Posts in the category “quotations”
Surreal
The Surrealist Compliment Generator says, “Certainly your trout are more proseperous to vacuum than the flying coachmen of Czar Nicholai!” How hoopy. link via benhammersley.com
The Daily Show
The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it’s gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now
ultracrepidarian
Definition: In a word… ultracrepidarian: (n., adj.) a person who gives opinions beyond his scope of knowledge. “Nonexpert opinion or assumed authority – Don’t be swayed (or try to sway someone else) based on the opinion of an unqualified authority. The Air Force is chock-full of people who, because of their position or authority in
“Life is the mayonnaise through which we squirt.”
Jason Kottke
A Few Good Reasons for Drinking
I’ve a few good reasons for drinking And one just entered my head If a man can’t drink when he’s living How the hell can he drink when he’s dead? – seen on a t-shirt for McSwiggin’s Pub, “where there are no strangers, only friends yet to meet”
For the past decade, the Eastern Division has been a two-team race to the SEC Championship Game between Florida and Tennessee. They have had absolutely no competition from the rest of the division. This year will be no exception.
If Tennessee quarterback Casey Clausen was a little more seasoned and the game wasn’t being played in Gainesville, I might give the Vols a chance in this game. But he isn’t and they aren’t, so the Volunteers will have to settle for second.
Terry Bowden on the SEC
Gurdjieff and Marcus Aurelius
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.” – Gurdjieff (1873-1949) “Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that
Eddie
On eddies in the space-time continuum