Filled to the brim with darkness deeper than night, with bitterness hotter than the depths of hell - that’s coffee.
- Godot, Gyakuten Saiban 3
Archive for February, 2007
I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn’t say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
- Sting
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution
We are spirits in the material world
- The Police, Spirits in the Material World
Insult not the White Wizard, for I have many powers. Here, pick a card. Any card.
- Goodgulf Grayteeth, Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
- Carl Sagan
Sam: Max almost lost a finger in a fan like that once.
Max: Yeah, but it wasn’t my own finger.
- Sam & Max (new series)
Cherryl Brooks: There’s something I want you to know, so that there won’t be any pretending about it. I’m not going to put on the sweet relative act. I know what you’ve done to Jim and how you’ve made him miserable all his life. I’m going to protect him against you. I’ll put you in your place. I’m Mrs. Taggart. I’m the woman in this family now.
Dagny Taggart: That’s quite all right. I’m the man.
- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I drink to make other people interesting.
- Groucho Marx
“Welcome to Lornadoon,” said Lavalier, rising slowly to her feet, and it seemed to the company that she was as fair as a young sapling or scrub oak. She had magnificent chestnut hair, and when she shook her head, handfuls of magnificent chestnuts dropped to the floor like rain. Frito toyed with the Ring and wondered at her great beauty.
“I see, Frito,” she said, “that as you toy with the Ring, you wonder at my great beauty.”
- Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
Don’t smoke, kids. Unless you’re on fire. Then it’s only natural.
- Max, Sam & Max: The Mole, the Mob and the Meatball
My job? Taking care of crazies like you. Making sure you don’t go and hurt yourselves with your deviant powers. And cookies, I make cookies.
- Lonk the Sane, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
Chocolate is a serious thing.
- Deanna Troi, Star Trek: The Next Generation
…”This is an evil place, I fear,” said Arrowroot, slipping on the sticky black paint which covered every inch of the land.
“It is the Black Valley,” said Goodgulf solemnly.
“Are we in Fordor already?” asked Frito hopefully.
“Do not mention that black land in this black land,” said the Wizard darkly.
- Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a sword and he can feast on the meaty marrow of evil!
- Minsc, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
- Carl Sagan
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