July 2003 Quotes

"My love for you is like this scar - ugly, but permanent."
- Grace Adler. Will and Grace.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others when ever they go.

 - Oscar Wilde.

 

All your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options, combine and coalesce into one noise including laugh and whimper, scream and sigh, forever and forever repeating, in any tongue we care to choose, whatever lessened, separated message we want to hear. The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am.

- The Crow Road. Ian Banks. (On Philosophy)

 

 Gluttony is an emotional escape, a signal that something is eating us.

- Peter De Vries

 

Billy Corgan: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins ....

Homer: Homer Simpson, smiling politely.

 

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe, when it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

- Prince Charles

 

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

- Alex Hamilton

 

Youth and vigour are no match for age and treachery.

 - Anon (Told to me by Paul Shears)

 

This is a beautiful day

Its a new day

We are together

We are together

We are together

We are unified

- Come together. Primal Scream

 

Nancy: It gets more complicated if you've read section 202 of the national security act of 1947.
C.J.: Let's assume I haven't.
Nancy: It says that the secretary of defence will be the principal assistant to the president on all matters relating to the national security.
C.J.: What does "principal assistant" mean?
Nancy: It doesn't specify.
Toby: No, it wouldn't, because this is an area of federal law where you'd want as much ambiguity as possible.
- Westwing

 

Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret
It ain't no secret
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living
In your American skin

- 41 Shots. Bruce springsteen