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"Always be a 1st-rate version of yourself instead of a 2nd rate version of someone else."
-- Judy Garland
We were raised in vastly different places,/
Yet speak this uncanny similar tongue./
Sometimes we're different races./
Certainly we're different classes./
Yet our common bonds and common graces,/
Common wounds and destinations,/
Keep us closer than some married folks.
-- Judy Grahn
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham
"How many of you ever started dating somene because you were too lazy to commit suicide?"
-- Judy Tenuta
"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."
-- Paul Graham
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray
Any research done on how to efficiently use computers has been long lost in the mad rush to upgrade systems to do things that aren't needed by people who don't understand what they are really supposed to do with them.
-- Graham Reed
Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson
Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)
A penny saved is 2.5 grams of zinc alloy.
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
Donkey: a horse designed by a study team.
"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."
-- Graydon
Persuasion rules, OK? - just this once?
(graffiti in Brighton)
"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
Cowardice rules - if that's okay with you.
(graffiti in London)
Lesbians, when only the breast will do.
(graffiti in Sydney, NSW)
Fight for the right to pretend to work.
(graffiti, in Marylebone)
I am not a Christian myself. I fact I spend considerable effort trying to debunk Christian superstition, particularly that which is used to justify killing and discriminating against gays. However, Jesus did have some interesting ideas. It's too bad Christians have given him such a bad reputation by association. Were he simply a philosopher, I think he would command greater respect generally, and more sensible respect by Christians.
-- Roedy Green
Lost: gray and white female cat. Answers to electric can opener.
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
Err. I'm visualising. I'm either really scared, or really turned on.
Or both. Maybe that's a typical reaction to Skud.
-- Rebecca B. Gray
"We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public."
-- Bryan White
Use the best: Linux for servers, Mac for graphics, Windows for Solitaire.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
-- Chuang Tzu
Customer: Cute cat. What's its name?
Randal Graves: Annoying customer.
(Clerks)
"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
-- Confucius
"Forget all those health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure for everything, especially stress. If I have a good night of sex, all my problems are gone by 10 o' clock in the morning."
-- Grace Jones
Alien, n: A being who travels great distances to molest our cattle and trample our grain.
If the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, it might be amor�, but I'd be more worried about the interplanetary gravitational effects from this cataclysmic event.
-- Paul Paternoster