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Quotes of Note – The Rival Ghosts


“Did you both come back together?” asked the Duchess.

“Because he has crossed thirty-four times you must not suppose he has a monopoly in sunrises,” retorted Dear Jones.  ”No; this was my own sunrise; and a mighty pretty one it was too.”

“I’m not matching sunrises with you,” remarked Uncle Larry calmly; “but I’m willing to back a merry jest called forth by my sunrise against any two merry jests called forth by yours.”

“I confess reluctantly that my sunrise evoked no merry jest at all.”  Dear Jones was an honest man, and would scorn to invent a merry jest on the spur of the moment.

- Brander Matthews, “The Rival Ghosts“

Quotes of Note – The Lost Skeleton Returns Again

– Dr. Paul Armstrong, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again

Quotes of Note – Community

Don’t sue a stripper. She’s a stripper. Life sued her, and she lost.

- Joel McHale, Community

Quotes of Note – Dracula

All men are mad in some way or the other; and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen, too — the rest of the world.  You tell not your madmen what you do nor why you do it; you tell them not what you think.  So you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest — where it may gather its kind around it and breed.

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

We All Need Buildings to Help Us Along

And now, ladies and gentlemen: the haunting poetry of Talking Heads.

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“Don’t Worry about the Government”

I see the clouds that move across the sky.
I see the wind that moves the clouds away.
It moves the clouds over by the building.
I picked the building that I want to live in.

I smell the pine trees and the peaches in the woods.
I see the pinecones that fall by the highway.
That’s the highway that goes to my building.
I picked the building that I want to live in.

It’s over there.  It’s O-VER THERE!

My building has every convenience!
It’s gonna make life easy for me.
It’s gonna be easy to get things done.
I’m gonna relax alone with my loved ones.

Loved ones, loved ones!  Visit the building.
Take the highway, park, and come up and see me.
I’ll be WORK-ing, WORK-ing, but if you come visit,
I’ll put down what I’m doing.  (My friends are important.)

Don’t you worry ’bout me.
I wouldn’t worry about me.
Don’t you worry ’bout me.
Don’t you worry ’bout MEEEEE!

I see the states across this big nation.
I see the laws made in Washington, D.C.
I think of the ones I consider my favorites.
I think of the people that are working for me.

Some civil servants are just like my loved ones!
They work so hard and they try to be strong.
I’m a lucky guy to live in my building.
They all need buildings to help them along.

It’s over there.  It’s O-VER THERE!

My building has every convenience!
It’s gonna make life easy for me.
It’s gonna be easy to get things done.
I’m gonna relax alone with my loved ones.

Loved ones, loved ones!  Visit the building.
Take the highway, park, and come up and see me.
I’ll be WORK-ing, WORK-ing, but if you come visit,
I’ll put down what I’m doing.  (My friends are important.)

I wouldn’t worry ’bout me.
I wouldn’t worry about me.
Don’t you worry ’bout me.
Don’t you worry ’bout MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Quotes of Note – Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

Following the Whisky, [The Stooges] had only one more date in their itinerary, in Lake St. Clair, Michigan, before moving to New York . . . [Iggy] Pop had not even sung a note at the Michigan show before one audience member was carried out, concussed — Pop had thrown a watermelon into the crowd, and it hit a girl on the head.  Further into the set, the singer took a dump behind the speakers, then hurled that out at the onlookers, as well.

- Dave Thompson, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

Quotes of Note – Dave Barry Slept Here

What caused the Cold War?  Why did two nations that had both spilt so much blood in a common cause suddenly become archenemies?  And how come it’s acceptable to write “spilt”?  We don’t write: “I was truly thrilt when the service-station attendant filt up my car with gasoline,” do we?  Of course not!  There are no service-station attendants anymore!  This was just one of the grim realities that we were forced to learn to live with in the Cold War era.

- Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here

Quotes of Note – Jitterbug Perfume

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get the aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off.  That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky filé z’herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po’boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between.  It is not unusual for a visitor to the city to gain fifteen pounds in a week — yet the alternative is a whole lot worse.  If you don’t eat day and night, if you don’t constantly funnel the indigenous flavors into your bloodstream, then the mystery beast will go right on humping you, and you will feel its sordid presence rubbing against you long after you have left town.  In fact, like any sex offender, it can leave permanent psychological scars.

- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Quotes of Note – The Streets

Ah, beautiful.
The barman holds aloft the crystal glass,
and I’m having all that’s in the bubble in the bottom of the bottle.
Then, by three or four, your head’s a bit mangled.

- The Streets, “Too Much Brandy“

Quotes of Note – True Beauty

I’m an astrologer, for God’s sake, so I actually go farther out with my intelligence than most people.

- David Palmer, True Beauty

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