Thursday, March 26, 2009

Quotes

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at
the thirty-four-year-old level."
- Dana Carvey

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to
make the world signify, to render it visible.
We are not, however, in danger of lacking
meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged
with meaning and it is killing us.
- Jean Baudrillard

One of the characteristics of the dream is that
nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we
agree to live in it with strangers, completely
cut off from our habits and friends.
- Jean Cocteau

The amount of eccentricity in a society has
generally been proportional to the amount of
genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric
marks the chief danger of the time.
- John Stuart Mill

Your manuscript is both good and original,
but the part that is good is not original
and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson

Kitty Pryde: "Impossible."
Logan: "If that's what you believe, girl, then it always will be."
Kitty Pryde: "Gimme a break! You're too tall -- an' too darn ugly --
to be Yoda."
- X-Men (Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 4)

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