Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[motherwolf]

:cool2::biggrin2:“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135) Very stoic to be sure. :eyebrow:
This one is priceless Purrrtricia! Thanks for putting it here! Got our cup Baby-Girl! Whenever you're ready to come get it!:love:

[daisygirl]

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass --
it's about learning how to dance in the rain."

[MrsSmeej]

My favorite quote for today made me cry.

Richard Rescorla was the security chief for Morgan Stanley, a company that occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Center. When the planes struck the Towers, Rescorla had his people prepared. They ignored Port Authority instructions to remain in their offices, and listened to their security chief... You see, he'd already lived through the 1993 bombing. His people had drilled evacuation plans and Rescorla went from floor to floor with a bull horn and got people moving by singing to them. An Englishman, Rescorla sang my new favorite quote;

Men of Cornwall stand ye steady.
It cannot be ever said
Ye for the battle were not ready.
Stand and never yield.

Rescorla got all 2,687 Morgan Stanley employees out. He was last seen on the tenth floor - heading back up into the burning tower - to see if he could help save any more people. His remains have never been recovered.

[motherwolf]

:cool2::smile2: Words of encouragement and peace that can help anyone, with anything: "Come, Holy Spirit, fill my heart with Your holy gifts. Let my weakness be penetrated with your strength this very day that I may fulfill all the duties of my state concientiously, that I may do what is right and just. Let my charity be such as to offend no one, and hurt no ones feelings; so generous as to pardon sincerely any wrong done to me. Assist me, O Holy Spirit, in all my trials of life, enlighten me in my ignorance, advise me in my doubts, strengthen me in my weakness, help me in all my needs, protrct me in temptations and console me in afflictions. Graciously hear me, O Holy Spirit, and pour Your light into my heart, my soul, and my mind. Assist me to live a holy life and to grow in goodness and grace." Amen.

[Kim L.]

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

Sen. Robert F Kennedy, at University of Cape Town, South Africa June 6, 1966.
He was assassinated June 6, 1968.

[daisygirl]

'Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.'

I don't know who said this, but I like it.:smile2:

[BlackThorn]

'Hey, wanna come with us and have some fun?'

and when she said she was gonna be with her boyfriend tonight,

'he can come too if he wants...'

Best pickup line in the world. I mean, honestly, are relationships all cages these days? The day my woman won't let me go play, is the same day I don't have a woman. Are we that scared and threatened as beings? Honestly?

[LadyPain]

Imagination is far more important than knowledge.

-Albert Einstein

[BlackThorn]

See this?

[points to a specific location on his temple, one where maybe horns mayhap would grow]

It's getting bigger...

[BlackThorn]

Sorry about the floods. :0/ I'm in one of those moods. I'm tryin to be quick witted at least...


This one is from a great protector.

"We get them to raise their flags."

I loved how he said, "we".

[Kim L.]

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

[skimom]

If a man is not a liberal when he is young, he does not have a heart.
If he is not a conservative when he is old, he doesn't have a brain.
Winston Churchill (not a direct quote, just the jist of it)

[Spideyman]

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta


That is beautiful, Kim.

[Maelstrom]

"We can cure physical diseases with medicine but the only cure for loneliness, despair and hopelessness is love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Good quote, but Mother Teresa didn't have the SKMB to fall back on :biggrin2:

[Kim L.]

That is beautiful, Kim.

Thanks, Spidey. Not to sound mushy, but love is such a powerful force.

[BlackThorn]

Mother Teresa was a warrior spirit on the front line.

I hope I didn't bust this quote out already. But it is soooo one of my favorites...

"Originally, all martial art belts were only white. There was no color belt reward system for martial arts. That was invented for when the arts were brought to america, so we could see a students progression.

So, when you saw a guy with a grungy dark nasty belt that was falling apart, you understood immediately he was one you did not want to anger."

[BlackThorn]

Hehe... The other day a friend of mine said the following. The woman the quote was about, once slipped her tongue and explained how because an ex boyfriend owed her money, she had called the police and got him arrested. She said, "Oh, I had a baby in the car, and I just had to swerve to avoid him, help!" to the police, or something like that.

So at one point this friend states to me,

"I pulled a Joe on her at some point last night. I don't even know how we got to this in the conversation, but I let it out, just how far out of my way I would go, if someone blatently used police in an attempt to destroy my life."

Myself, I'm like a living 'Tales From the Crypt' episode when it comes to vindication. If something enters my world, and dangerously upsets or seriously inconviences my life, when I honestly didn't earn it... *sigh* Let's just say, I pray we'll never need to set foot on that path.

Although, driving drunk and endangering the lives of everyone else out there, is just about as disgusting as playing the system to scar someones life to begin with.

If you ask for it, don't be suprised when you get it. -- Me

[BlackThorn]

Let me put it this way...

Stephen King doesn't need to write about Seth MacFarlane.

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/seth-macfarlane-fox-all-star-winter-tca-party-MfoKQC.jpg

[BlackThorn]

"The army of samuari, who had completely mastered the art of fighting with a long katana, was pitted up against another army. This other army, fought with two swords, one in each hand.

And the outcome? The samuari all died. They had all of their arms cut off laying on the battlefield. The ones with a sword in both hands, were unscathed..."

A story of an ancient battle. I don't remember which groups were which, I only remember the story of the battle, so I didn't put their country of origin names in. I feel horrible getting things like that wrong.

But yeah, they all lost their arms, even though before that, they were the dominant warriors of the world.

[pennywise123]

-M-O-O-N- spells moon :love:

[Kim L.]

Children aren't happy
with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents
were created for.

Ogden Nash

[Dr. Fudd]

"The army of samuari, who had completely mastered the art of fighting with a long katana, was pitted up against another army. This other army, fought with two swords, one in each hand.

And the outcome? The samuari all died. They had all of their arms cut off laying on the battlefield. The ones with a sword in both hands, were unscathed..."

A story of an ancient battle. I don't remember which groups were which, I only remember the story of the battle, so I didn't put their country of origin names in. I feel horrible getting things like that wrong.

But yeah, they all lost their arms, even though before that, they were the dominant warriors of the world.So the two sword army literally disarmed the one sword army. I'd say the two sword army won hands down. They're really a cut above the rest. Too bad the saying isn't, 'for warned is four armed' the one sword army could have really used the extra arms...

[Patricia A]

So the two sword army literally disarmed the one sword army. I'd say the two sword army won hands down. They're really a cut above the rest. Too bad the saying isn't, 'for warned is four armed' the one sword army could have really used the extra arms...
A stitch in time saves nine.
by Anymouse

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Good job they're (h)armless.

Can't believe I said that, sorry.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Maelstrom]

Hickory Dickory Dock
Three mice ran up the clock
The clock struck one
But the other two got away with minor head injuries

[Shorty--]

Let me put it this way...

Stephen King doesn't need to write about Seth MacFarlane.

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/seth-macfarlane-fox-all-star-winter-tca-party-MfoKQC.jpg



The Sethster needs to replace the purple tie....


HEY, Im just being honest here. I'm not HATIN'. Just sayin'...

[nicos]

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ~ Mark Twain

[Patricia A]

More Mark Twain.
It is easier to stay out than get out.

[Dr. Fudd]

A stitch in time saves nine.
by Anymouse

Ok, I've got to ask, Wha?

[nicos]

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

[Spideyman]

"Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the Frog

[Patricia A]

Ok, I've got to ask, Wha?
LOL I dunno come to think of it?
It made sense in my head, I was thinking along the lines of stitching the guys arms back on.

[GarratyVStebbins]

THE SPARROWS ARE FLYING AGAIN

-Fornit Some Fornus-

[CorbinKale]

LOL I dunno come to think of it?
It made sense in my head, I was thinking along the lines of stitching the guys arms back on.


I think that one means that if you repair a garment when one stitch will do the job, then that will save you from having to do a larger repair later, when more stitches will be required.

[TBlack]

"...Go ahead then, be a GODDAMN HOLY MARTYR!!!...:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:"
-------------------------------------------------------------- The Original Mrs. Black
-------------------------------------------------------("Queen MotherBitch Extroirdinair")

[WykydR]

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~Joan Rivers

Jesus saves. Allah forgives. C'thulu thinks you'd make a good sandwich.
~Anon

“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
~Dave Barry

[Spideyman]

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has just crushed it. Mark Twain

[Kim L.]

I think that one means that if you repair a garment when one stitch will do the job, then that will save you from having to do a larger repair later, when more stitches will be required.

Kind of like "for the want of a nail, the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe, the horse was lost, for the want of a horse the rider was lost..."

[LadyPain]

A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
~Joan Rivers

Jesus saves. Allah forgives. C'thulu thinks you'd make a good sandwich.
~Anon

“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
~Dave Barry

I love the second one. Okay. I love the first one too. Oh crap. I'm a Dave Barry fan. I love them all...:blush:

[Maelstrom]

"They all float down here...."

SK in IT

[La Belladonna]

"You're about as bright as night."

don't ask :blush:

[BlackThorn]

"And you'll be able to defend against anything..."

Quoted while watching one master, go about attacking another master with sticks representing swords in both hands. No matter which attack the second master took against the first, it's defense was as natural as a breeze. He wasn't even looking while he did it, to be honest. It just came out that way.

[BlackThorn]

I'm sure I've done this one before, but this is raw power. More wind, from a throat, than should come.

"You should take an enemy, and stand next to them, and laugh about the problem. Look at it together, and make them on your side."

but then he went on to say

"Well, the other day someone threw a rock through my window. Believe me when I say, that guy was outta there."

I went up to Montreal with someone who trained under this man. He can do a move, that's older than The Christ by a thousand years. It's called, 'Monkey Climbs A Tree', where the dude runs up your arm, muckles on, and crocks his body, where if you resist an inch further, your arm leaves your body.

This guy dissappeared for a while, between strip clubs and bars and stuff. Eventually he made it back to the hotel. I asked him, "Where have you been? What have you been up to?"

His response was, "I can't say." And he stuck to that response too.

All I could picture was someone telling him they wanted his money (he didn't have any, I carried most of the bread that day), and threatening him with a knife, and picturing him, drunk on beer that's a higher percentage than we get down here in the states, and picturing him take that blade right out of his hands as if he was a child, and placing it wherever he wanted on the other guys body. Probably laughing hard as this was happening too. Maybe. I've never really seen him fight. Only practice a bit.

But yeah, "that guy was outta there" is a good straight way to put it.

[BlackThorn]

Got this quote from 'Devil May Care', a witchy mystery by Elizabeth Peters.

"A dog might occasionally bite the hand it feeds, but it will never stab it in the back."

Yeah, I'm not insulted by getting called a dog. Quite the contrary actually.

[BlackThorn]

I saw Kermit the Frog the other day, joking with the guy from A & E, on some interview between shows.

Kermit, was very concerned with his kind ending up in the road, and getting flattened. He looked right into the camera, quite seriously, and stated,

"Stay out of the road. Seriously."

I probably misquoted, but the meat and potatoes is still there. He was serious about it. It got me to stop and drop what was on my mind, and listen. And he's right. Stay out of the road froggers. There's better places to be.

[Sundrop]

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

[Kim L.]

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

LOL--good advice, Sundrop.

[skimom]

"Could be meat, could be cake...could be meatcake"-George Carlin
RIP, pal. You were the best.

[Tery]

A few from George Carlin:

"People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point."


"All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war."


"When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic. I'm an acrostic -- the whole thing puzzles me."


"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."

:down:

[CindyJade]

“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.” -- SK (Desperation)
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out." SK (The Body)
"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle." - SK



"His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of human existance was that broken hearts mended." - SK (DT : W&G)

[Kim L.]

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Sarah Wiliams

[skimom]

The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off; neither can I. Bring light to the darkness.-Bob Marley

[Osminog]

"Every society has the criminals it deserves"
-Emma 'Red Emma' Goldman

(Sorry if it's a paraphrase; I leant my book to a friend, who moved right quick to Chicago, loaned the book to a friend, who, when he came to visit, attempted to bring it although his luggage was all confiscated by false police officers. Drama? LOL!)

[sheba41]

The people who are trying to make this world worse aren't taking a day off; neither can I. Bring light to the darkness.-Bob Marley
O, yes Bob Marley......stir it up!.......l.....d......s.....i....u...o...l.d...he is so good....excuse me .....was

[Todash]

"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." —Tom Servo

[Kim L.]

"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout." —Tom Servo

:rofl:
I miss Tom Servo (& Crow T. Robot & Gypsy & Cambot....)

[smooth operator]

I have two:

"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." (source unknown)

************************************************** ************
Teach us to care
and not to care.

Teach us to
sit still.

(TS Eliot)

[CorbinKale]

:rofl:
I miss Tom Servo (& Crow T. Robot & Gypsy & Cambot....)

My favorite line from the MST3K crew was when the theme of the day was 'political correctness', and they were talking about a guy who had died in the film they were heckling.

"He's not dead, he's metaphysically challenged."

[Moderator]

:biggrin2: Was sorry to see that show go off the air.

[Kim L.]

My favorite line from the MST3K crew was when the theme of the day was 'political correctness', and they were talking about a guy who had died in the film they were heckling.

