What Other People Said

Here is the second installment of the section of my blog that I've entitled What Other People Said. If you want an explanation of the name and why I gave it that, please click here.

I apologize for not getting the names of the people who said these quotes, except for the two at the end of this post.
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America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war. America is at the wall.
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The most expensive meal you'll ever eat is pussy.
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Your karma is leaking.
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Never take no for an answer. Never take yes for granted.
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Merde! Because shit always sounds better in French.
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You can't have both feet on the ground and kick ass at the same time.
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Up all night; got demons to fight.
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An oligarchy is easily overcome. The many lack a purpose or reason to fight for the few, and the few fear a purpose or reason with which to arm the many.
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Absence is to love as wind is to fire. It extinguishes the little flame and fans the big flame.
-- Umberto Eco
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When I see something on the net and think it's funny, I type LQTM. That stands for Laughed Quietly To Myself. It's a lot more honest than LOL.
--Demetri Martin.

What Other People Said

This post is the first of possibly many to come in a new category which I've labeled What Other People Said.

It's a lot like the Jottings label I have for some of my posts. For What Other People Said, I'll quote other people. In Jottings, many of the entries came from my mind.
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The old Sports Illustrated used to be literature. Now, it's a marketing tool.
--Norman Chad, syndicated sportswriter, written in December 1994.
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This would be a better world for the children if the parents would eat the spinach.
--Groucho Marx, in the movie Animal Crackers, during a parody of the Eugene O'Neill play Strange Interlude.
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Those hip musicians with their complicated shoes.
--George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander) in "The Burning," episode 16, season 9 of Seinfeld.
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A real estate novelist ...
--From the song Piano Man by Billy Joel -- and I've always wondered what the hell a real estate novelist is, anyway.
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It's not a great party unless some one dies or some one conceives.
--Overheard in an Indianapolis bookstore on April 16, 1994
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Remember: Not all wedding rings are symbols of bondage. Sometimes they're symbols of trust.
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Every book's title is Lost Illusions.
--Both from the book Points for a Compass Rose, by Evan Connell.
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Kid With
A Gun?
Call 911
--Unknown headline writer in the Oct. 27, 1993 edition of The Indianapolis News.
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I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
--Anais Nin.
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I don't get my opium from religion. I get it, like the rest of the world, from Afghanistan.
--Seen somewhere on the Internet.
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It appears that our (U.S.) society is sex crazed and optimistic, yet consumed by deep regret.
--Chuck Klosterman, page 96 of the November 2007 issue of Esquire magazine.