Blue Notebook Quotes: Volume 2
Blue Notebook Quotes
Volume II : UVa '93-4
Compiled by Evan Macbeth
Life sucks, get a fucking helmet!
-Dennis Leary "No Cure for Cancer"
Back off man, I'm a scientist.
-Dr. Peter Venkman "Ghostbusters"
I don't have to take abuse from you. I got hundreds of people
waiting to abuse me.
-ibid
I just whacked her up with about three HUNDRED cc's of thorazine.
She's ganna take a little nap right now.
-ibid
Courage! Courage! Why di I need courage? I can't die! I don't
fear death! It's life I'm scared of! It's all backward, isn't
it? All backward!
-Hugh the Hand, "Into the Labrynth
I said she could kill me, not humiliate me!
-Nynaeve al'Maera, "The Fires of Heaven"
Most complex men are full of shit.
-Brian Arnold Hunt
I wanted to be a full contact sport.
-Jaime Davidson
People screw up, computers just make it faster.
-ibid
He's dead. He doesn't care if I paraphrase.
-ibid
Hey, that's a good actor! What's HE doing on this show?
-Jenn Bancroft about the Tonight Show
It's 106 miles to Chicage. We've got a full tank of gas, half
a pack of cigarettes. It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Hit it.
-Jake and Ellwood Blues "The Blues Brothers"
My acquaintance smiled - not a modern smile, but one that must
have gone out of general use many, many centuries ago.
-Mark Twain "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court"
Friends, best I ever had.
-Beverly Marsh, "IT"
What a weirdo! We are an organization that fosters weirdoness!
-Erez Lieberman
Paradox is the essence of understanding. Without the acceptance
of paradox what is inexplicable will drive the mad man sane.
-Paradox !-)
The best laid plans of mice and men get really fucked up
sometimes.
-Jaime Davidson
Give, expectin nothing thereof.
-St. Thomas Aqinas
And, in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness
all the social relations under which he shall be placed...To
develop the reasoning faculty of our youth, enlarge their minds
cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of
virtue and order.
-Mr. Jefferson on The University
And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and
wretchedness, but a bigotted veneration for the supposed super-
lative wisdom of their fathers and the preposterous idea that
they are to look backward for better things, and not forward,
longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating
acorns and roots, rather than to indulge in the degeneracies of
civilization?
-Mr. Jefferson
It's life with the mute button on.
-Tim Hulsey about walkmans
I do it for myself, because it is what I ought to do.
-Simon de Montfort, "Falls the Shadow"
I have fought a good fight; I have finished my cause; I have
kept the faith.
-Scriptures
Would you like to buy a raffel ticket?
If you knew how in debt I was, you wouldn't ask.
-Greg Forster and a random UVa student
I got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to.
-Pink Floyd, "The Wall"
Love never dies, it just changes form.
-Ryan Maple
Life, two pages at a time.
-EM to Beth Cohen, about their letters
It takes a strong stomach to live in a free society
-Tim Hulsey
You lie like my dog, and he ain't got no legs.
-Erik Seebohm
I don't see him intimidating me intellectually.
-Rob Hegblum
Cover my back. If anything happens, start shooting... then
keep on shooting.
-Lt. Charles Gatewood "Geronimo"
I drew a really weird, obtuse cartoon that no one understood
and wasn't funny and therefore I went on to even greater success
and recognition.
Yeah - I like this country.
-Gary Larson, writing about "Cow Tools"
Your academic diversion.
-Austin Kim, on classes.
I want peace, and I will ever conduct war with a view to perfect
and early success.
-Gen. William T. Sherman
"And all I do is keep the beat..."
-Dire Straits Romeo & Juliet
Suck it up, comrade. Life is fast and intense. Catch up or fall
down.
-EM
The BAND, Ellwood, the BAND!
-Jake Blues The Blues Brothers
When paradise turns into everyday life, disenchantment sets in.
-Adam Prezeworski, Democracy and the Market