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Hi,
Yet another old thread that I think we need revived here in our shiny new playground, so a favourite to kick it off -
'In the end, we can only find peace in our human lives by accepting the will of the universe'.
(Sai King, New Introduction to Pet Semetary, September 20th, 2000)
Long days and pleasant nights
Great quote John! :eyebrow: I think that's 5, hmnnn, lol
Hi,
'Any beer in the fridge after the store has closed is very good beer'.
Pet Semetary 1988
Long days and pleasant nights
Neils Letter to his Bank Manager
"Darling Fascist Bullyboy,
Give me some more money, you bastard.
May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman,
Neil."
The Young Ones
Episode - Cash
"Either get busy living or get busy dying" - Red, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Random SK quotes:
"Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew then that my IQ had been damaged."
and of course...
"Long days and pleasant nights."
Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnDalglish
"What's the best kind of beer?"
Free beer!!!!! :wink2:
My husband circa for as long as I've known him
My favourite quote would have to be "We are men of action. Lies do not become us"
"Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them."
Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
A few that come directly to mind...
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." ~~ Kahlil Gibran
"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." ~~ Douglas Adams
"Humor is just another defense against the Universe" ~~ Mel Brooks
" 'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always stranger than fiction if it could be told." ~~ Lord Byron
and my favorite:
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~~ Douglas Adams
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
A music lyric that always sticks out in my head in these types of discussion is:
"If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts"
A.Duritz (Counting Crows) "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby"
But, I'm with dsurrett on the classic SK
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
Cracks me up.
Random SK quotes:
"I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew then that my IQ had been damaged."
ROFL!
Alrighty then!
Jim Carrey (Pet Detective) :oops:
Hi,
Thought this kind of appropriate to the new MB -
'Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better'
Samuel Johnson (1709-1794) from 'A Dictionary of the English Language (1755).
Long days and pleasant nights
'It was only a Kiss'
Mr Brightside :)
"Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools."
Sir Richard Steele
Don't Quote Me . . . .
Madam
"Your heart is greater than your wounds."
Henri Nouwen
"The heart has its reasons,
which the reason knows not."
Blaise Pascal
"You are walking lost in wonder,
emptied of self and mindful of Reality,
and suddenly you interrupt this peace
to exclaim:
'How beautiful is this tree!
How magnificent this field.'
You forfeit the moment.
The intrusion of self
and the imposing of judgment
separates you from Reality
and snares you in a web of words.
Be still
and embrace it all in silence."
Rabbi Jacob
This one is from SK's Grand dad, from On Writing.
"Stevie, every time you open your mouth your guts fall out."
Hi,
'To live outside the law you must be honest' Bob Dylan.
Long days and pleasant nights
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful."
Kathleen Winsor
A quote from the movie, 'The Princess Bride'. Excellent quote. Here's another.Quote:
Originally Posted by Umney
"Life is pain highness. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something."
This one was on a tee shirt I noticed as I was putting away my laundry.
YOU HAD ME
AT HELL NO
Good quote. I love the Princess Bride! I love the tee shirt too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Firetalion
My buddy has a tee-shirt that says, "Don't worry... I'm a professional".
The funny part of this being his shirt, was this was the guy I hired to take about a half inch off of the bottom of a nearly 100 year old cast iron radiator. We had to have it removed, because we had just remodeled and the floor had a new layer on top of the old, so the radiator wouldn't have connected with the pipe coming through the floor anymore. He took it off, by getting a hold of a grinder, which had to have the guard removed to fit the large concrete cutting disc in, and he held the grinder to each of the individual feet of the radiator. He was blasting himself with metal dust and debris (not even wearing eye protection or a breathing mask), and he told me later that he felt like he had blood in his mouth, because of the taste of the metal he kept sneezing out of his face and choking on the rest of the night.
He got the job done. Although I wanted to take a video of it at the time and put it on utube as "the WRONG way" to do something. If he slipped an inch, his thumb would have been grinded off within tenths of a second. He had to press down the safety switch on the grinder to get it to go, which was seriously less than 2 inches from the grinding blade.
He has another teeshirt that says, "Ted Kennedy has killed more people with his car than I have with my gun."
Hahaha...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/content/...rs_396x222.jpg
[holding up his thumb and forefinger]
Excuse me madam, is this a piece of your brain?
Basil Fawlty to one of his more annoying hotel patrons, after she bumped her head.
