When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? ~Chuck Palahniuk
To be dragged in the wake of the passive flock and to pass a hundred and one times beneath the shears of the shepherd, or to die alone like a brave eagle on a rocky crag of a great mountain: that is the dilemma. ~Praxedis Guerrero, RegeneraciOn, 18 February 1911
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ~Bertrand Russell
You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. ~Author Unknown
A wise man never loses anything if he have himself. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated
May your passion be the kernel of corn stuck between your molars, always reminding you there's something to tend to. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. ~Berke Breathed, Bloom County Babylon
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ~Ambrose Bierce
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. ~Ernestine Ulmer
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. ~Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. ~Marvin Minksy
I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. ~Tony Kushner, Angels in America
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. ~Francis Bacon
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. ~Mason Cooley
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus
Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. ~Jean Kerr
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva
Every man over forty is responsible for his face. ~Abraham Lincoln
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. ~Marianne Moore's definition of poetry, "Poetry," Collected Poems, 1951
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps. ~H.L. Mencken
Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~Pearl S. Buck
