Famous Quotes...
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous
and give the wrong answers.
-- A Bit of Fry and Laurie
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain,
involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The
hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": 1. fighting; 2. fleeing;
3. feeding; and 4. mating.
-- Psychology professor in
neuropsychology intro course
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the
unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness,
The New York Times, 1960
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the
constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who
continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
-- Ransom K. Ferm
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench
to pound in the correct screw.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, "Why does it work?"
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, "How does it work?"
The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, "How much will it
cost?"
The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, "Do you want fries
with that?"
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had
years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet,
make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
-- Dave Barry
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom
that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that
sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot
stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit
down on a cold one anymore.
-- Mark Twain
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in
the streets?
-- Dick Cavett,
mocking the TV-violence debate
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving
an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life
without even considering if there are men on base.
-- Dave Barry
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your
triumphs or how tragic your defeats, approximately one billion
Chinese couldn't care less.
668: The Neighbor of the Beast
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones
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,
Last Chance to See
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not
important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying
me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
-- Hunter S. Thompson's
Samoan Attorney
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist,
a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the
God the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't
believe?"
-- Quentin Crisp
Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between
two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the
imaginary rights of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary
I think that all right-thinking people in this country are sick
and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up
in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not!
But I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
-- George Carlin
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning
of which I disapprove.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less
confusing that way.
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you
think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1.
Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2. Advising the President.
3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.
-- David Letterman
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I
predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile
disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon whether
I embrace your principles or your mistress."
The most important thing in the programming language is the name.
A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently
invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable
language.
-- D. E. Knuth, 1967
Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but
they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots
in the world. Hobbes: Isn't your pants' zipper supposed to be in
the front?
On one occasion a student burst into his office. "Professor
Stigler, I don't believe I deserve this F you've given me." To
which Stigler replied, "I agree, but unfortunately it is the
lowest grade the University will allow me to award."
Don't worry about temptation--as you grow older, it starts
avoiding you.
-- Old Farmer's Almanac
G: "If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
EB: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air
and scatter oneself over a wide area."
-- Somewhere in No Man's
Land, BA4
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
-- Salvador Dali
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to
anyone, but they've always worked for me.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
-- Mark Twain
Masturbation is nothing to be ashamed of. It's nothing to be
particularly proud of, either.
-- From "Basic Sex Facts For
Today's Youngfolk" in 'Life In Hell' by Matt Groening
"Time's fun when you're having flies."
-- Kermit the Frog
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone
wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than
one night."
-- Charlie Brown,
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