(7/9): I know what I need, and mommie can't help me with this one... Name: Chrome #1 @1 [A.I.] Date: Sat Apr 09 04:12:16 1994 From: Backwaters of the Mind [509-453-9650] {NC} Loc : Washington A few quotes for ya. Do whatever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have a rapier wit; I've just been using it as a broadsword. ---- We travel in the time of the prophets, on a desert highway straight to the heart of the sun. ---- Clear blue eyes, her mask. ---- When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth... ---- Sanity, bring me thy light. ---- Though his mind is not for rent, don't put him down as arrogant. His reserve a quiet defense, riding out the days events. ---- Give me liberty, or give me death. ---- "The U.S. Government can't be trusted with itself. What makes you think I would trust them with my life?" "Just shut up and sign it, soldier." ---- Where's my thing? ---- Do you know loneliness? She walks with me on luminous winter nights, when the skies cloud over the streets covered in snow, city lights refracted, magnifying my world frozen still, beautiful and empty. ---- You know you've been hacking too long when: You go to make coffee, discover you're out, and while looking around the cupboard think: "I know I'm in the right directory..." ---- Lawmakers around the country were realizing that DMV's were good for CONTROLLING people as well. Programs to block driver's licenses were so effective that legislatures started looking for other ways to excersize this newfound power. ---- Sorry, Walter. Gnight is dead. ---- Cold milk and warm cookies are good for you. ---- With all it's hopes, dreams, promises, & urban renewal, the world continues to deteriorate. Give up. ---- Brevity is the state of your art. ---- If I could just get my mind together, clear my heart, and that's forever... ---- "Por favor, diles que no me matan." "Illegitimi non carborundum." ---- Cogito ergo sum... ...therefore... ...Dum vivimus vivamus. ---- Old lines & cliches, we've heard all of this before. Why then, do I write? Why not? Work out the emotion, shield yourself from it. Tell yourself that because you understand it, you're immune. Idiot. ---- Stay distracted long enough, and you can forget the pain. ---- Damned cliches. I lack eloquence. ---- Drink deeply of the cup of life, though it be filled with Hemlock. This is the joke, and Mortals must laugh. ---- Laugh at reality. It can't understand this, as the joke is on us. ---- Find love. ---- Scream every once in a while. That way, people don't HAVE to wonder. ---- Above all else, to thine own self be true. Else all else means naught. ---- Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around. ---- Minimum wage always lags slightly behind inflation. ---- Pick a night. Go out. Drink too much coffee. Talk with someone. Watch sunrise over the desert from a hilltop where you can't see town. ---- In any Gaussien distribution curve, such as intelligence, approximately half the subjects fall below the median. Unfortunately, I can't for the life of me figure out why >I< am the one required to deal with this half. ---- To sleep, perchance to dream. ---- Which Roman poet died of dissillusionment in his early twenties? All I remember is that his work has survived to present day BECAUSE of its baseness. Hmm... ---- Grab the thermos of RC Cola. Let's go commandos, it's howlin' time! ---- New blood joins this Earth, quickly he's subdued. Through Constant pain disgrace, a young boy learns thier rules. ---- Mettalic, sweet taste of blood. ---- Out, damned spot! Out I say! ---- Most politicking is done for the sake of the politicians. ---- Whereever I go, my giant travels with me. ---- Life is ours, we live it our way. ---- Men seeking truth through the ages, blindly groping for what does not exist. Our hand falls on a manuscript that has been passed through the ages, changed, twisted, perverted at each ieteration by "holy men" seeking to further thier own ends by manipulating those weaker who are simply seeking rhyme or reason behind the "facade" of existance. What we draw from these books says more of the men than the books. ---- Always searching for someone with whom, however briefly, to forget. ---- Chromium Tensility hanging by my nails a posteriori wits feeling blades beneath dried on the inside while burning alive over you immolated soul Not mere desire that teaches me by the lash but dreaming your love envisioning us retreat from reality or mentality's claws ---- When in doubt, duck. ------- They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally, they became heroes. -Princess Leia ------- Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. ------- You've let the lawn go too far when it requires harvesting. ------- Fall down seven times, stand up eight. ------- Election year is that period when politicians get free speech mixed up with cheap talk. ------- The surprising thing about fools is how many of them survive to become old fools. ------- Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. ------- Opportunity is difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. ------- An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame. ------- The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. ------- The power of imagination makes us infinite. ------- Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it. ------- To err is human. to admit it, superhuman. ------- Tax reform is the taking of taxes off things that have been taxed before, and putting taxes that haven't been taxed before. ------- America wasn't founded so we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well pleased. ------- Politics is a lot like religion, except in politics, your opponent confesses your sins. ------- We usually see only the things that we are looking for So much so we sometimes see them where they are not. ------- Waiting for the winds of change To sweep the clouds away Waiting for the rainbow's end To cast its gold your way.. Countless ways.. You pass the days ------- This isn't good! I'm not happy! ------- Talking of bulls is not the same as being in the bullring. ------- Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. ------- I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense. ------- It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ------- I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts. ------- A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought. ------- Ah, but how our dreams confuse. Nightmares can come true. ------- No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. ------- A half-truth is usually less than half of that. ------- Wit is educated insolence. ------- If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything. ------- One never realizes how little he knows until he starts talking. ------- Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. ------- What good is pull if you don't pull with it? ------- Truth hurts. Not the searching after; the running from! ------- The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ------- Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. ------- Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools. ------- Only a fool tests the depth of water with both feet. ------- I've always wanted to be somebody, but now I see I should have been more specific. ------- A true friend is someone who overlooks your failures, and tolerates your successes. ------- I believe in practicing prudence every two or three years. ------- Your worst humiliation is someone else's momentary entertainment.