April 2011
23 posts
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
– Noel Coward
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
– Michael Foot - on Margaret Thatcher, 1981.
It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are...
– Frank Zappa
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen...
– John le Carre
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a...
– T.S.Elliot
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over...
– William Golding
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition,...
– George Bernard Shaw
One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.
– Stephen Hawking
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not...
– Thomas Hardy
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class...
– Kurt Vonnegut
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
– H.L.Mencken
I’ve never been a big believer in formal education.
– Megan Fox
Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than...
– Robert Heinlein
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve...
– Larry Niven
That was a great time, the summer of ‘71 - I can’t remember it, but...
– Lemmy Kilmister
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness,...
– Graham Greene
Here’s how they rated him when the looked back:
sometimes he did this,...
– Simon Armitage - Poem from “Kid”
We have seen
Good men made evil wrangling with the evil,
Straight minds grown...
– Edwin Muir - he of the great poem “The Horses”
This won’t look so good in my obituary,” Schaffer said dolefully....
– Alistair Maclean - Where Eagles Dare
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...
– Buddha
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your...
– Richard Feynman
A Truism
Nothing destroys hardcore street cred faster than a dodgy showtune left on your i-Pod.
Ass Felt Phantasy? →
clubkayden:
This is a really spectacular bra. This parking lot that we’re shooting our porn in is pretty spectacular too, but I’ll leave that to the imagination. Surely you can drudge up an asphalt fantasy.