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[TokyoBayer]

I ran across this in an article.

Graham had a number of interesting theories, including that consumption of meat, seasonings and rich foods lead to rampant masturbation.

Post a random quote, no need to provide context or links.

[DCnDC]

Pareidolia is the best explanation for the Face on Mars, the Mermaid on Mars ... and even the Happy Face on Mars.

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[swampbear]

Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.

A favorite!

[6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast]

Hey! I eat my lunch outta that!!

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[gracer]

I never gave a damn for a man who could only spell a word one way.

I used to teach English.

[Crab Rangoon]

I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

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[Jasper Kent]

“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”

[septimus]

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

WLSC

[living_in_hell]

Semper ubi sub ubi.

I'm talking to you, Meredith Vierra.

[Shodan]

What do you mean, 'casual' sex? These are my best shoes!

Regards,
Shodan

[Marconi N. Cheese]

"You call that a knife?" "This is a knife!"

[Dendarii Dame]

"The best cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

[runner pat]

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

[blondebear]

"The problem is, you need a constant supply of urea."

[Baker]

"Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death Incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."

[figure9]

"Vaporization without representation is against the Constitution."
-Dr. Who-

[don't ask]

I came across this today in The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown.

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We're just quick to hit the snooze button.

[NoClueBoy]

Uh oh, Spagetti-O

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[Annie-Xmas]

A line from a post in the Pit:

So you'll be cruising the bacon, and suddenly your cart will just lock up and become immovable.

[Musicat]

Heaven for climate, Hell for company. (J.M. Barrie)

I don't believe in God for the same reason I don't believe in Mother Goose. (Clarence Darrow)

I went to the end of the rainbow once. But there was no pot of gold, just a little bit of chocolate. (Matt Groening)

Quotes about god, religion, etc.

[KneadToKnow]

"Creamy Italian? How about creamy Polish?"

[drewtwo99]

"A growing number of scientists are warning that we could all be living in Newfoundland soon."

God help us all.

[poker in the rear]

"Heineken?! Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

[Digital is the new Analog]

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-D/a

[Der Trihs]

"Scripture also says 'Render unto Caesar what Caesar demands.' And right now, Caesar demands a building permit."


"I've been trying to sell my idea for a "child pulper" to the county school board for years. Unfortunately the de-pulpification process, which returns the children to their original, inefficient shapes is still somewhat flawed."


"My wife went to Vorbarr Sultana and all I got was this bloody shopping bag."


"Real Daleks don't climb stairs; they level the building!"


'I recently joined a religion called "Jenova's Witnesses." It's based on the teachings of a man who played Final Fantasy VII more than he should have. '


'The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." '


"We know God from Godzilla. Godzilla can take down iron chariots."


"You had to hand it to Lord Vetinari, if you didn't he'd send large men to come and take it anyway."


"You sir, have not only crossed the bridge into toomuchinformationland, you've built a mighty empire there."


"This is a tricky one, but can be resolved by reductio ad absurdem. If Hannibal wins, then Batman would be prepared with fava beans and a nice Chianti. But Batman being prepared contradicts the assumption that Batman loses. Therefore, Batman winning is the only logically tenable possibility."


"You know that saying, 'If you want peace, prepare for war?' They wanted a lot of fucking peace."

[KneadToKnow]

"I'm allergic to alcohol. I break out in handcuffs."

[SiXSwordS]

Hmm, that's Slick Willie for you, always with the smooth talk.

[Rhythmdvl]

You can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor.

[Sunspace]

"The Miracle of the Dancing Bear is not that the bear dances well. It is that the bear dances at all."

This has been in my head a lot in the past few days, and I would like to know where it came from. It's not original with me. A Google search was inconclusive.

[MPB in Salt Lake]

"Hot-dog vendors had an image problem already without one of them passing out in front of a whorehouse."

[Ulfreida]

Music is the pleasure that the human soul encounters from counting without knowing that it is counting.
-- Leibniz

[MareIt]

redheads are either descendants of the demigods or are potential demigods

from Tom Robbins tribute to redheads, Still Life with Woodpecker

[Der Trihs]

"Trust others and you will be betrayed; trust no one, and you betray yourself."


"Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive."


"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."

[runner pat]

Originally Posted by Der Trihs

"If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word."

"Oh, ho ho! You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it... "

[Jasper Kent]

"If you take in a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

[Jonathan Chance]

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

-RAH

[Cub Mistress]

Children are made readers of the laps of their parents.

[mhendo]

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Anatole France.

[Chefguy]

Why do you say these things to me, when you know I will kill you for it?

Here's lookin' up your old address. (drinking toast)

[Regallag_The_Axe]

"You are the future, little extremophiles."

[Boyo Jim]

Originally Posted by Sunspace

"The Miracle of the Dancing Bear is not that the bear dances well. It is that the bear dances at all."....

When you see a bear o wearing a Hitler helmet on a bicycle jump off and maul its trainer, that bear is not going crazy. It's gong Bear! -- Chris Rock

Originally Posted by Jonathan Chance

-RAH

It is not enough that I succeed. All my friends must fail. -- Irish proverb

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

The drunken driver has the right of way.

- Ethan Coen

[Qin Shi Huangdi]

There are no desperate situations, only desperate people

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[Sailboat]

One I actually heard used -- and it's not nonsense, there's a story behind it. The man who said it has a musical Indian accent:

"You cannot mitigate a nuclear safety hazard with a plastic owl."

[Cub Mistress]

“I shall look as if I were suffering. I shall look a little as if I were dying. It is like that. Do not come to see that. It is not worth the trouble…”

[Civil Guy]

The liar's punishment is not that no one will believe him. It is that he cannot believe anyone else.

[2gigch1]

Announcing your intentions is a good way to hear God laugh.

[lizlizliz]

"I viewed the things I saw."

(a quote from a college essay that my friend had to edit)

[Tangent]

Cool. Cool cool cool.

[PlainJain]

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine."

- Abraham Lincoln