Great Quotes

Not quite as snappy.

But a lot more accurate in Dawkins' case.

"She thinks I'm the Renaissance. She'll think I've lied. I had to go along with all this 'reclusive genius' stuff. She's going to be very upset when she finds out I'm a reclusive wanker." - Bernard Black (Dylan Moran)

"Hello." - Anonymous

"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" -Linji Yixuan, 9th Century Buddhist philosopher

“One has to remember the old Chinese adage, ‘A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.’ One just has to keep taking that step over and over again. There is no easy way; there are no shortcuts.” - Louis L'Amour



(somehow, I remembered this as "...over, and over and over," in a very slow cadence)

Most of my thousand-mile journeys begin not with a single step but with me, in fact, getting in a car or aeroplane.

"You never see a Rolls Royce with a bumper sticker that says SHIT HAPPENS."

- George Carlin

‘The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed.
Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.’
~Fred Astaire~

JACKIE CHAN: How did you make [Jurassic Park] look so real, people and dinosaurs side by side?
STEVEN SPIELBERG: Oh, that's simple. I just keep pushing buttons -- button, button, button. What about your films? How do you do all those dangerous stunts, jumping off rooftops and over cliffs?
JACKIE CHAN: Oh, that's even simpler. It's just rolling, action, jump, cut, hospital!

"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life—they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all."- Gene Wolfe, Shadow of the Torturer.

"I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would be really mad if she heard me say that." - Mitch Hedberg.

"There is no such thing as a bad AC/DC song. You can certainly not like an AC/DC song, which would then mean you probably don’t like any AC/DC songs, which is fine. But none of them really fail at what they intend to do and they all intend to do more or less the same thing. Some turns of phrase are less dunderheaded than others, some riffs make their point more indelibly than others. They didn’t really have an experimental phase unless you count the bagpipes in “It’s a Long Way to the Top,” but that wasn’t really an experiment because it totally worked. There were no ballads, no curveballs, no symphonies, no DJ remixes, no synths or pianos, no unplugged sessions, no cute covers, no BIG HAIR. Their greatest hit features the line, “You told me to come but I was already there” and may have been co-written by a ghost. They were the Ramones chopped and screwed, and similarly frozen in amber, eternally wearing their teenage uniforms."