I've proven who I am so many times before
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was takin in
Bruce Cockburn
As Mahatma Gandhi was boarding a train...
journalist: Mahatma, what do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
Submarines, flying boats, robots, talking pictures, radio,
television, bouncing radar vibrations off the moon, rocket ships,
and atom-splitting -- all in our time. But nobody has yet been
able to figure out a music holder for a marching piccolo player.
Meredith Willson, 1948
It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your
parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all
to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will
have to act like mature human beings ...
Playboy, January 1983
I know you believe you understand what it was you thought I said but
I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant...
Anonymous (me?)
In theory, there is no difference between
theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
Flash Gordon
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is
not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an
elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Jack Handey
Death to the intolerants!
Bumper sticker envisioned by John Perry Barlow
In the Land of The Dark, The Ship of The Sun is pulled by The Grateful Dead
Egyptian Book of The Dead
An actor as President??
In Like Flint, 1967
It happens. Sometimes people just explode. Natural causes.
from Repo Man
Keep in mind always the two constant Laws of Frisbee:
- The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc
straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this
force is technically termed "car suck").
- Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive
than "Watch this!"
Traditional
"Makes sense when appended to its own quotation"
makes sense when appended to its own quotation.
Hume
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Unknown
You can bet everything will come to an end.
It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess,
and it's going to be something that somebody did
in the name of God....
Frank Zappa, Artist as Genetic Design Flaw,
Ecolibrium Interviews, Vol #19
A musician, if he's a messenger, is like a child who hasn't
been handled too many times by man, hasn't had too many
fingerprints across his brain. That's why music is so much
heavier than anything you ever felt.
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970),
LIFE Magazine Interview, 1969
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