Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[opeth]

"No man is worth your tears. The one who is...will not make you cry." ~email fwd

"Read, read, read. Write, write, write. Thick skin and strong neck. The thick skin is for when people shoot at you. The strong neck is for when you need to stick it out." ~ Margaret Atwood

"This too shall pass." ~ C.S.Lewis

"All actions have consequences. All rights have limits." ~ Todash

[opeth]

Newton's Third Law of Motion:
"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
is another personal favorite

[LadyPain]

'I don't often lose my temper, but I use it.'

Dolly Parton

[Todash]

"Goonies never say die!"

[sknut70]

In wilderness is the preservation of the world:" - Henry David Thoreau
A room without books is like a body without a soul."- Cicero

[Kim L.]

"And thence we came forth to see again the stars." - Dante

[BlackThorn]

I dunno if this is a quote but,

"I've never seen a purple cow,
I never hope to see one,
but I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see than be one."

I always liked the saying. It's true too. I'm not lookin for a purple cow, but... I'd rather find one than find I was one. That's basically my view on an apparition afterlife. I'd rather stumble into an afterlife haunt face to face, than find out that's what I was. Imagine figuring out, you were one of 'the others', or some sort of version of Rolands 'vagrant dead'. Not even noticing you were gone... Yeeaaahhh, I'd rather see one, thank you.

Oh, and I kind of liked how the mad tea party characters in 'Alice in Wonderland' once argued that having "more than nothing" was completely possible, stating,

"You can always have more than nothing."
"Ahh, but you see, you can't very well have less!"

She said she wanted some when offered more, but she hadn't had any yet, so she couldn't possibly have any more...

He caught her tongue pretty good on that one.http://thenethernet.com/system/image_assets/0000/0000/0000/0066/cheshire_cat_small.jpg

[CorbinKale]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy

[Todash]

"Remember, I have facts and quarterly reports on my side." —PatInTheHat

[tiger_fire]

He who asks is a fool for five minutes.
But he who does not ask remains a fool forever.:cool2:

[CorbinKale]

"If you do not say something in an irritating way you might as well not say it at all, for people will not trouble themselves over something which does not trouble them." -- George Bernard Shaw

[Kim L.]

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

--Maria Montessori.

[bluespider]

"Girls may be seduced by fairy tales and promises of luxury and adoration; but in the end marriage is about killing spiders every day of your life.":eek2:

I hope just no blue ones!!!

[Tery]

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

[Haunted]

"And you can tell people better how terrrible sin is if you know from your own personal experience."


The cab driver to Hazel Motes. Flannery O'Connor

[Starchild]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I was researching J. S. Bach over the weekend and I came across a couple of good ones -

On playing the organ -
'There is nothing to it. You only have to hit the right notes at the right times and the instrument plays itself'.

On music -
'An agreeable harmony for the honour of God and the permissable delights of the soul'.

An interesting life too -

Johann Sebastian Bach

Long days and pleasant nights

[JackTheRipper]

"Horror has a face. And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared."
Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)
Apocalypse Now

[Haunted]

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.

Thomas Jefferson

:eek2:

[CorbinKale]

There is always a way. You may fail, but it will be because you did not find the way. - Me, teaching my son to strive for his goals. I almost called him Grasshopper. :grinning:

[blueoccult]

"When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die, there is no middle ground."
- From A Game of Thrones

"The planet might be exploding and a man would stop to remove a burr from his sandal."
-From Tarnsman of Gor

There are two quick quotes from two of my favorite novels.

[Starchild]

"Make it stop!" ~ Rachel Keller (The Ring)

[Haunted]

"There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs."
--- Unattributed

[jojo57]

"If wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak."
Jayne

[Sawney Beane]

"if these walls could speak...they´d scream".From a Resident Evil game ad.

[Perse Jr.]

"Do one thing every day that scares you."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

[ponygirl01]

I think the best quote that i have ever read is by Eleanore Roosevelt. It goes..."The world belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams". think about it

[Laz115]

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia~ E.L. Doctorow

[Anni M]

Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
-- Janis Joplin

[Sawney Beane]

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

[Haunted]

Onstage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
-- Janis Joplin


Thanks for this. She was a sad, sad lady.

[Sawney Beane]

"Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion" - Thomas Hobbes

[tillyn]

Same **** Different Day, SSDD i need to put that on a t-shirt and wear it to work. I love my job, i love my job( i chant my co-worker and i say when the **** is hitting the fan!)

[tillyn]

I think he's cheese has slid off his cracker.(Green Mile.)

[jacobtlong]

I will kill you so hard you will die to death.

Short people may rock but tall people can reach crap on the top shelves.

It's all fun and games until someone gets stabbed with a sharpened orange.

No peeing in the chocolate hot tub.

[CorbinKale]

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt

[Eidolon]

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!"