I like famous quotes and sayings that contradict each other. Like "Haste makes waste" and "He who hesitates is lost" or "a stitch in time saves nine" and "let it all hang out" :biggrin2:
I use this one in my sig--I love it.
...Or put it on your T.S. List and give it to the chaplain.
-Steve King
When I say that she played
with me, for the first time in my
life I mean that the way a little
kid would mean it. She played
with me, like a kid might play
with another kid who had been
whacked on the head recently
and needed some diversion.
Well, if this was a sane culture,
I mean, and kids were allowed
to have sex with each other as
part of playing, like God
intended.
(from a character quoted as "Joe" in my Spider Robinson quotes book.)
It claims to be fully automatic,
but actually you have to push
this little button here.
--Gentleman John Killian
People who wear glasses are
lucky; we have stars on
rainy nights.
-- Jake
For a predator, a wrong guess
can be preferable to a slow one.
-- Jake
If you can't have fun here, it's
your own damn fault.
-- Mike
Ren: Oh, my beloved ice-cream bar. How I love to lick your creamy center.
[eats bar of soap]
Ren: And your oh, so nutty chocolate covering. You're not like the others. You like the same things I do: Wax paper. Boiled football leather. Dog breath. We're not hitchhiking anymore. We're riding!
Ren:It's my Icereeammmm bar. I've had it, since I was a CHILDE!!!
(from the 'Ren and Stimpy Show')
John Candy owns! (even though his voice preceded this line)
"So there I was. Stuck with this beautiful girl. I knew she was gonna be nothin' but trouble."
From Heavy Metal, the first skit after the intro.
We don't have to love each other, we're family. Holly Hunter in the movie Home for the Holidays.
Ah yes . . .La Belladona. Here's another:Quote:
Originally Posted by La Belladonna
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
:cool2::laugh:." ..........And away we go!!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry B
"There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book." Saul Bellow
:cool2::biggrin2:And Basil, when answering Sybil's bellow:" YES,DEAR!.....(under his breath)....my little nest of vipers......"Quote:
Originally Posted by Firetalion
Maybe when you die you come before a big, bearded man on a big throne, and you ask "Is this heaven?", and he says "Heaven? You just came from there." -Kirk Douglas
:cool2::oh: 1. ...." It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed." Comodus (Joaquin Phoenix) from 'Gladiator'. 2. "Do you love?" Nona, Sai King. 3.(and this is not exact, but this how I always remembered from watching as a kid): "Oh, I didn't surrender! But my horse did, so I had to go with him." Chief Dan George in ' The Outlaw Josey Wales'. 4. " Hey!!!!!!! Man, THERES A BEVERAGE here!!!!!" The Dude (Jeff Bridges) from 'The Big Lebowski' 5. " It's a good day to be indigenous!..." The Rez morning D.J. from 'Smoke Signals' 6. " Hide the Rum!!!!!!!!" Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) from Pirates of the Caribbean A lot of these are not correct, but they're some of my many favorites!:biggrin2:
"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."
Helen Keller
:cool2: "........The pen is mightier than the sword........."Quote:
Originally Posted by La Belladonna
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
:cool2: Agent J to agent K, pointing to K and then to himself: " Old and busted! New hottness!" (very favorite of mine and CubJax! I'm 'old and busted' and he's my my 'new hottness':biggrin2:
"The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient."
Francis Peabody, MD
I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender.
Set your sights on the STARS and you will at least get to the MOON
Hi,
'Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw mud but one saw stars'
Long days and pleasant nights
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim for the heart and soul of the spender?Quote:
Originally Posted by smjohn
Hi,
'And if my ideas concerning the boundaries of art seem rather lenient, that's too bad. I'm no snob, and if you are, that's your problem. In my business, if you lose your taste for good baloney, it's time you got into some other line of work.'
Sai King - 'Danse Macabre' - 1981
Long days and pleasant nights
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kim L.
Exactly!:eek2:
"Only 1,326 work related accidents this month. Keep up the good work!"
"You are who you eat"
"Mudokons entering this door will be slaughtered and packaged as disgusting yet yummy novelty meat products"
"Wanted: Modokon Fleech Flusher. No experience necessary"
"Scrab cakes..mm..they'll cost ya an arm and a leg!"
(that was also said by the Slig at the M.O.M.) [magog on the mosh, the live propaganda news station]
"Arms not good enough? Buy a new pair ya idiot!"
"A little hard work never killed anyone important"
These all went by in the ticker tape neon signs in the background of the original Oddworld game...