Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Quotes - Part Twenty-One

 

301.                   It’s in the quiet I miss you most when my mind has the chance to wander and my heart has a moment to remember.

--Lola Lawrence

302.                   We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

--Mark Lawrence, King of Thorns

303.                   No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats – approximately one billion Chinese couldn’t care less.

--Lazlo’s Chinese Relativity Axiom

304.                   Life Sucks; get a Helmet.

--Dennis Leary

305.                   Physics isn’t a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

--Leon Lederman

306.                   Base 8 is just like base 10, really… if you’re missing two fingers

--Tom Lehrer, “The New Math”

307.                   I know there are people who hate other people, and I hate people like that!

--Tom Lehrer

308.                   If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

--Jay Leno

309.                   It was on this day in 1865 that President Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre by actor John Wilkes Booth. It was also the beginning of a feud between Republican presidents and actors that continues until this day.

--Jay Leno

310.               If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing about average.

--Leonard Levinson

311.               Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?

a)       Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.

b)      Advising the President.

c)       Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

--David Letterman

312.               You can tell the holidays are close. You can feel it. Today a 70-foot Norway spruce was selected as the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. What says the holidays better than the destruction of a 200-year-old miracle of nature?

--David Letterman

313.               The White House says North Korea has missiles with the capability of being launched in North Korea and landing on the west coast of the United States. I was thinking about this, and was like, “Oh hell, that’s Leno’s problem.”

--David Letterman

314.               When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

--C.S. Lewis

315.               Petition to replace “quantitative” and “qualitative” with “numbery” and “feely”.

--Michael Leung

316.               I am sick unto death of obscure English towns that exist seemingly for the sole accommodation of these so‑called limerick writers – and even sicker of their residents, all of whom suffer from physical deformities and spend their time dismembering relatives at fancy dress balls.

--Editor of the Limerick Times (Limerick, Ireland)

317.               There are two rules for success: 1) Never tell everything you know.

--Roger H. Lincoln

318.               Equal rights for others does not mean less rights for you.  It’s not pie.

--The Little Market

319.               That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives…  As though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.

--LOLSnaps.com

320.               A baby’s laughter is one of the most beautiful sounds you’ll ever hear.  Unless it’s 3 AM, you’re home alone, and you don’t have a baby.

--@lolsotrue

321.               After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

--Lorenz’s Law of Mechanical Repair

322.               It ain’t over until all reality is reduced to a single point of infinite gravity…

--Jeph Loeb, Ed McGuinness, Superman: Emperor Joker

323.               I was on a date recently, and the guy took me horseback riding. That was kind of fun, until we ran out of quarters.

--Susie Loucks

324.               If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

--Lowery’s Law

325.               You cannot have an elliptical orbit that passes through the Schwarzschild radius. I mean, more than once.

--Paul Lutus, sci.physics

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