QuoteLog

“When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.”

“We have learned that only 1 percent of our genome diverges from a mouse’s. With only 300 genes distinguishing us from tiny, mute, artless vermin, the triviality of racial distinctions becomes clear.”

“There’s no such thing as a fairly fought war. Anyone who thinks so is naive to the point of being dangerous.”

“A syndication format that requires valid semantic XHTML markup? Spare me. 9 out of 10 bloggers can’t even spell XHTML.”

“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.”

“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”

“Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...”

“I have a sick fantasy: lock up the inhabitants of Metafilter and Little Green Footballs in an arena, and let them whine each other to death.”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.”

“In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.”

“As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.”

“I was shocked to discover a nest of pirates yesterday, operating brazenly right here in my hometown. They were gathered in a large nondescript building, reading and talking quietly and in some cases listening to music. Some kind of social club, perhaps? Yes, but with a profoundly subversive theme: “sharing” content. This establishment houses large collections of books, magazines, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, DVDs. And it ‘shares’ these with its patrons. I watched in amazement as people left the building carrying armloads of these content assets, which they ‘borrow’ without paying a nickel to the copyright holders. It’s frightening, really. Who knew?”

“If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?”

“In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.”

“Life is like a monkey. Sometimes it slings its shit at you.”

“It’s hard to say whether I’m just clumsy or a left-handed girl living in a right-handed world.”

“We’re doing a piece about Michael [Vick], talking to people who’ve played against him. When guys . . . started to tell stories [about] what it’s like to play against him, it’s like people who have seen UFOs.”

“I’m still not sure the American sports fan really appreciates what we have here. Forget about changing the game or reinventing the position. This guy is Michael Jordan or Joe Montana or Wayne Gretzky. He is the show by himself. Name a player in any sport you’d rather watch play.”