403.
The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Philpotts
404.
Trust the overthinker who tells you they love
you. They have, most assuredly, thought
of every reason not to.
--L.K. Pilgrim
405.
“Armageddon” got some astronomy right. For
example, there is an asteroid in the movie, and asteroids do indeed exist.
--Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
406.
For the Discovery Institute to accuse a
pro-evolution board member of the Texas Board of Education of having her
religion bias her actions is like Jeffrey Dahmer telling you to be a
vegetarian.
--Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy
407.
You don’t actually have to be able to understand the
lyrics, you’ve just got to feel like you could if you wanted to.
--Chuck Plotkin (Producer for Bruce
Springsteen)
408.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to
be kindled.
--Plutarch
409.
Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and
let me love you anyway,
--Edgar Allan Poe
410.
The goodness of a true pun is in direct ratio of its
intolerability.
--Edgar Allan Poe
411.
If
you have a digital watch, which way
is clockwise?
--Police Scanner
412.
Not
my circus. Not my monkeys.
--Polish proverb
413.
Trauma
compromises our ability to engage with others by replacing patterns of
connection with patterns of protection.
--Stephen
Porges
414.
Setting
the AI reactions for a giant spiderbot is pretty easy… hate, hate, hate, hate.
--Steve Powers
415.
My mom said she learned how to swim. Someone took
her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. That’s how she learned how to swim.
I said, “Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.”
--Paula Poundstone
416.
Two French Admirals were berating a US Naval Attaché,
“Why must we speak to you in English. Why don’t you have to learn French instead
of our having to learn English?”
To which the Attaché
replied, “Maybe because we arranged it so you didn’t have to learn German?”
--Jerry Pournelle,
417.
“Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence, but that dude
that’s yell-singing is replaced by Animal from The Muppets.
--@poutinesmoothie
418.
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over
the last 100 years and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have
lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them
in.
--Secretary
of State Colin Powell
419.
The ability of skinny old ladies to carry huge
loads is phenomenal. Studies have shown
that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known
limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant
grandmother.
-- Terry
Pratchett, Reaper Man
420.
All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.
--Terry Pratchett
421.
Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should
by rights belong to your slightly older self.
--Terry Pratchett, Snuff
422.
Everything I know I learned at the public library;
school taught me to spit.
--Terry Pratchett
423.
I’m not the world’s greatest expert, but I would
have thought the wizards, witches, trolls… would have given her a clue.
--Terry Pratchett, mocking J.K. Rowling’s
claim that she did not write fantasy
424.
It is better to build a seismograph than to
worship the volcano.
--Terry
Pratchett
425.
It is hard to convey five-dimensional ideas in a language
evolved to scream defiance at the monkeys in the next tree.
--Terry Pratchett
426.
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They
were Us. If it was Them, then nothing
was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, what
did that make Me? After all, I’m one of
Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one
of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves
as one of Them. We’re always one of
Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
--Terry Pratchett
427.
Never trust an engineer who is laughing.
--Terry Pratchett
428
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways
of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up
until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat
leaden death, demon…
--Terry Pratchett
429.
People think that professional soldiers think a lot
about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and
a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get,
whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.
--Terry
Pratchett, Small Gods
430.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes
reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus
allowances. A really good pair of
leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an
affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then
leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always
bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was
in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for
years and years. A man who could afford
fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten
years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have
spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots'
theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry
Pratchett, Men at Arms
431.
Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are
hurting, it’s not satire, it’s bullying.
--Terry
Pratchett
