We could use him as a footstool or a table to play scrabble on, then tie him up and beat him up and throw him out of Babylon!"
"It's really dark in there! I don't want to put my leg in there!"
"You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war!"
"Just because you don't know what I am doing, does not mean that I don't know what I am doing!"
"She tells you she's an orphan, after you meet her family..."
"I'll come into your hallway and lean upon your velvet door."
"No longer will I play the child in your big daddy boss theater of the retarded!"
"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess, and baseball, when they are not preoccupied with science."
"It's got wires that vibrate and give music. What can this thing be that I've found?"
"I wouldn't piss in your mouth if your stomach was on fire! Where the hell's my money!?"
"Never take no cutoffs, and hurry along as fast as you can."
"With eyes closed, multihued metamorphizing, fantastic images overwhelmed me.... Sounds were transposed into visual sensations so that from each tone or noise a comparable colored picture was evoked, changing in form and color kaleidoscopically."
"[Dubya is] a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America."
"Sacred cows make the best hamburgers."
"The best way to get the news is from objective sources. And the most objective
sources I have are people on my staff."
"I am not an American who wants to be treated like a criminal, when I have committed no crimes. I am an American who believes in America you are innocent until proven guilty, not the reverse. I am an ACLU member because they ensure all our basic freedoms remain intact."
"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.""
"It's not a fuck up if you can fix it when no one is watching."
"Cast your dancing spell my way. I promise to go under it."
It isn't easy being me, but it sure is a whole lot of fun, sometimes.
"And I know what a louse like me in his house could do for you."
"Lovers with confused thoughts confuse lovers with clear thoughts."
"My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wife.
More than my wine - more than my maker, though he's no friend of mine."
"I'm looking for comfort that I can take from someone else
"And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart
"Velcro is as indiscriminate as the world's oldest profession."
"It's not the point of art to show people what they want to see. It's important to make them examine themselves and reflect what the artist sees."
"Her life had been full of these paralytic instances, an ammo clip of misfired momentum, shooting out in rapid succession a series of blanks that kept her pinned in no man's land."
"But it was on occasssions that he did the unexpected that he felt the most alive. Time seemed to stop; hours slowed to minutes, separated into seconds, halted into pictures. Still-life images of emotion. Perfectly framed as any flicker of Citizen Kane, only not running reel to reel. It was a slide show in his mind flashed to make sense of the shifting world. And in these gluts, John felt he revealed himself, every beer bottle and doubt, cobwebbed corner and regret, shadow and memory in deep focus. This was who he was. Everything else was in-between.
This was life."
"Well I wish I had a nickel
"Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks"
"I saw something, man, but I didn't see it working here. You know what I mean?"
"Psychology: The science of inventing words for things that do not exist."
"Journalism: The carelessly inaccurate reporting of facts.
"...a map, a large one, which had been ruined by repeated and slapdash refolding. There were a number of such maps in the glove compartment of Skidbladnir, puzzle-maps, Rubik's cubes of paper so thoroughly "bollixed up," as Mr. Feld put it, that they couldn't ever really be opened anymore. They had been folded so many times and so incorrectly that they were now forever sealed by some mysterious origami of carelessness."
"He liked to quote that witty lady's opinion on the German language, which held that German wasn't good for conversation because you had to wait to the end of the sentence for the verb, so you couldn't interrupt."
"Most of the loyal subjects to the King of Beers are a bunch of cousin humping morons."
"The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our republic."
"For me, this was the point where the whole project made the transition from theory to reality. I squatted next to those tracks and realized that the last obstacle had suddenly been removed, that we really were going to run the car. And to my surprise, it didn't feel good at all. Suddenly the whole thing seemed stupid and insane and dangerous and illegal as hell. But by then it was way too late to stop."
"Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers."
"We are stardust, we are golden
"Superman has killer weed. He gets it from Dan Rather"
"You are a vacuous soldier of the gift store Gestapo!"
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move
against him, believing that he has the gods on his side"
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
"Ah! You want to know about the women?"
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
"Today is Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address. As Air America radio pointed out, it is an ironic juxtaposition: one involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication and the other involves a groundhog."
"George Bush's second inaugural extravaganza was every bit as repugnant as I had expected, a vulgar orgy of triumphalism probably unmatched since Napoleon crowned himself emperor of the French in Notre Dame in 1804. The little Corsican corporal had a few decent victories to his escutcheon. Lodi, Marengo, that sort of thing. Not so this strutting Texan mountebank, with his chimpanzee smirk and his born-again banalities delivered in that constipated syntax that sounds the way cold cheeseburgers look, and his grinning plastic wife, and his scheming junta of neo-con spivs, shamans, flatterers and armchair warmongers, and his sinuous evasions and his brazen lies, and his sleight of hand theft from the American poor, and his rape of the environment, and his lethal conviction that the world must submit to his Pax Americana or be bombed into charcoal."
"Jesus has a statue of a middle-class American hypocrite on his dashboard."
"My brain hurts a lot."
"Steal your face right off of your head."
"... research conducted at the Center for Jesus/Elvis Studies, at Gallenberg, Tennessee..."
"The Viet Cong hooked my genitals up to a car battery for thirty-eight hours, to get me to confess to something I actually did. You are going to have to do better than 'sorry'.""
"The great danger in having such a great imagination is that the real world can never really live up to my expectations."
"She made me soup from the juice of a chicken."
"Any sentiment of freedom which can exist in a man whose nearest and dearest intimacies, are with those of whom he is absolute master, is not the genuine or Christian love of freedom, but, what the love of freedom generally was in the ancients and in the middle ages---an intense feeling of the dignity and importance of his own personality; making him disdain a yoke for himself, of which he has no abhorrence whatever in the abstract, but which he is abundantly ready to impose on others for his own interest or glorification."
"In an advanced democratic country the economic order would be understood as instrumental not merely to the production and distribution of goods and services but to a much larger range of values, including democratic values. ... The producer/consumer is - in the theoretical imagination, if not in actuality - a supremely rational computer forever calculating and comparing precise increments of gain and loss at the margin and acting always to maximize net utilities. Loyalty may be of interest to historians, sociologists, advertisers, and ordinary human beings everywhere, but in the standard theoretical perspective of capitalism it is not a characteristic of rational economic actors."
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.Ę There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things.Ę Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas.Ę Their number is negligible and they are stupid."
"... only 1.62 x 10-33 centimeters long, because at that size, space and time come apart. Time ceases to exist and space becomes a random probablistic foam, sort of like quantum spit. We humans call this the Planck-Wheeler length. There's a Planck-Wheeler time, too: 10-45 of a second. If something happens and something else happens and the two events are separated by an interval of a mere 10-45 of a second, it is impossible to say which came first. It was all dino to me -- and that's just the scanning."
".... jealousy, the shadow of greed it is!"
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."
"Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes."
"Life sucks no matter what, so don't be fooled by location changes."
"...one's house is never again as clean as it is when you're writing your thesis."
"Moods are for cattle and love play, not fighting!"
"Hell hath no fury like the vast robot armies of a woman scorned."
"The fact is that I prefer my own view, full as it is of the suggestive hubbub of commerce, to that of Mrs. Polaris, which is so placid and beautiful that it suggests to me the shame of failed ambition; but to contemplate a question one needs an uninterrupted vista, and that is why I stood at the window of my secretary. Whitecaps were chalking the bay.""
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light... a nostalgia, a dream."
"Haven't you ever harbored the secret thought that somewhere Huck and Jim are - at this instant - poling their raft down some river just beyond our reach, so much more real are they than the shoe clerk who fitted us just a forgotten day ago?"
"There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of... revenge that comes with outraging the public decency."
"I'm trying to contain an outbreak and you're driving the monkey to the airport!"
"His demeanor proclaimed a relaxed confidence that all men dreamed of and precious few obtained. His wit was obvious, his attention to others sincere, and his sense of humor legendary. I found myself disliking the son of a bitch at once."
"He is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, dipped in kiss-my-ass sauce."
"My own definition [of science fiction] is pretty unforgiving. If you can take the science out of the story, and still have a story left, it's not science fiction. More than that, if the science in the story is wrong or ridiculous, again it's not science fiction."
"The only question is whether or not he can escape them, sweet fantasies which might have been laced with poison all along."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"Here lies ________. He lived for better and for worse, but he is dead for good."
"Do but consider what an excellent thing sleep is: it is so inestimable a jewel that, if a tyrant would give his crown for an hour's slumber, it cannot be bought: of so beautiful a shape is it, that though a man lie with an Empress, his heart cannot be quiet till he leaves her embracements to be at rest with the other: yea, so greatly endebted are we to this kinsman of death that we owe the better tributary, half of our life to him: and there is good cause why we should do so: for sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
"Believe in the power of the lesbian phone tree."
Q: What color are you?
"I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days."
"Boy, I feel a lot safer now that [Martha Stewart's] behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul her fanny off to jail."
"If my wishes were changes, the world would be a MUCH better place.... for anyone who doesn't piss me off."
"... because she is crazy as a shit-house rat, and has a foul fucking mouth to boot!"
"Even the air seemed on fire, subtly aflame with energy as it does when you are young, when the synapses are firing wildly and death is far away."
"The Farraguts were the sort of people who claimed to be sustained by tradition, but who were in fact sustained by by the much more robust pursuit of a workable improvisation, uninhibited by consistency."
About clapping applause: "It had always astonished and deeply moved him to realize that so diverse and warlike a people could have agreed to this signal of enthusiasm and assent."
"You must master your joystick as a fisherman masters bait!"
"Using drugs to help you sleep will only lead to sleep, and sleep is a gateway drug to being awake."
"Guns don't kill people, rappers do."
"Helsinki is a hard place to be afflicted with self-doubts."
"Education is the sleeping pill that makes dreams happen."
"Soon the second Nixon administration, the presidency of the modern Warren G. Harding will be finally, thankfully finished."
