Quote Archive for: Nov 23, 2005 to May 14, 2004
"I am aware this is the second time in two weeks I have been compelled to quote Lear, but there are times when Eminem simply will not do."
- Roger Ebert
"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
"He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"
- Louis, the Keymaster, in Ghostbusters
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it"
- Mark Twain
"So, here in the land of the free, freedom won by brave men whose speech was salty and whose interest in women was keen, a man cannot say "breast" on the radio. How do these people manage to order Kentucky fried chicken?"
"When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Very likely if they said this in the Kensington Gardens, they were standing looking at a fairy all the time."
- J. M. Barrie
"On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently 3 full-time, 24-hour news networks."
- attributed to Jon Stewart
"We declared war on terror. It’s not even a noun, so, good luck. After we defeat it, I’m sure we’ll take on that bastard ennui."
- Jon Stewart
"Some people look at a glass and see it as half full, and other people look at a glass and say that it's a dragon."
- Jon Stewart
"The people you work with, are people you were just thrown together with. You don?t know them, it wasn?t your choice. And yet you spend more time with them then you do your friends or your family, but probably all you?ve got in common, is the fact that you walk around on the same bit of carpet for eight hours a day."
- Tim Canterbury from The Office
"I think it was John Lennon who said 'life is what happens when you?re making other plans' and that?s how I feel. Although he also said, 'I am the Walrus. I am the eggman' so I don?t know what to believe"
- Tim Canterbury from The Office
"When you can?t run anymore, you crawl, and when you can?t do that, you find someone to carry you."
- Tracey in the Firefly episode "The Message"
"Good morning, Starbuck. What do you hear?"
"Nothin' but the rain."
"Grab your gun and bring in the cat."
"Yes sir."
- Commander Adama and Lt. Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica
"I don't know how many times someone has come up to me and said 'Hey! Let's dance!' I hate dancing. God it's stupid."
"The original title of my movie Star Trek: Nemesis was actually Star Trek: Genesis. We were supposed to hunt down and destroy Phil Collins."
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
- Thomas Jefferson
"I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings."
- Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal
"Things are getting weirder and weirder in this country. I tried to call my friend Monk in Chicago last night to warn him about the coming pestilence of root-sucking beetles, but I somehow got connected to a guard station at the Illinois State Prison and found myself talking to a stern-voiced woman who said I sounded crazy and warned me never to call this number again or she would have me arrested."