Quotes

[BonitoDeMadrid]

"All your base are belong to us"
My moto in life.

...well, not really, my moto is "Try once, try twice, and then don't try again for the rest of the day!"

[Mich]

Been reading some Sandman lately...

Dream: The price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted.

[zeroguy]

Argh. Sorry, really, but... it's motto.

[BonitoDeMadrid]

Argh. Sorry, really, but... it's motto.

No problemo.

"Give a man a fish, and he'll have food for one day. Teach the man how to catch a fish, and he'll have food for his entire life." (forgot who said that, but it's a nice quote, so I thought I'd put it here)

[Young Val]

"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially
a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after
death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there
for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was
objectionable: "I must keep in good health, and not die."

-JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë


HI-larious.

[zeroguy]

Of course I'm ignorant, that's an unshakable truth and a sad truth for me, but it gives me all the advantage of ignorance, which is greater daring, and so I'm prepared to put up with my ignorance, evil consequences and all, for some time to come, so long as my strength holds out.

--K., The Castle by Franz Kafka

I just realized that that's just one long sentence.

[Eaquae Legit]

I'm on a due South kick. Sue me.

Fraser: "Well, you see, I used to live in the Yukon but I uncovered a plot that involved drowning caribou and then some men who were dressed in white came after me with homicidal intentions. It's a rather long story and it takes exactly two hours to tell, but the upshot of it is I was sent here. I think I embarrassed some people in the government."
Psychologist: "Do you have anyone who can vouch for you here?"
Fraser: "Well, yes, there's my wolf. Although I'm not sure he would vouch for me. If you know anything about lupine behaviour, you know how moody they are and on top of that, he's deaf."
[The ironic thing is that everything Fraser says in this bit is true and explainable. But since he's trying to get himself committed, he just tells the bare bones.]

Fraser: "You know, my mother died when I was very young. I don't remember a lot about that time except... except my father's beard. I don't remember him crying or talking about her. I just woke up one morning and I noticed he had a beard, and it kept getting longer and longer, and he got thinner and he stopped going to work. My mother died, and my father stopped living... And then one morning, I woke up and there was a breakfast waiting for me at the table. Oatmeal and, uh, sliced banana. And he was clean shaven. And he was crying."
Walter: "Well, your dad was a very strong man."
Fraser: "He just woke up and the wind was from the south, and he found he still knew the difference between hawk and a handsaw."

Fraser: "We had a schoolyard bully in Tuktoyaktuk once. Sometimes at night I can still remember him coming into the classroom, swinging that otter over his head. There was just no reasoning with him."

Fraser: "That's an old scar."
Elaine: "How'd you get it?
Fraser: "I'd rather not say...... Someone struck me with a sea otter."
Elaine: "I guess that's what happens in a country with gun control."
Fraser: "Oh, I believe he shot the otter first."
Elaine: "That's just cruel."
Fraser: "Uh yes, but you see, strictly speaking he did adhere to the law because swinging a live otter is illegal in the Territories."
Elaine: "Ah."
Fraser: "Indeed."
Elaine: "So there's nothing the police could do about it?"
Fraser: "No, although they did change the law, after that, uh, incident."
Elaine: "Good thing."
Fraser: "It's a very good thing."

[Dr. Mobius]

"I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I don't think you do either." - David Letterman to Bill O'Reilly, concluding their war debate.

[Mich]

A heavy bass beat began to thump through the Bentley as they sped past Heathrow.
Aziraphale's brow furrowed.
"I don't recognize this," he said. "What is it?"
"It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.
To while away the time as they crossed the sleeping Chilterns, they also listened to William Byrd's "We Are the Champions" and Beethoven's "I Want To Break Free." Neither were as good as Vaughan William's "Fat-Bottomed Girls."

From Good Omens, if not my favorite book, then my favorite satire. Unless you count Chuck Palahniuk as satire, in which case it is still up in the air.

Edit: fix'd a typo.

[Xenofreak]

"Now you are dangerous" - the film Brick. If you haven't had the chance to see it, its a must.

[Young Val]

Brick is SO GOOD.


One of my personal favorites from that movie:

Brendan Frye: Come on at me, if you want, Hash-head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you.

[Xenofreak]

Yeah that line just glows with awesomeness .

