Posts in the category “quotations”

Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for squealing, but then I realized, it was I who wronged you. So I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service.
Homer: You’re … selling what, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can’t sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos. [slams the door]
Apu: He’s got me there.
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George Bernard Shaw

In which I discover some memorable quotes by George Bernard Shaw

I Think I Need Less Time to Think

“I think I need less time to think.” – fí-dël’ï-tê

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliott, via lillianchan

“I hang on the picayune details of your whirlwhind, jet-set bicoastal life.”
Brad Graham

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry

Support Counter Intelligence

“Support Counter Intelligence” – seen on a tip jar in a coffee shop near UCLA

Bernard Berenson

“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” – Bernard Berenson, Lithuanian-born US art critic I share my birthday with him.

“We are a disenchanted generation, and we don’t even care enough to be hippies.”
Andrea Spencer

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.