X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=e8793d3fffdae47ef42011f4e8ef85c02a03ee52;hb=331693b7455f108c373eda0a2708e59609dcb1e8;hp=0a4d30f75f2798824852ee3503220a31fa96b42b;hpb=2bb8af2129b2b6d5c5f28f886eded49c113eb4c9;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 0a4d30f..e8793d3 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 @@ -536,8 +537,8 @@ have exhausted all other possibilities. As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware -of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims -of the darkness. +of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting +victims of the darkness. -- William O. Douglas % One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back @@ -736,4 +737,257 @@ If you think about it, your honour, I'm an environmentalist. -- a softer world #283 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283 +% +We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. +Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If +it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. + -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_ +% +"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak +up for them as have no voices." + -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227 +% +But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only +dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what +will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity? + -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152 +% +There is no more concentrated form of evil +than apathy. +% +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 1? YOU ARE NUMBER 6. 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 +% +Judge if you want. +We are all going to die. +I intend to deserve it. + -- a softer world #421 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=421 +% +All my dreams came true. +I just didn't think them through. + -- a softer world #388 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=388 +% +You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty +soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to +experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in +the corner of a lab somewhere with a Soxhlet apparatus in one hand, +a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant +money. + -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech +% +The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet +to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must +necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author +will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons". + -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability. + AIR 1:3, June, 1995. +% +[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate +balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and +tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology +to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a +Boeing 757. + -- Charles Stross "Extracts from the Club Diary" in _Toast_ p83-4 +% +Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an +information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something, +no amount of shouting or propogandizing will budge me; all it will do +is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your +product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink. + -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136 +% +[On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs +and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.] +"Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is +bound to be ok" + -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009 +% +"What, now?" +"Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. +Therefore, immediacy." + -- Iain M. Banks _Look to Windward_ p 213 +% +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) +% +It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. + -- Frederick Douglass +% +"That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain +power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty +of oneself not being there." + -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391 +% +listen, what you do in the privacy +of your neighbour's house while they're away +is your own business + -- a softer world #511 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511 +% +Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes +but then I think +what if my mother could take back hers? + -- a softer world #498 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498 +% +Clean living is less fun +and you wind up feeling stupid +when you still die. + -- a softer world #489 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 +% +If god is always watching over us +who's driving? + -- a softer world #487 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487 +% +Maybe I did steal your heart +and I am such a perfect criminal +that you never noticed + -- a softer world #481 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481 +% +Life would be way easier +if I were easier. + -- a softer world #473 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473 +% +I always thought +violence didn't solve anything +until one day it did. + -- a softer world #470 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 +% +With one simple pill +we cured unhappiness +and art + -- a softer world #437 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437 +% +First you take a drink, +then the drink takes a drink, +then the drink takes you. + -- F. Scott Fitzgerald +% +It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers +that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. +Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always, +somehow, be thanked. + -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction" +% +Let the victors, when they come, +When the forts of folly fall +Find thy body by the wall! + -- Matthew Arnold +% +unbeingdead isn't beingalive + -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_ +% +nothing except the impossible shall occur + -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ +% +-tommorow is our permanent address +and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, +we'll move away still further:into now + -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_ +% +in Just- +spring when the world is mud- +luscious the little lame baloonman +whistles far and wee + -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]" +% +life's not a paragraph +And death i think is no parenthesis + -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ +% +Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. +We get very little wisdom from success, you know. + -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_ +% +Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events +which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a +miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not +all that miraculous. +% +They say when you embark on a journey +of revenge +dig two graves. +They underestimate me. + -- a softer world #560 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560 +% +I never meant to let you down. +I thought for sure +the attic lock would hold. + -- a softer world #562 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562 +% +I made a bunch of stickers +to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels. +"If you are reading this, + then you are awesome" + -- a softer world #569 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569 +% +I'm sorry about those late night emails. +I only said those things because I was too drunk +to be afraid. + -- a softer world #579 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579 +% +6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_ +% +2: There is no out. There is only in. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)"