Quote Archive for: Jul 16, 2001 to Apr 30, 2001
"I would like you to understand this truth, that when you provide money to artists, you yourself are doing a work of art."
- Vincent Van Gogh, Letter to his brother Theo, October 1888
"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."
"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 did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
"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).
"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
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