Signature Quotes: What's left over. Part XIII

These are my collection of sig quotes, collected from years of crawling about the Internet. Share and Enjoy...

"Rosalind Russell's portrayal of Hildy in Howard Hawk's His Girl Friday, redefined how women could behave in cinema-scrappy, professional, and unapologetically loud."

"The fact of the matter is that Mary Poppins could pull the sword from the stone."

"Getting married is like trading the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one." -- Mae West

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." -- Socrates

"History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over." -- Sir Walter Raleigh

"Their destiny depended on the Odds and the Gods."

"I shrugged off my momentary flirtation with self-awareness. I had no time for it."

"If the Earth was really flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now."

"Never be the last to leave a company going down. Your personal market value declines each additional day you stay."

Throckmorton's First Law of Live Music: "If there's an upright bass in the band, it's probably going to be good."

"You're listening to Sisyphus FM. The home of non-stop rock!"

"What horses consider play, monkeys consider business, but to Tom, it's all foolery."

"Writing is a combo platter of issues, ask the late Hunter S. Thompson or Anthony Bourdain if you don't believe me, but it's still cheaper than therapy." -- Dan Kemp

"Islamic terrorism is like a car crash; it either kills you or doesn't. Communist infiltration is like cancer. Shit, worse than cancer."

"Why age gracefully when you can age like an old cheese...full of character and slightly offensive."

Your sex robot could be hacked and programmed to kill you. Just like a real girlfriend.

"The less sense your paperwork makes, the less likely anyone is to interfere with your work."

"Seriously, I can't think of a better metaphor for modern feminism than a single, childless, middle aged woman marrying hereself." -- The Critical Drinker/Gamer

"I need a woman about twice my age. A lady of nobility, gentility and rage" -- I Need a Miracle, The Grateful Dead

"I need a woman about twice my height. Statuesque, raven-dressed, a goddess of the night. Her secret incantations, a candle burning blue." -- I Need a Miracle, The Grateful Dead

I bought my friend an elephant for his room. He said "Thanks." I said "Don't mention it."

"Of course, I love you," Katya scoffed, removing the cigarette from her lips. "That's why I shot you."
"If you really loved me," Goncharov said, still not looking at her. "You wouldn't have missed."

"The Grover is the new Benjamin" - Bring back the $1,000 bill

"Aunt Jemima is the Queen of Breakfast."

"If you don't love driving backroads with the windows down and the music up, you're living life wrong."

"Satire works best when it sharpens something real."

"I am on a journey of personal exploration and discovery."

"Typical high tech job, you have sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies."

Conquest's Third Law Of Politics: "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."

"Showing up and causing chaos has worked for us so far."

"The further the people making the decisions get from the product, the worse decisions they make."

"The enemy knows the system." -- Claude Shannon

"...as soon as women got real power in publishing, they (by and large) stopped publishing for men then asked 'why don't men read?'" -- John Ringo

"Boston thought it had enough beer until the Scots showed up."

The term "cisgender" is just a way to marginalize a normal person.

"These are Heinlein's Crazy Years. We just live in them."

"After the ecstasy, the laundry." -- Jack Kornfield

"A lot of engineering can be accomplished successfully by applying the Six P Principle and the KISS theorem."

"The most ancient Roman custom of all was to seize any opportunity that presented itself to win victory or make Rome greater."

Hex-Mex: A witch stirring a batch of eye of bat, tail of newt, and pinto beans.

"The SLS is a constituency management program wearing a rocket as a costume."

"Old sins have long shadows."

"Iterative development: It fails...until it doesn't."

"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject." -- Marcus Aurelius

"I don't have time to hate anyone. I either like you or I just don't care."

"Book: A non-volatile information storage medium."

"If you're not at the table, bring a folding chair. Otherwise, you might be on the menu."

"Natural born damn fools will always find a way to kill their own ass, and yours, if you're not careful."

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