"The years go on and on--nothing's won or lost--what you've learned you've soon forgotten."

-Jim Vallance & Bryan Adams, 1984

"Roll along, Columbia, you can ramble to the sea,
But river, while you're rambling, you can do some work for me."

-Woody Guthrie

"We seal our fate with the choices we make."

-Gloria Estefan, 1991

"The difference between [R&D] and [Robust Engineering] is that [R&D] ignores the [laws of physics] and [truth]."

-J. Levine

"Never carry more than you can eat."

-Hillman/Parsons, 1970

"I'm on a trip to nowhere, and she gonna pay the fare."

-Stephen Stills, 1969

"If you're expecting me to wave a dead chicken over the keyboard, I feel obligated to inform you that I left mine at home."

-IT specialist, 3 June 2014

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

-George Will

"It's not that I'm questioning you, to take part in any quiz; it's just that I ain't got a watch and you keep asking me what time it is."

-Bob Dylan, 1965

"When you think you're done learning, that might be the only time you're right."

-B. K. Brottlund, 15 May 2014

"The flame rises but it soon descends--empty pages and a frozen pen--you're not quite lovers and you're not quite friends--after the thrill is gone."

-D. Henley & G. Frey, 1975

"If I can't have it all, just a taste will do."

-Don Felder, 1975

"God bless you, you bald-headed fart."

-Tommy Chong, 1972

"F#$% you, Shakespeare."

-Pete Rose, to pitcher/author Jim Bouton, 1970

"Never pass up a good opportunity to shut the hell up."

-Dr. Phil

"Same dances in the same old shoes, you get too careful ‘bout steps you choose; You don't care about winning but you just can't lose, after the thrill is gone."

-D. Henley & G. Frey, 1975

"Time passes and you must move on, half the distance takes you twice as long; So you keep on singing for the sake of the song, after the thrill is gone."

-D. Henley & G. Frey, 1975

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you."

-Joseph Heller, 1961

"I used to drink to get my spark--and it used to work just fine."

-Shawn Colvin, 1997

"Nothing lives that cannot die."

-Roger McGuinn, 1974

"Letting the liars know that you know they're lying--that's gotten me fired twice."

-Rush Limbaugh, 20 February 2014

"Polysemy undermines comprehension and is always a problem when precision of meaning is important, but it is even more problematic in highly-restricted and specialized domains such as time measurement."

-International Organization for Standardization, 2013

"Exasperation is not justification for failing to attempt to solve a problem."

-Rob Seaman, NOAO Science Data Management, 5 January 2014

"Who wants to buy what's broken?"

-James Raymond, 201

"Life's illusions are misleading, it's so good to be here breathing."

-Dave Mason, 1973

"The 'high road' is an elitist attitude."

-Steven T., 25 January 2014

"Jazz is really an accident on purpose."

-David Crosby, 15 January 2014

"Custer was a madman--he died like a hero--may all such heroes finally come undone."

-Redbone, 1989

"Time starts ticking when a love starts to fade."

-Stephen Bishop, 1991

"Great leaders wash their hands.....on the blood of subordinates."

-Graffiti, bathroom wall, 2013

"There was something on my mind I had to say, but in all the confusion it just slipped away."

-Pat Vegas, 1977

"I guess every form of refuge has its price."

-Glenn Frey & Don Henley, 1975

"You'd be amazed at the number of people who have taken economics courses who think that.....the boss is a cheap skinflint and wants his employees to starve and wants to screw his customers."

-Rush Limbaugh, 29 August 2013

"Paranoia is the voyeur, when you're feeling things go bad."

-Dave Mason, 1973

"Is this guy just a f#$%ing asshole or what?"

-Chelsea Handler, on Kanye West, 20 November 2013

"F$ck off--you're a bunch of rude, vile pigs."

-Elton John, to Taiwan reporters, 23 September 2004

"How can you keep your doctor.....if your doctor is not keeping you?"

-Rush Limbaugh, 11 November 2013

"Baby please--you've got me scraping my knees."

-Dave Mason, 1973

"Loneliness is darkness' first companion."