"He's not dead, he's metaphysically challenged."

While they were watching Hercules:
"His chest looks like Butter-Top Buns."

[Kim L.]

:biggrin2: Was sorry to see that show go off the air.

My husband & I still quote it all the time. Our cat, Crow, was named after Crow T. Robot.

[M.O.DENGLER]

'My toast is burnt..but with the aid of butter and jam..I shall eat it anyway..' - M.O.Dengler.

Damn.

That quote has so many levels:cool:

[nicos]

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle

[mushhead]

ssdd

[Neil W]

"Why? Because there's holes in brandysnaps and railings round the park."

- My Grandmother

[skimom]

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
WOW!! I missed that over the years-thanks for bringing it to my attention.:grinning:.

[LadyPain]

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

[marew1]

Here are a few:

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King

"A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child."
Kathy Davis

“Common sense is not so common.”
Voltaire

“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”
Rosa Parks

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”
Andrew Carnegie

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.”
Julie Andrews

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Alva Edison

“Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing, knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.”
Margaret Thatcher

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. Washington

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Helen Keller

“Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.”
General George Patton Jr.

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott

[BlackThorn]

Quote from marew1 - "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child."
Kathy Davis

Like the one from 'The Terminator, when Sarah Connor gets the iceream scoup dropped in her dress,

"Look at it this way, in a hundered years, who's gonna care?"

The children you guided and reached. That's an ever applicable answer.


Here's one of the ones I dreamed up once, and say sometimes when people are talking about liars.

"You only get so many breaths when you're on this earth; why would you make them lies?"

[sheba41]

If you cant stand the heat.....get out of the kitchen.
don't know where it comes from

[Kim L.]

"Tight enough for jazz"
(also heard as "Close enough for government work" but the jazz one is better). IMO of course.

[poisonbat]

This quote is from SK and it is from Needful Things
It may not be exact but here it goes:
Pride, the coin in which without it your purse would be empty, isn't a girl entitled to her pride?

I like this quote, but I changed it a bit for myself:

Hope, the coin in which without it your purse would be empty, isn't a girl entitled to hope?

I hope SK wont be angry at me for changing this a bit to fit my life. :bat:

[poisonbat]

This is a sign that I have on my bedroom wall, it reads:

Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle.:bat:

[poisonbat]

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Me

[Katiedid]

"in three words i can sum up everything i learned about life:
It goes on.
Robert Frost

[Cowboy]

Good ones Poisonbat!

[LadyPain]

I have a wall plaque that has the hunter god, Cernunnos, holding a stag. There are protective symbols around the edge. The text says:

Enter the great circle of the unknown without fear.

[collisionist]

This is a sign that I have on my bedroom wall, it reads:

Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I together can't handle.:bat:

I really enjoy this one, Poisonbat. Thanks for posting it!

[Kim L.]

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are changed."
Carl Jung

[pennywise123]

"Did you love?"

[Todash]

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." —Doug Larson

[La Belladonna]

"A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return." Jewish Proverb

[eyesnot]

The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half.

[Todash]

The easiest way to double your money is to fold it in half.
Doesn't that end with "and put it back in your pocket"? :D

[La Belladonna]

"You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

[eyesnot]

Doesn't that end with "and put it back in your pocket"? :D

That's what happened to all my money!
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/BDX/BDX119/money-tree_~bxp27237.jpg

[Kim L.]

Time, nature and patience are the three best physicians.

[JohnDalglish]

"You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her."

Hi,

Never heard that one before, beautiful, La Belladonna.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Gwenivere]

"There's something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event, it's a thing that I need."

-William Faulkner

[LadyPain]

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." —Doug Larson

I love this quote! I'll have to copy it onto a piece of paper and hang it up for my husband. :love: I needed a smile.

[AngelZ]

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge

This quotation is a bit long, but I remind myself of this quotation daily because there so many times during the day when I don't want to finish something, but this quote presses me on. Persistence will take you places not talent alone.

[La Belladonna]

Hi,

Never heard that one before, beautiful, La Belladonna.

Long days and pleasant nights

Thanks John. I've never been able to pin down where it came from, but my uncle said it one night at a family get together to teach us young people a lesson....He was always one for sayings and such. Good man. :smile2:

[BlackThorn]

'Attitude is Everything'

This quote was written on a poster on the wall of a leather tannery I worked at.

I like it because, it's true in so many ways. Say, you have a set base, or a set way of looking at the world. Then, say you were thrown in to a place that humans would consider to be a "hell". Well, attitude is everything. I'll hold my morals to no end. If I was thrust into another dimension, I would be just fine, because I stand for what I believe, no matter what, where, or when.

Even if you had no memory. I mean, picture you take a fire-fighter or a dedicated nurse, and you threw their essence back in time, say a thousand years ago, maybe even during a time of war. Say they didn't know the difference, because to them, they saw themselves as if they were always there in that time. Well, the essence of their actions, and their attitude towards it all, would be just the same. Somebody nice, would still offer unselfish help to others, and a total greedy jerk, would still be a total greedy jerk, even a thousand years ago. Or even a thousand years from now, if it was the same soul with the same attitude.

But yeah, attitude is very important. And chutzpah is good too.

[Gwenivere]

'Attitude is Everything'



A fellow horse show competitor hangs a plaque on the front of her horses’ stall that says:

“ Attitude is everything, let the stress begin!”

Little does she know it inspires me too.

[Kim L.]

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge

This quotation is a bit long, but I remind myself of this quotation daily because there so many times during the day when I don't want to finish something, but this quote presses me on. Persistence will take you places not talent alone.

One of my favorite quotes, it has gotten me through many dark places.

[Todash]

I love this quote! I'll have to copy it onto a piece of paper and hang it up for my husband. :love: I needed a smile.
Great! One of my absolute favorite things is making someone else smile. :)

[Gwenivere]

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge

This quotation is a bit long, but I remind myself of this quotation daily because there so many times during the day when I don't want to finish something, but this quote presses me on. Persistence will take you places not talent alone.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
-Dale Carnegie

Persistence and enthusiasm breeds talent and success.
-Gwen

This is one of the very few 'sure' things in life.

[Haunted]

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date" William Shakespeare

[Haunted]

'Hold a true friend with both your hands.' Nigerian Proverb

[Sundrop]

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Peanut Queen]

At one point, I was going to get the following tattooed somewhere on my body because it's my favorite quote. I was thinking lower back but now that I'm older, I think not...:eyebrow:

"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. ~Erasmus

[skimom]

New favorite:
"Life is a circus, Luna-the tents just get bigger"
Ham to Luna in (and I am not making this up:smile2:) "Space Chimps"
I saw it with my 2 and 9 year olds today, and laughed my butt off(for a kids' movie).

