Debbie

"I love the gay community. For those that don't you are missing out on a lot of love."
Debbie
August 11, 2008

Olbermann

"There's a false concept of balance that Rupert Murdoch and Fox News have successfully pushed: Everybody has to be left or right; every argument has to be countered. That's "fair and balanced." It's really the moral relativism they always complain about, applied to journalism. If you say a falling coffee cup will shatter on the floor, that must be "balanced" by someone saying no, it will fly upward into the hand of God. Nonsense! But if you put this nonsense on television, it gains credibility. You can say TV is crap, but the most authenticating thing in the world is "I saw it on TV.""
Keith Olbermann
Playboy Magazine, October 2007

Bennett

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."


April 3, 2008

Pratchett

"Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks around, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves."



March 13, 2008

Pratchett

"Do not...what do they call it...go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. Then go postal. But with precision."


March 13, 2008

Pratchett

"He knew in his heart that spinning upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky."



March 13, 2008

Wilson

"Truths only seem good since they can seem useful for our own success, which we value as good. Truth is only what we ought to believe if we want to succeed. To a pragmatist, truth is what we ought to assume. I do not necessarily endorse the Cartesian sense of uncertainty, but certainly we, as responsible philosophers, must ask more of ourselves than usefulness to necessitate truth."
Charles Wilson
Paper for my Introduction to Philosophy class, 2/25/2008
March 4, 2008

Pratchett

"As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up."


March 2, 2008

Hardy

"I am now about to pass into my normal condition. For people are almost always in their graves. When we survey the long race of men, it is strange and still more strange to find that they are mainly dead men, who have scarcely ever been otherwise."


January 29, 2008