* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
When Jazz singer George Melly met Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger, he told
the aging rock star, "I didn’t expect you to have so many wrinkles."
Jagger laughed off the remark. "They’re not wrinkles," he said. "They’re
laugh lines."
"Really?" Melly said. "Surely, nothing could be that funny."
[...] and learn the backward step that turns your
light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop
away, and your original face will be manifest.
All We are saying... is give Peace a Chance...
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Those aren't mistakes, those are grace notes.
[...] the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made
terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an
underlying truth.
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-ass knows deep-down inside that
something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World
Order has a dying empire odour and changing the channel ain't going to make
this go away.
What a terrible thing memory is. Why can't we just tape our
memory -- from the beginning so that you don't lose anything.
Comedy:
"It's just a positive look at negative things."
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
The first time they [the aliens] came for me they milked me for sperm! Is
that what a friend does?
The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert
to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon,
spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric
and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.
1. Love creative work.
2. Do not seek domination over others.
3. Avoid intimacy with the ruling authorities.
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the
lives I'm not living.
While it may be true that there's white out
on my computer screen and that I peel the shells off M&M's to make
chocolate chip cookies, there is no truth to the accusation that I once
buried Cheerios in an effort to grow a donut tree.
For you see, each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
It is often easy to make songs out of old quotations and proverbs.
Here comes Tom Eliot in his four-piece suit.
The truth is that sodomy is becoming generally recognised in England -
but of such a degraded sort! Little boys of 13 are what the British
Public love. There are choruses of them at most Comic Operas, and they
flood all but the most distinguished of the Restaurants.
In Florence people have better taste. Duncan (who's there) writes to say
that large crowds collect every day to see the young aristocrats bathe
in the Arno - and they are 18 or so. As each one steps out of the water
a murmur of approbation or the reverse rises from the crowd. They
criticise details - that young man's legs are too fat - oh! the
beautiful torso! etc. I long to go and live there, or at any rate stay
there a week.