-Jay Ramsey, 1971

"F#$% they put his picture up there and the f#$%ers boo him.....F#$%ers....."

-Vikings coach Jerry Burns, 1989

"The moon's a harsh mistress."

-Jimmy Webb, 1974

"Who's to say the way a man should spend his day?"

-John Mellencamp, 1987

"You squirrel-headed dingbat!"

-Glen Campbell, in Norwood, 1970

"Eat my shorts, pal!"

-David Crosby, to disillusioned fan, 15 June 2001

"Faith has been broken, tears must be cried--let's do some living after we die."

-Jagger/Richards, 1970

"Try playing right!"

-David Crosby, to Byrds drummer Michael Clarke, 1967

"You haven't had too much coffee unless you're trying to thread a sewing machine while it's running."

-Restaurant hostess, 6 September 2013

"I ain't the asshole everybody wants to make me out as."

-Stephen Stills, 1975

"Whoa, when that kind of stuff is on stage and you're in front of people, you've got problems."

-Joe Walsh, on 1980 Frey/Felder on-stage fight, 2013

"Money doesn't talk--it swears."

-Bob Dylan, 1965

"My time went so quickly--I went lickity splitly."

-Tom Waits, 1973

"Thinking young and growing older is no sin."

-Goffin/King, 1967

"What do you think the left will do with that when they hear it might have been Zimmerman's civil rights that got violated?"

-Rush Limbaugh, 16 July 2013

"If you need me, you don't have to bleed me."

-Stephen Stills, 1966

"I tell you, the media can barely keep its pants up. All right, the jury instructions are next in the Zimmerman trial. They just can't wait.  Although I don't think the media wants a verdict today, 'cause it will get lost over the weekend, maybe the Sunday shows. They'd rather have the verdict on Monday so they can use the whole week to trash the country. Yeah, plus the riots are scheduled for Monday. They probably don't have the rioters ready to go today.  But they can't help themselves."

-Rush Limbaugh, 12 July 2013

"There ain't no easy answers--there's only shades of grey, but when it's love or it's survival I guess you've gotta get away."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1987

"Love don't play no favorites, there's no one that's immune--'cause she changes her demeanor like the phases of the moon."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1987

"I can taste the truth every time we kiss, and I can't go on--at least not like this."

-Christopher Cross, 1992

"I looked right at the facts there, but I might as well have been completed blind."

-Bernie Leadon & Gene Clark, 1968

"You can't get what you want 'til you know what you want."

-Joe Jackson, 1984

"I could be wrong, but I'm not."

-Don Henley, 1977

"[Take care of your neighbor] would be my advice, because nothing ever goes as planned."

-Graham Nash, 2002

"Three more songs and I'm gonna kill you."

-Glenn Frey, to Don Felder, on stage, Long Beach, CA, 31 July 1980

"Sorry you happen to represent the only a$$hole in the band, but you either sign this agreement by the time the sun goes down today or we are replacing Don."

-Glenn Frey, on Don Felder's membership in the Eagles

"When grown men argue anonymously about Mike Love, the terrorists win."

-Anonymous blogger, 27 September 2012

"Buncha f#$%ing Nintendo-playing pencil necks sucking off the government tit, is what it is."

-Air Force Colonel, on satellite C2 tactics, 1991 

"Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what Rock & Roll is becoming. It's your parents music."

-Neil Young

"Sunrise, sunset, passin' on by; Ain't gonna slow down 'til the day I die."

-Rusty Young, 2013

"Kick the pedal down all the way, ain't waitin' on someday, here I go."

-Jack Sundrud, 2013

"Every crash of thunder fades into a sigh, and every drop of rain that falls gets a chance to fly."

-Rusty Young, 2013

"Sometimes it hurts to see you fall, and sometimes it doesn't hurt at all."

-Rusty Young, 2013

"Time and time and time again, the song remembers when--why did you and I let those days go by?"

-Rusty Young, 2013

"So here we are--so near so far, no illusions--only scars.  Now you can do what you always do--and write your own version of the truth."

