Quotes - Part Four

 So #48 is taken from a book by Kage Baker.  It's said by a wife at the funeral of her husband.  I just found it beautiful.  kage Baker's writing tended to be pretty amazing all of the time.

34.                   People refer to “the good ol’ days”, but I don’t know what they’re talking about. As someone who’s battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I’d be a dead man.

--Lance Armstrong

35.                   I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

--Neil Armstrong

36.                   Not all construction work is equally enjoyable.  For example, enlarging a drilled hole is boring, but fastening pieces of metal together is riveting.

--@aromanticduck

37.                   I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.  The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

--Isaac Asimov

38.                   The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I’ve found it!), but “That’s funny…”

--Isaac Asimov

39.                   Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete.

--Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong

40.                   I’ve never understood Christianity’s obsession with homophobia.  Because if you read the 1,700-page bible. and think the main message is to hate gay people, you probably think the main message of Harry Potter is to not date Asians.

--Geoffrey Asmus

41.                   I’m sitting at the opera, and I’m thinking, “Look how much work it takes to bore me to tears.”

--Dave Attell

42.                   Some things just aren’t funny. Beatings aren’t funny. Mimes aren’t funny. But beating a mime… why is that so hilarious?

--Dave Attell

43.               I have this thing I call “The Two Rogers Rule of Manliness”: Basically, if Steve or Fred wouldn’t do it, neither should I.  It’s stupid, it’s simplistic, and it’s geeky, but it works.

--Greg B (@ak404)

44.               G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?

EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area.

--BA4, Somewhere in No Man’s Land

45.               Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

--Jim Backus

46.               The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other

--Francis Bacon

47.               If Paul saw the church in America, we’d be getting a letter.

--Chad Bailey

48.               Will you never open your eyes to me again? Once you walked with me in the long grass, where the lilies poked through and opened their bright throats, and the white mist was on the hillsides and concealed us when we lay down; and your eyes looked into mine.

Will you never speak to me again? Once you lay with me in the summer groves, and the blossoms drifted over us and the branches bowed down to my lips, and the long red sunlight of summer dappled the forest floor; and you sang all night long.

Will you never lift your head again? Once you rose, you moved without tiring, and on the dancing green under stars you were light-footed, and through the red and yellow leaves that drifted you were the swiftest in the chase, and brought me down, best of all the young men; and you rose above me high and strong.

Will you never hear my call again? Once I sang like a bird, no heartbroken note, once I sang and you heard me over the meadows, over valleys, over mountains, and groves; once you came to me voice dropping down swift from where you soared. You heard if I turned in my sleep, you woke if I murmured in my dreams.

But you have been unfaithful, you have listened to the earth’s voice, you have despaired, gone down into sleep and left me to my grief. How will I go after you and leave your children unprotected? Who will care for us now?

--Kage Baker, The House of the Stag

49.               The reason everyone my age has back pain is because our entire lives it was super uncool to carry your backpack on both shoulders.

--Missy Baker

50.               Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that break down, and those that get lost.

--Russell Baker