It's A Quote

[Fake Messiah]

Isaac Asimov was a true TBBT-like nerd when it comes to his dating life

Believe me, I'm an acrophobe. I first became truly aware of it the very first time I put it to a true test. When I visited the New York World's Fair in 1939, with my chem-lab ladylove, it occurred to me to ride on a roller coaster. From what I had seen of it in movies, it seemed to me that my date would scream and would cling to me, something which, I thought, would be delightful.
The instant the roller coaster topped the first and highest rise and began to swoop downward, I reacted like an acrophobe. I screamed in terror and I hung on desperately to my date, who sat there stolid and unmoved. I got out of the roller coaster half dead, and if I had been older and had had a less youthful heart, I am certain it would have killed me.

After I married I had a week's honeymoon in Allaben Acres in the Catskills. There I managed to demonstrate my intelligence to Gertrude when I volunteered to take part in a quiz contest and assured her I would win. She sat on the balcony all by herself to avoid having everyone see her embarrassment when I failed, but, of course, I won. I gained the hostility of many of the people at the resort because when I stood up to answer questions—very anxious lest I humiliate Gertrude—the anxiety on my face was interpreted as stupidity and everyone laughed. (They didn't laugh at anyone else.) When I won they seemed to take the attitude that I had no right to look stupid and mislead them.

[Gwaithmir]

"I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal." (Carmen Electra) 

[The Valkyrie]

"Where the fuck are all the moths coming from?"
- Thomas Edison.

[Fake Messiah]

"The last bit of destruction I left for the children to perform. It was the mutilation of the sacred Bible. First, they doused it in the bathtub, then smeared it with filthy unguents, then tore out handfuls of pages and scattered them about the room. The woeful-looking remains of the Holy Book we then put in the bird cage which we suspended from the chandelier. The chandeliers themselves we bent and twisted into an unrecognizable shape. We hadn’t time to wash the kids; we wiped them as best we could with the torn sheets. They were radiant with joy. What a job! Never again would they have a chance like this."

- Henry Miller, "Plexus"

[Gwaithmir]

"[The Bible] is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." (Mark Twain) 

[Fake Messiah]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Old professors never die, they just lose their faculties.’ - Stephen Fry

Boru

[Silver]

Reinvention is a form of avoidance.

[Angrboda]

The medium is the message.

Marshall McLuhan.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘The youth of today do not take their education seriously, have little respect for their elders, and waste their time in frivolous pursuits.’ - Xenophon, 4th Century BCE 

Boru