All Quotes

"Get the bow going! Let it scream to me: Violin! Violin! Violin!"

"Give me the Banshees for B.V.s."

"I say good night-night I tuck him in tight. But things are not right. What is this? An infant kiss That sends my body tingling?"

"His little hand is on my heart. He's got me where it hurts me. Knock, knock. Who's there in this baby? You know how to work me. All my barriers are going. It's starting to show."

"I cannot sit and let Something happen I'll regret. Ooh, he scares me! There's a man behind those eyes. I catch him when I'm bending."

"I want to smack but I hold back. I only want to touch. But I must stay and find a way To stop before it gets too much! All my barriers are going. It's starting to show."

"What could he do? Should have been a father. But he never even made it to his twenties. What a waste — Army dreamers. Ooh, what a waste of Army dreamers."

"Oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know, Like a chicken with a fox, He couldn't win the war with ego. Give the kid the pick of pips, And give him all your stripes and ribbons. Now he's sitting in his hole, He might as well have buttons and bows."

"Outside Gets inside Through her skin."

"Breathing my mother in, Breathing my beloved in, Breathing, Breathing her nicotine, Breathing, Breathing the fall-out in, Out in, out in, out in, out in."

"We've lost our chance. We're the first and the last, ooh, After the blast."

"I love my Beloved, ooh, All and everywhere, Only the fools blew it. You and me Knew life itself is Breathing..."

"Some say that knowledge is something that you never have. Some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap. Some say that heaven is hell. Some say that hell is heaven."

"I must admit, just when I think I'm king,"

"I hold a cup of wisdom, But there is nothing within."

"The sense of adventure Is changing to danger. The signal has been given."

"My excitement Turns into fright. All my words fade. What am I gonna say? Mustn't give the game away."

"Just one thing in it: Me or him. Just one thing in it: Me or him. And I love life!"

"He's big and pink, and not like me. He sees no light. He sees no reason for the fighting..."

"Out in the garden There's half of a heaven, And we're only bluffing. We're not ones for busting through walls, But they've told us Unless we can prove That we're doing it, We can't have it all."

"I don't know why I'm crying. Am I suspended in Gaffa? Not until I'm ready for you, Not until I'm ready for you Can I have it all."

"I won't open boxes That I am told not to. I'm not a Pandora. I'm much more like That girl in the mirror. Between you and me She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all."

"Mother, where are the angels? I'm scared of the changes."

"My door was never locked, Until one day a trigger come cocking. (But now I've started learning how,) I keep it shut."

"Harm is in us. Harm in us, but power to arm. Harm is in us. Leave it open!"

"We let the weirdness in."

"See the light ram through the gaps in the land. Many an Aborigine's mistaken for a tree 'Til you near him on the motorway And the tree begin to breathe."

"'Coming in with the golden light In the morning. Coming in with the golden light Is the New Man."

"The civilised keep alive The territorial war... Erase the race that claim the place And say we dig for ore, Or dangle devils in a bottle And push them from the pull of the Bush."

"See the sun set in the hand of the man."

"If you go, I'll let the law know, And they'll head you off when you touch the ground. Ooh, please, don't go through with this. I don't like the sound of it."

"In Malta, catch a swallow, For all of the guilty — to set them free. Wings fill the window, And they beat and bleed. They hold the sky on the other side Of borderlines."

"Give me a break! Ooh, let me try! Give me something to show For my miserable life! Give me something to take! Would you break even my wings, Just like a swallow?"

"We needed you To love us too. We wait for your move."

"Only tragedy allows the release Of love and grief never normally seen. I didn't want to let them see me weep, I didn't want to let them see me weak, But I know I have shown That I stand at the gates alone."

"Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker."

"Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist."

"However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead."

"Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random."

"Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution."

"Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives."

"To explain the origin of the DNA/protein machine by invoking a supernatural Designer is to explain precisely nothing, for it leaves unexplained the origin of the Designer."

"Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet."

"Contrary to earlier prejudices, there is nothing inherently progressive about evolution."

"Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly ‘tracks’ the changing environment."

"It is generally characteristic of arms races, including human ones, that although all would be better off if none of them escalated, so long as one of them escalates none can afford not to."

"There has been progress in design, but not progress in accomplishment."

"The successful scientist and the raving crank are separated by the quality of their inspirations. But I suspect that this amounts, in practice, to a difference, not so much in ability to notice analogies as in ability to reject foolish analogies and pursue helpful ones."

"There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism."

"This not only misses the point, it is the precise antithesis of the point."