buck george
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I met someone who looks a lot like you. She does the things you do. But she is an IBM.... She tells me that she likes me very much but when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear.... Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace, and kiss her interface. Till then, I'll leave her alone.
– ELO, "Yours Truly, 2095"
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Quotes
These are honest-to-God real live quotes I've heard, read, or seen on signs somewhere. I didn't make these up (except the ones I'm credited with).
NOTE: If you have come here looking for Ernest T. Bass quotes (and I know you have), you will find only one; please find something more important to do with your time.
– Buck George
I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap.
– Buck George
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
– St. Francis de Sales
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
– G.K. Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
– G.K. Chesterton
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
– George Orwell, 1984
The aim in opening one's mind, is the same as in opening one's mouth—to shut it again on something both solid and nourishing.
– G.K. Chesterton
Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog.
– Fr. Dwight Longenecker
– Michael Kennedy, professor of History, High Point University
– Buck George, I think (this sounds too good to be me)
I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.
– Isaac Newton
Informed decision making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
– Scott Adams
I met someone who looks a lot like you. She does the things you do. But she is an IBM.... She tells me that she likes me very much but when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear.... Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace, and kiss her interface. Till then, I'll leave her alone.
– ELO, "Yours Truly, 2095"
Hell is still overburdened. I must stand and wait in line. I may never know for certain when will be my time.
– Disturbed
You read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost.
– Paul Simon
Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.... If I auger in tomorrow, it won't be with a frown on my face. I've had a ball.
– General Chuck Yeager
I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary but he couldn't help me either. They call me the seeker.
– The Who
The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa.
– Werner Heisenberg
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence.
– Paul Simon
I read the graffitti in the bathroom stall like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall.... It didn't say much but it only confirmed that the center of the earth is the end of the world.
– Green Day
– Homer Simpson, improvising lyrics to Chumbawumba's "Tubthumper"
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements—indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification.
– Albert Einstein
– William Shakespeare, on computer programming (Macbeth, Act I, scene vii)
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearance.
– Hercule Poirot
My boy, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles—champions every one.
– Kilgore Trout's father
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
– Albert Einstein
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
– Douglas Adams
– front of a T-Shirt
– Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.
– Mark Twain