This is the item for quotes of all types, from the famous often quoted to the infamous overheard on any given day. Speakers need not to be identified.80 responses total.
Programming (n.): "Bloody instructions which, being taught, return \ To plague their inventor." (William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 1, Scene 7) (From the "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well \ It were done quickly" soliloquy)
Authentic Being -- one's-Self -- does not rest upon an essential condition of the subject, a condition that has been detached from the "they"; it is rather an existentiell modification of the "they" -- of the "they" as an essential existentiale. (Martin Heidegger, "Being and Time")
For example, few people claim to like explosions, yet everyone likes
fireworks. Millions of pounds of entertaining explosives go up all over
the world, with millions turning out to watch them. What are they, these
colored lights, flashes, and bangs? They are not real things in nature,
representations of anything else, and they don't remind us of anything at
an intellectual level. They are as abstract as Piet Mondrian or Jackson
Pollock - and yet they provoke a strong emotional reaction, inducing
millions to watch and then walk away, highly satisfied, saying, "That was
wonderful," without anyone being able to say exactly what "That" was.
No other form of abstract visual expression is as popular.
Richard Cytowic
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v2/psyche-2-10-cytowic.html
Anyone who says "few people claim to like explosions" has never talked to guys about what they want to see in a movie.
I've known several people that like explosions the say they like, say, beer: they give them a buzz and they use them for the trip they give them.
have you been drinking?
No, why?
because #5 was utterly incomprehensible.
Not _utterly_ incomprehensible, but it did take me a few readings to figure out the correct spelling of the ninth word.
"They(1) give them(2) a buzz, and they(2) use them(1) for the trip that they(1) give them(2)." Too many pronouns flopping around.
My apologies... But flipping the thems and theys did have a sort of rhythm.... I recall news items after the Oklahoma city bombing referring to Nichols and McVeigh liking to play with dynamite around the family farm. There are a lot of people like that.
I like to play with explosives.....it's tough to do where I live now. I go to my fathers gun range to do that now.
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"I'm happy because the [Texas] Sodomy law was overturned [by the US Supreme Court] *on* my birthday, and now everyone's going to remember my birthday!" -- one of the guys i work with
"You've been Microsoftized." Me, to Adam Felber (panelist for the NPR Quiz show "Wait, Wait, Don't tell Me") as he was experiencing difficulty trying to access the weather radar site for me so I could determine how long to wait before putting up the sound system at TOP this evening.
"That can't be your car, that must be your Mama's car!"
- Harrison Ford in American Graffitti
"I'm going to always look like a cheap whore as long as there's doctors and
plastic surgeons in the world."
- Dolly Parton, interview with TV Guide
Another Dolly Parton quote:
That's what happens when you try to put fifty pounds of mud in
a ten-pound sack.
Said when the front of her dress fell apart just before she was to go
on stage.
There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. . . People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats. -- Elton John (this was posted to alt.quotations in response to the Supreme Court decision in re: the Texas sodomy law.)
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"I'd offer to help you but you'd see right through that kind of disingenuous [bullshit?] and I wouldn't want to insult your intelligence." Chris Buhalis, to one of the members of Corndaddy, as they were joining him on stage at TOP for a couple of songs before he turned the stage over to them entirely.
That's a bizzare statement...I trust it was said with a smile? (IT doesn't sound like Chris)
It was indeed. :)
Ahhh..all clear...;-)
Jesus Christ. I just realized that I can lay claim to 21 years of education --22 if you count the year in Germany. No wonder I find the idea of getting a real job so disorienting.
There is no pain, you are, re-ceding
DetNews columnist Pete Waldmeir on the Do-Not-Call Registry and state and
federal anti-spam legislation:
"For my part, I'd like to take all the telemarketers, all the e-mail
trash-peddlers, all the information pirates, lock them in a room and
force-feed them SPAM until they promise never again to invade our
privacy."
-- column, Sunday 29 June
NYTimes reports difficulties in NYC school restructuring:
[T]here were myriad --- if predictable --- complications, some of which
were summed up by a bright pink sign outside a door at Division 4 that
said:" Caution! This is now a ladies' room!"
re #27: Wonder what he considers an "information pirate".
"This is so bad it's almost good."
"This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again."
-Ghost World (Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff)
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon,
however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.
Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be
discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator
on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is
even highly probable.
-- H.L. Mencken, 1930
"Just because I love you doesnt mean I'm not going to squirt you every once in awhile." I wont say who said that to me, he can step up himself if he wishes ;P
Hey, I remember a girl who told me that too.
32: If I heard correctly, #32 is a slightly bowdlerized version of what was actually said.
32 doesn't feel quite right, but my 'mind like a steel sieve'(tm) can't retrieve a more accurate rendition. . .
#32 also seems just a bit off to me (ok, have we now accounted for everyone who was present when that quote was first uttered?) but I can't remember the exact phrasing
From the online docs for "ecasound", a Linux-based recording app:
ecasound -c -b:256 -r -f:16,2,44100 \
-a:1 -i monitor-track.wav -o /dev/dsp \
-a:2 -i /dev/dsp -o new-track.wav
It really is this simple. To minimize syncronization problems...
