Friday, February 20, 2009

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
-- Tom Wolfe
A narcissist is someone who is better looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality.
-- Dante Alihieri

Monday, February 16, 2009

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
-- Dante Alighieri
Now we can do this the hard way or... well, actually, there's just the hard way.
-- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Noooo, I think you're up in a clocktower with a high-powered rifle because you want to blend in.
-- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes? "Cup of tea, cup of tea, almost got shagged, cup of tea"?
-- Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Planning life as a loser? Most people just turn out that way, but you're really taking charge.
-- Cordelia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I am kind of a paranoic in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
-- J. D. Salinger
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
-- C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
I don't know about you, but I had a nice day. You know, except for the bulk of it where I was nearly tortured to death.
-- Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
-- Jackie Mason
It's the things I might have said that fester.
-- Clemence Dane
The pain now is part of the happiness then.
-- C. S. Lewis
"Ha ha", said Eeyore bitterly. "Merriment and what-not. Don't apologize. It's just what would happen."
A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
-- Agnes de Mille
I cannot stress enough how much I don't have plans.
-- Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Don't call me irrational. It makes me crazy when you do that.
-- Niles Crane, Frasier
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I'm living so far beyound my income, that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- e e cummings