-Rusty Young, 2013

"What will you say, when it all fades away, and what you wanted is what you get--will you say that it's fate, and there's no escape--will you tell me there's no regret?"

-Rusty Young, 2013

"With time you can always buy tomorrow for today."

-Pat Vegas, 1973

"Hey Kenny, you gotta know when to hold 'em.....hey Kenny, you gotta know when to fold 'em."

-Rupert Jee, to Kenny Rogers lookalike, 1993

"As soon as we'd get off the stage we'd jump in the powder."

-Glen Campbell, on Tanya Tucker, 1994

"You've gotta be one of the dumbest looking apes I ever saw.  Of course you big muscle-bound guys are always compensating for feelings of inadequacy.....you know.....queer."

-Jim Rockford, 27 March 1974

"No one hears my serenade.....what the hell happened to me.....sonofabitch."

-Bing Crosby, 8 July 1938

"We were either having sex or fighting much of the time. We even fought during sex once or twice."

-Glen Campbell, on Tanya Tucker, 1994

"Security is not here to protect me, it's here to protect you."

-Steve Wilkos

"Go F#$% yourself!"

-Speaker John Boehner, 2 January 2013

"Get in my way again, and you're going to need a flashlight and forceps to find your badges!"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1986

"Help! Oh Jesus Christ I blew the time and I'm a dirty sonofabitch....."

-Bing Crosby, 30 June 1939

"I certainly hope that General Welsh's next stop will be the Air Force Museum to remove that highly offensive aircraft named the Strawberry Bitch. It would probably be OK to just rewrite our history and maybe rename the aircraft. Integrity First."

-Reader, af.mil article, 7 December 2012

"When I’m on the stage I’m not in control of myself. I don’t even know who I am. I am not this rational person who can sit here and talk to you."

-Pete Townshend, 1978

"Just another way to say 'hello': never say 'goodbye'."

-Dave Mason, 1987

"You've got to change with the times before they're gone."

-Pat Vegas, 1977

"G*&&ammit! I'm tired of being f#$%ing Santa Claus!"

-Red Foreman, 19 July 1999

"It's just very difficult to beat Santa Claus.....In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?"

-Rush Limbaugh, 7 November 2012

"One world, one planet, one earth, one people."

-Pat & Lolly Vegas, 1989

"F#$% you, Mike Love!"

-Hogpig

"There's a long red limo rolling down the street, for the rock & roll people who can't find their feet."

-Lolly & Pat Vegas, 1989

"We had the wrong gear, the wrong springs, the wrong shocks, wrong car. We had the right beer, but other than that, we got stomped."

-Sterling Marlin, 22 September 2002

"I had terrible communication skills, Waddell's was worse."

-Bobby Allison, 1982

"Sometimes it's hard to catch the wind and bend it to your will."

-James Raymond, 2004

"The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?"

-David Crosby, 2004

"A fine line resides between 'leaning forward' and 'bending over'."

-Steven T., 2012

"There are two mistakes people can make on the road of truth:  Not going all the way, and not starting."

-Buddha

"With this love and his caring, he puts his life into beauty sharing, and his children are his flowers, and they give me peace in quiet hours."

-Stephen Stills, 1972

"Through our compromise, paradise is just another place upon the wall."

-Brian Wilson & Joe Thomas, 2012

"I fact to the west, and speak to the sun, and say 'thank you' quite softly, again."

-David Crosby, 2001

"He said 'go talk to my supervisor' which is functionally equivalent to saying 'go engage in an unnatural sexual act with yourself'."

-Co-worker, 8 August 2012

"Summer's gone--I'm gonna sit and watch the waves--we laugh, we cry, we live, then die, and dream about our yesterday."

-Brian Wilson, 2012

"She works hard for the money, so you better treat her right."

-Donna Summer, 1983

"Ain't no livin' in a perfect world, but we keep on dreamin' of livin' in a perfect world."

-Huey Lewis & The News, 1988

"I think one grain of sand upon the beach, could be the one that lifts you high enough to reach all around the world."

-D. Crosby, S. Stills, G. Nash, & J. Vitale, 1990

"I think one drop of water in the ocean, could be the one that sets a wave in motion that roams around the world."