[JRLauer]

"It is possible to be married and have a family, but still be completely alone." - JR

[CorbinKale]

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms." — Robert Heinlein

[PianoMan]

There are a bunch of awesome quotes on here! Most of my favorite ones have been stolen so far .... I think the only one of my favorites that I didn't see mentioned was a quote by Leonard Bernstein.

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

:)

[StoryTellerRose]

"This machine has no brain. Use your own."



:biggrin2:

[BlackThorn]

My buddy made a couple good ones the other day. They were concerning President Obama.

One was, "When he's doing his weekly national address, Obama should walk out eating a big ole' bucket of fried chicken. And just look into the camera and nod and say, 'uh huh'."

I loved that quote. And before it angers anyone, keep in mind, the entire point of that quote would be to piss off the clueless people of the nation. If you're not clueless, you'd think it was funny that people some people out there, 'just didn't get it', and would consider that an insult.

Oooooo, and for the record, if anyone bloats over how amazing Bush was, but how horrible Obama is driving the country into the ground... Keep in mind, that the economy exploded about five seconds after Bush left the building. Obama was put behind the controls of a crazy train hammering at triple it's speed towards a cliff with no more tracks beneath it.

So, the other quote my buddy made, was, "Obama is an amazing president. Obama, is the best president this country has had in one hundred years."

[themadone06]

Well I don't know about all of that stuff ^^^^^^^^ but I think it was a joke... I thought it was funny.

I'll add some of my favorite quotes. Actually I have a lot so enjoy :D

Guns don't kill people..... people kill people - Have no idea who actually said it, but I say it a lot

"The Universe is wider then our views of it" - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden.... by far my favorite quote

Some Gen. George S. Patton's

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."

"Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle."

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened."

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way"

"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea." Joshua Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine, General of the Union Army at Appomatax

"Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell." - General Mad Anthony Wayne

"Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." - General George Washington, First President of the United States

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - General George Washington

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." - Abraham Lincoln

"Speak softly and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user" - Theodore Roosevelt

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country." - Theodore Roosevelt

"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." - Woody Hayes

"Redemption is spelled R-O-N" Anchorman

[Sugar Marie]

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me." - Abraham Lincoln



:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

[Haunted]

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."
--- Yiddish Proverb

[Haunted]

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." - General George Washington

Thanks, Madone

[Oogway]

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”

[CorbinKale]

:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

He had some other quotes that are frequently ignored by those who wish to perpetuate the myth that the Civil War was about slavery.

In his 1860 inaugural address, he said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Two years later, President Lincoln wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

And in 1858 Lincoln had written: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3487

[themadone06]

It still boggles my mind when people say that the Civil War was fought over slavery.

[Sugar Marie]

:rofl:

Just for the record: I love Abe Lincoln - this quote just seems too absurdly naive to let go w/out comment.

This is to themadone06 directly:
I just reread this post, and made myself wince.
Please know that my intent was to make light of what I perceive as a silly comment - not to in any way undermine your post as a whole, or even your decision to use this quote in particular.

You probably(hopefully)haven't thought twice about this, but I just wanted to clarify, in case you were offended at all.

My quote contribution for the day:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions-Proverb

[Sugar Marie]

He had some other quotes that are frequently ignored by those who wish to perpetuate the myth that the Civil War was about slavery.

In his 1860 inaugural address, he said: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."

Two years later, President Lincoln wrote: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862)."

And in 1858 Lincoln had written: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races. I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and black races, which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3487

Uh-oh, I didn't want to start anything here - but since we are already on the subject - I don't think that anyone w/even a cursory knowledge of Lincoln and the Civil War denies that his motivation was not to further the cause of black people.

Having said that, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was the cornerstone from which African Americans have been able to build upon - through many long years of struggle and oppression - to reach a point in this country where we now have a black President.

I think it's interesting that this is coming up at the moment, as I'm sure many of you have heard former President Jimmy Carter's comments on the state of racism, now, as it relates to an apparent backlash to President Obama. There is a discussion to be had right there, and it may need to start w/the motives of every white person that voted for or against our man at the top. People are already dismissing Carter and saying that he's bringing up a non-issue to guilt Pres. Obama's detractors into towing the "leftist line". I don't personally care where anyone stands politically, but no matter how uncomfortable the subject may be, racial motivation is not a non-issue. To paraphrase a slightly unrelated line: We haven't come that far, baby.

So, to close this out, I agree that Abraham Lincoln's views on race are important for this reason: no matter what he actually did to further the cause of racial equality in America, condescension is still dehumanizing, and even when it isn't explicitly expressed (as is mostly the case in this day and age), it is still an attitude that is acutely felt.

[CorbinKale]

Uh-oh, I didn't want to start anything here - but since we are already on the subject - I don't think that anyone w/even a cursory knowledge of Lincoln and the Civil War denies that his motivation was not to further the cause of black people.

Having said that, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was the cornerstone from which African Americans have been able to build upon - through many long years of struggle and oppression - to reach a point in this country where we now have a black President.

The cornerstone for freedom quote would have to be, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." According to Lincoln's own words, that was definitely NOT on his mind.

[themadone06]

This is to themadone06 directly:
I just reread this post, and made myself wince.
Please know that my intent was to make light of what I perceive as a silly comment - not to in any way undermine your post as a whole, or even your decision to use this quote in particular.

You probably(hopefully)haven't thought twice about this, but I just wanted to clarify, in case you were offended at all.

My quote contribution for the day:
The road to hell is paved with good intentions-Proverb

No I realized what you were saying. It is a pretty naive statement from Lincoln. I posted it because I thought it was funny.

[Sawney Beane]

"Politicians and nappies need to be changed every now and again.And for the same reason" - Anonymous

[Nabila]

" Men occasionally stumble upon the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

" The universe is full of magical things, waiting for our wits to grow sharper. " - Eden Philpotts

[K HjLL]

"One of the greatest feelings in life is running out of ink in your pen. "- AM

[doowopgirl]

I am not sure where these quotes came from but they are some of my favorites.Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. XXXX them if they can't take a joke. Getting older is better than the alternative. Better to be smarter than you look than to look smarter than you are. And my favorite SK quote is from The Stand The only cro magnon in a herd of thundering neanderthals.

[JackTheRipper]

"He's a jackass." - President Obama about Kanye interrupting Taylor Swift at the VMAs :rofl:

[Sugar Marie]

My daughter and I have been going through a book she brought home from school about Leonardo da Vinci, and I found these while searchin' for info about him on the net:

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

and

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Don't exactly know what the point of that second observation is...but I do believe that is the earliest reference to genitalia I've ever come across(there may be a pun in there somewhere that wasn't intended, but am just delighted to have made :) )

[ConstantRdr]

My Favorite SK Quote is from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" or the Novella "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" "Get busy living, or get busy dying". ~Morgan Freeman

My other fav quote was said by Death in the movie the Hogfather by Terry Pratchett "Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent- boredom? ~ Death

[Kingfan100]

My favorite quote is taken from when SK was speaking at Yale-
"There is a magical time when you read a book, and it will horrible. Then you will wonder why did sid book got published."

[Shoshonni]

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life. - Stephen King, On Writing

[CorbinKale]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were ever our countrymen.”
— Samuel Adams

[Sawney Beane]

"Behind every great man there´s a woman rolling her eyes."- Jim Carrey

[JRM]

"One-cheek-sneak". I just think it's hilarious. LOL.

[JRLauer]

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re traveling seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and the debts are high,
qnd you want to smile but you have to cry,
when care is pressing you down a bit,
don’t complain to me, I don’t give a sh!t.

[Perse Jr.]

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas Alva Edison

[Haunted]

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself."
--- Leo Tolstoy

[Sawney Beane]

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. " - Oscar Wilde

[Haunted]

"Our lives are not that important,
except for the impact we have on other lives"
>
> Jackie Robinson

[Natjen26]

But it's the truth, even if it didn't happen. - Chief Bromden (One flew over the cuckoo's nest)

[Haunted]

"The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliticiting the employment of the pruning kife."
-Thomas Jefferson, 1821

[BlackThorn]

"Lockerbie bomber takes turn for worse"

and

"He is in a bad way," a Libyan official said. "He is unable to speak to anyone."

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/09/02/Lockerbie-bomber-takes-turn-for-worse/UPI-65241251915475/

Ooooo, it was from September 2nd too. Wonder if his eldery mommy gets to watch him die now too.

and I was hanging on for the "Lockerbie bomber begins bleeding from the anus" headline, myself.

[Haunted]

"Any similarity between the following movie and the book on which it is based is completely coincidental."

Mallard Fillmore/Bruce Tinsley

[Kim L.]

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

[Haunted]

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

[Perse Jr.]

I do think that the soul plays a part in housing all of your experiences that make up the energy of who you are.
-Jen (jenboxer77)

[Haunted]

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Irving Kristol

[Jaedpact]

We need to think that our hearts beat louder than shotguns sing
We need to feel that our minds work harder than factory wheels
and we need to know that we are worth much more than a credit score.

Over this, a song by Ace Enders. ( you guys should check him out)

[ChaseTx]

"I tied the Devil to the tracks (Can you hear the train coming?)
And I tied the tracks in a lovers' knot around the finger of a beautiful girl"

Keith Buckley, lyricist/vocalist for Every Time I Die, and one of my favorite writers. (song is called "INRIhab", full lyrics here: http://darklyrics.com/lyrics/everytimeidie/thebigdirty.html#9

[Haunted]

'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

Albert Einstein

[Charms7]

Insanity is inherited. You get it from your kids. I don't know who originated that one, but my mother told it to me.:blush: She was kidding, of course.

[CorbinKale]

"Some people are like slinkies. Not really good for anything but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs" -Unknown

[Kim L.]

"At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Go out and round up everyone that knows more than they do."

Bob Dylan

[Anni M]

'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

Albert Einstein

I was going to just click a thank you for your useful post button, but this needs a response.
This is truth to the max, Haunted and I put that quote to good use on many occasions...keeps me focused on long term stuff, you ken? :smile2:

Thank you for your useful post! :biggrin2:

[Anni M]

I do think that the soul plays a part in housing all of your experiences that make up the energy of who you are.
-Jen (jenboxer77)
Very well put, Jen. :smile2:
The soul starts tranferring this information into energy the minute you are born...maybe sooner.. ???

[sknut70]

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans - John Lennon

[Natjen26]

War doesn't determine who is right - just who is left Bertrand Russel

[Haunted]

"Attitude determines altitude."
--- Unknown

[themadone06]

I'm really not a big fan of Thomas Jefferson (one of my least favorite Presidents), but these are some pretty good quotes.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one." - Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist in 1764. That was 230 years ago. -Thomas Jefferson

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." -Thomas Jefferson


The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.-Thomas Jefferson


I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.-Thomas Jefferson



Power is not alluring to pure minds.-Thomas Jefferson


Most bad government has grown out of too much government.-Thomas Jefferson


What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?-Thomas Jefferson

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.-Thomas Jefferson


A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.-Thomas Jefferson


The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.-Thomas Jefferson

Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

[aptpupil]

I read this recently, not having seen it before, and loved it...

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

And it was actually attributed to James Dean, believe it or not. :cool2:

[Haunted]

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go
outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens,
nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should
be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of
nature."

--- Anne Frank

[FirstEdition]

By far, my favorite King quote would have to be: "I have the heart of a little boy... in a jar on my desk." Now, that may not be verbatim, but it it as close as my little brain can remember without looking it up.

[Moderator]

Steve doesn't take credit for that one although he's often mistaken for having been the author. He borrowed it from Robert Bloch whose quote was, "Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."

[wally wonder]

if you don't read the newspaper [watch the evening new] you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper [watch the evening news] you are misinformed.--mark twain

[Sawney Beane]

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children." - Khalil Gibran

[Raq]

"Remember that the thoughts carry words, but words don't carry thoughts" My very good friend Adrian Szymanski, written as a dedication on the cover of 'The Long Walk' which he gave me for my birthday

[Spideyman]

Commala come-come, the journey is not yet done.:wink2:

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

"Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true."

Long days and pleasant nights

[CorbinKale]

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke

[Haunted]

"Regard as trifling the great good you did to others, and as enormous
the little good others did to you."

--- Talmud

[Haunted]

A trial without a defense is a sham
Business without competition is a monopoly
Science without debate is propaganda
-- Joanne Nova

[Haunted]

I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

[Haunted]

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Stephen King


:rofl:

[Haunted]

Promise me you will always remember you're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Christopher Robin to Pooh

[Haunted]

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that
one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and
three or more is a congress.."-- John Adams

[Mr. Jingles]

“I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?”

-Denis Leary

Ok, so it's not thought provoking or deep, but it's funnie!!!!! :laugh:

[AngelZ]

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. -- George Sand

[Haunted]

" If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God,
then we will be a nation gone under."
Ronald Reagan

[91rewoT]

"You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for everything." John Mellencamp....before he dropped the "Cougar".

[OrganGrinder]

My all time favorite Quote...

"Out of all the things you could not have there were some you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good"

Ernest Hemingway

[91rewoT]

One of my favorite quotes and I got a word wrong!!! :blush: Let me try again...."You've got to stand for something or you're gonna fall for anything.."

[davemelnick]

Fr/ my late WW2 POW granddad & his living wife. : "Police the yards"; "Can't Never Could, Can Always Will".

[Draga]

"All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain" Blade Runner 1982.

"The understanding takes repose in indolent vacuity of thought" William Cowper.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Just heard a great one from Ambrose Bierce on Stephen Fry's QI program -

'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography'.

Ambrose Bierce

Long days and pleasant nights

[jamescolton]

"you only live once so off with them pants, hell aint' for sure its only a chance"

mojo nixon

[Spideyman]

There's more to life than making it go faster.

[venomxxcujo]

My favorite non-Stephen King related quote is 'Why so serious?' spoken by The Joker on the movie The Dark Knight.

My favorite Stephen King related quote would have to be 'I'm everything you ever dreamed of!' spoken by Pennywise ( It ) from It. At least, I think that is what he said, I don't know for sure really. x-x

[Kim L.]

Hi,

Just heard a great one from Ambrose Bierce on Stephen Fry's QI program -

'War is God's way of teaching Americans geography'.

Ambrose Bierce

Long days and pleasant nights

I love his Devil's Dictionary.

[Nutty Bavarian]

I just watched Dark Kinght again last night and thought I'd share a strangely good quote by Heath Ledger as the The Joker:

"I believe whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you....stranger."

