Thursday, October 03, 2024

Quotes - Part Nineteen

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 United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”, the US will be rather pissed off.

--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 Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN’T SWIM

--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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