Philotic Web

"'Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth,' he said, 'and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!' And taking Frodo's hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as a living man."

-J.R.R. Tolkein

"Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo"
"A star shines on the hour of our meeting"

-J.R.R. Tolkein

(Just a couple of choice morsels from tonight's nerd-out on AIM)

This was a series of post in a thread on another board. I about cracked up when I read it.

Member 1: Nevermind, I found it. Please delete this thread.
Mod: We don't delete them, we relocate them.
Member 2: That's what the Nazis claimed to be doing with the Jews.
Admin: Watch your tongue, or I'll relocate you.

George (from Dead Like Me) to Kiffany:

I don't need oatmeal. Or raisins. Or ANYBODY.

(I found that episode supremely comforting tonight.)

i love love love love that show SO much.


George: Since I just got promoted, I just thought you two should know - I take my coffee with a little milk, two sugars and a lot less of your bullshit.

“Anything human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” - Mister Rogers

"Everyone cries when they've been stabbed... There's no shame in that!"

Richard (from Slings and Arrows)

J.D. (Scrubs) : Are you insane?
Janitor : No. I'm a pirate.

ROMEO
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,
Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.

MERCUTIO
If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.

(i don't really need to cite that one, do i?)


Mercutio's line is my current motto. won't last long, but hey. whatever gets me through the day.

From a text in my book history class, regarding book-selling in the late 1700s in France:

"The occasional binder and under-the-cloak peddler also provided a few books, most of them illegal, to the more adventuresome readers of the city. For example, the demoiselle Brigand, known as 'the students' mother,' stocked some forbidden fruit 'under the bed on the room to the right on the second floor,' according to the report of a raid that was engineered by the established booksellers."

What is the History of Books?, by Roberd Darnton

Roland: Are you okay?
Hilary Faye: No, Roland... I crashed my van into Jesus! Okay?! I have a pimple the size of Jupiter! I am NOT okay!

-Saved

"Who really thought we were going to do anything resembling a actual class tonight?"

"Okay, that's enough I think. We can continue this in smaller discursive communities. And of course by that I mean let's all get s***-faced."

-- Current Theory and Medieval Texts prof, during the final class of the term.

Student: "Would you rather we use pen on the exam, or would pencil be okay?"
Latin Prof: [Pauses to think for a moment] "Latin man likes pen."

no one will care about this quote except me, and maybe the one or two closet Ani Difranco fans on the forum, but so be it.

on her album Living in Clip, disc 2, there's a hidden track on which the following conversation takes place (all underneath Ani on the acoustic improving gently on 32 flavors) i swear, you have to actually hear it, it's so funny, but also really sweet, in a bizarre way.


Andy (her drummer): you know, we were in a hotel room once, and um-
Ani: yeah, just once or twice
Andy: and we, ah, the first time I heard this next song, and then we were working on – this is why I’m telling the story – and the next hour we went to this folk club, this open mic in Austin
Ani: see? Austin is our theme tonight
Andy: and there was this couple up on stage and they were singing--there was about like 6 people in the audience including Ani and I--and this couple was singing this song about--they were Christians…
Ani: they were born again, they were like double-whammy Christians
Andy: which is, you know, whatever.
Ani: it was fun the first time
Andy: Yes. And the song was about Anne Frank and whether she had found Jesus before she had died.
Ani: they were like born 6 or 7 times, these people. it was just so bizarre
Andy: our reaction was not… we were killing ourselves laughing except we were trying to be polite so we’re shaking in our seats and I turn to Ani at one point and I go, “I thought she was Jewish!”
Ani: to which my--of course I just hit the floor and start rolling. I don’t know it was just one of those evenings
Andy: (singing) did Anne Frank find Jesus?
Ani: and they were really, like, well-ironed... and there was some sort of excessive hygiene going on…
Andy: ok, ok, ok.
Ani: but, I mean, god bless’em it was fascinating
Andy: god bless’em!
Ani: god bless’em!
Andy: (singing) did Jesus find Buddha? (speaking) Let’s all just find each other.
Ani: I wanna find Anne Frank before I bite it. I wonder if you get to choose that kinda thing, like, whose face you go out looking at, you know, in your mind’s eye that is, or if someone just appears like, ha ha! Boo! And you’re like, "oh f***!" Like the person from the phone company you know, and you just moved out of your parent’s house, and you didn’t pay the bill cause you were in college and you were grazing the bulk food section of the supermarket and you ran and you ran and you ran but your conscience never forgot
Andy: I think my inner child is coughing. …Can I leave now?
Ani: no! you hafta stand there…sit there, and… I don’t know what the f***--
Andy: hit things with sticks
Ani: yeah, just hit things ok. ::::deep breath:::: :::laughs::: :::another deep breath::: (sings) squint your eyes and look closer…

Roland: Are you okay?
Hilary Faye: No, Roland... I crashed my van into Jesus! Okay?! I have a pimple the size of Jupiter! I am NOT okay!

-Saved

I love that movie. I need to own that movie.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? - fanny brice

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. - robert h schuller

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say keep saying it. - robert frost

courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - mark twain

too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like - will rogers

people are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within - elizabeth kubler-ross

one never notices what has been done, one can only see what remains to be done - marie curie

dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them - aristotle

if you treat men the way they are you never improve them. if you treat them the way you want them to be, you do - goethe

being defeated is often a temporary condition. giving up is what makes it permanent - marilyn vos savant

it's better to bend than break - scottish proverb

the reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say. - kahlil gibran


damaged people are dangerous, they know they can survive

the love we really live is all the love we really have. and the love we really have is the love that's true.

a child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong

i can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And i can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

a masochist walked up to a sadist and said "hurt me" the sadist said "no" and walked away

our individuality makes us unique, our abnormality makes us interesting.

the basic question of love: if you love me still, will you love me moving?

