Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
–John Lubbock
Category: quotes
It’s hard to convince people that you’re killing them for their own good.
–Molly Ivins
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history – with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
–Mitch Ratcliffe
“Oh yeah, it’s got all kinds of uses. I use it to clean my bar utensils.”
— Jamie Boudreau on vodka
Campaigns to bearproof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult because, as one biologist put it, “There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
–source unknown
“I didn’t touch yo tongs!”
– Jane to Joe, during dinner preparations tonight
You can’t turn this into Annie.
— Adam Engelhart on Sweeney Todd
12/30/2007
The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide
as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons
that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than
hostile.
–Bertrand Russell
All showings of Helvetica sold out. Jesus. This town.”
— Joseph Gratz, October 2007
“Two of these and you’d fight to defend Madonna’s honor.”
— Professor Wondrich on the French 75
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