Fat Days Quotes

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact.
	Jean Paul Sartre. Situations, II. 1939.

So, let go, let go Jump in Oh well, what you waiting for? It's all right 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
	Frou Frou. "Let Go". 2002.

Withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy.
	Tarot card in Slacker (film)

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.
	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. City Limits. London, 11 March 1983.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. City Limits. London, 11 March 1983.

Cool is all about trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
	Alexander, Donnell. "Cool Like Me." Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp. New York: Berkley Boulevard Books, 1998. p. 49.

I don't even do many sports anymore and my relationship with my body has gone all weird. I used to play soccer three times a week and now I feel like a boss in charge of an underachiever. I feel like my body is a station wagon in which I drive my brain around, like a suburban mother taking the kids to hockey practice.
	Dan in Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. New York: Regan Books, 1995, p. 4. ISBN 0-06-039148-0

Everything is possible, but nothing is real.
	Living Colour. "Type". Time's Up. 1990.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
	Harry S. Truman according to Merle Miller in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, ch. 23. 1974.

Reality, it burns But the way we're living is worse.
	Son Volt. "Route". Trace. 1995.

We're all living proof that nothing lasts
	Son Volt. "Route". Trace. 1995.

More and more makes a hunger for less.
	Uncle Tupelo. "Fall Down Easy". Still Feel Gone. 1991.

This is a fundamental notion of the Web Dream: you don't really need a commodity to get rich. People will pay for ... your concept!
	Quittner, Josh. "Web Dreams". Wired 4.11. November 1996. p. 168.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
	Bertrand Russell. "Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics". International Monthly, vol. 4, p. 84 [1901].

So this is what I got to say to y'all Be true to yourself and you will never fall
	Beastie Boys. "Pass the Mic". Check Your Head. 1992.

The Web Dream is what smart kids across America — smart kids around the world — are dreaming. They might not trust in God or Family and they sure as hell don't believe in Country; they believe in Themselves, and in the power of their cleverly customizable, infinitely scalable, robust and ubiquitous, interactive, pull-down-menu Dreams.
	Quittner, Josh. "Web Dreams". Wired 4.11. November 1996. p. 168.

This list of quotes is generated by a Server Side Include that calls a Perl script that reads a list of quotes and citations stored as a text file. Pretty cool, huh? Brian Marston <webguy@fatdays.com>