"I think we've got a bunch of thugs here, Dan."

-Walter Cronkite at the Democratic National Convention, 1968

"Wrap your troubles in dreams, and dream your troubles away."

-Bing Crosby, 1937

"What will they do?  What WILL they do?"

-Karl Malden, 1970s

He loves the world, except for all the people."

-Men At Work, 1983

"Everything that's ever been written is just the opinion of one man's mind."

-Jim Capaldi, 2003

Why waste sunshine by blowing it up the a$$ of a blind man?"

-B. K. Brottlund, 8 June 2009

"You should marry a girl from Texas, because no matter how tough things get, she's tougher."

-Dan Rather

"You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing — but you can't tell lies about me."

-Elton John, 1987

"It's a mistake."

-Men At Work, 1983

"We'll not fade out too soon--not in this finest hour, whistle your favorite tune--we'll send a card and flower."

-Men At Work, 1983

"I drive a Dodge Stratus!"

-Will Ferrell, 1997

"If we never meet again, if goodbyes remain unspoken, I won't glorify our past--but our bond remains unbroken."

-Jules Shear, 1988

"If she knew what she wants he'd be giving it to her."

-Jules Shear, 1985

"There you are, you red-headed hamburger!."

-Keith Partridge, to Danny Partridge, on The Partridge Family, 1970

"I'm a big rock star. My sales have tanked, but I still got you--thanks."

-Neil Young, 2009

"Don't look for rainbows in a fool's paradise."

-Rusty Young, 1980

"One thing the Blues ain't is funny."

-Stephen Stills, 1970

"A pearl starts as an irritating grain of sand."

-Traditional

"I'm a Springtime boy, and I look for the joy of a world in bloom--could it come never too soon?"

-Paul Cotton, 1974

"Don't bet the trailer money on it."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"The fat lady will certainly be humming."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"All my diamonds turned to dust--there's nowhere I can place my trust--someone knows the answer but I don't know who."

-Rick Roberts, 1972

"I've been here for so long, only barely holding on, to everything I thought was true."

-Rick Roberts, 1972

"No matter how you flatten a pancake, there's always two sides."

-Dr. Phil, 2009

"Shouldn't have took more than you gave."

-Dave Mason, 1970

"That'll happen when rocks grow and water runs up a hill."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"The things that made us blind to what we had in mind--who could've known?"

-Dave Mason, 2008

"You'll never know until it's gone--the love you had was the love you lost."

-Dave Mason, 2008

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

-M. L. King

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity."

-Charles Mingus, 20th Century

"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people to not listen."

-Tommy Smothers, 1968

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis on race."

-Chief Justice Roberts, 28 June 2007

"Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste."

-Roger McGuinn, 1991

"The Electoral College is as complicated as a wiring diagram at an electrical plant."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"Straight up. No ice. No chaser."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"The incumbent's fortunes begin to fall like Lehman Brothers' stock."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"Put water on the fire, call in the dogs, the hunt is over."

-Dan Rather, 4 November 2008

"A vote for me is a vote for me."

-Joe Walsh, 1992

"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman."

-Pete Townshend, 1989

"I'm not fighting accusations of obscenity; rather I'm fighting for my right to be obscene."

-Larry Flynt

"Seems to me the mayor [Anthony Williams] has been niggardly in his judgment on this issue."

-NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, 1999

"Hold on, Al, take a deep breath, inhale."

-Dan Quayle, 1992 Vice Presidential Debate

"Woman is the n*gger of the world."

-John Lennon, 1972

"When people see somebody different, fear is the first reaction shown."

-Stephen Stills, 1971

"I believe that you and I should love one and another. Satisfy, have peace of mind, love your neighbor as your brother."

-Richie Furay, 1970

"If the human body is obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me."

-Larry Flynt

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

-Jesse Jackson

"I accept your nomination for Vice President of the United States."

-Joe Biden, 2008.....Oh wait, I mean John Edwards, 2004

"The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullaby."

-John Denver, August 1972

"Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say. Say what you need to say."

