Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Watchmen

"At midnight, all the agents and superhuman crew,
go out and round up everyone who knows more than they do."

- Bob Dylan
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"And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching.
I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of these comedians."

- Elvis Costello
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"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"

- GENESIS chapter 18, verse 25
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"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...
The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."

- Albert Einstein
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"Tyger, Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

- William Blake
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"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster
and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls,
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."

- JOB chapter 30, verses 29-30
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"On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us,
and speak to some; to others they are dumb."

- Hallowe'en
Eleanor Farjean
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."

- C.G.Jung; Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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"Outside in the distance a wild cat did growl,
two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl."

- Bob Dylan
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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"It would be a stronger world,
a stronger loving world, to die in."

- John Cale