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People look ridiculous when they're in ecstasy.-- David Byrne
Sexuality does not "turn on" at puberty and "turn off" at menopause. It is not a thing external, no matter how hard our culture teaches us to push it away. It is every bit as integral and fundamental the day you're born as it is the day you die.-- David Casti
You can be a professional without being constipated about it.-- David Keyser
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.-- David Nestor
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong."-- David Fasold
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."-- David Russell
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."-- David Byrne
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-- David Tyson Gentry
"I don't think you can be a true man until you've humiliated yourself before a woman."-- David Duchovny
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."-- Henry David Thoreau
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
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.-- David H. Comins
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.-- Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.-- Henry David Thoreau
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.-- David G. Welton
Girls are such exquisite hell.-- Ovid
Recession: your friend loses his job. Depression: you lose your job. Recovery: Bush loses his job.-- Bill Davidsen
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.-- David Friedman
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."-- Geena Davis
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...-- David Preston
Procrastination will rule one day, OK?
Mirth prolongeth life and causeth health.
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Unfortunately, as Usenet gets out to the masses it will become diluted.
-- Nelson Minar
*Again*!?!?
-- David Preston
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
When I was your age I...wait, I can't tell that story, it's wildly inappropriate. Which, oddly enough, is my point. Don't you want wildly inappropriate stories that you can't tell your children?-- Castle
You will trip and fall over a three-eared cat today
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.-- Carlos Casteneda
In case of emergency, speak in cliches.
Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car.
When they broadcast this footage, they proceeded it with something like "KRON has learned that a group of paedophiles has been meeting in a public library." They implied over and over again that these people, whose faces they were showing on TV, were criminals. Hell, maybe half of them are, but the other half have been slandered and had their reputations ruined. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until caught in the wrong place on a slow news day.-- David Preston
In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
"Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much."
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but so would an 80 pound carrot.
Headline: Drunk Gets Nine Months in Violin Case
PROGRAM, n.: A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.: To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.
Even if complaints about man-bashing in this film were 99% true, it still wouldn't make up for the years of portraying women as bimbos in movies.-- Geena Davis (about "Themla & Louise")
In case of nuclear war, prayer in schools will be okay.
"You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the women. It’s the great male fantasy - all it takes is one dance to know that she’s the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know - this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want their princes, but boys want their princesses just as much. And they don’t want a very long courtship. They want to know immediately."-- David Levithan and Rachel Cohn