-John Mayer, 2008

"I thought I knew a man who said he knew a man who knew what was going on--I was mistaken."

-David Crosby, 1971

"The ears are the windows to the soul."

-Neil Young, 23 July 2008

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

-Graham Nash, 2007

"Vision will stand, as blindness will fall."

-Graham Nash & Stephen Stills, 1983

"The next four years will be filled with pretty words, and pretty music, and a lot of goddamn nonsense!"

-David Brinkley, 1996

"In the end, on dreams we will depend, 'cause that's what love is made of."

-Van Halen, 1986

"Facts do not cease to exist because they're ignored."

-Aldous Huxley, 1927

"Farther along we'll know all about it, farther along we'll understand why."

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

"If gratitude were lard you couldn't grease a skillet between y'alls."

-Dr. Phil, 2008

"You can't change what you don't acknowledge."

-Dr. Phil, 2008

"You'll be alright when your laughter re-appears, and you learn to count your blessings, not your tears."

-Rick Roberts, 1978

"Here in New York city the weather is warm and cloudy, like an Amy Winehouse urine test."

-David Letterman, May 2008

"As soon as I told the division chief, he looked at me like a cow at a new gate."

-Co-worker, 8 May 2008

"You can't hide what you can't explain."

-Rusty Young, 1989

"I would like to have the opportunity to state at the microphone why I don't think we need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in Colorado."

-Colorado State Representative Doug Bruce, 21 April 2008

"You can lose your troubles in the bubbles of your wine--it only makes them easier to find."

-Rick Roberts, 1980

"I believe that love is liberty."

-Rick Roberts, 1980

"You look like the night manager of a creepy motel."

-Senator John McCain, to David Letterman, 2 April 2008

"Retaliation is a dish best served cold."

-Proverb, 18th Century

"A square is a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square."

-Seseme Street, circa 1970

"The best way to mock a corrupt establishment is to eagarly participate."

-Steven T., 11 March 2008

"Newborn eyes always cry with pain at the first look at the morning sun."

-Chris Rea, 1978

"Scars are souveniers you never lose."

-Goo Goo Dolls, 1995

"Give love and keep blood between brothers."

-Pete Townshend, 1985

"If you want to win you've got to learn how to play."

-Foreigner, 1979

"It all looks fine to the naked eye--but it don't really happen that way at all."

-The Who, 1972

"Straight talk."

-Senator John McCain, 2007

"He can't even run his own life--I'll be damned if he'll run mine."

-Jonathan Edwards, 1972

"People out there are turning music into gold."

-John Stewart, 1979

"Kevin Harvick is just a punk--he has to race like a chicken--he can't beat anybody heads up."

-Greg Biffle, July 2005

"Well there are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them or turn them into literature. I've had my share of success and failure at all three."

-Stephen Stills, 1971

"I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1981

"Love when you can, cry when you have to, be who you must--that's part of the plan."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1974

"It always rains like hell on the loser's day parade."

-Goo Goo Dolls, 1998

"My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating."

-Green Day, 2004

"My shadow's the only one that walks beside me."

-Green Day, 2004

"He [Dan Rather] makes Lesley Stahl look like a pussy."

-Vice President George H. W. Bush, 1988

"How would you like it if I judged your whole career by those seven minutes you walked off the set in New York?"

-Vice President George H. W. Bush, to Dan Rather, 1988

"F#$& you, you got it?"

-Dan Rather, to another reporter, 1980

"Just 'cause you got all the chips don't mean you're gonna win."

-Rick Roberts, 1972

"Damn! Damn! Damn!"

-Florida, from "Good Times", 1976

"GPS has an unlimited quantity and unlimited variety of anonymous, autonomous users."

-Steven T., 2006

"I don't know where, but she sends me there."

-The Beach Boys, 1966

"Don't want to spend my life living in a rock n' roll fantasy."

-The Kinks, 1978

"Sometimes bad is bad."

-Huey Lewis & The News, 1983

"Error on the side of safety is still error."

