hill in a handbag

Freaks & Geeks...

"Hey, I believe in God, man.  I've seen him, I've felt his power.  He plays drums for Led Zeppelin and his name is John Bonham, baby!" 

- Nick Andopolis (Pilot Episode)

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

"An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights."
-Will Rogers

"In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say scientists? I meant Irish people."
-Tina Fey

"Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges."
-Judy Collins

"St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish."
-Charles M. Madigan

"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
-Brendan Behan

"For the great Gaels of Ireland, are the men that God made mad.  For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."
- G. K. Chesterton

the other hill in a handbag

"Right now the greatest threat to world peace is intolerance cloaked in religion.  It's people who believe that their religious views are the only right ones.  I think we have to be open to the feelings and opinions and views of other people.  Not that we are going to give up what we believe but in the complex world in which we live, we have to recognize that not everybody will see the world the same way."

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D) New York

(from Oprah 1/23/06)

MLK

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963

Quote!

"I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously."

-David Bowie

Quote!

Fan:  You're shorter in person than you are on TV.
Jon Stewart:  You seem to have a problem discerning that TV distorts reality because I'm a tiny tiny man.

Quote!

"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
-Julius Caesar

Saturday's Quote...

"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

-Muhammad Ali

Quote!

"That's one fat cat."
- State Senator Creigh Deeds (VA Attorney General candidate & Will's boss) upon meeting Doobie

Note:  I'm still going to vote for him but that comment will probably lose him the Virginia fat cat vote.

Quote!

ESPN magazine says that Lance Armstrong is considering running for governor of Texas.  Well finally Texas could have a governor who knew how to ride a bike.

-Jay Leno