So, whats your favorite quote, who said it, and why do you like it? Pretty self explanitory. I have three.. I'll just start with one of them for now.
"Free comes with a dick straight up the ***" - some dude from 8 Mile.
"If God does not exist in this world... Then I shall create God with my own hands!" - Krelian, Xenogears.
uh, i mean "i WoN't BeCoMe JuSt A mEmoRy" ~~~sepoforithoth!!! also light turns to dark and day turns to dream USE THE ETERNAL BEYBLADES OF HEART POWER
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair. - Rush Limbaugh!! :D:D
"You know that if your head is disconnected from your body, for a short enough amount of time, you're still conscious? That's what happened to a guy a couple hundred years ago in France. He was sentenced to death for cheating on the duke's wife, and was excecuted by guillotine shortly after. The blade cut his head off, and as his head rolled onto the ground, he saw the duke's wife, who was also at the excecution, and winked. The duke then took this guy's head, put it back on his body, and cut it off again. So he got excecuted twice."- R.C. Collins as played by Phil Hendrie
"The military is leading tours through town." - SMEK.
"Everyone has a gripping stranger in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it's the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing white shoulders who stamps your book at the library - a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying, "Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida," you'd follow them."
"In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where the two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week."
"Our achievements may make us interesting...but our darkness makes us lovable."
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older and you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
Some Douglas Coupland passages I really really like. He has a way of putting thoughts that you've had for years into crystal clarity in a few brief sentences.
"Dude, my freakin' head, I'm so wasted!"-Superfly. Joecartoon.com
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"I hope it feels so good to be right. There is nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?"-Randal, Clerks.
"Indeed I am, madam, but you are ugly, and in the morning, I shall be sober."
~Winston Churchill, in response to the accusation he was drunk
I have three:
"If you do something right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
-G[COLOR="black"][COLOR="black"]o[/COLOR][/COLOR]d, Futurama
"The world never changes; all it does is turn. So just shut up and dance."
-Kun Lan, Killer7
"And now with your permission, I'm going to do my stuff.
"W-what are you going to do?"
"I'm gonna do the best I can."
Mr. Oogie Boogie, Nightmare Before Christmas
Real-life quotes are as follows:
"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others." - Douglas Adams
"If you think this world is bad, you should see some of the others." - Philip K Dick
"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." - Philip K Dick
"Run fast or lose your ***" - Homer J. Simpson
These are my favorite quotes from my favorite show, "The Wonder Years". Everytime I think about growing up, so many of these come to mind. I remember I made a thread just about these quotes. I'll make another post with some more of my favorites, but here are my favorites from this show.
"Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn't have to be so much a straight line as a series of advances and retreats."
"When you're a little kid, you're a little bit of everything. Artist, scientist, athlete, scholar... Sometimes it seems like growing up is the process of giving those things up. One by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up. One thing we really miss. That we gave up because we were too lazy or, we couldn't stick it out or, because we were afraid."
^ That one always resonated in my head. I remember the episode it came from so vividly, and the darkness falling and "Canon" playing as he rode down the street, with the omnicient voice saying that.
"All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope... all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow, there's someone perfect... who might be searching for us."
^ Lately I've been thinking of that quote too.
"I hadn't noticed what a beautiful night it was - lit by starlight. The world smelled clear and clean. For a minute, I didn't feel like a kid anymore. But for the first time in a long time... I felt young."
^ This summer has made me feel this way a lot, it's like im 17, but I just don't want to grow up. All these crazy summer nights I've been having, adventure, excitement, the beach, the joyrides, the city, the moonlight... I just don't want it to end.
"I never knew until that moment how much it could hurt to lose something you never really had."
^ This doesn't even need an explanation. I think many of us have felt this way at one point.
"Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves...for growing up."
^ This just really meant a lot to me. A great growing up quote.
"Love makes you do funny things. It makes you proud. It makes you sorry. That night we talked. About life. About our times together. Maybe we weren't the same two kids we had once been. But some things never change. Some things last. And even though I didn't know what was going to happen to us, or where we were going. I just knew I couldn't let her out of my life."