-D. Crosby, S. Stills, G. Nash, & J. Vitale, 1990

"Correlation does not necessarily mean causation."

-C. Harris, 2012

"It's a strange world after all."

-Brian Wilson, 2012

"The product of the right set of eyes has fallen on the wrong set of deaf ears."

-Anonymous, 13 June 2012

"I promise you, the President has a big stick."

-Vice President Joe Biden, 26 April 2012

"Oh girl that dress is so scandalous, And you know another nigga couldn't handle it."

-Will Ferrell, as Rob Goulet, 'Thong Song' on SNL, 2000

"God can you help me--help me deal with this pain--can you stop all this killing in your name?"

-Graham Nash, 2006

"Down thru the ages we've all come to love wise men leading the way. So read all the pages in the books from above but don't get lead astray."

-Graham Nash, 2006

"Vision will stand as blindness will fall."

-Crosby Stills & Nash, 1983

"All I want is my dream life, to be my real life--how could that be wrong?"

-Colbie Caillat, 2011

"I'm not going to take any sleaze questions."

-President George H. W. Bush, 12 August 1992

"Ask first.....respect the answer."

-SARC Presentation, 2012

"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured.... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."

-Multiple individuals, 2012

"When there's no one left to leave you, even you don't quite believe you--that's when nothing can deceive you."

-Steve Winwood, 1981

"It's bullshit!"

-Former Senator Rick Santorum, 26 March 2012

"This next song shows what a truly sensitive son of a bitch I really am."

-Dave Mason, on "We Just Disagree", 1999

"Reality hits you hard, bro!"

-George Lindell, September 2011

"You live for love, but love never lives up to what you want it to be."

-Classics IV, 1970

"What does it say about the college coed Susan Fluke, who goes before a Congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex--what does that make her?  It makes her a slut, right?"

-Rush Limbaugh, 29 February 2012

"Politics is a team sport."

-Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, 22 February 2012

"We'd ask you to stay for dinner, but nobody wants you around."

-James Rockford, to FBI, 1977

"To say this album stinks would be an insult to bad smells everywhere."

-Amazon.com submitted review of CCR LP Mardi Gras, 2011

"Dear Stephen, Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way.  Eat a peach, Neil."

-Neil Young, telegram ending tour, 19 July 1976

"You can take a junk car, and run good here--there's nothing to it."

-Sterling Marlin, after Talladega race, 21 October 2001

"A 19-year-old Marine has a very hard time reconciling the fact that it's okay to waterboard a live Taliban fighter but not OK to urinate on a dead one."

-Washington Post, 13 January 2012

"I guess we'll do what we've done again in Daytona, and wreck 'em all again."

-Sterling Marlin, after Talladega race, 21 October 2001

"Bob, I want to give you one of these golf balls with my signature, and the Vice President wants to give you one of his balls, too."

-President Nixon, to Bob Hope, 1969

"Many have come and gone, few have stayed, many have taken much that wasn't theirs to claim."

-RB Stone, 1968

"P + R = 2P, where P is the problem and R is the reform to solve the problem."

-Rush Limbaugh, 2011

"What is called poor today would have been considered upper-middle class just a generation, two generations ago. The truth is, wealth does trickle down."

-Rush Limbaugh, 2011

"We were all wounded at Wounded Knee, in the name of manifest destiny."

-Redbone, 1972

"No matter what you stand to gain, you stand to lose much more, when your eyes are blind or hidden behind a locked and bolted door."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"Go get a job, right after you take a bath."

-Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 21 November 2011

"Liberals attempt, through judicial activism, what they cannot win at the ballot box."

-Rush Limbaugh

"When you leave this place, no need to hide your face 'cause we're gonna get a second chance--'cause I believe when we drift away we're gonna find another place to dance."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"Sooner or later you'll find--we all gotta go sometime."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"Some of us will have to lose and some will have to win; but to know just where to go you must know where you've been."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"If you want to fly like a bird on the wind, you've got to give it everything."

