barnkat's quotes

Persistance:

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:14:36 -0500

persistance: the key to kicking shit outta all things that plug into the wall.

— OLDGUY- IWYA2 chatroom

Democracy and White Bread

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:31:30 -0500

I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back

— Hawkeye, M*A*S*H, "O.R."

Car Salesmen with Guns

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:26:52 -0500

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable

— Hunter S. Thompson

Destroyed from Within

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:25:07 -0500

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

— Abraham Lincoln

Worth Dying For

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:22:54 -0500

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.

— Hamilton Fish

Land of the Free

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:20:04 -0500

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

— Elmer Davis

Generation Gap:

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:18:05 -0500

A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.

— Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

Old Age

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:14:58 -0500

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

— J.B