^ This quote is an interesting one to me, because sometimes it feels that it's hard to have that person in your life, and to know things aren't the same. If you've ever had a friend like this, I think this one would hit you.
"But the thing is, that was all we did. Maybe it was happening too fast. Maybe we wanted to hold on to what we had. Or maybe we both knew there were other things we had to find before we found each other. All we really knew for sure was, as we sat there, looking out over the lights of the town where we had grown up together, it all felt right. It all felt...perfect."
^ This one just means a lot to me for personal reasons.
"There are times in a young life when you have to do something for yourself. When you have to stand up for what you believe in. When the world has closed the door on adventure. And your only choice is to bust out."
^ I feel this a lot. Sometimes I'm just tired of routine. Sometimes, you just need to do something on impulse, for you.
"The hardest part of growing up is having the ones you've always turned to, turn to you."
^No explanation needed
"One thing a kid learns growing up, is that life is a series of risks. It's a cause-and-effect relationship. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Still, with the proper guidance, we learn to deal with the risks. And pretty soon, we set out into the world sure in our options, confident of our choices. Until, that is eleventh-grade. The year of decisions."
^ I felt this way this year. 11th grade, very hard year for me. Life is about a series of risks.
I dunno, I think this will turn out to be a long long post, and I know a lot of you guys probably wont read it because sometimes I see posters type tldr, and skip it, but these are quotes that mean something to me. I hope I didn't go off topic.
"... then I decided that I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic."
I always thought it was cute.
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than he who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is the victory over self."
-Aristotle (had to spellcheck his name :( )
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. "
- Charles Colton (I found this one on Google and fell in love with it)
"You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. "This is what happened once.""
-Mitch Hedberg
"Keep your words short and sweet, because you might have to eat them later" - Jerry "the King" Lawler
Nearly anything attributed to Robert Frost, but most of all "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
I also really like the ******* Churchill quote that Wings chose.
I like countless more quotes, but those are two of my favorites. I might add a few more later.
"And what's the real lesson? Don't leave things in the fridge." - Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
"I humbly submit my middle finger, extended in a upward fashion, as a token of friendship..." -my friend Cresse
"If you don't like it, just pretend you do." -Grandma
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." -Friedrich Nietzsche
I've pretty much lived my life by this quote ever since I read it.
I see that Nietzsche quote get repeated a lot, but I've never been able to figure out what it's supposed to mean. Could one of its fans perhaps tell me what *they* think it's saying?
"If you're fighting against something you oppose, make sure you do not become what you are fighting against." In essence, be reasonable, don't let your opinions sway you too much, and more over all don't be a hypocrite.
I'm the type of person that is charitable and friendly. I like to help people in their time of need, regardless of the calibur or importance. Because of my general performance in things like work or school, I seem to be hated or envied by others. Often, in my personality past, I would lower my performance so they would find me more acceptable. Now, with newfound confidence (or something close to it), I don't care anymore if people give me bad looks because of my recommendations of the people I help. I shouldn't have to lower myself. I will not be them.
The second part of the quote, to me, has some kind of poetic meaning. When I think about that part of the quote, I imagine myself as a child, looking down a well. This well is dangerous for children. They could very well fall in. This well is bad. The well, in my thoughts, encompasses everything bad that I should stay away from. For some reason, though I don't go near the well, it is there, and my curiosity is, too. I'm rational enough not to go near it.
Is it from Also Sprach Zarathustra or something else?
When going gets wierd, the wierd go pro.
"If you're going through hell, keep going."- ******* Churchill
When I heard this first I smiled. Im going through a pretty rough period, and I just wrote that over and over and it helped me out. It is true. Nothing else you can do, but keep going.
Here, have a real quote.
"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it." ~Elias Schwartz
"Anything worth doing is worth doing right."
- Hunter S. Thompson
"You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident... Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
"I've lived my whole life without taking help from anybody, and I'll be ****ed if I'm gonna let you help me into my grave."
"It'll **** people off. And that, at the end of the day, is all that really matters."
