| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/7/07 |
"Rock is very, very important and very, very ridiculous." |
Pete Townshend |
| 1/14/07 |
"Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it." |
Dale Carnegie |
| 1/21/07 |
"It takes an awful long time to not write a book." & "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." |
Douglas Adams |
| 1/28/07 |
"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit." |
Edward R. Murrow |
| 2/4/07 |
"It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so." |
Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2/11/07 |
"I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner." |
John Donne |
| 2/18/07 |
"Our present policy on human stem cells has been shaped by beliefs that are divorced from every reasonable intuition we might form about the possible experience of living systems." |
Sam Harris |
| 2/25/07 |
"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." |
George Carlin |
| 3/4/07 |
"Man has no right to kill his brother, it is no excuse that he does so in uniform. He only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder." |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 3/11/07 |
"Life is an incurable disease." |
Abraham Cowley |
| 3/18/07 |
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." |
James Baldwin |
| 3/25/07 |
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be." |
William Hazlitt |
| 4/1/07 |
"Whether or not you can be totally normal and play the guitar is under question." |
Steve Howe |
| 4/8/07 |
"Pleasure is always contingent upon change and disappears with continuous satisfaction." |
Nico Frijda |
| 4/15/07 |
"If you really want to disappoint your parents, and don't have the nerve to be gay, go into the arts." |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| 4/22/07 |
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." |
George Santayana |
| 4/29/07 |
"The difference between politics and baseball is that in baseball, when you get caught stealing, you're out." |
Ron Dentinger |
| 5/6/07 |
"Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." |
Will Rogers |
| 5/13/07 |
"Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man. He is sure to find an easy way of doing it." |
Walter Chrysler |
| 5/20/07 |
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing - they believe in anything." |
Emile Cammaerts |
| 5/27/07 |
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession." |
Albert Camus |
| 6/3/07 |
"I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife." |
Philip Larkin |
| 6/10/07 |
"After us, the deluge." |
Madame de Pompadour |
| 6/17/07 |
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish." |
Evelyn Waugh |
| 6/24/07 |
"Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes." |
Felix Marti-Ibanez |
| 7/1/07 |
"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest." |
Wilhelm Reich |
| 7/8/07 |
"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities." |
Matt Groening |
| 7/15/07 |
"Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth." |
Jay Cocks |
| 7/22/07 |
"The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking." |
Philip K. Dick |
| 7/29/07 |
"It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one." |
Lytton Strachey |
| 8/5/07 |
"Nothing lasts." |
Ken Kesey |
| 8/12/07 |
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it." |
Don Marquis |
| 8/19/07 |
"I shit on the chest of Fun." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| 8/26/07 |
"Masturbation takes the form of both self appreciation and self stimulation." |
Tony Buzan |
| 9/2/07 |
"The possible ranks higher than the actual." |
Martin Heidegger |
| 9/9/07 |
"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn." |
Leo Buscaglia |
| 9/16/07 |
"Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true." |
Ulysses S. Grant |
| 9/23/07 |
"We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals." |
Saul Bellow |
| 9/30/07 |
"I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities." |
Ambrose Bierce |
| 10/7/07 |
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." |
Mary Anne Evans |
| 10/14/07 |
"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It is beyond me." |
Zora Neale Hurston |
| 10/21/07 |
"Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense." |
Leo Rosten |
| 10/28/07 |
"Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened." |
Wilhelm Stekel |
| 11/4/07 |
"I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him." |
Galileo Galilei |
| 11/11/07 |
"Every moment of one�s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit." |
Norman Mailer |
| 11/18/07 |
"I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself." |
Tom Stoppard |
| 11/25/07 |
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself." |
Jimmy Carter |
| 12/2/07 |
"The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference." |
Ian Kershaw |
| 12/9/07 |
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers and nobody thinks of complaining." |
Jef Raskin |
| 12/16/07 |
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." |
Klaus Kinski |
