Assorted Kick-Ass Quotes I've Found Recently

    (BTW, if you're a Live Journal buddy who gave me good quotes but you don't see 'em on here . . . I'm not slighting you, I'm just horribly disorganized.
    Oh, and there will be a Fiona Page, at the very least.)

  • Your heart is in the right place but your brain is someplace cold and dark and covered with spiders.
    --Miss Rivers, Escape From Monkey Island

  • We are made to bleed
    And scab and heal
    And bleed again
    Turn every scar into a joke . . .
    --Ani Difranco

  • Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
    --Albert Camus

  • I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
    --Rebecca West, 1913.

  • So where has love gotten me?
    It’s gotten me to a place I never dreamed I would be. I have evolved into someone I didn’t think I was capable of being.
    That in itself is a miracle and worth all of the heartache from the past.
    --Christie, on livejournal.

  • You know those tender chill spring days where you can just smell the new growth coming, and the sky is a vast expanse barely punctuated by fluffy white clouds, and the wind sweeps your jacket open and blows through your chest and makes you feel like your heart is made of glass, and you breathe deep and spread your arms and stand up on your tiptoes and think for just a moment that if you lifted both feet you could fly?
    In those moments I resonate for eternity in a pure note of joy.
    --Autarchia, on livejournal also (I hope I remembered to ask her permission for that one . . . )

  • I am a figment of my own imagination.
    --some friend of Heather's.

  • I'm superstitious about admitting I have any good qualities--the evil spirits will get them, you see.
    --Azrachael, on LJ

  • Remember the world does not consist of simpleminded and reductive good/evil polarities, but, rather, is a living organism, interconnected and breathing and dying and renewing in constant flux, religions interflowing, beliefs inbreeding, crammed full of ecstatically bejeweled people who are just as contradictory and confused and gorgeous and kaleidoscopic and baffled and sleepy and horny and lost and desperately craving of juicy unfiltered spiritual nourishment as you are, in this very moment, as you read these words.
    --Mark Morford
    (oddly enough, I have no memory of where I got this one or exactly who Mark Morford is. Huh.)

  • I refuse to let my mind become some sodden thing that just sits in the brain cavity, waiting to rot and ooze out my ears.
    --Kat, probably on livejournal, Jan 1st 2003

  • Life is so full of mysteries . . . .
    And when one of them comes up on you, whacks you in the back of the head, and takes off whooping laughter, what are you supposed to do about it? Chase it or shoot it dead?
    --Kat again, about gods only know what ;-)

  • A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
    --Ayn Rand, 1963

  • Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffers, not the state.
    --Mark Twain

  • Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
    --Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning economist

  • Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
    --Abraham Lincoln: Speech in the Illinois House of Representatives, Dec 18, 1840. (okay, we gave up on prohibiting alcohol, so now we're picking on marijuana . . . sheesh! )

  • Sometimes I spontaneously plan something. At other times I plan to be spontaneous.
    --Clearwater, on livejournal or possibly WWC

  • I'm walking around with a bucket full of naked barbies.
    --said by Clearwater while walking home with a bucket full of naked barbies.
    (editor's note: I like to help make everybody's day just a little more surreal . . .)

  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
    --Arthur C. Clarke (I am ashamed that it took me soooo long to get this one on the page. Bad Hag!!)

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
    --Eleanor Roosevelt (another classic I have long neglected. Really bad Hag!!!)

  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
    --Albert Einstein
    (I should make an Albert Einstein page. He rocks.)

  • This . . . is . . . my family. I found it, all on my own. It's little . . . and broken . . . but still good. Yeah . . . still good.
    --Stitch, from "Lilo & Stitch"

  • 'Kathy, I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping
    I'm empty and aching and I don't know why . . .
    --Paul Simon, "America" (right before the Jersey Turnpike bit)

    A Few Tech-Related Quotes
    (parked here until I get around to making a Tech Quotes Page)

  • Most people on this network wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.
    --Jef Poskanzer

  • SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then.
    - jfw@proteon.com (John Woods)
    (borrowed; if you are him and don't want your real name used, yell at me)

  • I spent a lot of time on chat lines on America Online. That's not the information superhighway; it's the random-chat-meaningless-verbiage superhighway.
    --Dave Barry, Computerworld interview, May 20, 1996

  • Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
    --Blair Houghton

  • From an IBM maintenance manual (1925): "By all means, do not use a hammer."
    (I think they might be making that one up, but you never know . . . and do they mean 1952 instead of 1925??)

  • Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
    --Rich Cook
    /random tech quotes

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