(They've got a GUI, probably they should emphasize that a bit more...)
"I guess if Ari were to rebel, being a Republican is better than being on
drugs, but not by much."
-- Alan Fleischer, father of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer
and lifelong Democrat
(should've mentioned that was 'as quoted in 7/7/03 Newsweek'.)
millions for defense; not one cent for tribute. paraphrased, but close enough ...
GW Bush, talking with Kofi Annan a couple days ago: "The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in." ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030714-3.html ) Umm... so who's the "revisionist historian" now?
He probably meant "HE WOULDN"T LET THEM IN,.... with the proper vigour"
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"The Good Lord Made Pigs
We Made The Bar B Q"
-- Shiska Haus
not sure if this place has a regular location, but this sign was on the canopy
of their tent at the Art Fairs' Michigan Union Food Court (it's a Cajun
bar-b-q; they're right at the north entrance, by the fountain).
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"The only people who listen are those who agree with you" A character from the movie, "Critical Assembly."
"Have you ever noticed how terribly insecure some straight people are about their sexuality? Queers say, "We don't recruit anyone. We can't. Sexuality is innate and not subject to peer pressure." Straight people say, "Be like us! You have to be like us!" And not only that, they assume that the Queer lifestyle is so wonderful that everyone will go running to practice it at the slightest encouragement, even though it brings a morass of guilt-tripping and discrimination. Gee, that doesn't say much for plain ol' vanilla missionary sex, does it?" -- Sheela Adrian
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"I h8 fags." - zionicman, Israel's national superhero
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"I'm thinking about getting a computer so I can have cybersex," Grandma
said. "Anybody know how that works?"
"You go into a chat room," Valerie said. "And you meet someone. And
then you type dirty suggestions to each other."
"That sounds like fun," Grandma said. "How does the /sex/ part
happen?"
"You sort of have to do the sex part yourself."
"I knew it was too good to be true," Grandma said. "There's always
a catch to everything."
-- dialogue from _Hard Eight_, Janet Evanovich (St Martin's, 2002)
Grandma Mazur is one of my favorite characters ever written. I love Evanovich's work.
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." -- taped to the door of the sociology GSIs' office at U Towers, apparently to prove why they aren't Classics GSIs. "Kayak Naked It adds color to your cheeks" -- tshirt seen on the Diag
"I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone."
---Bjarne Stroustrup
There are 10 kinds of people in this world , those who know binary and those who don't.
I love that one....I had it on my door for a while...
Had to think about it a sec. I think I'll put that on a shirt.
[http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/5aa9/] Too late.
Well, I never said I'd be the /first/. 'Sides, I'm making my own for just the cost of a tee.
"Charity: A thing that begins at home and usually stays there." /|\
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Um, if that was for me, it didn't come out.
It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn
them into numbers. That is false, tragically false.
Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and
crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were
turned into numbers. And it was not done by gas. It
was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was
done by ignorance. When people believe that they have
absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is
how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire
to the knowledge of gods. Science is a very human form
of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known,
we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every
judgement in science stands on the edge of error, and is
personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know
although we are fallible.
-- Jacob Bronowski, from "The Ascent of Man"
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. --- Jack Lemmon
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion
is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does
not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment.
It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an
excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers
for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
-- Anatole France
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from
the vexation of thinking.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831
[T]heory means you have ideas; an ideology means ideas have you.
-- An Anarchist FAQ, [http://cat.tao.ca/afaq], Introduction to
Section A
[E]ven if you aren't bothered by an administration that systematically
misleads the public, you ought to be worried about the decisions of an
administration that systematically misleads itself. A leader who is told only
what he wants to hear is all too likely to make bad decisions about the
economy, the environment and beyond.
-- Paul Krugman, "Everything is Political"
[http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/opinion/05KRUG.html?th]
The fact [is] that since my youth -- I was 19 when I left Russia --
my political creed has remained as bleak and changeless as an old gray
rock. It is classical to the point of triteness. Freedom of speech,
freedom of thought, freedom of art. The social or economic structure of
the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest.
Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage
stamp in size. No torture and no executions. No music, except coming
through earphones, or played in theaters.
-- Vladimir Nabokov
YE<S BUT DID PYNCHON SIT IN ON HIS LECTURES?!
Yes, but the only thing Nabokov claimed to remember about him was that he had the worst handwriting he'd ever seen.
Yeah, I heard about his handwriting.
VLADIMIR Nabokov wrote mean short stories.
"Get yer bitch ass into the kitchen and make me some pie!" -Cartman
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA> THAT ONE"S FUNNY TELL IT AGAIN,.
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THE WAY FURS TELLS IT IS BETTER< GOOSMAN.
"So there I am, trying to live your life without you even knowing it". A friend describing how she was obsessing about what I "ought" to be doing.
DSEEP
Billboard on the PA Turnpike: "Make love, not 3-car pileups. Peace, love, PA Turnpike." On our way to Pittsburgh, Dan (orinoco) and I saw a truck whose door said, "B & D Towing". Dan: "Yeah, that's some heavy equipment they've got there."
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