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Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."-- Alexander Penney
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.-- Alexander Woollcott
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.-- Willa Cather
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.-- Mark Twain
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."-- Mother Theresa
Erotic is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.-- Emo Philips
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
Accountant - someone who can put two and two together and make a living from it.
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2-- Brian Anderson
The older I get, the more I think you ever learn is either further subtleties, or further distractions.
Sometimes I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.-- Abba Eban
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.-- Jess Anderson
...as opposed to Xena's paradox, which is, "How exactly can she fight in that leather outfit, and leave all of that flesh exposed, and survive?"
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words.
Descartes described how his father taught him how to swim by throwing him into the Seine: "I sink, therefore I swam."
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.-- Jeremy S. Anderson
Great Lover, n: A man who can breathe through his ears.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.-- Edsger Dijkstra
"I used to teach Sunday school. I had the biggest class...I had like 70 kids. But that was because I wore red leather pants to church."-- Tori Amos
I pity you if you feel that the 'support' of such fair-weather 'friends' is more important than self-respect. Such friends offer no support, but rather slavery in a different cell: that of their approval.-- Clay Bond
I trusted him like a brother -- which is to say, not at all.
Sometimes you have to bite people hard on the lip before they realize you're not kissing them, so keenly do they yearn for approval.-- Jess Anderson
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.-- Dandemis
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."-- Ann Landers
Math Anxiety: An intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 mph. (Cynic's Dictionary)
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift' ... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git'...."-- Alexi Sayle
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?-- Kelvin Throop III
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.-- Edsger Dijkstra
"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand