"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) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Illustrators 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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Illustrators
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "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) Illustrators "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Illustrators
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Illustrators Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Illustrators
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Illustrators Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Illustrators
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Illustrators Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Illustrators
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Illustrators There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Illustrators
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Illustrators Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Illustrators
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Illustrators Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Illustrators
"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) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Illustrators Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) 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 Illustrators
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 Illustrators I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Illustrators
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Illustrators We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Illustrators
