Quotes About Association

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

I also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

YOU KNOW IF YOU WERENT SO PSYCHOTIC YOU WOULD BE FUN TO HANG OUT WITH

Twenty-four feet is puddlenuts in Giant Country.

A whangdoodle would eat ten Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and come galloping back for a second helping.

I do subscribe to the Press Democrat." "The

Gray is to Berliners what white is to Eskimos and red is to the Maori.

If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.

And that reminded me--as everything in the universe does--of Finnegans Wake. Now, I'm sure in an educated audience like this, you're all thoroughly familiar with Finnegans Wake, and I don't have to explain its deep structure or its polylinguistic meanings.

This species of mass hallucination has been created by conditioning and association. Each advertiser tries to associate his product with something most domesticated primates desire, such as Sex or Status. The commercials carry the association, sometimes fairly blatantly, sometimes subliminally. The repetition of the association gradually produces the conditioned response. The victim is not exactly buying the package as we just said but buying the hope for Sex and Status.

Proudhon was a great communication analyst, bom 100 years too soon to be understood. His system of voluntary association (anarchy) is based on the simple communication principles that an authoritarian system means one-way communication, or stupidity, and a libertarian system means two-way communication, or rationality.

Unless you stop to ask what coincidence means. I think it means two incidents are associated: co-incidence: coordination of incidents. So, then, to explain two associated incidents (prayers for rain followed by rain) by saying coincidence is to say that the two incidents were associated because the two incidents were associated. That may be soothing enough, but it is hardly analytical.

The brain never remembers like a tape recorder or repeats like a parrot. Even the most rigid and compulsive types (Catholics, Marxists, members of CSICOP, etc.) do a lot more re-associating, re-framing and creative editing than they consciously realize.

Dr. (Samuel) Johnson said patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I glanced at Pike, but Pike was staring out the front door. Intimidating the neighborhood. I said, "Maybe he mentioned a buddy who worked at a Shell Station or an ex-con he would have drinks with.

All thought is a feat of association.

all that distinguishes the many-pocketed animal, the lord of creation, from the inferior one-pocketed or no-pocketed productions that hop or trip about permissively

resources. In terms of size, they number well over

You think Ivy's a planner? She has nothing on a motivated elf with too much money.

Tink's a Disney whore!- Jenks

Rachel, what do you do? Put an ad in the paper for trouble? (Glenn)

You aren't a demon practitioner? No, but they seem to practice me. Trent and Rachel

Kisten probably has one in here," she muttered, then turned with a tube of what looked like lipstick. "Ta-da!" Ta-da, huh?