"Harding was notorious for his verbal gaffes, such as his comment "I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved." [2] His errors were compounded by his insistence on writing his own speeches. Although it might not have been a mispronunciation as some thought, Harding's most famous "mistake" was his use of the word "normalcy" when the more correct word to use at the time would have been "normality." Harding decided he liked the sound of the word and made "Return to Normalcy" a recurring theme. Critic H.L. Mencken disagreed, saying of Harding, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." Mencken also coined the term "Gamalielese" to refer to Harding's distinctive style of speech. Upon Harding's death, poet E. E. Cummings said "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.""
"Could I ask you a hypothetical question?"
Normal isn't just an illusion; it is a lie... and a particularly destructive one, at that.
"In this way, in increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us - not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss. For surely Mrs. Oastler was one of the thieves of Jack's childhood - not that she necessarily meant to hurt him, or that she gave the matter any thought one way or another. Leslie Oastler was simply someone who disliked innocence, or she held innocence in contempt for reasons that weren't even clear to her."
"He spends his time living in a rock and roll fantasy.
"Dan is a fan, and he lives for our music; it's the only thing that gets him by."
"We're definitely on the bleeding edge; you're going to see things go wrong today."
"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky."
Survey Question: "Which of the following health and wellness issues, if any, do you currently experience?"
"Afterward, we relaxed with a pipe of Phobos Red, reputed to be the best marijuana in the solar system. I wouldn't know; I'd never smoked anything else. It's not illegal on Mars. Some people say it will lead to hard, dangerous drugs, like alcohol, but that's not been our experience on Mars."
"Handcrafted by blind Tibetan monks?"
"Most of the sex I've had in my life was not as personal as that kiss."
"Every female scientist was therefore potentially a kind of Mr. Spock,
the rational side foregrounded and emphasized while the emotional side
was denied, and the two co-existing at odds with one another."
"Male Homo Sapiens desires company of female Homo Sapiens for mutual talk and grooming behaviors, possibly mating and reproduction. Must be happy, run fast."
"Tea Zone has the distinctive honor of being the one to pop my virgin bubble-tea cherry. Yes, I was seduced by the sensuous pictures of voluptuous tapioca drinks in the window; drawn in by the overwhelming desire to hold those plump, little pearls in my mouth; incapable of resisting the urge to swallow. I just had to have it. And have it, I did. What an orgasmic experience - sweet, honey tea with passion-fruit and lots of black tapioca pearls coming up through the wide-mouthed straw. Thank you, Tea Zone... I'll always remember you as my first."
"There's a warm, threadbare place at the back of my heart."
"My friends, each of you is a single cell in the great body of the State. And today, that great body has purged itself of parasites. We have triumphed over the unprincipled dissemination of facts. The thugs and wreckers have been cast out. And the poisonous weeds of disinformation have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Let each and every cell rejoice! For [t]oday, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive! We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is a more powerful weapon than any fleet or army on Earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!""
"And these children that you spit on
"God knows I'm good. Surely god won't look the other way."
"I remember times when we were young and so unsophisticated
"The tastes and looks and sounds. Her face. Were those what happiness consisted of? A smile, a glance, as the man had said - what ample borrowers of eternity they are!"
"If it were damned, I'll be damned if I didn't do it. If it splashed, I drank it, and I laid all kinds of women."
"Andy: Where is the disaster plan?
"I went to see the doctor of philosophy,
Here at Schmuck, Schmuck, Schmuck, and Schmuck Marketing Associates, where our motto is, "If we can get 'em to watch it, we can get 'em to buy it." Because there is very little room in our society for the rare people who neither want to be shepherd nor sheep.""
"It's a [shame] about those jets. They really spoil a very nice area."
Would society rather be right or happy? What if happy and wrong is not sustainable?
"All three buildings suffered from the peculiar form of governmental architecture a friend of mine had once described as "Twentieth Century Post-Gothic Paranoid": no windows in featureless walls on the ground floor, and narrow casement windows on the upper floors resembling the archer slots in medieval castles. Trust us, we're the government..."
"Bored now." and "I'm not coming back."
"Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker."
"I am the quen bee, and you are the drone... your job is to feed me, do me, and die."
"American democracy has become a mindless spectator sport, and with no greater attachment to a real contest than professional wrestling."
"I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. They say, 'sing while you slave,' and I just get bored."
"Hey, listen to me, guys, or you'll end up back in the box."
"Lord guard and guide all those who fly
"Why get a stretch limo? Why not get a land yacht? They have beds, so you can get it on or sleep it off."
"It is a fine line between genius and insanity." In reality I think it is a broad, constantly changing chaotic grey region, and so even if we do not cross the line back and forth, it crosses us.
"You have clearly taught him the importance of facade. But have you taught him the importance of KNOWING it is a facade?"
"You can't tell a pilot what to do when he's not flying." [And you sure as shit can't tell him what to do when he is!]
"Information wants to be free."
[We are all]" ...a footpring on the beach. And the tide is coming in."
"Some days, when the wind stands fair, and The Doctor comes to call, everybody lives."
"Do you think that I'm a fool? Do you think that I don't see, that ditch out in the valley, that they're diggin' just for me?"
"I'm sure that I will always be
"Are we in danger?"
"Friendship is the intersection between respect and voluntary love."
"Run, rabbit, run,
"Irony:
"Custer's Last Steakhouse has a fillet of bison lunch for just $6.95. Drink included. Of course, if you are not in the mood for a steak, they have bison burgers and a lovely roast strip bison salad on a bed of butter lettuce and garden tomatoes. Also, if you tell them it is your birthday (don't worry, they do not check ID) a muscular stud with no shirt on will come out and spank you, very gently. You should also ride the mechanical pony. It is adult size and moves slowly while playing Happy Trails. It is very soothing."
"I have watched painful relationships between parents and children. I have seen parents who control and parents who neglect, parents who make terrible mistakes that hurt their children deeply, and parents who forgive children who have done awful things. I have seen nobility and courage; I have seen dreadful selfishness and utter blindness; and I have seen all these things in the SAME parents, raising the same children.
What I understand now is this: There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decisions will be right or best or even non-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right."
"... and don't hide from life in the unfathomable, lightless depths of relativistic space."
"All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure."
"He pulled off the difficult trick of losing his tenured job at the Tennessee college, when he started showing up drunk for work, spoke with unpardonable cruelty to the talentless element of his classes, and one day waved a loaded pistol from the lectern and instructed his pupils to write about fear"
"I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe, and everything it contains."
"A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization. One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war."
"Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated."
"Be a pirate. It's fun to be a pirate."
"What if the first species to evolve on a planet almost always makes itself extinct? But if sometimes they do so in such a way that the ecosystem is not made completely inviable? Then another, probably very different species will eventually evolve to sentience, on that planet.
Would there still be evidence of the first sentient species for the second sentience archeologists to discover? Should the first species then, especially if they can see their inevitable demise looming on the horizon, create a time capsule explaining their extinction to help avoid the same thing happening to the next species?
Can such an archive be made so that it will both last for evolutionary epoch to pass, and such that whatever the nature of that intelligence, it will be able to decipher the message?"
"In the autumn of 1940 London was blitzed by an average of two hundred aircraft a night for sixty-one consecutive nights until finally the tables turned. On July 27, 1943 nearly a thousand British bombers dropped over two thousand tons of bombs on Hamburg, most of them incendiaries, turning that city into a burning, melting quagmire of horror. The temperature reached one thousand degrees in the center of town, igniting the world's first firestorm. The superheated air rose so fast it sucked in outside air in the form of hurricane-strength winds which force-fed the fire still further and blew helpless people like leaves into the burning center of destruction where they actually melted into pools of burning fat. On the outskirts of the storm other people were stuck in molten asphalt, suffocating and igniting. More than 40,000 people died that night. In the early spring of 1945 the American Twentieth Air Force topped the RAF's record by burning Tokyo, starting a conflagration that totaled sixteen square miles of intensely populated city, killing more than 80,000 people."
"Our husband's dating life is none of our business."
"Engineering: where the noble semi-skilled laborers execute the vision of those who think and dream. Hello, Ooompa-Loompas of science."
"the only kind of wave with a definite wavelength is an infinite regular periodic oscillation over all space"
"The ship of state, Bernard, is the only ship that leaks from the top."
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him"
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
"Champaign for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends."
"To err is human, to forgive, divine; neither of which is SAC policy."
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"History serves all men who serve history."
"Much of Barnes' antipathy for his neighbors stemmed from the public's reaction to the first showing of his collection at the Phillidelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 1923. CŽzanne and Matisse were considered wildly modern and Phillidelphia papers accused Barnes of subverting public morals. Circulating through the crowd, Barnes heard himself referred to as a freak and worse. Barnes' angry isolation from those around him became increasingly acute. His pride bruised, angry and disappointed, he never forgave the powers that be, and for the rest of his life most members of the establishment were banned from his collection."
"My wife left me after seventeen hours of marriage. I live for music. I have nothing else to live for. I may as well die for music."
"War is much more fun when you're winning."
"Inter arma enim silent leges"
"It's very complicated. Crucial moments in history usually are, when you're involved in them. Historians with the benefit of hindsight have a habit of rendering such moments far more intelligibly than they might have seemed to those actually caught up in them."
"I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection."
"... dance beneath the diamond sky, with one hand waving free"
"... children can misunderstand their parents in ways that nobody else can."
"I have some problems with your logic."
"Reorganizing the civil service is like drawing a knife through a bowl of marbles."
"Patience is for the dead."
"Birds and babies do not observe silence."
"I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
"Libraries raised me. I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years"
"We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly -- as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth -- the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives."
"I recalled a time when Steve and Tom and I were lazing up at Tom's place, looking for Catalina. 'I wonder what it would look like if the water was gone,' Steve had said. Tom had jumped on the notion with glee. 'Why, we'd think we were on a giant mountain. Offshore here would be a plain tilted away from us, cut by canyons so deep we wouldn't be able to see the bottom of them. Then the plains would drop away so steeply we wouldn't be able to see the lowlands beyond. That's the continental shelf I've told you about. The lowlands would rise again to foothills around Catalina and San Clemente islands, which would be big mountains like ours.' On he had rambled, pulling up imaginary hipboots to lead us on an exploration of the new land, through mud and muck that was covered with clumps of seaweed and surprised-looking fish, in search of wrecked ships and their open treasure chests..."
