Quotes - Part Thirty-One

 So this is that last of the attributed quotes.  Next posts will be unknown.

638.                   Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a flame.

--Yeates

639.                   Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong liked to do a thing where they’d tell unfunny jokes at parties about being on the moon, and when people were confused, they’d go, “Guess you had to have been there.”

--@zachsanomaiy

640.                   Any time you get a mouthful of hot soup, the next thing you do will be wrong.

--Zall’s First Law

641.                   How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on.

--Zall’s Second Law

642.                   So, with your long hair, I guess that makes you a woman.

--Joe Pine (60’s talk show host who sported a wooden leg) to Frank Zappa

So, with your wooden leg, I guess that makes you a table.

--Frank Zappa’s response

643.                   I think that if you wanted to make top ten hits and sell millions of records you could.

--Interviewer

Yeah, but who wants to go through life with a tiny nose and one glove on.

--Frank Zappa

644.                   In the beginning was a word I cannot pronounce.

--Merlin, Knight of Shadows, Roger Zelazny

645.                   Positing infinity, the rest is easy.

--Roger Zelazny

646.                   Somewhere it is always raining. Controlled or artificial, somewhere it is always raining, any time you care to think of it. Always remember that, if you can.

--Roger Zelazny

647.               Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

--Dan Zevin

648.               Being a science writer is harder than being a sports writer, because sports writers don’t have to deal with people who think that basketball doesn’t even exist.

--Carl Zimmer

649.               The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was their discovery of biological evolution.  Now that we know that Adam and Ever never were real people, the central myth of Christianity is destroyed.  If there never was an Adam and Eve, there never was original sin.  If there never was original sin, there is no need for salvation.  If there is no need for salvation, there is no need of a savior.  And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed.  I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.

--Frank Zindler

650.               If you keep this up, I’ll use the Geneva Convention as a to-do list.

--Zoinkscoobz

651.               Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

--Carl Zwanzig