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"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand."

-- Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-- Gen. Omar N. Bradley

Don't torture yourself, that's what friends are for.

"What's with today, today?"
-- Lucas (Empire Records)

Cowardice rules - if that's okay with you.
(graffiti in London)

If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
-- Bradley's Bromide

Customer: Cute cat. What's its name?
Randal Graves: Annoying customer.

(Clerks)

"And really, what's so important that it can't wait until after noon, anyway?"

Make the most of yourself, because that's all the self you are going to get, buster.

Erotica is stuff that's meant to be read with one hand.
-- Carl Manz

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

"Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective."

It wasn't lies. It was just bullshit, that's all.
-- Elwood Blues

"What's reality anyway? Nothing but a collective hunch."
-- Jane Wagner

"It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-- Fred Adler

Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.

"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that's off-the-wall and full of magical robots?"
(The Simpsons)

"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."
-- Randy Newman

"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn."
(TheWax.com)

"That's the trouble with women these days. They act like men and want to be treated like women"
(An American in Paris)

Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of UNIX commands)

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
-- Seymour Cray (on virtual memory)

"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
-- Charles Bukowski

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson

"How many fingers am I holding up?" -- Kirk, making the Vulcan salute
"That's not very damn funny."

-- McCoy (Star Trek III)

"That's the good thing about dying; when you've nothing to lose, you can run any risk you want."
(Montag, Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury)

I like life -- it's something to do.

Life's weird, that's why I'm sticking around till the end.
-- George Neville-Neil

"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."
-- Conan O'Brien

Morality is doing what's right regardless of what you're told.
Obedience is doing what you're told regardless of what is right.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.

-- Ogden Nash

What's the matter, darling? Don't you recognize me with my clothes on?
-- Tallulah Bankhead

Q. What's the difference between an aerobics instructor and a well-mannered professional torturer?
A. The torturer would apologize first.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
-- Alfred Adler

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-- Alfred Adler

"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

"Musically, I always allow myself to jump off cliffs...That's what it feels like to me."
-- Tori Amos (Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1996)

It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.
-- Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

It's been lovely, but I have to scream now.

What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?
-- David Gunter

Mustard: Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?
Wadsworth: You don't need any help from me, sir.
Mustard: That's right!

(Clue)

You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
-- Jean Kerr

A crappie is not a sunfish found in a toilet.

Odo: That's a very personal question.
Jadzia Dax: I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore.

(Star Trek: DS9 (Shadowplay))

Is it red or white wine with Tokyo?
-- David Adler as Godzilla

It's 3:30 A.M. Do you know where your mail is?

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I usually shoot for that threshold of coffee strength that's just *short* of the coffee achieving sentience.
-- Gretchen Wright

The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say.
-- Joel Spolsky

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
-- Drew Carey

It's not how fast you run, or how high you jump. It's how well you bounce.

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

Among animals, it's eat or be eaten. Among people it's define or be defined.

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)

What's wrong with being drunk in bed? Being drunk on the floor of the garage, I can understand someone objecting to. But drunk in bed?
-- Brad DeLong

Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you.

"Even the AI hated [my book]?"
"The AI loved it. That's when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."

-- Dan Simmons (Hyperion)