A couple of quotations from my web reading recently:
“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture.” –U.S. Attorney General nominee Eric Holder (via)
“Watch half a film. Ring someone up, ask them about their dreams. Make your life as patchy a discourse as possible.” —M. John Harrison, explaining something about writing
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” –Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (via)
“Few things could scare me more than headlines about walking disaster, failed to the top, finance minister Jim Flaherty wanting an ‘extraordinary budget’ with ‘extraordinary measures’.” —Declan’s pithy comment pretty much nails my response to that story as well.
“Watchmen, by David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the graphic novel by Dave Gibbons and Cordwainer Bird.” –from Rick Norwood’s list of forthcoming movies. You have to be like three different kinds of nerd to know why that’s funny.
“He was still doing fine work, and he will definitely be missed — particularly as a voice of opposition as Britain slides ever closer to Panopticon status.” —Andrew Wheeler, making apposite comment on the passing of John Mortimer.
“interesting people are full of doubt. People who are totally sure their way is the only way are always wrong. I think self-esteem is a myth perpetrated by psychologists, movie stars, magazines, and the pharmaceutical industry. They want you to think something’s wrong with you because you don’t have self-esteem like you ‘should.’ Oh, please! georgia o’keeffe, beethoven, and mark twain all had their doubts, but managed to get a few things done, and so can you.” –Laurie Rosenwald, in All The Wrong People Have Self Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies, quoted in a review
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