-Steven T., 19 September 2007

"Dogs have owners; cats have a staff."

-Unknown

"Click on the following link for more information about the dangers of accessing unknown websites."

-Workplace email, 2007

"Circle can't be broken till the last words spoken."

-Chris Hillman, 1975

"As email is not considered official, it should be ignored."

-Workplace email, June 2006

"I'm gonna kick his ass."

-Kevin Harvick, in reference to Juan Pablo Montoya

"Government doesn't solve problems--it subsidized them."

-President Ronald W. Reagan

"A love affair for one can never be."

-J. Rostill, 1974

"The Chevrolet has had more nose jobs than Michael Jackson."

-Sterling Marlin, 2003

"I got run over by the bug-eyed dummy."

-Sterling Marlin, 15 August 2004

"You've got to drift in the breeze before you set your sails."

-Paul Simon, 1972

"Money smells funny."

-K. A. Kern, 2002

"Time is tight for time to unwind."

-Steven T., 2002

"Jealousy is an endlessly, recklessly self-destructive addiction."

-Steven T., December 1999

"You'd think we'd be ever closer as we continue to lose our space."

-Steven T., November 1996

"As the system gains people, as the city maims land, in elbow's reach we continue to breach all respect for your fellow man."

-Steven T., November 1996

"We all live in an impersonal world."

-Steven T., November 1996

Everyone needs adventure, always on the run--some will look for many gardens, or grow all they can in one."

-Steven T., September 2006

"You could lose the battle and win the war, but you might not survive the ensuing holocaust."

-Steven T., May 2007

"The human species' apetite for control exceeds even its own apetite for survival."

-Steven T., May 2007

"N*gger should have a place in any serious dictionary. The word is simply too important to ignore."

-Randall Kennedy, 2002

"We're gonna leave sodbustin' behind--get these hard times right on out of our minds, riding Wildfire."

-Micheal Martin Murphey, 1975

"Jazz man, take my blues away, make my pain the same as yours with every breath you take."

-Carole King, 1974

"Dreams are for those who sleep."

-David Gates, 1970

"I can't think of anything to say."

-P. Watts, 1973

"Nothing lasts forever."

-James Taylor & J. D. Souther, 1981

"Trouble!"

-Mike Joy

"Don't tell me, 'I'm just a singer in a Rock 'n' Roll band.'."

-Moody Blues, 1973

"The price on infidelity is going through the roof."

-Jim Rockford, 1975

"C'Mon Chapman does these keep coming or are you really just a giant bag of gas in a three-piece suit?"

-Jim Rockford, 1979

  "And, next week, Tony Jones and the Spondells."

-Ed Sullivan, 1968

"There were wise men who loved this land who foresaw the Trail of Tears, 'cause they knew we were coming for a thousand years."

-Paul Cotton, 2000

"You won't find the path 'til you know it isn't there to see."

-Paul Cotton, 2000

"Let the wind blow--let its voice whisper all you need to know."

-Paul Cotton, 2000

"A Van Halen reuinion is a lot like NASCAR--are you there to see the winner or the crash?"

-David Lee Roth, 27 December 2006

"Put your faith in them that earn it--with your love you will discern it."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"It's a wounded world, full of love and lies."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"If you can find a better car, buy it!"

-Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca, 1982

"Our great republic is a government of laws and not of men."

-President Gerald R. Ford, 9 August 1974

"Women's fear of success has left many of them confused about their wants and needs. Consequently, stress-related burnout has driven many women from feminist aggression to female passivity, making them dependent upon their partners for vicarious fulfillment."

-Johnny, from Police Squad, 1982

"Please don't confront me with my failures--I'm aware of them."

-Jackson Browne, 1973

"I will have to be niggardly with this fund because it's not going to be a lot of money."

-D.C. Mayoral aide David Howard, 15 January 1999

"How is it that I can come out to here and be still floating, and never hit bottom and keep falling through, just relaxed and paying attention?"

-Roger McGuinn, 1966

"Something inside has died and I can't hide and I just can't fake it."

