Over the years, I’ve collected way too many favorite quotes to keep track of. I used to send them out in an email, but they just piled up and I didn’t have a good place to put them. So, I’m going to put them here. Enjoy!
(By the way, it’s going to take me a while to get them all up.)
“I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the locations that I’ve traveled to. But first, I’m gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won’t fall down.”
–Mitch Hedberg
“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.”
– Carl Zwanzig
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey
“We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.”
– Madeleine L’Engle
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.”
– David H. Comins
“A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.”
–Unknown
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
– Fred Hoyle
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
–Richard Feynman
“I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.”
– Robert Bakker, paleontologist
