"NO SOUP FOR YOU!"
- The Soup Nazi
"Well, Chuck, we could spend all of today cleaning the ROADHOUSE so it will look nice, and we could really get something constructive done, or we could sit around here all day, drink 151, and call up women and harass them. I guess that question answers itself."
"The big drama of watching the Dream Team is wondering when they will start dunking the ball backward, with 360-degree spins and reverse helicopter jams. The Russians cheated in 1972 and as payback we will crush the world for all eternity."
"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion."
"There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate."
"AOL is the Internet like Disney World is the world."
"Find bad web sites 8x faster."
"Suffice it to say that if the many tens of millions of today's 'unwired' citizens continue to remain out of the loop in tomorrow's world -- if through lack of education or income they remain unable to access the skills, tools, resources and opportunities needed to survive and prosper in the information age -- we all will suffer. Indeed, unless we get serious about retraining 'downsized' workers and reforming our educational system, the great 'unwired' masses haven't got a chance. And if that happens, they are going to come and burn our houses down."
"The Internet is a minefield of opportunity. Step carefully, or another opportunity will go off right in your face."
"Out the Token Ring, through the router, down the fiber, off another router, down the T1, past the firewall... nothing but Net."
"'On the Internet since 1979'? Hell, this guy looks like he's been logged in since 1979."
"No doubt the incidences of carpal tunnel syndrome were less back in the days of gas lamps and buggies, but at least now there are fewer dead horses in the street."
"Fuck you, clown."
"Fools! We will destroy you--and steal your Miller Lite."
"Oh, yeah? Well, you won't say that when the WALKING DEAD get here."
"Hey, Dan! Look, the Walking Dead just arrived!"
"Oh, man -- you've got it all: Handsome as Beavis, smart as Butt-head."
"Got Sam?"
"The sea enraged is not half so deaf,
Lions more confident, mountains and rocks
More free from motion, no, not Death himself
In moral fury half so peremptory,
As we to keep this web site."
"There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can."
"Carve away the stone
Carve away the stone
Make a graven image
With some features of your own"
Interviewer: Why do you sell so many records every album and are never heard on the radio (relatively)?
Geddy Lee: Well, we're like the world's largest underground band, I think."To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it, life will be valueless."
"It is easier to stay out than get out."
"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
"No one really likes commencement speeches anyway, and besides, there's really nothing to celebrate about the end of a carefree, alcohol-soaked era and the beginning of that long, downward spiral known as 'real life,' featuring celibacy, drudgery, and most of all, overwhelming dissatisfaction."
"LESSONS OF BUGS BUNNY: that wiseacres have more fun; that it is better to smurf someone than be smurfed by them; that tortoises beat hares, especially when tortoises cheat; that authority exists to be laughed at; that what goes around comes around; that monsters are the most interestin' people; that the world is, in the main, a cruel and desperate place that would just as soon drop an anvil on your head as give you a hand up; and, finally, that jokes, even bitter, mean ones - perhaps especially those - provide something of a diversion."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence."
"The friend of my friend is another stranger."
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
"He knew the risks, he didn't have to be there. It rains, you get wet."
"Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time."
"I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
"What's up?"
"Not much. Just takin' a shit."
"May you live all the days of your life."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit."
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... a petroleum based incendiary weapon popular in Vietnam."
"In this country, it doesn't matter if you believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.... And that's the way I want it to stay."
"And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it."
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Amighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
"Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his own"
"...wouldn't it be great if Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev got together naked in a stadium and fought out the cold war with socks full of shit?"
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
"Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be."
"Don't LOOK at anything in a physics lab. Don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab. Don't SMELL anything in a biology lab. Don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab. And, most importantly, don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department."
"I never said it was possible. I only said it was true."
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian."
"Any excuse is a good excuse to wear a sword."
"At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness."
"...a bride should refrain at least twelve months out of repect for her husband and to prove that she can."
"As for population, every major shortcoming of our native planet could be traced to one cause: too many people, not enough planet."
"...were those two to wind up on opposite sides in anything more serious than Parcheesi, I yearn to be elsewhere--say Timbuktu under an assumed name."
"When did I fail to pack a gun? I'm a Free Citizen."
"As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you."
"Move like a beam of light:
Fly like lightning,
Strike like thunder,
Whirle in circles around
A stable center."
"Spring forth from the Great Earth;
Billow like Great Waves;
Stand like a tree, sit like a rock;
Use the One to strike All.
Learn and forget."
"Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life. Transcend the realm of life and death, and then you will be able to make your way calmly and safely through any crisis that confronts you."
"In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential--do not let your heart waver!"
"One should be prepared to receive niney-nine percent of an enemy's attack and stare death right in the face in order to illumine the Path."
"Seeing me before him,
The enemy attacks,
But by that time
I am already standing
Safely behind him."
"Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really No Path."
"When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you."
"...ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone; and many things must happen, many things must go right, a whole constellation of events must be fulfilled, for one human being to successfully advise or help another."
"...someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only of life and reality: the female human being."
"No matter how I struggle and strive
I'll never get out of this world alive."
"How fast should I drive?"
"Just go with traffic."
"Well, what if I get nailed from the rear?"
"...More power to you!"
"Unfortunately, you have the one shortcoming from which every woman suffers: you are only one woman."
"I could wear wigs...."
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved into a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
"...he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they shit on Horace, and that wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."
"I am in a plane trying to make the Pass. There is a boy with me, and I turn to him and say: 'Throw everything out.'
'What! All the gold? All the guns? All the junk?'
'Everything.'
I mean throw out all excess baggage: anxiety, desire for approval, fear of authority, etc. Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
...At times I feel myself on the point of learning something basic. I have achieved moments of inner silence."
"Susan said that geeks were usually losers in high school who didn't have a life, and then not having a life became a status symbol. 'People like them never used to be rewarded by society. Now all the stuff that made people want to kick your butt at fifteen becomes fashionable when fused with cash. You can listen to Rush on the Ferrari stereo on your way to get a good seat at Il Fornaio--and wear Dockers doing it!'"
"There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'."
"Well... he shouldn't be too hard to track. He leaves dead bodies wherever he goes."
" Will somebody please get that naked, bleeding, drunk guy with the dart in his head out of here!? I'm playing pool for my life!"
"For people in my profession it is normal to walk along with your mind on other things: the article you have to write, the lecture you must give, the relationship between the One and the Many, the Andreotti government, how to deal with the problem of the Redemption, whether there is life on Mars, the latest song of Celentano, the paradox of Epimenides. In our line this is called 'the interior life.' Well, with my new jeans my life was entirely exterior: I thought about the relationship between me and my pants, and the relationship between my pants and me and the society we lived in.... A garment that squeezes the testicles makes a man think differently."
- Umberto Eco, "Lumbar Thought""Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."
"Nothing counters a woman like another woman."
"We cannot live without women. To them, men's tears are never ridiculous."
"Drink when you want to remember; not when you want to forget."
"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
"If you're still there after the fear then you got the courage, baby, that's all. If you're not, then you're dead."
"It's time to move on, time to get going
What lies ahead, I have no way of knowing
But under my feet, baby, grass is growing
It's time to move on, it's time to get going"
1/27/97