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
"No matter how old you are, no matter how badass you think you are, if a toddler hands you their ringing toy phone, you answer it."
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
But this nation is now in competition with malignant forces of evil who are using every instrument at their command to empty the minds of their subjects and fill those minds with slogans, determination and faith in the future. If we go on as we are, we are protecting the mind of the American public from any real contact with the menacing world that squeezes in upon us. We are engaged in a great experiment to discover whether a free public opinion can devise and direct methods of managing the affairs of the nation. We may fail. But we are handicapping ourselves needlessly."
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
I have been prepared for those realities since I was two and a half years old, watching Niel Armstrong set foot on the moon! "Mama, I want to be a space man!"
I did not keep the context for this quote, because, in what context would it not work? What a stunningly obvious, and utterly pointless statement.
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining. You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood.
But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful. You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.
It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also everything is your fault.
I'm just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing women, then I don't even know."
-John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
-George Bernard Shaw
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, Presidential farewell address, January 17, 1961
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov, "My Own View," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, ed. Robert Holdstock (1978)
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun"
-Mason, Waters, Wright, and Gilmore, Time - Dark Side of the Moon
,
I would want this one on my tombstone, if I were not going to science....
-Edward R. Murrow
- Apocalypse Now
-Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
-Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting
-Singleton & Straits, Approaches to Social Research (4ed.)
-Thoreau, Walden
-President Carter, Recorded on the golden record on the Voyager spacecraft, which is now outside of the Sol system
-Gordon Lightfoot, Race Among the Ruins
-Robert F. Kennedy, delivering an extemporaneous eulogy to Martin Luther King, Jr., the evening of April 4, 1968, in Indianapolis, Indiana
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets,
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."
-"Pablo Neruda
-Ken Burns, Civil War
-Daniel S. E. Cascaddan, 12/99
-Constitution of the United States, Amendment One
-Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissolm (three weeks before he was killed in the Apollo 1 fire, a few days before my birthday)
-John Irving, The Cider House Rules
- Sir Isaac Newton
-Vincent Black Lightning, 1952
-General George Washington
-George Carlin
-The Management
-Jimmy Stewart as Mr. Elwood P. Dowd in, "Harvey."
-Associated Press
-Thomas Jefferson
-Dr. Robert H. Goddard
-Werner von Braun
-Dr. Robert H. Goddard
-Pancho Barnes, Pancho's Happy Bottom Fly-in Riding Club, "The Right Stuff."
-Daniel S. E. Cascaddan
- Charles H. Duell The Honorable Commissioner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (1899)
-Jimmy Buffet
Kasparov: My ass goes down. The computer wins. I understand, my dark lord.......
-Dead
-General Karl von Clausewitz
-bumper sticker
-Harry Browne
- Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand, 1944.
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605. "
-Curtis LeMay (General LeMay, Commander of SAC from 1947 to 1957, was known for strongly advising three different presidents that we should make an all out, first strike with our nuclear arsenal against all nuclear enemies.)
- http://www.cdsar.af.mil/cc/lemay.html
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/hypersextext.html
-David Bowie, one strange bird
-Robert Anson Heinlein (my other grandfather whom I never met)
- http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/
-Frank Zappa
-Bertrand Russel
-Stephen Leacock
-OFFICIAL BRATWURST GLOSSARY, Johnsonville Bratwurst of Sheboygen, WI
-John Wayne
-Dubya
-Dr. George Williamson, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Granville, Ohio, whose church was disfellowed from the American Baptist Churches for extending its ministries to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people without requiring them to first become straight.
-George Washington
-Thomas Paine
-Thomas Jefferson, Letter to his nephew, Peter Carr
Me: Yes, I am an avid collector.
Friend: Of what?
Me: Hobbies.
- Former Kansas City and San Jose police chief Joseph McNamara
Liberator OnLine Vol. 2, No. 12
- http://www.seattletimes.com/trinity/supplement/facts.html
-Pink Floyd, "Animals"
-Nancy Ann Cascaddan, my best friend.
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Charley Reese, a nationally syndicated columnist
- (New York Times, November 26, 1991)
-Rik Myslewski http://www4.zdnet.com/macuser/onlinecol/myslewski20.html
-Tacitus, Anals III 27
-Winston Churchill
-MSgt Mitch Spies, USMC(Ret)
-General William Westmoreland
-Joey Adams
-Daniel S. E. Cascaddan
-Unknown
-Abe Lincoln
-Jimmy Stewart, "Harvey."
-David Byrne
-Abraham Lincoln, 1861.
-Justice William O. Douglas, 1953.
-unknown
-HHH, Christian Slater, "Pump Up the Volume."
-Mrs. Webster's Definitions
-Breakfast Club
-Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institution
207 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20078
-Groundskeeper Willie
-DSE Cascaddan, to my wife on Valentine's Day
-Nathan Swanson
-Bald Tattoo Guy
-Yoda
-Homer Simpson
-Garrison Keillor
-Redfox
-The Simpsons
-Al Gore Doll, The Simpsons
-unknown
- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
- Stephen King (8/24/87)
- Vanna White
- Daniel S. E. Cascaddan
-David Letterman
-Jeff Stilson
-Lynda Montgomery
-I doubt this is true, but it sure is funny! :^)
-Frank Zappa
-Benjamin Franklin
-I said that. 12/01/1997 :^)
-Scott Deeg, 12/97
-unknown
-unknown
- Jacques Cousteau
-James Tiberius Kirk, 29 DEC 1969
- Pablo Picasso
-unknown
-Fish on Ally McBeal
-from Chief Petty Officer Initiation (Oral Tradition)
A: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."
- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss Universe contest, Presidential Candidate in 2008?
Pinky: "You have no idea."
-Brain
-P. K. Dick
-one of fourteen Spam Haiku by Joe Bryan of Chromatic Research
-Frank N. Furter
-Frank N. Furter
-Jonathon Swift
-Crash Test Dummies
-Dr. Gonzo
-William Shakespear, Henry V (act 4, scene 3)
-Dharma
-Dominic Giampaolo
-TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" in the Marin Independent Journal
-Alien Nation
-Janci Patterson
-baseball guy at the World Series referring to the Loma Prieta earthquake
-Enrico Fermi on the H-bomb
-TV Guide, p.25, AUG 15-21, SF Bay area issue
-Leslie Nielson
-unknown
-Lisa Simpson
-Mr. Burns
-from some guy's sig file
-Thomas Edison
-Marge Simpson's therapist
-Bill Gates, 1981
-Robert Stone, http://www.otaku.org/cats/Terminator.html
-campaign billboard in South Carolina, 10/98
-unknown
-writer on the Simpsons
-Lisa Simpson
-Dave Berry
-unknown
-unknown
-George Eliot, from Adam Bede (last chptr)
-unknown
-John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
-Greatest American Hero theme
-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
-James Jones, The Thin Red Line
-Cowboy Junkies
-Smoke Signals
-unknown
-Mary Schmich
-Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery
-a fortune cookie
-Bradford Contemporary
-Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
-Daniel Woodrell, Tomato Red
-unknown
-David Brin
-John Perry Barlow
-Mary Schmich
-Prof. Edward Higgins
-G. Harry Stine, Handbook of Model Rocketry
-Garrison Keeler
-an online student who didn't proofread
-DSE Cascaddan, 7JUL99
-Stephen King, Bag of Bones
-Stephen King, Bag of Bones
-Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838
-Monty Python
- after having my briefcase stolen from the trunk of his car, with my entire Summer Semester grades
-Niel Young
-Oscar Wilde
-Col. Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
-Allmans
-Daniel S. E. Cascaddan, 17AUG99
-Rick Moen
-Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
-Steve Martin
-Ben Bova, Moonrise
-unknown
-Daniel S. E. Cascaddan 10/99, on the concept of a vacuum dirigible.
-Space Island One (possibly he was quoting)
-Richard Bach, Out of My Mind
-Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
-Daria, the Anti-teen
-Gallagher
-Horton
-Clint Eastwood
-Kurt Vonnegut
-Dick Solomon
-Homer Simpson
-Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons, Gsponer & Hurni, INESAP
-Fourth Generation Nuclear Weapons, Gsponer & Hurni, INESAP
-The Evil Midnight Bomber, What Bombs at Midnight
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge
-Dennis Leary
-Anna Quindlen, Villanova Commencement Address
"I hear ya! That's about all I did in school too."
-Dick Solomon, Third Rock from the Sun
-West Wing
-DSEC, 1/00,
-John Irving, Cider House Rules
-John Irving, Cider House Rules
-Bruce Springsteen, The River
-Weird Al Yankovich, It's all about the Pentiums
-Kraft Ehricke, Washington DC, 1984.
-Walt Whitman
-Wendell Berry, Peace of Wild Things
-Richard P. Feynman, Lectures on Computation
-Nancy Cascaddan,
-John Irving, The Cider House Rules
-Mark Knopfler, Once Upon a Time in the West
-Stephen Baxter, Titan
-Bruce Graham
-Steve Martin, Bowfinger
-Kim Stanely Robinson, The Blind Geometer
-Stephen Baxter, Titan
-Dan Akroyd, Tommy Boy
-Willie Nelson
-Stephen King, Green Mile
-Richard Bach
-Patrick Robinson, HMS Unseen
-James Blish, Spock Must Die!
-Scott Deeg, 7/00
-A Graduate Studies Admissions Counselor at a University in the Pacific Northwest
-Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit
-Admiral Bruce
DeMars, Director US Navy Nuclear Propulsion, July 5, 2000, Groton, CT.
MAJ: Yes, sir.
ADM: What do you think? I said what do you think?
MAJ: Sir, we're here to help the White House form a policy.
ADM: I know. I'm asking you what you think?
MAJ: Sir, we're not prejudiced about homosexuals.
ADM: You just don't want to see them serving in the armed forces.
MAJ: No, sir, I don't.
ADM: Because they pose a threat to unit discipline and cohesion.
MAJ: Yes, sir.
ADM: That's what I think too. I also think the military wasn't designed to be an instrument of social change.
MAJ: Yes, sir.
ADM: The problem with that is, that's what they were saying about me fifty years ago. 'Blacks shouldn't serve with whites, it would disrupt the unit.' You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I'm an admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Beat that with a stick.
-West Wing
-Thomas Jefferson
-Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend, born on May 19, 1945 and still kicking...
-Harold Coyle, Sword Point
-Nancy Cascaddan, 10SEP00
-Odin's Runic Poem
-David Blatner
-David Weinberger
-Star Trek
-Paul Simon, Kodachrome
-Steve Marmel
-George W. Bush, In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.)
-Jack Kerouac
-Apocalypse Now
-DSEC, 29DEC00
That a man must break his back to earn his day of leisure
Will she still believe it when he's dead"
-Lennon/McCartney, Girl
-Frank Herbert, Dune
-Empire of the Sultans Exhibit at Portland Museum of Art
$41,897 - $66,942. I think that our society would benefit from paying teachers more than cops, instead of the other way around."
-Saturday Night Live
-unknown
-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
-Definite Maybe
-Geaorge R. Stewart, Earth Abides
-unkown, PBS
-Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
-George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
"I don't want to hear your problems, Captain. Just get out there and take that objective."
-When Trumpets Fade
-some moron TV writer, Discovery Channel Show on Bigfoot
Does that mean that some of the people who claim to have seen them, do not believe in them? It is a real shame that this level of writing is so common in television. Hyperbole filler material.
-David Walker, Willamette Week 13JUN01
-Abraham Maslow
-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
-Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
full quote
-DSEC, 25JUN01
-Headline from the Onion.com, 29JUN01
2. You may then return to regular programming.
3. Record all of this in the EAS log, of course.
-Emergency Broadcast System
Special Case from the KOTK Black Book
-Mother Skinner, The Simpsons
-British Men Behaving Badly
-John Cleese, MPFC
Were to burst at once into the sky,
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds."
-The Bhagavad-Gita
-unknown
-unknown
-DSEC, 8/01
-George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
-George R. Stewart, Earth Abides
-Reverend Billy, anti-disney-store fringe theater
-Stephen King, Roadwork
-Stephen King, Roadwork
-J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
-DSEC, 13SEP01
-unknown
-unknown
-DSEC, 29 SEP 01
-David Bowie, All the Madmen
The world held his hand, gave their pledge
So he told them his scheme for a savior machine
Its logic stopped war, gave them food,
How they adored till it cried in its boredom,
Life is too easy, a plague seems quite feasible now,
Or maybe a war, or I may kill you all.
"
-David Bowie, Savior Machine
-Freddy Mercury, Killer Queen
"That plane crashed on my property!"
-The Simpsons
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961
-John Irving, The Fourth Hand
Kramer: You can smell me without the drink!"
- Seinfeld
-Clare De Vries, I, Claudius
-Clare De Vries, I, Claudius
-Clare De Vries, I, Claudius
-Kinks
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry, "Lover, gold-hatted, high bouncing lover,
I must have you!"
-Thomas Parke D'Invilliers
-Gene Ray, timecube.com
-Gene Ray, timecube.com
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
-Russel
-Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
-Oscar Wilde
-unknown writer, Will and Grace
-Chuck Cassimano, aka. Bob Sakimano
-Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
-Alexander Dumas or maybe Pindar?, The Count of Monte Cristo
-Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
When things were so uncomplicated?
I wish I could go back there again, and everything would be the same."
-Electric Light Orchestra, Ticket to the Moon
-John Cleese, Holy Grail
-Evolution
-suggested bumper sticker
-suggested bumper sticker
-Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels, Beth Shir Sholom, Santa Monica, CA, A Sermon for Erev Rosh haShanah, September 29, 2000/1 Tishrei 5761
-John Varley, Titan
-John Varley, Titan
-Shaken not Stirred Radio Show
-Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
-Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
-Michael Chabon, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
-Paul Simon, Baby Driver, Bridge Over Troubled Water
-Kermit, It's Not Easy Being Green
-Mo's Dad, Simpsons
-Richard Milhous Nixon, Secret Tapes
-unknown
-Nelix, Voyageur
-Tuvok, Voyageur
-Robert H. Bork, Supreme Court nominee
-Dan Fogelberg, Auld Lang Syne
-Bob Dylan, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
-unknown
-Chief Justice John Jay, in a letter to President George Washington
-Plutarch
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
.....it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah."
-Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah
-Steinhardt, ACLU
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Essayist
-David Byrne, True Stories
-Dr. William H. Jones, http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=543
-The New Pornographers, Jackie
-Marc Andrew Matteo, Tretise on Daylight Savings Time
-Wall of Voodoo, Mexican Radio
-unknown, sung to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
To the waters of the wild
With a faery hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
-William Butler Yeats, The Stolen Child
-Mists of Avalon
But the world said no and sent me packing to the sea
Now pumpkins remain pumpkins, mice remain mice, and I am only me."
-Pumpkin
-unknown, some tv movie
-John Nash, Nobel Laureate
-Stephansen, Explorer
- Refer Madness
-David Byrne
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Dharma
-Road to Perdition
- Veggie Tales, Oh No! Daniel!
-Daniella Smektala, March 2003
-unknown
-DSEC, 1987.
-Black Crows, She Talks to Angels
-Bob Dylan, Temporarily Like Achilles
-Mojo Nixon, Frenzy
-Yann Martel, Life of Pi
-Rush, 2112
-Moj Nixon, Where the Hell's My Money!?
-Virginia Reed
-Dr. Albert Hoffman of Sandoz Research Laboratories, inventor of LSD in 1938. On April 16, 1943, after accidentally absorbing some LSD through the skin of his fingers. (According to The War On Drugs III, by James A. Inciardi, p. 46)
-Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, Shrub
-Abbot Hoffman
-G. W. Bush, 43rd POTUS
-Moby, ACLU Ad in Rolling Stone.
-Ernest Shackelton
-Scott Deeg, 06 JAN 03
-Bob Dylan, Mr. Tambourine man
-DSEC, May 2004
-Davif Bowie, Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dased, on the
-Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
-Grateful Dead, Wharf Rat
But after all, I know there is no one
That can save me, save me from myself
You were the only one
"
-Billy Joel, C'Etait Toi
She still lives inside of me, we’ve never been apart."
-Bob Dylan, If You See Her, Say Hello
-unknown
-Robert Mailer Anderson, Boonville
-Robert Mailer Anderson, Boonville
-Robert Mailer Anderson, Boonville
For every time I fell and blamed somebody else....
I've spent years losin' touch of what's right and what's real
Caught up in these missions of my own "
-Bob Seger, Lock and Load
[and voted for some as well]
"And I learned much from both of their styles."
-Jimmy Buffet, Son of a Son of a Sailor
-Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider
-Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, The Butlerian Jihad
Journalist: One who is expert at nothing, but pretends to be expert at everything."
-Michael Chabon, Summerland
-Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
-Storm Large, My Commercial
-Justice Black, New York Times Company v. United States, 403 U.S. 670, 91 S.Ct. 2140 (1971).
-carinthecliff@hotmail.com, Legend of the JATO Car
-unknown
We are caught in the devil's bargain
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden."
-Joni Mithcell, Woodstock
-Gibby Haynes, His Problem
-Aristotle
-Stephen King, Kingdom Hospital
"Is that what is most important?"
"No! Sometimes they are. It depends."
-The Big Blue
-Winston Churchill
-unknown
-Mike Carlton, Sydney Morning Herald, January 21, 2005
-George Carlin
-David Bowie, Five Years
-Dead, He's Gone
-unknown
-Greg the Bunny
-DSEC, 4/05
-God the Devil and Bob
-John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, (chptr. 3)
-Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics(chptr. 23)
-Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952
-James Patrick Kelly, Think Like A Dinosaur
-Yoda, Episode 3
-Mr. Justice Brandeis, New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262 (1932)
"Please be careful where you point those things; I find them quite threatening!"
-unknown
-John Lennon, Across the Universe
"And through the window in the wall
Comes streamin in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning"
-Pink Floyd, Echoes
-Daria (fortune cookie), Is It Fall Yet?
-Barbara Boothby
-Frank Herbert?, Dune (possibly just from the Lynch film)
-unknown, Futurama
-Ethan Canin, Accountant
-John Steinbeck, About Ed Rickets
-Dan Simmons, Hyperion
-Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
-Hank Hill
-Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
-I thought of this, but I am not sure that I did not hear it somewhere else.
-Charles Sheffield
-Richard Bachman (Stephen King), The Regulators, Seth Place, Seth Time
-Robert Anson Heinlein (my other grandfather whom I never met), Time Enough for Love, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long
-Thomas Dekker, excerpted from Charles SheffieldBetween the Strokes of Night
-Theodore Roosevelt
, May 7, 1918
- The L Word
"I would be infrared. Nobody can see me but insects and government storm troopers with their special goggles. When they come for me, I am just fucked anyway, so what the hell."
-Bull Durham
-George Carlin
-Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
-John Cheever, Falconer
-John Cheever, Falconer
-Gimpy Undergrads
-They Might be Giants, Wearing a Raincoat
-Goldie Lookin' Chain, Straight Outta Newport
-John Irving, Until I Find You
-Peggy Hill, King of the Hill, season three, Wings of the Dope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding
"That mode of thinking IS my life."
-system administrator, Haiku Tunnel
-John Irving, Until I Find You
He spends his time living on the edge of reality."
