Quotes of the Week

Quotes of the Week

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
-- George Carlin

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
-- H. L. Mencken

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-- Paul Valery, 1895

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
-- Jay Leno
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
-- William Gibson

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
-- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
-- Vince Lombardi

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
-- Henry James

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
-- Norman Mailer, Armies Of The Night

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
-- William Safire

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
-- Patrick Young