Quotes calendar

Spalding Gray

It was one of those cold, early spring New England days, one of those days that makes you want to take a shot of scotch at nine in the morning.

-- from Sex and death to age 14

Anonymous

You'll know you're having an adventure when you wish you were home in your own bed.

C.A.R. Hoare

Let me just concentrate on one thing: when you’re working as a scientist it is compulsory to be original. You must do something that has never been done before. (…) If you can’t do that you can’t do science. If you’re working for a client on a project to deliver a product, originality is your greatest crime. Anything that can be done with known techniques — published techniques — you must do with published techniques. Originality is the last resort of an engineer, because that is what makes everything so risky.

Mark Leyner

Mrs. Kazanjian said that of all the seventh-grade final projects linking postmortem ontogeny, Entertainment Weekly, and stellar evolution, mine was one of the best she'd ever seen.

-- from the novel Tetherballs of Bougaineville

Richard Russo

His advice to aspiring authors: "Always understate necrophilia."

Xenophobe's guide to the Swiss

The Swiss have a healthy belief that whatever originates in their own country, and preferably their own area, is the best, particularly the people.

President Barack Obama

Well, the truth is, we can’t solve global warming because I fucking changed light bulbs in my house.  It’s because of something collective.

--- as quoted on page 44 of the 17 November 2008 Newsweek

Chris Cox

Voting is like choosing between a douce bag and a turd sandwich.  

--- His explanation of why he doesn’t vote

Guy Ritchie

Making love to Madonna was like cuddling up to a piece of gristle.

Anonymous

This is the worst history of vandalism, gleeful mayhem, and general recalcitrance we've seen in a nominee since Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

--- from a Senate subcommittee hearing