Overheard

"It's the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs."

"Wheeeeeeeee!"

"Casual sex? What are you talking about? This is my best suit!"

"Vancouver's like Honolulu surrounded by Honduras."

"How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?"

"...there is no way in the world that anyone could hypnotize or brainwash a thousand people at one time into committing suicide. ... Any pastor of any church will tell you it's hard to get even a few people in the church to diligently sweep the sidewalk or mow the lawn, let alone get them to agree to kill themselves."

"Make yourself at home. TV -- there's the On switch."

"An impetuous microphone grabber told the assembled, 'Billy and Gary have been together for 27 years -- now they're getting married. I'm not sure that if I had just been living with Arlene for 27 years, we'd be exchanging vows now.' "

"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness."

"Tucker's bills itself as 'Home of the Stuffed Deep-Fried Burger,' and features specialties including the Big Tuck: ground beef stuffed with pepper Jack and American cheeses and bacon, then topped with barbecue sauce and cheddar cheese."

"So, this sandwich walks into a bar. The bartender looks over and says 'I'm sorry, but we don't serve food." (Share your favorite short joke here)

"It's like 'The Swan' but better. We'd convert poor black women into old white guys. It's the ultimate reality TV makeover show."

"There is no packaging on websites."

"Margaritomancy is divination by pearls."

"nep is bound by the wto." "nep is not a replacement for prescribed drugs or therapy." "nep is."

"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."

"Fire-walkers get cold feet"

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

"A wise man cannot be insulted. If the insult has no meaning, he ignores it. If the insult does have meaning, he deserves it."

"I sat down in an armchair in Los Angeles when I was 23, and when I got up I was 61."

"Only you can decide what is important to you."

"[James Joyce's] Ulysses is a hardcover bounded knife in the face."

"The new industry standard is to give credit where credit is due, either by writing the attribution into the story or with credit lines at the end. It was Uli Schmetzer's misfortune to be an old-school journalist caught in the toils of this change."