Twist and shout?

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

Scott Douglass

Contingency Plan?

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Hunter S. Thompson

Detente?

Diplomacy is the art of
saying "Nice Doggie!" 
till you can find a stick.  

Wynn Catlin 

A taste for fashion?

Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.   

Janet Street-Porter

Hold the gravy

No turkey ever voted for an early Thanksgiving.

Anon.

Reorganizations redux

O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity. 

William Carlos Williams

No illusions

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Richard Powers

Memorable

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.

Bette Davis

Stumped?

I can't say I was ever lost,
but I was bewildered once
for three days.

Daniel Boone

Regrettable?

I feel the same way
about disco as I do
about herpes.

Hunter S. Thompson

Research program?

The time has come to
take Martian studies a
step further, and deeper.

Phil Christensen

In case you were wondering

It's a headache.

John Buchanan

Get crazy

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.

Japanese Proverb

Ride'em cowgirl

Pawn your pearls, honey!
We're in Austin now!

Anon.

Home repair?

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Terry Pratchett

There is no problem so big....

...it cannot be run away from.

Linus Van Pelt

Strange Convergence: Superheros + Historical Photos

Superman assists as soldiers from the 7th US Army carry artworks down the steps of Meunschwanstein Castle where European art treasures, stolen by the Nazis, were hidden during World War II. More.

We've heard that a million monkeys....

...at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Robert Wilensky

One of the few good things about modern life...

...If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

Transportation?

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

Walker Percy

An exception to the rule?

Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Green leafy food group?

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

Frank Zappa

First Amendment Rights

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Marshall Lumsden

Clean living?

When you dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction....

I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have.

Jack Handy

Do as I say?

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Strange Convergence = Bright lights + Talking Heads

Last resort?

Nathan Coley's sculpture in Folkestone, a British seaside town.

Going through a reorganization...

Is a lot like playing fifty-two pickup. First you have a big mess; then everything gets sorted out.

Missing

Of all the things I miss, the thing I miss the most is my mind.

Lotus Weinstock

A Nobel calling?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

A. Einstein