Quote Archive for: Sep 3, 2000 to Oct 9, 2000
"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
-Chorus in Henry V by William Shakespeare (or Francis Bacon, if that's your bent)
"The thing to do- when you're running along about a hundred or so and you suddenly find a red-flashing CHP-tracker on your tail- what you want to do then is accelerate. Mash it down and make the bastard chase you at speeds of 120 all the way to the next exit. He will follow. But he won't know what to make of your blinker-signal that says you're about to turn right."
-Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"But nobody can handle...the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
-Hunter S. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots."
-Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor Who
"Fresh from God's garden, I bring a gift of roses. To stand in sweet spring water and press them to your heart. "
-Ian Anderson, from Jethro Tull's Gift of Roses
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
-Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner
"I like to take a chocolate-covered St. Joseph's baby aspirin and groove myself out of my skull."
-Woody Allen
"You're the one who sings, right?"
"Well, right or wrong, I sing either way."
-David Bowie & Bing Crosby
"Having a simply wonderful time. Wish you were here, but sort of glad you're not."
-Ian Anderson