quotations

Although I don’t agree completely with the essay, there was a brilliant quote in the NYT this morning:

“I’ve always believed that America’s government was a unique political system — one designed by geniuses so that it could be run by idiots. I was wrong. No system can be smart enough to survive this level of incompetence and recklessness by the people charged to run it.” — Thomas L. Friedman

Do you remember when Robin Williams attempts to teach Nathan Lane how to be a real man in The Birdcage? It’s one of my favorite scenes in one of my favorite movies. Williams asks,

How do you feel about that call today? I mean the Dolphins! Fourth-and-three play on their 30 yard line with only 34 seconds to go!

Today it was the Gators and fourth and one with a little under a minute to go. Either way it’s the same. I just can’t believe it. Again. How does the Heisman trophy winner fail to get a single yard? You really can’t blame Tebow, though. That game was lost on the sidelines.

It was another brutal early season weekend in college football. (Didn’t this happen last year, too?) Yes, seven of the AP top twenty-five teams lost, but that doesn’t make it any easier if you happened to be on the losing side.

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Best thing I’ve read that someone else blogged because they read it in another blog’s comments in a long time:

“Call me enlightened but I don’t care what a woman looks like as long as she has big boobs and owns a liquor store.“

“You will hardly find one among the profounder sort of scientific minds without a religious feeling of his own.” - Albert Einstein

“They that go down to the Sea in Ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.” - Psalm 107

"When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales." - Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

“Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

- George Bernard Shaw

This is an adaptation of an entry originally posted 2001-05-01 09:16:26. I just happened to see it in my archives and couldn’t resist posting it again.

invictus maneo - I remain unconquered. / I remain unbeaten

audacter calumniare semper aliquid haeret - slander boldly, something always sticks

I still have no idea what this is. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know if it’s an advertisement, or a video, or a cartoon, or a warning. I just know that it is the one item I’ve found on the ‘net this year that I absolutely cannot comprehend in any way, shape, or form.

Not that I condone fascism. Or any “isms”. “isms“, in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an “ism”. He should believe in himself. John Lennon said it on his first solo album. “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” A good point there. After all, he was the Walrus.

Just because you are a character doesn’t mean you have character.

“Some people are born on third base and think they hit a triple.”

Timeless Hemingway was founded by Josh Silverstein in September of 1998. His page has become one of the premiere sites for Hemingway fans on the ‘net. The human-powered Hemingway Quote Finder and the extensive FAQ page have made this site a must-click for researchers and students.

Elise points out a plain and simple truth:

Sometimes, the only way to teach an a55h0le a lesson is with a good ass-whuppin’.