Quotes tagged “random”
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
— Will Rogers
I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
— Mario Lemieux
We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.
— Troy Polamalu
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
— Dave Barry
Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight diziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dremlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an un-interrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.
— Albert Hofmann
Be compassionate: Don't say "straight", say "psychedelically challenged"!
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We felt the effects of herb were so dangerous that it was better to lie to the american public to save them rather than tell them the truth...
— Partnership for a Drug Free America
Psychedelics often produce psychotic and even violent behavior in those that have never used them.
— Timothy Leary
A musician, if he's a messenger, is like a child who hasn't been handled too many times by man, hasn't had too many fingerprints across his brain. That's why music is so much heavier than anything you ever felt.
— Jimi Hendrix
You can bet everything will come to an end. It's going to be ugly and it's going to be a mess, and it's going to be something that somebody did in the name of God....
— Frank Zappa
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
— Unknown
"Makes sense when appended to its own quotation"
makes sense when appended to its own quotation.
— Hume
Keep in mind always the two constant Laws of Frisbee:
- The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land under a car, just out of reach (this force is technically termed car suck).
- Never precede any maneuver by a comment more predictive than "Watch this!"
— Traditional
It happens. Sometimes people just explode. Natural causes.
— from Repo Man
An actor as President??
— In Like Flint, 1967
In the Land of The Dark, The Ship of The Sun is pulled by The Grateful Dead
— Egyptian Book of The Dead
Death to the intolerants!
— John Perry Barlow
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
— Jack Handey
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
— Andrew Jackson
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
— Flash Gordon
I know you believe you understand what it was you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant...
— Anonymous (me?)
It is always preferable to visit home with a friend. Your parents will not be pleased with this plan, because they want you all to themselves and because in the presence of your friend, they will have to act like mature human beings ...
— Playboy, January 1983
Submarines, flying boats, robots, talking pictures, radio, television, bouncing radar vibrations off the moon, rocket ships, and atom-splitting -- all in our time. But nobody has yet been able to figure out a music holder for a marching piccolo player.
— Meredith Willson, 1948
As Mahatma Gandhi was boarding a train... journalist: Mahatma, what do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've proven who I am so many times before
The magnetic strip's worn thin
And each time I was someone else
And everyone was takin in
— Bruce Cockburn
I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world.
— Homer Simpson
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
— Doug McLeod