X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=996182f1382df980efac827d127706695998468a;hb=6a6b45a5f11b25b18133d6338aa4f0351c4f80d7;hp=a41136a785141c4404fcf478e6073a03bc3667cc;hpb=9564fa9338c98703f60fd17898d72d188bacf2b7;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index a41136a..996182f 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -833,3 +833,28 @@ Therefore, immediacy." He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too early to have started going really wrong. -- Terry Pratchet _Only You Can Save Mankind_ p133 +% +Let me bring you up to speed: +We know nothing. +You are now up to speed. + -- Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau in _The Pink Panther 2_ (2009) +% +A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any +spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest. +[...] A kiss could change the entire world. + -- Scott Westerfeld _The Killing of Worlds_ p336 +% +Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to +enough of it." + -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 13th, 2005 + http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050313.html +% +Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the +further you'll go." + -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 8th, 2003 + http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html +% +There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly +pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the +young author through mental contact with type metal. + -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67)