"I'm here and I feel I'll be here to the end."
"We have nothing to lose but our chains."
If you were cool, you'd know who/what they were from. or you could have a contest.
I know the first one is from 1984. The rest sound somewhat familiar.
Yeah, I realized a whole lot of views are related very closely to those quotes, so it's not very hard to live by them.
"Embrace your inner wacko, Senator Kerry." - Rush Limbaugh http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh
cant think of anything poetic or meaningful for quotes to share so i will just point to my sig and hope for the best.
Look down.... look waaaaaaaaaaay down.. not that far down. a little higher, now to the right. Thats it. :)
"I'M THE GREATEST FU[EMAIL="h'"][/EMAIL]C[RIGHT][/RIGHT]KER HERE! AND YOU SNIVELLING SHITS WOULD DIE WITHOUT ME, BAHAHAHA!" - lewis black.
I dunno who said this, but its beena a favorite of mine for a while.
"A good friend is someone who steps in when the rest of the world steps out"
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
-President Bush
"Please explain to me the scientific nature of the whammy."
-Agent Scully (The X-Files)
"Well, that's your neurosis, not mine."
-Polly Hood
And this one who I have no idea who said it: "You could offer me your world, but who knows if I'd stay? You could offer me the heavens, and I'd have to walk away."
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most" -Ozzy Osbourne
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi
"Where love is, there *** is also." - Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Gandhi
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
"Be who you are & say what you feel because those who mind don't matter & those who matter don't mind." - Dr.Suess
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"Stripes or tails or feathers
Help make us who we are
Be happy being you each day
And you'll bounce very far!" - Tigger
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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir ******* Churchill
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha
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"If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius
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"Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't." - Anonymous
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"Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for *** will be with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9
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"A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to pack." - ******* Churchill
My favorite is "Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds." -Shakespeare
"This is exactly what it looks like" - Peter Griffin
The context in which it was said made me laugh a lot.
"Old is in the head, not the birth certificate." - No idea
"Remember boys, flies spread disease! So keep yours closed!" - Luz, Band of Brothers
"And that there, gentlemen, is the reason that *** gave women beautiful posteriors. Because if they have to walk away from you, it should at least be an enjoyable experience."
No idea where I heard that last one, but it's stuck with me.
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy." - Groucho Marx
Rimmer (Future): "No, look, I'm you from the future. I've come to warn you in three million years you'll be dead."
Rimmer (Past) [Sarcastically]: "Will I really!?!"
Rimmer (Future) : "Yes, unless you do something about it now."
Rimmer (Past) : "What do you suggest? Give up white bread, more roughage?"
-Rimmer exploits the stasis leak to try to save himself in the past so that he will be alive in the future.
From Red Dwarf, Series 2: Episode 4 - "Stasis Leak". Chances are you wont get it.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty ***! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry
going to be getting that tatood on my back shortly. Should be fun.
"Blasphemy is a victimless crime" -Richard dawkins.
"No need to panic. I'll just lash together a few raw facts, a little bit of Negro wisdom, and this nightmare is over."
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
[LEFT]"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I ****, what I take into my body – as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"[/LEFT]
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Bill Hicks[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
[LEFT]"With women, it's always one of two things. Either they won't sleep with you, and then there's really no need to ever call them again. Or they DO sleep with you... and then there's really no need to ever call them again."[/LEFT]
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Ryan Reynolds[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
[LEFT]"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's as good as they're going to feel all day"[/LEFT]
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Frank Sinatra[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
[LEFT]"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."[/LEFT]
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Ernest Hemmingway.[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
[LEFT]"Only the dead have seen the end of war."[/LEFT]
[RIGHT][SIZE=1]- Anonymous[/SIZE][/RIGHT]
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." - Albert Einstein
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"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged; their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows that it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend" - Ellis Redding, The Shawshank Redemption
This isn't my favourite, I found it 5 minutes ago and was in awe over who said it. Thought I'd share:
"I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."
-- Queen Victoria, 1870
That just made my day.