[The Outsider]

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger"

Originally spoken by Friedrich Nietzsche. Although I do like the Joker's interpretation of it. And here's my favorite SK quote (not sure if this is correct, multiple versions of it on the internet):

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

[smerdyakov]

I've got a soft spot for kierkegaard. Here's one of his that I like:

"The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed."

[K HjLL]

..........Being an outsider is always a losing game-Sam Peckinpah..........

[opeth]

"I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
~ Michael Jordan

"Lights will guide you home and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you."
~ Chris Martin, Coldplay

[Patricia A]

Take a flying f**k at a rolling doughnut - Stephen King (Tommyknockers?)

[poisonbat]

SCDD, same crap different decade... Jack fm here in so cal

[HarryPotterDoomsdayDevice]

SSDD (Same sh!t, different decade)

[kingricefan]

My most favorite quote from an SK book is from The Dark Tower, when Roland speaks over the body of a certain Ka-tet member. I want it read at my memorial service when it's my time to go to the clearing at the end of the path:

Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer.
Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer.
Death is speechless, so hear my speech.
This is -------, who served his ka and his tet. Sat true.
May the forgiving glance of Gan raise him from the darkness of this earth. Say please.
May the arms of Gan raise him from the darkness of this earth. Say please.
Surround him, Gan, with light.
Fill him, Chloe, with strength.
If he is thirsty, give him water in the clearing.
If he is hungry, give him food in the clearing.
May his life on this earth and the pain of his passing become as a dream to his waking soul, and let his eyes fall upon every lovely sight; let him find the friends that were lost to him, and let every one whose name he calls call his in return.
This is ------, Who lived well, loved his own, and died as ka would have it.
Each man owes a death. This is -----. Give him peace.

Such beautiful words.

[Mary Strickland]

"What does not kill me, makes me stronger"

Originally spoken by Friedrich Nietzsche. Although I do like the Joker's interpretation of it. And here's my favorite SK quote (not sure if this is correct, multiple versions of it on the internet):

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."

That is from "On Writing"--I read it last night.

[aptpupil]

"With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon."

Albert Einstein :cool2:

[Noods]

.....we call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.........From Duma Key.
I liked it so much I put it on my Facebook Profile! LOL

[Noods]

another of my all time favorite quotes (non SK) is as follows:

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming".

[castlelady]

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."-Edgar Allen Poe
"War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you"-Ted Nugent:cool2:

[Haunted]

When Fear comes knocking on the door
Let Faith answer.

[themadone06]

"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

[kingricefan]

I have a postcard of a picture of an older Bette Davis taken by Roddy McDowell. In it she is seated in a chair holding up a pillow on which is stitched "Old age ain't no place for sissies." This has become my mantra now!!:laugh::biggrin2:

[Sigmund]

"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
John Donne

[Tery]

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~ Berthold Auerbach

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. ~ Colonel Potter, M*A*S*H

and one of my favorites....

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway. ~Elbert Hubbard

[Haunted]

> 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
> our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow
> private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by
> deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people
> of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers
> conquered.'
Thomas Jefferson-- 1802

[AngelZ]

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet. -- Romeo from Romeo and Juliet

[Tankuel]

"**** HAPPENS"
"we are who we choose to be"
"the soil of a mans heart is stonier"
"it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"
"he who lives by the sword dies by the sword"
"he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man"
"Don't ****ing fall in love with people Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone"
"there are two wolves fighting in a mans heart. who wins? the one you feed the most"
"i am capable of love the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage you have never dreamed of if i cannot satisfy one i will indulge the other"(hey i enjoy the dichotomy of man)
'What I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that though I do not know you and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you"

[Tankuel]

"kindness goes a short way. ladle it out generously." -walter slovotsky
"one random act of kindness can bring back the will to live"-me

[Tery]

The other MB that I hang out on is closing. I've been a member there for almost three years. Long enough to have made some friends. I shared these with them. I thought you might like them, too. Because I feel the same way (even moreso) about my friends here.

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ~Carol Sobieski and Thomas Meehan

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks

You and I will meet again
When we're least expecting it
One day in some far off place
I will recognize your face
I won't say goodbye my friend
For you and I will meet again
~Tom Petty

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~Irish Blessing

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. ~Alan Alda

The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ~Theodor Seuss Geisel

[Snaggletooth]

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
------Ernest Hemingway

My favorite writer's quote.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'God is a comedian playing to an audience who's afraid to laugh'. (Voltaire).

Voltaire

Long days and pleasant nights

[Sawney Beane]

"He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God then God never spoke."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'A man's trouble stems from his inability to sit quietly in his room' - (Pascal)

Blaise Pascal

Long days and pleasant nights

[boogerb53]

"I brought you into this world....I'll take you out!!!" My dad said it years before Bill Cosby!

[Mookie]

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time that he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen~

[Oogway]

“All our lives we live in chains and never even know we hold the key.”

[JohnDalglish]

“All our lives we live in chains and never even know we hold the key.”

Hi,

'Me, I'm al-ready gone'?

