iJJ Quotes Of The Moment
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter- it’s the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
Oliver Wendel Holmes
Officer: “You’d better keep your nose clean.”
Bender: “That’ll be easy, I never wear the damn thing.”
Futurama
Brian: “If you’re going to pull a party out of your ass you better stand up.”
Family Guy
Stewie: “Did you hear that Meg? Guys can marry other guys now. So…this is awkward, but I mean, if they can do that, that is pretty much it for you, isn’t it? I mean you as well pack it in. Game over. “
Family Guy
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Forget any and all college affiliations today. For today, we are all Hokies.
J. Russell Denney
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
Bill Clinton
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a cliché because it is true: This moment we will remember for the rest of our lives.
Star Tribune Editorial; August 2, 2007
Do it now! Today will be yesterday tomorrow.
Fortune Cookie
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt
Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight? And then I realized: I’m just slutty.
Margaret Cho
It’s time to impregnate this country with my mind.
Stephen Colbert; I Am America, and So Can You!
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Ron White
You DARE bribe Santa?! I’m going to shove coal so far up your stocking, you’ll be coughing up diamonds!
Robot Santa, Futurama
Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
Barack Obama, January 3, 2008
We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.
Cesar Chavez
I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else
Margaret Cho
Oh sorry, I guess I should clarify. These aren’t people who are actually dead, these are just people who are dead to me.
Kathy Griffin, from Bravo’s A-List Awards
On November 4th, we must stand up and say: “Eight is enough.”
Barack Obama, 8/28/08
Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility – that’s the essence of America’s promise.
Barack Obama, 8/28/08
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy, 1/20/61
Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.
Jon Stewart, 12/9/08
It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important.
Martin Luther King Jr., 10/22/64
…I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life, it gave me the hope to one day live my life openly as who I am and that maybe even I could fall in love and one day get married.
Dustin Lance Black, 2/22/09
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Mohandas Gandhi
There’s not much of a difference between a stadium full of cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it, is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that and someday they will!
Sue Sylvester (Glee)
