The Tao of the Dude Book

[Dude1967]

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Ed Wood

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
Ed Wood

Awesome quotes Dudette! Personally, I'm a huge fan of the amazing work of Edward D Wood, Jr.

[Andrea D.]

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
Ed Wood

Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
Ed Wood

Awesome quotes Dudette! Personally, I'm a huge fan of the amazing work of Edward D Wood, Jr.

Yeah i like his style too !! and i think he's very dudeist, he just take it easy and make his work no matter what, he just don't worry about that shits.

[Dude1967]

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds. -Ed Wood


Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. -Ed Wood

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.   -Ed Wood


We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.   -Ed Wood

[DigitalBuddha]

Ed Wood; very dude like, man.

[Andrea D.]

"Best actor alive? Are you serious? I spend most of my time avoiding work"
Jeff Bridges

[Dude1967]

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?  -Charlie McCarthy (Edgar Bergen)

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.    -Henry Miller

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say that there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)

"I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more."
"You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing."
the Mad Hatter's response to Alice (Lewis Carroll)

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
John Peter Zenger

[digbys kid]

That is an awesome assortment of quotes, and I'm going to start building a brief case for Henry Miller's nomination on the Great Dudes in History forum.

[Dude1967]

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.   -Jules de Gaultier

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
    -Pablo Picasso

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.        -Norman Douglas

Playoffs?! Don't talk about playoffs! Are you kidding me? Playoffs?! I'm just hoping we can win a game, another game!          -Jim Mora

For all its flaws, I would feel safer to have my children grow up in a world dominated by the United States than by any other country.
Kobsak Chutikul, (deputy leader in Thailand), AP news release 3/7/03

Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.        -Erik Pepke

I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God.
-Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson), Raygun Magazine, Dec/January, 1998

Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.    -Robert F. Kennedy

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.         -Katharine Hepburn

[Dude1967]

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-Peter De Vries


If you're not happy without it, you'll never be happy with it.
John Candy, Cool Runnings


If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.       -George Bernard Shaw

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.        -Ann Radcliffe


Success and failure are equally disastrous.        -Tennessee Williams

Drugs are a bet with your mind.       -Jim Morrison

[midwaydude]

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
        -Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

yoda now there is a dude

[Dude1967]

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.   -Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.     -Vic Gold

I'm not a fan of reality.      -Nick Nolte

I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread out on beaches all over the world.      -Steven Wright

[Dude1967]

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain


Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.       -Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.      -Mark Twain

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Jules Renard


If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.       -Jimmy Buffett

The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true.
-Bob Dylan

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating?
Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now.
-Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
-Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)

Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
-Franklin P. Jones

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
-Henry Ward Beecher

[Lone dude]

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
-Booker T. Washington

The greatest of all faults is to be consious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle

[Dude1967]

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.     -Niels Bohr

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.     -Emo Phillips

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.        -Mike Myers


Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us,
Heights of us, depths of us -
Life is the test of us!
    -Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

[digbys kid]

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.     -Niels Bohr

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.     -Emo Phillips

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.        -Mike Myers


Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us,
Heights of us, depths of us -
Life is the test of us!
    -Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Hope for the best
Expect the worst
Life's a play
We're unrehearsed.
                 --Mel Brooks