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| Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat. | Robert A. Heinlein | 27 April 2009 | http://twitter.com/iheartquotes/status/1627749946 | en | ||||
| Nine out of ten voices in my head say I'm totally healthy. The tenth one is humming the Tetris soundtrack. | Autarkis | 15 April 2009 | http://twitter.com/Autarkis/status/1496383698 | en | on Twitter | |||
| If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. | Doug Larson | 25 February 2009 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23648.html | en | ||||
| The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. | Jilly Cooper | 25 February 2009 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23707.html | en | ||||
| Practice safe design: Use a concept. | Petrula Vronkitis | 2 February 2009 | http://quotesondesign.com/petrula-vronkitis/ | en | ||||
| If your apartment looks like an IKEA catalog exploded, you may be gay or European, but you are not an interior decorator. | 1 February 2009 | http://twitter.com/jeremiahlee/status/860658308 | en | |||||
| Ekhöfchen, halten Sie noch Ihr Maul! Höfchen –, ich fühle, daß meine rosenfarbene Laune beginnt, schon braun zu werden. Hüten Sie sich, daß sie nicht schwarz wird, oder, hol mich der Teufel, ich werfe Sie zum Zimmer hinaus und die Treppe hinunter. | Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld | 1 February 2009 | http://www.zeno.org/Kulturgeschichte/M/Schulze-Kummerfeld,+Karoline/Lebenserinnerungen/Band+1/Bremen/Maler+Stein+und+Herr+Schiro | de | zu Konrad Eckhof, der gut 25 Jahre älter war als sie. | |||
| Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. | Andy Rooney | 31 January 2009 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/882.html | en | ||||
| Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. | George Carlin | 17 January 2009 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/284.html | en | ||||
| Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. | Don Marquis | 12 January 2009 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1412.html | en | ||||
| The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. | Lucille S. Harper | 7 October 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23572.html | en | ||||
| Das Leben sollte frittiert sein. | Andi Jacomet | 5 September 2008 | http://blog.jacomet.ch/?p=996 | de | ||||
| Die Tiere können spielen, also sind sie bereits mehr als mechanische Dinge. Wir spielen und wissen, dass wir spielen, also sind wir mehr als bloss vernünftige Wesen, denn das Spiel ist unvernünftig. | Johan Huizinga | 21 August 2008 | de | |||||
| We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. | Kurt Vonnegut | 21 August 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/30420.html | en | ||||
| Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. | Robert J. Hanlon | 17 August 2008 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_Razor | en | ||||
| The moon and sun are eternal travellers. / Even the years wander on. /A lifetime adrift in a boat, /or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, / every day is a journey, / and the journey itself is home. | Matsuo Bashō | 17 August 2008 | http://blog.bjork.com/2008/08/16/the-journey-itself-and-home/ | en | ||||
| The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. | Dorothy Nevill | 8 August 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1384.html | en | ||||
| Jeder junge Mensch, der nur ungefähr der deutschen Sprache gewachsen ist und hier und da etwas gelesen hat, gibt jetzt ein Blog heraus. | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 25 July 2008 | de | |||||
| Reality is just a question of imagination. | Kaspar Manz | 21 July 2008 | en | |||||
| If your apartment looks like an IKEA catalog exploded, you may be gay or European, but you are not an interior decorator. | Jeremiah Lee Cohick | 17 July 2008 | http://twitter.com/jeremiahlee/statuses/860658308 | en | ||||
| Who ever thought green was the new black is seriously disturbed. | Frederik Roijé | 13 July 2008 | http://mocoloco.com/archives/004307.php | en | ||||
| Listen. / With faint dry sound, / Like steps of passing ghosts, / The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees / And fall. | Adelaide Crapsey | 12 July 2008 | http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adelaide_Crapsey | en | : November Night | |||
| pity this busy monster, manunkind, / not. Progress is a comfortable disease: / your victim (death and life safely beyond) / plays with the bigness of his littleness / - electrons deify one razorblade / into a mountainrange; lenses extend / unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish / returns on its unself. / A world of made / is not a world of born - pity poor flesh / and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this / fine speciment of hypermagical / ultraomnipotence. We doctors know / a hopeless case if - listen: there's a hell / of a good universe next door; let's go | e. e. cummings | 12 July 2008 | http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/57.html | en | ||||
| Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. | Isaac Asimov | 2 July 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/23606.html | en | ||||
| The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...' | Isaac Asimov | 2 July 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/470.html | en | ||||
| It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. | Isaac Asimov | 2 July 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/730.html | en | ||||
| However, bottomless pits are a notoriously unreliable means of death in comic books. | Wikipedia | 1 July 2008 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn | en | about Harley Quinn. | |||
| I'm good with holes. | John Barrowman | 28 June 2008 | http://youtube.com/watch?v=IWHoOgk-pCY | en | on Al Murray's Happy Hour. | |||
| My work is a game, a very serious game. | M.C. Escher | 27 June 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1403.html | en | ||||
| Sex should be like Google: One slot, two buttons and zero surprises. | Charles from Diesel Sweeties | 27 June 2008 | http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2045 | en | ||||
| Die Kunst des inneren Hohngelächters | Reiner Kröhnert | 24 June 2008 | http://www.zeit.de/2007/35/Merkel-Humor | de | über Angela Merkel. | |||
| i dont make babies. i make concepts instead. | "TRUE BOY" | 24 June 2008 | http://twitter.com/TRUE/statuses/210150592 | en | ||||
| The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary. | James Nicoll | 24 June 2008 | http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf-lovers/msg/c961c46670ca97d6 | en | ||||
| If you’re in a mediocre band, just fire the drummer, and chances are you’ll have the best band in the world. | Owen Pallett | 20 June 2008 | http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18bands-t.html | en | ||||
| Only people who create artworks that redefine the world should be called Artists. | Takayoshi Sato | 19 June 2008 | http://tale-of-tales.com/blog/interviews/interview-with-takayoshi-sato/ | en | ||||
| Business cards are for old people. If someone cant remember my name and Google me, I dont want to be contacted. | Jeremiah Lee Cohick | 19 June 2008 | http://twitter.com/jeremiahlee/statuses/805778741 | en | ||||
| Wer keine Silhouette vorweisen kann, die einen peinfreien Strandaufenthalt ermöglicht, sollte vom Transparent-Look absehen. Sonst sieht das durchscheinende Outfit nicht aus wie ein Nebel, der eine Elfe umweht, sondern wie der Schweif eines einschlagenden Kometen. | Tillman Prüfer | 19 June 2008 | http://www.zeit.de/leben/leben-magazin/index | de | über transparente Kleidung. | |||
| Ich habe immer den Traum gehabt, dass ein Computer so einfach zu benutzen ist wie ein Telefon. Heute ist mein Traum wahr geworden: Ich verstehe nicht mehr, wie ich mein Telefon benutzen kann. | Bjarne Stroustrup | 19 June 2008 | de | (Erfinder der Programmiersprache C++) | ||||
| Deer walk upon our mountains, and quail / Whistle about us their spontaneous cries; / Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; / And, in the isolation of the sky, / At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make / Ambiguous undulations as they sink, / Downward to darkness, on extended wings. | Wallace Stevens | 19 June 2008 | en | (Sunday Morning (excerpt)) | ||||
| Friends are not priceless. Friends are too expensive. | Richard Stevens | 19 June 2008 | http://twitter.com/rstevens/statuses/832344998 | en | ||||
| Sometimes, a bowl of coffee beans with milk is the only appropriate cereal. | Richard Stevens | 19 June 2008 | http://twitter.com/rstevens/statuses/824183305 | en | ||||
| In zwanzig Jahren wird es noch zwei Arten von Publikationen geben: Boulvardtrash mit gigantischer Auflage und elitäre Tageszeitungen und Magazine mit klugen Analysen und Meinungen. | Tyler Brûlé | 19 June 2008 | http://dasmagazin.ch/index.php/warmer-werden/ | de | ||||
| Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. | Laurence J. Peter | 19 June 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26194.html | en | ||||
| Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. | Robin Morgan | 19 June 2008 | http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/1004.html | en | ||||
| I am the manufacturer who creates the doll from the blueprint that the caller provides me. | Phone Sex: The Book | 19 June 2008 | http://phonesexthebook.com/main.php?id=8 | en | ||||
| Abnormal is so common, it’s practically normal. | Cory Doctorow | 19 June 2008 | en | |||||
| Her majesty goes dessert. | Barbara Kranz | 19 June 2008 | en | |||||
| Ich bin auch ein Tsunami! | Barbara Kranz | 19 June 2008 | de | |||||
| Das Perfekte ist oft der Feind des Spontanen. | Barbara Kranz | 19 June 2008 | de | |||||
| Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them. | Steve Eley | 19 June 2008 | en | |||||
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