Big Tellow TaxiIn observence of the closing of Gil's Gym in East Los Angeles, the training ground of luchadores for over thirty years.
"Chinese say, All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. I think we got some pretty good seeds in those other kids, Danno, don't you?"
-Steve McGarrett, after arresting a bad, mean, awful hippie man who tried to mislead a group of kind, honest and super-friendly hippie teens.
Hawaii Five-0
Episode "Not That Much Different" circa 1969
"Never give up; and never, under any circumstances, no matter what - never face the facts."
-Ruth Gordon
"The true tragedy of all the wrestling deaths is not that fans are deprived of seeing great wrestlers who should have performed on the big stage longer. Wrestling is an assembly line business, and there is always somebody new to fill the spot and except for the most ardent fans, most of these people become vague faded memories. The tragedy is the families they left behind. Their lives aren't part of the assembly line variety, and there is no replacing the missing part. And if the children left behind are young enough, they don't even get the benefit of the vague faded memories."
-Dave Meltzer
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
October 9, 2006
"You are a star. And you only happen once."
-Sylvester
"I don't do drugs. I am drugs."
-Salvador Dali
"Idle hands get in the way of The Devil's Work."
-Basil Fawlty,
Fawlty Towers
Episode: The Germans
"Honk! Honk!"
-Harpo Marx
"Lost possibilities, lost opportunities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads -at least that's where I imagine it- there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."
"Kafka on the Shore"
by Haruki Murakami
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return."
-Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy"
"Good sex is like good Bridge... If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
-Mae West
"This Demon felt good cuz he finally got it across to the crazy Little Demon that the Woman's still the boss!"
-Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "Little Demon"
"Nobody believes in God like an atheist: 'There is no God, and I am His prophet!'"
-Alan Watts
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. "
-Joan Baez
"I hate your father!"
Dr. Jerry Graham - Upon meeting George Gulas, son of wrestling promoter Nick Gulas.
"I have at last acheived cellular petrification through atomic combustion or disintegration.......Think of what it could do for humanity. If I had made this discovery previous to the World War I could have turned a flock of statesmen into stone, and then there wouldn't have been any war. And the economic as well as artistic waste entailed by eventually making statues of those self-same wholesale butchers would have been eliminated. The majority of statesmen should be born statues, anyway."
-Hunter Hawk
"Night Life of the Gods" by Thorne Smith.
"I don't have a drinking problem. I drink, get drunk, fall down.....NO PROBLEM!"
-20th Century T-Shirt & bumper sticker quote... origin unknown, but rumored to be the missing verse from Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas
"If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve."
-Jello Biafra
"If guns are banned, only bans will have guns." -Reverend A.T. Ripper
"I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body." -Ana Gasteyer
"Give me an apple, feed me for a day. Teach me to bob for apples, feed me for a lifetime." Everett "Ever" Green
"The right hemisphere of the brain short circuits the left hemisphere, the left hemisphere short circuits the right hemisphere, and BING..... you're there!" Dr. Jerry Graham - December 24, 1984, summarizing the effects of Steele Graham's amazing quality weed.
"Annie Sprinkle, America is better for your efforts." -Frank Zappa