"Try not to think of me as 'resistant to change'; rather, try to think of me as 'open-minded to consistency'."

-Steven T., July 2004

"fsck off."

-UNIX command for file system check off

"Mondays suck, but they don't swallow."

-Co-worker, July 2004

"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other 'nigga' as they're walking up and down the street!"

-Bill Cosby, 17 May 2004

"F#$% yourself!"

-CNN-relayed alleged quote of Vice President Cheney, 2004

"The only good thing to come out of religion was the music."

-George Carlin, 2004

"If you took all the generations and brought out a hearse, and combined them all together to amplify the worst, you'd clone yourself an icon of today's acerbic cast--we've watched them come this far only to run out of gas."

-Steven T., 1997

"The people who run record companies these days wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died."

-David Crosby, 2004

"Thousand dollar tables at the black tie dinner show. What's that got to do with music?"

-Roger McGuinn, 1996

"Yes, a baby will cry, does he know something we don't?"

-Lolly Vegas, 1972

"No, Steven, you're not a simple man--rather you are a very complicated man trying to live a very simple life."

-Co-worker, 2004

"I've got pieces of April, but it's a morning in May."

-Dave Loggins, 1971

"Jihad is for pussies."

-T-shirt, 2004

"When you've got trouble, then you've got heartache--and when you've got heartache, then you've got trouble."

-Pat Vegas, 1972

"Now is the price of tomorrow."

-Pat Vegas, 1971

"The human race is destroying itself slowly and it's wonderful to watch.....we're all given a ticket to the American freak show the day we're born and some people, they put their ticket away--me, I watch the show."

-George Carlin, 2004

"Sgt Pepper's lonely, Sgt Pepper's lonely, Sgt Pepper's lonely, Sgt Pepper's lonely, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band."

-Lennon/McCartney, 1967

"If you do less crying, there'll be fewer tears."

-Rusty Young, 1974

"Carrying a handgun--that's really part of the cocaine psychosis--there's no justification for it at all. When you do a lot of cocaine, you get very paranoid, and you think 'they' are out to get you. And I did, and I used to carry a gun, and I was very lucky I didn't end up shooting someone."

-David Crosby, 2000

"Today I learned--there are no secrets--only time for them to unfold, and the patience to watch the scroll of truth slowly be unrolled."

-David Crosby, 1998

"I can’t hold on, I can’t return. Rivers will run, bridges will burn. I’m not sure just how, but there’s no lookin’ back now."

-Michael McDonald, 1984

"Everybody wants a little piece, and they try to shoot me down. Well I just tell 'em to sit on this, and take a spin around."

-Sammy Hagar, 1984

"We all want a world we can live in, and we all want a world full of love. It's never too late, it's never too soon, whatever you can do is enough."

-Christopher Cross, 1983

"Hard ain't handsome, hard ain't rich, good isn't easy, and bad's a bitch."

-David Crosby, 2000

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-M. L. King, 1964

"Don't want to wait until tomorrow--why put it off another day? One by one little problems build up and stand in our way."

-Van Halen, 1991

"Bullshit!"

-President William J. Clinton, 1993

"The villain goes to jail, while the hero goes free--I wish it were that simple for me."

-David Crosby, 1993

  "If our love was old hat, it never felt that way--it was a perfect fit, we wore it every day--I guess we outgrew it, a little at a time--now that hat won't hold the tears I cry."

-Rusty Young, 1994

"Now many years later, I finally see, how much she did love me--she set me free."

-Stephen Stills, 1991

"You better look before you leap, still waters run deep, and there won't always be someone there to pull you out, and you know what I'm talkin' about."

-Lynn Anderson, 1972

"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

-Lee Iacocca, 1983

"In the back of my mind I hear it time after time, 'Is that who you really are?'."

-Glen Campbell, 1975

"Make the bastards eat their words, like bumble bees and humming birds."

-Spinal Tap & Cher, 1992

"After all the trouble and heartache, we all go out alone."

-Graham Nash, 2002

"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know."

-Kansas, 1977

"Out of sight is not out of mind, the love that you give is the love that you find."

-Paul Cotton, 2000

"I don't consider myself an offensive guy. I'm just a harmless loveable little fuzzball."

