X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=59406778a03fefe08cc2c7f74482369a6fa82737;hb=e090643c66e55f142700b1ea1eb440cc068b46df;hp=efbb5059fd5031915610a69ac251ee8cad1b3996;hpb=5044524acf6f8fba6052f5964e7b4d8056002a0a;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index efbb505..5940677 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -303,12 +303,13 @@ handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she doesn't deserve to have any." % -The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis -far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored -effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all -the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting -on it--and is just as likely to succeed. - -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer +The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its +thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's +labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight +has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by +sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed. + -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer + (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4) % EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you @@ -758,3 +759,22 @@ I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own. I resign. -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner" +% +Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are +you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION. +INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are +you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number One? YOU ARE NUMBER SIX. I am not +a number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA. + -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner" +% +Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several +hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. + -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_ +% +Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far +as society is free to use the results. + -- Richard M Stallman _GNU Manifesto_ +% +"She decided what she wished to happen and then assumed that reality +would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes." + -- Terry Goodkind _Phantom_ p133