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"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)
"A cult is a religion with no political power."
-- Tom Wolfe
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
-- Tom Weller
"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."
-- Tom Stoppard
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
-- Tom Stoppard
In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.
-- Tom Szasz
'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.
-- Tom Masson
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
-- Tom Stoppard
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.
-- Tom Lehrer
"Either what you've said is so vague that it's meaningless or I disagree with you completely."
-- Tom Maddox
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.
-- Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner, 1996)
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.
-- Tom Holt
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
-- Lily Tomlin
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
-- Lily Tomlin
Jason squared his shoulders, drew the Sword of - I couldn't give a toss what it's supposed to be called, he said to himself, I shall call it Freckles - and took one step forward.
-- Tom Holt ("Ye Gods!")
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
-- Lily Tomlin
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin
'I think,' he said slowly, 'that the only reason people think you can't kill a vampire by shoving its head up its own arse is because nobody's ever actually tried it. What do you think, guys?'
-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
-- Lily Tomlin
I have no problem dealing with reality, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
-- Lily Tomlin
"I told you I was sick."
(from a tombstone in the U.K.)
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
-- Tommy Smothers
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
-- Lily Tomlin
There was something - difficult to describe, when you've only got shoddy, post-modernist adjectives to work with - cheerfully revential in his manner, as if he had just seen the Messiah and remembered that the Messiah owed him twenty quid.
-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow they may cancel your VISA.
"If you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you will find yourself docked."
-- Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
'You're a hero. Heroes are supposed to know these things.'
'Get stuffed,' replied the hero.
'You're formulating a plan of campaign, aren't you?'
'Get real. I'm trying to get this pxy chunk of gravel out of my - ah, that's got it. Right, where were we?'
-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.
-- Tom Holt ("Djinn Rummy")
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-- Mark Twain
If I'm not always happy, that doesn't mean I'm doing something wrong. It means I am doing something real.
-- Laurie Seligman