-Ray and Dave Davies, the Kinks, Misfits
-Ray and Dave Davies, The Kinks, A Rock and Roll Fantasy
-a space elevator team at the X-Prize Cup festival
-Ojibwe saying, "Spopranos"
Answer: "My ability to move objects with my mind is slightly diminished as I get older, in direct proportion to mass of the object, for items massing more than one gigagram, especially if made of materials less dense than liquid water. I can hardly move Styrofoam at all... not even small chunks of it, but I can still throw a rail car off the tracks and into the river without even closing my eyes to concentrate on it."
-John Varley, Red Lightning
"Pieced together by mute Chinese nuns. Now that's craftsmanship!"
-Joss Whedon?, Angel
-Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain
-Lisa
-Ben Arthur, End of the Day
-Apple Computer, Inc., 1984 Superbowl Commercial, original unaired text
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through..."
-David Bowie, Changes
-David Bowie, Space Oddity
Seems like nothing could go wrong and all the nights were long and lovely"
-Epoxies, Toys
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting
The Great Waldo Pepper
Les: I don't know; it's in the file cabinet, I guess.
Andy: Where in the file cabinet?
Les: Try A, for apocalypse."
-WKRP in Cincinnati
with a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee.
He never did marry, nor see a b-grade movie.
He graded my performance. He said he could see through me.
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind;
got my paper and I was free!"
-Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine
-Bill Forsyth, Local Hero
-Allen Steele, The Jericho Iteration
-Willow
-Charles M. Schulz, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
-My Name is Earl
-Bob Dylan, Maggie's Farm
-Monkees, Head
Through Thy great void above the sky
Be with them all on ev'ry flight
In radiant day or darkest night
Oh, hear our prayer, attend Thy grace
To those in peril deep in space.
-John Varley, Tango Charlie and Foxtrot Romeo
-2 FEB 08
-Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
-Mac, Veronica Mars
-Doctor Who
-Doctor Who (2008)
-Steely Dan, Bad Sneakers
A lonely number like root three
The three is all that's good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight?
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
With just some quick arithmetic
I know I'll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality
When hark! What is this I see?
Another square root of a three
As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer
We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands
Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed"
-David Feinberg, Root Three Poem
featured in: Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
"No."
"Would you tell me, if we were?"
"No."
Dig that hole, forget the sun.
When at last the work is done,
Don't sit down; it's time to dig another one.
For long you live and high you fly;
But only if you ride the tide,
Balanced on the biggest wave,
You race towards an early grave."
-Floyd, Breathe
I like to watch the Hyperbole channel.
Which one is that?
All of them.
-Custer's Last Steakhouse
-Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
-Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
-Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
-Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
-The Big Bang Theory
-Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile
-Paul Nitze, Secretary of Defense (1967-69), Secretary of the Navy (1963-67), etc.U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (1944-1946)
-Marge, Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door (s7e12)
-DSEC, The Time Capsule of Man Project
-David Fisher, Fire and Ice
-Nikki, Big Love
-Sheldon Cooper, PhD The Big Bang Theory
-Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes Minister, Bed of Nails
(paraphrase of actual quote by journalist James Reston, 1909-1995)
-Leo Tolstoy, 1897
-Carl Sagan
-Benjamin Franklin
-Jeremy Coller, The Lives, Loves, and Deaths of Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
-unknown, The Boat that Rocked, aka. Pirate Radio
-Martok, IKDF
-Cisero, Pro Milone (ca. ~50 bce)
-Gary Gibson, Nova War
-Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
-Bob Dylan, Mr. Tambourine Man
-Joe Haldeman, Starbound
-Marc Andrew Matteo, 17 APR 2011
-Sir Humphrey Appleby, KCB, Diary 1988
-Star Trek Enterprise (s3e18)
commencement 2011
-Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861
-Ray Bradbury, Steinhauer, Jennifer (June 19, 2009). "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library". The New York Times. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
-John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River
-Kim Stanley Robinson, Wild Shore
-Frank Herbert, Dune
-unknown attrib.
-Gore Vidal
-Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican Presidential Candidate, known as "Mr. Conservative"
"All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."
-Leo Tolstoy
"When I was younger, I rode tall in the saddle. Now that I'm older, it's a whole different battle."
-Amalgamated Sons Of Rest, bonus track on self-titled album
"After a lengthy investigation, an Air Force Accident Investigation Board could not find the cause of the malfunction but determined "by clear and convincing evidence" that in addition to other factors, Haney was to blame for the crash because he was too distracted by his inability to breathe to fly the plane properly."
-Lee Ferran and Megan Chuchmach (ABC NEWS) Fighter Pilots Claim Intimidation Over F-22 Raptor Jets
"... I would imagine that it reflects a desire on the part of the corporations who pay the advertising bills to have the public image, or believe that they are not merely bodies with no souls, panting in pursuit of elusive dollars.
-Edward R. Murrow, 1958 speech to the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)
"Kale Ingram? Pure. Linear. Drill. Bores right through. Believes what he believes. Will not waiver. Which I guess is honorable... from a certain angle."
- Rubicon (AMC television series)
"They've got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age."
-General Curtis Emerson LeMay, Chief of Staff, United States Air ForceMission with LeMay (1965)
"They were waiting for something to stir in the dead city, some gray form to rise, some ancient, ancestral shape to come galloping across the vacant sea bottom on an ancient, armored steel of impossible lineage, of unbelievable derivation."
-Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles
"People like me don't have mid life crises. I have been a seeker from day one. "
-
"The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
-Matt Taibbi, blog - Rolling Stone
"People who are afraid to fix their lives hate nothing more than those of us who have the balls to do it."
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?"
-Chief Seattle, 1854 speech, of unverifiable accuracy
"I have CDO. It is like OCD, but all the letters are in alphabetical order, like they should be."
-some greeting card
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
-Dwight David Eisenhower, Presidential Farewell Address , January 17, 1961
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
-Will Rogers
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."
-Japanese Proverb
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."
-Will Durant
"Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will."
-Pythagoras
"The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough to those who have little."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Who is this, he thought, in need of love as much as we? Who is he and what is he that, out of loneliness, he comes into the alien camp and assumes the voice and face of memory and stands among us, accepted and happy at last? From what mountain, what cave, what small last race of people remaining on this world when the rockets came from Earth?"
-Ray Bradbury, Martian Chronicles
"QF-4 pilots are fond of their aircraft and do not enjoy seeing one depart on a one-way, final mission. But they are philosophical about the loss, noting, "It's a better way for an aircraft to die than rotting away in the 'Boneyard' or on a pole. The taxpayer is getting his money's worth from these aircraft.""
-Mark Munzel, Final Mission: The USAF's QF-4 Target Drones
"This piece of sky is mine. I am lord over all I survey. Nothing which enters my sky leaves alive, but under my good grace."
- air dominance prayer
"Cindy, you know by tattling on your friends, you're really just tattling on yourself. By tattling on your friends, you're just telling them that you're a tattletale. Now is that the tale you want to tell?"
-Mike Brady character, The Brady Bunch
"Some people drink to forget. Personally, I smoke to remember. "
-Anna Madrigal, Armistead Maupin's More Tales of the City
"I want to do right, but not right now."
-Gillian Welch, Look at Miss Ohio
"Teaching is the intersection of knowledge, communication, and leadership. Great teachers are masters of all three."
"Cooper! Santa's wandering around post-op with a grenade launcher."
-China Beach
"Freeman did not devote half his life to Orion, just one or two of his best years, and that the spaceship, unlike The Ring never flew. Had Orion left the ground, though, it would have done so with much crashing of cymbals. Pounding through space, Orion would have made Wagnerian music.""
-Kenneth Brower, The Starship & the Canoe
"Road pickle, driving to her man and dinner. She cruises and enjoys the sun, from air-conditioned cabin. She is the road Pickle of California girl. Do-do-do-dooooo. And she is mine."
"Physical reality is a pushy little shit."
-Andy Weir, The Martian
"We set forth as glorious victorious conquerers, and soil the soles of our boots with the radioactive ashes of enemy dead."
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a palianment, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That 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 greater danger." (paraphrased)
-Herman Goering, at the Nuremberg trials, related to psychologist Gustave Gilbert, 18 April 1946
"War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder."
-Alexander Berkman
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
-Elbert Hubbard
"I have as much authority as the Pope; I just don't have as many people who believe it."
-George Carlin
"Winds in the east, theres a mist comin' in
Like somethin' is brewin' and 'bout to begin.
Can't put me finger on what lies in store,
But I feel what's to happen all happened before."
-Mary Poppins
"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(my favorite first line of a novel)
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see."
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Zweiter Band, ErgŠnzungen zum dritten Buch , (chapter 31)
"Winds in the east, mist coming in,
Like somethin' is brewin' and bout to begin.
Can't put me finger on what lies in store,
But I fear what's to happen all happened before."
-P. L. Travers, Mary Poppins (1964)
"You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty."
-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
"In this way, the bravery of the warrior underwrites collective civic cowardice,
while fostering a slack, insipid patriotism."
-Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust
"The Marine Corps taught me how to kill but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing."
-Karl Marlantes, What it is Like to go to War
"The radio does as it should; ghostly transmissions are taking you further away."
-Eltro, Lady of the Highway
"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak."
-Jayne Cobb, the hero of Kanton, Firefly
"The next war will be fought on social media."
-Eric Harper
"Let's kick it through the basket for a home run."
-Mallory Archer character, Archer
"... I think it's a bunch of bullshit, myself, but I'll tell you what: I'm going to get my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames!"
-Jim Morrison
"Pay no attention to that bag; it'll only make everyone paranoid."
-Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
"If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a good father and mother, and begin life in Ohio."
-Wilbur Wright
"Now my dreams have all been shattered
And my wings are tattered too
And I can still fly but not half as high
As once I wanted to"
-Billy Bragg, The Space Race is Over
"I'm impatient with stupidity."
-Klatu, The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Innocents Abroad
"I have left-in lies and unlikely stories on the assumption that the lies a man tells tell more truth about him -- when analyzed -- than does the truth."