-Carole King, 1971

"[Senator John Kerry] was for the joke before he was against it."

-Vice President Dick Cheney, 1 Nov 2006

"HALP US JON CARRY WE R STUK HEAR N IRAK."

-Sign, 1 Nov 2006

"If you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

-Senator John Kerry, 31 Oct 2006

"We're logisticians of information."

-Secretary of the Air Force, 2006

"It's hard to lose a lover in the early part of Autumn."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1985

"What we really want--you know we rarely say."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1984

"There's two things I won't do for money--I won't marry for it and I won't kill for it. Other than that, I'm open to just about anything."

-James Rockford, 1974

"Stuff it!"

-James Rockford, 1975

"How dare you be the one to assess me in this godforsaken mess?"

-Pete Townshend, 2006

"Now the die is cast, nothing happens in the past."

-Richie Furay, 1969

"I like it straight because it lays better."

-Co-worker, in reference to her hair, 8 September 2006

"Baby forgive me but maybe I'm just getting older and insecure--Haven't we all been professional children so long that nothing is sure?"

-Stephen Stills, 1982

"Tomorrow is more than another day--it's the beginning of what you started yesterday."

-Stephen Stills & Graham Nash, 1982

"War is a continuation of politics by other means."

-Carl Von Clausewitz, circa 1830

  "Eat a peach for peace."

-Duane Allman, 1971

"It's hard to stay and fight for what we've got, knowing it'll never be good enough, 'cause you and I are dangerous--we want to much, and life ain't that way--don't ask for more, don't be a fool--haven't we already broken every rule?"

-Gloria Estefan, 1989

"When you take a chance on someone, you've gotta be ready to get hurt. That doesn't mean you should stop taking chances--If you stop, then you're really through."

-Jim Rockford, from "A Portrait Of Elizabeth", 1975

"What they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit."

-President George W. Bush, 17 July 2006

"Why not keep on singing, anyway?"

-Crosby Stills Nash & Young, 1988

"GPS cannot afford to prostitute itself as a welfare agency for defective user equipment."

-Steven T., 2006

"No no no no no no no no, no no no no no no no no, no no no no no no no no, no no no no no no no no, no no no no no no no no, no no no no no. Whoa whoa no. Whoa, whoa no. Whoa whoa no. Whoa whoa no no no no."

-Firefall, 1975

"Time's running out for the family of man."

-Paul Williams, 1971

"In the cities and towns there are millions who dream, but the traffic's so loud that you can't hear them scream."

-Dan Fogelberg, 1990

"Have a seat at the bar. What are you doing here?"

-Dateline NBC's Chris Hansen

"People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something? Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?"

-Bill Cosby, 17 May 2004

"I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk."

-Bill Cosby, 17 May 2004

"Every time I open the web page there's a new picture of some bandwagon jackass who is, more likely than not, protesting simply for a lack of anything better to do."

-H. L. Knierim, 1 May 2006

"Hey, stop swearing, you &*% %@#+^% *=^#!^$!!!"

-Resident, McMahon Hall Balcony, U of W, 1983

"'It’s an extremely technical process that involves Einsteintype theory stuff,' Daniels said at the time. 'It’s a bit difficult to explain to the casual observer.'"

-Gazette, 3 May 2006

"Something's happening in America."

-Paul Kantner, 1986

"I was just a dumb country boy."

-Glen Campbell, circa 2001

"It's the same old story, ever since the world began--everybody got the runs for glory, nobody stop to scrutinize the plan."

-Paul Simon, 1972

"Got any gum?"

-Joe Walsh, 1983

"Love comes and love goes while heartache hardly ever shows, until tears come and tears go, and they're the one's you'll never know."

-Rusty Young, 1978

"This old guitar has caught some breaks, but it never searched for gold; it can't be blamed for my mistakes--it only does what it's told."

-Neil Young, 2005

"Unaware how the ranks have grown, driven on by a heart of stone, we could find that we're all alone in the dream of the proud."

