Quotes
An ongoing collection of quotes that make me think and/or laugh:
Sometimes the light’s all shining on me.
Other times I can hardly see.
Lately it occurs to me
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
The Grateful Dead, “Truckin’”
The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.
Isaiah 26:7
Did not a body have to wonder how intelligently designed we can be when none of us has so much as a wheel-like option.
Gish Jen, World and Town.
Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn’t make me Madonna.
Joan Cusack in Working Girl
I wish getting seriously pissed off counted as cardio exercise.
Amy Adams (not the actress, the Mistress of All Evil)
You own the copyright on your life.
Hilton Als, “Color Vision,” The New Yorker, Nov. 8, 2010
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this:
`I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’
`But,’ says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’
`Oh dear,’ says God, `I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
`Oh, that was easy,’ says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
My mind is like a classroom full of five-year-olds with guns and liquor.
Duncan North a/k/a The Tao of Love
We have formed a truth by the consultation and concurrence of our five senses; but perhaps we needed the agreement of eight or ten senses, and their contribution, to perceive it certainly and in its essence.
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Works of Montaigne: Essays, Travel Journals, Letters, translated by Donald Frame, quoted in Bakewell, Sarah, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (Kindle Locations 2299-2301). Other Press. Kindle Edition.
