Where's the kabooom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom! - Marvin the Martian closely followed by: The Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the Space Modulator!
I am now envisioning a short horror story about someone getting a haunted recliner from rent-a-center...
That's what I said. Like do you have to disclose that somebody died in the chair? Given the rent-a-center customer demographic, it probably doesn't matter.
What would happen if the Communists occupied the Sahara? Answer: Nothing—for 50 years. Then there would be a shortage of sand. - William F. Buckley Jr.
The year is 2040 and cash is gone. The money you use on a daily basis has fully transitioned into a tool of surveillance and control. - Alex Gladstein
You caught me. The original quote was as you wrote it, but I read it in a book about finance, so I added the word. I should have offered it this way: All [financial] models are wrong, but some can be useful.
"Through all those seven spheres that I had crossed I gazed again, and saw our earthly globe-- So paltry that I smiled at its expanse. For I appraise that counsel best of all Which holds our earth to be of least account; And he who elsewhere looks is right indeed." Dante's Paradiso (canto XXII, trans. Lawrence Grant White), written almost 700 years before Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" speech.
First let me say that I don't have a dog in this fight and don't want it to go all Debate Room, but: "The prime minister is not under a desk." -Penny Mourdant Just about pissed myself laughing.
...who also gave us one of my favorite quotes, which I may have posted before: "I'd rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned."
And speaking of "rather thans" here's a great one from Molly Ivins: "I'd rather have people who burn the flag and wrap themselves in the Constitution than people who burn the Constitution and wrap themselves in the flag."
"He taught me the greatest screenwriting lesson that I ever had, which was that the first draft is just a concept and then you have to take a sledgehammer and just knock the pillars as hard as you can. If they hold up, you keep it in, if they start to crumble, you have to rewrite, because the structure is everything."—Gene Wilder on Mel Brooks, about their collaboration on the script (originally written by Wilder) for Young Frankenstein.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." -Unknown, but a favorite of my boss at my old job. Spoiler Who had a bottle in front of him more often than was probably healthy.
missing a keyword! I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy. Favourite quote of an old (Scottish) friend of mine who never has a full bottle in front of him...
"Woooo! My nine-year-old just climbed a pole and got yelled at by the cops! WOOOOOO!!!!" - A proud father in South Philly tonight
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” — Leo Tolstoy
Reminds me of: "I'd rather be told to have a nice day by someone who didn't mean it than to be told to f--- off by someone who did."
"In the vigour of his age he married Gargamelle, daughter to the King of the Parpaillons, a jolly pug, and well-mouthed wench. These two did oftentimes do the two-backed beast together, joyfully rubbing and frotting their bacon 'gainst one another." -Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart
