“A giraffe is a horse designed by committee.” -Unknown
Category: Quote of the Week
This is where I get existential.
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Quote of the Week #023
“I have become an aerial view of a coastal town that you once knew.” -Fionn Regan
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Quote of the Week #022
“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
-HP Lovecraft
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Quote of the Week #021
Nancy Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife, I’d poison your tea.”Winston Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”
(randomly quoted by Texas Tech coach Mike Leach after beating #1 ranked Texas)
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Quote of the Week #020
“A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.” -W.H. Auden
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Quote of the Week #019
“Expectations. Execution. No explanations, and no excuses.” -Tony Dungy
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Quote of the Week #018
“What’s past is prologue.” -William Shakespeare -
Quote of the Week #017
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” -Jorge Luis Borges -
Quote of the Week #016
“Turns out there’s a tiger, and I understand he’s hungry, so we’re staying away from him.” -Galveston Judge Jim Yarbrough (on the aftermath of Hurricane Ike) -
Quote of the Week #015
“I’m not afraid of computers taking over the world. They’re just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.” -Thom Yorke -
Quote of the Week #014
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have.” -Émile Chartier -
Quote of the Week #013
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill -
Quote of the Week #012
“Well begun is half done.” –Aristotle (and Mary Poppins) -
Quote of the Week #011
“Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.” –Friedrich Nietzsche -
Quote of the Week #010
“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” –Robert Redford
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Quote of the Week #009
“CAPS LOCK IS THE CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.” –Anonymous -
Quote of the Week #008
“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!” –Dr. Strangelove -
Quote of the Week #007
“Starving men take a hard view of priests too fat to walk.” –Tyrion the Imp -
Quote of the Week #006
“As long as we have courage, today is beautiful.” –Colleen Campbell -
Quote of the Week #005
“You crashed your plane again, a beautiful tailspin. It was going to happen soon enough, the only question was when.”–Jonathan Meiburg -
Quote of the Week #004
“For every life, forgo the parable. Seek the light, my knees are cold.” –Justin Vernon -
Quote of the Week #003
“The second best thing is to fight and win. The first best thing is to fight the fight worth fighting.” –Gene Wolfe -
Quote of the Week #002
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw surprise parties.” –Mikey Teutul -
Quote of the Week #001
“Dolphins are sharks with good publicists.” –Howard Stern