More Favorite Lines From Anything
"I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson 1800
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again." -- TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz" in the Marin Paper
"Tis better to have loved and lost...."
"than to have loved and gone on jerry springer and find out your wife used to be a guy." -- Two people in a Internet Chat
West of the Rockies is *West*
East of the Mississippi is *East*
...in-between is the deep, dark void of NatPackLand... -- Dianne on understanding the term West
"If you can't convince them, confuse them." -- Harry Truman
"It's a rash man who reaches a conclusion before he gets to it." -- Jacob Levin
"In the US today, you are innocent until appointed to a public position by the President." -- Ambassador William Crowe
"There is always an easy solution to every problem, neat, plausible, and wrong." -- HL Mencken
"To fly, we have to have resistance." -- Maya Lin
"Nothing came from nothing and nothing ever could." -- Maria Von Trapp
"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?" -- Steven Wright
"Man is the only animal that goes to sleep when he's not tired and wakes up when he is." -- Dan Guiser
"A good answer is what you think of later." -- Jan Ewing
"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." -- Charles Spencer
"I may be surrounded by insanity, but I am not insane!" -- Riker (ST:TNG)
"If there's nothing wrong with me... then there must be something wrong with the universe." -- Beverly Crusher, ST:TNG
"Telling the truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination." -- Garak, ST:DS9
"Why does the dictionary have the word dictionary in it?"
"I'm *not* obsessed, I'm just highly preoccupied" -- anon
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane
"The difference between mailing lists and newsgroups is the difference between inviting a group of friends over for wine on a Sunday evening and putting a billboard that says 'FREE BOOZE HERE!!!' in your front yard." -- Lazlo Nibble
Windows 95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
"If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs, it's possible you haven't grasped the situation." -- Jean Kerr, Please Don't Eat The Daisies
"For God's sake, he had a flashback in the middle of a delusion. Anything is possible." -- Susan G.
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."
"Baldric, you wouldn't know a cunning plan if it painted itself blue and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing `cunning plans are here again!'" -- E. Blackadder III
"I woke up one day and realized I was a closet hetero" -- David Bowie
"If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: one is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy." -- Alan Dean Foster
'"Ten t'one I'm spendin' dis entire issue on de roof," Gambit said bitterly.' -- Desert Nomad, "Behind the Scenes"
- Drink if we see Gambit brooding about his mysterious past. Chug if he does it on the roof of the mansion. -- X-men Drinking Game
"My karma ran over my dogma." -- anon
1) Open mouth. 2) Insert shoe store.
"I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" -- Network
"...one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off." -- Spider Callahan
"The apostle seyth thys autoryte, 'Gyf thou be nat chaste, be thou pryue.'" [If you can't be good, be careful.] -- _Handlyng Synne_, 1303
"Our bodies must be in constant contact, without a sliver of light visible between us."
"I can do that." -- Daphne&Niles
"And isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, ooh ooh ooh, the sky's the limit!" -- The Tick
"I'm sure I don't do anything you would find exciting. I don't open beer bottles with my toes,I don't sit around and count what's left of my teeth, hey, I don't even enjoy a good tractor pull." -- Kate (The Cutting Edge)
"I don't like to see her upset."
"If I was you, I'd invest in blindfolds." -- Hale and Doug (The Cutting Edge)
"...The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stop staring at me like that, it's got aliens and...and space ships...and...and mad scientists and stuff like that, and it's got a beat and you can dance to it)..." -- JMS, on sf movies he recommends
"I second that. Just remember, there's always a light at the end of the darkest tunnel! and it's not _ALWAYS_ an oncomming train!!!" -- Bill Phillips
There is no such thing as Mr Right. There is, however, Mr Trainable!
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as *we* are." -- Anais Nin
"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans,and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." -- New York Times, November 26, 1991
"Schizophrenia beats dining alone" -- Anon.
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." -- C.G. Jung