Quotes

[Luxfiliae]

this is something my brother said the other day when we were listening to the soundtrack for The Little Shope of Horrors.
"Audrey II doesn't have eyes...or ears....or a nose....its just a mouth...of Doom"
cracked us all up

[Virlomi]

"Marco enters a city: he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant that could be his; he could now be in that man's place, if he had stopped in time, long ago; or if, long ago, at a crossroads, instead of taking one road he had taken the opposite one, and after long wandering he had come to be in the place of that man in the square. By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps had been a possible future of his and is now someone else's present. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches."

-Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

[Young Val]

PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE
Edna St Vincent Millay

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,--Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here."



i do so love ms. millay.

[Young Val]

Wendy: Peter Pan! Oh, Peter, I knew you'd come back! I saved your shadow for you. Oh I do hope it isn't rumpled. You know, you look exactly the way I thought you would. Oh, a litter taller perhaps. But then-- [laughing] You can't stick it on with soap, Peter. It needs sewing. That's the proper way to do it. Although, come to think of it, I've never thought about it before. Sewing shadows, I mean. Of course, I knew it was your shadow the minute I saw it. And I said to myself, I'll put it away for him until he comes back. He's sure to come back. And you did, didn't you, Peter? After all, one can't leave his shadow lying about and not miss it sooner or later, don't you agree? But what I still don't understand is how Nana got it in the first place. She really isn't--Oh, sit down. It won't take long. She really isn't vicious, you know. She's a wonderful nurse, although father says---
Peter Pan: Girls talk too much.
Wendy: [laughing] Yes, girls talk too-- Hmmm? Oh.

Disney Version.

[Eaquae Legit]

Haec itaque est fides in qua sedeo, ex qua spe contraho firmitatem. In hac locatus salubriter latratus Scylla non timeo, uertiginem Charybdis rideo, mortiferos Sirenarum modulos non horresco. Si irruat turbo, non quatior; si uenti perflent, non moueor. Fundatus enim sum supra firmam petram.

-- Abelard, Confessio fidei ad Heloissam


("And so this is the faith on which I sit, and from this hope I gather strength. Stationed beneficially on this, I do not fear the roaring of Scylla, I mock the whirling of Charybdis, and I am not shaken by the deathly measures of the Sirens. If the whirlwind rushes in, I am not shaken. If the winds roar, I am not moved. I have been established upon the solid rock." It really loses something in the translation.)

[Oliver Dale]

Actually, EL, I don't think it loses a drop. That's a great quote.

[zeroguy]

Adulthood doesn't ever really hit until you can clean your bathroom without making faces.
Some laugh, some cry, some look disgusted, but when you do it without complaining... congratulations.

-- Adrian Ramos

Not that I would know.

[Eaquae Legit]

So I think that makes me the only adult of my group of camp counsellors.

Who gets called when the septic overflows or the kids try to flush a pair of underwear? Who doesn't gag? PLUNGER GIRL!

My familiarity with diahrrea-filled diapers probably made things easier for me.

[Young Val]

i'm kinda pretty
and pretty damn smart
i like Romantic things
like music and art
and as you know
i have a gigantic heart
so why don't i have a boyfriend?!
f***!
it sucks to be me!

-Avenue Q "It Sucks To Be Me"

[Virlomi]

Wow, can I share that one with you?

[Young Val]

of course, honey.


Come on bartender
Won't you be more tender
Give me two shots of whiskey
And a beer chaser
Love will be the death of me
Love is so fickle
It starts with a flood
And it ends with a trick-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-trickle

"Bartender" Regina Spektor

[Virlomi]

You think, what do you want?
You think, make a decision.
Why not stay and be caught?
You think, well, it's a thought,
What would be his response?
But then what if he knew
Who you were when you know
That you're not what he thinks
That he wants?

And then what if you are?
What a Prince would envision?
Although how can you know
Who you are till you know
What you want, which you don't?
So then which do you pick:
Where you're safe, out of sight,
And yourself, but where everything's wrong?
Or where everything's right
And you know that you'll never belong?

And whichever you pick,
Do it quick,
'Cause you're starting to stick
To the steps of the palace.

-Into the Woods

[wizzard]

Call my friends to share some wine
Share some laughs and last goodbyes
My photographs of these years
Will make me laugh through the tears

...

