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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.-- Willa Cather
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
Descartes described how his father taught him how to swim by throwing him into the Seine: "I sink, therefore I swam."
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
Erotic is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.
Ponder: "It's all done by magic, Archchancellor."
Ridcully: "Ah. Right. None of that complicated business with springs and cogwheels and tubes and stuff, then."
Ponder: "That's right, sir. Just magic. Sufficiently advanced magic."-- Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.-- Mark Twain
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."-- Mother Theresa
Please storyteller, pull a tale from your pocket,
Spin me a story from your coat-tails so bare,
For my heart has turned cold, and my dreams are too old,
And I need to know the magic's still there-- Heather Alexander (Storyteller)
Most people deserve each other.
Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.-- Emo Philips
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Do unto others before they undo you.
"I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that He was indifferent."-- George Sand
There's a nut loose on your keyboard.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.-- Andrew Lang
The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly. I would rather use them to mimic something better.-- Edsger Dijkstra
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
I told my girlfriend last night how much I loved her, and she said that I must have been out drinking again. I asked her why she would say that, and she said, 'Because I'm your father.'-- Dave George
There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life.
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."-- Bertrand Russell
The poor little wooden boy could only sit helplessly and watch while the old puppet maker, his father, whom he had just told how a nice fairy had turned him into a living boy, worked on a life-sized puppet of a young woman with big hooters.
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”-- Anais Nin
...as opposed to Xena's paradox, which is, "How exactly can she fight in that leather outfit, and leave all of that flesh exposed, and survive?"
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think. (Ladies' Home Journal)
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
I pity you if you feel that the 'support' of such fair-weather 'friends' is more important than self-respect. Such friends offer no support, but rather slavery in a different cell: that of their approval.-- Clay Bond
"Doing what we please is not freedom, is not liberty; rather, it is the abuse of true liberty and freedom."-- Cardinal Hayes
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.-- Tommy Smothers
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
"I used to teach Sunday school. I had the biggest class...I had like 70 kids. But that was because I wore red leather pants to church."-- Tori Amos
"Bother," said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh."
Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
The older I get, the more I think you ever learn is either further subtleties, or further distractions.
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."-- Victor Hugo
Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
"Tooth Fairies? Hogfathers? Little--"
Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
Yes. Justice. Mercy. Duty. That sort of thing.
"They're not the same at all!"
You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... Death waved a hand. And yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point--"
My point exactly-- Terry Pratchett (Death and Susan in <em>Hogfather</em>)
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?-- Woody Allen ("Without Feathers")
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?-- Kelvin Throop III
I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words.
The acceptable response to homosexuality is not "It's OK, it's not your choice," or, even, "It's OK, it is your choice," but rather, "So?"-- Amy Gorin