"I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few ever became any qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer. Until finally they got reduced to one, to who I am. And that's who I am, the weather man."
- Dave Spritz, The Weather Man
I can't express anger. That's one of the problems I have. I grow a tumor instead. -Manhattan (1979)
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer." Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
"Den mindste smerte i en lillefinger giver os større bekymring og ubehag end udslettelsen af millioner af mennesker."
William Hazlitt
"Fra de tidligste tider har de gamle indprentet de unge, at de er klogere end dem, og før ungdommen opdagede, hvad det var for noget vrøvl, var de også blevet gamle, og det var til deres fordel at fortsætte bedrageriet."
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That´s where we come in; we´re computer professionals. We cause accidents. - Nathaniel Borenstein
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof program, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook
I teorien er der ingen forskel på teori og praksis. I praksis er der
Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they're front runners or comefrom behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run.
Marlowe: Find out mine?
Vivian: I think so.
Marlowe: Go ahead.
Vivian: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.
Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.
Vivian: I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?
Marlowe: Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go.
Vivian: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.
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Aborigines: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Arrest: Formally to detain one accused of unusualness. God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh
Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Cannon: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Cat: A soft indestructible automaton provided by Nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Congratulation: The civility of envy.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Education: That which discloses to the wise, and disguises from the foolish, their lack of understanding.
Electricity: The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Innards: The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.
Insurrection: An unsuccessful revolution.
Justice: A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.
Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Sabbath: A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Witch: 1, an ugly old woman in wicked league with the Devil; 2, a beautiful young woman in a wickedness beyond the Devil.
Youth: The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice is never heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost--Polydore Smith.
Zeal: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
Eksempler fra Ambrose Bierce's bog The Devil's Dictionary
No matter how old you are, no matter how badass you think you are, if a toddler hands you their ringing toy phone ... You answer it.
#51 Spanner 18 år siden
- Groucho Marx
"Do not talk to me about pork when we have a crisis on my hands!!" - Producerem
#52 dh-ad 18 år siden
- Dave Spritz, The Weather Man
#53 cyberzed 18 år siden
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
#54 filmz-CAADK 18 år siden
"Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour"
"every passing minute is a another chance to turn it all around"
Bruce: Batman has no limits
#55 Bony 18 år siden
#56 jessup 18 år siden
William Hazlitt
"Fra de tidligste tider har de gamle indprentet de unge, at de er klogere end dem, og før ungdommen opdagede, hvad det var for noget vrøvl, var de også blevet gamle, og det var til deres fordel at fortsætte bedrageriet."
W. Somerset Maugham.
#57 Spanner 18 år siden
- Arthur C. Clarke
"Do not talk to me about pork when we have a crisis on my hands!!" - Producerem
#58 Æsop9000 18 år siden
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That´s where we come in; we´re computer professionals. We cause accidents.
- Nathaniel Borenstein
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof program, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook
#59 filmz-Bruce 18 år siden
Vivian: Speaking of horses, I like to play them myself. But I like to see them workout a little first, see if they're front runners or comefrom behind, find out what their whole card is, what makes them run.
Marlowe: Find out mine?
Vivian: I think so.
Marlowe: Go ahead.
Vivian: I'd say you don't like to be rated. You like to get out in front, open up a little lead, take a little breather in the backstretch, and then come home free.
Marlowe: You don't like to be rated yourself.
Vivian: I haven't met anyone yet that can do it. Any suggestions?
Marlowe: Well, I can't tell till I've seen you over a distance of ground. You've got a touch of class, but I don't know how, how far you can go.
Vivian: A lot depends on who's in the saddle.
#60 Steffan Rasmussen 18 år siden
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Arrest: Formally to detain one accused of unusualness.
God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh
Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Cannon: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.
Cat: A soft indestructible automaton provided by Nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.
Congratulation: The civility of envy.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Education: That which discloses to the wise, and disguises from the foolish, their lack of understanding.
Electricity: The cause of all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
Innards: The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.
Insurrection: An unsuccessful revolution.
Justice: A commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.
Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.
Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Rational: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
Sabbath: A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Witch: 1, an ugly old woman in wicked league with the Devil; 2, a beautiful young woman in a wickedness beyond the Devil.
Youth: The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.
Youth is the true Saturnian Reign, the Golden Age on earth again, when figs are grown on thistles, and pigs betailed with whistles and, wearing silken bristles, live ever in clover, and cows fly over, delivering milk at every door, and Justice is never heard to snore, and every assassin is made a ghost and, howling, is cast into Baltimost--Polydore Smith.
Zeal: A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
Eksempler fra Ambrose Bierce's bog The Devil's Dictionary