-Rush Limbaugh, 1992

"Political correctness is intellectual fascism."

-Bumper Sticker, 2003

"Each man is a country in his own right."

-Sammy Hagar, 1987

"I will remember the place that is now, that has ended before the beginning."

-Roger McGuinn, 1966

"And this and that and all those things and so on and so forth."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2003

"Violence on those buses happens everyday, but the RTC does not want tourists or the general public to know for fear it will hurt their revenue box. Bottom line up front: Money is more important than people."

-D. D. Kallerson, on the Las Vegas city bus service, 2003

  "It's money that matters."

-Randy Newman, 1989

"People who say 'I invented' are bullshit."

-David Crosby, 1988

"It's tough to negotiate from a standpoint of weakness."

-Steven T., 1988

"Happy Birthday Punk!"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1982

"Never argue with an idiot.  He will bring you down to his level, and beat you with experience."

-Anonymous, 2003

"Love is a secret that everyone knows; try too hard to hide it, and it never will show."

-Stephen Stills, 1991

"Don't make me put the smack down on your ass biatch!"

-Beavis, 1995

"You can lead a horse to water, or you can not lead a horse to water."

-Steven T., 2003

"I know, I know, I know, I know , I know, I know, I know , I know, I know, I know , I know, I know, I know , I know, I know, I know , I know, I know, I know , I know."

-Bill Withers, 1971

"Everyday's new melody, needs a different harmony."

-Stephen Stills, 1984

"Many of us live in a fog that the wire wizards made, sucking up a stream of electrons from the screens where they are sprayed."

-David Crosby, 2000

  "Every new friend is a stranger."

-Stephen Stills, 1984

"Though the circle takes what it may give, each time around, there's something new again."

-Gene Clark, 1971

"If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass when he hops."

-Red Foreman, 1998 [1976]

"There's no time for talk, there's no place for tears, there's no reason to wonder after all of these years."

-Christopher Cross, 1983

"Movies is magic; real life is tragic."

-Van Dyke Parks, 1995

"Never let the tears you're crying blind you to the dream that's trying to find you."

-Christopher Cross, 1984

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-Edmond Burke, 18th Century

"They cut out eight bars, the dirty bastards."

-Bing Crosby, 9 June 1939

"There's nothing as loud as the words we never say."

-Gregg Allman, 1987

"Someday never comes."

-John Fogerty, 1972

"I'd love to say it's still the same, but things have changed."

-Sammy Hagar, 2003

"You must not feel well."

-Jim Rockford, in response to an artist who asserted, 'I paint what I feel', 1975

"I could have toppled a foreign regime in the amount of time it's taken you to do nothing!"

-Steven T., 15 April 2003

"Who the f#$* are you?"

-Pete Townshend, 1978

"Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!"

-Darrell Waltrip, 2001

"Discrimination based on sexual orientation is one of the last socially accepted forms of bigotry."

-Washington Post, 2003

  "Restaurant soup and chili are avenues for using leftovers in a socially acceptable fashion."

-Steven T., 2003

"Reality it seems, is just a dream."

-Elton John, Bernie Taupin, 1973

"With friends like you, who needs enemas?"

-Bumper Sticker, 2003

"It's my own belief about all the dirty girls, that you have to clean the oyster to find the pearl."

-Elton John, Bernie Taupin, 1973

"We are living on a dying planet; we're killing everything that's alive. And anyone who tries to deny it wears a tie and gets paid to lie."

-Joe Walsh, 1992

"If we had released albums at the same rate Elton John has, the Who would have over 50 albums by now."

-Pete Townshend, 1973

"You've only got two people that are going to tell you I'm not going to be here. One is our SID [Sports Information Director], and the other is me. Who the hell told you I wasn't going to be here? I'd like to know. Do you have any idea who it was?...Who?...They were from Indiana, right?...No, they weren't from Indiana, and you didn't get it from anybody from Indiana, did you?...No, I—I'll handle this the way I want to handle it now that I'm here. You f#$%ed it up to begin with. Now just sit there or leave. I don't give a $#!+ what you do. Now back to the game"

-Bobby Knight, 1995

"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things."