[Haunted]

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO what a ride!"

(dunno who said it...but it appeals to my gut)

[rjt65]

In my signature think it sums it up well:


"Things which matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least" - Goethe

[Kim L.]

"Roses on the piano and tulips on the organ."

I'll just show myself out.

[JohnDalglish]

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO what a ride!"

(dunno who said it...but it appeals to my gut)

Hi,

LOVED that one, haunted! (I wonder why?).

And ROFFLMFAO Kim!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Cowboy]

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

- groucho marx

[Haunted]

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

- groucho marx

so COOOL

[Gwenivere]

"Roses on the piano and tulips on the organ."

I'll just show myself out.

:rofl::oo:
I'm right behind you, and I think Cowboy's going to have to leave too.

[RANGERWIFE]

OK, a little long but I have so many I like!


"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." MARK TWAIN


"The constitution only guarantees the American people the right to PURSUE happiness.You have the right to catch it yourself." BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"Finish each day and be done with it, you have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, and too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; Learn as if you were to live forever." MOHANDAS KARAMCHARD GANDHI

"THIS ABOVE ALL; TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE." WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR

"Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your soul, the other for your freedom." UNKNOWN

[Cowboy]

Women should be obscene and not heard.

-Groucho Marx :smile2:

[BlackThorn]

Yeah Cowboy... and

"Behind every great and successful man, is a confused woman."

=-0

I happened across this quote in a bookstore the other day...

"Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization."

— Kurt Vonnegut

[BlackThorn]

Oooooooooo... found a few more!


"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

— Kurt Vonnegut


"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. "

— Kurt Vonnegut

...

With me, if it's not as deep as it goes, I won't even feel like swimming. But when I know it's deep, I can do some really amazing dives.

One more. =)


"And so it goes..."

— Kurt Vonnegut

[Gwenivere]

Women should be obscene and not heard.

-Groucho Marx :smile2:

Yeah Cowboy... and

"Behind every great and successful man, is a confused woman."

=-0



A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle!

Take that!! Ha ha ha!

[BlackThorn]

Oooooooo... those girls freak me out. Any woman who thinks plastic and fingers could be worth more than the things I can do, and the things I have to offer the opposite sex... well, I don't want to know any more about it, let's put it that way. If a girl really wants to wear the pants, why wasn't she just born as a man? Without honest masculinity and femininity, I couldn't picture passion being anything to write home about. That would be playing, more than it would be passion.

And the quote I posted, that I think I got wrong... was to show that a woman would be like, 'WTF???', if her man actually figured somethin' out in life... :devil:

Hehe. I needed to go back to the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. quotes page I found the other day, to put this one in tonight:


"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

— Kurt Vonnegut


One of my friends was rocking a giant slab of bedrock that was resting on the rest of the bedrock, and he was putting all of his 210 lbs into rocking it completely back and forth, and up and down, about maybe two to three feet up on each side. It was slamming down really hard, with a thock and a crunch every time he shifted his weight back to the other side. And I'd say this slab weighs over a ton, easily... it was just balanced in the right way to be able to teeter...

So, after throwing a can inside and watching it get chewed by the machine of the stomping rock, I promptly slipped on the damp stone as I was going around the corner of this rock, and slid my left foot squarely and neatly in between the two boulders, as it was making it's upswing crunch. I made it to the ER today, and the x-rays showed I have a compound fracture, right in the center of my foot, although, it didn't really much at all other than when I put weight on it or until the doctor asked, "according to the x-rays... does it hurt, here? Ahh. Yeah, cause it's fractured right there..."

The cliffs and wings quote was so fresh in my head, I got a chance to recite it to someone I was with, before they went back to get a car to drive me out of there.

Amazing quote though. It's very true in life. We have to constantly take the damage, just to learn to survive it. It's just what the human experience consists of. My wings won't have feathers, white or black. They get to be leathery and dark, and sleek and strong. They'll fit justttttt right, by the time I'm done building them too. It'll be a good look for me. =0]

[Gwenivere]

Oooooooo... those girls freak me out. Any woman who thinks plastic and fingers could be worth more than the things I can do, and the things I have to offer the opposite sex... well, I don't want to know any more about it, let's put it that way. If a girl really wants to wear the pants, why wasn't she just born as a man? Without honest masculinity and femininity, I couldn't picture passion being anything to write home about. That would be playing, more than it would be passion.

And the quote I posted, that I think I got wrong... was to show that a woman would be like, 'WTF???', if her man actually figured somethin' out in life...

Okay, I’ll give you that. It wasn’t exactly the point I was trying to make.

A woman can be great and successful without a man or ‘wearing the pants’ and being masculine was the thought that crossed my mind.

I suppose that I mistook the intention of the quote and was confused so I think I’ll just shut up now.:oo::laugh::rofl:

[Haunted]

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

[Kim L.]

Without joy, there is no music
Without music, there is no joy

African Proverb

[JohnDalglish]

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana

Hi,

Thankee for the attribution of that, Haunted, I couldn't remember who it was.

Irag = Korea = Vietnam?

Long days and pleasant nights

[AngelZ]

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger" -- Friedrich Nietzche

[Todash]

"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help." —Calvin (of course)

[Haunted]

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

[Narcissus]

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith and we have hope, and we can work."
Jacques Cousteau

[dragafari]

I have always like this one:
"When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."
Jomo Kenyatta.

[Haunted]

"If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith and we have hope, and we can work."
Jacques Cousteau

OH, WONDERFUL, Narcissus. So much in so few words. Thanks!

[HalfBlood]

"Take her easy"...."I'll take her any way I can get her"
Not sure if those are the exact words, but it was in Insomnia, between Ralph and....Lachesis or Clotho. That's my favorite quote...so far.

[whoopsipoppedaplatypus]

'The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all'

I'm sure it's from somewhere originally but a friend wrote it in a good luck card.

[Tery]

A few in the spirit of the Olympics:

This (world) will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.~~ Theo. Roosevelt (paraphrased)

We are citizens of the world and the tragedy of our times is that we don't know it. ~~ Woodrow Wilson

Ho'omoe Wai Kahi Ke Kao'o: Let's all travel together like water flowing in one direction. ~~ Hawaiian Proverb

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein

[Firebird]

I don't know if I can put this on here but this is my new favourite "quote" : (I hope you all can see this)

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[AngelZ]

'The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all'

I'm sure it's from somewhere originally but a friend wrote it in a good luck card.

I don't see an author to this quote, but I love it!

