Spacefiller Alert

In order to bulk out the blog without in any way using my brain, some of my favourite quotes from over the years:

"Mankind... is now one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order"
- Walter Benjamin
"Life - what a bastard. You've got to give it a go, though, haven't you? What else is there to do?"
- Bez
"Is it possible that there is some sort of metaphysical justice in the anatomical fact that the male sex organ, which has been misused from time immemorial as a weapon of terror against women, should have at its root an awkward place of painful vulnerability?"
- Susan Brownmiller
"The kilt: A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland"
- Ambrose Bierce
"Women rule everything in our house. The last thing I did on my own was recognise Angola as an independent state"
- Brian Clough
"Progress isn't a dirty word, you know. 'Arse' is a dirty word and so, to some extent, is 'labia'"
- Steven Fry
"Obstinacy can be a substitute for liking work, it can be a substitute for courage, it can be a substitute for practically all other qualities "
- Michel Houllebecq
"Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'.... there is plenty to offset and mitigate that word - even something to laugh at"
- Friedrich Nietzche
"One more drink and I'll be under the host"
- Dorothy Parker
"I played that record on the BBC World Service recently and got complaints from, well, all around the world"
- John Peel
"If extreme ugliness were not repulsive I should prefer it to extreme beauty"
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, it's the way I see life"
- bill Shankly
"Our present security is nothing, and can be nothing, but evil made irresistable"
- George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing is so over-rated as a good screw and nothing so under-rated as a good dump"
- Paul Theroux
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench. A long plastic hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side."
- Hunter S Thompson
"When we say a thing or an event is real, never mind how suspect it sounds, we honour it. But when a thing is made up - regardless of how true and just it seems - we turn up our noses. That's the age we live in. The documentary age"
- Carol Shields
"I've got better things to do than talk about Augustin Delgardo. I've a yoghurt that's reached its expirary date. It needs eating up. That's more important."
- Gordon Strachan
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him"
- Voltaire
"When the second goal went in I knew our pig was dead"
- Danny Williams