Thursday, November 07, 2024

Quotes - Part Twenty-Three

 

351.                   Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.

--Wilson Mizner

352.                   Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger, and I realize, “Oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner.”

--Lynda Montgomery

353.                   In fact, one thing that I have noticed… is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever.  I think you’ll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

--Brian E. Moore (ellipsis his)

354.                   May your traditional cuisine be unrecognizably corrupted and then presented in small easy-to-carry boxes to foreigners.

--David Morgan-Mar, “Irregular Webcomic”

355.                   Nothing is as easy as it looks.

--Murphy’s First Law

356.                   Everything takes longer than you think.

--Murphy’s Second Law

357.                   Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

--Murphy’s Third Law

358.                   If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

--Murphy’s Fourth Law

359.                   If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

--Murphy’s Fifth Law

360.               If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

--Murphy’s Sixth Law

361.               Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

--Murphy’s Seventh Law

362.               If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

--Murphy’s Eighth Law

363.               Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

--Murphy’s Ninth Law

364.               Mother Nature is a bitch.

--Murphy’s Tenth Law

365.               It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

--Murphy’s Eleventh Law

366.               Whenever someone says they did something “like a boss,” I assume that means they didn’t do it at all and are merely taking credit for it.

--Bill Murray

367.               Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

--Jawaharlal Nehru

368.               I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means “put down.”

--Bob Newhart

369.               You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

370.               Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

--Larry Niven

371.               I always loved particle physics. Gotta love how they study something by smashing it into pieces. I always pictured using the same technique to study how a radio works by shooting bullets into it, and then observing the pieces as they fly out of the radio.

--Nizo, on Slashdot

372.               A miniskirt speech: Short enough to keep you interested, long enough to cover the topic.

--Norby

373.               An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.  An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said.  An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.  He wants disease conquered, poverty banished, war eliminated.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

374.               Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man’s ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

375.               I’ll tell you what you did to atheists for about 1,500 years.  You outlawed them from universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy.  You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burned them alive.  And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Quotes - Part Twenty-Two

 

326.                   Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

--Manly’s Maxim

327.                   To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion

--Tina Mancuso, on “The Jargon File”

328.                   I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

--Manhattan Murder Mystery

329.                   Well, it’s not really “hi-fi,” and not really “lo-fi.” It’s just kinda “fi.”

--Aimee Mann

330.                   What you have when everyone wears the same play clothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show and Tell, and bullied out of any desire for privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.

--Miss Manners

331.                   I solemnly avow that religion is bunkum everywhere it is found and in every form in which it is found.  Furthermore, I declare that the acceptance of poorly transcribed, poorly edited manuscripts from prehistoric tribes as the word of the universe itself is a folly that should strain the gullibility of a six-year-old child.  I heretofore state without equivocation that religion makes stupidity the way apple trees make apples.

–Stephen Marche

332.                   The good thing about having a death wish is that you’re much more likely to get that wish than, say, the one about a lingerie-clad Nicole Kidman stopping by your apartment with beer and pizza.

--Maurizio Mariotti

333.                   For those habituated to high levels of internal stress since early childhood, it is the absence of stress that creates unease, evoking boredom, and a sense of meaninglessness.  People may become addicted to their own stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol, Hans Selye observed.  To such persons, stress feels desirable, while the absence of it feels like something to be avoided.

--Gabor Maté, MD

334.                   Some people have a way with words, and other people… not have way.

--Steve Martin

335.               I have had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.

--Groucho Marx

336.               Outside of a dog, a book is probably man’s best friend; inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.

--Groucho Marx

337.               When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.

--Merkin’s Maxim

338.               Maybe you’re not healing because you’re trying to be who you were before the trauma.  That person doesn’t exist anymore because there’s a new you trying to be born.  Breathe life into that person.

--Boii McCoy

339.               I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? The one who wins gets a purse. And they do it in gloves. It’s the accessories I love.

--John McGovern

340.               Dave, no. No killing any innocents today. No. Bad Dave.

--Jess McGregor

341.               If you’re cross‑eyed and have dyslexia, can you see okay?

--John Mendoza

342.               For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

--H.L. Mencken

343.               Love is 80% maintenance: changing filters, cleaning grout, touching up paint. Love is tedious and repetitive, and also the most important thing in the universe. Without that work, everything falls apart. And the only reason anyone bothers is because of who we’re doing it for.”

–Micro Flash Fiction

344.               Some things are so wonderful that it almost feels ungrateful to say, “That’s enough.” But beauty you cannot avoid is wallpaper. Music you cannot silence is noise. And an embrace you cannot break is a restraint. Tonight was fantastic, but it becomes less so every second you stay.

–Micro Flash Fiction

345.               People always make fun of Midwesterners for not taking cover during a tornado when it’s literally called “tornado watch.”

--@midwestern_ope

346.                   Revelation in net speak: God: “Praise or GTFO” Heathen: “L@wl f@g!” God: “FLAME WAR! /ban”

--Randal Milholland

347.                   The biggest conspiracy has always been the fact that there is no conspiracy. Nobody’s out to get you. Nobody gives a shit whether you live or die. There, you feel better now?

--Dennis Miller

348.                   Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

--A.A. Milne, Christopher Robin to Pooh

349.                   Sorry I used finger puppets and crayons to explain what condescending means to you.

--@missekay

350.                   I need “Happier than a necromancer in a natural history museum” to become a known phrase immediately.

--@misterartist

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

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Reading

 So I have been casting about recently trying to find a new book to read that grabs ne the way The Deathworlders did.

I tried an anthology of stores that were inspired by Lovecraft, but not of the Mythos.  It was kind of "meh."

Then I came across a book that was co-written by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville called The Book of Elsewhere.

And I tried, I honestly tried to read it.

The thing that struck me was that it seemed like after each chapter was written someone went through and chose a word, looked it up in a big thesaurus, and replaced the original word with the most obscure and esoteric sounding replacement.

I gave up after the first chapter.

Quotes - Part Twenty

276.                   I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels… But for the way the sounds of her name could silence my demons.

--Raul Julia as Gomez Addams in “Addams Family Values”

277.                   It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct

--Michio Kaku

278.                   I’m not the first person to make this point, but ladies, if they’re going to put you in jail for an abortion, you might as well kill your rapist, and get a 2 for 1.

--@kamiroart

279.                   If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it.

--Kasspe

280.                   Dreams save us.  Dreams lift us up an transform us.  And on my soul I swear… until my dream of a world where dignity, honor, and justice becomes the reality we all share… I’ll never stop fighting. Ever.

--Joe Kelly, said by Superman in Action Comics #775

281.                   Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.

--Mary Kelly

282.                   I love that Dr. Strange didn’t get a superhero name when he got his powers.  He was like, “I went to medical school and this magic thing is a hobby.”

--Ryan Ken

283.                   I’m amazed by people who lose weight with exercise.  When I exercise, nothing happens because my DNA still thinks I’m a European peasant.  So, it’s like, Oh! Ae running from the English again, lass?  Dinnae ye worry: we’ll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards.”

--Jamie Kenney

284.                   A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

--John F. Kennedy

285.               Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

--John F. Kennedy

286.               Moving in together with a man is like buying something you have long admired in a shop window. You’re exalted when you bring it home, but you soon discover that it doesn’t match the rest of the furniture.

--Jean Kerr

287.               Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

--John Maynard Keynes

288.               Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

--Nikita Khrushchev

289.               I can’t think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they’re dead.

--Laura Kightlinger

290.               Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy… in a jar on my desk.

--Stephen King, March 8, 1990

291.               When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, “There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”

---Stephen King

292.               It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

--Fletcher Knebel

293.               The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

--D. E. Knuth, 1967

294.               I would love to speak a foreign language but I can’t. So I grew hair under my arms instead.

--Sue Kolinsky

295.               In the beginning the world was without form, and void. And God said “Let there be light.” And God separated the light from the dark. And did two loads of laundry.

--Kevin Krisciunas

296.               Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions; it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

--Irving Kristol

297.               My favorite novelization was “The Passion of the Christ”, except it had a lot of exposition about some people who weren’t even in the movie, and it was a bit preachy, but otherwise, A+ material.

--kthejoker, on Everything2

298.               How can you NOT know that Big Macs are fattening? The Big Mac is the international unit of measuring unhealthy food. Whenever they discover something is bad for you, they tell you how many Big Macs it’s worth.

--Cole Richards, in PvP by Scott Kurtz

299.               I found this job that I get to watch strippers a lot, but it pays negative 20 bucks an hour

                       --Greg Lavery, The Perfect Dark Elite

300.                   I’ve never liked backwards ideas. It always sounds like you’ve run out of forwards ideas.

--Gilson Lavis, former drummer with Squeeze