randomsearchproposestats
26 hits
"I am the very master of the multipurpose metaphor;
I put them into speeches which I always feel the better for.
The speed of my delivery is totally vehicular;
I'm burning with a passion about nothing in particular.
I'm well acquainted too with matters technological;
I'm able to explain myself in phrases tautological.
My language is poetical and full of hidden promises . . .
It's like the raging torrent of a thousand Dylan Thomases".

-- Alistair Beaton

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty

Schizophrenia beats being alone.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time.
(A coffee cup)

At a doctors office in Rome:
"Specialist in women and other diseases"

Fred Astaire: Can't act. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

(Anonymous screen test)

'We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.'
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

"God created sex. Priests created marriage."
-- Voltaire

"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that's off-the-wall and full of magical robots?"
(The Simpsons)

"I see you in my dreams. Fair boy, your eyes haunt me..."
-- Tori Amos (Song for Eric)

A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
-- Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-- Voltaire

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
-- Voltaire

X.400 is the mail system of the future, and I hope it stays that way.
-- Erik Fair

"Bitterness can eat you up, but it can't fuel you."
-- Benazir Bhutto

The fact that I know I'm often a fool, but that I also have an IQ a fair bit over a hundred, scares me. What fools the rest of the world must be.

"I wanna hold your hand" -- The Beatles.
"I wanna fuck you like an animal" -- Nine Inch Nails.
30 years of rock 'n roll evolution.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.
-- Voltaire

May your future be limited only by your dreams.
-- Christa McAuliffe

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.
-- Alan Watts

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-- Voltaire