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THE QUOTES UNLIMITED ARCHIVE #12



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"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milkbar." -- Arthur Koestler (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." -- Sir Alfred Hitchcock (via yoyo.com)

"I'm the King of Jugoslavia." -- Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) in KING CREOLE

"I can't go straight home 'cause the road's crooked." -- Linton Garner

"The mome rath hasn't been born that could outgrabe me." -- Nicol Williamson (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"Adolescent boys sense weakness in a teacher and go for it like piranhas sporting in offal." -- Will Self in "The Indian Mutiny" in GREY AREA

"We make art for our enemies." -- author unknown

"Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music." -- Ezra Pound (via David Breedon in the INKLINGS email newsletter)

"She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious." -- W. Somerset Maugham (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"Go, and never darken my towels again." -- Groucho Marx (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing." -- Clive James (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"i'm only as deep as the self I dig." -- brandy illges

"Being unwanted is the worst disease a human can experience." -- Mother Theresa

"My life is an endless purgatory, interrupted by moments of profound misery." -- Richard (Malcolm Gets) on CAROLINE IN THE CITY (via Kim Wroe)

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." -- Anna Freud (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"If they give you lined paper, write the other way." -- William Carlos Williams (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded." -- Princess Diana

"The Web is a million miles wide and about an inch deep." -- Peter Robinson (via CBC Radio 1)

"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" -- Dame Edith Evans (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"Don't believe everything you hear, and only half of what you see." -- Buttons (Jimmy Stewart) in THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson (via John Irving)

"To tell you the truth, I'm not all that interested in religion, and between you and me, I don't think God is either." -- Michael McCarthy, a formerly unnamed Irish Catholic priest (via Jerry Aherne)

"Apologies of the season." -- Archibald Mumbull

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." -- Timothy Leary (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"When will I be able to go into a supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?" -- Allen Ginsberg in AMERICA (via Jamie Reid)

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you." -- Lady Nancy Witcher Langhorn Astor (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"Remember, do the right drugs and the right people." -- a woman waiting for the SkyTrain in Vancouver, BC

"It took me years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous." -- Robert Benchley (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"Writing is like playing a dart game with the lights out so that the writer has no way of knowing whether his darts are coming anywhere near the bull's-eye or are missing the board completely." --W.O. Mitchell

"There's nothing in the rules that says I can't hit people out there just because they're bigger." -- Theoren Fleury

"Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my pants." -- author unknown (via SHAWN)

"One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of this argument and never scrape against a fact." -- David Houston (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)

"i can't afford to be wasting my time making money." -- Natalie Kees (via Julie Sandberg)

"God gave men brains larger than dogs to they wouldn't hump women's legs at cocktail parties." -- from HACKERS (via Paul S. Cannon)

"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it." -- George Bernard Shaw (via Steve Miller/TEN QUOTES)


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