James Lileks famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Drinking #Coffee #Hands
The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one.
-- James Lileks

#America #People #Dictator
Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.
-- James Lileks

#Cells #Politics #Stem Cell
There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.
-- James Lileks

#War #Believe #Ideas
From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.
-- James Lileks

#Hull #Popcorn #Gum
Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause.
-- James Lileks

#Mean #Blood #Names
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.
-- James Lileks

#Country #Years #Bangs
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.
-- James Lileks

#Needs #Politics #Pistols
Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.
-- James Lileks

#Girl #Golf #Class
It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.
-- James Lileks

#Hate #Mustache #Looks
I've always wondered if there was a Hezbollah version of minesweeper where you get points for blowing up on your first move.
-- James Lileks

#Moving #Hezbollah #Firsts
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
-- James Lileks

#Flames #Forever #Genius
Iâ€™ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youâ€™ve gone over to the Dark Side. But Iâ€™ll be fine. Thatâ€™s the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
-- James Lileks

#Eye #Dark #Feelings
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
-- James Lileks

#Believe #Intelligent #Design
If you think the â€™80s were dumber than the â€™70s, either you werenâ€™t there or you werenâ€™t paying attention.
-- James Lileks

#Thinking #Attention #Pay Attention
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

#Mother #Ivory #Juniors
Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.
-- James Lileks

#Death #Home #Nursing
A Childrenâ€™s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.
-- James Lileks

#Children #Museums #Training

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