Quotes calendar

Russell Brand

My persona don't really work without fame. Without fame, [my] haircut could be mistaken for mental illness.

Miguel Rivera

The thing I would like to do is have someone guide me up something big in Yosemite, something tall.  I think [big wall] climbers are really like astronauts.  They should make money being astronauts instead of hanging out on cliffs.

-- Miguel owns Miguel's Pizza at the Red River Gorge

Heraclitus

Fire of all things is the judge and ravisher.

Samuel Johnson

[Americans are] a race of convicts, and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

-- SJ was the author of a landmark English dictionary

Dennis Miller

Some of us see a beautiful sunset and think, 'You know, I betcha my accountant is boning me up the ass.'

John Dalbey

There was  a brief pause, then I heard the terrified cry of 'I'm falling!' and I saw all the tension go out of the ropes.   There was a muffled 'thump', then silence.  Horrified, I thought, 'Oh god, I've killed the poor bastard.'

-- from a Leaning Tower trip report

Carlo Marx

I have finally taught [him] that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud.  But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races.

-- from the book On the Road

From "The Daytrippers"

He has a dog's head, but no hands.  He's a pointer who can't point.  Get it?

The Log Lady

"There are, of course, the pros and cons of division."

-- from one of the prologues to the show Twin Peaks

Slava K.

"These French burritos are killing me."

-- said after living in Paris for a month