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Traditionally, emotional and social problems have been judged as the moral shortcomings of an individual. Someone suffering from a psychiatric illness or an addiction is rarely viewed as a person who has a disorder or who is taxed by overwhelming circumstances. Instead the affliction is becomes a metaphor for a host of evils; it serves a testimony of the individual's unworthiness, a cause for condemnation.
-- Ellen L. Bassuk ("Scientific American", December 1991)
Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?
-- Ellen Ripley (Aliens)
"She's a Grade A, Class One, Turbo-driven Fruitcake."
-- Barbara Ellen (on Tori Amos)
Did you ever notice that 'love' spelled backwards is 'evil'? Well, not exactly, but it's still pretty scary.
-- Ben Bass
"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
-- Ellen DeGeneres
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
-- Woody Allen
Ellen Ripley: Whenever he says anything, you say, "right," Brett. You know that?
Brett: Right.
(Alien)
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
-- Woody Allen
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Fred Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
-- Woody Allen
"I became insane, with long instances of horrible sanity."
-- Edgar Allen Poe
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
-- Fred Allen
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-- Woody Allen
"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
-- Fred Allen (1894-1956)
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
-- H. Allen Smith
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen (Without Feathers, 1976)
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."
-- Woody Allen
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allen Poe
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
-- H. Allen Smith ("Let the Crabgrass Grow")
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen ("Without Feathers")
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen
Excellence is the trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as "Garfield Gets Spayed", and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: "In Search of Excellence", "Finding Excellence", "Grasping Hold of Excellence", "Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It", etc.
-- Dave Barry ("In Search of Excellence")
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle