“Anyone can say he’s a writer. When someone else says you’re a writer, then you’re a writer.” (Andy Griffith in Hearts of the West)
“And East is East and West is West and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste more like prunes that rhubarb does.” – G. Marx.
Thomas Jefferson. The more I learn of him the more I admire him.
"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also. "
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Off the top of my head (might think of more later)
“You can’t kill the truth. Actually you can kill the truth, but it always comes back to haunt you later.” Bruce Boxleitner as Capt. John Sheridan-Babylon 5
“Understanding is a three edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth” - Kosh Naranek- Babylon 5
"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. "- Thomas Edison
and some Ronald Reagan:
"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. "
"“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Don’t say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I’ve been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you this fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one. When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming - as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then, as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter Thompson
“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.” -Lazarus Long(Robert Heinlein)
“There are those who think that there are more intelligent beings in the Universe. And there are those who think we’re the most intelligent beings in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty humbling thought.”
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” - Samuel Johnson
"One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance. " - G. K. Chesterton
"He wore the unmistakable look of a man about to be present at a row between women, and only a wet cat in a strange backyard bears itself with less jauntiness than a man faced by such a prospect. " - P. G. Wodehouse
