Time out?

All [wo]men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber

Stop the line?

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

Hell hath no fury

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

A. Edmondson

They have [mad] skills

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! 
Charles Ogden

Hoe your own row?

Everyone has enough weeds to pull in their own garden.

Flemish proverb

Poor little librarians of the world...

...those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!


Michael Chabon

Well considered?

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

Cannot be stomached?

Low fat cheese is a crime against humanity and against France.

Anon.

Where cult films go...

...academics will follow.


Dwight Garner

Ever ready

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Robert Bloch

Terminal?

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

 R.D. Laing

Out of this world?

Don't get me wrong—I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

Jonathan Frakes

Equality for all

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.  

e. e. cummings

Like what were you expecting?

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables. 

Gertrude Stein

Conceptual Art?

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

Stephen Wright

Eat your greens?

Parsley is gharsley.

Ogden Nash

What if?

Normal business hours should be from nine p.m. to five a.m. so that we're greeted by the sun when work is through.  

Joshua Ferris 

A good heavy book holds you down...

It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.  

Roy Blount, Jr.

Nether-regional warfare?

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


Mark Twain

For your consideration

Where does the white go when the snow melts?  

Anon.

Stand still.

The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

A. Einstein

Expedite this?

And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?

Henry Reed

Dust Bunnies Reconsidered

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

Clarence Darrow

Writing is easy....

...all you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. 

Gene Fowler

What is a committee?

A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. 

Richard Harkness

Terminated with extreme prejudice?

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Storm Jameson

Contingency Planning

The [wo]man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else [s]he can blame it on.

R. Bloch

The Digital Age?

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke 

 

Thy will be done

I’m unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I’m going to sing.

Anon.

Can she?

Any woman who can’t say a four-letter word sometimes is deceitful.

Fanny Brice

Gone baby gone

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.   

Brooks Atkinson