Some say God is love; some say love is God; I say love is holy

the only thing constant about love is its universality
the only think universal about love is its inconstancy
these truths make coconspirators of strangers

if you concentrate on giving love your task will seem small but the results large; if you concentrate on getting love your task will seem large and the results small.

Harry: Harmony, like all soon-to-be-f******-up girls, was wicked smart.


Harry: (talking about how every girl on the west coast is "damaged goods.") I mean, it's literally like someone took America by the East Coast and shook it and all the normal girls managed to hang on.


both quotes from Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Kathy: you know what makes me crazy?
i'm sorry, can i say this?
you know what makes me nuts?
the fact that we could be together
here, together
sharing our night
spending our time
and you are going to choose someone else to be with
no, you are
yes, Jamie, that's exactly what you're doing
you could be here with me
or be there with them
as usual guess which you pick
no, Jamie, you do not have to go to another party
with the same 20 jerks you already know
you could stay with your wife on her f****** birthday
and you could, god forbid, even see my show
and i know in your soul it must drive you crazy
that you're not gonna play with your little girlfriends
no, i'm not
no, i'm not! and the point is, Jamie
that you can't spend a single day that's not about you
and you
and nothing but you
miles and piles of you
bursting through windows
and bursting through walls
upward to the sky
and i!
i...
i guess i'll never really understand
how you can stand there, straight and tall
and see i'm crying
and not do anything at all...

-part of the song "See, I'm Smiling" from the musical The Last Five Years which perfectly captures all the moments in relationships, the best, the worst, the in-between. it's gorgeous and heart-wrenching.

As overheard on the bus, inference that myspace has gotten far too big:

(in reference to a guy the blonde girl behind me had a date with): Yeah, I mean, he was cute and all, but it's not like he's in my top 8 or anything.

this one slays me:





"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

"There's so much meat! It's a Christmas miracle!"

(After the lamb, beef, other beef, chicken, and ham were brought out at the potluck party.)

screw it, i'm just putting these up for myself and who cares if they make no sense to anyone else.


Plenty have hoped and dreamed and prayed
But they can't get out of Klimovich
If Schmuel had been a cute goyishe maid
He'd've looked a lot like you
Maybe it's just that you're afraid to go out on to a limb...ovich
Maybe your heart's completely swayed
But your head can't follow through
But shouldn't I want the world to see
The brilliant girl who inspires me?
Don't you think that now's a good time to be
The ambitious freak you are?
Say goodbye to wiping ashtrays at the bar
Say hello to Cathy Hiatt, big-time star!
'Cause I say:
Na na na na na na na na
Cathy, you get to be happy!
Na na na na na na na
I give you unlimited time!
Na na na na na na na
Stop temping and go and be happy!
Here's a headshot guy and a new BackStage
Where you're right for something on every page
Take a breath
Take a step
Take a chance
Take. your. time.
Have I mentioned today
How lucky I am
To be in love with you?

The Schmuel Song, The Last Five Years
Jason Robert Brown

"no one can hear you meow in a vacuum"
- My friend, Denny, while talking about the difference between moon cats and moon dachsunds

Me: "I do well in classes where I like the professor. I even do well in classes where I don't like the professor. I just don't do well in classes where I want to throttle the professor every time I see him."

My Mother: "You may want to rethink that strategy."

Pause.

Raucous laughter.

River: I understand. You gave up everything you had to find me and you found me broken. It's hard for you. You gave up everything you had.
Simon: Meme, everything I have is right here.

Firefly, the episode "Safe." That whole scene is amazing.

Just look at my sig from time to time.

Now that the main charity drive is more or less over, at least until next year, I'll probably go back to having random witty lines in my sig.

"You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All the sudden, even though you have some place where you put your s***, the idea of home is gone. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Maybe it's like this right of passage, you know? You'll never have that feeling again until you create a new home for yourself, you know? For your kids, for the family you start. It's like a cycle or something. I don't know... but I miss the idea of home, you know?

Maybe that's all family really is. Just a bunch of people who miss the same imaginary place."

Zach Braff, Garden State

Rien.

-Only entry in the personal diary of Louis XVI for the 14th of July of 1789

Kidney?

Lol... sorry i really am not laughing at you: the image of the King of France writing "kidney" the day the revolution exploded simply popped into my mind.
Imagine Marie Antoinette checking out his diary and saying "whoa dude! that was totally random!"

Rien is "nothing". Rein is "kidney". ^_^

"People seem to have free will, or at least it's very difficult to make them do something unless they really want to."

-Pg 15 in my school's Office of Residential Life's Residential Advisor training manual, on conflict resolution.

Lol... sorry i really am not laughing at you: the image of the King of France writing "kidney" the day the revolution exploded simply popped into my mind.
Imagine Marie Antoinette checking out his diary and saying "whoa dude! that was totally random!"

Rien is "nothing". Rein is "kidney". ^_^

That's ok, I laughed at myself even while I was writing it. The same image hit me too, so as amazing as that would have been, I had a feeling I was wrong.

Ash: [to his freshly sawed off possessed hand] Here's your new home.
[Ash places a bucket and a bunch of books on it to trap the hand, the top book reads "A farewell to arms"]

Bad Ash: I'm bad Ash. And you're good Ash. You're goody little two-shoes! Goody little two-shoes!
Ash: [blowing bad Ash's head off] Good, Bad, I'm the guy with the gun.

Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?
Ash: Just me, baby, just me.

Ash: [to deadite] Lady, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave the store.
Monster: Who the hell are you?
Ash: Name's Ash. Housewares.

Ash: Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart.

Army of Darkness or Evil Dead?

First one is from Evil Dead 2, the rest are from Army of Darkness.


Hail to the King, baby.