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"It's a dog eat dog world, and I'm wearing milk bone underwear."-- Norm (Cheers)
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."-- Norman Douglas
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
"The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA"
We ignore truths for temporary happiness
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.-- Morticia Adams
"I sound like a fruitcake sitting here saying all this shit."-- Trent Reznor
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.
Ignoranus, n: A person who is not only ignorant, but an asshole to boot.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.-- Jules Renord
"I didn't want to come across as an industrial, snarling, Satan-singing entity"-- Trent Reznor
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity."
"I know what I don't believe in. I know what I've rejected. But I'm not sure what I do believe in."-- Trent Reznor
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.-- Flannery O'Connor
More to be feared than ignorance is the pretense of knowledge.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You just realize you're not on Happy Days. It's the real world; You need to ignore what you are programmed by sitcoms to think your life should be."-- Trent Reznor
There are lots of things I'd like to be someday, but "normal" is definitely not one of them.-- Nelson Minar
For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat.
Ignorance simplifies any problem.-- R. Lucke
"If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
"Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."
Democracy is the form of government where everyone gets what the majority deserves.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.-- Goethe
A winning formula can be obliterated simply by the change to an ingorant new manager.
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."-- Alan Watts
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.-- Flannery O'Connor
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
-- Henry Brooks Adams
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-- Confucius
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.-- Will Rogers
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."
Abnormal, adj:
Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)
"The Hindenburg crash had 62 survivors and 35 fatalities. Of the 35 deaths, 27 resulting from jumping from the airship. Many of the remaining 8 deaths resulted from burns and injuries due to the ensuing diesel fuel fire."-- Dan Egnor
"I do actually believe in love. I can't say that I'm 100 percent successful in that department, but I think it's one of the few worthwhile human experiences. It's cooler than anything I can think of right now."-- Trent Reznor
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
Squanderprint (skwan' duhr print), n: Directions that try to make you use up a product faster than you normally would. (Ex.: Apply shampoo. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Arachnoleptic fit, n: The frantic dance performed just after you accidentally walk through a spider web.
What Wouldn't Jesus Do?
We can assume He wouldn't skulk outside an abortion doctor's kitchen window and shoot him. Jesus wouldn't picket a gay man's funeral and shout "God hates fags." Jesus wouldn't vote a straight Republican ticket. He wouldn't give the commencement address of Bob Jones University. He wouldn't picket the play Corpus Christi. He would not feel the need to defend his heterosexuality. And finally, Jesus would not wear a shirt that read "What would the Trinity do?"-- Tony Norman
"I wanted to make a little spot in the context of the record where there was this break in the action. In the midst of this buildup of these ever-growing, terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere... else."-- Trent Reznor
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.-- Alfred Kinsey