Sunday, February 25, 2007

GREAT QUOTES / 28

And yet ANOTHER installment of "GREAT QUOTES" gleaned from the myriad of information that travels through my inbox and from my "surfing" expeditions................Enjoy............share, discuss, cuss, laugh or react anyway you choose to the following quotes from both reputable and questionable sources.....................PEACE.......................Scott

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum -
Havelock Ellis


There's a whole dead cat in every bar of Dead Cat Soap.
-- Firesign Theatre


“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue,
and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint
the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do.”
– Henry David Thoreau


Art is the serendipity that occurs when imagination meets discipline and
skill. Every work of art is a challenge to the status quo because it
proposes to replace a part of it. - Sam Smith


You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might end up someplace else. - Yogi Berra


This is a strange place...
as strange as Hollywood any day.
-- Firesign Theatre


The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. - Said February 1st,
1963 by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara


Now I suffer from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have
received a singular warning. I have felt the wind of the wing of madness
pass over me. - Charles Baudelaire


'Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,
aggression and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love.' - MLK, Jr.


In society where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life
presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything
that was directly lived has moved away into a representation - Guy
Debord


Much madness is divinist sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness
- Emily Dickinson


Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk.
Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can
smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink
- Governor Earl Long of Louisiana


Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag


That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only
unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public. - Theodore Roosevelt


Wonderful man! I long to get drunk with him - Diary entry of Lord Byron
about Sir Walter Scott on January 5, 1821

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