quote_of_the_day blue-dyed gel product "If you say one more thing about chord progressions or musical theory in general, I swear to God I will stab your ass!!" ---Phil 020103 ... DannyH "If you only read one book in your life - I suggest you keep your mouth shut" League Against Tedium 020104 ... Dafremen "Nothing is sort of like something..without all of that stuff in the middle." - Me 030417 ... god _______ the mall_______ 030417 ... phil Hollywood's a place where they will pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. ~Marilyn Monroe~ 030417 ... Kristopher "I can't believe that you don't like Bob and Tom, but you frequent strip clubs, James. I mean, you can't say 'Oh, Bob and Tom offend me' and 'Shake it, pretty mama' in the same sentence." -- Me, to an asshole co-worker today 030418 ... ShilohLives "A good friend stabs you in the front." .........Some random movie that I don't remember the name to........... 030615 ... god i found a beak in a mcnugget once 030616 ... Freak I may be lying in a ditch but at least im looking at the stars. -Les Brown A quote to live by 030616 ... karl the weed "Will, turn around so i can do you" 030617 ... Dafremen "Sometimes you gotta just take a risk and keep it." - Zmo 030623 ... FYI "a true friend stabs you in the front" --oscar wilde (the movie was can't hardly wait) 030623 ... User24 America has been well served by its silly preoccupation with winning Caine Why should one part of the maze be designated the end anyway, one part is quite as good as another. DannyH what is it with music these days, eh? i mean, don't they have something better to sing about than whatever new drug they've tried? filia X is for Christ, evidently... I thought you pronounced Xina "Zina" not "Christina"... some sort of weird religion thing, I dunno... stephen This just in: Blather is making me incredibly insane! The Truth I met Elvis, he's out of hell on parole. Mateo Pre-internet, an index was the thing at the BACK of the book that helped you get around. A site map should be called "index". the top page should be called "contents" or something. emma Make your life seem better by contrast confabulation. That's the secret. You can always be content...always. Dafremen impossible? you don't say! How do you know? Have you tried every possibility? How can you know? aaaiiieeee! dallas its not that its impossible, its just that its not going to happen in the bounds of this reality, and we all know that bounds and boundaries can be stretched and broken ares Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. Benoit Mandelbrot 'Ashes, Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.' O'Brien Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. John Lehman Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. Eric Hoffer The Secretary of State may by order specify particular circumstances in which this condition is, or is not, to be taken to be satisfied. Data Protection Act, 1998 One day, everything will happen anon. You are both the most insignificant thing, and the most important thing in the entire universe anon. Existence is everywhere and nowhere anon. Behind the clouds, the sun is always shining gene loves jezebel In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity Albert Einstein Possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty, the world will never know Thomas Bailey Aldrich You are free, the moment you do not look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems anon. Not only is the glass half empty, it is broken and laced with cyanide from type o negative website No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends or the Gods Demosthenes Never underestimate the healing power of custard Matt You cannot hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree itself Malcolm X One word of explanation already misses the mark Ejô Smoking kills, but war's more effective smokingcures.com I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability Oscar Wilde There are no miracles to those who do not believe in them anon. There is 3 errers in this sentence. unknown. The eyes of men speak words the tongue cannot pronounce Crow Proverb Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame Dhammapada Experience is something you only get just after you needed it unknown 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 God It's amazing. According to these awards, 95% of the web sites are in the top 5% Vincent van Gui "The end is near" Is this a warning or a promise? cube³ My good man, now is no time to be making enemies Voltaire, when asked to renounce the devil on his deathbed. No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 3, Human Rights Act 1998. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance. Article 9(1), Human Rights Act 1998. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers... Article 10(1), Human Rights Act 1998. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. Article 8(1), Human Rights Act 1998. use whatever information you have wisely and responsibly, and distribute it only to people who are worthy of it. R4di4tion. To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts. A.H.Almaas. I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Albert Einstein. Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. Gérard de Nerval. What dreaming does is give us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense of knowing this world. Carlos Castaneda A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.. W.H. Auden Although art can be created with a chainsaw, this is hardly a justification for giving every would-be artist a chainsaw.. Vincent van Gui, - commenting on some of the newer "extensions" to HTML Text may be a very rich medium, but it looks boring on the screen. It doesn't flash and hop about, so it had to give way to things that did. Douglas Adams If Netscape or Microsoft could find a way to make web pages twirl in the browser, the next day the web would be full of twirling pages. No one would ask why. The fact that it's the latest thing would be reason enough Pablo PigCasso If HTML is a standard, how come my page looks different in every browser? Vincent van Gui Look at me! Be jealous! I'm ALTERNATIVE! I can say FUCK THE SYSTEM louder than anyone else! emma ---------- taken from multiple sauces, including blather (duh) 030703 ... jane fantastic 030703 ... User24 yeah, I thought so, too. 030704 ... delial "Meaning, if it existed at all, was unstable and could not survive the slightest reshuffling of letters. One gust of wind and santa became Satan. A slip of the pen and pears turned into pearls. A little interior decorating and the world became her twold, an ungrammatical and unkind assessment of an aging aunt in a singles bar. Add a d to poor, you got droop. It was that way in biology, too. Add a chromosome, get a criminal. Subtract one, get an idiot or a chipmonk. That was the way with things. When you wanted someone to say "I love you," approximate assemblages--igloo, eyelid glue, isle of ewe--however lovely, didn't quite make it." 030704 ... jane man is by nature a political animal. [aristotle] 030710 ... screwing for virginity www.boogle.com google with quotes. 030710 ... Dafremen User24 - I have never been so efficiently summarized. That was marvelous. Yes, that's exactly what I've been saying all along. I will shut up now. No more blathes from me other than: see also: quote_of_the_day User24 entry I have been silenced by the most perceptive of us all. 030710 ... jane perfect_metaphor thanks fire&roses 030720 ... jane or firenroses 030720 ... jane it's not hard to offend a handful of beautiful, unnique [sic] flowers... --niska how_much_bad_poetry 030724 ... ferret are you sure you weren't talking about eunuch flowers? 030724 ... Dafremen From most_hated_blatherer: "what's the point? we generally hate other people because of things we hate about ourselves." - yoink 030724 ... Freak Frustration is the first time you discover you can't do it the second time. Panic is the second time you discover you can't do it the first time. 030724 ... Freak as the pattern becomes more intricate and subtle, being swept along is no longer enough. 030724 ... Freak The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. 030724 ... Dafremen I am an optimist and have suffered from that affliction my entire life. 030724 ... ashmanzhou im not a pessimist i just hope everything goes wrong so when it does i look good unknown 030725 ... Dafremen "dude, u r truely on your way to becoming one of the greats like someone else said publish a book it would be a shame for ur work never to be seen by the world" - solskjaer9 (Wow. : ) ) 030806 ... misstree All religion, all life, all art, all expression come down to this: to the effort of the human soul to break through its barrier of leneliness, of intolerable loneliness, and make some contact with another seeking soul, or with what all souls seek, whis is (by any name) God. -Donald Robert Perry Marquis, "Chapters for the Orthodox" and let's go for a quick second: "What is this quintessence of dust, as the man said, and on bad days I know why." -Steven_Brust, _Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill_ 030806 ... oldephebe Man, n. An animal so lostin rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistentrapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada. Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary as quoted by noted linguist and cognitive theorist Steven Pinker in his seminal treatise How the Mind Works 030806 ... quotree "Unfortunately for mankind, the attitude 'I think this way, therefore you must' is second only to 'give me that or I will hit you.'" -??? 030808 ... oldephebe i so exuberantly agree 030808 ... jane bacchus, that first from out the purple grape crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --milton 030914 ... crazy plant arm ... seeking candy " this is the type of music that you trick english majors into having one night stands with" stork daddy 031016 ... no reason i agree. :) 031016 ... jane i have measured out my life with coffee spoons t.s. eliot 031107 ... crazy plant arm "dear nerds, you all suck, bad" -dallas 031122 ... smurfus rex "You're sweet, you're cute, we're fuckin', that's it." --my roommate, summarizing the terms of his relationship with his girlfriend 031122 ... sabbie Your guardian angel Will watch over you If your guardian angel Has got nothing to do [carter the unstoppable sex machine] 031123 ... ferret " I waited for the sky to fall, i stood looking up at it, waiting. i died. the end" - a wise old man.... a very drunk wise old man... 031123 ... once again "It's never a mistake to care about someone." ~"Radio" 031123 ... once again "Ignorance is not only bliss; it's Constitutional." ~The Practice 031123 ... celestias shadow you know that saying, today is the first day of the rest of your life? well, it's true for every day of your life except one- the day you die. ~um, paraphrasing (at best) from american beauty 031123 ... rubydee "money can't buy happiness but it can buy lunch" 031123 ... smurfus rex "There's nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash." --Boris Balkan, "The Ninth Gate" my boss hates it when I write this quote on his message board. 