Long days and pleasant nights

[frisbee]

There are so many. But what has been in my mind lately is "Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame." - Cort

[catnoel]

You better have a job or a hustle!!

[Mookie]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is the noblest; second by imitation which is the easiest; and third by experience which is the bitterest. ~Confucius~

[Mookie]

(These are two of my favorite pet quotes:) Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy you the wag of his tail. ~Josh Billings~ Every dog deserves and owner but not every owner deserves a dog ~ anonymous~

[CorbinKale]

“]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772

[CorbinKale]

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. "
--R. A. Heinlein

[CorbinKale]

"One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
-* Dr. Martin Luther King, JR.

[Demeter]

"He who sins and prays evens the score". It's a translation of a Spanish saying "El que peca y reza, empata" - don't know who the author is...

[Srbo]

" Human beings do not rule the World because we have a soul.
We do not rule the World because we are smart. We do not rule the World because we have a thumb and animals don`t.

We rule the World because we are the biggest, most monstrous m****f**** killers on it. " ( Stephen King )

[ms.darkside]

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now as I shall not pass this way again. -- William Penn

[Mookie]

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~

[psj77]

Where did you get your drivers license, you old f***? Sear & Roebuck?

Wal-Mart! Everythings cheaper at Wally World!

(Stephen King, Under The Dome)

[GNTLGNT]

"Stop that yelling unless you want to have a pair of the world's most unique teabag caddies." Brutal to Percy in Part 5 of The Gree Mile

[RandomMan]

"...the mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart know." SK - Cell

[no bounce no play]

What a fun thread! One of my favorite quotes is my username, No bounce, No play. Its from Dreamcatcher. I have no idea what it really means but I say it in lieu of That's life lol

[Speedy2]

What a fun thread! One of my favorite quotes is my username, No bounce, No play. Its from Dreamcatcher. I have no idea what it really means but I say it in lieu of That's life lol


I have a theory about "no bounce, no play". It is short and sweet. If you are not bouncing the ball, you are not playing with the ball. So in a round about way, if you don't take a chance in life (bouncing the ball), your a not living your life (not playing with the ball). Cheesy, yep...I know. Just an idea....

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'Trust is llike a mirror

You can repair it when it's broken, but you'll always see the cracks in that motherf*cker'.

(Lady Gaga).

Long days and pleasant nights

[Mookie]

A sense of humor.... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp at life. ~ Hugh Sidey~

[Samantha_]

I have a theory about "no bounce, no play". It is short and sweet. If you are not bouncing the ball, you are not playing with the ball. So in a round about way, if you don't take a chance in life (bouncing the ball), your a not living your life (not playing with the ball). Cheesy, yep...I know. Just an idea....

I like that theory. Then too, you could take the time and have the patience to dribble the ball before driving inside to make a play in the paint or posting up for the outside shot. The odds of success just might increase. Hey, it's March and basketball is in the air. :smile2:

[frisbee]

I agree Samantha. In golf the saying would be "never up never in".

[Mookie]

I think I've discovered the secret of life- you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles M. Schulz~

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'Religion without science is blind
and science without religion is lame'
(Albert Einstein)

'Faith is something people die for,
whereas dogma is something people kill for'
(Anon)

Long days and pleasant nights

[skyrow]

Time waits for no one.

I rather be hated for who I am, than loved for what I'm not.

It's not rocket surgery. -Boondock Saints II

[SharonC]

One that I truly believe: When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window.

One that I think is universal: What goes around, comes around.

[Haunted]

SSDD - Same old stuff, different day.

I don't know the origin of this.

[Moderator]

SSDD - Same old stuff, different day.

I don't know the origin of this.


Steve used it in Dreamcatcher.

[randallFlaggfan1]

"Writing is magic," taken from On Writing: A Memoir of The Craft.

[Srbo]

Steve used it in Dreamcatcher.

Yes, but as Same Schmitt, Different Day. :D

[smerdyakov]

SSDD - Same old stuff, different day.

I don't know the origin of this.

I thought it was Same Stink, Different Day :biggrin2:

[ItFan]

First one that comes to mind, is Mr King himself from the introduction to 'Salem's Lot:

"Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them."

[Haunted]

Yes, but as Same Schmitt, Different Day.

But, I'na didnt think Ms. Mod 'ould lemme use Schmitt.:blush:

[Sigmund]

"He thrusts his fists against the posts ans still insists he sees the ghosts" - Bill Denbrough, "It"

[Sigmund]

I find these scary and uncomfortable.
'As I was going up the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish, I wish he'd go away."

Not a quote but still eerie:

One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys* got up to fight [*or men]
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other

One was blind and the other couldn't see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
[or: And two lame men came to carry them away]

A paralysed donkey passing by
Kicked the blind man in the eye
Knocked him through a nine inch wall
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all

A deaf policeman heard the noise
And came to arrest the two dead boys
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!

