(The Skrull Beatles discuss their future.)

"So when this is all over, are we still gonna be the Skrull Beatles then?"
"I quite fancy being the Skrull Monkees for a bit."
"The dialogue's easier."
"As long as I get to be Peter Tork.


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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write program...
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder...
PAUL DANO
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they ...
PAUL TILLICH
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
PAUL BRYANT
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to peop...
PAUL DIRAC
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They ...
PAUL DIRAC
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and...
PAUL DIRAC
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an econo...
PAUL DIRAC
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC
Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.
PAUL DIRAC