X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/quotes.git/blobdiff_plain/2e89563fee4dc8e93d9fc9a6ed913f6a2b3bc4b6..eb20b3f595c364d323c09b8b92c691609055ec0c:/.quotes/quotes diff --git a/.quotes/quotes b/.quotes/quotes index 684fe38..d4f852e 100644 --- a/.quotes/quotes +++ b/.quotes/quotes @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ darwinism is nothing without enough dead bodies. -- john h. schaar % "it is the customary fate of new truths - to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. + to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." -- thomas huxley % "however jewel-like the good will may be in its own right, there is @@ -1820,14 +1820,14 @@ some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all. blur as if all those grains of sand had lost their bearings and were falling all over each other just trying to get out of the way to make room for the next moment, or instant, or tick of the clock" --- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml) +-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt) % "for her, the dashed lines on the freeway were like grains of sand slipping, through an hour glass, ticking away the seconds, the minutes, and the hours of her life. if she got home a few minutes early on any given afternoon, it gave her a thrill as if she had stolen a little something back from death." --- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml) +-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt) % "health? what good is your health when you're otherwise an idiot?" -- theodor w. adorno @@ -1949,3 +1949,40 @@ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ % spooning leads to forking -- seen on a t-shirt by david & goliath +% +i don't want to get myself into a hot babe situation. + -- jonathan mcdowell, #debian-uk, 6 jul 2009 +% +no. no musicals. i loathe musicals. i never did have a plan for +doing one. my cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice. +i just hate them. they bore me stiff. i think they’re just horrible. +even _hair_. and they're always lousy music. +  -— john lennon, _the lost interviews_ by ray connolly +% +"politicians and diapers should be changed often, + and for the same reason." + -- mark twain +% +"a bank is an institution will to lend you money, + provided you can prove that you don't need it." + -- mark twain +% +"alles gackert, aber wer will noch still + auf dem nest sitzen um eier zu brüten?" + -- friedrich wilhelm nietzsche +% +takt ist der auf das benehmen angewandte gute geschmack. + -- nicolas de chamfort +% +"die ideen, für die wir bereit wären, durchs feuer zu gehen, + sind oft nur der grund, das feuer zu legen." + -- jeannine luczak +% +"as if you could kill time without injuring eternity." + -- henry david thoreau +% +if a man in a forest speaks his mind freely +and there is no woman to hear it +is he still wrong? +% +sent from my private jet.