I’m of the opinion that we’re all grown-ups here. Let’s have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by. Let me decide what I am offended by and what I’m not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says ‘abridged due to modern sensitivities'. - Tom Hanks
"Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?" Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie), Labyrinth
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Anon. from Slashdot.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. - Lewis Carroll (The White Queen - Through the Looking Glass) I may have posted this one before, but I forget.
"I heard this story about a fish. He swims up to an older fish and says: ‘I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean.’ ‘The ocean?’ the older fish says, ‘that’s what you’re in right now.’ ‘This’, says the young fish, ‘this is water. What I want is the ocean!’ ~ From Pixar's Onward, Soul, in a parable told to Joe
“The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.” ― George Santayana
“May the bridges you burn light the road ahead.” – Me, but then later I saw it quoted on the internet somewhere and wondered if I had stolen it and forgotten or if we just both came up with it independently
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. - John Adams
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him a-drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine ~ Three Dog Night
“Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary... feelings.” -Miles Edgeworth (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, case 3) I was trying to find a burning bridge related ace attorney quote to go along with the rest of the posts (at some point a guy runs across a burning bridge and survives somehow) but I couldn’t find one
An author spends all morning looking for a place to add a coma. And all afternoon removing it. Oscar Wilde
My Wife is a Really Bad Cook My wife is a really bad cook. We were having dinner the other night, and when she wasn't looking I slipped some to the dog; then he began vigorously lapping his butt, and my wife exclaimed "What is he doing!!", to which I replied "He's just trying to get the taste out of his mouth.". - Ron White (paraphrased all to hell)
Under the new arrangement, the PGA will manage holes 1-8 and 12-18, while the Saudis will continue to be responsible for 9-11. Anon., from flutterby.
An escalator is never temporarily out of order, just temporarily stairs. - sorry for the convenience (Mitch Hedberg)
