Quotations: Miscellaneous

You know, we'll be paying for this moment of freedom for generations to come.

French Push Bottles Up Germans

What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did. Only by being so frankly himself as he was till his death could he give something to all men.

But, sheesh, if you're going to give someone rope and hope they hang themself it's much more effective if you don't give them the leather-bound three volume tome on how to properly tie nooses (with bonus colo{u}r plates showing famous gallows in history.

You are, without doubt, one of the slowest moving targets it has ever been my displeasure to take a bead on.

Like the more famous Wonder Woman, Sheena is regarded with ambivalence by sensitive caring academic feminist cultural-studies mavens for a number of reasons that boil down to the incontestible fact that her adventures are not perfectly reflective of the attitudes and abilities of a 'nineties liberal-arts sophomore, and of course, for being produced by artists, writers, and publishers with tallywhackers.

Germans, of course, have no love life. They can't, since whispering "I love you" to your sweetie sounds just the same as telling her that you wish to eviscerate her corpse and place the head on a spear in the front yard as a warning to others.

[on the theory of learned helplessness:] This is one of the reasons for all of the scholastic "I may have sucked smegma-coated dick on that spelling test, but by golly I'm a winner too!" stuff. Educators are afraid that if Jonny has a negative self-image he just might spiral down and out, ending up at the Department of Motor Vehicles where, vengeful, he'll issue them the IB2-FAT license plate.

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.