Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Billiards Girl]

Why don't we do it in the road.

The Beatles

[Kim L.]

We are all more human than otherwise. - Harry Stack Sullivan, psychoanalyst

[Becks19]

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world that it is possible to be happy. ~ Augustine Birrell~

[LongTallSally]

Talking with a man is like trying to saddle a cow. You work like hell, but what's the point?

--Gladys Upham

[Becks19]

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey~

[smerdyakov]

I picked up 'essays from four decades' by allen tate a while back; it's very good. Here's an excerpt from the essay 'religion and the old south':

This modern mind sees only half of the horse -- that half which may become a dynamo, or an automobile, or any other horsepowered machine. If this mind had had much respect for the full-bodied, grass-eating horse, it would never have invented the engine which represents only half of him.

There's lot's of different topics covered throughout the book: literary criticism, theory, history, roles of tradition, some essays on eliot, yeats, poe, the south, and even more I haven't read yet. It's definitely worth picking up.

[Percys Wet Trousers]

I know i believe in nothing but it is my nothing - Richey James Edwards

[WhiteRook]

"Oh my God, he's cutting off her fingers." Jerry Pinkus-Skin-Ted Dekker

"Yatta!" Hiro-Heroes

[knghtmare]

Some of my fav quotes.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -Douglas Adams

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -Qui-Gon Jinn

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Benard Bailey

I'm gonna keep the coke and the fries but I'm gonna send this burger back. And if you put any mayonnaise on it, I'm gonna come over to your house, I'll chop your legs off, set fire to your house, and watch as you drag your bloody stumps out the door. - Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski

[CorbinKale]

A few more from Heinlein--

-Pessimist by policy, optimist by temperament — it is possible to be both. How? By never taking an unnecessary chance and by minimizing risks you can’t avoid. This permits you to play out the game happily, untroubled by the certainty of the outcome.

-Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

-Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of — but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

-You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

-The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must —" designates some thing that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change clichés and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.