| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/4/04 |
"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best." |
Tom Wolfe |
| 1/11/04 |
"Gerry Ford is so dumb that he can't fart and chew gum at the same time." & "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it." |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1/18/04 |
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." |
Ashleigh Brillant |
| 1/25/04 |
"It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be." |
Alistair Sim |
| 2/1/04 |
"Listen you son of a bitch, life isn't always... a football game! You won�t always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss." |
Frederick Exely |
| 2/8/04 |
"Twenty years from now, I can look at this medal and say, "I was the best quarter- miler in the world on that day." If you don�t think that's important, you don't know what's inside an athlete's soul." |
Vince Mathews |
| 2/15/04 |
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." |
Noel Coward |
| 2/22/04 |
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." |
Emiliano Zapata |
| 2/29/04 |
"Things are always at their best in the beginning." |
Blaise Pascal |
| 3/7/04 |
"The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk." |
Alben Barkley |
| 3/14/04 |
"I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be." |
John Betjeman |
| 3/21/04 |
"Listen, dear, you couldn't write fuck on a dusty Venetian blind." |
Coral Browne |
| 3/28/04 |
"The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable." |
Irving Howe |
| 4/4/04 |
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." |
Herm Albright |
| 4/11/04 |
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." |
H.L. Mencken |
| 4/18/04 |
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised." |
George F. Will |
| 4/25/04 |
"The TV business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| 5/2/04 |
"Fuck 'em and feed 'em beans." |
Sue Bogner |
| 5/9/04 |
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English." |
Winston Churchill |
| 5/16/04 |
"I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it." |
Jean Paul Sartre |
| 5/23/04 |
"The key to this whole business is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you�ve got it made." |
Monte Clark |
| 5/30/04 |
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." |
Charles De Gaulle |
| 6/6/04 |
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it." |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 6/13/04 |
"There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he�s absolutely free to choose." |
William M. Bulgar |
| 6/20/04 |
"I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex." |
David Lodge |
| 6/27/04 |
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." |
Abraham Maslow |
| 7/4/04 |
"What we play is life." |
Louis Armstrong |
| 7/11/04 |
"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." |
Winston Churchill |
| 7/18/04 |
"If you need one yard, I�ll get you three. If you need five yards, I�ll get you three." |
Leroy Hoard |
| 7/25/04 |
"Love is friendship plus sex." |
Havelock Ellis |
| 8/1/04 |
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." |
Benjamin Disraeli |
| 8/8/04 |
"I don�t know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while." |
Max Eastman |
| 8/15/04 |
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." |
William Dement |
| 8/22/04 |
"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false." |
Paul Johnson |
| 8/29/04 |
"Life is made up of marble and mud." |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 9/5/04 |
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together." |
Anais Nin |
| 9/12/04 |
"Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company." |
Hannah Arendt |
| 9/19/04 |
"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself." |
Doug Larson |
| 9/26/04 |
"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." |
Garrison Keillor |
| 10/3/04 |
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." |
Evelyn Waugh |
| 10/10/04 |
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs." |
John Osborne |
| 10/17/04 |
"The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation." |
Jonathan Larson Rent |
| 10/24/04 |
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one get successfully through many a bad night." |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 10/31/04 |
"Whenever I look inside myself I am afraid." |
C.E.M. Joad |
| 11/7/04 |
"I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this." |
Damien Hirst |
| 11/14/04 |
"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running." |
Gene Fowler |
| 11/21/04 |
"What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not." |
James Q. Wilson |
| 11/28/04 |
"I just pick it up and throw it. He hit it. They scored. We didn't. That's it. It's over. It's history. OK?" |
Vida Blue |
| 12/5/04 |
"One is easily fooled by that which he loves." |
Moliere |
| 12/12/04 |
"Loneliness... is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man." |
Thomas Wolfe |
| 12/19/04 |
"Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away." |
Alberto Giacometti |
| 12/26/04 |
"If this is dying, then I don�t think much of it." |
Lytton Strachey |
