Quote-A-Thon

[sleepyjeff]

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

--- Snoopy

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Crooks don't know."
-Jack Kerouac

[MerryPrankster]

Garrison Keillor quotes (I'm cheating with more than one today):

"They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on the sole."

"The funniest line in English is "Get it?" When you say that, everyone chortles."

"I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it."

"God writes a lot of comedy...the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors that don't know how to play funny."

[sleepyjeff]

"...it was a dark and damp cave with countless Buddah statues standing in the foreground, soon after entering we were stumbling around in the dark. I meant to bring my flashlight, but I forgot, so I fumbled around for a pack of matches.

When I lit each match, it formed a small cirlce of light around us. In that circle the thin tall Buddhas stood sentry. Each time I lit another match this gentle army sprang to life, and each time it flickered out, we were plunged back into darkness. It was a remarkable effect, very spiritual, and it made me consider how far we'd come...

...it struck me that life was like that, too. You light a match, and you're just a child. Light another, and you're married with children of your own. A few more brief, and bright flares, and our babies have left home. A few more after that and your pack is used up.

...Know that we must make each brief combustion a bright, shinning moment that pierces the darkness and illuninates a thousand gods."

---David Elliot Cohen

[Kevy Baby]

Sadly, the quote that comes to mind after reading the one above is:

"It was a dark and stormy night..."

[sleepyjeff]

Hehe, I considered only quoting the final seciton, as it was what I really was touched by; but I thought it would make a little more sense with the extra content

btw: the quote is from the David Cohen book "One Year Off", in which he, his wife and two children take a year off from work and school to tour Planet Earth and her many nations....great read.

[€uroMeinke]

It takes so many years

To learn that one is dead.

- T. S. Elliot

[mousepod]

In honor of the Disneyland merch thread:
"Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country, its prosperity and limitless bounty. They have shops the way that lesser countries have statues."
Simon Hoggart

[Kevy Baby]

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- Phillips Brooks

[MerryPrankster]

"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."

-- T.S. Eliot