Single Sentence Artistry

[Ted Striker]

Without looking it up, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? so Douglas Adams?

[schindlerpiste]

“No man is an island; he’s a peninsula.” Jefferson Airplane, After Bathing At Baxter’s

[schindlerpiste]

“Watch out where the Huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow.” Frank Zappa

[Mr. Multiglisse]

Two that are somewhat related:

“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”

― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

[Timberridge]

vouchsafed

I feel this word is not used enough today. My New Years resolution will be to promote the use of "vouchsafed" and other vintage vocabulary words here in the PR.

[BmillsSkier]

"You Steve?"

- D. Rutecki

[SB]

Hey Joe, you got greenbacks?

Street walker in Napoli

[Mr. Multiglisse]

I feel this word is not used enough today. My New Years resolution will be to promote the use of "vouchsafed" and other vintage vocabulary words here in the PR.

Hear, hear, my good man.

[splat]

Hear, hear, my good man.

Love that Durrance avatar....

[Art Shirk]

“Don't Panic.”
If you don't know who said it, look it up.

- Ted Kennedy
Chappaquiddick, 1969

[DeepHelmet]

"If you have diarrhea of the mouth, don't be surprised when people aren't willing to pick through the shit to get to the good stuff"

[Mofro261]

"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me." -R.A.T.M.

[PNWbrit]

Without looking it up, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? so Douglas Adams?

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

[Toadman]

Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

J.D. Salinger

[Marshall Tucker]

Change for a nickel? I mean for Christ’s sake also “no left turn unstoned”

[Buke]

“No language has ever had a word for a virgin man.”

“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

“There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.”

― Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

[Mr. Multiglisse]

Love that Durrance avatar....

Thanks, I try to channel it on every ski day.

It occured that I had a good one sentence in my signature:

"Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators." – Edward Abbey

[stuckathuntermtn]

"Mostly Harmless"

[schindlerpiste]

He’s only mostly dead

[BmillsSkier]

- Ted Kennedy
Chappaquiddick, 1969

You owe me one large swig of bourbon.

[Ted Striker]

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

That's pretty good.

I've got to reread that book.

[BC.]

“This Tanqueray be talkin’ to a nigga’...I gotz to piss.....”

-Snoop

[garyfromterrace]

“This Tanqueray be talkin’ to a nigga’...I gotz to piss.....”

-Snoop

Wow, he um.. really belted that one out of the park..

[BmillsSkier]

Wow, he um.. really belted that one out of the park..

If you enjoyed this, try reading some of Too $hort’s catalogue. Fascinating literature.

[El Chupacabra]

"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"