Look, Chris, a Woody Allen quote!
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without
thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. -Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
-- Dave Barry
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path
leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -Woody Allen, author
actor, and filmmaker (1935- )
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-- Garrison Keillor
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
-- Peter da Silva
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
-- Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
-- Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
-- Cyril Connolly
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill
McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_.
-- Charles McCabe
Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.
-Sam Ewing