Dunton Bassett - the Knowhere Guide - Informal information about Dunton Bassett, supplied by locals. Aimed at teenage surfers, skateboarders and young people in general.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dunton Bassett "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Dunton Bassett
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Dunton Bassett "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Dunton Bassett
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dunton Bassett No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Dunton Bassett
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Dunton Bassett The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Dunton Bassett
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Dunton Bassett "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Dunton Bassett
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Dunton Bassett "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Dunton Bassett
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow 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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dunton Bassett "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Dunton Bassett
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Dunton Bassett Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Dunton Bassett
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Dunton Bassett I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Dunton Bassett
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Dunton Bassett My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Dunton Bassett
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Dunton Bassett Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Dunton Bassett
