Quote of the Day- 06/16/2011

"On a Friday night, there's nothing I like better than cracking open a cool one and watching seventy two hours of brutal beatings and forced sodomy."
- Stephen Colbert

Quote of the Day- 06/15/2011

"I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were... Sibella." 
- Louis Mazzini

Quote of the Day- 06/14/2011

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile."
- Sinclair Lewis

Quote of the Day- 06/13/2011

"Historically, the claim of consensus is the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
- Michael Crichton

Quote of the Day- 06/12/2011

"Before all else, be armed."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Quote of the Day- 06/11/2011

"Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkein

Quote of the Day- 06/10/2011

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
- The Principal from "Billy Madison"

Quote of the Day- 06/09/2011

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
- Octavio Paz

Quote of the Day- 06/08/2011

"I have to understand what my strengths and limitations are, and work from a true place.  I try to do this as best I can while still protecting my writer self, which more than ever needs privacy."
- Sandra Cisneros

Quote of the Day- 06/07/2011

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is."
- Thomas Szasz

Quote of the Day- 06/06/2011

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quote of the Day- 06/05/2011

"You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover all roads lead down."
- Stanislaw Lem

Quote of the Day- 06/04/2011

"Oh, you mean love?  A big lightning bolt to the heart when you can't eat and you can't work and you just run off and get married and make babies?  The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist.  What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons...you're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget.  I'm living like there is no tomorrow, because there isn't one."

- Don Draper.

Quote of the Day- 06/03/2011

"The devil take this predictable colon!"
- Professor Hubert Farnsworth

Quote of the Day- 06/02/2011 (A TWO-FER!)

"It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own."
- H.G. Wells

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire

Quote of the Day- 05/31/2011

"All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."

- George Orwell

Quote of the Day- 05/30/2011

"The way people speak and write nowadays makes my head hurt."
- Edmund Rostand

Quote of the Day- 05/29/2011

"In my pursuit, World, why such diligence?  What my offense, when I am thus inclined, insuring elegance affect my mind, not that mind affect an elegance?"
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Quote of the Day- 05/28/2011

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

- William Faulkner

Quote of the Day- 05/27/2011

"There are two levers for moving men- interest and fear."
- Napoleon Bonaparte