| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2996 Registered: 05-2005 |
“We hit it off right from the beginning. When he’s not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy.” - Professor Henry Gates | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 147 Registered: 08-2005 |
“If I were the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey I would have sprayed him with OC [pepper spray].” Police Officer Justin Barrett. But he claimed it wasn't racist... | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1550 Registered: 01-2005 |
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 3282 Registered: 05-2005 |
"A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed". Basil Fawlty | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 634 Registered: 01-2006 |
Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, after playing 'Jesus etc.' in Dublin last week, "that song was influenced by Jesus who of course lives in Dublin, or as you call him Bono". | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1584 Registered: 01-2005 |
Republican US Congresswoman from Minnesota Michele Bachmann (not related to her, thank God, as her husbands family uses the double n version of Bachman): Bachmann told a cheering audience on Monday that to stop health care reform, “What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn’t pass.” | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2107 Registered: 03-2005 |
She can slit her wrists. I'm OK with that. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1420 Registered: 08-2006 |
And when she does, her fancy Congressional health insurance plan will fix her right up at no charge. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1715 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Whenever people say 'We musn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic," they mean they are going to make money out of it." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3267 Registered: 05-2005 |
Who is that quote from Allen? | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1716 Registered: 09-2006 |
Padraig, the quote is from Brigid Brophy, someone I'd not heard of before, but looking her up online she sounds like a quite interesting person. The quote was included in the booklet of Nellie McKay's excellent new CD. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3271 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Allen, it's a great quote. I like the quote from an online biography that, though raised in England, she "was raised on Irish ideas". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 1777 Registered: 09-2006 |
Steve Martin: "Bored? Here's a great way for the over-50 set to kill a good half an hour: 1. Place your house keys in your right hand. 2. With your left hand, call up a friend and arrange the details of a lunch date. 3. Hang up the phone. 4. Now, try to find your keys." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3417 Registered: 05-2005 |
"I drink gin like a 1960s wino." Cathal Coughlan, in the Microdisney song Sun. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 558 Registered: 04-2005 |
Just heard on a French radio interview. Jim Jarmusch : "The electric guitar is one of the greatest invention of the 20th century. Along with the bikini" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 559 Registered: 04-2005 |
And on a slightly more serious note. With a looming financial melt-down predicted every day at the moment, personally I am fed up with hearing about 'the market' as if it is some nebulous all-seeing, all-hearing entity whose origins have got nothing to do with people. It's just pure greed for a select few. This quote from Dan Roberts of the Guardian hits the nail right on the head "The market is not a force of nature or a tyrannical beast, but a human contruct we all need to take back under control" | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 609 Registered: 04-2005 |
Hélder Câmara (Brazilian RC Archbishop) "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist." | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 335 Registered: 02-2007 |
Kinda opposite side of that coin Andrew is Dylan's lines from "Sweetheart Like You" "Steal a little and they throw you in jail, Steal a lot and they make you a king". |