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"Her heart is in the right place, but she is an impulsive little thing, that's all, and when it comes to housekeeping, she'd rather be doing nearly anything else, and she generally is." - Peg Bracken

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Quote repository:

• "I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos is come again." -- River Tam on Firefly about feeling better thanks to brain medication


• from ursulav's dream about a film noir story starring a robot - "His grandmother had once gotten drunk and calculated the value of pi out to 800 digits. She hadn't liked any of them."


• "Mania was created for the man seeking a discreet, elegant, and classic signature scent. The classical freshness of Mania is built around a sensual amber-woody accord that brings to mind warm fabrics such as cashmere, flannel, and wool. Notes:Green Mandarin, Saffron, Cedar, Vetiver, Amber, Musk. Style:Fresh. Magnetic. Sensual." - press blurb from Armani


• "Calm comes through abandoning reason to commune with nature."


• "I'm only good at a couple of things, and I make sure I do them a lot!" -- Michael Soldier, licensed massage therapist, drag porn rock star and award-winning gay porn star


• "He took the lower road, and so did I." -- Kelli Willis, singer, in "Parallel Bars" by Robbie Fulks


• "I am the delivery man of human love, and I will leave an extra portion."


• "...you run when you ought to deal, you deal when you ought to fight and you fight when you ought to run" - Badger to Mal


• "I have experienced a deathbed conversion - I just bought a Macintosh." - Randy Pausch in his Last Lecture


• "As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move and the map to move by, we have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths, and an infinity of dreams." - this is being attributed online to a Hong Kong proverb but that seems fishy.


• "Well, I'm not exactly quaking in my stylish-yet-affordable boots, but there's definitely something unnatural going on here, and that doesn't usually lead to hugs and puppies." - Buffy Summers from "Once More, With Feeling"


• "Burghers sometimes refer to their town as 'the Burgh.' For the 'ow' sound in words they say something which I have tried to render here with a short o, as in 'donton longe,' but which is more precisely, to take the case of 'town,' a blend of 'tehn,''tahn,' and 'tan.' It falls somewhere in between the Boston version of the short a and the East Tennessee version of the long i. The Pittsburgh accent is unique." -- Roy Blount, Jr. in About Three Bricks Shy of a Load