“And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) English musician
Jugband Blues
"What Is Hitler? What Is Stalin? What Is Mao? What is Venezuela?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tjAGGChWA, The Alex Jones Show, December 2017. <br class="br">2017
“And what exactly is a dream, and what exactly is a joke?”
Syd Barrett (1946–2006) English musician
Jugband Blues
“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!”
Eliza Cook (1818–1889) British writer
Thomas Hood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“"Punk fusion"… "metal", "alternative"… "grindcore". What the hell is all that stuff?”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
Kyuss interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqai2XYiFyI, The Rivoli, Toronto (December 13, 1992)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection http://www.bartleby.com/122/48.html", lines 22-24 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
“What's Wal-mart? Do they sell Walls and stuff?”
Paris Hilton (1981) American socialite
The Simple Life
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html <br class="br">On magic <br class="br">Context: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
“You will not! It's wrong."
"What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?”
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Source: The Indigo Spell
Al Gore (1948) 45th Vice President of the United States
Quotes, NYU Law School speech (2006)
Context: For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes — including those for social security and unemployment compensation — and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes — principally on CO2. The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same. It would be, in other words, a revenue neutral tax swap. But, instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution.
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't need to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.
And sure enough, when it's not recognized in the marketplace, it does make it much easier for government, business, and all the rest of us to pretend that it doesn't exist. But what we're pretending doesn't exist is the stuff that is destroying the habitability of the planet.