Quote Archive for: Mar 31, 2003 to Jan 17, 2003

Monday, Mar 31, 2003

"The prevailing quality of life in America -- by ANY accepted methods of measuring -- was inarguably freer and more politically OPEN under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of our Lord, 2002."

- Hunter S. Thompson

Monday, Mar 10, 2003

"I'm tired of comics trying to be like movies at a time when movies are becoming more like comic books."

- Grant Morrison

Friday, Feb 28, 2003

"You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?"

- Terry Jones

Thursday, Feb 13, 2003

"Peace is better than war because life is better than death."

- Mario Cuomo

Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003

"I'd forgotten what it's like to have a president who can get both a subject and a verb into every sentence."

- Mark Evanier on Bill Clinton

Monday, Jan 27, 2003

"The only good thing about driving somewhere is Depeche Mode's album Violator, and I'm willing to be fairly firm on this point."

- Penny Arcade's Tycho

Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003

"But for all I know, I was actually abducted by aliens, improperly probed and violated and given a false memory to keep me docile. Come to think of it, I'm starting to get that feeling from a lot of Spielberg films. Weird."

- The Brunching Shuttlecocks' Self-Made Critic reviewing Catch Me If You Can.

Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003

"SimCity 4 is possibly the biggest proponent of Reaganomics ever."

- game reviewer Jonah Falcon (is that his real name?)

Monday, Jan 20, 2003

"Are you honestly comparing Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Marvels, Animal Man, The Authority and Powers with Mystery Men and Blade 2? Spidey was a really, really fun movie, but I'm not going to watch that film HALF as many times as I've re-read Dark Knight or Batman: Year One."

- comic writer Mark Millar on comparing super-hero comics to super-hero movies

Friday, Jan 17, 2003

"As far as I can figure, the tickets sold went to five million normal people who saw it once, and five million fucking weirdoes who saw it nine times each."

- Randy Shandis, The Filty Critic, on ticket sales for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring