Quotes by James Lileks

James Lileks

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

Children

Museums

Training

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

Best Place

Cells

Politics

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Needs

Pistols

Politics

And I don’t want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

Bangs

Country

Years

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

Calculus

Contact

Self Esteem

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

Free Will

Heart

People

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

Gum

Hull

Politics

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

Flames

Forever

Genius

I don’t believe in the very concept of “first thing in the morning.” I’m a “third thing in the afternoon” fellow.

Afternoon

Believe

Morning

I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much, this local conversation has come to an end. However, I believe that if the newspapers of the country pool their resources, we can send an Arnold-Schwartzenegger-style robot back in time to kill the inventor of the Internet, and then our future will be much brighter.

Believe

Country

Regret

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80s

Afternoon

Ambition

America

Arabia

Asks

Attention

Bangs

Believe

Best Place

Blood

Blow

Butterfly

Calculus

Cells

Children

Christian

Class

Coffee

Compass

Contact

Contradiction

Conversation

Copying

Country

Dark

Death

Defeat

Design

Dictator

Drinking

Drunk

East

Eye

Fall

Feelings

Feet

Fire

Firsts

Flames

Forever

Free Will

Genius

Girl

Golf

Gum

Guy

Hands

Hate

Heart

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Quotes by James Lileks

James Lileks

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

And I don’t want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.

I don’t believe in the very concept of “first thing in the morning.” I’m a “third thing in the afternoon” fellow.

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