"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. "
"Ah, " said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. "
"He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. "
"He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. "
"The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit. "
"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. "
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. "
"Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. I make sure that I have enough time between tournaments to go home in order to do other things. I like hiking and skiing, and I play football in a club."
- Magnus Carlson (youngest world chess champion in history, at 17 years of age)
"Blender: Do you ever pick a subject at random [out of the encyclopedia] and learn all about it?
Lil Wayne: No. I’m a millionaire.
Blender: What’s that mean? Millionaires still have things they can learn!
Lil Wayne: Are you a millionaire? No. So don’t tell me what millionaires do. "
"If you loan someone $20, and you never see that person again, it was probably worth it."
"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... Here's Tom with the weather!" - Bill Hicks
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright
"A lady informed me that I was drunk, to which I replied, lady I may be drunk today but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly." - Winston Churchill
"Yeah, apparently a teacher in Britain was arrested. On him they found a pencil, eraser, ruler, protractor and compass. They said he was part of the Al Gebra network, and that he had weapons of math instruction!"