Archived quotations

June 27, 2005 - April 25, 2006

"Controversies in your own life: very depressing. Controversies in other people's lives: very exciting."
Karan Johar

May 20, 2005 - June 27, 2005

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."
Fran Lebowitz

February 11,2005 / February 20, 2005 - May 20,2005 - doubled up due to unfortunate passing of two great writers "

All the blood is drained out of democracy -- it dies -- when only half the population votes."
-- Hunter S. Thompson (7/18/1935-2/20/2005)

 "Dislocation, maybe, is part of our uneasiness. It implants the feeling that nothing is really permanent."
-- Arthur Miller (10/17/1915-2/10/2005)

April 21, 2004 - February 11, 2005 (longest ever!) Chiefly because of web server crash.

 "It is beginning to be hinted that we are a nation of amateurs."
-- Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery

January 7, 2004 - April 21, 2004

 "To teach is to learn twice. "
-- Joseph Joubert

May 30, 2003-January 7, 2004 (oops)

 "To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
-- e.e. cummings

April 3-May 30, 2003

"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement."
-- William Shakespeare

August 6 - April 3, 2003 (almost a year with the same quotation! Call the Overused Quotation Police!)

"Who is the happier man: he who has braved the storm
of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
-- Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway

April 23 - August 6

"I feel like we're in a Noel Coward play. Someone should be making martinis. "
-- Isaac Davis (played by Woody Allen), Manhattan

December 2001 - April 23 2002 (hard to update website from Israel, sorry for long time with one quotation)

"I have noticed that the people who are late
are often so much jollier than
the people who have to wait for them."
-- E.V. Lucas

September - November 2001

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August 2001

"Quietly you say to me, the time has come for you to be alive again"

Trey Anastasio, "Alive Again"

July 2001

"My tragedy is that I love deeply
but I cannot yield my integrity
or live wholly in anyone else's world.
I cannot yield. Part of me remains
always Anais Nin."
Anais Nin Fall 1937 (from diary)

May-July 2001

"There are of course many problems connected with life,
of which some of the most popular are 'Why are
people born?' 'Why do they die?' 'Why do they spend so
much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"
- Douglas Adams, 1952-2001
"To a Genius Dying Young" - an article I wrote about Douglas Adams