22 July 2008, 03:53 PM
Doug SpauldingQuote of the Day
"I yield to no one in my respect for Ray Bradbury."
- Rod Serling
23 July 2008, 01:02 AM
philnicquote:
Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:
"I yield to no one in my respect for Ray Bradbury."
- Rod Serling
I wonder: did he say that before or after The Twilight Zone?
29 July 2008, 11:43 PM
Doug Spaulding"Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
- Woody Allen
30 July 2008, 10:52 PM
Nard Kordell"The only happiness you get to keep,
Is the happiness you give away"
~Roy Rogers
05 August 2008, 09:59 PM
Phil KnoxActress Joan Crawford's alleged last words on her deathbed while a maid was praying:
"Damn It! Don't you dare ask God to help me."
08 August 2008, 07:26 AM
Braling II"If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.”
- Groucho Marx (in L.A.)
10 August 2008, 01:49 PM
Doug Spaulding"I think they do more damage to Christianity than the most committed atheist."
- Antony Thomas (on televangelist faith healers)
16 August 2008, 12:20 AM
Doug Spaulding"Jesus was a good guy. He didn't need this shit."
- John Prine
20 August 2008, 12:18 AM
Doug Spaulding"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
- Kurt Vonnegut
"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
- Arthur C. Clarke
28 August 2008, 12:40 PM
dragonflyYou can always tell a cult from a religion, she said, because a cult is just a set of rules that lets certain men get laid.
-”Always” by Karen Joy Fowler 2007
.... to every drunken man the fall of the sober is a happy thing.
-Michael Shaara, “Soldier Boy”1982
03 September 2008, 01:17 PM
tinkerbell"I cannot bear to see my wonderful husband waken every day wondering if he is living a nightmare.
He is my life and there is no cure (
from ALS). There is nothing I can do to help him. We have a limited number of days left together and these days for him will be filled with suffering."
- ravenscroft's wife 31 May 2008
03 September 2008, 04:40 PM
Nard Kordell " Don't make yourself crazy!
" ~Nard Kordell03 September 2008, 05:19 PM
Doug SpauldingTwofer:
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen
04 September 2008, 10:58 AM
dragonflyAnother twofer, both from science fiction, unless this longtime famous science fiction author is too strong for delicate sensibilities:
As far as the eye can see, the infertile desert lies under the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless waste strewn with the bones of luckless wayfarers....
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
"You should get used to the idea that not everybody thinks exactly the way you do. From time to time, you might even try rethinking a position.”
- There and Then by Steven Utley