-Robert Anson Heinlein (my other grandfather whom I never met), Time Enough for Love
You can't "keep your nose clean" when the air is full of soot.
"I say without any pride that I did my job as a soldier. I commanded an infantry squad in combat and we never failed to accomplish our mission. But those who called me a coward, without knowing it, are also right. I was a coward not for leaving the war, but for having been a part of it in the first place. Refusing and resisting this war was my moral duty, a moral duty that called me to take a principled action. I failed to fulfill my moral duty as a human being and instead I chose to fulfill my duty as a soldier. All because I was afraid. I was terrified, I did not want to stand up to the government and the army, I was afraid of punishment and humiliation. I went to war because at the moment I was a coward, and for that I apologize to my soldiers for not being the type of leader I should have been."
-Camilo Mej’a, The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends (2006)
"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him."
-Nuremberg Principle IV
"I'm not trying to change you. I'm enhancing you."
-Pickle
"I wear the ring."
-Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
(one of my two favorite first-lines of a novel)
I am neither a drone nor a cog, and am not interested in being treated like either.
"Sometimes you come to a spork in the road."
-The League
(s6e7)
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore."
-China Mieville, Perdido Street Station
"Afghanistan seemed familiar. It had jagged blue-and-purple mountains, big skies, and bearded men in pickup trucks stocked with guns and hate for the government. It was like Montana - just on different drugs."
-Kim Barker, Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
-Flannery O'Connor, a letter (September 6, 1955)
"It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
-Mark Twain, in a notebook (1896)
"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from the doing the things that men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil... If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty."
-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
"A blind man teaching an android how to paint; that's got to be worth a couple of pages in somebody's book."
-s1e14 Star Trek Next Generation
"It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent."
-Q, STNG, Deja Q
"This weakness disgusts me. I hate it!"
-Sarek/Picard, STNG s3e23
"You can show girls kissing once, but you can't show them kissing twice... because the second time, it means that they liked it."
-Neal Conan (January 24, 2002), "Analysis: Portrayals of gays on mainstream TV and the future of gay cable channels". Talk of the Nation (National Public Radio).
Gravy is my default setting.
"THAT's good television!"
"I'm never flying with you again!"
- John Scalzi, Redshirts
"War is much more fun when you're winning."
-Martok, DS-9 s6e3
"We're Starfleet officers; weird is part of the job."
-Capt. Janeway, Voyager (s2e21)
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby
"What's good for General Motors is good for America."
-Charles Erwin Wilson, paraphrased misquote, but meaningfully correct
"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:...
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."
-Louis Lasagna, (1964)
"I've had masked visitors before, but they came either to kill me or have sex with me, on one memorable occasion, both."
-Elementary (s4e17)
"Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian."
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
"If the surviving miners are heroes (rather than victims) then what do you call the NASA & Chilean Engineers who saved them?"
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
"It's not as if your cooking turned him into a thief."
-Captain Janeway, Voyager (s7e5)
"My love has wings, slender, feathered things
With grace in upswept curve and tapered tip"
-Gene Roddenberry, My Love Has Wings (from a pilot to his airplane)
"Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out, like the rain."
-Markus Zusak, Book Thief, the
"A wise man... proportions his belief to the evidence."
-David Hume (1748)
"We shall remunerate with metallic tender discs."
-Coneheads
"My moustache was stiffly waxed and one foot long."
-David Bowie, Rubber Band
"There's a samurai after me!"
-Hikaru Sulu, Shore Leave
"The river tells no lies, though standing on the shore the dishonest man still hears them."
-Oma Desala, Stargate SG-1 (s5e21 Meridian)
"I'm not crazy; I just have another consciousness in my brain."
-Rodney Mackey, Stargate Atlantis (s2e4)
"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength."
-Emmanuel Goldstein, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
"I don't care where we eat, as long as there is a pig on the wall."
-Melissa Marie, at Fatty Patty's in Vancouver, WA
"One way of looking at this might be that for fourty-two years, I've been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience, education and training. And on January fifteenth the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal."
-Chesley Sullenberger, a television interview
"Here's to the lady with the white shoes.
Take all your money, drink all your booze.
Ain't got a cherry, that ain't no sin.
She's still got the box that the cherry come in."
-Westworld (2016) (s1e1)
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read."
-Marx
"Democracy is the right to make the wrong choice."
-Glenn Ford, Teahouse of the August Moon
"We really hope to look forward to seeing you again."
-Black Mirror (s1e3)
"Millions of people will die without his research."
"We're not accountable to them. We're accountable to our shareholders."
-Incorporated, (s1e9)
"Technology makes possible and practical a level and subtlety of totalitarianism that the Nazis and Soviets could only have dreamt of."
"... banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall."
-Pink Floyd, The Wall
"Mathematics is the alphabet with which god has written the universe."
-Galileo
"On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime."
-Al Stewart, Year Of The Cat
"I'd have to be some kind of natural-born fool to want to pass that way again!"
-James Taylor, Country Road
"I wish I was a headlight on a northbound train."
-trad., I know you rider
"It is anarchy, and today is my day to rule!"
-Ka D'Argo, Farscape (s1e22)
"High tonight. Low tomorrow. And precipitation is expected."
-Tom Waits, Emotional Weather Report
"... oblivious to history with its oncoming parade of motherfuckers."
-Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue
"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
-Mr. Carlson, WKRP in Cincinnati (s1e7)
"They solemnly convene to make the scene."
-Andy Williams, Music to Watch Girls By
"Then they showed us THE most disturbing military training film in history. "
-Ernest Cline, Armada
"Civilization did not create war; war created civilization."
-Royal Space Force - Wings of Honneamise
"No man is free who is not master of himself."
-Epictetus
"They got my dick message!"
-Guardians of the Galaxy
"The REAL cops are IN on it!"
-Johnny Fever, WKRP (s4e2)
",,, one cap, one badge, one revolver, and one bullet."
-Barney Pfife, Andy Griffith Show (s1e20)
"From the time that I could talk, I was ordered to listen."
-the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, Father & Son
"I vow to hone my coffee cup handling skills to the point that I can stand up in a kayak being tossed in a typhoon, and still not spill a drop."
-US Navy, Chief Petty Officer Initiation (oral tradition)
"I can carry a cup of coffee in a force 5 blow in a dinghy and I will never spill a drop."
-US Navy (LANTFLEET), CPO Initiation General Order #5 (CPO Initiation Book)
"I'm not crazy; I just don't give a fuck."
-Night of the Comet (1984)
"I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me."
-John Scalzi
"Cambodia is the Nixon Doctrine in its purest form."
-Richard Milhous Nixon, 1970 ('71?) on television
"I'd have to blow the remaining two at the same time."
-(Jasmine Bashara) Andy Weir, Artemis
"You ended that sentence with a preposition. Bastard!"
-Col. Jack O'neill, Stargate SG-1 (s6e8)
"... as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Part Three)
"You failed a class so easy [that] people pass it in the hallway to get a contact credit."
-Community (s1e19)
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
-Dr. Robert H. Goddard (the father of liquid fuel rocketry), Rockets
"... a boy, too old to be a kid, and too young to be a man."
-A Monster Calls
"I need you there! I need you to write stuff down. 'Cause you know how I zone out when other people talk."
-Psych (s1e1)
"Command and compassion is a fool's mixture."
-Lt. Gary Mitchell, (STOS) Where No Man Has Gone Before (s1e3 - the second pilot)
"What's wrong with this country? There is such a stupid 'get even' mentality. There is such a sadistic anger."
-John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
"I hate outside! I hate it! I hate it!"
-Jessica 6, Logan's Run (film, 1976)
"I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question."
-Margot Tenenbaum, Royal Tenenbaums
"How are two Ding Dongs tomorrow going to help me today?"
-Walowitz, Big Bang Theory
This is for the regular viewers of Fox News: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil..."
-King James Bible Isaiah 5:20
"He has passed into what once was."
-Guardian of Forever, City on the Edge of Forever
Q: Who wrote the bible?
A: G. Harry Stine, of course!
"Take cover; there's a samurai after me!"
-Hikaru Sulu, Shore Leave (STOS s1e15)
"Radio does at it should; ghostly transmissions are taking you further away."
-Eltro, Lady of the Highway
It is bad enough when important decisions are being made, and there are no adults in the room. But when The Oval Office is such a room...
"Universal law is for lackeys; context is for kings."
- Star Trek Discovery (s1e3)
"I'm standing in a hallway, waiting to smell a call-girl. THIS is vibe appropriate."
-iZombie (s1e1)
"Paint can not eat, please put it far away from children, make sure they can't get it."
-DUY Oil Painting, Cute Frog paint by numbers kit
"All that matters in a relationship is that you like the same pizza toppings."
-Daria (s5e2)
"Don't parse the blurb."
-Wonderfalls
(s1e3)
"Now. Have any Soviets had access to your rectum?"
-(Emma Stone character) Maniac (s1e9)
"From the stars came the ground. From the ground we stood. To the ground we return. Here at the center of our lives, we carry our beloved dead. We honor their breath, which fills our lungs. We honor their blood, which fills our hearts. We honor their bodies, which fuel our own."
-Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few
Nobody knows that they are delusional. That is the point.
"... is a jackass! He spends so much time in your jail, he has his own pillow!"
- Eureka (s4e2)
"Where's your sense of compassion? Can't you just have her deported?"
-J. Tyler, Wonderfalls (s1e8)
Physical reality does not care what you feel or want or believe. It is what it is. Don't delude yourself into thinking anything else.
"There's an old saying in zero-gee space travel. If you ever see a piece of chocolate floating around the cabin, don't eat it; it's probably not chocolate."
-Stuart Gibbs, Moon Base Alpha
"Always take precautions, especially when you don't know what you're doing."
-The Doctor, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (s11e10)
"I have been prepared for the realities of space travel since I was nine years old and sitting in a planetarium."
-Marista Yale, First Contact (STNG s4e15)
"With enough know-how, you can even order replacement parts and fix it yourself."
"Everything changes. People don't like that."
