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"Until you meet an alien intelligence you will not know what it is to be human."
Alien, n: A being who travels great distances to molest our cattle and trample our grain.
Ellen Ripley: Whenever he says anything, you say, "right," Brett. You know that?
Brett: Right. (Alien)
'Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.'-- Natalie Goldberg
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."-- Nathalie Sarraute
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."-- Noelie Alito
You humans are all alike.
"Nothing in the world is friendlier than a wet dog."
Reality is an illusion created by alcohol deficiency.
"Friends don't let Friends drive Naked."
Science is the belief that we don't need belief to know most things.
Lies, damned lies and user documentation.
Doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts.
Hindsight is an exact science.
Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.-- Moliere
Johner: I heard you, like, ran into these things before.
Ripley: That's right.
Johner: Wow, man. So, like, what did you do?
Ripley: I died.
(Alien: Resurrection)
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world."-- Russell Baker
Beware the fury of a patient woman.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use.-- Galileo Galilei
Fungus is actually alive. Be afraid.
"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God."
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Nowadays, originality is the art of concealing your source.
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."-- The Hollies
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
"Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed."-- Dalin B. Oaks
You don't have to think too hard while talking to teachers.-- J.D. Salinger
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
God made us sisters. Prozac made us friends.
Never only doubt or only believe your doubts.
I think having 'Men' and 'Women' signs on bathrooms is a bad idea, because if aliens thought those rooms held standard specimens and went in to record data, they'd get some pretty bizarre examples.-- April Van Scherpe
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
"*snort* I'm waiting for the day when people realise that mainstream is a subset of SF without the speculation..."-- Emmet O'Brien
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.-- Disraeli
Monster AI is still in development. Some monsters may seem to be ignoring you until you actually shoot them. This is because as small aliens they refused to eat their humans and as a result suffered brain damage. We will be taking measures to ensure that all aliens receive a proper diet before the final release.-- Quake 2 Demo disclaimer
You'll go to Heck if you don't believe in Gosh.
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."-- Adrienne Gusoff
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines-- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.-- Billie Holiday
Alimony: the fee a woman charges for name-dropping.
Don't torture yourself, that's what friends are for.
Headline: Reagan Wins on Budget, But More Lies Ahead
"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
Never underestimate the falseness of a generalisation.
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)
"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"-- Dante Alighieri
Scientists find wonder in everything, except extremely dull papers on quality assurance.
-- Telo (#xkcd)
Fool-proof implies a finite number of predictable fools.
'La vache qui rit est jolie.' (Laughing cows are pretty.)
The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
"Reminds me of a humorous sf story I read a few years back where an amoeboid alien escaped punishment this way (it was guilty of selling pornographic pictures to earthly biologists who used them to illustrate mitosis in their textbooks). Both the resulting individuals claimed innocence, and pointed out that they were underage."