Passion

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  • Confusion is always the most honest response.
        Marty Indik   Best?
  • He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
        Yes, Prime Minister   Best?
  • How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.
        Clifford Truesdell   Best?
  • It was just a job. It wasn't any special interest in consumer affairs. I needed a paycheck and the Attorney General said that I would be best to go down there, because he knew I was anti-consumer.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes!
        King of Hearts   Best?
  • You can rot here without feeling it.
        John Rechy   Best?
  • Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.
        Apple LaserWriter manual   Best?
  • Sure-fire singles ad:
        Joe Bob Briggs   Best?
  • Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.
        Henry Albert Ben   Best?
  • I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
        Eric Berne   Best?
  • Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
        Kin Hubbard   Best?
  • While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.
        Elaine Richards   Best?
  • There are situations in which torture is not merely permissible but morally mandatory.
        Michael Levin   Best?
  • Coincidences are spiritual puns.
        G.K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • If voters don't have a stomach for me, they can get one of those blow-dried guys.
        Ross Perot   Best?
  • I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port.
        Paul S. Winalski   Best?
  • To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
        Kelvin Throop   Best?
  • The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.
        Donald N. Smith   Best?
  • That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.
        F.W. Lawvere   Best?
  • Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
        John Ciardi   Best?
  • Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.
        Peter S. Prescott   Best?
  • The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
        G.K. Chesterton   Best?
  • People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
        Albert Ellis   Best?
  • We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
        Peter Ustinov   Best?
  • To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
        P. G. Wodehouse   Best?
  • Blow in it's ear.
        Johnny Carson on the best way   Best?
  • A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
        Kenneth Tynan   Best?
  • One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.
        Beilby Porteus   Best?
  • Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
        Tom Stoppard   Best?
  • If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
        Samuel Butler   Best?
  • Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
        Douglas Hostadter   Best?
  • As part of Academic Computing's commitment to its Sun 3 users.....
        Walter Wong   Best?

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