OUR FAVORITE QUOTES

"And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him.  Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill.  Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him."
--Jack Nicholson in GQ Magazine

"My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that."
--Paul McCartney, 2007 on the end of records and CDs as we know them.

"Alienation between generations is a product of schooling. There's no reason for teenagers to be alienated." 
-- University of Toronto researcher J. Gary Knowles on the effects of homeschooling, which has proven to take the edge off rebellious behavior among teenagers, who added "I wouldn't say homeschoolers are better educated, but they are better equipped to learn."

“From health care to housing, from schools to Homeland Security, there is not a single major urban problem facing Los Angeles that does not have illegal immigration as its root cause, or at the very least, as a contributing factor. But unlike Las Vegas, what happens in LA doesn’t stay in LA. The problems we have been enduring for decades have been exported to virtually every corner of America.”  
-- Doug McIntyre, radio host of KABC’s “McIntyre in the Morning," in Los Angeles

"I think there's a big phalanx of careerists (producers, network people) that come between the actors, writers and prop men on the one hand and the audience on the other. I think there is a huge bureau of agents who work for the corporate state. They make sure that the corporate state's message is what gets through. Television is all about getting you in a mood. Sort of reassuring you. That's all that network television does: preaches to the choir, tells you things you already know. And sometimes it makes you feel smart for being on the 'right side.'"
-- Sopranos and Rockford Files producer David Chase on writing for television

“This is America”, he said with a newcomer’s pride. “In America you don’t have to speak English."
-- In a 2005 page one story, the Los Angeles Daily News reported on an only-in-LA phenomenon — Korean immigrants are learning Spanish, not English. One Korean business owner defended the decision because his customers and employees speak Spanish.

"My God, the man is a fascist -- a fascist, I tell you."
 -- Former reporter, now Democrat Partisan and columnist Helen Thomas on President Bush.

"I tell you, the woman is a monster, a monster, a monster...The lady is a goddamn liar."
-- Helen Thomas on Condoleeza Rice

"A vote for Kerry is now a vote for war."
October, 2004: Presidential candidate Ralph Nader on how little difference there is in choosing between Republican President Bush's stance on Iraq and Democrat candidate John Kerry's stance on Iraq. In the same speech, Nader called the Democrats "sniveling political cowards."

"I have said again and again that even if Saddam Hussein is captured or killed in the next instant, it won't change my view about how I can run a more effective war on terror..."
October, 2004: Presidential candidate John Kerry, mistakenly referring to"Saddam Hussein," disagreeing with his wife Teresa that Osama bin Laden will be captured just before the election to give President Bush "unfair" advantage in the election. Many people confuse the two, but Mr. Kerry is the first presidential candidate so far to do so.

"I have a two-step program for you. First we get rid of Bush. Then we get rid of Kerry." -- Leftist Texan Jim Hightower at a Washington conference of Democrats, 2004

"What we have now is democracy without citizens. No one is on the public's side. All the buyers are on the corporations' side. And the bureaucrats in the Administration don't think the government belongs to the people."
-- Ralph Nader, 1969

"Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind."
-- George Orwell

"An intellectual carrot? The mind boggles!"
-- From the screenplay for the 1953 movie, The Thing (From Another World) directed by Christian Nyby

"I don't think anyone could have handled it better. What would it have served if he had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room? I knew it was something serious. The president bit his lip and clenched his jaw. I didn't know what happened, whether it was something with his wife or children or something with the nation. I remember praying that God would watch over our school and protect our children...That day I would have voted for him...I've heard people say, ''Why didn't you get the children out of there?' Where were they supposed to go? Many of their parents weren't home. Some didn't have rides. It would have created chaos...There is nothing anyone can tell me to change my perspective, because I was there."
-- Gwendolyn Tose-Rigell, principal of Sarasota, Florida's Emma E. Booker elementary school (talking to the Sarasota Herald Tribune), a Democrat, remembering 9:05 AM on 9/11 2001, as White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card passed her, then whispered to President Bush that the World Trade Center Towers had been hit in an apparent terrorist attack. The president stayed seated for another six minutes reading to children before making his departure, an act of restraint that has been endlessly criticized since. 

"Right topic, wrong year."
-- The Washington Post reflecting on a 10,000-copy special edition section  titled "Election 2000" mailed to journalists June, 2004

“Bush Junior is far more intelligent than his image or the press suggest. And he is 100 per cent trustworthy. He is also a much stronger man than Bush senior...President Bush has far more in common with (former British Prime Minister Margaret) Thatcher than (he has with) his father. It is nonsense to say Bush is in the pocket of the neo-conservatives. I know the so-called neo-cons and it is all a myth. They can’t agree on anything, let alone organize themselves for a predetermined program. He’s got the steel and backbone of his mother, Barbara Bush, and not his weak and feeble father.”  
-- veteran British journalist Paul Johnson, who knows them all

"Who knows if any of us will be around in 1972? Existence is so fickle, fate is so fickle."
-- Robert F. Kennedy, 1967

"Nobody asked my wife."
-- Walter Cronkite on being dubbed "The Most Trusted Man in America."

