some great quotes

"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement" - john patrick shanley

"evil is an act, not an appetite" - gregory maguire

"we are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us" - charles bukowski

"any scholar of the great ninja vs. pirate wars will immediately understand that pandas and cows are bitter enemies fighting for the affections of the zebra overlords" - unknown

"the world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places. but those that will not break it kills. it kills the very good and the very gentle and the brave impartially. if you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry" - ernest hemmingway

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be" - douglas adams

"it made you realize that you werent the only one who was more than discouraged with the world, you werent the only one moving toward madness - charles bukowski

"i do not believe in cinema verite. sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth - werner herzog

"seek freedom and become captive of your desires. seek discipline and find your liberty" - frank herbert

"all governments suffer a recurring problem; power attracts pathological personalities. it is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. such people become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted" - frank herbert

"happiness is a 'how'; not a what. a talent, not an object" - herman hesse

"it is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" - douglas adams

"hmm..maybe gods can bleed....no, just ketchup." - me

"religious faith is (nothing)(sic) more sublime than a desperate marriage of ignorance and hope" - sam harris

"there is no snake so cruel, so worth your dread;
if anyone upon his tail should tread;
as woman is, when kindled once to ire;
vengence is then the whole of their desires" - geoffrey chaucer

"anger is the executor of pride" - chaucer

"there is only one thing in the world that i admit is not natural; a work of art. everything else, whether one likes it or not, belongs to the natural order" - andre gide

"eleanor roosevelt was a strong woman and a strong first lady, but it wasn't like we didn't know who was wearing the wheels in the family" - me

"The sky is pocked with stars. What eyes the wise men must have had to see a new one in so many" - james goldman

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job" - douglas adams

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be alive, king, and fifty all at once. - james goldman

Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! - james goldman, "the lion in winter"

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - douglas adams

"There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened" - douglas adams