-Peter F. Hamilton, The Naked God
"You have had enough injections."
-Klyden, The Orville (s2e2 Primal Urges)
"I attended an institution of higher learning in the ruins of a once-great country."
-Samuel R. Delany, Nova
How about that!? Me too! :)
"Give me a sandwich and a douchebag, and there's nothing I can't accomplish!"
-Harry Shearer, Saturday Night Live (season 1)
"Activity suggests a life filled with purpose."
-Captain von Trapp, The Sound of Music (1965)
"You telling me I can't shoot Russians when they invade Florida!?"
-Burt Reynolds (as an aging Cold War spy), Burn Notice (s4e8)
"What's that, a spider or a DOG!?"
-Dax, STDS9 (s2e3)
"On March 13, 2019, the FAA became the last authority to ground the aircraft, reversing its previous stance that the [737] MAX was safe to fly."
-Wikipedia, List of accidents and incidents involving the Boeing 737
"I'd rather be miserable than stupid."
-Neal Stephensen, Seveneves
There is nothing worse for "us" than being stuck somewhere with nothing to read, or at least an instrument to play.
There's no such thing as the Ňright endÓ of a firing squad. There is just bad and terminal.
"All I ask is a tall ship... and a load of contraband to fill it with."
-Quark, Deep Space Nine (s4e7 - Little Green Men)
"My philosophy is, when in doubt tell the truth."
-Captain Grayson, The Orville (s3e14 Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)
Never ever have sex in a Ferengi holosuite!
"Okay. Have it your way. First we'll shed blood, then we'll feast. (Jadzea)
As it should be. (Worf)"
-Deep Space Nine s6e1
"Violence never settles anything. Ghengis Khan, 1162-1227"
-Robert Anson Heinlein (my other grandfather whom I never met), Cat Who Walks Through Walls, the (A Comedy of Manners)
"Lesson number one: no one engaged in extra-legal activity thinks of himself as nefarious."
-Quark, The Sound of Her Voice (DS-9 s6e25)
"I am a discarded popsicle stick on the sidewalk of intellectual discourse."
-Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera
"This is the way I feel, through no fault of my own. I don't see any reason why I should have to cheer up, for anyone else's benefit."
"Get the cheese to sickbay; the doctor should look at it as soon as possible."
-Belana Torres, Star Trek Voyager (s1e15)
"If I had known it was harmless, I would have killed it myself."
-Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Ignorance is not anyone's civic duty. Education IS national defense. Our enemies certainly value education. Willfully ignorant loudmouths and bigots did not put twelve Americans on the moon, and return them safely to earth, nor did they win World War 2. Greed and its subversion of American democracy DID cause the Great Depression. Think before you vote, or abstain. Ideology is for puppets.
"Welcome..., gloried defender. You are brightly greeted!"
-Star Trek Voyager, Nemesis (s4e4)
"I am going to enter the force field now. I am a hologram, so I cannot be bent, spindled, or mutilated, so please don't bother trying."
-the EMH, Star Trek Voyager, Prey (s4e16)
"It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, when you want to go exploring."
-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"They ain't half way bright enough to do it without us."
-Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
"God does not play games with the universe." -The Archangel Gabriel
"Where've YOU been?" -The Demon Crowley, Good Omens (s1e6)
"She's promised to a pig farmer with a very big rake."
-Tom Paris, Voyager (s6e7 - Fair Haven)
"Why would people rather be famous for being shit, than not be famous at all? When did that start?"
- Sky1, After Life (s1e2)
"It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities!"
-Albus Dumbeldore, The Chamber of Secrets (JK Rowling)
"Times have changed since nine-eleven, Honey. You can't just drive a corpse onto a runway and throw it into a jet engine anymore."
-Joel, Santa Clarita Diet (s3e7)
"Time is making fools of us again."
-JK Rowling, (Albus Dumbledore) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyam, in the Eleventh or Twelfth Century
"I once had a dream that Neil deGrasse Tyson called me an asshole, and I couldn't sleep for a week."
-Eric Bemis, Santa Clarita Diet (s3e8)
"And to think: I used to associate Holland with tulips."
-Simon, The Inbetweeners (s3e4)
"Never come between a boy and his snake."
-Alan Dean Foster, For Love of Mother Not
"His butt keeps getting bigger so there's plenty there to kiss!"
-Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away (frog supervisor)
"The artifact refused to enter The Teacher."
-Alan Dean Foster, End of the Matter
"The river tells no lies, though standing on the shore, the dishonest man still hears them."
-Oma DeSala, Keb
"Wisdom lies between haste and torpor."
-Alan Dean Foster, Sliding Scales
"Might I move about?"
-Bailey Quarters, A Simple Little Wedding (WKRP s3e19)
"Remember how much fun World War Two was?"
-Johnny Fever, Dr. Fever and Mr. Tide (WKRP s3e13-14)
"I hate him, but he's my best friend."
-Les Nesman, The Painting (WKRP s3e9)
"In the abrogation of rightness, only anarchy wins."
-Alan Dean Foster, Flinx Transcendent
"My sense of the passage of time diminishes with it."
-me
"A Newsman is always fully cocked."
-Les Nessman, Straight from the Heart
( WKRP s4e5)
"You wander into sim an hour late, just reekin' of booze and pussy."
-Apollo X Commander, For all Mankind (s1e2)
"Don't be defeatist; a problem is just a solution... without a solution."
-the flack, Avenue 5 (s1e2)
"This wasn't the first time today that my student had tried to kill me... and it was only 8:45 in the morning!"
-Alex Stone, CFI
"Fear is an incompetent teacher."
-Picard, Star Trek Picard
(s1e10)
"What's the use of living forever if you're all alone on a Sunday?"
-Ernie Fontaine, Lodge 49 (s1e4 Sunday)
"Trees are just hairs on the scalp of the earth; and we are just lice crawling through them."
-Murray, Logde 49 (s2e3 DisOrientation)
"Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told
Get out of the road
if you want to grow old."
-Roger Waters, Sheep
Pink Floyd, Animals (album)
"I'd say crucifixion is grounds for divorce."
-Liz Dudley, Lodge 49 (s2e5 Estrella y Mar)
"The past is a foreign country."
-L. P. Hartley, The Go-between
"Trust me; you want to get good and ripped for an evening with the Burroughs!"
-roomy [Rob Lowe], Class (1983)
... god I LOVED that Porsche!
"Being a celebrity is pretty much like having a 'fast pass' to whatever you want to do in life."
-Kevin Pearoson, This Is Us (s4e15)
"Command and compassion is a fool's mixture."
-Lt. Gary Mitchell, Star Trek (original series s1e3 Where No Man Has Gone Before)
"This isn't 1945; the Germans are the good guys, now! More than we are, now."
-unknown
"Change is part of nature... and I am not."
-teacher, Tales from the Loop (s1e8 Home)
"For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Behold! As a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work!"
-Gurney Haleck (Patrick Stewart), Dune (David Lynch film version)
"Captain! Take cover! There's a samurai after me!"
-Lietenant Hikaru Sulu, Shore Leave (STOS s1e15)
"A drunken ball of 'weeeeee' headed toward them."
-Alexander C. Kane, The Corporation for Ultrahuman Protection
"... Edith Keillor must die."
-Spock, City on the Edge of Forever (STOS s1e28)
"Your logic is impeccable, Captain; we are in grave danger."
-CDR Spock, The Changeling (STOS s2e3)
"I'm a contrarian by necessity, not by choice. If people were wrong less often, my life would be MUCH easier."
-Raymond Reddington, The Blacklist (s7e13)
"I do not know that reference; therefore, it is of no importance."
-Korob, Cat's Paw (STOS s2e7)
Like any "good", modern Republican...
"Nothing better than being prime crew on any spaceship."
-Douglas Gerald Hurley, Marine Aviator Astronaut
27 MAY 2020, from KSC, LC-39A
"scrubbed" by Tropical Storm Bertha
"Shut up, Stella!"
-Harcourt Fenton Mudd, I, Mudd! (STOS s2e8)
"Captain, a bit more alacrity, if you please."
-Spock, Catspaw
(STOS s2e7)
"My blood burns, T'pau. My eyes are flame!"
-Spock, Amok Time
(STOS s2e1)
"George is out back, killing the beaver."
-Susan Fancisco, Alien Nation (s1e1)
"... your futile lecherous pawings at the chastity of the English language..."
-Ward Moore, Greener than You Think (the editor to Albert Wiener)
"I'm in command, Bones; it makes it my fault!"
-James Tiberius Kirk, Metamorphosis (STOS s2e9)
"Mr. Scott, there was no deity involved! It was my cross-circuiting to B that saved them!"
-Spock, Obesssion (STOS s2e13 - the marijuana metaphor episode3)
"Masturbation is the sincerest form of flattery."
-Isabelle Sieb, Three Women Wait for Death
"I prefer to think of myself at sixty-six percent NOT body fat!"
-client, Andy Barker, P. I. (s1e2, Fairway, My Dear)
"Don't look at the camera... like you're fighting!"
-Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now
"Courtesy is for everyone."
-Captain James Tiberius Kirk, Elaan of Troyius Star Trek (original series s3e13)
"I don't want to know the straight boy or gay girl who does not want to fuck Amy Poehler! She is such a sexy, little Westie! I bet there are gay boys who, if they were to fuck a girl, would want it to be her."
"If you prick me, do I not... leak?"
-Lieutenant Commander Data, The Naked Now (STNG s1e3)
"You're always calling people cunts and twats, but I do not see how that is an insult. They are flexible. They take a pounding. And they are like the reason for ninety-eight percent of my life decisions."
-innocent, The Innocents (Boys s1e6)
"Today, you four almost got yourselves killed at a thank you dinner!"
-the captain, Veritas (STLD s1e8)
"Love: a urine mirage in a desert of fear"
-Jack (in his fake German accent), Episode 210 (30 Rock s2e10)
"Book. Name's Book."