Reminds me of "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." But who should be correctly attributed for this quote??? I'm getting lots of folks in my search including St. Augustine and Alfred Lord Tennyson

[Todash]

'The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all'

I'm sure it's from somewhere originally but a friend wrote it in a good luck card.
That reminds me of this one: "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

[Todash]

And here's a good one, for when you are not quite feeling up to the task at hand: "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

[Haunted]

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

The Tao of Seuss

[Liquidsoul]

To hazard the contradiction freedom is necessary. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. Stephen King.

[LadyPain]

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Todash, I love that one you posted!

[BlackThorn]

I just found this one today, on a dog walking service business card:


"Dogs aren't our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

[Haunted]

I just found this one today, on a dog walking service business card:


"Dogs aren't our whole life, but they make our lives whole."

I second that!!!! Oh, man... there is nothing like a dog being there when you have the blues or when you have good news and no one else is around. HOOHAA. DOGS RULE

And cats cuddle. We are so lucky to have our animals.

[Todash]

Oh my mother had one to suit any situation, here's one I often wondered about, "People who live in glass houses shouldn't beat behind (yes behind) the bush." I don't remember what I was doing at the time that prompted that one, I might have blocked that particular memory. LOL



If you think about it literally, that actually makes complete and total—if somewhat disturbing—sense. :D

[Todash]

I don't know who said this:

"Character is who you are when no one is watching."

[Gwenivere]

I second that!!!! Oh, man... there is nothing like a dog being there when you have the blues or when you have good news and no one else is around. HOOHAA. DOGS RULE

And cats cuddle. We are so lucky to have our animals.

Very true, dogs are unconditional."wuf you, wuf you, wuf you."
My cat says "get over it!".

[LadyPain]

I don't know who said this:

"Character is who you are when no one is watching."

I'm familiar with something similar...

"Character is who you are in the dark."

[BlackThorn]

Till you're really good at it, only dance in the dark.

Then you won't let others hold you down, with feelings about what they couldn't even do themselves anyway.

[CorbinKale]

I'm familiar with something similar...

"Character is who you are in the dark."

Another one along the same lines:

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.

[RANGERWIFE]

"If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there." Sioux Proverb


"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." Mary Catherine Bateson

[BlackThorn]

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[Kim L.]

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur

[Todash]

"When we knew what we knew, we did what we did. When we knew better, we did better." —Maya Angelou

[JohnDalglish]

"Chance favors the prepared mind."
Louis Pasteur

Hi,

Love that one, Kim, thankee.

Long days and pleasant nights

[BlackThorn]

"I'm a warrior for God. I go where he leads me, and I swing my sword and stand for what I stand for, and pray he'll help me make it right."

"I hope God puts me in a better position next time."

"I want to get paid eventually."

I was either in, or in front of, the dojo when I heard these lines. You're not the only one who's ready to get paid friend. Doing a flipping barrel roll through a big window is something I've always wanted to do, and I'm just about there.

The first one I'm pretty sure is a mis-quote. For some reason, what my friend says to me often does that 'cave of a thousand voices' thing, and I have a hard time nailing it down, even with my haunting memory.

Heh. Hell with being sane. I'd rather be justified. =0]

[BlackThorn]

Help me doc!
I've got VIDEO FEVER!

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I'm Daffy about Daphne!

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This sticker (plus 25 cents) entitles
the user to one free video game!

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Does anybody remember homework????

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Don't take away my joysticks
I'm saving the universe!

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These are all video game stickers that are still stuck on the dresser I grew up with.

[Todash]

This one, by the man himself, describes precisely how I felt as a child. I never, EVER let my feet hang off the bed. I've mostly outgrown that, though. I mean, I never let my feet hang off the bed ... but it's not because I'm scared.


"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."

[Todash]

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not." —Mary Catherine Bateson

[woolie]

Don't go mistaking paradise for that house across the road.

Bob Dylan.

[Todash]

Don't go mistaking paradise for that house across the road.

Bob Dylan.
Interesting ... at first I read it like, "Don't go mistaking that house across the road for paradise," but really it's a whole different meaning. If that's how he meant it, anyway.

[nancy cosgrove]

My dear departed dad was quite a talented singer in his time and I used to try and sing along with him. on one-such occasion he stopped and patiently looked down at me and said sadly"God love ya Nancy, your spirit is very willing--- but your voice is terribly weak":sad:

[Haunted]

"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library"
--Jorge Luis Borges

[Haunted]

Also

"That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein

[Gwenivere]

"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
"If you want peace prepare for war!"

-Frank Castle, The Punisher

[BlackThorn]

"Hey, if I wanted to be a piece of furniture, I'd be a woman's bicycle seat!"

-- Rodney Dangerfield.

[BlackThorn]

Well, come on in, I can give you the tour anyways. There won't be any surprises here for you, but I'll show you around, come on in.

See, over here is where we tourment the soul. "woooah".

**** man. If you've been married... if you've been married there's not much I can scare you with down here, you see that... what? You've been married twice? Hahehaha. Would you like a job down here? Cause if you've been married twice, you qualify for our 'job employment program' here now. We figure, anybody who's been married twice, can be a tour guide in hell. You can be a tour guide, you can go in groups. Folks, stick with me, I've been married twice I know this place, pretty ****in' well. I won't loose you on this one alright...

-- Sam Kinison on marriage and the devil

[BlackThorn]

Also

"That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."
--Ludwig Wittgenstein


This is a good one. There's a hard truth to it too.

Some combination of words a tongue was never meant to grasp.

[BlackThorn]

Them's an endangered spee-cees!

The Kid

[Michael The Wolf]

I have a few, been slowly reading through everyone's, sorry if I re-post.

When you’re riding high and surrounded with friends, time speeds up, turning the months and weeks into days and hours. But when you’re down and all alone, every minute stretches into a poisonous eternity. – Robert R McCammon – They Thirst

If your goal is to hurt my feelings, you could give lessons. – Chuck Palahniuk – Choke

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. – Stephen King

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. – Chuck Palahniuk

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? – Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't. – Chuck Palahniuk

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. – Chuck Palahniuk

Masochism is a valuable job skill. – Chuck Palahniuk

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished. – Chuck Palahniuk

I’m coming for you my friend. I’m ready to kick a$$ and chew bubble-gum, and I’m all out of bubble-gum. – Stephen King

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn’t seem like a big deal. I’m quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there. – Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

No comment is a comment. - George Carlin

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin

[BlackThorn]

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." - George Carlin

And that man, was a GENIUS! Come on, which male in his right mind wouldn't like to shoot napalm out of a gun to totally destroy? Whew... if I had too much money, this might become a weekly ritual. I'd try to make some bacon from a slaughtered pig. Or make a replica of some alien pods from Alien, and run around while keepin frosty, and puddle them in napalm. In the video game Bioshock, there was an injectable plasmid called Incinerate, and once injected, covering things in fire was accomplished by looking at something and snapping your fingers.


Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn’t seem like a big deal. I’m quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there. – Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

Whew. I got somethin like this goin on too, but it's a little bit different with me. With me, my ability to feel has been so shut off its starved nearly to death. And it's so ravenously hungry, it floods out like an electricity into everything around me. When I look someone in the eye, I beam them with it. So with me, it's the opposite of faking it. It's there, it's just starved. The simplest daily interactions I have with people I reach into them and pull out what they are, and analise their souls, and thrust what I am to their pallet, and force them to get a good taste of me.

Whatever made me the way I am, left me hollow, empty inside, and desperately craving the rush and beauty of any feeling at all.

[BlackThorn]

"You have to be born here..."

That was my Granda, talking about people who enjoy Maine, and people who can't stand it here.

[Kim L.]

"The eye sees what the mind knows."
One of my science professors.

[BlackThorn]

"Here we go again..."

He shows up
same day every year
and dances from sunrise to sunset.

I heard it's some kind of ritual
he used to dance here
back in the day.

Nice shoes.

She bought them
they were in love
but he couldn't stop.

So one day she left.

No one knows where she went.

- "I heard she got struck by a lightning."

- "I thought she got hit by a truck."

- "Yeah, well... whatever she just didn't showed up."

Now he dances to bring her back.

End of story.

- "Hey, you like to get some coffee?"


(these are the video captions from the 'Dirty Vegas - Days Go By' video.
Great vid.)

Days Go By - YouTube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oqmhVNk3Hg)

[AngelZ]

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. – Stephen King


I love this one. I haven't read the book that this quote appeared in, but I really like this one. Short, to the point, and cutting.

[dragafari]

"You have to be born here..."

That was my Granda, talking about people who enjoy Maine, and people who can't stand it here.

I'm very agree with this one. It's the same with any place, if it isn't the place where you were born you won't feel it like home.

[BlackThorn]

F***! This stereo only goes all the way up.

[BlackThorn]

Let's get dangerous! -- Darkwing Duck's repeated phrase.


God does it because he has to AngelZ. As offended as I am personally by his decisions, I do understand what it means to need to get the job done. Souls aren't expendable. But our physical manifestations sure the hell are. Like I was told, "Eat the whole rind..."

But that whole desperation scene gave my nightmares nightmares. Mostly because of the imagery of how God used the hell out of us, without a moments hesitation. Tak meant nothing to that scene.

I liked when the guy in the mirrored sunglasses explained, that killing Tak meant nothing. Tak was already nothing in Gods eyes. He just did it to spite Tak, and to show that he could.

Welcome to real life.

[BlackThorn]

You can talk me into fu*king you, but I don't think you'll survive...

Snake River Conspiracy (yeah, the really big insanely hot chick I saw play before APC stepped on the stage, back in 2000)

[BlackThorn]

Are you threatening me?

Originally by Beavis and Butthead, but it also appeared in a wonderous Snake River Conspiracy song, called Vulcan, which happens to be on some wild characters MySpace.com/firetalion website.

Free bandwidth for killer music? Take that price, and DOUBLE IT! Hahaha.

[BlackThorn]

He's not dead. He's what I like to call, "misplaced".

[BlackThorn]

You girls understand right?

- No. We're whores.


LO-FREKIN-L

From Harold and Kumars escape....

[Agincourt Concierge]

"Three times for normal people". Jerome Forrest (my old electronics instructor would say this when commenting on how many times he'd have to say something before it sinks in).

[Michael The Wolf]

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do very little. - Edmund Burke

and I think the one almost everyone probably heard once by now...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

[Todash]

"Some people are just poops." —Kim L.

:D

[BlackThorn]

He is the one that is prophesied, the one who will return balance to the force...

Okay, now someone said in a wonderfully written rant about how much of a boob Lucas was these days, that...

Jedi must not learn math and arithmetic in their training... Right now there are 3,000 Jedi, and only one Sith.

They WANT to return balance? DUH!!!!

I was explained by a friend later, that balance was indeed met. Yoda and Obi, Tyrianus and Vader.

There's a lot more evil in the world these days than good... any Sith Lords out there wanna shoot for balance? Everybody loves balance, right?

[Dr. Fudd]

You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do very little. - Edmund Burke

and I think the one almost everyone probably heard once by now...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke And my favorite one, "Why do people keep quoting me?" - Edmund Burke

[Michael The Wolf]

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." - Steven Wright

[Kim L.]

"Some people are just poops." —Kim L.

:D

:biggrin2:

[AngelZ]

"Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect." - Steven Wright

I love Steven Wright.
He also said, "I'd kill for a nobel peace prize."

[Michael The Wolf]

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I have plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

All from the cartoonist, Bill Watterson from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. I grew up reading this stuff and I loved Calvin and how much of a smarta$$ yet always lazy kid. Bill Watterson was just great at everything he seemed to do with the comic strip.

[BlackThorn]

I try to stay away from poopy people. They have a tendency of infecting everything around them with their fecality. Gimmie a bright blessed soul any day of the week. We'll turn each other on like Christmas lights.

But poopy people... Yeelch. I clash with them like lightning clashes with rods. Something inside me hungers to challenge them, and rip them apart before they cause any harm in my domain.

Like, I'm watching Gremlins right now, and that punk Jared (Don't call me Jeff! That's not my name) is flaunting how big of a stooge he is over the hero we really like, and the little adorable chicky who is totally only interested in the hero. I can't even watch a movie like this without verbalizing what I would do or say to a scuzz like that.


"You haven't seen my new place..."

-- I haven't seen your old place.

"Come on, we're talkin cable."

[BlackThorn]

The other day, a woman who had been there when my foot got crushed under the bedrock bolder, told me,

"Just think. That could have been the end of your ballet career..."

She was absolutely true about me not being able to dance anymore if my foot didn't slip in as straight as it could. If it went in sideways, I would have needed complete reconstructive surgery to even be able to limp again.

However. I could have pointed out that this woman has never seen me dance, and has never experienced my fury, and will never experience how damn good it makes me feel to move my body in those ways.

I could have pointed out, that she has a pretty good sized spare tire. I could have pointed out, that you can already see my six-pack, even though I haven't done any crunches in about 6 months, and haven't done any pushups for the entire past month. I could have also pointed out the residual power left behind a successful invocation.

But I'm not a jerk.

[BlackThorn]

Ooooooooooooo... candy for my soul...

"To say, not to move, is a move..."

I'm moving more than it looks like. Let me just say that...

[smjohn]

Being open minded can be a good thing, just don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.

