Monthly Archives: July 2006

Quote of the day

14 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

I hung up.
It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.
— Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (0)

Quote of the day

13 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

I’m not like most people: I don’t like pain — it hurts me!
— Daffy Duck (as written and directed by Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones)

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (0)

Quote of the day

12 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

Little girls, like kittens, need no excuse.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in General | Comments (2)

Quote of the day

11 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault.
— Jim Butcher, Blood Rites (first line)

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (1)

Quote of the day

10 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

She might have been dressed like a courtesan, moved like a courtesan, but there’d been none of the courtesan’s eagerness to please about her, nothing servile. The gestures of power in the garments of powerlessness. Unsettling.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (0)

Quote of the day

5 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

Honor is the name that used to be given to the will to assert the one identity over the other. If you attack me because I am American, honor dictates that I must counterattack and defeat you because you are Islamicist—since you have shown me that being an Islamicist means being an enemy of America.
— [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (2)

Quote of the day

4 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility to all forms of tyranny over the mind of man.
— Thomas Jefferson

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (1)

Quote of the day

3 July 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800

You know, the redneck clowns who chanted “America—love it or leave it!” while they stomped me back in the sixties didn’t have a bad slogan. The only problem was that they got to define “love of America,” and they limited its meaning to “blind worship of America.” In addition they limited the definition of America [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Quotes | Comments (2)