Wagner's Notable Quotables

2009-05-28T08:13:00.000-05:00

"I bought a telephone, not a lifestyle."

--the girlfriend's dad

2009-05-27T07:59:00.000-05:00

"Make no mistake about it, Clot: I'm a real writer. I don't have the least intention of being happy, naturally."

--Raphael Reig, Blood on the Saddle

2009-05-26T08:26:00.000-05:00

"If you were born with a vagina, your primary obligation from the onset of adolescence and well into adulthood will be to make yourself pretty for heterosexual men's pleasure. Not even just the ones you'd actually want to have a conversation with, let alone sex with--all of them."

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

2009-05-25T10:23:00.001-05:00

"Food is for the weak!"

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

2009-05-24T06:07:00.000-05:00

"Too many women substitute diet talk for real conversation. They use it to bond, but it is a superficial bond that undermines the chance of any real connection. It pretends to align women as sisters working toward a common goal, but it really turns them into competitors."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

2009-05-23T08:10:00.000-05:00

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

--John Kenneth Galbraith

2009-05-22T07:57:00.000-05:00

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist as one grows up."

--Pablo Picasso

2009-05-21T09:48:00.001-05:00

"But it's the harsh reality, as of 2009. No jet-packs, no hover cars, no diets that work."

--Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby, Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere

2009-05-20T18:29:00.000-05:00

"Any unwanted behavior should be dealt with in kind and loving manner. For this reason, I use a method called 'corporal cuddling.'"

--Paul, "An Engineer's Guide to Cats"

2009-05-19T20:29:00.000-05:00

"So the question is, which boulder are you going to choose to roll? The "must lose weight" boulder or the "fuck you, I will boldly, defiantly accept the body I've got and live in it" boulder?

--Kate Harding, "How Do You Fuck a Fat Woman?"

2009-05-18T15:29:00.002-05:00

"It has never surprised me that God gave the world a little tilt at the same time He set it spinning; so much that goes on here mimics that tilt."

--Stephen King, The Colorado Kid

2009-05-17T15:33:00.001-05:00

"Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet."

--C. J. Cherryh, Cyteen: The Betrayal

2009-05-16T15:32:00.001-05:00

"The simplest answer is to act."

--Fortune cookie

2009-05-15T15:35:00.002-05:00

"At Tom's back, receding from view, lay State Street's Victorian brick facades, where lobbyists and trade associations housed their offices, like a Mount Everest base camp for professional influence peddlers."

--Joan Quigley, The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy

2009-05-14T15:27:00.001-05:00

"Even SF is the art of the plausible. So, critics might say, there lies SF's weakness."

--Brian Aldiss, "Foreward: Attempting to Please", Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time

2009-05-13T10:07:00.005-05:00

"If you're thinking of turning off your power in order to embrace a sustainable lifestyle, DON'T DO IT. How could you do such a horrible thing? Hundreds of thousands of people are without power in Southern Illinois -- think of what they'd do.

They'd do their laundry."

--the girlfriend

2009-05-12T19:18:00.004-05:00

"Too much is close enough for rock 'n roll."

--!!!, "Myth Takes"

2009-05-11T18:01:00.006-05:00

"The dread of something menacing that you felt when you were a child returns when you get old."

--Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers

2009-05-10T20:48:00.003-05:00

"Jesse follows them down, holding on to the rail--somethingshe never did
before the baby. She is used to being physically reckless. Now she has to behave
like a courier of valuable goods."

--Carol Anshaw, Aquamarine

2009-05-09T15:20:00.002-05:00

"Time waited on her shoulder with the manic sloth it reserves for children, the insane and wives whose husbands are away improving the world."

--Brian Aldiss, "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"

2009-05-08T08:24:00.006-05:00

"You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage--
I'm trying to tell you now it's sabotage."

--Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"

2009-05-07T08:30:00.003-05:00

"Jungle rhythm in the DNA,
Disco in the gene pool,
But I've put my dancing shoes away."

--Long Fin Killie, "Kismet"

2009-05-06T14:43:00.004-05:00

"He was so ignorant. He gave her a shotgun for Christmas. He gave a women who was five months pregnant and who he was cheating on a shotgun. And the most amazing part was he gave her the shells to go with it! I wish I were that ignorant. It would be bliss!"

--vending machine lady

2009-05-05T08:27:00.004-05:00

"Here's hoping there's a method to your madness, baby.
I might just understand if you obey me."

--Elastica, "Hold Me Now"

2009-05-04T13:20:00.005-05:00

“People who can endure bamboo slivers under the fingernails
begin to weaken after ten minutes of doorbell ringing.”

--Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript

2009-05-03T08:18:00.003-05:00

"It's a balancing act
And I can't balance
And I can't act too well,
Apparently."

--Volcano Suns, "Balancing Act"

2009-05-02T13:53:00.003-05:00

"Perhaps we have a hatred of reality. Reality is too cold for us. Perceptions of all things are governed by our own selves."

--Brian Aldiss, "A Matter of Mathematics"

2009-05-01T08:15:00.003-05:00

"Intelligent or not, the flabbers were certainly tasty, and greatly benefitted mankind--thanks to III's mighty subdivision, Canquistador."

--Brian Aldiss, "III"

2009-04-30T13:59:00.005-05:00

"Never trust a man with a skinny tie."

--Volcano Suns, "Greasy Spine"