Melvins Quotes

#1. The Melvins are grunge.

Adam Jones

#2. Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved ... I'm happy and relieved by this.

Buzz Osborne

#3. We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

James Fallows

#4. May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'

Samuel Adams

#5. No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. You must believe, sooner or later, in a Mind which brought mind into existence out of matter, unless you are going to sit down before the hopeless metaphysical contradiction of saying that matter somehow managed to develop itself into mind.

Ronald Knox

#7. California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs.

Gil Garcetti

#8. Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Richardson

#9. Talk was one thing, but knowing was something else entirely.

Pepper Winters