[Dr. Fudd]

Being open minded can be a good thing, just don't be so open minded that your brains fall out.
This reminds me of one of my dear old Da's comments, "If they had any brains they'd take them out and play with them." I think he used to say it more around this political time of year too.

[smjohn]

This reminds me of one of my dear old Da's comments, "If they had any brains they'd take them out and play with them." I think he used to say it more around this political time of year too.

That's funn:) My grandmother used to say that all the time:) (mostly about my dad/her son:))

[The_Interloper]

"Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it." -Richard in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series (it's scattered in there a few places)

"...there's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..." -excerpt from "All You Need is Love", the Beatles

I'm sure I'll post more, those just happen to be on the tip of my tongue at the moment. I love quotes bigtime.

[Dr. Fudd]

6 to one, 12 dozen to the other. and
One paper hanger with the itch!- My Bohemian step mother

The act of her trying to tell a joke is usually funnier than the joke told correctly.

[Haunted]

And yet to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays. Will Shakespeare

[BlackThorn]

"Oh, I'm not religious..."

followed by

"I totally knew you were a gemini..."


This is a quote from a woman that frequents this site that I really enjoy the company of. I just can't help but smile at the way this came out. ;)

[Dr. Fudd]

That's funn:) My grandmother used to say that all the time:) (mostly about my dad/her son:))Your grandmothers name isn't Martha is it?!

[BlackThorn]

No, we gotta do it again. It's bad luck to cheers with the bottom of the glass. Cheers with the top.

One of my friends who's deviously brilliant.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'Nobody taught you how to live out in the streets
Now you're gonna have to get used to it'.

Bob Dylan - 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

Long days and pleasant nights

[BlackThorn]

"Oh, it's simple. I could hack a Borders bookstore database within five minutes..." -- some kid who thought he was special

(my response, in my best Austin Powers voice...) "Does that make you hornnny baby?"

Haha. Hacking is for people who aren't welcome. ;) (why do you think I don't cast spells to bring me money?)


I heard this one the other day. It moved me deeply, because it was not only told to me by someone who was well over 90, but who is the greatest warrior spirit I could have ever have been blessed with in my life, and who was referencing the worst pain any of us ever possibly feel, that is his direct responsibility to bare.

"Everything will work out in the end. It always does."

The fact that he was nearly a century old, sealed the deal on the power behind this statement.

[Gwenivere]

"Put on your big girl panties and deal with it."

[Kim L.]

Hi,

'Nobody taught you how to live out in the streets
Now you're gonna have to get used to it'.

Bob Dylan - 'Like a Rolling Stone'.

Long days and pleasant nights

"You used to laugh about
Everybody that was down and out."

[JohnDalglish]

"You used to laugh about
Everybody that was down and out."

Hi,

'Now you don't laugh too loud
Now you don't seem so proud
About having to be scrounging your next meal'.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Gard-ole-Gard]

"Pork is not a verb".

I don't know where it originated but it was one of the many things Bart Simpson had to write over and over on the blackboard during the opening music on the Simpsons TV series.

[Ubasti]

Torturing one animal is called abuse, torturing hundreds is called science.

[Trina1of2]

This was from a Bollywood Movie, that translates "Tomorrow May Never Come"

A young family member is scorned - the purist grandmother is verbally abusive, and the Stepmother says, "even so, she is still yours to forgive"

(Guess I'm a mush-mouse)

Hugs.

[BlackThorn]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/64958775_eb6c4a5fbd.jpg?v=0

"Look. It says, be K Joe..."

I liked this line. :)

[BlackThorn]

-- "I told them they could come watch a session..."

"No no no! This isn't a spectator sport. You're either hands on, or you're not here."

[dragafari]

"This is an old, ugly car, like myself, but as long as it works and I'm alive it's ok"

An old man I met today.

[Rapunzel]

“If criticism is mistaken or mean-spirited, rise above it. Maintain the high ground when you’re under fire. No victory is worth winning at the expense of picking up the mud that has been slung at you and throwing it back.”

~Rubel Shelly

[BlackThorn]

You know what they say,
"hunger is the best spice."

...

http://k43.pbase.com/u48/joony/upload/35436035.doggy.jpg

I always wait so long, I'll eat anything.

(although, the dog represents me. I wouldn't eat dog ;))

[Haunted]

Think where man's glory most begins and ends.
And say that my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

[BlackThorn]

"May you live in interesting times."

- Ancient Chinese curse.

[BlackThorn]

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. --
Friedrich Nietzsche

This quote always bugged me. The concept of needing faith means as much to me as the concept of an empty plate for a single day. Faith to me, is knowing we all inch closer to death, with every moment that passes. Faith to me, is knowing rest exists for us all. Faith to me, is knowing, we're all just counting down the days. Faith to me, is knowing, all pain is temporary, and time is blind to kisses of love. No matter how substantial any of it can seem at the time.

Faith != Understanding

Understanding > Faith

Blind faith is for those, who are afraid to really understand.

And Love, will always and ever be the true answer.

[Andrew.Kempster]

OK, this is slightly off topic - Trent Reznor is quoted at the start of The Dark Tower; lines from 'Hurt'. Until I heard Johnny Cash sing this, I didn't know about this song.

I doubt anyone except Ms Mod can answer this, but did Mr King have the NIN version in mind, or Johnny Cash's (aka The Man In Black)? The latter is such a sad song, really emotional, whereas the NIN's version sounds like (as I lock myself into my bomb shelter, preparing for abuse) cats being strangled with piano wire.

But that's MY opinion!

Me

[Moderator]

I don't have the answer to that one.

[danie]

"And I need you more than want you.
And I want you for all time."

From "Witchita Lineman" by Jimmy Webb, recorded by Glen Campbell.

"Oh, the love I would've shown,
If I had only known."

From "If I Had Only Known" by Reba McEntire, more preferably sung by Trisha Yearwood.

[whoopsipoppedaplatypus]

I know this might be a bit lame but i think its great. Its from Dumb & Dumber when Harry asks Lloyd why his ex girlfriend dumped him

\"She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don\'t know, I wasn\'t really paying attention\"

Love it!!!!!!

[Tery]

I actually read books of quotations. I enjoy reading the words of great minds. Here are a few I've found lately that I really like:

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

No man is fit to command another than cannot command himself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded; we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, now we defy. ~ William Jennings Bryan

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. ~ Elbert Hubbard

When people are least sure, they are most often dogmatic. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. ~ Woodrow Wilson

If Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~ Adlai Stevenson

No one snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. ~ Alphonse Karr

[JohnDalglish]

If Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~ Adlai Stevenson


Hi,

All great quotations, Tery, but I thought this one remarkably timeous.

Long days and pleasant nights

[BlackThorn]

"Never cast magic just to prove that it works."

