Dermod Moore's Bootboy Column - A personal column started in Hot Press March 1993 on witnessing the first gay float in the St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin.
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) News and Media
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W News and Media There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel News and Media
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons News and Media Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) News and Media Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell News and Media
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T News and Media Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan News and Media
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer News and Media Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm News and Media
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen News and Media A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA News and Media
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) News and Media When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) News and Media
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson News and Media The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson News and Media
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) News and Media A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous News and Media
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill News and Media