I will not leave this pulse alone
Though it may take the long way home
I will not wait until the end
For my applause for you my friend


"Changeless", Carbon Leaf

[zeroguy]

"One semester my GPA dropped from pi to e."

[Young Val]

Walked home. Thinking about the difference between girls and boys. For instance, when girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior. When the Foxwood boys come out they hit each other, trip one another up, and stuff leaves or caps down each other's trousers.

-Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (can't be arsed to find out which book exactly).


Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks!!!!

i've been sick all week, and have read this series straight through at least three times while bedridden. i am in pain from laughing so hard.

[Sparrowhawk]

"While the Tathagata, in his teaching, constantly makes use of conceptions and ideas about them, disciples should keep in mind the unreality of all such conceptions and ideas. They should recall that the Tathagata, in making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly given up as one attains enlightenment." -Buddha

[Young Val]

the wise woman does what she knows
if it's fighting she fights
if it's sewing she sews


"The Flagmaker, 1776"
Jason Robert Brown

[Mich]

Alright, time for me to get in on this:

"You'll be sorry when I'm a famous clown, and you're just having sex all the time!"
-Penny Arcade

Tim: "I think this device can help you. It passes huge voltages through your... well, just put it on."
Ryan: "Volts are good, right? Our friends from nature?"
Tim: "Volts... are all around us."
(Probably) Amy: "Tim..."
Tim: "Occasionally man and volts have fallen out."
-Scary Go Round

"Look at these people. Look at these human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet, and blinking, step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do than-- no, hold on. Sorry, that's the Lion King."
-The Doctor

"Dreams, delusions, whatever you call them... they're all I've got."
-I actually didn't write down the source of this one. Any clues?

Sorry, whenever I hear/read a good quote, I write it down in this text file (appropriately named lol.txt). So I've got a whole bunch.

[Oliver Dale]

This is a long quote; I hope you don't mind. It basically sums up the entire mood of "The Sparrow," by Mary Doria Russel.

--

And when the time came, each of them privately felt a calm ratification of those reconciliations, even as the noise and heat and buffeting built to a terrifying violence, as it seemed less and less likely that the plan would hold together, more and more likely that they'd be burned alive in the atmosphere of a planet whose name they did not know. I am where I want to be, they each thought. I am grateful to be here. In their own ways, they all gave themselves up to God's will and trusted that whatever happened now was meant to be. At least for the moment, they all fell in love with God.

But Emilio Sandoz fell hardest of all, letting his fear and doubt go almost physically, his hands opening as everyone else clutched at controls or straps or armrests or someone else's hand. And when the mind-numbing scream of the engines diminished and then fell off to a silence almost as deafening, it seemed only natural that he should move into the airlock and open the hatch and step out alone, into the sunlight of stars he'd never noticed while on Earth, and fill his lungs with the exhalation of unknown plants and fall to his knees weeping with the joy of it when, after a long courtship, he felt the void fill and believed with all his heart that his love affair with God had been consummated.

Those who saw his face as he pushed himself to his feet, laughing and crying, and turned back to them, incandescent, arms flung wide, recognized that they stood witness to a soul's transcendence and would remember that moment for the rest of their lives. Each of them felt some of the same dizzying exultation as they emerged from the lander, spilling from their technological womb wobbly and an blinking, and felt themselves reborn in a new world.

[lovesonia]

I love The Sparrow so much. It's amazing.

I have no quotes to add. Go me.

[Dr. Mobius]

"Sometimes," Joscelin murmured, "one must break one oath to uphold a higher."

[anonshadow]

"Allwissend bin ich nicht; doch viel ist mir bewusst." - Goethe

[Dr. Mobius]

And that's why god invented babel fish.

[zeroguy]

Guess what I'm reading again.

When the walls around you have crashed and fallen
let your friends be your brick and board,
your passions be your mortar,
and rebuild.

[Mich]

This made me think of you, zero:

ERIC: And thanks to all Canadians for giving us their unique style of bacon.
MANNY: You know Canadian bacon is just ham, right?
ERIC: You shut your dirty noise hole.

[Olhado_]

Here is new quote that I just love:

"I only speak one language, mathematics, but I dabble in other like English just enough to answer questions and buy groceries"
-Attributed to Rene Descartes

[Petra456]

We sit on the steps
Reading graffiti on the wall
The smile on your face
More then words, it says it all
On your way you will find
The meaning in the rhyme
You were mine
You were mine

Nine Days, The Moment.

