“The Xoom tablet is trim, light, and very pretty … but when you place it next to the iPad 2, it looks as though it was designed and built by angry Soviet prison labor instead of by Motorola.” — Andy Ihnatko (via Daring Fireball)
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by.” — Douglas Adams
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — P. J. O’Rourke
“See when you make a move out of frustration or anger it always ends in catastrophe” — Bobby
“‘We only call ourselves the Red Squirrel Protection Partnership because if we called it the Grey Squirrel Annihilation League people might be a bit less sympathetic,’ Redesdale announces, chuckling. ‘But we do nothing with red squirrels apart from save them by killing grey squirrels!’” — They shoot squirrels, don’t they? The Guardian
“Rappers from South Central Los Angeles look good in really baggy jeans; office managers from Reading do not.” — A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO MEN’S JEANS
“Sweet honey comes from bees that sting” — Candide
“Liquorice is good for you in moderation”
— Sinead O’Hara,
Royal Homeopathic Hospital London
“The marathon is easy. There are no lions” — Maasai warriors running the London Marathon. The Guardian
“We will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.” — “Farewell to Penn Station” New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963
Disease, famine, natural disasters and many other problems can not be prevented. We can predict and protect, but we can never prevent.
War is entirely made by man and only man can stop it.
“Anybody who doesn’t love Toxic by Britney Spears is lying”
“#13 Arriving in the pub late and everyone cheers you. It doesn’t mean you’re popular, it just means your mates are pissed. However, the rest of the pub doesn’t know that.” — 25 Things that make you a man
“Think Big Bird being violated by a grizzly bear”