Quotes

 

I have many quotes that I find true or just plain strange. As I find more, they will be posted. If you have some you would like to see, e-mail them to me.

I don't need a girlfriend. Tech. screws me everyday. -Anonymous (Sign on door at my old college)

Life is at times tedious and boring, but then there are those rare few moments that make the whole thing worthwhile. -Unknown

Every generation needs a new revolution. -Thomas Jefferson

Politics is not about left, right and center. It is about speaking to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives. -Sen. Paul Wellstone

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash. -Sigmund Freud

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat. -Will Rogers

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. -Nietzsche

We need help, the Poet reckoned. -Edward Dorn.

Love thy neighbor, yet do not tear down your fence. -Benjamin Franklin.

People voting Republican, give them a boot to the head. -Doctor Demento

Kind of makes you wonder why they call them intelligence. -The movie Navy Seals

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man. - Joubert

Reception area, n.: The purgatory where office visitors are condemned to spend innumerable hours reading dog-eared back issues of trade magazines like Modern Plastics, Chain Saw Age, and Chicken World, while the receptionist blithely reads her own trade magazine -- Cosmopolitan.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein

First things first, not necessarily in that order. -Anonymous

I've got a hole in me pocket. -Ringo Starr, Yellow Submarine (the movie, not the album)

Time is on my side...yes it is. -Rolling Stones

Pain is temporary, chicks dig scars, but glory lasts forever. Kick butt on three. -Shane Falco, the Replacements

Since success is measured by happiness, by pissing you off I become that much more successful compared than you. -Anonymous

I have a new philosophy. I only dread one day at a time. -Charles Schulz

You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much bandwidth. - Wall Street Journal

Linux is a high-tech alternative to Legos. - Unknown, discussing the open-source nature of Linux

Living CD-free is a sensible choice for anyone on a student budget, bunking in a room with three other people. Add a free T1 line to the mix, and you're in MP3 heaven. -John Flansburgh, They Might Be Giants

Music should never be harmless. -Robbie Robertson, The Band

Aristotle once said a play should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. But what did he know? Today, a play must have a first half, a second half, and a station break. -Alfred Hitchcock

...It's almost a scientiific impossibility for bureaucracies to be inventive. They cannot. It's against their nature. -Robert Greenwald

You can tell the ideals of a society by its advertisements. -Normal Douglas

Since crowds do not reason, they can only be organized and stimulated through symbols and phrases. -Ivy Lee

I get in a lot of trouble if I'm quoted, especially if the quotes are accurate. -A Congressional staff person explaining why he can only speak "off the record"

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. -Zora Neale Hurston

My idea of a good time is using jargon and citing authorities. -Matt Groening

If people knew what this stuff was about, we'd probably all get arrested. -Bob Dylan

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks for the coffin. -H. L. Mencken

If I had any humility, I would be perfect. –Ted Turner

I can walk down the street, there's no one there, Though the pavements are one huge crowd.

I can drive down the road; my eyes don't see, Though my mind wants to cry out loud. –Eric Clapton

Don't get off the fucking boat. -Chef, Apocalypse Now

I got a job waitin’ for my graduation, 50 thou a year will buy a lot of beer. –Timbuk3

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. -Josef Stalin

Stop repeat offenders, don’t reelect them. –Bumper sticker

It's gettin' dark, too dark to see, I feel I'm knockin' on heaven's door –Bob Dylan

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