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"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."

-- Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-- Gen. Omar N. Bradley

Don't torture yourself, that's what friends are for.

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
-- Bradley's Bromide

Cowardice rules - if that's okay with you.
(graffiti in London)

"What's with today, today?"
-- Lucas (Empire Records)

"And really, what's so important that it can't wait until after noon, anyway?"

Make the most of yourself, because that's all the self you are going to get, buster.

Customer: Cute cat. What's its name?
Randal Graves: Annoying customer.

(Clerks)

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Erotica is stuff that's meant to be read with one hand.
-- Carl Manz

"Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective."

It wasn't lies. It was just bullshit, that's all.
-- Elwood Blues

"It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-- Fred Adler

"What's reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch."
-- Jane Wagner

Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.

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

"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."
-- Randy Newman

"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn."
(TheWax.com)

"That's the trouble with women these days. They act like men and want to be treated like women"
(An American in Paris)

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."

"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."

Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of UNIX commands)

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
-- Seymour Cray (on virtual memory)

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
-- Charles Bukowski

"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."
-- Conan O'Brien

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson

"That's the good thing about dying; when you've nothing to lose, you can run any risk you want."
(Montag, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)

Life's weird, that's why I'm sticking around till the end.
-- George Neville-Neil

Morality is doing what's right regardless of what you're told.
Obedience is doing what you're told regardless of what is right.

What's the matter, darling? Don't you recognize me with my clothes on?
-- Tallulah Bankhead

Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.

-- Ogden Nash

"How many fingers am I holding up?" -- Kirk, making the Vulcan salute
"That's not very damn funny."

-- McCoy (Star Trek III)

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."

Q. What's the difference between an aerobics instructor and a well-mannered professional torturer?
A. The torturer would apologize first.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)

"Hey, Aeryn's gorgeous--she can change any guy's tune. She can also change 'im from tenor to soprano, but that's beside the point."
-- Grace

I like life -- it's something to do.

"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off cliffs...That's what it feels like to me."
-- Tori Amos (Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1996)

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Alfred Adler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-- Alfred Adler

It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.
-- Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?
-- David Gunter

You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
-- Jean Kerr

Mustard: Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?
Wadsworth: You don't need any help from me, sir.
Mustard: That's right!

(Clue)

Odo: That's a very personal question.
Jadzia Dax: I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore.

(Star Trek: DS9 (Shadowplay))