Quotes

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"Solutions are not the answer."
-- Richard Nixon

Real love stories never have endings.
-- Richard Bach

A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, haberdashers don't haberdash, hammers don't ham, and humdingers don't humding.
-- Richard Lederer (Crazy English)

There's too much beauty upon this earth for lonely men to bear.
-- Richard Le Gallienne

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon

"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
-- Richard Nixon

I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.
-- Richard Moss

"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
-- Richard Rodriguez

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
-- Richard Feynman

"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
-- Richard Harkness

"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."
-- Adam Richardson

[A] thing is symmetrical if there is something we can do to it so that after we have done it, it looks the same as it did before.
-- Richard Feynman

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.
-- Richard P. Brennan

"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)

The problem isn't that the victim can't fight, the problem is that they have to. Saying that self-defense classes are the answer to gay bashers is like saying that it would be good if the government stopped prosecuting rape cases and used the money saved to hand out free mace.
-- Richard Caley

Ask a man which way he is going to vote and he will probably tell you. Ask him however why and vagueness is all.
-- Bernard Levin

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson

Stay away from needle drugs. Richard Nixon is the only dope worth shooting.
-- Abbie Hoffman ("Steal this Book")

What are we to make of a system that blames us for failing to procreate while refusing us custody of our children? That perpetuates the myth that we are weaklings while denying us the right to serve in the military? That regards us as incapable of forming stable relationships while forbidding us to marry?
-- Richard Goldstein (in the "Gay Life 1991" segment of The Village Voice)

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.
-- Sandra Bernhard

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

"A hard man is good to find."
-- Mae West

The bigger they are, the harder they hit.

I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce.