251.
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to
line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic?
Do tall people burn slower?
--Warren Hutcherson
252.
The
film “Capricorn One” was filmed entirely on a studio lot on
the moon.
--Armando Ianucci
253.
Friends
come and go like waves of the ocean, but the true ones stick, like an octopus
on your face.
--The Idealist
254.
The
next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the
--Eric Idle
255.
When a human dies, there is
a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven.
At the head of the bridge waits every animal that human encountered
during their lifetime. The animals,
based on what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the
bridge… and which humans are turned away
--Indian legend
256.
If you look at the top 10 grossing movies of all time,
six of them are sci-fi (and the others have pirates, hobbits, and ogres… and,
yes, a boat).
--io9
257.
Physics has various space programs. Biology, when
low-tech, is all about swimming with the dolphins, and when high-tech is about
edging ever-closer to cloning something really cool, like a giant kangaroo. Soft sciences like sociology and
psychology are just good excuses to study sex all the time. Chemistry is
like cooking without ever being able to lick the bowl.
--io9
258.
I make records so I can buy art.
--Jimmy Iovine to Jim Kerr after
hearing lyrics to a new Simple Minds song.
259.
If you don't understand the
science, everything looks like magic.
--“The Irrational”
260.
No
car chases in books, are there?
--Eddie Izzard, in his standup routine “Unrepeatable”
261.
THE
MEEK: THEY WANT IT ALL
--Eddie Izzard, in his standup routine “Circle”
262.
So computers? I hear they basically break down to
a bunch of ones and zeroes. I don’t know how that means I can see naked women on
my screen, but God bless you people.
--Kevin James
263.
A great many people think they are thinking when they
are merely rearranging their prejudices.
--William James
264.
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.
–The Jedi Code
265.
You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got
the better imaginary friend.
--Rich Jeni on going to war over religion
266.
It’s very hard to maintain mental health, because
so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is
unwarranted, and right now needs more of an, “Okay, extremely warranted, but
you still gotta water the plant, or you’ll have fascism AND dead plants.”
--Cliff Jerrison
267.
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at
my suede jacket. “You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?” she sneered. I replied
in a psychotic tone, “I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill
you too.”
--Jake Johansen
268.
If
one morning I walked on top of
the water across the
--Lyndon B. Johnson
269.
Needs are a function of what other people have.
--Jones’ Principle
270.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you
to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
--F. P. Jones
271.
I like being alone. I have control over my own space. Therefore, in order to win me over, your
presence has to be better than my solitude.
You’re not competing with another person, you are competing with my
comfort zone.
--Horacio Jones
272.
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day.
Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.
--Timothy Jones
273.
Dracula
is never rebooted, merely revamped.
–J.P. Jordan
274.
May
you shelter in the palm of the Creator’s hand. The last embrace of the mother
welcome you home.
--Borderland last rites, The
Great Hunt, by Robert Jordan
275.
Till
shade is gone, till water is gone, into the
Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in
Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
--Aiel saying, The
Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
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