Notices tagged with q, page 6
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"The anger of the Palestinians cannot be ended by killing their children." #q Wallace Shawn on Israel's inconceivable strategy. (Sorry, couldn't resist. #PrincessBride) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wallace-shawn-gaza-anger-palestinians-727193
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"I don't want to live in a world where we can't have a Mandela emerge without fear of a drone strike." #q Jacob Applebaum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyT7yzap1Wc&html5=1
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"Man rings up the local circus and he says 'How difficult is it to train to be a contortionist?' They said 'Well how flexible are you?' He says 'I can't do Tuesdays.'" #q Jeremy Hardy http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fricomedy/fricomedy_20140704-1900a.mp3
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"I can’t imagine that stolid and respectable person [in the mirror] being moved or wracked by the emotional storms inside me or the radical thoughts on society. Than I realise I must misjudge others, daily, on the basis of their appearance." #q Craig Murray http://ur1.ca/hol15
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"As long as it's fun for me and the band and the audience, then I'll do it." #q Shane MacGowan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9vWcyuqLSs&html5=1 #Pogues
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"The world has visited many terrible things on the Palestinian people, none more shameful than robbing them of their basic humanity." #q Anthony Bourdain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53pRNV8wAws&html5=1
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"Motivation. Motivation, motivation, motivation - the three 'm's!" #q Peter Cook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHSKLtpUASU&list=PL8D1D31CF82B4C287&html5=1
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"MasterChef delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease. […] just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence." #q Charlie Brooker http://ur1.ca/h772u
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"Marriage is a bit like the witness protection scheme. Suddenly you've got all these new clothes, you're living in suburbia, and you're not allowed to see any of your old friends any more." #q Jeremy Hardy
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"Good sense is the best-shared-out thing in the world; for every–one thinks he has such a good supply of it that he doesn't want more, even if he is extremely hard to please about other things." #q Rene Descartes
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“I was racked with sexuality but it wore off when I helped my father put manure on our rose bed” #q Adrian Mole. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/11/sue-townsend-1946-2014
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"“Jesus invented the Big Society 2,000 years ago" #q David Cameron Also, John the Baptist invented the Oyster card. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/big-society-has-divine-backing-says-prime-minister-at-easter-reception-9252437.html
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#Yahweh prevaricates for 84 years before reluctantly calling in Fred Phelps. There goes the neighbourhood. "I preach hate? You can't preach the #Bible without preaching hate!" #q http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-fred-phelps-20140321,0,4718547.story #Christianity
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"If ever I feel like [physical] exercise I go into a darkened room and lie down until the mood passes." #q Tony Benn http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/14/tony-benn-chris-mullin-life-enhancer-fizzed-with-ideas
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"And thus in this scenario, the much-vaunted genome inside that cell is being regulated by some other guy’s pee." When I grow up, I want to be Robert Sapolsky. #q http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/an-expert-roundtable-on-the-selfish-gene-and-evolution/
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"You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics." #q Robert Solow c.1987 http://www.standupeconomist.com/pdf/misc/solow-computer-productivity.pdf
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"I try to operate on two unconnected levels. One on the practical level of action in which I am extremely cautious and conservative. The second is the realm of ideas where I try to be very free" #q Tony Benn http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-26573929
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"Y'know why the Basques won't leave [the EU]? Because you can't put all your Basques in one exit." #q Jeremy Hardy http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/fricomedy/fricomedy_20140221-1900a.mp3
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Do you love that being from the #Q Continuum that much that you post this 3x in 3 mins? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28Star_Trek%29 cc @question
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"He had a face made from red plasticine by a child of three, that or his parachute didn't open." #q Spike Milligan
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"Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine." #q #Obama http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/03/obama-drones-double-down_n_4208815.html
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"To say that it all came about in 6,000 years is just nonsense […] let’s not make a joke of ourselves." #q Pat Robertson http://www.salon.com/2014/02/05/pat_robertson_begs_ken_ham_to_shut_up/ #Christianity
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." #q Upton Sinclair
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"To a Glaswegian, a sweatband is a silencer." #q Emo Phillips
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"Mrs Thatcher was a mirthless bully and should have been buried, as once upon a time monarchs used to be, in the depths of the night." #q Alan Bennett http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/alan-bennett/diary
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"To have no sense of humour is to be a seriously flawed human being. It’s not a minor shortcoming; it shuts you off from humanity." #q Alan Bennett http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/alan-bennett/diary
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"Before the public utilities were privatised one paid bills more readily, not just because they were considerably cheaper, which of course they were, but because one had little sense of being exploited." #q Alan Bennett http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/alan-bennett/diary