-Bobby Knight, circa 1995

"We cannot be shocked into impotence because we're afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us."

-Secretary of State Powell, 2003

"And it all goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on."

-P. Kantner, 1987

"I had my fun in the bull ring, and never got a scar--it really wasn't hard to be a star."

-R. McGuinn, 1970

"If all my days were trees to climb and circles without reason, and if all I was was passing time, my life is just a season."

-R. McGuinn, 1970

"I need a bambulance!"

-Joe, 1992

"Is this a promise we keep, or one we break like the wind?"

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"There's a silence in between us, I've never heard before."

-Ronnie Milsap, 1983

"Will our hearts still beat on, or will they break like the wind?"

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"Love's like money, gotta spend it slow."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"Life is just a meal--and you never say 'when'."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"Life is just a dream--an unconscious stream."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"It feels so real, you can feel the feeling."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"The more it stays the same, the less it changes."

-Spinal Tap, 1992

"Nothing ever stops us. We're our own synopsis."

-Spinal Tap, 2001

"My job is to think up goofy sh#t."

-George Carlin, 1978

"Oh, we weren't expecting this."

-Stock market losers, 2002

"Welfare is perhaps our society's most dangerous epidemic, due to its addictive nature."

-Anonymous, 2002

"Humble pie is always hard to swallow with your pride."

-Graham Nash, 1971

"Saints or sinners take no prisoners."

-Journey, 1983

"You know the road doesn't end, when it reaches a bend."

-Rusty Young, 1974

"Regular price, $5, $5, $5, $20, 5$."

-Pizza Hut commercial, 2002

"Stick it!"

-Mennen Speed Stick commercial, 1977

"Get off the can."

-Mennen Speed Stick commercial, 1976

"Suspicions lead to questions, and questions to alibis."

-Ronnie Milsap, 1983

"Dress up tonight. Why be lonely?"

-Three Dog Night, 1971

"Good investors are in it for the long-term."

-Numerous people, on several occasions, 2001

"This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well let me tell you something; I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine and Governor... You're no Thomas Jefferson!"

-Ronald W. Reagan, 1992

"Yeah, I read the transcripts, and I'll tell you what, all I saw was extensive use of a word that began with F and ended with K, and believe me it wasn't 'firetruck'."

-Pete Rose, 1989

"There's a fine line between exuberant patriotism and gratuitous exploitation of tragedy."

-Anonymous, 2002

"Still waters run deep, so be careful I don't drown you."

-John Entwistle, 1981

"Well, you'll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river.....when you're living in a van down by the river!"

-Matt Foley, 1994

"Well, that and a nickel will get you a hot cup of Jack Squat!"

-Matt Foley, 1991

"Faith can be your best friend, and love is an accident of fate."

-Stephen Stills, 1984

"I thought I was Neil Young."

-Neil Young, in Geffen Records lawsuit claiming that he was recording music "uncharacteristic of Neil Young", 1986

"Some of us wind up in shadow, some of us wind up in shade."

-David Crosby, 2001

"What's interesting about Washington.....--unfortunately, it's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature."

-Pres. George W. Bush, 2002

"I'm not too enthusiastic about this organ donor idea. What bothers me most is that it's run by the Motor Vehicle Bureau. I figure if I have to wait in line that long for a kidney, forget it. I'll do without."

-George Carlin, 2001

"We let it slip away, breaking all the silver threads that hold you to your dreams. One day they'll fall and you'll fly away."

-Graham Nash, from "Lost Another One", 2002

"No one has the answers, but one thing is true--you've got to turn on evil when it's coming after you. You've got to hunt it down. And, when it tries to hide, you've got to go in after it, and never be denied."

-Neil Young, 2001

"There you go again."

-Presidential Candidate Ronald W. Reagan, 1980

"The stigmatization of n*gger has unavoidably created an atmosphere in which people may be tempted to make false charges in order to exploit feelings of sympathy, guilt, and anger."

-Randall Kennedy, 2002

"The young are punished for their disregard of every fool that might want to lead them."

-Stephen Stills, 1999

"The politicians or companies that seek to control what each of us watch, are far greater danger to America and our treasured freedom than any of our guests ever could or will be."

-Jerry Springer, 1997

"You mother f#$*ers! You cock suckin', goddamn Luxembourg assholes!"

-Neil Young, European tour, 1987

"We've built in a large cushion. Unfortunately, people sitting on their asses have diminished this cushion. And, the larger we build the cushions, the bigger peoples' asses get."

-Steven T., 2002

"Forget about the past and all your sorrow. The future won't last--it'll soon be over tomorrow."

-Ringo Starr, 1971

"Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook."

-George Carlin, 2001

"Here's a new verdict: Guilty by reason of insanity."

-Anonymous, 2001

"Electricity is really just organized lightning."

-George. Carlin, 2001

"I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of broadway."

-Glen. Campbell, 1975

"Some people say the glass is half-full, some people say it's half-empty. I say the glass is too big."

-George. Carlin, 2001

"Time is what a clock reads."

-S. R. Stein, 1989

"The problem with sitcoms is that every week it's the same group of irritating people."

-George Carlin, 2001

"Make a machine to make a machine, and man and machine will make a machine to break the machines, that make the machines."

-Pete Townshend, 1989

"Most people with low self-esteem have earned it."

-George Carlin, 2001

"Recording an album is like painting a portrait with music."

-Rusty Young, on Legend, 1979

"Let's roll."

-Todd Beamer, United Flight 93, 11 Sep 2001

"Our goal: 5 minutes or less."

-Local U.S. Post Office, 10:35-11:45 local, 17 Dec 2001

"Cuff him, and then wash your hands."

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1983

"Ward, don't you think you're being a little hard on the Beaver?"

-June Cleaver, circa 1958

"It's better to be careful 100 times than to get killed once."

-Mark Twain

"You wouldn't be out of line comparing Brian Wilson to any composer. You wouldn't be out of line comparing him to Beethoven.....or.....uh.....or really any composer. I mean you really wouldn't be out of line."

-Tom Petty, 1994

"When you're feeling love's unfair, you just ask the lonely."

-Journey, 1984

"Usually it's too late when you realize what you had."

-.38 Special, 1981

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."

-Robert Cringley, Circa 2000

"It's so clear, I'm sorry to say, but if you wanna win you gotta learn how to play."

-Lou Gramm, 1979

"It's an egregious example of something wrong."

-Stephen Stills, on the Berlin Wall, pre-1989

"When I take action I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt."

-Unconfirmed, 2001

"Now I can wear heels."

-Nicole Kidman, on her separation, 2001

"One thinks, then sinks, then stands at a brink, finds a key and stinks of revelation, drinking in exaltation."

-Stephen Stills, 1972

"Time you don't use, you lose it. You grab every moment you can, or it's gone."

-.38 Special, 1986

"We need more cowbell."

-Producer, Blue Oyster Cult recording session, 1976

"We'd have more luck playing pickup sticks with our butt cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak."

-Del Griffith, 1987

"Love takes time."

-Orleans, 1979

"Dozens of people spontaneously combust every year."

-Spinal Tap, 1984

"The best way to piss people off is to be totally accommodating to them."

-Steven T., 2000

"So often times it happens, that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."

-Glenn Frey, 1974

"The speed of light does not vary as a function of geographical location."

-Steven T., 1 August 2001

"Welcome to the human race with its war, disease and brutality."

-Chrissie Hynde, 1984

"You're always in a hurry--you've got to be some place where you never want to be when you arrive."

-Stephen Stills, 1999

"I don't believe that love can be contracted."

-Anne Heche, on marriage, 2001

"A dozen guilty pleasures from the decade that wouldn't die."

-Rhino Records Hits of the 70s album cover, 1993

"The world is going to hell in a handjob, and we've got front row seats."

-A reliable source, 19 June 2001

"Rejection occurs when you don't ask."

-Steven T., 1999

"My locker partner erased my homework."

-11th grade student, 1982

"Your lowest short-term priority, may very well also be your highest long-term priority."

-Steven T., 2001

"Something designed to prevent us from doing something stupid ended up preventing us from doing something smart."

