Quotations
When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
-Nietzsche
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put metal in the
microwave?
- Frasier Crane
"Cheers"
Only the little people pay taxes.
-Leona Helmsley
You can't have everything, where would you put it?
-Stephen Wright
I don't know why. You don't know why. Most likely god don't know why either. It's just government business, that's all.
-man-in-the-street interview
concerning Vietnam, circa 1967
If i don't get some shelter, oh, i'm gonna fade away.
-Mick Jagger
"Gimme Shelter"
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
-Stephen King
No live organism can continue for long to exist under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
-Shirley Jackson
"the Haunting of Hill House"
Excuses are like assholes, everybody's got one.
-O'Neil
"Platoon"
I'd rather be a failure in something that i love to do,
than be successful in something i hate.
-George Burns
It was a pleasure to burn.
-Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451"
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the
morning and goes to
bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
-Bob Dylan
Rejoice O young man in thy youth.
-Ecclesiastes
I'd do a cartwheel, but i think i have a mirf.
-some cheerleader
You can't be careful on a skateboard, man.
-some kid
Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.
-Montaigne
Today, 40,000 people will die from starvation.
-World Health Organization
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
-the Beatles
"Eleanor Rigby"
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year.
-Pink Floyd
"Wish You Were Here"
I'd rather go back in the dark with you, than go back in the light alone.
-Arcadia Haid
If at first you don't succeed, try and try again- then give up, there's no use being a damn fool about it.
-W.C.Fields
The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
-Aerosmith
Women - can't live with them, can't do most positions without them.
-Dan Fielding
"Night Court"
If you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with.
-Stephen Stills
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
It is the tale, not he who tells it.
-anonymous
It is better to be truthful and good, than to not.
-Steve Martin
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
One idea lights 1000 candles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees.
-Midnight Oil
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe
Adam was but human - this explains it all. he did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
-Mark Twain
We are hope despite the times.
-R.E.M.
Thanksgiving is like Christmas, only without presents.
-Jennifer Olson
You can never go too far.
-Ferris Bueller
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
-Bart Simpson
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it.
-Ferris Bueller
50 thou a year will buy alot of beer.
-Timbuk 3
[poor people] sometimes don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
-Tammy Faye Bakker
Elegant things: a pretty child eating strawberries.
-Sei Shonagon
"The Pillow Book"
Stephen Spielburg wrote the bible.
-Robbie Davis
Skinheads are bio-degradable.
-Steve Nielson
A happy face, a thumping bass, for a loving race.
-Soul II Soul
"Jazzie's Groove"
If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.
-John Cage
No business which depends for its existence on paying less
than living
wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living
wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a
decent living.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. and it always, at the end, came 'round to the same place again.
-Stephen King
"The Stand" pg1153
more to come.....