Saturday, April 30, 2011

Big junkyard (enough for 2 weeks)

"A witty saying proves nothing."
-- Voltaire
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve immortality through not dying."
 -- Woody Allen

"As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons."
 -- Dave Barry


"When you're swimming in the creek
And an eel bites your cheek,
That's a moray!"

 -- Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.


"A day without sunshine is like night."
 -- Unknown
"Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it".
 -- Oscar Wilde

"The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club.  Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding."
 -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

"NASA should not be allowed to operate in a vacuum".
 -- Editorial, Aviation Week & Space Technology, 2/2/87

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
All these memories will be lost in time,
like tears in rain."

 -- Roy Baty, Blade Runner

"I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you."
 -- Unknown.

"There are still places where people think that the function of the media is to provide information."
 -- Don Rottenberg

"Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it.  Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased."
 --Samuel Johnson

"I'm Buh-ish, which is a cross between Buhdist and Jewish. That's where you sit and wait for things to go on sale."
 --Robin Williams

"Hypocrisy is the Vaseline of social intercourse."
 -- Unknown

"The difference between theory and practice is always greater in practice than in theory."
 -- Unknown
 
"In theory, theory and practice are the same thing, but in practice they're not."
-- Unknown

"Definition of a hermaphrodite: a bisexual built for two."
 -- Jeff Daiell
"All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head."
 -- Thomas Alva Edison

"It is up to us to produce better-quality movies."
 -- Lloyd Kaufman, producer of _Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator_

"Gosh, math is hard!"
 -- Talking Barbie

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
 -- Unknown

"Style distinguishes excellence from accomplishment"
 -- J. Coplien

"You may buy from me in your own language, but sell to me in mine."
 --Willy Brandt

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