| Life conspires to beat the rebel out of you.-- Alex Bogusky |
| What's even more difficult than failure is when you are perceived as a success, and you are failing.-- Kris Kristofferson |
| Just paint your pictures, boy, until you find a closed circle is better than an open line.--Ian Anderson (17) |
| Most revolutions finish worse than they started.--Owen Parry (Honors Kingdom) |
| Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) |
| I went to a funeral. And Lord it made me happy, seeing all those people I ain't seen since the last time somebody died.--Lyle Lovett |
The 5th Bunch
| Sometimes I don't speak too bright, but yet, I know what I'm talking about.--War (Why Can't We Be Friends) |
| We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.--Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night) |
| I have learned that there is a great deal to be said for not saying a great deal.--Owen Parry (Bold Sons of Erin) |
| The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.--Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin) |
| Throughout history, human beings have occassionally found themselves caught between two very different ways of perceiving reality. --Jeremy Rifkin (The Hydrogen Economy) |
| Explanations are ineffectual as they are abundant. It is the accusations that interest the general run of mankind. --Owen Parry (Honor's Kingdom) |
| If you say you're going to stop procrastinating tomorrow, I think you're still actually procrastinating. --Jon Heck |
| Imagine a universe in which to understand anything you'd need to understand everything. --Brian Geene (The fabric of the cosmos) |
| Time is nature's way of keeping everything— all change, that is— from happening all at once. --John Wheeler |
| History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. --Edward Gibbon |
| We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. --Kurt Vonnegut |
| Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. --Groucho Marx |
| Sometimes I wish life were like a book, so a fellow might close it when he needs a breather. --Owen Parry (Call Each River Jordan) |
The 4th Bunch
| The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. --Noelie Alite |
| The less a man possesses, the harder he fights for it.--Owen Parry (Call Each River Jordan) |
| I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. -- Groucho Marx |
| The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. --George Bernard Shaw |
| Life is just a short period of time in which we are alive. --Philip Roth (American Pastoral) |
| Do one thing at a time and think of the remaining things left to be done as sequential, not cumulative. --Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain) |
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. --Winston Churchill |
| The comeliest order on earth is but a heap of random sweepings. --Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain) |
| Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. --Oscar Wilde |
| We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day is identical. --Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain) |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei |
| He was only trying to deserve the attention he had already attracted. --Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) |
| Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. --Henry Ford |
| It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood. --Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) |
Bunch #3
| History is short. Time is linear. The sun is only a minor star. --Roger Waters |
| You can't stop or I will pass you. If you slow down I will out last you. But when you're down, you won't find me laughing.--Chris & Rich Robinson (Black Crows) |
| There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.--Shakespeare |
| Wit is the denial of suffering.--Tom Robbins (Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates) |
| I know you are, but what am I.-- Pee Wee Herman |
| The people on the hill say I'm lazy. But when they sleep, I sing and dance.-- Pete Townshend |
| It seems my four years of high school passed in the same time as the 17 years since.-- Jon Heck |
| While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.--Alan Lightman (Einstein's Dreams) |
| And don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven, 'cause it hasn't.--Bugs Bunny |
| I took month long vacations in the stratosphere, and you know, it's really hard to hold your breath.--Bruce Springstein |
| There seems to be a perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.--Warren Buffett |
| Don't skate to the puck; skate to where the puck is going.--Wayne Gretzsky |
| Depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.--Tom Robbins (Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates) |
| The torment of another does not lessen the hurt of our hangnail.--Owen Perry (Shadows of Glory) |
| If I have to explain it, then I shouldn't be playing it.--Louie Armstrong |
| There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. --Johann Sebastian Bach |
| He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. --Groucho Marx |
| Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.--Mark Twain |
| When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.--Jonathan Swift |
| Life can be painless, provided that there is sufficient peacefulness for a dozen or so rituals to be repeated endlessly.--Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick) |
| No normal man can very long endure another's tragedy.--Sinclair Lewis (It Can't Happen Here) |
| Always telling people what they're too lazy to know, it can drive you crazy. It can make you insane. --Van Morrison |
| History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.--Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick) |
| It's a certain kind of fool that likes to hear the sound of his own name. Particularly those that refer to themselves in the third person.--Jon Heck |
| If you stay up late, it starts to get early.--Joe Walsh |
| But why is it ... that those willing to do little themselves want the most done for others?--Owen Parry (Faded Coat of Blue) |
| I understand too little too late. I realize there are things you say and do you can never take back. But what would you be if you didn't even try? You have to try.-- Lyle Lovett |
| Sometimes people come together accidentally in a way that seems to make a point.-- Ted Mooney (Singing into the Piano) |
| My word's but a whisper, your deafness a shout.-- Ian Anderson |
The First Bunch
| Only two things in life are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. --Albert Einstein |
| Only the mediocre are always at their best. --Jean Giraudoux |
| If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.--Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| Strange how much you have to know before you know how little that is. --Anonymous |
| The threshold for insult is directly related to intelligence and confidence.-- Adapted from John Steinbeck (The Winter of our Discontent) |
| If you have to tell people how good you are ... then you're not good enough.--Jon Heck |
| I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. --Groucho Marx |
| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint Exupery |
| Never overestimate your own importance. Leave that to other people. --Jon Heck |
| The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow. --Manny Trillo |
| Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein |
| Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. --Wilson Mizner |
| It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. --Yogi Berra |
| In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. --Jan LA van de Snepscheut |
| The average person thinks he isn't. --Father Larry Lorenzoni |
| Maybe not having the time to think is not having
the wish to think. --John Steinbeck (The Winter of our Discontent) |
| Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.--Kurt Vonnegut (Fates Worse than Death) |
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