Democracy is beautiful. It will take time to restore
chaos.
--George W. Bush (see this page for more Bushisms: http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/)
I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with
that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the
world
saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to
him.
--Hunter S. Thompson,
The Kentucky
Derby is Decadent and Depraved
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know
when God may try to interfere. --Edward
Abbey
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an
education. --Bruce Lee
The vanity of teaching often tempteth a man to forget he is a
blockhead.
--George Savile
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong
way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with
fur.
--Erwin Chargaff
The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally
had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
--Edward Abbey
A fool and his money are soon parted. I would pay anyone a lot of
money to explain that to me. --Homer Simpson
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. --Muhammad Ali
Having ceded ultimate authority to the credentialed nitwits of the
mini-sciences
and the chirpy guachos of the media pampas, how can we hope ever again
to think through dilemmas of conscience? I blame this on the
Wittgensteins
who told us it's impossible to know for sure about anything important,
and then, as if to prove their point, went away to be
unhappy.
--John Leonard, Killing the Philosophers
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging
their prejudices. --William James
It requires a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the
obvious.
--Alfred North Whitehead
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its
possessors
into trouble of all kinds. --Samuel
Butler
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then
less is learned there. --Dr. Samuel
Johnson
In general, it is hoped that our road [science] will lead to
understanding;
mostly it leads only to explanations. --Erwin
Chargaff
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such nature films as
Earwigs---Eeeew!
and Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory!
--from The Simpsons [hear the MP3]
I think God loves me. I think God loves the Palestinians. I think God
loves the Israelis. We cannot allow this to continue.
--George W. Bush, to Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (The New Yorker)