[Young Val]

[my caps. because today everything is loud as well as precocious].


"I AM ELOISE. I AM SIX. I AM A CITY CHILD. I LIVE AT THE PLAZA."

-Eloise by Kay Thompson.

[Kaira]

"To love where love is not requited is painful, but ot love where you have no right to love- that is pain that cannot be articulated, perhaps not even understood unless you have felt it." --- Rhysenn, Draco Veritas, by Cassandra Claire


"Being a hero is HARD, and brutal add even demeaning, it isnt glorious, its all these ugly choices you make day after day, everyday. You dont get the luxury of sparing your friends pain. You have to choose the world and not.... not everything else." --- Harry, Draco Veritas, By Cassandra Claire


"There's no betrayal without love, no loss without it, no jealousy. Half the ugliness in this world ocmes from it. it cuts and burns and makes wounds that dont ever heal. Give me hatred any day. Now theres an emotion i can get behind. You always know where you stand with it." --- Draco, Draco Veritas by Cassandra Claire

[Vergil]

A collection of a few of my favorites:

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"We live, as we dream - alone." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

"We'll always have Paris." - Rick Blaine, Casablanca

"God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"Oh blush not so..." - John Keats, Sharing Eve's Apple

"Death is philosophy's only problem." - Albert Camus

"The leaden circles dissolve in the air." - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play." - Immanuel Kant

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." - Aristotle

"We're having a moment. Don't ruin it." - Raven, The Beast Within

"Goodnight, forever, goodnight, my darling." - Mars is the Tyrant

"And now Harry, let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

"I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock, I am an island...
I have my books and my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock, I am an island." - Simon & Garfunkel, I am a Rock

"Everything's dead but the tree." - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

"Never judge a philosophy by its abuse." - Saint Augustine

"Stay close. It's about to get interesting." - The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager

"The universe is a very strange place..." - The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager

[Mich]

This is the end of a really sad story
But don't feel bad for me
I started out alone and in the end that's where I'll be
This is the start of a really sad story
It don't end happily
I started out alone and in the end that's where I'll be

-The Plain White T's

Circles and eyeballs
Circles are pretty!
A tasty wonderful
Just like black grapies! [Or something like that]

-Good 'ol Radical Edward[/i]

[Young Val]

let me preface this by saying that i am not a Plath fangirl. THE BELL JAR? *yawn* and although i will admit that her poetry is technically incredibly advanced and almost perfect--it's just not my cup of tea.

but this passage from her Unabridged Journals just struck a funny, close-to-home chord with me.


Back To School Commandments

1 -- I will not overwhelm him by breathless over-enthusiasm.
2 -- I will not throw myself at him physically.
3 -- I will be moderate, yet intense and interested.

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Back to School Commandments
1 -- Keep a CHEERFUL FRONT continuously.
2 -- Science -- don't get upset. You have to get an A so you to have to learn this. You can: You proved it by getting 2 good test marks.
3 -- Unit -- don't panic. Ask for an extension if you need it. Write allegory paper this weekend. You were in infirmary if he needs excuses.
4 -- Davis -- ask for extension if you need it. You've done enough words theoretically anyways. Do paper for him in exam week.
5 -- See Schneiders. Be calm, ever if it is a matter of life & death.
6 -- Get Mlle written.
7 -- DO EXERCISES
8 -- Get a lot of sleep: afternoon naps if necessary.
9 -- Remember: 5 months is not eternity. 2 months is not eternity. Even if it looks that way now.
10 -- Attitude is everything: so KEEP CHEERFUL, even if you fail your science, your unit, get a hateful silence from Myron, no dates, no praise, no love, nothing. There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

P.S. Remember -- you're a hell of a lot better off than 9/10 of the world anyway!

Love,

Syl

[eriador]

Here is new quote that I just love:

"I only speak one language, mathematics, but I dabble in other like English just enough to answer questions and buy groceries"
-Attributed to Rene Descartes

Descartes... buying groceries in English? I don't think so!

[starlooker]

"You should try to be a little more forthcoming about your experiences. It would help you to rise above them."
~~~ Ralph Lombreglia, Men Under Water

[VelvetElvis]

In anatomy class, during a tangent on pneumo- and hemothorax:


"Student: So what if you get both blood and air in the thoracic cavity? What do you call it then?

Professor: Time of death, most likely."



I snorted.