Quotes calendar

Alain de Botton

Technology may make it easier to reach beauty, but it does not simplify the process of possessing it or appreciating it.

- his take on why big wall climbing is superior to riding in a tourist train around the valley floor, from The Art of Travel

David Foster Wallace

The trouble with college math classes… is that their sheer surface-level difficulty can fool us into thinking we really know something when all we really `know' is abstract formulas and rules for their deployment.

Kelly Rich

Sitting on that first hook of the day, it's like your first time having sex. Your entire focus is on one very small object.

Nate B

I can only imagine the deprivation and loneliness you will feel from a lack of human companionship when your 1000 free AOL hours run out.

Anonymous

A freight car is a fuck of a place to write poetry.

cgenman (#325138) on slashdot

If you are going to be compulsively obsessed to the exclusion of all else, at least sweat the details.

Solemn advice from alleged poet Rigg Kennedy

Listen to the conversations of the spirits that live in tree trunks.

Jon Stewart

Dig this: I gots neon lights under mine
So all the bitches know: my house is fine.

- on his sweet ride

Beavis & Butthead

Butthead: I'm... like... mad at numbers.

Beavis: Yeah.  There's like... too many of 'em and stuff.

Thomas Bruderman

It wasn't like a three-ring circus, it was a nice party.  There was only one dwarf.

- referring to the bachelor party thrown for his son by disgraced Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski