User:Rebbing/Gallery

This is a collection of things I've found on Wikipedia or elsewhere that inspired me or struck my fancy.

Practical ethics
"The raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."

- Unknown

"[Y]ou can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite."

- Flannery O'Connor

"I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people."

- Katharine Hepburn

"What we call human nature in actuality is human habit."

- Jewel Kilcher

Purpose, hope, duty
"I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the dark."

- Sarah Williams

"Do you know what wasting your own time means? It means killing yourself. Literally. If a young musician puts a gun in his mouth and blows out his brain, everyone cries about how he cut his life short. But you know what? You're stealing just as much time from yourself by indulging in weird urges."

- Supervert

"My ideas are way out of line with current trends, and I see no particular point in staying around and being obnoxious."

- Justice William O. Douglas

Observations
"What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

- Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Prose
"The Beatles presented an opportunity for a convulsive national orgasm of sobbed joy, the life-affirming sex after the funeral."

"I'm really sorry and want you to know this is not fun for me."

"Tori Amos is a kind of piano-humping mystical feminist fairy creature writ large . . .."

"[S]wallowing is still a long process (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat). A Komodo dragon may attempt to speed up the process by ramming the carcass against a tree to force it down its throat, sometimes ramming so forcefully, the tree is knocked down."

On Wikipedia
"[E]diting Wikipedia is worse for your sense of perspective than M.C. Escher-designed beer goggles."