April 2009
335 posts
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“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”
– Mark Twain
“Let us endeavour to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be...”
– Mark Twain
“Put all your eggs in one basket - and watch that basket.”
– Mark Twain
“Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets...”
– Marin County newspaper’s TV listing for The Wizard of Oz
“I’ve seen my own death in dreams like this and it’s helped me...”
– Marilyn Manson - The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
“JOURNALIST: Didn’t you have anything on?
MM: I had the radio on.”
– Marilyn Monroe (Norma-Jean Baker; 1926-62) US film star. Attrib.
“Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems....”
– Marilyn Manson
“Ever notice that ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision?”
– Marilyn Monroe
“People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the...”
– Madonna
“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”
– M.C. Escher
“Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my...”
– Lynda Montgomery
“Do you call that thing under your hat a head?”
– Ludwig Holberg - Reply to the jibe, ‘Do you call that thing on your head a hat?’
“A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who...”
– Lord Robert Webb-Johnstone (b. 1879). - Collected Papers
“Die, my dear doctor! That’s the last thing I shall do!”
– Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), English politician, prime minister. - Attributed last words.
“You’ve got a death wish. That’s so selfish. I have one too, but I...”
– Lisa Kudrow as Lucia - The Opposite of Sex
“We’re all in this alone.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
– Lily Tomlin
“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All...”
– Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; 1832-98) British writer. - Through the Looking-Glass, Ch. 1
“Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Les Brown - Superlearning 2000
“It was just one of those parties which got out of hand.”
– Lenny Bruce - Referring to the Crucifixion. The Guardian, 10 May 1979
“Listen to the experts. They will tell you why something can’t be done....”
– Lazarus Long
“A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came...”
– Kevin Keegan - World Cup ‘98
“Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.”
– Kevin Keegan - World Cup ‘98
Two New Devices from Apple: Category Defining... →
If there is a smaller version of the iPhone then the screen has to be still usable using the pointing device, aka the human finger. The screen has to be the same pixel size as the current iPhone because all the apps have already been built for it.
“I came to Nantes two years ago and it’s much the same today, except that...”
– Kevin Keegan - World Cup ‘98
“The good news for Nigeria is that they’re two-nil down very early in the...”
– Kevin Keegan - World Cup ‘98
“That would have been a goal if the goalkeeper hadn’t saved it.”
– Kevin Keegan - World Cup ‘98
“Had passport photograph taken at the same place as I originally went to in 1950!...”
– Kenneth Williams - Diaries 4 May 1965
“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those...”
– Ken Dodd (b. 1931), British comic. - Daily Telegraph (London, 20 Sept. 1990).
“The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday...”
– Ken Dodd
“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should...”
– Katharine Hepburn
Honda Insight - Let It Shine on Vimeo →
That is very very impressive… I just wasn’t looking at the video. What was it for?
“A genius is someone who sees a target that nobody else can see, and hits it.”
– Kara Poor
“Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
– Julian Clary (b. 1959), British comedian, entertainer. - Daily Telegraph (London, 2 Sept. 1992).
“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments,...”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you...”
– Joseph Wood Krutch
“In a disastrous fire in President Reagan’s library both books were...”
– Jonathan Hunt
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
– Jonathan Swift
“Life is tough, it’s tougher when you’re stupid.”
– John Wayne
“Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?”
– John Mendoza
“Fashion is for people with no, or very little, taste.”
– John Mellor (Eng. Metalwork Teacher)
“I don’t know how much money I’ve got…I did ask the accountant...”
– John Lennon (1940-80) British rock musician. - The Beatles (Hunter Davies)
“Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewellery.”
– John Lennon (1940-80) British rock musician. - Remark, Royal Variety Performance, 15 Nov 1963
“Everybody’s hustlin’ For a buck and a dime I’ll scratch your...”
– John Lennon
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon
“Dr. Malcolm suffers from a deplorable excess of personality.”
– John Hammond
“I’ll have a hip made of the finest English oak.”
– John Cleese on his possible hip replacement - TV Times
“He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money,...”
– John Barrymore (1882-1942) US actor. - The Stage, Jan 1941 (J. P. McEvoy)