031124 ... misstree "...lashes so luscious and long, socks could fit over them..." -silentbob, see: black not sure why this turn of phrase makes me grin so, but it does, and is therefore my quote of the day. 031202 ... unhinged "anyone can look happy in a photograph" 031203 ... unhinged "there is no freedom without discipline" mk 031203 ... once again From a movie interviewing Francis Bacon: Francis Bacon: I like men. From the class: Charles the Violent: Is he gay? Grand High Nelson: Not anymore, he's dead. I recommened you watch it also "Love is the Devil" a Francis Bacon documentary. 031208 ... misstree i do not intend to tiptoe through life simply to arrive safely at death. 040127 ... mt (oops, source unknown...) 040127 ... jane the idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. -david riesman 040216 ... TK Pian is temporary Love is forever - unknown 040216 ... typo pain 040216 ... smurfus rex Love is temporary, Herpes is forever. :) 040216 ... misstree now this is getting scary... once again i find myself quoted on the 'net... this is likely about five years old... and i do vaguely remember saying it... yay me! "I take my role as jester very seriously, because if you can't laugh at yourself, you're doing something wrong." -T___ K___ 040406 ... Syrope "god, it was fantastic. i think i deep throated his tongue" 040406 ... puredream Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. - William James 040618 ... witchesrequiem FUCK YOU! I think you can quote me on that everyday, along with Fuck this shit! 040619 ... Relationship http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040623/ts_nm/iraq_dc&cid=564&ncid=1480 "Imagine your own child dying like that," said Seo Tae-chung, a 61-year-old housewife. "If I were his mother, I would have thought that it would be better that I could die in his place." "The government should have dropped the troops plan if it really cared about its own people, rather than its relationship with the United States," said Yoon Hyun-sung, 31. 040622 ... So... * iLink:- Bill_Gates * "If you think you found a bug, it really only means you're incompetent;" 040622 040622 ... dudeinanigloo "Words by themselves are harmless. You don't need to worry about them. It's the racist bastard who's using the words you need to be worried about." - George Carlin Oh so true. 040623 ... puredream "The aim of love is to love: no more, no less." - Oscar Wilde 040627 ... not santa cleese "But you might find this interesting: I was the Dafremen impersonator." --Law Guy fucking brilliant 040920 ... crazy plant arm "i have been a citizen of this city the weight of memory locked in its measure" from: vancouver -nomme 041230 ... camille Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way 050109 ... Q A stitch in time saves three thousand and thirty-nine phonons that would otherwise be joined in a sound that might be heard 'round the world. 050111 ... unhinged stenciled on the wall of honor at the warren boxing association's training gym: 'to all those that dared to step in the squared circle' don't ever stop fighting 050111 ... stork daddy “Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” ~ Teddy Roosevelt 050112 ... jane "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God "for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing". "But," says Man, "the Babel Fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument you don't. QED" "Oh, dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. 050202 ... jane How many Bush Administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There's nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn't work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness. -- John Cleese 050202 ... andru235 "Let's talk about the letter 'V' for a while, shall we?" --anonymous 051022 ... Death of a Rose First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 060519 ... epitome of incomprehensibility What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck in the dark... To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf 060519 ... crazy plant arm "It was all there, compressed in that nine seconds like fruit juice in a Skittles." —Mark Morford 060526 ... u24 "I have never been so efficiently summarized" -dafremen heh, thanks :-) 071104 ... marked . 071104 ... minnesota_chris Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. --Gandhi 071104 ... unhinged 'green bay makes me happy to come back to milwaukee' 091024 ... unhinged 'i'm not poor so much as i run out of money' 100905 ... unhinged 'absence, even death, could not erase the past' from suite francaise by irene nemirovsky 130628 what's it to you? who go blather from