Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

i would not know how i am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the tv news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories. ~ dave barry

[pamela]

What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.

m. eckhart

[Turtle]

sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. ~ charles bukowski

[pamela]

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

f. dostoevsky

[Turtle]

a single glance: a sudden dart of pain stitching her eyes before she made a sound . . . ~ stanley kunitz

[freeztar]

"When I die I'm going to leave my body to science fiction."

-Steven Wright

[Turtle]

i bought some powdered water, but i didn't know what to add to it. ~ steven wright

[Pyrotex]

As I child, I would often ask, "what's that, daddy?"

 

His confident answer always reassured me that he was the smartest daddy in the world:

 

"Those are fotticytes, mortistats and befuddling pins."

[Southtown]

The difference between reality and interaction is perpetually accelerated chaos (reciprocal uncertainty.)

[Southtown]

Dimensions unfold around us and contract within, hyperbole times movement (entropy/quantization.)

[Turtle]

change means movement. movement means friction. only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. ~ saul alinsky

[Turtle]

do not to your neighbors what you would take ill from them. ~ pittacus of mytilene

[Southtown]

Take not ill from your neighbors what you would reciprocate in retaliation. *snicker*

[freeztar]

"No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically."

-Leonardo da Vinci

[Southtown]

This expression is quite analogous to a differential equation describing the evolution of a many body system which, as anyone competent in physics knows, is not an easy thing to solve. What we would like to do is to reduce the number of arguments to something which can be handled: i.e., we want to know the nature of the equations which must be obeyed by a subset of those variables.

 

--- 15451

[Southtown]

"I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name."

 

--- Isaiah 65:1 web

[pamela]

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

i. kant