[Srbo]

But, I'na didnt think Ms. Mod 'ould lemme use Schmitt.:blush:

That really cracked me up.
A real belly laugh.
:rofl:

[Tankuel]

kinda a list of my own quotes ive been making for years.
lotta pessimism and satire
1. SH*T HAPPENS
2. when the mind is not enough use your arm
3. a little bit of kindness goes a short way. ladle it out generously
4. you can always say no
5. weird sh*t happens everyday
6. women are insane but worth it (sometimes)
7. you can't do anything about the future
8. you can't do anything about the past
9. you can't trust anything COMPLETELY (see rule 1)
10. don't f*** with someone you depend on
11. you can't fix every problem. the key is to stop trying
12. the closer to heat you are the more you'll burn
13. the further from heat you are the more you freeze
14. there will always be inequality
15. chocolate is not a food its an addiction
16. love can be a bittersweet poison or a stiff draught of the finest wine it depends on administration
17. a spotless mind is a boring but content one
18. the universe does not care
19. when life doesn't care its a good day
20. when life is out to get you its an average day
21. when life succeeds its a bad day
22. humans are ironic
23. when you have your head up your a** you see a lot of interesting sh*t
24. even mountains get worn down
25. a good hot bath can wash away a bad month
26love makes you forget about yourself
27.the best choice is rarely easy
28 problems abound
29 there are many forms of death pick one
30 knowing and understanding are rarely the same
31 no one is useless
32 even the most lethal wound takes time to kill you
33 respect a person who has conviction
34 you buy friends with the coin of sanity
35 bs abounds
36 it is best to think like a man of action
37 it is best to act like a man of thought
38 men for the most part are simple
39 weapons and food are always gonna be profitable
40 a gun muzzle to the head can change a persons opinion (but not always)
41 philosophy makes a lot of assumptions
42 change is inevitable. embrace it
43doing the right thing for the wrong reasons makes you a mercenary
44 doing the wrong thing for the right reasons makes you an idealist
45doing the right thing for the right reasons makes you uptight
46 there are very few commodities that last
47you cant know everything
48 the best way to wake up is happy
49 the most abrasive opinion is often the loudest
50 its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission
51 death puts perspective on life
52travel flattens arches, irritates hemorrhoids and stresses the back more than it broadens the mind
53 one act of random kindness can heal the heart
54 thinking can be pain or bliss
55 there is nothing more annoying than an opinionated idiot
56 every bar is pretty much the same
57 theres nothing quite like friends to make you feel like sh*t on a bad day
58 the divine is in summer rain
59 everything has a price
60 many things can be taken but only one thing can be given without force
61 sometimes what you see is what you get
63 people die
64 there are no hard questions only answers you know or don't know

[frisbee]

Sig - That quote from Denbrough is actually the ending line of a tongue twister that is an old speech exercise. If full it goes: "Amidst the mists and coldest frosts with barest wrists and stoutest boasts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."

[CorbinKale]

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move now, we had as well fold our arms, sit down, and acknowledge ourselves fit only to be slaves.” - Frederick Douglas

[Mookie]

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ~ Mark Twain~

[Srbo]

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

[michal]

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands after wards.
- Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)

And of course:

Things are only impossible until they are not
- Jean Luc Picard (commanded or the star ship Enterprise NG)

[Mookie]

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul. ~George Bernard Shaw~

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'If you want to be happy it is necessary not to be too intelligent'.
(Flaubert)

Flaubert

Long days and pleasant nights

[Srbo]

Hi,

'If you want to be happy it is necessary not to be too intelligent'.
(Flaubert)

Flaubert

Long days and pleasant nights

How very true.

[Mookie]

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~

[GunslinginMarine]

"Most people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem."
-Ronald Reagan

"I am the way, the truth, and the light."
-Jesus of Nazereth

[Srbo]

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

:rofl:

[JohnDalglish]

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

:rofl:

Hi,

Aye,. and he was married to the infamous shrew and harridan, Xanthippe.

Xanthippe

Long days and pleasant nights

[Moderator]

So he spoke from experience, not just philosophically. I'm leaving, I'm leaving. :smile2:

[frisbee]

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Ben Franklin

[Mookie]

When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche~ ( this quote is included in Sk's Misery.)

[LadyPain]

'Get away from her, you b*tch!'

--Sigourney Weaver's character, 'Lt. Ripley', speaking to the Alien queen in Aliens just before she whips some alien butt with that loader...

[Haunted]

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

John Adams

[CorbinKale]

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill

[Haunted]

The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."

Stephen Hawking

[Haunted]

Any color - so long as it's black.

Henry Ford

[Sigmund]

Fear not for I am with thee.

[Nutty Bavarian]

The Earth is our mother, one does not sell one's Mother.

(Lakota tradition.)

[davemelnick]

I have a few fr/ my late POW grandad; "Police the Yards", "Everythings Copesetic", "What's For Breakfast...Poke & Grits...Stick Ya Hands Underneath the Table & Grits Ya Teeth". That was made during the Depression the others were made during WW2.