"The two leading contenders for the U.S. presidency are both members of Skull and Bones, one of the oldest secret societies in America. Why is this not a major election-year issue?"
-- WhatReallyHappened.com, 2004 on the possible conspiracy to elect a Yale Skull and Bones Society president.  Skull and Bones is a fraternal society among college men (of which 41st President George H. W. Bush was said to have been a member too), though some suspect it to be a secret organization plotting to take over the world. 

"When you're a conspiracy theorist, you see a conspiracy around every corner, beneath every manhole cover."
-- Edgar Bron

"Less is more."
-- Mies Van Der Rohe

"They went to school, they participated in the professions, they participated in the government and business and, as long as they stayed out of [Saddam's] way, they had considerable freedom of movement."
-- Sen. Hillary Clinton on why women were better off in Saddam Hussein's Iraq than they have been since. (Ed. note: Does this mean Sen. Clinton believes Saddam killed, tortured and raped only men or is she speaking in tortured generalities?)

" We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City."
-- Sen. Hillary Clinton on why US military strength abroad is too low. 

"A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation is a society on its way out."
-- L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology

"We have met the enemy and they are us."
-- classic comic strip character Pogo, by Walt Kelly

"Knott and Schott fought a duel. In the end, Knott was shot and Schott was not, making it better to be Schott than Knott."
-- Anonymous

""I just want a nice guy," women whine. Then they date the first drunken leather-clad jerk who spills his drink on her dress...With bad boys, we know what to expect. We'll try to change them, it won't work, and we'll be left heartbroken. But, it will be entirely not our fault. Whereas if we date Mr. Nice Guy and it doesn't work out, we're going to have to take some ownership of the failure. Some women are just more comfortable playing the victim."
-- "Why Good Girls Always Want the Bad Boys" by Laura Snyder

"If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it...it would have been much better."
-- Karl Marx's mother

"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable."
-- President John F. Kennedy

"It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind."
-- J. Krishnamurti

"Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of the wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country to the abyss call ruling too difficult for ordinary men."
-- playwright and director Bertolt Brecht

"In the future, everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes."
-- artist Andy Warhol

"He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news."
-- Bertolt Brecht

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"

"I wonder whether what we're publishing now is worth cutting down the trees to make paper for the stuff."
-- Richard Brautegan

"Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful,
Might as well live."
-- Dorothy Parker

"I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll."
-- actress Jane Russell

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
-- Albert Einstein

"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
-- Hans Christian Anderson

"Your wig steers the gig."
-- Lord Buckley

"When you're driving hard out on the limit and the true love of speed comes over you, you don't want to slow up. You know that you ought to maybe. But you're locked into something so big that you can't let go. It's always the same -- the faster you go the less you care about being able to stop. Ever."
-- racing driver Sam Posey

"You can't get snot off a suede jacket."
-- Lenny Bruce

"Life begins at the centerfold and expands outward."
-- Lisa Baker, Playboy magazine's Miss November, 1966

"In trying to give, you see that you have nothing.
Seeing that you have nothing, you try to give of yourself.
Trying to give of yourself, you see that you are nothing.
Seeing that you are nothing, you desire to become.
In desiring to become, you begin to live."
-- Rene Daumal

"There is nothing new except what has been forgotten."
-- Marie Antoinette 

"May my hands proclaim that my eyes have loved."
-- artist Hannes Bok

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
-- actor John Wayne

"The main obligation is to amuse yourself."
-- humorist S. J. Perelman

"Love seeketh not itself to please
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
-- William Blake, Songs of Experience

"If you want peace of mind, you have to learn there's almost nothing in the world that can't be ignored."
-- Anonymous

"Did you ever feel like the whole world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"
-- comedian George Gobel on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, 1968

"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap."
-- Miles Davis

"No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way."
-- Muhammad Ali, 1971

"Do you know what the country needs today? A seven-cent nickel...If it works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel...You could go to the newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last the family a lifetime."
-- Groucho Marx

"I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil."
-- Brendan Behan

"The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase."
-- Man Ray

"Seinfeld wasn't just the future of American comedy, it was part of a proud tradition. The first producer to back the show was Castle Rock's Rob Reiner, who was the real-life inspiration for Richie, the first true brat to make it big in sitcoms (on dad Carl Reiner's The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of the best comedies of the 1960s). Reiner then got famous playing Meathead on All In the Family, one of the best comedies of the 1970s. So who else should have produced the best comedy of the 1990s, with an all-brat cast? And Seinfeld's pedigree goes back even further. Roseanne was righter than she knew when she sniped, "They think they're doing Samuel Beckett instead of a sitcom.' In fact, Beckett's play 'Waiting for Godot' was partly inspired by Laurel and Hardy, and Laurel and Hardy partly inspired Abbott and Costello, and Abbott and Costello largely inspired Seinfeld & company. So Seinfeld just brought comedy back to its roots. For that -- and for countless water-cooler conversations about puffy shirts and Elaine's 'full-body, drive-heave' dance style -- we will be forever grateful."
-- TV Guide, January 17, 1998, on the closing of Seinfeld's eight-year run on television.

"Mrs. Krishner is really saying: 'Hurry Krishner, ram it, ram it; hurry Krishner, hurry hurry.'"
-- satirist Paul Krasner on the Krishna movement, 1970