And it was a very good book of Rasputin's involvement in that,
which shows how people that are really very weird can get into
sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. 

    - Dan Quayle on Nicholas, and Alexandra 

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to
remember that virtue is not hereditary. 

- Thomas Paine 

Hey, someone might want to break-dance to Beethoven
while reciting Melville. Or maybe Brahms... 

    - Russ Suter 

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong,
and that's hardly worth the effort.

- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster 

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. 

    - Edward Abbey 

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. 

- Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower 

No one is perfect. The mere fact that one is human is a flaw in itself.

- Robert Heinlen 

I don't like to advocate drugs, alcohol, narcotics or insanity to anyone. . .
but they've always worked for me. 

- Hunter S. Thomson 

Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. 

- Mark Twain 

There come's a time in the affairs of a man when he
must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

- W. C. Fields 

Picard: "Return that moon to its orbit."
Q:      "I have no powers!  Q, the ordinary!"
Picard: "Q, the liar!  Q, the misanthrope!"
Q:      "Q, the miserable, Q, the desperate!  What must I do to
         convince you people?"
Worf:   "Die."
Q:      "Oh, very clever, Worf.  Eat any good books lately?"
                        -- Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Deja Q"

"... they're the words you would think I would say if there was a me for
 you..."
                        -- They Might Be Giants, "Ana Ng"

"A happy medium then. Somewhere between Just Good Friends and..."
"Someone to occasionally stick my tongue down their throat."
                        -- me, Quanita

"In a way we're a kind of Peace Corps."
                        -- Major A. Lincoln German, Training Director of the
                           Green Beret Special Warfare School, Ft. Bragg, N. C.

"Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that's Beautiful."
                        -- Unknown, Principia Discordia

"TUUUUBAAAAAA MIRUM SPAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGENS..."
                        -- The Bass Section, Berlioz Requiem
                           (If you've never heard it, you won't get it)

"Satan is my sad... pathetic... knob."
                        -- Alasdair McLellan

"What is the difference between apathy and ignorance?
 I don't know and I don't care."
                        -- World Entertainment War

"It took some users a while to come to grips with the intuitive way Windows
 works."
                        -- Graeme Wong See,
                           graeme@research.canon.oz.au, rec.humor.funny

"... our elderly citizens walk down the darkest of alleyways!... and the weak
 and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities!..."
                        -- Homer Simpson