-Pink Floyd, 1987

"It's a sin that somehow light is changing to shadow and casting a shroud over all we have known."

-Pink Floyd, 1987

"I got out of my car and Cale proceeded to beat on my fist with his nose."

-Bobby Allison, 1979

"I ain't quiet--everybody else is too loud."

-John Entwistle, 1981

"Did He give me the gift of voice, so some could silence me?"

-Neil Young, 2005

"Got mashed potatos, got mashed potatos, got mashed potatos, ain't got no t-bone."

-Neil Young, 1981

"Far Out!"

-John Denver, 1974

"The house is haunted and the ride gets rough and you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love."

-Bruce Springsteen, 1987

"Sentimental tears will get you far as you might think they will."

-Bourgeois Tagg, 1987

"Misery loves company but she will never foot the bill."

-Bourgeois Tagg, 1987

"If you follow every dream, you might get lost."

-Neil Young, 2005

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

-President Abraham Lincoln, 1865

"You'll be all right, just watch out for your spirit"

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"You squirrel-headed bastard!"

-Glen Campbell, in True Grit, 1969

"We can't protect people from their own stupidity."

-Numerous

"Looking right, looking left, I would venture a guess--we're at the edge of it all, for sure."

-Paul Cotton, 1996

"There's no one as honest as those in pain."

-Tom Petty, 1981

"Time passes slow when you're lonely."

-.38 Special, 1984

"Everybody's got a song to sing--everyone's a star."

-Alan O'Day and John Stevenson, 1974

"There's a spot light waiting, no matter who you are."

-Alan O'Day and John Stevenson, 1974

"Looks like that driver pulled a 'Linda Ronstadt'--a 'Blew By You'."

-NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip, 2001

"You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel."

-NASCAR driver Darrell Waltrip, 2001

"All religions and ideologies suffer from the truth."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"The kindness of strangers means no disrespect--being honest with the help you give means there's nothing to expect."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"Like a ship at sea, your life goes where you steer it."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"Every single meeting with his so-called superior, is a humiliating kick in the crotch."

-Sting, 1983

"Don't judge nobody never out of anger."

-Stephen Stills, 2003

"Need a hand, scum?"

-Sergeant TJ Hooker, 1982

"Heavily weathered from all the years gone by, catching my breath through the mist in my eyes, as I'm entangled by the scene that never fails to ever lie to me."

-Paul Cotton, 1996

"End of a summer on an endless beach, where the coast is clear, I'm just trying to reach that old broken pier, still standing there, like me, a relic in the wind."

-Paul Cotton, 1996

"There in the distance, I hear her voice, and I lose my resistance--I have no choice, but to run like crazy to the ghost on the sand, reaching out to me with invisible hands."

-Paul Cotton, 1996

"I think I’m going to start patenting my own words in the future. For example....."the". The word "the" is going to be the word associated with my heritage from now on and I’m going to claim great offense and indignation anytime anyone uses it. How dare they insult my heritage by speaking."

-H. L. Knierim, 12 August 2005

"If there's a Rock and Roll Heaven, well you know they got a hell of a band."

-Alan O'Day & John Stevenson, 1974

"If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand."

-Alan O'Day & John Stevenson, 1974

Once seaching for quality--having to have the very best, now scrounging for quantity--never having time to do the test."

-Neil Young, 1989

"One man's noise is another man's unmodeled systematic."

-Steven T, 1998

"Everywhere you look there are families with too many vehicles. You see them on the highways in their RVs. But apparently the RVs aren't enough, because behind them they're towing motorboats, go-carts, dune buggies, dirt bikes, jet skis, snowmobiles, parasails, hang gliders, hot-air balloons, and small, two-man, deep-sea diving bells. The only thing these people lack is lunar excursion modules. Doesn't anybody take a walk anymore?"

-George Carlin, 2001

"Love is blind, and desires have no fear."

-Curtis Mayfield, 1961

"Anybody who can't speak good American English oughtta be de-exported the hell out of here."

-Archie Bunker, circa 1978

"Are we sailing on to the last sunset?"

-Paul Cotton, 1996

"John Kerry's moon has moved behind a cloud."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"I love my music--ain't never gonna change my tune."

-Loggins & Messina, 1974

"Blindness binds us in a false disguise."

-Loggins & Messina, 1973

John Kerry needs the equivalent of Tom Brady coming off the bench."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"Never underestimate the human capacity to think irrationally."

-Steven T., 2005

"If you try to read the tea leaves before the cup is done, you're going to get burned."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"I've seen ships that sail each and every day--when they start up their engines they steal my heart away."

-Paul Cotton, 1978

"Kerry needs something on the order of a 55 or 60 yard field goal."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This race is tighter than the rusted lug nuts on a '55 Ford."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This Presidential race is hotter than a Laredo parking lot."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"If you believe that you'll believe that rocks can grow."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"Let's hit this biscuit with a dab of gravy."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This race is hotter than a devil's anvil."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"President Bush is sweeping through the South like a big wheel in a cotton field."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This race is hot enough to peel the paint off of houses."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This race would give aspirin a headache."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"Don't taunt the alligator until you cross the creek."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

  "Can placebos have side effects? If so, are the side effects real?"

-George Carlin, 2001

"If I want to put tits on my back, that's nobody's business but my own."

-Cher, 2004

"I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights."

-George Carlin, 2001

"Sex sells everything, and sex kills."

-Joni Mitchell, 1994

  "If there are really multiple universes, what to they call the thing they're all part of?"

-George Carlin, 2001

"If the reason for climbing Mount Everest is that's it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?"

-George Carlin, 2001

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."

-George Carlin, 2001

"Most people don't know what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it."

-George Carlin, 2001

"In satellite operations, workarounds are like reacharounds--people knuckle down in circles, and everybody feels really ashamed afterwards."

-Steven T., 2004

"Don't sell your hammer just to buy more nails, or else you'll get screwed."

-Brottlund/Sedgwick, 2004

"The vote margin is as thin as November ice."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"Make no mistake about it--Kerry's back's against the wall, shirt tail's on fire, bill collectors are at the door."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"This race is as hot as a Times Square Rolex."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"I drove it like a drunk goin' for more liquor."

-NASCAR driver Sterling Marlin, 2004

"There's an old saying--never gamble with a stranger, and never bet against a Republican in Kansas."

-Dan Rather, 2 November 2004

"I'm a rock in a landslide, rolling over the mountain side. How deep is the valley?"

-Brian Wilson, 1971

"It's easier to give a sigh and be like all the rest, who stand around and crucify you while you do your best."

-George Harrison, 1976

"Need some wood?"

-President George W. Bush, 8 Oct 2004

  "Peace, remember peace is how we make it--here within your reach if you're big enough to take it."

-Ringo Starr, 1971

"Roll, roll, roll, roll Thrill my soul You gotta beep a gunk a chucha Honk konk konk You gotta each you puna Each ya bop a luba Each yall bump a kechonk Ease sum konk Ya, right."

-Jim Morrison, 1970

"I'm a leaf on a windy day--pretty soon I'll be blown away."

-Brian Wilson, 1971

"Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious."

-Boxing analyst, 2004

"This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing."

-Weightlifting commentator, 2004

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon, 1980

"Rock n' Roll is an attitude, not an age."

-Dave Mason, 2001

"We're all scared to death. I guess that's the penalty we pay for living in a world where all the price tags end in 99 cents, and we sell mortuary plots on billboards next to the freeway. What you do is, you just keep laughing."

-Jim Rockford, 1974

"Acceptance of error with grace, is to refuse to be vain and so afraid of losing face--this fear drives one further into what one thinks to be a race of life or death or simply take another breath of nature's air, now. Which is fair, now? Which is to be alive? We move around."

-Stephen Stills, 1972

"I do my best, and that's the best that I can do."

-Joe Walsh, 1992

  "Shove it!"

-Teresa Heinz Kerry, 25 July 2004