-Shepherd Book (Firefly s1e1)
courier (STD s3e1)
"Traveler: As long as she thinks she's alive, she's alive.
Riker: What the hell does THAT mean!?"
-Remember Me (Star Trek Next Generation STNG s4e5)
"Your emotional spectrum runs from cranky to homicidal!"
-Michael Bernam, Scavengers (STD s3e6)
"... with the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate..."
-Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"I am just a meter maid and you are just a dumbass redneck. That's who we are."
-person, Roxy (Dead Like Me s1e9 Sunday Mornings)
"You know, when you're young like you are, Millie, it's easy. Man, woman, bottom, top: sex is this big buffet, and you're just a fat man with a fork, but as you get older, it's harder to get a fork."
-Delores Herbig (as in her big brown eyes), Rights of Passage (Dead Like Me s2e7)
"Love is timeless, transcending everything we know, everything we understand, and giving us strength and comfort forever. What is past is now present, and what is present will become our future. That is what love is, never ending."
-Henry Deacon, I Do Over (Eureka s3e4)
"Fortune favors the bold, but not when they are out of gas and bullets."
-Victor "Pug" Henry, War and Remembrance (Herman Wouk)
"... and not one second wasted will come back."
-Unknown, because I stupidly failed to write down the source!
"Books are for prisoners."
-Erik Foreman, Prank Day (That 70s Show s4e21)
"... at Ford, where quality is job [n]one."
-Ford Motor Company
"What is the going rate for a pink battle cruiser?"
-Alien Night on Union Station (EM Foner)
"My Hovercraft is full of eels."
-English Hungarian phrase translation book (Monty Python)
"It's rectangular, just like everyone else's ."
-Les Nessman, (WKRP s1e10)
"You're going to love it in Amarillo."
-Johnny Fever, (WKRP s1e1)
"You don't do the right thing because it always works out. You do the right thing because it is the right thing to do."
-preacher, Now You're Gonna Pay (Cobra Kai s3e3)
"Sonic death-ray... it didn't have any effect on the neighborhood kids, but it pissed off the dog something fierce!"
-Sheldon Cooper's mom, The Luminous Fish Effect (Big Band Theory s1e4)
"A dogapus can play fetch with eight balls; no one can hate that."
-Sheldon Cooper, The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification (Big Bang Theory s4e2)
"Itis a [commander's] job to think of things to worry about, and then worry about them."
-Murray Leinster, First Contact (1945)
"I canceled my death for you. I was really looking forward to it."
-indigenous patient, The Quickening (Deep Space Nine s4e23)
"God is asleep at the wheel and humanity is locked in the trunk."
-April Kepner, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Grey's Anatomy s14e12)
"Hear all. Trust nothing."
-190th Rule of Acquisition, Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (DS-9)
"What are the other five trials?
Blood. Pain. Sacrifice. Anguish and death.
Sounds like marriage alright.
"
-You are Cordially Invited (DS-9 s6e7)
"I killed it and now I'm going to eat it. If you do not want any, [then] have some more field rations."
-Worf, Penumbra (Deep Space Nine s7e17)
"Nobody should die on an empty stomach."
-Mila, What You Leave Behind (DS-9 s7e25)
"Collaborators should never be trusted, not by either side."
"These people are natural born idiots, if you ask me!"
-Nelix, The Cloud (Voyager s1e5)
"Meet the Gom Jibar of House Atreides."
-Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam., Dune (show s?e?Frank Herbert
"I remember this time. I lived in this time, and it's hard to not want to be a part of it again."
-Jadzea Dax, Trials and Tribbleations (DS-9 s5e6)
It occurs to me that I can never really relate to a generation of boys who refer to their "equipment" as "junk"". I would NEVER have considered nor referred to it as junk, even at that age. I was was, as you may recall, quite proud of mine, and my facility with it.
"The Botswana people use the term botho to describe a person who has a well-rounded character, who is well-mannered, courteous and disciplined, and realises his or her full potential both as an individual and as a part of the community to which he or she belongs."
-Scott Bruce DeSelle, FFTLOB (unknown original source)
"Downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew."
-11.22.63 (Stephen King)
"Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe."
-Tuvok Alter Ego (Voyageur s3e14)
"In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, 'Here begins a new life'."
-Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova
"In [eighty-eight] I was twenty-one, and I called the road my own. I don't know when it turned onto this road I'm on."
-Jackson Browne, Running on Empty (year changed to suit my own age)
"A good lie is easier to believe than the truth."
-Janeway, Shattered (Voyager s7e10)
"In the movies salvation is cheap. So is innocence. You pay a quarter and a quarter's worth is just what you get. Real life costs more and most of the answers are different."
-Paul, The Green Mile (Stephen King)
"Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter."
-Stephen King, Duma Key (2008)
"We fool ourselves so much, we could do it for a living."
-Stephen King, Duma Key (2008)
"It's 1974 and there's all the time in the world."
-Stephen King, Under the Dome (2009)
"There are twenty-five olives in a martini squadron."
-James Salter, The Hunters (1956)
"Led Zeppelin II has a base line I can't believe. This baseline walks and talks, and stands up to look you in the eye. This is a baseline that will steal your fucking car." (unknown)
"Don't confront me with my failures; I have not forgotten them."
-Jackson Browne, These Days (1967)
"Be careful what you wish for; you may receive it."
-W. W. Jacobs
"Turn off your phone, or I will melt it into something useful, like a chess piece or a scrunchie."
- Welcome Back, Mr. Brown (Upload s2e1)
"Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance."
-Merlin, The Once and Future King (T. H. White)
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov, My Own View (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, 1978)
"This country goes three thousand miles west, now. It goes 'way out beyond Kansas, and beyond the Great American Desert, over mountains bigger than these mountains, and down to the Pacific Ocean. It's the biggest country in the world, and it was farmers who took all that country and made it America, son. Don't you ever forget that."
-Charles, Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
"I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph."
- Refusing Heaven (Jack Gilbert)
"If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, how long does it take a monkey with a wooden leg to kick the seeds out of a dill pickle?"
-Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Tom Robbins)
"We're suppose to be Space Rangers; we're supposed to matter!"
-Buzz, Lightyear (2022)
"I'm not a woman, hoping to overhear secrets."
-Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
"bulshytt ...Technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said. ... It is inherent in the mentality of extramuros bulshytt-talkers that they are more prone than anyone else to taking offense (or pretending to) when their bulshytt is pointed out to them. ... One is forced either to use this "offensive" word and be deemed a disagreeable person and as such excluded from polite discourse, or to say the same thing in a different way, which means becoming a purveyor of bulshytt oneself.... The latter quality probably explains the uncanny stability and resiliency of bulshytt."
-Dictionary (4ed.), Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
"My dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness."
-Ishmael, Herman Melville (Moby Dick aka. The Whale)
"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."
-Edgar Allan Poe, The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether
"What kind of dystopian hellscape is this?"
-Wednesday Addams, Woe What a Night (Wednesday s1e4)
"No be there."
-Miyagisan
"Sometimes I cry. Sometimes I fly, like a bird."
-Boz Scaggs, Fly Like a Bird (Some Change)
"Your logic is impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger."
-Spock, The Changeling (Star Trek [original series] s2e3)
"I sang them a few verses of the four letter serenade."
-Col. Sherman T. Potter, The Moon is not Blue (M.A.S.H. s11e8)
"Engineers turn dreams into reality."
-person, The Wind Rises (Hiao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli)
"We can't leave. We're playing Campaign for North Africa." (Sheldon)
"She doesn't want to play that."" (Amy)
"Neither did the Egyptians, but that didn't stop Rommel!" (Sheldon)
-Sheldon Cooper, PhD, The Neonatal Nomenclature (Big Bang Theory s11e16)
"You don't like me. No problem; I have many friends who don't like me."
-Brull, Vengeance Factor, the (STNG s3e9)
Henry - "Methinks I could not die anywhere
so contented as in the King's company, his
cause being just and his quarrel honorable."
Williams - "That's more than we know."
Bates - "Ay, or more than we should seek after, for we
know enough if we know we are the King's subjects.
If his cause be wrong, our obedience to the
King wipes the crime of it out of us."
-William Shakespear, Henry V (Act 4, Scene 1)
The soldiers' service is honorable, regardless of whether they were sent by civilians with worthy and honest goals. The blame for unworthy battle lies with the duly elected officials and voters who sent them.
"Your blood will paint the way to the future."
-Gowron, Redemption (STNG s4e26)
"Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals."
- (Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, 1969)
"Why am I the only one reading the map?"
"You're the only one holding the map."
"Don't get all philosophical on me."
- Batter Up (A League of Their Own s1e1)
"It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.
-Barbie, Barbie (2023)
"How well do you take dictation?"
"I don't know; I've always lived in a democracy."
-Bobbye Starr, Ah Love, Could You and I Conspire (Flying Nun s1e9, 1967)
"It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance."
-Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars
"No one's gloomy or complaining
While the flatware's entertaining!"
-Lumiere (Jerry Orbach), Be Our Guest Disney (Beauty and the Beast)
"Don't tell me what my country means to me."
-Jim Boyd, My Heart Drops, But I'm Proud (Greatest Hits)
"I describe my penis like a Volvo automobile - solid, sturdy, dependable, but not going to turn any heads."
-Lars Erickssong (Will Ferrell), Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
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"Feminism won't power the generator, Zoey.
-Pancake Rage (Class of '07 s1e2)
"I aint about to leave some poor little child stranded in the middle of nowhere! I got scruples too, you know! You know what that is? Scruples?
"No, I don't know what it is, but if you got 'em, you can sure bet they belong to somebody else."
-Ryan & Tatum O'Neal, respectively, Paper Moon (1973)
"There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists"
-Yellowstone Park Ranger on why it is hard to design a bear-proof garbage can (8 JUN 2020)
"We are caught in the Devil's Bargain and we've got to get back to the garden."
-Joni Mitchell, Woodstock (1970)
"It howled like a lost baby dragon."
-Murray Leinster, Space Tug
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