Quotes

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"If there is one thing that always comes out of a terrible tragedy, it is really dumb legislation."
(Esquire magazine)

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
-- Sunshine magazine

A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
(PS magazine (August 1993) the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance)

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
(The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985)

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, 'I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked.'"
-- Jerry Seinfeld

I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
-- George Bush ("Free Inquiry" magazine, fall 1988)

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos")

"She remains endearingly harebrained, keen to bewilder, reluctant to compromise, often hard to stomach, yet periodically magnificent. Just the way, it would seem, that nature intended."
-- Tom Doyle (on Tori Amos; in Q Magazine, January 1996)

"What I've done, of course, is total garbage."
-- R. Willard, Pure Math 430a