[Eaquae Legit]

Stan: "You ever feel like you don't know who you are? Like if you weren't around somebody or had somebody wasn't around you, that you wouldn't be you. Or at least not the you that you think you are. You know, you ever feel like that?"
Thatcher: (a little too quickly) "Never."
Stan: "Me neither."

[zeroguy]

The trap exists for the fish.
Once you have the fish,
you forget the trap.

The words exist for the meaning.
Once you have the meaning,
you forget the words.

Paper Eleven

[Young Val]

I'm reading DANGEROUS ANGELS: The Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block.

Unlike anything I've ever read before. Here's a smattering of my favorites from Missing Angel Juan

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder-sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with.

I drink some tea, get my camera and go out into the bright cold.

As soon as I start skating I get the sick empty feeling in my stomach again. But it's worse this time. How am I ever supposed to find Angel Juan in this city? It is the clutchiest thing I have ever tried to do. What made me think I could find him? Here is this whole city full of monuments and garbage and Chinese food and subways and cigarettes and mannequinns and a million other things and I am looking for one kind-of-small boy who left me. As if I know where he would be. As if he wanted me to find him. Why am I here at all?

This city is like an old forest or house that you think's just rotting away and then you see there's magic hidden inside. I try to remember that about life and about my heart in me. I think by being by myself I am learning how to love you more and not be so afraid.

Dear Angel Juan,

You used to guard my sleep like a panther biting back my pain with the edge of your teeth. You carried me into the dark dream jungle, loping past the hungry vines, crossing the shiny fish-scale river. We left my tears behind in a chiming silver pool. We left my sorrow in the muddy hollows. When I woke up you were next to me, damp and matted, your eyes hazy, trying to remember the way I clung to you, how far down we went.

Was the journey too far, Angel Juan? Did we go too far?

Now it's different because he doesn't have to go away. He wants to. [...] I feel like I need him to put me back together every night. After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.

(Just fyi, I hate that I can't indent!)

[Young Val]

That Kelly. Posting her favorite quotes as quick as she can find 'em. Again. What does she do, read for a living?




Be quiet, Hope tells herself. This has ever been her fault, talking, giving, flirting, trying too hard to please, endeavoring to seduce. Her grandfather would use a Quaker phrase, "of the creature," for anything that was too much, too human, too worldly, too selfish and cruel. War was of the creature. Lust and intemperance of course, yet reason and excessive learning and disputation, too. The arts--save for the domestic, Edenic art of gardening, and the hidden art of making money--were of the creature, howls for recognition and singularity. Things of the creature were weak and dirty and unworthy; they were a form of noise. As a child Hope had chattered too much, feeling her round freckled face redden with excitement, her heart nearly bursting with its own beating, wanting within her ribs all of her, head to toes, scalp to footsoles, to be loved, to be held, to be desired.

SEEK MY FACE, John Updike

[Oliver Dale]

Please don't stop. I LURVE your quotes.

[Darth Petra]

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -Jim Elliot

[GodInYourEyes]

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

its a classic.

[zeroguy]

"Any sufficiently advanced failure is indistinguishable from success."

-- Jan Ingvoldstad

[Young Val]

"[...n]ow and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates!" -Life on the Mississippi


Mark Twain WINS. Always.

[Mich]

Can't seem to find out where this came from, but I wrote it down, so it has to have a source:

"Any attempt you make to control your destiny will be thwarted by fate."

[Dr. Mobius]

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~ Marcus Aurelius

[Darth Petra]

"I think we all go a little mad sometimes....haven't you?" - Norman Bates.


"The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope" - Alexandre Dumas.

[Dr. Mobius]

That's three words.

[eriador]

This is something I found last spring, reading Slaughterhouse Five. I love it.

"It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen Backwards by Billy, the story went something like this:
"American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
"The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
"When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again."

[Virlomi]

"Even then, her words had left Tomas in a strange state of melancholy, and now he realized it was only a matter of chance that Tereza loved him and not his friend Z. Apart from her consummated love for Tomas, there were, in the realm of possibility, an infinite number of unconsummated loves for other men.

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the 'Es muss sein!' to our own great love.

Tomas often thought of Tereza's remark about his friend Z and came to the conclusion that the love story of his life exemplified not 'Es muss sein!' (It must be so), but rather 'Es konnte auch anders sein' (It could just as easily be otherwise)."

-The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

[locke]

"[...n]ow and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates!" -Life on the Mississippi


Mark Twain WINS. Always.

Facebooked.

it's been too long since Twain's been in my quotes he used to dominated mine. Here's some of my favorites:

"What's this? Oh. It's Sleep. Good."
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- Nenenee R.O.D. The TV.

"Friendship... has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
C.S. Lewis - _The Four Loves_

"Gramma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right." - Little Tree, from _The Education of Little Tree_, by Forrest Carter

"After all, what is Time? A mere Tyranny."
Conductor 71 - "A Matter of Life and Death"

First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards. — Mark Twain

There are two types of education. . . One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live. — John Adams

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
-- Paulo Friere

"I've wrestled with reality for some thirty-five years, and I'm proud to report I've finally won out over it."
- Elwood P Dowd

"my mother used to say to me, 'Elwood,' she always called me Elwood, 'Elwood,' she'd say, 'in this world you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Now for years I was smart, I recommend pleasant"
----Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in Harvey

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Night Watch)


"History is fiction, but people seem to think otherwise. The thing I like about fantasy and science fiction is that you can take issues, pull them out of their cultural straitjackets, and talk about them without bringing in folk artifacts that make people get closed minded."
---- George Lucas, Wired 13.05

"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- GK Chesterton, "On Detective Novels," Generally Speaking

"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged."
GK Chesterton, - The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21

"The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed."
- GK Chesterton, What I Saw In America, 1922

"I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)


"the habit of "not giving a damn" grows on a class. To discount the voice of the peasant where it really ought to be discounted makes it easier to discount his voice when he cries for justice or mercy. The partial deafness which is noble and necessary encourages the wholesale deafness which is arrogant and inhuman."
- C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves

"Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it."
- GK Chesterton, Commonwealth, 1933

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)

[locke]

"All life is a compromise. We are haunted by an ambition of a celestial greatness and baulked of it by all manner of paltry impediments."
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Christmas Day

"He loves the earnest of the north wind; of rain, of stone, of wood and iron. A beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty we can see the end of."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[locke]

from one of the funniest movies ever:

The responsibility for recording a marriage has always been up to woman. If it wasn't for her, marriage would have disappeared long since. No man is going to jeopardize his present or poison his future with a lot of little brats hollering around the house unless he's forced to. It's up to the woman to knock him down, hogtie him, and drag him in front of two witnesses immediately if not sooner. Anytime after that is too late.

- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

[Virlomi]

Those are fantastic!

I especially love this:

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.
-- Paulo Friere

Thank you for sharing them.

[Luet]

"my mother used to say to me, 'Elwood,' she always called me Elwood, 'Elwood,' she'd say, 'in this world you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' Now for years I was smart, I recommend pleasant"
----Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in Harvey

This is one of my favorites ever. If only more people would realize this.

[Rei]

I do love that one. I need to see that film, again.

[locke]

I love Harvey, all hail Jimmy Stewart.

I'm in the middle of watching Miracle of Morgan's Creek right now, I'm going to type out some of the many awesome quotes from the film as I do. So many of them are extended dialogue exchanges though that there aren't as many great one liners as there are the most hilarious conversations you've ever seen.

oddly enough though I'm in the mood for some quotes from movies set in old europe...

"A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one. This heart of Lischen's was like many a neighboring town and had been stormed and occupied several times before Barry came to invest it. "
- narrator, Barry Lyndon

"I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled. "
- Eleanor, The Lion in Winter

"Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians! How clear we make it. Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war: not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government, nor any other thing. We are the killers. We breed wars. We carry it like syphilis inside. Dead bodies rot in field and stream because the living ones are rotten. For the love of God, can't we love one another just a little - that's how peace begins. We have so much to love each other for. We have such possibilities, my children. We could change the world. "
- Eleanor, The Lion in Winter

"I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family."
- Geoffrey, The Lion in Winter

"I could have conquered Europe - all of it - but I had women in my life. "
- Henry II, The Lion in Winter

"He had a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin. "
- Eleanor, The Lion in Winter

"The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!"
- The Court Jester

[Dr. Mobius]

"Calling atheism a religion is like calling bald a hairstyle."