quotations

“If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.” - Dave Barry

“Support Counter Intelligence” - seen on a tip jar in a coffee shop near UCLA

“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” - Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born US art critic

I share my birthday with him.

“Yes. The non-existent / rare beef toothpaste is yet another example of the intractability of human nature.” - via eMail

“We are a disenchanted generation, and we don’t even care enough to be hippies.” - Andrea Spencer

“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.” - Jean Cocteau

Like Food.Com, here’s another site that I’m kicking myself for not having visited sooner. It’s pretty nifty and I dig it. Movie and Television Quotations! I like this one from L.A. Confidential:

“Come to Los Angeles. The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows, you can even be discovered, become a movie star, or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles. It’s paradise on earth.”

“The thinking of genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.” - Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (1894-1961)

Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat.

Inigo:Let me explain….no, there is too much. Let me sum up: Buttercup is marrying Humperdinck in little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape - after I kill Count Rugen.
Westley: That doesn’t leave much for dilly-dally.
Fezzik: You just wiggled your finger! That’s wonderful!
Westley: I’ve always been a quick healer. What are our liabilities?
Inigo: There is but one working castle gate, and it is guarded by sixty men.
Westley: And our assets?
Inigo: Your brains, Fezzik’s strength, my steel.
Westley: That’s it? Impossible. If I had a month to plan maybe I could come up with something. But this…
Fezzik: You just shook your head! That doesn’t make you happy?
Westley: My brains, his steel and your strength against sixty men and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy? Hmm?? I mean if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

Hot, Hot, Hot
Getcherbuttrightouttatown! Thank you. Thank you very much. No, really. I love the applause, but … oh. No, you’re too kind. Yes. Thank you. It is a wonderful joy to have finally won The Quote Contest at re-run. Go on, now. You’ll have to start playing now, you realize? <grin>

“Christ you know it ain’t easy! You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going, you’re gonna crucify me.” - John Lennon

nil dictum quod non dictum prius!

” … there are things i thought i knew, but it turns out i hardly know anything at all.” - bluishorange

Yeah. I hear ya.