Rob's quote board.

Here are some of my all time favorite quotes. I don't claim that the credits given are where the quote originated, but it's where I first heard it.

• "Some cultures are defined by their relationship to cheese," - from Benny & Joon.

• "Teamwork is defined as a bunch of people doing what I say." - Mike Leckrone, Director - University of Wisconsin Marching Band

• "He deals the cards to find the answer, The sacred geometry of chance, The hidden law of a probable outcome, The numbers lead a dance" - Sting, from Shape of My Heart .

• "It is nothing to die, it is frightful not to live," - Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables.

• "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. " - Isaac Asimov

• "You're going to burn in a very special level of hell... a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." - Shepherd Book, Firefly TV series

• "... they're as poor as squirrels in winter, but they're so happy they don't know how miserable they are." - From Fiddler on the Roof.

• "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it," - from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

• "I'm sorry for babbling, but I had to keep going to find out what I was talking about." - my former roommate at 1 am.

• "This job would be great if it wasn't for the f***ing customers." - from Clerks

• "Egad a base tone denotes a bad age," - They Might Be Giants, "I Palindrome I."

• "The afterlife is so boring . If I have to sing Kum-ba-ya one more time ... " - from Heathers

• "You ate my ear.. you killed your wife.. you framed me for it.. and you mad at me for lying ?!? - from Feeling Minnesota

• "For me, sex is kind of like pizza; even when it's bad it's still pretty good." - from Threesome

• "As a minister's daughter I was taught, quite plainly, that church is a place you can be truthful... as long as it's their truth." - Tori Amos

• "Did you do your homework? Did you do it well ?" - my mother, every day of high school.

• "Not all conservatives are stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." - J.S. Mill

• "Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." - from The Princess Bride

• "Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this?... I don't know." - My calculus teacher

• "I'm going to live forever, or die trying" - Calvin and Hobbes

• "If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being; you'd be a gameshow host." - from Heathers

• "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony

• "I never realized how much deceit is involved in getting engaged." - My former roommate, while trying to keep his proposal a surprise.

• "I no doubt deserve my enemies, but I don't believe I deserve my friends." - Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass.

• "There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because you know things can't get any worse." - from The Freshman.