-Air Force Captain, 2001

"Compiled, no doubt, by some very sick minds, Have A Nice Day captures the exploitative ephemerality of classic K-Tel hell in all its gaging glory."

-Rolling Stone album review, 1993

"When you were young, did you question all the answers?"

-Graham Nash, 1982

"Take my advice--don't listen to me."

-Neil Young, 1986

"I don't need to fight to prove I'm right."

-Pete Townshend, 1971

"Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive."

-Neil Young, 1989

"You can't dance and stay uptight."

-King Harvest, 1973

"You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati!"

-Bengals coach Sam Wyche, P.A. system, 10 December 1989

"Lighten up while you still can."

-Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, 1972

"A superb point of reference detected, becomes absurd with a moment's reflection, leaves one a passage of simple thought not sagging with excess weight and excess baggage."

-Stephen Stills, 1972

"When we want more, you know we ask for less."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1984

"Now's a good time to buy."

-Numerous people, on several occasions, 2000

"A system is only as good as its maintainability."

-Steven T., 1998

"Discrimination is not the solution to the problem of discrimination."

-Steven T., 2001, on his refusal to sign a federal government statement of ethnic origin

"I was a civil rights activist long, long before the Ally McBeal television show."

-Steven T., 2001, on public restrooms

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with."

-Billy Preston, 1969; Stephen Stills, 1970

"A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy."

-President George W. Bush, 2001

"Can't you see that love is blind."

-McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman, 1979

"I'm not a gambler and that's one thing you can bet."

-Joe Walsh, 1992

  "All destinations are final--if you're not at your destination, you're not there yet!"

-George Carlin

"The best time to laugh is when it's least appropriate."

-Steven T., 1997

"Criticism of one choice does not justify the alternative."

-Steven T., 2001

"She loves her daddy's cash 'cause it spends so well."

-.38 Special, 1984

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

-Betrand Russell, Mathematicians and Metaphysicians

"If you cling too tightly, you're gonna lose control."

-.38 Special, 1981

"I've played around enough to find--no two are ever the same."

-.38 Special, 1982

"The joke's on those who believe the system's fair."

-.38 Special, 1984

"Sore Loserman 2000."

-Political Poster, 2000

"Childhood illusions were merely delusions of a girl that I see."

-.38 Special, 1981

"The electoral margin is about as shaky as elementary school cafeteria jello."

-Dan Rather, 2000

"I thought it was the ball."

-Pitcher, justifying throwing a bat, 2000

"You expect for me to love you, when you hate yourself, my friend."

-Stephen Stills, 1970

  "You are served!"

-Steven T., 2000

"Digitally remastering 1970s country/western music is a waste of ones and zeros."

-J. B. Shelley, 1991

"It's not the end of my world, just a slight change of plans."

-Lou Gramm, 1984

"The worst kind of disagreement is the one you don't realize you have."

-Joe White, 1998

"Music sets an atmosphere for reason to occur in conjunction with passion."

-Stephen Stills, 2000

"I don't want your job Mr. Carter, I want to be President."

-Ronald W. Reagan, Summer 1980

"There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times."

-Texas Governor George W. Bush, September 2000

"You can cover your guts, but when you cover up your nuts, you're admitting that something must be wrong."

-Pete Townshend, 1974

"You're right phonetically, but what else?"

-Vice President Dan Quayle, informing a student that he forgot to add an "e" at the end of "potato", circa 1991

  "Free gas for everyone."

-Presidential candidate Joe Walsh, 1980

"Well I ain't no new messiah, but I'm close enough for Rock and Roll."

-.38 Special, 1980

"Put that in your pipe and smoke it."

-Wally, from "Leave It To Beaver", circa 1960

"You know, if you were just a little bit more intelligent, you'd realize just how stupid you are."

-Air Force Captain, 1995

"Does a bag of flour make a big f$%#in' biscuit?"

-Air Force Captain, 1994

"I did not prescribe those pills!"

-Dr. George Nichopolous, Elvis' personal physician, 1978

"Where did you lose it?"

-Colorado Driver's License Office, 1996

"Is there a good number we can reach you at?"

