Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. – “Hamlet”, Act 2, Scene 2
“The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.”- William Gibson
“Sometimes I think God put video content guys on the planet to make the music guys look progressive and visionary.” -Michael Gartenberg, on the iTunes/NBC Battle
“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.” – Albert Einstein
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Computer games don’t affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.” – Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” — Drew Carey
“Women and cats will do as they please. And men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” — Robert Heinlein
“So here’s some advice I wish I would have got when I was your age, live every week like it’s Shark Week.” – Tracey Morgan on 30 Rock
“The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.” -King Henry IV , Part 1
“Grab a shovel. I’m one skull short of a Mouseketeer reunion.” -Bender B. Rodriguez
“Dwight, you ignorant slut.” -Michael Scott
“Abraham Lincoln once said, “If you are a racist, I will attack you with the north…”” -Michael Scott
”The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” - Ronald Reagan
”Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.” - Joseph Campbell
G. K. Chesterton:
“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.” — A Handful of Authors
“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.” — Manalive
“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” — ILN, 7/16/10
Most people bury their demons, never to be seen again. Others simply deny their existence. A rare few manage to come to peace with theirs. Me, I take mine out for coffee every week. Sometimes I even let them drive. – Unknown
“There will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.” – T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
“Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.” – R. D. Laing
“It’s not so much a matter of meeting the right person as it is meeting them at the right time.” – Javan “Footprints in the Mind”
“Listen carefully to the words of others for often very deep truths are revealed clothed in jest.” – Javan “Footprints in the Mind”
“Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” – Winston Churchill
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ” – JRR Tolkien
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.” – Oscar Wilde
“The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
“Stupidity [is] as necessary as intelligence as as difficult to attain.” – George Orwell, 1984
“The likes of me won’t pass your way again.” – old Gaelic saying
“Love can sometimes be like Magic, but Magic can sometimes be illusion.” – Javan “Heart Full of Love”
“That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.” – Nietzsche
“Facts do not cease to exists because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley
“Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.” – Ani Di Franco
“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” – Rebecca West
“You know Marge, I thought I had an Appetite for Destruction but it turns out that all I wanted was a club sandwich.” -Homer Simpson
“Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.” –Bill Clinton, at the DNC, July 26, 2004
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same
function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy
state of things.” – Winston Churchill
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H. L. Mencken
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” — Ronald Reagan
“Bart: Woah! God is so in your face!
Homer: Yeah, he’s my favorite fictional character.”
“Trying is the first step towards failure.” – Homer Simpson
“Rev. Lovejoy: No Homer, God didn’t burn your house down, but he was working in the hearts of your friends be they Christian, Jew, or… miscellaneous.
Apu: Hindu. There are seven hundred million of us.
Rev. Lovejoy: Aww, that’s super.”
[Reading a sign, "Do Not Touch - Willy"]
Homer: Do not touch Willy. Good advice.”
-Homer Simpson
“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” – “As You Like It”, Act 4, Scene 1
“O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.” – William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
“Bender: Stupid anti-pimping laws!
Hookerbot: We love you Bender, honey…
Bender: Shut up baby, I know it!”
-Bender B. Rodriguez
“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
-Jack Kerouac
“Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.” – Lisa Simpson
“Jack: “We’re just on opposite sides of a feud.”
Tracy: “Oh, I get it. Romeo and Juliet. Capulets and Romulans…I’m Black, she’s White. I’m Black, she’s light-skinned Black. I’m Black, she’s seventeen.””
-Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“There is always a true inner voice. Trust it.” – Gloria Steinem
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
30 Rock Lines…
Tracy: “I believe that vampires are the world’s greatest golfers but their curse is that they’ll never get to prove it!”
Jack: Look how Greenzo’s testing! They love him in every demographic – colored people, broads, fairies, commies. Gosh we gotta update these forms.
Jack: I like when a woman has ambition. It’s like seeing a dog wearing clothes.
Jenna: Second of all, if the president is so serious about the war on terror, why doesn’t he hunt down and capture Barack Obama before he strikes again?
Colleen: Tell him his mother’s here! …And she loves him! …But not in a queer way!
“When the future’s architectured
By a carnival of idiots on show
You’d better lie low”
Violet Hill by Coldplay
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing
“Now the old king is dead, long live the king”
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
Once you’d gone there was never
Never an honest word
That was when I ruled the world
It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn’t believe what I’d become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh, who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can’t explain
I know St. Peter won’t call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
-Viva La Vida by Coldplay
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
“Never go with a hippie to a second location.” – Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock
“It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.” – William Macey in “State & Main”
Walt Price: What does he like?
Bill Smith: 14-year-old girls.
Walt Price: Well, get him something else. We want to get out of this town alive. Get him half a 28-year-old girl. How’s my math?
“My genius has come alive like toys when your back is turned!” -Tracey Jordan on 30 Rock
“I think marriage is a sacred union between two unwilling teenagers.” -Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on the SNL VP debate sketch
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” – Jerry Seinfeld
That was the Cirque du Soleil of de-evolution. – Kevin Peirera
“Mass Genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.” – Matt Damon in Dogma