“They sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time!” Kurt Vonnegut
You know… I always suspected that.
“Thankya…thankya very much” Elvis Presley
I think I just wet my pants watching your hip action!
Can I get you a PB&banana sandwich, fried just the way you like it???
Please!!!
“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we passed the audition” John Lennon
“I like lemon pie!”
-Allie W.
“I saw a coyote on the way to work Friday.” --my husband.
Wonder where it works.
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
Has to be one of the best openings to a book ever.
“I looked at it and I wasn’t impressed”-Mrs. Garforth, my old English teacher on internet pornography
Should I shoot him now or wait till I get home?
“Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I’ve always wanted and now I have it. I rule!”
- Lester Burnham
“Giving money and power to govenment is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” -P.J. O’Rourke
“Didn’t your momma teach you to knock?”
Abraham Lincoln
Ok ok…here’s a quote that is supposedly real.
“If the English language was good enough for Jesus Christ, then by God, all good Texans should speak it.”
Ma Ferguson, Texas Governor
“'Tis better to be brief than tedious”
—William Shakespeare
“Isn’t sanity really just a one-trick-pony anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick: rational thinking. But when you’re good and crazy, oh, the sky’s the limit!”
The Tick
My personal favourite :
“Life is not a rehearsal” - Unknown
The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: ``Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.’’
- Edward R. Harrison (a cosmologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
David Lynch quote from interview in Sunday’s Buffalo News, as copied into my notebook:
“You better love your work, and the doing. Because what comes after, there’s no guarantees. Sometimes, you get the frosting on the cake. Sometimes you don’t. But if you love the doing and you believe in what you do, it’s OK.”
(He was talking about his reaction the ABC cancelling “Mulholland Drive.”)
And another quote – a two-fer post – I created for a future novel:
“A brass monkey can get a degree in journalism if it can get someone to bring it to class.”
“Meow”
–My cat.