Welsford Walkabout Quotes

#1. Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Abbie Hoffman

#3. I think I look cool. I don't know about the other three but I look cool, I am cool.

Larry Mullen Jr.

#4. It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

James Lileks

#5. Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Stuart Chase

#6. The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

Morrissey

#7. I have four boys and two girls, and the girls, they typically want you to draw princesses, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, things like that.

Steve Breen

#8. Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague, uneasy longings sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

George Eliot

#9. Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first.

Meg Cabot

#10. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Alfred Loisy

#11. Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

Erica Jong

#12. At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue.

Bo Burnham

#13. You're playing with fire," she warned him.
"That's how I know I'm alive.

Neil Gaiman

#14. The perfect opening is the word imagine, because imagine allows you to communicate in the eyes and the vision of the listener rather than yours. And the best illustration of that is "1984." Room 101 in "1984" - everyone's read it, and we all have our own imagination of what that looks like.

Frank Luntz

#15. What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

Stephen Mitchell