QuoteLog

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

“So given the fact that over the past 30 years we’ve been steadily cutting taxes on the rich, cutting federal spending, cutting welfare programs, and cutting Social Security, let’s ask the question again: How low is low enough? How much cutting of these programs will satisfy you?”

“There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man’s work.”

“...may your genitalia prolapse in a pile of rosy pink goo.”

“Complaining about built-for-the-web content taking over the web, is like complaining about the cars when you’re trying to pogostick down the motorway.”

“In other words, if you choose not to participate on the public, freely linkable, not for pay Web, don’t complain when others who do participate by the rules of the game are easier to find.”

“Think of a dish rag. Nice and fluffy soft and sitting in the clean linen drawer. That’s the writer at rest. Now, dunk it in the sink. That’s the writer at work absorbing. Each molecule of water a piece of life’s puzzle. Now, wring it out. Wring it hard, every drop of moisture must be released. That’s the writer writing - each drop of water a word. Now hang it out to dry, because it’s done for a while. That’s me.”

“We’ve created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It’s a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It’s a great little racket.”

“Australians, Americans, whatever - they are all white people.”

“...I think Bush is going to get reelected anyway-- because for him to lose somebody else has to win, and I can’t imagine who that would be.”

“Northern Atlanta (especially Dunwoody) is full of women whose two sole purposes in life are to spend their husband’s money and to be rude to people who serve a purpose in life other than wasting precious air.”

“Honestly, how clueless can you get? If the [Atlanta Journal Constitution] wants to attract readers, it needs to do the obvious. It needs to hire good writers and publish reporting and essays of substance longer than 8 inches. Fat chance.”

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

“It was easy to quickly ascertain that all the featured songs are the same tired dreck I hear every time I turn on the radio. I was finally able to associate band names with songs I’ve heard, though, so I suppose that’s a plus. Now I know whom I hate.”

“The other day I made a comment on someone’s blog and I noticed I was the only one that put my online pseudonym into the name field. Everyone else posted as ‘Jane Doe’, ‘Bill Simpson’, etc.. Thirty real people and then there’s me with my cute name. How quaint. This is one of those moments when you notice you’re becoming a dinosaur.”

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“What has to be appreciated is that decisions have consequences and some of the approaches that were taken by some of our continental colleagues were simply inexplicable to most people in the United States.”

“Despite the best efforts of Western doom-mongers to rouse the Arab street, its attitude will remain: start the jihad without me.”

“Never have so many been so wrong about so much.”

“American consumers, whose spending generates two-thirds of the nation’s growth, didn’t curl into a cocoon as they were glued to their televisions, mesmerized by scenes of the bombing of Bagdad. They filled up their gas-guzzling SUVs’ gas tanks and went shopping, driving March retail sales up a whopping 2.1 percent -- the biggest increase since October 2001.”