-Dave Mason, 1978

"Words are like weapons--when you use them you regret them."

-Colbie Caillat, 2011

"I'm a springtime boy and I look for the joy of a world in bloom--and could it come ever too soon?"

-Paul Cotton, 1974

"If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home.....Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass."

-Dale Earnhardt, 2000

"Give me the strength to change what I can, the courage to accept what I cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference."

-Traditional

"Only girls pull hair."

-NASCAR driver Steve Wallace, 20 August 2011

"He goes, 'Oh yeah, I'm firing you from the show,' and I said 'Oh, that's not good,' and then I said, 'Why's that now?' and he goes, 'You're not funny,' and then I said, 'Holy Lord, that's even worse news.'"

-Norm MacDonald, on conversation with NBC Executive Don Ohlmeyer, 7 January 1998

"You want pants, you've got it--let me see if you want my pants to come off."

-Jerry Lewis, upon seeing $18 Million, 1 September 1975

"Get the hell off the beach!"

-Governor Chris Christie, 26 August 2011

"I'm more upset with Greg Biffle. He's the most unprofessional little scaredy cat I've ever seen in my life. He won't even fight me like a man. If someone texts me his address, I'll go see him Wednesday at his house and show him what he really needs. He needs a friggin' whooping, and I'm going to give it to him. He was flipping me off, giving me the finger, totally unprofessional. Two laps down, I mean, he's a chump. I went over there to go talk to him, and he wouldn't even let me get out of the car. Throws a few little baby punches and then he runs away and hides behind some big guys. But he won't hide from me for long. I'll find him. I won't settle it out on the track – it's not right to wreck cars – but he'll show up with a black eye one of these days. I'll see him somewhere."

-Boris Said, 14 August 2011

"If sometimes it seems I'm falling behind, remember I'm running on rock n' roll time."

-Kris Kristofferson, 1974

"There's an angel on your shoulder, and a devil at your feet. And the door you see before you could be poison tasting sweet."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1974

"Permit Nature to take her own way, she understands her own affairs better than we do. "

-Michel de Montalgne

"Man must go back to nature for information. "

-Thomas Payne

"I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. I'm getting closer to my home. "

-Mark Farner, 1970

"In a sea of motion, water edged with foam, clinging to the things I used to know, swallowed by an ocean, sinking like a stone, I'm drowning in the undertow."

-Rick Roberts, 1980

"I know women and I know what they're after--so I try to keep a little around."

-Larry Burnett, 1980

"We are visions of the future; we are shadows of the past."

-Rick Roberts, 1980

"Peace in the valley, peace in the sea, peace to all the little children and me, and peace on you."

-Charlie Rich, 1973

"Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom."

-Rush Limbaugh

"I don't think we have any right whatsoever to wipe out any of the species off of this planet--that's not why we were put here--we were put here as caretakers and I think that's a very sacred responsibility."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1993

"In the wild places man is an unwelcome guest, but it's here that I'm found and here I feel blessed."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1990

"The future is purchased by the present."

-Samuel Johnson

"Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine."

-Anonymous

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

-John Muir

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."

-Greek proverb

"Nowhere is there warmth to be found, among those afraid of losing their ground."

-The Byrds, 1966

"If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it."

-President Lyndon B. Johnson

"When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities are past, I want they bury me upside down and my critics can kiss my @$$!"

-Bobby Knight

"This Stewart guy, I'll tell ya, I don't know what's going on there. He's coming out of the back straightaway with his finger out the window and just giving me the bird all the way down the straightaway, after he run me through the fence, so, ah, I'd like to take that finger and jam it right up his rear end, I'll tell ya that, cause he's messing with the wrong guy with that mouth right now."

-Rusty Wallace, 2 May 2004

"Dumbass."

-Rusty Wallace, in reference to Kyle Busch, 12 June 2010

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

-Aristotle

"Don't let your alligator mouth overload your hummingbird ass."

-Dr. Phil

"Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."

-Bruce Springsteen, 1985

"I hate the guy, okay.  I would love to kill him with my own bare hands. This is the honest-to-god truth. But, there's laws against it."