-U.S. West Customer Service Representative, troubleshooting an inoperative phone line, 1996

"In WWII--When German tanks were hit, they went, 'boom!', but American tanks went 'BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!'"

-Friend, describing the difference between diesel and gasoline, 1986

"Uh guys, it's too long--play it faster."

-Producer, Buffalo Springfield recording session, 1966

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

-Bob Dylan, 1965

"It's just Air Force Regulation 10-7: An O-10 outranks an O-7."

-Air Force LtCol, 1990

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

-Neil Peart, 1980

"You have a wooden leg--does that make you a table?"

-Frank Zappa, RIP

"You know them bats is smart--they use radar!"

-Dave Letterman, impersonating a PBS viewer, 1988

"I was so much older then--I'm younger than that now."

-Bob Dylan, 1965

"It's not like I was asking them to deliver a hot pizza in under 30 minutes."

-President George Bush, criticizing Congress for budget delays, 1990

"Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you goodbye."

-John Denver, 1995

"Follow the path of heart, as opposed to the path of convenience."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1991

"Trust but verify"

-President Ronald W. Reagan, 1981

"Get rid of the helmet law!"

-Friend, addressing organ donor shortage, 1998

"All politicians are full of s#*t anyway!"

-Cher, on Sonny Bono running for U.S. Senate, 1992

"Fun flies when you're doing time!"

-Colleague, 1988

"Looks like he cut off his nose to spite his boss' ass!"

-Colleague, 2000

"You backbacon-eatin' motherf#$*ers!"

-Fictional Canadian-fearing Security Policeman, 1999

"Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised."

-Sherriff John Bunnell, 2000

"I would never wear those ugly ass shoes."

-O.J. Simpson, 1996

"At this time, I am in charge."

-Secretary of State Alexander Haig, 1981

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

-Semisonic, 1998

"E-Mail me a summary of your current network outage."

-I won't say, 1997

"A greedy man never knows what he's done."

-Neil Young, 1992

"We're laughing with you."

-An obliviously isolated rejoicer

"Aw, Shut up!"

-Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan, in response to ERA protesters, Election Day, 1980

"Today is 1 January 19100."

-U.S. Naval Observatory Web Page, 1 January 2000

"It's a dry heat!"

-HVAC technician, rationalizing an environmental chamber failure, 1999

"It's all one song!"

-Neil Young, in response to a comment from a heckler: "They all sound the same!", 1996

"Neither does one wrong."

-Answer to "Two wrongs don't make a right" cliche', 1970s

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

-Telestronomer, 1999

"We have a healthy respect for irreverence--if something can be rubbed the wrong way, we will rub it."

-Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1994

"Living in the here and now will cleanse the waste of sacred cows that clutter up the path you might be seeking."

-Stephen Stills, 1999

"What's a kid supposed to think when grown ups refuse all accountability when they f!#& up?"

-Stephen Stills, 1999

"When you're burning the bridges behind you--smoke can begin to blind you."

-Rusty Young, 1978

"Only when you've experienced the lowest of valleys, can you truly appreciate the majesty of the highest of peaks."

-President Richard M. Nixon, 9 August 1974

"It's not the voltage--it's the current that'll kill you."

-Novice electronics mentor, seemingly unaware of the V=ir law, 1983

"Some day we'll all look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject."

-R. Bower, 1999

  "Silence speaks as loud as war--earth returns to what it was before."

-Sammy Hagar, 1986

"Those who hate you don't win, unless you hate them back--and then, you destroy yourself."

-President Richard M. Nixon, 9 August 1974

"You can't post-process bomb drops."

-Steven T., 1998

"Have a blast while you last!"

-Bumper Sticker

"Whether you're having sex with your husband, or the President of the United States, shut the f*!# up!"

-Madonna, 1999

"That's nice, that's great, but unfortunately it's about as lucrative as if one had invented the universal solvent--what are you going to keep it in?"

-Unknown

"Damn Bitch Set Me Up!"

-Washington Mayor Marion Barry, 25 seconds after drug arrest, 1990

"Cocaine is like an intelligence test--if you try it, you fail!"

-Paul Kantner, KBC Band, circa 1986

"Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin'!"

-AFROTC Detachment 910 Cadet, 1987