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"Regardless of what one's position is on the morality or constitutionality of the death penalty, all Americans would agree that if we are going to continue executing people, we should be doing it fairly and rationally, not 'wantonly' or 'freakishly'." -- ACLU Web Page: Execution Watch
"It's your basic alien background and texture website." -- on Alien Texture's, a clip art site
Dorry Ann Altman, future roommate:
"When you get too jiggy with the typewriter, things go wrong."
"Whatever you did, why the hell did you do it?"
"I, however, am a Marxist, and as a Marxist, I believe in Marxism." -- anonymous Core participant
"Anyway, I'm mad. I know this as a fact
because him in the Post Office said I was." -- Simon Armitage
"The suave and polished Felix Mendelssohn, on the other hand, found his French colleague merely exasperating, and he continually reproached Berlioz because, with all his strenuous efforts to go stark raving mad, he never once really succeeded." -- Arts and Ideas
Bernardo Atxaga, author of El hombre solo:
"In some spot, perhaps in the brain, perhaps in the blood or in the insides, there must be a substance that produces illusions constantly."
"Revolution isn't set at the level of primary necessities, but at the next level, when those necessities have been satisfied. It is then that the commitment to a different world begins."
"It always provokes fewer suspicions when you travel with a grandmother."
"I thought the job was already done, but the son of a bitch of a swastika just would not give!" -- International Brigadier Bill Bailey on storming the Bremen
"There is no escape from yesterday, because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us." -- Samuel Beckett
Pat Boran, Irish poet:
"The best way to do this is like that."
"It helps if you're drunk or stoned or in love." -- on writing poetry
"Losing control a little bit, even in a conversation, is not a bad thing -- if you can live with the shame of it."
"You write better when you're lost than when you're found."
"There's an awful lot of dead bodies in the bottom drawer of poetry."
"I still wonder if writing is the greatest sin of all."
Jimmy Buffett, musician:
"Where it all ends, I can't fathom, my friends!" -- "Son of a Son of a Sailor"
"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane." -- "Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude"
"And so, returning to the Portrait of Madame Renoir, the picture has a second and deeper meaning beneath the apparent one, by which it becomes the image of an earth goddess while remaining the tender record of a young woman in a straw hat with a couple of roses pinned to it." -- John Canaday in an essay on art.
"In war, victory is the result of the successful organization of enthusiasm." -- Raymond Carr, Modern Spain, 1875-1980
"We women are a harp of two cords, sentiments and imagination. The difficult task of meditation was not made for us." -- Galician poet Rosalía de Castro
"A child is a seed -- plant it!" -- Colegio Portaceli "If you rub it vigorously with a penis, or touch it even with a little finger, semen swifter than air flies this way and that on account of the pleasure." -- Venetian scientist Renaldus Columbus, 1559, on the clitoris
"We are all Citizens of one world, we are all born of one blood. To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. ... Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity." -- Joann Amos Comenius
"Don't get sand in your boobie lighter." -- Heather Connor
"People that like to read are always a little fucked up." -- Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
"Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. As opposed to stupid, which is just plain f**king stupid." -- Crack-baby
Dr. Bob Curey: "You still haven't discovered you're the scum of the earth, eh?"
Dan M.: "I've discovered it; but I'm cool with it."
"The Republican party has long struggled to show its sensitive side." -- John F. Dickerson
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." -- Ecclesiastes 9:10
"Good God, he's buried here too??" -- an Englishwoman on seeing Oliver Cromwell's grave in Westminster Abbey
"The man knows his alphabet. You gotta know your alphabet!" -- English teacher Dave Enright
Evil J: "I'm broke, but I have a toothbrush."
Dr. Bob Curey: "Then you're not really broke."
Evil J: "They're right there!"
Dr. Bob Curey: "Well that doesn't mean they're right there!"
"To impose our culture, we need cannons." -- Felipe II
"Today I have won the Civil War for the second time." -- Gen. Francisco Franco on Eisenhower's visit to Spain in 1953
And: "Eisenhower is the Melanie Griffith of Franco." -- José Grillo on that same event
"O souls, why do you loot?" -- Franco propaganda film
"I'm sure oral sex is a lot less tiring." -- Chris Galik, my esteemed brother, on Academic Merit v. Oral Sex
"For such is the sandspan of the lifewich." -- Terry Galik on subs
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Truth, Doctor, is in the eye of the beholder. I never tell the truth, because I don't believe there is such a thing." -- Garak, Deep Space 9
"Men are shameless. If they're not thinking with their weiner, they're acting directly on its behalf." -- Good Will Hunting
Micheal Gorman, Irish poet and professor:
"These are the things that break your heart: the small, little things."
"Bloody is bloody in any language."
"To eat dinner alone is infinitely better than to eat dinner with arseholes."
José Grillo, politics professor:
"What you have, you are. If you don't have, you can't be." cynically
"We are not just what we are, but also what we were."
"The logic of a terrorist is a very strange logic." (on ETA)
"La economía es la economía y el centavo es el centavo; entonces la pena es la pena."
"The dictatorship is not a disease. It is a symptom of the disease."
"Africa is another continent."
Jen Groucutt, my once and future roommate:
"There is always logic in making a wish." -- on blowing dandelion clocks
"Besides all the things that did happen, nothing really happened."
"As long as things are bizarre, they at least make sense."
Encarna Guerrero, literature professor:
"The future is the future, and you never know."
"The end of capitalism is death. HA HA HA!"
"The people are never in the wrong; we make the mistakes and need to be corrected by them." -- Che Guevara
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