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"I was in a bar in Baltimore and I asked a guy what he did for a living. He said, ‘Can I be..."

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:29:00 -0500

“I was in a bar in Baltimore and I asked a guy what he did for a living. He said, ‘Can I be frank? I trade deer meat for crack.’”

- Film director John Waters

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Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:57:35 -0500

"At lower rpm, the exhaust sounds like a tuba having sex with a vacuum cleaner…"

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:56:52 -0400

“At lower rpm, the exhaust sounds like a tuba having sex with a vacuum cleaner…”

- From a review of Dodge Viper, at $91,145, “the most affordable 600-hp car on the market”

"We all carry a secret that would break your heart if you just knew what it was. And if we could..."

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:17:04 -0400

“We all carry a secret that would break your heart if you just knew what it was. And if we could remember that there might be more understanding and peace in the world.”

- PostSecret founder Frank Warren, in an interview

"…that’s the magic of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Whether he’s playing a character named..."

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:26:44 -0400

“…that’s the magic of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Whether he’s playing a character named Chance Boudreux, Jack Robideaux, Edward Garrotte, William Guile, Phillip Sauvage, or Gibson Rickenbacker, he’s always the same.”

- An amusing riff from Slate

"She is adamant that she is not going to be bullied around by the Ellen DeGenereses of the world."

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:10:26 -0400

“She is adamant that she is not going to be bullied around by the Ellen DeGenereses of the world.”

- A buffoon talking about an idiot

"When you commit yourself to something, you have to quemar los barcos, burn the ships. There’s..."

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:51:14 -0400

“When you commit yourself to something, you have to quemar los barcos, burn the ships. There’s no way out.”

- Venezuelan political exile Robert Alonso

Time for a Nobel Man in the White House?

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:40:59 -0400

Time for a Nobel Man in the White House?

It’s the Naughty Terrier!

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:59:41 -0400

It’s the Naughty Terrier!

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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:46:09 -0400

"There was a kid in the neighborhood who said that he could light his farts on fire. And we were..."

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:33:07 -0400

“There was a kid in the neighborhood who said that he could light his farts on fire. And we were like: ‘You can not!’ And so he put a match to his ass and farted, and ssshhhfffeeewwwww, a big flame came out.”

- Bobby Farrelly, explaining the inspiration for the gross-out movie empire he created with his brother

A Lichtenstein from Iran’s semi-secluded collection of...

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:48:26 -0400

A Lichtenstein from Iran’s semi-secluded collection of contemporary Western art that also includes four portraits of Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol, as the L.A. Times reports.

"I increasingly find that, as I get older, the only subjects worth writing about are Love, Loss,..."

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:29:43 -0400

“I increasingly find that, as I get older, the only subjects worth writing about are Love, Loss, Religion and Ambition.”

- Cartoonist Hugh Macleod

"Nothing else in life can replicate the feeling of running into another man in front of 90,000 people..."

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:50:07 -0400

“Nothing else in life can replicate the feeling of running into another man in front of 90,000 people and hitting him as hard as you possibly can. My mom will probably hate reading this, but more than the paycheck or the camaraderie of the locker room, I will really miss the violence.”

- Former NFL player Ross Tucker

Could this Virgin Galactic spaceport have been designed by...

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:27:32 -0400

Could this Virgin Galactic spaceport have been designed by Georgia O’Keeffe?

"[Christian] Bale is one of the few screen actors who can convincingly shed the trappings of..."

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:11:54 -0400

“[Christian] Bale is one of the few screen actors who can convincingly shed the trappings of modernity. [His 3:10 to Yuma character] Dan is much more than a movie star in costume: with his gaunt, haggard face and wide, awe-struck eyes, he seems to have stepped out of a daguerreotype or a murder ballad.”

- A.O. Scott, writing in the New York Times

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Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:17:35 -0400

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Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:45:37 -0400

"You can live without petrol, without electricity, but you can’t live without hope."

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:21:40 -0400

“You can live without petrol, without electricity, but you can’t live without hope.”

- Iraqi parliament member Faliy al Fayadh