Quotes calendar

Priscilla Lammeter

It drives me past patience, that way o’ the men -- always wanting and wanting, and never easy with what they’ve got; they can’t sit comfortable in their chairs when they’ve neither ache nor pain, but either they must stick a pipe in their mouths, to make ‘em better than well, or else they must be swallowing something strong, though they’re forced to make haste before the next meal comes in.

--- from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Dr. Seuss

If you never did,
you should. 
These things are fun
and fun is good.

-- from One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

Jack Kerouac

The prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

-- from On the Road

Old Bull Lee

Some's bastards, some's ain't, that's the score.

--- from On the Road

The Major

Achievement is its own reward.  Pride obscures it.

--- from Twin Peaks

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 On the Road

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

Dieter

This lambada, it is both masturbatory and obscene and yet I am drawn to it like moth toward flame.