Quotes and Stuff

[Gravdigr]

"The angle of the dangle is inversely proportional to the heat of the meat."

~Beavis

[jimhelm]

#7 is the one I wanted to quote... but the whole list is fookin true

[Gravdigr]

I was watching TV at Baby's the other night, and her youngest daughter (~23) was there. Some blurb about gov't getting in her business prompted her (daughter) to utter this jewel:

I don't know much about gov't, or politics, but, I'm pretty sure they need to stay out of my vagina.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A curmudgeon's reputation for malevolence is undeserved.
...They're neither warped nor evil at heart.
...They don't hate mankind, just mankind's absurdities.

They're just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy.
...They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor. . . . . .

They attack maudlinism because it devalues genuine sentiment. . . . . .

Nature, having failed to equip them with a servicable denial mechanism, has endowed them with astute perception and sly wit.
...Curmudgeons are mockers and debunkers whose bitterness is a symptom rather than a disease.

They can't compromise their standards and can't manage the suspension of disbelief necessary for feigned cheerfulness.
...Their awareness is a curse.

Perhaps curmudgeons have gotten a bad rap in the same way that the messenger is blamed for the message:
...They have the temerity to comment on the human condition without apology.
...They not only refuse to applaud mediocrity, they howl it down with morose glee.
...Their versions of the truth unsettle us, and we hold it against them, even though they soften it with humor.
- JON WINOKUR

Now get off the fucking lawn.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by jimhelm

#7 is the one I wanted to quote... but the whole list is fookin true

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OUTSTANDING SIR!

[Gravdigr]

"We spend the first year teaching them to walk and to talk, and then spend the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down, and that's not what being a kid should be."

~Neil deGrasse Tyson

[infinite monkey]

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[BigV]

Word.

[Gravdigr]

"Colorado will no longer have laws that steer people toward using alcohol, and adults will be free to use marijuana instead if that is what they prefer. And we will be better off as a society because of it."

~Mason Tvert, co-director of the Colorado pro-legalization campaign

[Gravdigr]

Paraphrasing:

If dogs can do it, you can watch it. Cats aren't like that. Cats are like Baptists. You know they raise hell, you just can't catch 'em at it.

While all the other guys were off practicing football, I was at home, practicing the guitar. And it paid off, too.

I can kick this guitar sixty yards.

~Jim Stafford

[monster]

saw this in IM's Sig. From Maybell C apparently.

Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.

exactly. it's a shame it's so hard for so many swans to get past having been an ugly duckling. We need to improve our cygnet pride fostering skills

[Gravdigr]

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

~Margaret Thatcher

[Ocean's Edge]

Brought to mind by another thread, but didn't want to intrude on anyone's grief..

From a different tavern in a different time and a different place, but still no less a truism

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy

[Gravdigr]

"More things are never tried because they are impossible than are tried because people believe in them." She reached for her stick to stir the fire. "And what kind of world would we have if people believed in the impossible? Think of what we could do. Now, there's a Dream for you."

~ White Calf in "People of the Fire" by W. Michael Gear & Kathleen O'Neal Gear

[xoxoxoBruce]

"The old scholar was watching the noisy young people around him and it suddenly occurred to him that he was the only one in the whole audience who had the privilege of freedom, for he was old. Only when a person reaches old age can he stop caring about the opinions of his fellows, or of the public, or of the future. He is alone with approaching death and death has no ears and does not need to be pleased. In the face of death a man an do and say what pleases his own self."
--Milan Kundera, from "Life is Elsewhere"