"The most basic rule of survival in any situation is: Never look like food." -- an unknown park ranger (via Steve Miller/Ten Quotes)
"Never mistake motion for action." -- Ernest Hemingway
"It costs a fortune to look this trashy." -- Bono (via US Magazine)
"When you're trying to make an impression, the chances are THAT is the impression you will make." -- author unknown
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead." -- Stan Laurel (via "CRUELSHOES")
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe." -- Kurt Vonnegut (as Eugene Debs Hartke) in HOCUS POCUS
"A transparent bridge across
the elbow of a dead duck
beckons, friends, like a boiled
radio station
toward a better understanding
of yourself in these crisis-ridden
times."
-- Richard Brautgian, from ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT
"If greed were a fever, all of the world would be ill." -- Chin Ho Kelly (Kam Fong) on HAWAII 5-0
"For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off." -- Johnny Carson (via Steve Miller/Ten Quotes)
"Too much of a good thing is wonderful." -- Mae West
"There's no mudget left in the bunny!" -- Laird Campbell
"If one understands by democracy the effective exercise of power by a population which is neither divided nor hierarchically ordered in classes, it is quite clear that we are very far from a democracy." -- Michel Foucault
SATTINGER'S LAW: It works better if you plug it in.
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein
"I've never seen so much coffee in all my life." -- Bette Midler, commenting on Vancouver (via THE 1996 VANCOUVER BOOK)
"You people all whine too much, and the coffee's bad." -- Hank Hill on KING OF THE HILL
"I'm the leper with the most fingers." -- Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) in THE TWO JAKES
"There's one thing to be said about inviting trouble: it generally accepts." -- May Maloo (via Steve Miller/Ten Quotes)
"Loutishness is always easy, and there can be few things more loutish than to turn, at the end of a long training, and sneer at those who are just entering into it and who, harassed and insecure, are making the inevitable mistakes." -- Raymond Williams, from CULTURE AND SOCIETY 1780-1950
"Have you ever felt like a wounded cow
halfway between an oven and a pasture?
walking in a trance toward a pregnant
seventeen-year-old housewife's
two-day-old cookbook?"
-- Richard Brautigan, from ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT
