Richard M. Weiner famous quotes

Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.
-- Richard M. Weiner

#Death #Suicide #Cancer

Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.
-- Richard M. Weiner

#Sex #Regret #Past

If there's anything Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo has taught me, it's that breakdancing is the key to financial solvency.
-- Richard M. Weiner

#Keys #Taught #Financial

If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"
-- Richard M. Weiner

#Dog #Friendly #Would Be

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic or vulgar motives to your action. Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood--never!

For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.