Hồ Xuân Hương, poem

Excerpt of a poem:

In the dead of night, nightwatcher's drums resound
I awake and find myself lonely in the vast world
After many an inebriating farewell cup, I come to my senses
The slanting moon on the wax is shaped like a crescent

- Hồ Xuân Hương (Vietnamese Poet), untitled

Complete poem, after the Jump

Network (1976), film

"…At the bottom of all our terrified souls we know that democracy is a dying giant; a sick, sick, dying, decaying political concept riding in it's final pain. I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power… What is finished, is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourish of every individual in it; it's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished; it's every single one of you out there that's finished. Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals, it's a nation of two-hundred some-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-that-white steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods." - Howard Beale, Sidney Lumet's Network (1976)

Complete quote as well as video, after the Jump.

Janet Long

"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy." - Janet Long

Hmmm, so conversely does that mean part of being crazy, is being a little bit sane?

Harlan Ellison

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison

Doug Larson

"If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur." - Doug Larson

Sir Richard Steele

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." - Sir Richard Steele