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• Seems like the wrath of the gods got a punch on the nose and it's starting to flow--I think I might be sinking.
  -- Jimmy Page and Robert Pla...
• Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine And then one day you find Staying home to watch the rain Ten years have got behind you You are young and life is long No one told you when to run And there is time to kill today You missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way Never seem to find the time The time is gone
  he song is over Plans that either come to nought Thought I'd something more to say....
• Take a straw and throw it up into the air,--you may see by that which way the wind is.
  -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Libel...
• The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people
  I was saved, they were damned ... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance--self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come judgement day....
• Etch: Think of what a guy could get himself with that kind of scratch!
  Skinner: Yeah, I could buy chicken dinners three times a day!...
• I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky
  And all I ask is a tall ship and a, star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face and a gray dawn breaking....
• Some people sail to live. Some people live to sail. Me? I just sail.
• Chester: [as Kent Brockman walks in front of his gold house] Shoeshine, sir?
  Comb your hair for ya? Sir? [Kents walks away in contempt] Sir?...
• He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.