Sunday, February 28, 2010

I don't use drugs. My dreams are frightening enough.
-- M.C. Escher
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
-- Feodor M. Dostoyevsky
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.
-- Anonymous
The world is run by 'C' students.
-- Anonymous

Friday, February 19, 2010

If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffet, Changes in Lattitude, Change in Attitude
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
-- Bob Dylan
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
-- Petronius Arbiter
I'm not a number, Damnit, I'm a man.
-- Bob Seger, Feel Like a Number
A pessimist is a person who has listened to too many optimists.
-- don Marquis
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
-- Carl Jung
"Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
-- Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny..."
-- Issac Asimov
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
-- anonymous
Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the sound of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut.
-- Dilbert
Mr. Right's coming, but he's in Africa, and he's walking.
-- Oprah
How is it that so often... I get the feeling that I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.
-- Linda Ellerbee
Time grows dim. Time that was so long grows short, all goggle-eyed, wiggling her skirts, singing her torch song, giving the boys a buzz and a ride, that Nazi Mama with her beer & sourkraut. Time, old gal of mine, will soon dim out.
-- anonymous