Favourite Quotes and Quotations

**EXISTESS** · May 26th, 2011

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

**blunthead** · May 26th, 2011

Fred Allen vol 3...

I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.

Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.

**Patricia A** · May 26th, 2011

I don't know who first said this but I read it in "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama and it inspired me.

The things that bind us together are greater than the things that tear us apart.

**blunthead** · May 27th, 2011

Dick Cavett

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

**Haunted** · May 27th, 2011

The first duty of love is to listen.
~ Paul Tillich

**Hicks** · May 27th, 2011

"Terrorism is the weapon of the poor and the oppressed." - Jean Paul Sartre.

**blunthead** · May 27th, 2011

Salvador Dali vol 1...

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

**omm poppa mow mow** · June 3rd, 2011

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt, the mobs should be forced to work and not depend on government for subsistence.

Quote from Marko Kickeroo while he was waiting in the drive-through at MacDonalds, smoking a cigarette, and the smoke nazis surrounded his vehicle, and took him down...they have it on tape, reason why the quote survived, though Marko did not.

**blunthead** · June 3rd, 2011

Salvador Dali vol 2...

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Let my enemies devour each other.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.