Hodgepodge of Quotations
"Amazing detail ... perfect censorship ... this is
the work of a true genius!"
 (Spongebob Squarepants
episode, 21 September 2001)
"Each of us has our precious things, and as we care for them we locate the
essence of our humanity."
Bill Joy
(Wired
article, April 2000, p. 262)
"I bet, with my net,
I can get those Things yet!"
Dr. Seuss
(The Cat in the Hat. Random House, 1957, p. 50)
"I don't need exposure. That's what people die of
out in the woods in sub-zero weather. It's unfair to ask any artist
to appear somewhere for no dollars."
Bob Ragland,
artist
(Quoted in Denver
Post article, 11 February 2002)
"I have never taken drugs, since I am the drug."
Salvador Dali
"I want [my children] to grow up in a country where they can think what they want to think, be what they want to be, and not what somebody's wife or somebody in Government makes them be.
I do not want to have that and I do not think you do either."
Frank Zappa
(U.S. Senate committee hearing on record labeling, 19 September 1985)
"It's all about the guy sitting behind the desk."
Johnny Carson
(Quoted by Bill Zehme,
Esquire
article, May 2000, p. 110)
"Let's be outspoken
Let's be ridiculous."
Alanis Morrisette
("So Pure")
"No, but it's incredibly stupid, and that could be worse on a child's mind
than any vulgarity or violence."
(South Park
episode, 1999. Line spoken by the character of Mrs. Marsh)
"Nothing is in bad taste if it makes you laugh."
John Waters
(Interview on the Bravo network. Or maybe it was on IFC.) "Now
I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum"
The Ramones
("Teenage Lobotomy") "Pardon
me while I have a strange interlude."
(Animal Crackers. Line
spoken by Groucho Marx as Capt. Spalding)
"People have the right to be assholes."
attributed to Jello Biafra
(No More Censorship Fund
newssheet)
"Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank
Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank."
They Might Be Giants
("Rhythm Section Want Ad")
"Still, I don't understand how those words got into the
web. I don't understand it, and I don't like what I can't understand."
E.B. White
(Charlotte's Web,
1952, ch. 14)
"The 'L' stands for value."
Slogan for Lucky Aide
drugstore
(Seen on button worn by Lois, Malcolm in the Middle episode, 18
February 2001)
"The world, Ramona decided, was full of people who
used their dictionary skills and probably weren't any fun."
Beverly Cleary
(Ramona's World.
Morrow Junior Books, 1999, p. 108)
"This is about more than fart jokes. This is about free speech. About
censorship. And, stuff."
Matt Stone and Trey Parker
(South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, 1999.
Line spoken by the character of Stan Marsh)
"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers."
Kevin Smith
(Clerks, 1994. Line spoken by Jeff Anderson as Randall)
"We get checks from the government and spend them on beer!"
(Aqua Teen Hunger Force, episode 40. Line spoken by Err,
the Mooninite)
"What the hell's going on? It's like a monster convention here!"
Kei'ichi Hasegawa, Shusuke Kaneko, and Masahiro Yokotani
(Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack,
2001.
Directed by Shusuke
Kaneko)
"You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody."
Tom Lehrer
(The Onion
A.V. Club interview, May 2000)
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