-Beach Boys singer Mike Love, on Dr. Eugene Landy, 1991

"That's the way the fortune cookie crumbles!"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, from "Chinatown", 1983

"Merry Christmas, Punk!"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, from "Slay Ride", 1983

"I guess a bullet would be too quick--and you don't deserve to get off that easy."

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, from "A Child Is Missing", 1983

"Yeah, I know--you're probably all thinking to yourselves, 'Ten amperes?!?'."

-Physicist, Department of Commerce, 26 January 2011

"Time wounds all heels."

-John Lennon, 1975

"We shall require a substantial new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

-Albert Einstein

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them."

-John Ruskin

"My biggest beef is that this is part of what's happened in this country.  I think we've become wussies. "We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. "If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down."

-Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, 27 December 2010

"That gal reminds me of Paul Revere's ride--a little light in the belfry."

-Foghorn Leghorn, 1953

"All love affairs are like disposable tissues--it's never a good idea to use them more than once."

-Karen Stiles, 1976

"It's no secret what everybody knows."

-Neil Young, 1976

"It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Years Day."

-Lt. Frank Drebin, 1989

"If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"

-Clark Griswold, 1989

"Have breakfast with me mama, I hope they'll let us in--I've got a leather jacket on, you know that it's a sin--Gunga Din."

-The Byrds, 1969

"I have no preconceived ideas of how things have to be--I just take life as it comes and hope that it takes me."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"I'm stupid--I've been stupid since the day I was born--yeah, baby I'm a dumbass--I'm stupid, right on."

-Tom Petty, 1989

"I'm not the asshole, I'm just his brother."

-Michael Waltrip, 19 June 1988

"If you live with lies each day, eventually you'll fade away."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"I think Cheech & Chong are a pain in the ass."

-Micheal Landon

Would you like to sail away? Relation ships leave every day."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"Kazakhstan greatest country in the world, All other countries are run by little girls."

-Borat, 2006

"How am I supposed to know what that song means? It was written by Bob Dylan!"

-Roger McGuinn, to Ralph Emery, 1968

"If you define n*gger as someone whose lifestyle is defined by others, whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in society is defined by others, then good news! – you don’t have to be black to be a n*gger in this society. Most of the people in America are n*ggers."

-Ron Dellums

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then you win."

-Gandhi

"There's only one way to rock."

-Sammy Hagar, 1981

"I have relatives. I have people within my family. I know people that within their family that are not really well off. And they skimp and scrape to send these people $10 bucks, $20 bucks, whatever they can afford. And the idea of it is so that they can be guaranteed, that because they've had a miserable life on the planet Earth, and been such beaten down and had such heartbreaks and bad luck. That these guys go out and they tell these people, 'Send me your money, and I'll make sure you're okay in Heaven.' And I think that's about the lowest thing that anyone can do to anyone. I think that these people should send their money, 'cause these guys are multi-multi-hundreds of millions of dollars that they have, and they should send these people that need the money the money and not ask them to send it to them. If they want to do something for God, they should send money to these people, and they should open up their big giant mansions and their churches to the homeless and feed them daily."

-Sammy Hagar, 1994

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

-Unconfirmed

"It's the wrong thing to do, but I don't care."

-Mudcrutch, 2008

"At this time, there is no crude emanating from that wellhead at the ocean surface, er, at the ocean floor...There is not oil emanating from the riser either."

-USCG Rear Admiral Mary Landry, 23 April 2010

"In rushing to own everything that's in sight, nothing is left--no, not even your life."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"If dreams are the schemes on which futures are made, dream on sweet dreamer 'til you reach your grave."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"Life's an illusion when you don't believe."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"Wealth isn't counted in gold--only in heart and soul."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"You can't take it when you go."

-Dave Mason, 1974

"And during his visit to Silicon Valley this week, he visited the headquarters of Twitters....."

-President Barack Obama, 24 June 2010

"If that woman don't stop talkin' so much, she'll get her tongue sunburned!"

-Foghorn Leghorn, circa 1956

"We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

-President Barack Obama, 7 June 2010

"Why should the obvious ever require depiction as such?"

-Steven T., 4 June 2010

"Castles may tumble--that's fate after all--life's really funny that way."

-Bing Crosby, circa 1939

"Holy Christ I'm going off my nut!"

-Bing Crosby, circa 1939

"Looks like we got hit by the bald-headed cue ball."

-Chad Little, on Todd Bodine, 1994

"That dawg is busier than a centipede at a toe-counting contest."

-Foghorn Leghorn

"Everything is broken."

-Bob Dylan, 1989

"He's a jackass."

-President Barack Obama, on Kayne West, 15 September 2009

"Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine--we'll understand it all by and by."

-J. R. Baxter & W. B. Stevens, 1937

"Open your eyes and see who I am, and not who you want for me to be--I am only myself--myself."

-Gloria Estefan, 1989

"I wrote her number down, but I lost it so I searched through my pocketbook--I couldn't find it so I sat and concentrated on the number and slowly it came to me, so I dialed it and I let it ring a few times--there was no answer so I let it ring a few more--still not answer so I hung up the telephone, got some paper and sharpened up a pencil and wrote a letter to my friend."

-Brian Wilson, 1968

"This is a big f#$%ing deal."

-Vice President Joe Biden, 23 March 2010

"Don't you know that you are a shooting star?"

-Bad Company, 1975

"Dale Earnhardt has got more damn nerve than a sore tooth."

-Buddy Baker, 1980

"I went back to my mother--I said, 'I'm crazy ma, help me.' She said, 'I know how it feels son 'Cause it runs in the family.'."

-The Who, 1973

"When you choose the behavior, you choose the consequences."

-Dr. Phil

"It's hard times for an honest man."

-John Mellencamp, 1987

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

-Albert Einstein

"I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple."

-Secretary of the Interior James Watt, 1983

"My guard stood hard when abstract threats too noble to neglect deceived me into thinking I had something to protect."

-Bob Dylan, 1964

"If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything."

-Alexander Hamilton

"We teach people how to treat us."

-Dr. Phil

"Get off my stage!"

-Steve Wilkos

"Gather all that we can.  Keep in harmony with love's sweet plan."

-Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, 1967

"Change is now."

-Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, 1967

"There are two kinds of people in the world--those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."

-Robert Benchley, 1955

"It's so hard to find one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind."

-Red Hayes & Jack Rhodes, 1955

"All we're trying to do is win a mother f#$%in' game!"

-Broncos coach Josh McDaniels, 19 November 2009

"You can't hurry natural harmony."

-The Byrds, 1967

"Hello Cleveland!"

-Spinal Tap, backstage, 1982

"Hello Ohio!"

-Bruce Springsteen, 13 November 2009, Auburn Hills, MI

"Duh!"

-Kyle Busch, 30 May 2009

"Life can't be cured, it can only be managed."

-Dr. Phil

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you, if you realized how seldom they do."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"I know most of you either don't believe it's true, or else you don't know what to do, or maybe I'm singing about you--who knows."

-Stephen Stills, 1971

"A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul, and make you feel good."

-Colbie Caillat, 2007

"Illumination can be painfully bright. Some people love him for it; others say he ain't got no right."

-Stephen Stills, 1972

Nobody knows what kind of trouble we're in; nobody seems to think it all might happen again."

-Gram Parsons, 1968

"Everybody's so wrong, that I know it's gonna work out fine."

-Gram Parsons, 1968

"If you ask me my opinion my opinion will be--it's a natural situation for a man to be free."

-Rascals, 1968

"They'll be shoutin' from the mountains on out to the sea--no two ways about it people got to be free."

-Rascals, 1968

"They only hit until you cry--after that, you don't ask why."

-Suzanne Vega, 1987

"Y-y-yeeeessss?"

-Frank Nelson

"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."

-Redd Foxx

"Obama's got a healthcare logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook."

-Rush Limbaugh, 2009

"I love planes, jet aircraft."

-Jefferson Airplane, 1989

"No more heartaches, no more broken dreams, no more tears, no more promises."

-KBC Band, 1986