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[kissmyshadestoo]

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 

[bysshe]

"I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." ~ Oscar Wilde

 

[bysshe]

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

 

[Flax]

"I like turtles" - Zombie Turtle Kid

Spoiler

 

[CrystalGeezer]

Setting: Dinner with dad where we shared two pitchers of beer. *hic*
Conversation: Morrissey sued for the profits generated from The Smiths after explaining that they didnt write the songs, just performed them.
Dad's response: :"That's bullshit. If they didn't write them...that's bullshit."

 

[klivert70]

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson



"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell

 

[CrystalGeezer]

I'm watching country songwriter Shelby Lynn on Tavis Smiley who just said about being older, "I'm finally the age I think I ought to be."

 

[Mozza220559]

"I caught you a delicious bass" Napoleon Dynamite

 

[JoanOfArc]

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
Joseph de Maistre

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu

 

[anon x]

My signature :

 

[CrystalGeezer]

"We could have a bowl of bamboo shoots and be shitting out clarinet reeds."

 

[Drew a swallow]

"My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers." - Woody Allen.

Quite apt.

 

[Drew a swallow]

"For seven and a half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex...uh...setbacks." - George Bush.

 

[JoanOfArc]

"The pleasure of holding one's head high the whole year through
is well paid for by certain quarter-hours that have to be suffered."
Giambattista Casti


or:"The pleasure of holding one's head up high for the whole year
is well and truly paid for by certain quarters of an hour one must endure"

or:"Il piacere di alzar la testa tutto l'anno e ben pagato da certi quarti d'ora che bisogna passar.

 

[Mr Smith]

I think therefore I spam.

 

[Mr Smith]

"I caught you a delicious bass" Napoleon Dynamite

I like your sleeves, they're really big. Lucky!

 

[Girl-with-the-Thorn]

"Elegance against ignorance, difference against indifference, wit against shit!"
Neil Hannon (from The Divine Comedy's song 'Middle-Class Heroes')

There are many more, but I can't remember any at the moment. It's too late.

 

[joe frady]

"Elegance is Refusal" ~ Coco Chanel.

"f*** Dance, Let's Art" ~ spm, 'Melody Maker', 1990.

 

[Uncleskinny]

I know it's technically a joke, but, this from John Cooper-Clarke...

"I fell down the stairs yesterday. The wife thought Eastenders had finished."

P.

 

[billy scissors]

"Long see,no time!" - Mohinder,a taxi driver I use now and then