James Lileks Quotes
- I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.
- Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your…
- If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
- If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention.
- I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
- I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the good…
- Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
- I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.
- And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam…
- It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is…
- Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering…
- All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you…
- Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales…
- From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.
- There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat…
- Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.