 I'm passionately involved in life - to be alive, to have music, to walk, to see - it's all a miracle. Music is not a hobby not even a passion. Music is me.
Arthur Rubenstein
Pianist
Don, get a clue. Rand chose the dollar sign as her personal symbol. It's Objectivism's cross, its crescent, its star of David. If the dollar sign doesn't represent materialism, nothing does.
Dan Flynn
Flynnfiles.com
I believe in death. The U.S.A. believes in life. That is the difference between us.
Osama bin Laden
National Geographic's "Inside 9/11"
How would you feel if you lived on an island populated, apart from yourself, exclusively by retarded, malicious chimpanzees? Well, that's how I feel. Don't laugh, because your'e one of those retarded, malicious chimpanzees.
Arthur Jones
Today, at the news conference announcing his new position as head coach of the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes, the best player to play the game and part owner of the franchise, Wayne Gretzky made two statements replete with pride in both his abilities and property, as well as integrity in his actions:
1. "I wasn't naturally gifted with size or speed. Everything I did in hockey, I worked for. And that's the way I'll be as a coach."
2. "I have an investment in the team, an ownership stake in this team and I felt like I was the best person to coach this team."
Wayne Gretzky
http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=132749
Every place outside of the USA is an absolute hellhole. As much as we can complain about the US's lack of freedom, I just can't stand when they force women to dress like BATMAN, when they leave little girls out to die. I mean, at least we address the issues of equality and freedom, which are not even addressed in a place like Egypt or China or India.Other countries are pieces of s**t, so they have a holier-than-thou attitude. I think the most insulting thing you can say about anybody is that they're more popular in another country.
Penn Jillette
Contact Music.com
Scattered showers, my ass!
Noah, upon being handed the long-range weather forecast
Ancient, Apocryphal & Salacious (my accountants)
The fact that some people, like Bidinotto's environmentalists, might value the natural world so much as to accept human death for it is not an example of an outlier ethical system, but of one that simply differs in values from Bidinotto's.
Matt Singer
New West, a Montana blog: http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/1254/C38/L38#comments
“I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata. I'd like to listen to it every day. It is marvelous superhuman music. I always think with pride – perhaps it is naive of me – what marvelous things human beings can do! But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell. And now you must not stroke anyone's head: you might get your hand bitten off. You have to hit them on the head, without any mercy, although our ideal is not to use force against anyone. Hm, hm, our duty is infernally hard.”
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
quoted by Maxim Gorky (about Beethoven)
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Statue Of Liberty
Inscription On The Statue Of Liberty
I was sitting outside the -- the classroom, waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower of a -- of a -- you know, the TV was obviously on, and I -- I used to fly myself, and I said, "Well, there's one terrible pilot."
President George W. Bush
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htm
Oh, on another note, I find it interesting that an avowed Pagan hedonist is more tolerated here than a Catholic or Christian. Why is that?
Byron Garcia
The MUSLIMS are actually KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE all over the WORLD, and I'm not! Why the Hell aren't THEY being called "genocidists", but I am?!
Orion Reasoner
I think they're going to regret doing this, and they better hope we don't win.
Chad Clayton
Kerry '04 spokesman, commenting on Sinclair Broadcasting's production of a documentary critical of Kerry's Vietnam anti-war activism.
I'll be back. I'm not afraid. Not afraid whatsoever.
Martha Stewart
After her sentencing today (July 16, 2004)
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop (ca. 550 BC)
Whitman William B. The Quotable Politician. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2003.
An open mind is like an open wound: easily infected and subject to rot.
James Hetfield, Metallica
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shanahan John M. The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less). New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Shanahan John M. The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less). New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp.
Mark Rutherford
Shanahan, John M. The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less). New York: HarperCollins, 1999
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer.
Henry Kissinger
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong
1938
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
August 29, 1558
The great power of the project is that it's absolutely irrational. And that disturbs, angers the sound human perception of a capitalist society. That is also a part of the project, this is the idea of the project, to put in doubt all the values.
Christo
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/goldblatt200404080824.asp
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
General John Stark
1809 toast to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington
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