Switchboard Phone Quotes

#1. Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Hugo Ball

#3. You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

Hari Kondabolu

#4. America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it's normal to dream of becoming like him.

Gary Indiana

#5. You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

Steven Moffat

#6. I realized I was never going to be Lance Armstrong. And in biking, if you want to make money, you have to be the best.

Daniel Humm

#7. The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

Herbert Marcuse

#8. There is a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado page on the Colorado Tea Party site as well, talking about him joining the Tea Party last year. Now, we don't know if this is the same Jim Holmes. But it's Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado.

Brian Ross

#9. What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. love is the only thing we have to save us

Francesca Lia Block

#11. The glorious thing for you always has consequences for others.

Al Gini

#12. Here I am, just turned fifty, and I forgot that my father isn't dead yet!

David Sedaris

#13. I think if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them

J.A. Redmerski

#14. My science is based in voraciously wandering fact, luscious speculation, and spontaneous theory with a dash of prevarication. All of which are most likely to come true.

J. DeWayne Pierce

#15. I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

William Faulkner