User:Fookwell

Memo to self. If you do not shave before airport you will always get treated like a potential smuggler / terrorist. Why do you forget this? ~ Neil Gaiman, Twitter posting (12 May 2009)

The person who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. ~ David Pogue, Twitter posting (11 May 2009)

Though initial calculations showed it to be on a direct collision course with Earth, a pansy-ass asteroid approximately the size of Rhode Island has instead altered its trajectory to avoid the planet by more than 40,000 miles, astronomers at the University of Arizona reported Monday. ~ Spoof article, "Chicken-Shit Asteroid Veers Away At Last Minute" at The Onion (11 May 2009)

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. ~ Wayne Gretzky, quoted in The 7 habits of Highly Effective Teens : The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide (1998) by Sean Covey, p. 118

I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful — being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational. ~ James Branch Cabell in Cabellian Harmonics (April 1928)