[Samantha_]

No kidding, this quote was inside a fortune cookie - "Now is a good time for serenity: a book and a good friend."

[Oogway]

maybe not the right place to post this one but sometimes I completely agree :glare:

So many books, so little time.
— Frank Zappa

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'Si es atal es atal' = 'What will be will be'.

It's in Occitan, the ancient language of the Cathars, a bit like Catalan (I love quotes in obscure languages).

Occitan

Cathars

Long days and pleasant nights

[LadyPain]

'John McCain makes Genghis Khan look like Gandhi.'

--political pundit Pat Buchanan




(Incidentally, a close friend of mine is descended from Genghis Khan...)

[Mookie]

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.~ Stephen King~ Source BrainyQuote ( my daughters research for the day LOL)

[CorbinKale]

"We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln

[Ducky]

:cool2::oh: 1. ...." It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed." Comodus (Joaquin Phoenix) from 'Gladiator'.

Joaquin Phoenix was so great in that little movie, thank you for reminding me. :smile2:

One of my favourites at the moment is from Heath Ledger's The Joker in The dark knight: What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. :suspect:

[Natjen26]

It's all make believe isn't it - Marilyn Monroe

[Mookie]

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan~

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

'When the power of love exceeds the love of power then we will be free'.

(Jimi Hendrix, paraphrased)

Long days and pleasant nights

[Mookie]

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. ~Saint Teresa of Avila~

[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

[Mookie]

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~

[LadyPain]

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

--Gladys Upham

:devil:

[Mookie]

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.

[Raq]

Hi, could anyone help me with a quote?
I'm loking for King's quote about making people scared. It's something about making the reader care for the characters and unleashing the monsters...I can't find it and I need it for my BA work. I'm pretty sure the quote has been written here a couple of times but I just can't find it. I would be very happy if someone would help me with it.

[Mookie]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. ~ Winston Churchill~

[Mookie]

Hi, could anyone help me with a quote?
I'm loking for King's quote about making people scared. It's something about making the reader care for the characters and unleashing the monsters...I can't find it and I need it for my BA work. I'm pretty sure the quote has been written here a couple of times but I just can't find it. I would be very happy if someone would help me with it.************Rag hopefully this link works, and hopefully you will find your quote here.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/stephen_king.html

[Raq]

I've already been there and no. I've visited one other site with more than 122 King quotes, and didn't find it. It wouldn't be such a big deal because I know what Mr. King said but the thing is that I need the exact quote. But thanks for your help Mookie, hopefully someone will remember the quote :)

[Mookie]

In honor of Earth Day......In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ~ John Muir~

[oxymoron]

from Pet Semetary:
A kiddie tale with gruesome undertones- Winnie the Poe.

[Sigmund]

“A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.”

Robert A. Heinlen

[smerdyakov]

Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A Cornice on the Third National Bank. Vocabulary
Becomes confusion, decoration a blight; the Parthenon
In Tennessee stucco, art for the sake of death.

--from ""Retroduction to American History," (http://http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178270) Allen Tate

[smerdyakov]

I botched that link with too many http's. It really is a great poem, so here's a second shot with just the plain link: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=178270

[UncleSteviefan]

I want to tattoo this quote on my pop-culture arm sleeve:
I dreamed of you.
I dreamed you were wandering in the dark and so was I, and we found each other.
We found each other in the dark.
-From The Green Mile

[Kim L.]

"This Is Just To Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Williams Carlos Williams, MD

[Mookie]

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ~Salvador Dali~

[fushingfeef]

"You can't stop the waves from crashing onto the shore, so you might as well learn to surf."
-Me!

[smerdyakov]

"This Is Just To Say"

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Williams Carlos Williams, MD

mmmm. I could always taste those plums.

[the_last_gunslinger]

Mark Twain is one of my favorites when it comes to quotes. Here's one on foolishness:

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

And here's one on literature:

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

Now a couple on religion:

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."

"But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"

Okay, that's all for me.

[smerdyakov]

Kim L., you've caused me to blow the dust off my wcw book. Thank you. You know how books will sometimes open by their own volition, as if they know what you're looking to read (one more argument for books vs. ereaders:grinning:)? Well, this one opened to an old favorite:

A Sort of Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

aww, should be a writing anthem or something:biggrin2:

[frisbee]

Gunslinger - I like Twain a lot too. Another of his that I like is "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

[Oogway]

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves;don't accuse the sun of partiality

[Sigmund]

"The New Colossus"

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother (http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2016120#) of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbour that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

[Kim L.]

Kim L., you've caused me to blow the dust off my wcw book. Thank you. You know how books will sometimes open by their own volition, as if they know what you're looking to read (one more argument for books vs. ereaders:grinning:)? Well, this one opened to an old favorite:

A Sort of Song

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

--through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

aww, should be a writing anthem or something:biggrin2:

Thank you! Such a great poet.