Tripod Crush Quotes & Sayings

When Zhuangzi was about to die, his disciples expressed a desire to give him a sumptuous burial. Zhuangzi said, I will have heaven and earth for my coffin and coffin shell, the sun and moon for my pair of jade discs, the stars and constellations for my pearls and beads, and the ten thousand things for my parting gifts. The furnishings for my funeral are already prepared - what is there to add? — Zhuangzi

From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. — Jerry Lewis

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? — John Dos Passos

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor. — Annie Oakley

Military life in general depraves men. It places them in conditions of complete idleness, that is, absence of all rational and useful work; frees them from their common human duties, which it replaces by merely conventional duties to the honor of the regiment, the uniform, the flag; and while giving them on the one hand absolute power over other men, also puts them into conditions of servile obedience to those of higher ranks than themselves. — Leo Tolstoy

Man must confront his worst fear to find his virtue. — Angela Brown

I really love the '90s. I love the music from then for sure, and to go back to New York then would be a really wonderful thing. — Imogen Poots

The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death. The — John Calvin

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian. — T. S. Eliot

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author. — Thomas Paine

Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area. — Edward Abbey

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. — Noah Taylor