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#1 2006-09-21 11:38:58
- Miles Away
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The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"Without some vulgarity there is no complete man." Raymond Chandler.
Well... it's a good excuse...
Anybody else got a nice one-liner to share?
Miles.
(Keep 'em stylish!)
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#2 2006-09-21 12:33:04
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
From memory and probably from faulty memory:
his talk was heavy with commas like a bad novel. -- Chandler.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#3 2006-09-21 12:38:10
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde
#4 2006-09-21 13:08:05
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
I never tire of the quality we have on FNB.
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#5 2006-09-21 14:03:29
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
Was it Ring Lardner who wrote
" 'Hello,' he lied. "
Or am I thinking of Don Marquis or something.
I know Lardner did say " 'Shut up,' he explained"
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#6 2006-09-21 16:10:22
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"God gave us women; the Devil gave them corsets."
French proverb
#8 2006-09-24 00:42:12
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"You see, this is how you die".
Coco Chanel
Jukebox Babe
#9 2006-09-24 01:01:06
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"I adore that pink! It's the navy blue of India"!
Diana Vreeland
Jukebox Babe
#10 2006-09-24 01:02:30
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself".
Edith Sitwell
Jukebox Babe
#12 2006-09-25 17:42:52
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
I found one for my sig. 
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
#13 2006-09-25 17:56:44
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"I don't drink water because fish f**k in it."
WC Fields
Oh one more WC
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning that is the best they are going to feel for the entire day."
#14 2006-09-26 02:00:05
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#15 2006-09-26 08:52:49
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"Mr. Andy Warhol tells us that, after make-up, clothes make the man."
The Wit and Wisdom of Quentin Crisp (Ed: Mr. Guy Kettelhack), Harper & Row, 1984.
...
"Am I doing this to please myself or to annoy the neighbours?"
...
From the same source. Hello to Van.
M.
" ... Ubi bene, ibi patria, which being roughly translated means, 'Wherever there's a handout, that's for me, man.' "
Alistair Cooke. 1968.
#19 2006-09-26 14:59:15
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#20 2006-09-26 18:56:41
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
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#21 2007-01-04 12:08:14
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
Colin MacInnes on Ella Fitzgerald. 'Ella', 'The 20th Century', August 1958.
"... No song exists until it is sung"
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And all the internet talk about clothes is nothing compared to getting dressed , going out & bowling down the street.
Walk the talk, brothers!
t.
"One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing"
#22 2007-02-22 01:18:15
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"One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing"
#23 2007-02-22 01:44:39
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'Get your very own copy by clicking here!!!!!'
#24 2007-02-22 16:48:17
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Stick around long enough, and you'll find far better reasons...
Take care, gents.
God bless.
-BCL
#25 2007-02-22 18:34:10
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Re: The Even-More-Random-Than-Usual Ouote Thread...
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde