One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
--Ronald Reagan
We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
--Ronald Reagan
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
--George Washington
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
--George Bernard Shaw
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
--Franz Kafka
I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.
--David Mamet
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The truth does not require your belief in it to be so.
--Spike Spencer
Don't resent growing old. Many are denied the privilege.
--Irish Proverb
Giving money to the government is like giving whiskey, guns and car keys to your teenage son.
--P.J. O'Rourke
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
--Edward Langley
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. And we should stand up and say we are Americans, and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!
--Senator Hillary Clinton
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
--Thomas Huxley
Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often - and for the same reason!
--Will Rogers
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
--Al Batt
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
--Sir Winston Churchill
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
--Jules Renard
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
--Thomas Jefferson
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
--John Adams
The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
--Margaret Thatcher
Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
--Thomas Paine
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me.
--George Carlin
Those whom the gods would destroy, they give unlimited budget.
--Twyla Tharp
When small men begin to cast long shadows, it's a sure sign the sun is setting.
--Rush Limbaugh
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
--Edward R. Murrow
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
--Thomas Jefferson
In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem.
--George Carlin
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
--Mark Twain
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
--Groucho Marx
The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and serve the common good.
--Governor Sarah Palin
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
--John Scalzi
When you laugh you are not afraid. When you are not afraid you are free.
--Gregorius Nekschot
Every human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others, and therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.
--Ayn Rand
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
--William Buckley
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
--John Wayne
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
--Will Rogers
Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
--Rudy Giuliani
You can make a bad film out of a good screenplay if you screw it up along the way, and there's a million places to screw it up, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad screenplay. So you have to start with the screenplay, period.
--George Clooney
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
--Douglas Adams
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
--Oscar Wilde
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
--Joan Rivers
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence — excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: ‘Elitism!’ And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down.
--Jacques Barzun
Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.
--General John Stark
When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
--Albert Einstein
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
--George Santayana
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.
--John Adams
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe.
--Albert Einstein
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
--Ray Bradbury
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
--E.L. Doctorow
Character is how you behave when no one is looking.
--Dr. Robert Coles
You need three things to make a good movie: a good script, a good script and a good script.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
--Albert Camus
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
--Ruth Gordon
It must be very chilling to stare at your blank page...
--Kevin Gilbert, "Leaving Miss Broadway"
In studying the traits and dispositions of the so-called lower animals, and contrasting them with man's, I find the result humiliating to me.
--Mark Twain
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living.
--Gustave Flaubert
The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Do not go back to sleep.
--Rumi
There's not much to say about acting but this. Never settle back on your heels. Never relax. If you relax, the audience relaxes. And always mean everything you say.
--James Cagney
Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
--Malachy McCourt
It takes a lot of time being a genius, you have to sit around so much, doing nothing.
--Gertrude Stein
You are always already happy. The reason you don't experience it is that it's covered up by layers of suppressed emotions and negative thoughts. Shift your attention and your inherent happiness flashes forth.
--Steve Ross
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.
--Hank Ketchum
A cat has absolute emotional honesty. Human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
--Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is a place between too little and too much.
--Finnish proverb
Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.
--Raymond Chandler
To ride a horse is to ride the sky.
--Anonymous
Life is a strange school.
--Earon Davis
She is too fond of books, and it has addled her brain.
--Louisa May Alcott
I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
--Socrates
Fans are people who let an actor know he's not alone in the way he feels about himself.
--Jack Carson
It's like God said, "You just think you've seen horses. I'm gonna show you a horse." Then he built Secretariat.
--Jim Reno
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
--Richard Bach
You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
--Ray Bradbury
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
--Henry Ford
No one ever realizes they're a writer. They just think they're a writer.
--Charles Bukowski
People in the entertainment industry are by and large whore-chasing drug-addict fuckups. But they still believe they're better than the guy in Wyoming who really loves his wife and takes care of his kids and is a good, outstanding, wholesome person. Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
--Trey Parker
If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood and if they had been any better I should not have come.
--Raymond Chandler
Geography is destiny. I got lucky - my parents hatched me in a cool locale.
--James Ellroy
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
--Joseph Heller
Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.
--Red Smith
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
--Bo Bennett
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
--Katherine Graham
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous.
--Bob Black
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Christopher Morley
Success is doing what you like and making a living at it.
--Greek proverb
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called Everybody and they meet at the bar.
--Drew Carey
I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living.
--Steven Spielberg
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
--Old proverb
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
--Winston Churchill
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
--Will Rogers
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
--John Wooden
There is no terror in the bang, only the anticipation of it.
--Alfred Hitchcock
Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I asked, and mercy I found.
--William Camden
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
--Robert Benchley
There are no ordinary cats.
