Quotes

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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-- Winston Churchill

Cops and reporters are much alike. Both are absolutely dedicated to doing the job at hand, regardless of obstacles. And both, deep down, really believe the rules don't apply to them.
-- Jim Barlow (Houston Chronicle)

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
-- Winston Churchill

I do not like the man: he has all of the virtues I detest and none of the vices I admire.
-- Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
-- Winston Churchill

"Improvised be damned! I thought of it this morning in my bath and I wish now I hadn't wasted it on this little crowd."
-- Winston Churchill

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
-- Anton Chekhov

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

-- Winston Churchill

Wreckless Driving -- You'd think that would be a good thing.
-- Chris Sampson

If stupidity was a crime, honey, you'd get a life sentence.
-- Chris Stephenson

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter

I've tried relaxing, but--I don't know--I feel more comfortable tense.
-- Caption for Hamilton cartoon

"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."

-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)

"You have not truly experinced Shakespeare until you have read it in the original Klingon."
-- The Klingon chancellor (Star Trek VI)

Non sequitur is Latin for "w'uh huh?"
-- Chris Isaak

Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...
-- David Preston

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton

"You can only fuck your way to the middle."
-- Sharon Stone

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
-- R. Clopton

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Unfortunately, as Usenet gets out to the masses it will become diluted.
-- Nelson Minar
*Again*!?!?
-- David Preston

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
-- Laura Creighton

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton

"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
-- Agatha Christie

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
-- William J. Clinton

'Anything that happens, happens'
'Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.'
'Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.'
'It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.'
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

May your future be limited only by your dreams.
-- Christa McAuliffe

"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-- Christopher Lasch

"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
-- Edith Wharton

Dante Hicks: Theoretically, people see money on the counter, and no one around, they think they're being watched.
Veronica: Honesty through paranoia.
(Clerks)