Quote List, pt 74
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~ William H. Borah
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
~ Michael Fry and T. Lewis
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
~ Douglas Adams
“So, there I was, with my sandwich and my teapot and the crisp crack of a newly broken book-spine. I thought that this book about "complexity theory" and the relationship between the complex systems of biology, economics and law was going to be a nice, safe academic space. But no. I get John Donne, heartwounded on his knees in the middle of the bookstore cafe. Cuffed by wings.”
~ Salieri (in reference to John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14)
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~ Umberto Eco
"Kissing? Reckon I should just go up to Hermione and say 'Fancy a snog? It's for science!' and see what she says?"
~ Neville, Laocoon’s Children, Year III (Harry Potter fan fic by Sam Storyteller)
"You Hufflepuffs. If the world ended you'd all shrug and say that it was a very pretty armageddon."
~ Harry, Laocoon’s Children, Year III (Harry Potter fan fic by Sam Storyteller)
"I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every-other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three."
~ Elayne Boosler
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh."
~ Conan O'Brien
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
~ Soren Kierkegaard