James Lileks Quotes
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She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.
— James Lileks
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
— James Lileks
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When the show's not around any more, it's going to be hard not to have her in my life.
— Gillian Anderson
Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'
— James Lileks
The popular Arab imagination is a pliant and inventive thing; it can explain any defeat. It is a compass that always points toward the Jew.
— James Lileks
The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.
— James Lileks
I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.
— Isha Judd
I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.
— James Lileks
This dissent isn't going to suppress itself.
— James Lileks
Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.
— James Lileks
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.
— Watts Humphrey
There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.
— James Lileks
If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.
— James Lileks
When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
— Laurent Brancowitz
Perception is made up of bands.
— Frederick Lenz
I don't believe in the very concept of "first thing in the morning." I'm a "third thing in the afternoon" fellow.
— James Lileks
If Mother had to be told not to shove the entire brick of Ivory up Junior's hindquarters, constipation is the least of his problems.
— James Lileks