Quote Archive for: Apr 23, 2001 to Jul 9, 2001
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
- Igor Stravinsky
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
- James Baldwin
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
- Rudy Rucker
"If I punch you in the eye, that's violence. If I write the sentence 'I punch you in the eye,' that?s not violence. It's just words."
-Steven Grant
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
-Douglas Adams ? More DNA quotes: Here, here, and here (many repeat, but as it is highly unlikely that there will be any new ones anytime soon, you'd better just read them all twice).
"I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"They have transparent plastic things that are violently green at you, and which take photographs, order take-out, check for the nearest good sushi restaurant, download basketball scores and double as mobile phones, all at the same time."
- Neil Gaiman
"I would say get a clue, but you'd go get a shoddy clue, poorly crafted, made by prison labor with sub-standard materials -- just so you can save a buck or two. So I won't say it, since it's pointless."