“[The father of Sarah Williams, a Scottsbluff, Nebraska, woman, had four tickets on the 45-yard line for the University of Nebraska's football games.] He used to say he wouldn't be cold before somebody would ask for those tickets, ... His funeral was on Wednesday, and that afternoon the phone rang and a guy said, 'I'm sorry about your dad. By the way, what are you girls going to do with those football tickets?' ”
Sarah Williams
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
Douglas Adams
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
Charles Darwin
“The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
Adela Rogers St. Johns
“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”
William S. Burroughs