--Colette
Wine is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
Idling has always been my strong point. I take no credit to myself - it is a gift.
--Jerome K. Jerome
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
--Quentin Crisp
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
--Leonard Cohen
A blank page is God's way of showing you how hard it is to be God.
--Anonymous
Hell is other people.
--Jean Paul Satre
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are.
--Rod Serling
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
--Thomas Sowell
I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.
--Peter DeVries
I hate writing, but I love having written.
--Dorothy Parker
Insults should be well avenged, or well endured.
--Spanish proverb
It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
--Ernest Hemingway
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
--Alexander Jablokov
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
--Bram Stoker
This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that he should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good.
--St. Thomas Aquinas
Television is an invention that allows you to be entertained in your living room by people you would not have in your home.
--David Frost
Make movies that make people laugh, cry, or keep them on the edge of their seats.
--Carl Laemmle, founder of Universal Studios
It´s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
--Mark Twain
We do subversive pull-ups everyday.
--Matt Stone, explaining how he and "South Park" co-creator Trey Parker stay sharp
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
--Cynthia Heimel
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
--Spanish proverb
This is fascinating, hilarious, and frustrating. I'm linking to you.
Posted by: Plunger Girl | November 07, 2008 at 08:04 PM
I found this via PlungerGirl's website.
Forgive me for my sheer ignorance, but I assume that 48 and 52 refer to the vote percentage for this election?
But jeez, that's pretentious. And it just shows how the 52's are a bunch of sheep who can't resist rubbing your nose in it.
Cool post!
Posted by: Rhyhimself | November 07, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Yeah, sunshine, how about you keep trying to kick me in the balls for 8 years, and then finally you get a nice big bowl of ice cream and it's, "Y'know, in a way, we're both wrong." At first this crap just annoyed me, but the more I think about it, the more enraging it becomes. Well, plus beer.
Posted by: Jim Treacher | November 07, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Dems have ALWAYS been this way. Remember eight years ago when the Clintons were vacating the White House, they removed all the "W"'s from the keyboards of all the computers? I mean, how childish is that?? They always pout when they lose and gloat when they win, and OMG don't EVEN try to "diss" their candidate, because they become hatemongers. Oh and forget your opinion, because they will resort to name-calling. Yeech. Believe me, I've been the target of said hatemongering.
Great post! I found you through PlungerGirl, btw.
Posted by: Midlife Mama | November 08, 2008 at 07:04 AM
Wow, actual readers. This is cool.
First of all, thanks Plunger Girl for the link. Links are love. Real love, not placated Dems who finally won a presidential election love.
Thanks to everyone else because I was really concerned this post was going to come off as stooping to the levels of 2000 and 2004 derangement we make a point of avoiding. Glad you enjoyed.
Rhyhimself, yeah, 52 and 48 refer to the vote percentage. We're 48.
Midlife Mama, I'd forgotten all about the missing "W" keys when the Clintons vacated. Yeah, that'll show us!
And finally, I get a comment from Jim Treacher. I feel so famous and important now. Will try not to let it go to my head.
Posted by: Melinda | November 08, 2008 at 06:02 PM
I followed the bread crumbs left by Plunger Girl and glad I did. OH how I echo your thoughts!! In fact, I've just been told (on another site) that I HAD to respect Obama because he's my President. This came from a woman who was and has been bashing Bush bloody and mercilessly. I guess it doesn't apply to "them" but it does to "us". Grrrrr....."they" make me tired.
Posted by: Midlife Slices | November 08, 2008 at 08:29 PM
I do respect the office of the president, but as far as the individual occupying that office, respect is something that has to be earned. I don't HAVE to respect Obama and so far he hasn't done anything to deserve it. We'll see if that changes, but I wouldn't put money on it.
Posted by: Melinda | November 09, 2008 at 11:02 AM
You're an idiot
I think liberals are douchebags but you just look like a sore loser, because, guess what, you are!
whoooooooooooooooooo
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No, seriously.
Posted by: andy | November 13, 2008 at 07:48 PM
bush/cheney was the most partisan executive administration in american history! they didn't listen, compromise, or meet in the middle, and now everyone expects obama to do so. how does that make sense?
Posted by: Chris | November 13, 2008 at 07:53 PM
Andy, step away from the bong! Or the bottle, whatever!
I have to give you points for nailing "You're" versus "your", because so few people do. On the other hand, there should be a period and a paragraph break after "idiot". Sorry, it's the wanna-be English major in me and since it's my blog, well there you go.
Thank you for reading and commenting. It's been educational AND entertaining! No, seriously!
Posted by: Melinda | November 13, 2008 at 09:06 PM