Townies Tavern Quotes

#1. Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

Frank Tyger

#2. All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Journalism is less addictive than communism.

Dan Rather

#4. So I started to learn guitar right away.

Piper Perabo

#5. Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Blue Balliett

#6. I didn't want to throw him in any ol' piranha tank, I wanted to throw him into a tank filled with genetically modified super-piranhas carrying tasers and bullwhips. Asshole.

James A. Hunter

#7. For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Queen Victoria

#8. You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

Art Carney

#9. I do play drums when I'm on tour.

Norman Wisdom

#10. To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) - this is the perpetual illusion of morality.

Giorgio Agamben

#11. Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.

Benjamin Zander