Archive for the 'quotables' Category

missing you

October 16, 2009

“me without you is like / a sneaker without laces / a geek without braces / asentenceswithoutspaces”

Kurt Vonnegut

August 22, 2009

…you are what you pretend to be.

embrace!

July 13, 2009

her: Today apparently is Embrace your Geekness Day.

me: Everyday is “embrace your geekness” day for me.

sensitive matter

December 22, 2008

Me: My grades this semester have been coming in one by one and it’s making my GPA behave like the stock market.

Him: Well, the stock market isn’t doing so well these days…

Me: Shut up. I hate you.

Dorothy Allison

September 19, 2008

at the “What is Feminist Politics Now? Local and Global”

“The next thing I know, my back is in spasm, my knees are up to my neck. I may be having sex or I may be dying. With me, I never know.”

“No, no, I am not a lesbian, I am a dyke.”

“Now, I’m almost post-menopausal. And I’m praying for a hot flash because I’m freezing.”

Edmund Hillary

August 26, 2008

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

Futurama

May 14, 2008

Leela, how could you?! Our love has had to endure your constant hatred, and now this? Stop testing our love!

- Zapp Brannigan, upon discovering that Leela impregnated Kif by the touch of her hand.

Dan Dennet

May 11, 2008

A virus is a string of nucleoacids with attitude.

size matters

April 24, 2008

while holding my USB drive in my hand

me: Hey, can I grab something from your computer?

him: Grab something… like my porn?

me: No, like something that would fit on 4 gigs.

Martha Graham

April 9, 2008

I take the puppet, which is myself, and I fling him against the sky.