[thefalcon]

I am always on the lookout for great quotes- whether from books, movies, famous people, or just the ordinary people in my life. They've actually come in handy a few times, and I thought it woud be cool to make a thread for people to submit their favorite quote or quotes.

I don't care whether it's from a religious text, a t-shirt or bumper sticker, or from the Prime Minister of England- post your favorite quotes... pwease?


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I'll get the ball rolling with this great quote from the book Eragon, by Christopher Paolini:

"You can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, and then trick them when they're not paying attention."
-Brom the storyteller


Ok, now it's your turn.

[Blackadder]

"I hope I didn't brain my damage!"

and

"I AM SMART! S-M-R-T!"

Both of 'em, -Homer Simpson



When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.... When he gets older, I’d tell him he used to have a brother, but he didn’t obey.
-Stephen Wright

[cougs]

i'll bite, Quotes from books seem to be what come to my mind at the moment...

"When the fate of so many rests in the hands of so few, can the failure to be accountable ever be forgiven?"
-Closing narration of Master's of Science Fiction Episode 1

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
-Partial quote, Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu

"Everybody's a book of blood. Wherever we're opened, we're red."
-Clive Barker

i'm sure i'll think of some awesome ones as soon as i click post :P

[ArdusKane]

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
-Steve Jobs

[xvart]

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

The tragedy of life is not that everyman loses; but that he almost wins.

Both unknown to me; perhaps I just don't remember where I heard them.

xvart.

[Raule]

Here's one I wrote down in my reading journal:

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas DeQuincey

"Thus blind was I in my desires; yet if a veil interposes between the dim-sightedness of man and his future calamities, the same veil hides from him the same alleviations, and a grief which had not been feared is met by consolations which had not been hoped."

If stand-alone words can be included, I loved Philip K. Dick's use of the word, kipple, in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Kipple refers to unwanted or useless junk that tends to reproduce itself.

I often feel like I'm drowning in kipple. It's taken over my office and my home. I can't get away from it. If you have children... beware of all the kipple.

[thefalcon]

"Kipple"...

Great word... Although it kind of sounds like something I'd feed my cat. :D

Douglas Adams, my all time favorite author without dispute, came up with several good ones... (Co-written with John Lloyd)

AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front
ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl.vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom
WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

Another is...
"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."

And finally, "Anything that happens happens, anything that in happening causes something else to happen causes something else to happen, and anything that in happening causes itself to happen again, happens again. Although not necessarily in chronological order." Try thinking about that without getting a headache :)

[Fruitonica]

"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." - Che Guevara

Me-"Man..Why do you always have to break things?"
Friend-".............They're not MY things."

[Saturniid]

Since I found this on Wikipedia, I can't be sure if it's authentic, but I still find it beautiful (in a way) and gruesome:

"They did not even take pity on the children who hugged their slaughtered mothers, but sucked the children's blood like milk."

- a local historian, describing the seige of Derbent in the Third Perso-Turkic War.

[sic's mom]

My heart has always been with the common soldier so when I heard this one line in a song one day it just sort of stuck with me:

"Wise men wonder, while strong men die"

From Breaking Benjamins' song "So Cold"