Cool quotes

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"The problem isn't just ignorance, but what passes for knowledge."

James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute.

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry (1947 - )

"I am both nervous and happy about the SNP's [Scottish National Party's] cheerfulness. It used to be less of a political party and more of a pressure group for independence, like Greenpeace but with us Scots as the whales. Now they are a proper political party."

Ruaridh Nicoll in The Observer

(Also: "The Tories have no stomach for radical thinking. The Socialists are certainly involved in a discussion, but not the sort any sane person would want to be involved in.")

Nothing on earth consumes a man so completely as the passion of resentment.

That's still my favorite.

I believe Nietzsche said that.

"The next morning Archer scoured the town in vain for more yellow roses. In consequence of this search he arrived late at the office, perceived that his doing so made no difference whatever to anyone, and was filled with sudden exasperation at the elaborate futility of his life."

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence



"I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that's odd, isn't it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?"

David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System



"'I'm in trouble.' He looked around. 'I pause for the customary gasps of surprise while you try to adjust your thinking to accept the notion that anyone could possibly find any fault in so witty and charming a fellow as I.'"

David Eddings, Domes of Fire

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx


I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. ~Groucho Marx


The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. ~Mark Twain, attributed

Never judge a book by its movie. ~ Anonymous

I have a ton of fav quotes, so I shall post one I just found, that i really like. So here it goes:

Quid me nutrit me destruit It's Latin for:What nourishes me
also destroys me

I don't know why I enjoy this quote so much, but I realy. When i find my quote book (oh yes, I have my own quote book, that has taken me over a year to write, not my own quotes by ones I like. It's just written in a journal, but still, IT"S my quote book. I will post some better quotes)

Peace out for now

"His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal."

Tom Sharpe

Dead
Is what he is, he does what he please
The things that he has you'll never want to see
What you're never gonna be now
Sketch a little keyholefor looking-glass people
You don't want to see him
You only want to be him
- Angel with the Scabbed Wings
- Marilyn Manson


Not really a quote, but something I had as my "quote" at the end of e-mails and such, for a long time. I really like it. But not everyone likes Marilyn Manson.. so....

Conservative Republican (and probable presidential candidate) Sam Brownback:

Cancer is the "leading cause of fear in America today. It's not terrorism."

In a way he's right of course, and you've got to give him kudos for saying something thats true but completely not what you're supposed to say, least of all when you're posing as potential president.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

Read on a toilet wall "Life is like a **** sandwich, the more bread you have the less **** you eat"