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I'm a curling addict - I need a hit, and I want to get stoned! ~Author Unknown



My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale (Thanks, Anne)



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill



Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall. ~John Boorman, Money into Light, 1985



Vacuums don't clean houses. People clean houses. ~Everybody Loves Raymond, "Humm Vac," written by Lew Schneider, original airdate 19 March 2001, spoken by the character Marie Barone



Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another coffee. ~Author Unknown



If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is. ~Author Unknown



You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929



The Net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it. ~John Gilmore, 1993



I had a thousand questions to ask God; but when I met him they all fled and didn't seem to matter. ~Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!, 1923



Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food. ~Frank A. Clark



There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert Flaherty



No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch



Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible. ~George Claude Lorimer



The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley



A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard



If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how? ~Joan Baez, "What Would You Do If....?"



I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that - as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. ~Charles Dickens



Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. ~Fight Club movie, screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher, novel by Chuck Palahniuk