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This site was last updated on February 15, 2008.

Oh, Lord grant me vision,
Oh, Lord grant me speed.
-- In my hour of darkness, by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris 

Then there was an old man
Kind and wise with age
And he read me just like a book and he
never missed a page.
-- In my hour of darkness, by Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris 

Andy Mears had to fly a rematch against David Owen, right at lunchtime.
The CD, Pat Willcox, wondered if they wanted to fly first or eat lunch.
Andy said: Start the clock! I'm gonna eat David's lunch, then I'll eat mine.

Up, down, turn around.
Please don't let me hit the ground.
-- Temptation, by New Order

Seem like every time you stop and turn around.
Something else just hit the ground
-- Everything is broken, by Bob Dylan

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances,
profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain

He's like broken glass! I got cut before I saw it.
-- Bill Duane, after losing to Mack Henry

Any event that doesn't use nitro deserves to die.
-- Paul Smith

There was this tremendous jerk... and a passerby continued: ...at the handle end of the lines!
-- Overheard during a jury over the circumstances of a mid-air

Players tell of being 'high' and 'loopy'
-- Seattle Times headline

Cut up like a Safeway chicken!
-- Rich Tupper, after losing his first match at the World Champs

I used to be a man; now I fly stunt.
-- Phil Granderson

You used to be a man, now you too are just an elitist.
-- Phil Granderson to Howard Rush

I'm gonna ruin you.
-- John Lee Hooker

I've got a 36 Nelson on a Mejzlik plane,
How can I miss when I've got dead aim?
-- Blind Joe Death

There are lots of ant fuckers who want to make perfect jigs.
-- Loet Wakkerman

Hey, look over there! -- Pat Willcox

. . . and I did! -- Ken Burdick

If I ever get up off of this ol' hard killin' floor,
Lord, I'm never goin' down this low no more.
-- Skip James

You took my money and you tried to...
Sic your dogs on me.
-- Bukka White

Prepare to meet your ashamed ancestors!

I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
-- Arlo Guthrie

A combat plane with a muffler is like a rattlesnake without a rattle.
-- Paul Smith

People who make no noise are dangerous.
-- Jean de la Fontaine

The Wombat lives across the seas,
Among the far Antipodes.
He may exist on nuts and berries,
Or then again, on Missionaries.
His distant habitat precludes
Conclusive knowledge of his moods.
But I would not engage the Wombat
In any form of mortal combat.

A propellor is not a screw going through cheese.
-- Chris Machin (Rev-Up)

We're experimental and professional.
-- ZZ Top

That's why you should never, ever, wear a clown suit.
-- Howard Rush

Slow preparation, fast execution.
-- Brian Eno in Oblique Strategies

And for those who won't use a shutoff:

O Jesu, Defend us from death and horrible maims!
-- King Lot, in Le Morte D'Arthur, by Sir Thomas Mallory

On the other hand,

To combat may be glorious, and success
Perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
-- William Cowper, 1785

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But what kind of money does he make? It don't make no sense. Well, he don't make no money, right?
No.
But, then - then he's a nut, right?
-- They Might Be Giants