"Popcorn is a good analogy for show business. Every time you make popcorn, there are always those fluffy, white, happy popped pieces that are fun to eat and look at and everybody likes them. But there are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity."
-- Marc Maron
"Pepsi wants us to call it 'The Cola'. I'm probably not going to. Pepsi is as much 'The Cola' as rubharb 'The Pie'".
-- Greg Gulman
"Senator John McCain recently said that allegations of prisoner abuse are "hurting America's image". Also hurting America's image: allowing people to drown when it rains."
-- Amy Poehler on SNL's Weekend Update
"Nine Inch Nails will not be performing at the MTV Movie Awards as previously announced. We were set to perform "The Hand That Feeds" with an unmolested straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me."
-- Trent Reznor, May 26, 2005
"if I could change your mind
i wouldn't save you from the path you wander
in desperation dreams any soul can set you free"
-- VNV Nation, Chrome
"I like hiphop, but there hasn’t been a good hiphop record in the last five years...American hiphop is just ghetto bullshit. People rapping about jewelry."
-- Trent Reznor of NIN
"New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry, Reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department that I pay for...you can pray for rain."
-- Bill Maher
"To my untrained eye, from this angle, that looks like one jacked-up goat."
-- Mike Rowe on Dirty Jobs
"We're going to go out and have fun. Real fun. Not everything has to be strippers and booze and buckets of blood."
-- Michael Bluth on Arrested Development
"I don't have time right now to be the hundred watt bulb for your annoying little moth, so why don't you just fly away?"
-- Dr. Cox on Scrubs
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
-- Marilyn Manson
"In the end all you can hope for
Is the love you've felt
To equal the pain you've gone through."
-- Editors, "Bones"