This is very true. I think this is a Raymond Buckland paraphrase. Seriously, if you attempt to cast magic just to prove it, you'll only be damaging your own belief system and increase the strength of walls pitted against your own ability to cast. If you wish on a star that you find a million dollars in a briefcase the next day, when you are let down, you'll have to deal with how your magic won't work because it can't. If you wish that a loved one will be healed when they are sick, then when it happens, you can fall back on how you put your all in, and it was part of being enough.

Either way, if you try to do magic and are uncertain of the results to begin with, then there's no way you'll get a successful result of the casting attempt. You really need to understand that it will work, and that you can be subtle in the strength you are asking for control of by your magical workings. If you don't ask, for a splice of what can exist in reality by your lightwork, you're just endangering your own strength in casting. Once you begin to do smaller work in the right direction that continues to follow through properly, you can kind of add up your strength in casting, and begin to flow it into what you're passionate about, and what's important to you and your being.

Seriously, if you're not sure it can happen, don't even dabble with it.

[nicos]

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
Art Buchwald

[Haunted]

'My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse
or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than
current politicians.' --Harry Truman

[BlackThorn]

BEHOLD! THE POWER OF CHEESE!!!

Some 90's cheese avocation commercial. ;)

[BlackThorn]

"This account has been locked out for 15 minutes due to excessive failed login attempts. Please try again or Click Here to enter a different e-mail and password."

Awwwwwwww... some bunny loves me!

[bopropadop]

My personal favorite from Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter -

"It does not do, Harry, to dwell on dreams, and forget to live."

Or for my daughters, from Virginia Woolf in To the Lighthouse -

"Nature has but little clay, like that of which she moulded you."

[MacAreee_M_No1]

My all time favourite quote is from the season 3 epsiode of Buffy, Lover's Walk.

"I may be love's bitch but at least I'm man enough to admit it." ~ Spike

[Haunted]

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

[BlackThorn]

"Oh, I don't make noise in bed..."



Brother, do I love it when they say this. I just smile at 'em. Maybe ask, "yeah?"

A day later I bet the neighbors wouldn't back her story up...

[Haunted]

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

[LadyPain]

In English, the quote is:

Live your dream, dream not your life.
Nikolaus Presnik

[whoopsipoppedaplatypus]

Not so much a quote but a prayer from the Book of Common Prayer (1662)

Oh most powerful and glorious Lord God, at whose command the winds blow, and the waves rise from the sea, and who stillest the rage thereof; we thy creatures, but miserable sinners, do in this our great distress cry unto thee for help; save lord or else we perish. We confess; when we have been safe and seen all things quiet about us, we have forgotten thee our God, and refused to harken to the still voice of thy word, and to obey thy commandments: But now we see how terrible thou art in all thy works of wonder; the great God to be feared above all: and therefore we adore thy divine Majesty, acknowledging thy power, and imploring thy goodness.

[Kim L.]

"Life'll kill ya."
Warren Zevon

[Todash]

This is one I often think of at work, and in fact it's part of my email sig. It's about risk management.

"It will not do to leave a live dragon out of your plans if you live near one." —J.R.R. Tolkien

[Gwenivere]

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy
night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the
waste fields from some distant window! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with
snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path! How often did he shrink with
curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread
to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind
him! and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among
the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scouring!
- - - Washington Irving (a quote from "The Legend of Sleep Hollow")

[BlackThorn]

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons.

For you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

=oD

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else'.

Stephen Dobyns (as quoted in Insomnia).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Kim L.]

Hi,

'Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else'.

Stephen Dobyns (as quoted in Insomnia).

Long days and pleasant nights

I know how he feels.

[candybait]

http://www.timlebon.com/serenityprayer.jpg

[BlackThorn]

http://worldofwonder.net/image1/packodogs.jpg

"When you are in deep ****,
say nothing and try to look like you know what you're doing."

[constantreader85]

i have nothing to offer but my genius - Oscar Wilde

we will fight them on the beaches... we will never surrender - Winston Churchill

Never has so much been owed to so few by so many Churchill

Ich bin ein berliner - JFK

I have a dream _MLK

Smoking is easy to give up I've done it hundred of times - Mark twain

Here's another fine mess you got me into - a ranther irate Oliver norville hardy addressing a rather confused Arthur Stanely Jefferson)

[Gwenivere]

"I truly believe our attitudes & moods
are our choice & right now I choose to
be happy." :biggrin2:

-Unknown

[nunuchis_]

Hi,

'Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else'.

Stephen Dobyns (as quoted in Insomnia).

Long days and pleasant nights

I love that one too!! aren`t there moments when you really feel that is true?? It happened to me that when I read that book I has a lot of exams in school, I was sleeping pretty bad, I spent most of the day in my house and that phrase described pretty good what my days were like.

[nunuchis_]

King`s:

"Shut up Lisey, we are watching the alceas"- Lisey`s story

"There was no sanity in a mind that could make a pair of eyes looked like that"- Insomnia

"Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else"- Insomnia

"The months went to wherever months go to"- Blaze

"yesterday I dreamed I got back to Manderley"- Bag of bones

The last one is my favourite, does anyone know if it is from a real book? I mean, in the novel he says it is a famous phrase, but is it really?

Non-King`s:

"Every day has a minute in which I close my eyes and enjoy missing you"- Joaquin Sabina

"I want the best that this life can give and I don`t want it for tomorrow, I want it now"- a character in "dumb witness"- Agatha Christie.

"I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing" Agatha Christie.

[nicos]

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

[JohnDalglish]

"yesterday I dreamed I got back to Manderley"- Bag of bones

The last one is my favourite, does anyone know if it is from a real book? I mean, in the novel he says it is a famous phrase, but is it really?


Hi,

'Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...'

The opening line of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (great book and movie!).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Patricia A]

Dog: They feed me, love me and take care of me: they must be gods!
Cat: They feed me, love me and take care of me: I must be a god! - Unknown

[skaddict1978]

My favorite SK quote, one i live my life by.

Be not affraid, only believe.-Rose Red

[Haunted]

Dog: They feed me, love me and take care of me: they must be gods!
Cat: They feed me, love me and take care of me: I must be a god! - Unknown

Oh boy...is that ever true!!!!!

[TBlack]

"... the stump of a pipe he held in his teeth & the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath."

[pepino]

When it comes to the past, we all stack the deck.
S.K.:smile2:

[slinkybabe]

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

or how about:
" Neil, Neil orange peel" (The one where Rick kills Neil by accident)

OR - the one that kills me every time:-

"BZZZ - I've got a porche - it's not an automatic" (The one from University Challange. Was that Emma Thompson?)