What's your favorite quote?
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"I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life."
Frank O'Hara
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thestopsign
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A few of my favorite:
"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button." -- Sam Levenson
"He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." -- Joan Brannon
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."
"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button." -- Sam Levenson
"He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." -- Joan Brannon
"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."
Pizza Luigi
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"I'll be back" - Nietzsche
HamPster PamPster
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Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements! -Ashley Riot; Vagrant Story
Too bad no one ever asks me where the reinforcements are
Too bad no one ever asks me where the reinforcements are
Not my favorite, but a good one:
The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that is annihilates space. It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that the modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from traveling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another mater. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there.
C.S. Lewis
The truest and most horrible claim made for modern transport is that is annihilates space. It does. It annihilates one of the most glorious gifts we have been given. It is a vile inflation which lowers the value of distance, so that the modern boy travels a hundred miles with less sense of liberation and pilgrimage and adventure than his grandfather got from traveling ten. Of course if a man hates space and wants it to be annihilated, that is another mater. Why not creep into his coffin at once? There is little enough space there.
C.S. Lewis
Wow, I searched for Voltaire quotes an hour ago and now this thread pops up :lol
Here's some by the man himself:
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
And just to round it off, the one I think is the best:
A witty saying proves nothing.
Here's some by the man himself:
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
God is always on the side of the big battalions.
And just to round it off, the one I think is the best:
A witty saying proves nothing.
Lost Fragment
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"Real gangsta ass niggas don't flex nuts, 'cause real gangsta ass niggas know they got 'em."
-Geto Boys
-Geto Boys
"If you've got one foot in yesterday, and the other foot in tomorrow, you'll piss all over today."
My absolute favorite, but I have no idea who the original quote belongs to. I know one tamer version of it was from Liza Minelli, I think.
Also, Douglas Adams:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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My absolute favorite, but I have no idea who the original quote belongs to. I know one tamer version of it was from Liza Minelli, I think.
Also, Douglas Adams:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
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"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe"
"It's like I always say, you get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word"
"It's like I always say, you get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with just a kind word"
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Tieno
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Douglas Adams has so many good onesMagnus said:
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much, of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Suburban Cowboy
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"You don't know shit cause you never been fucked in the ass"
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-kevin bacon
oxtailsoup
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A couple that come to mind.
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence." - Hanlon
"Superman does good, son. You're doing well." - Tracy Jordan
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence." - Hanlon
"Superman does good, son. You're doing well." - Tracy Jordan
-COOLIO- said:
Looked, and it seems the answer is "yes and no".
He said Africans were inferior, since they were so primitive (in terms of science/technology), but if given time they would become equals. He called them animals, but at the same time uses "image of the Divine Maker" to refer to them as well.
The fact that the African peoples were selling each other to Europeans made him think they deserved to be slaves, even though he apparently opposed slavery.
The job, the family, the fucking big television. The washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electric tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mortgage, starter home, leisure wear, luggage, three piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing gutters, getting by, looking ahead to the day you die.
Mark Renton - Trainspotting
Mark Renton - Trainspotting
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"If you can go right, ALWAYS GO RIGHT!!!"
-My friend driving at high speeds through traffic.
-My friend driving at high speeds through traffic.
Do not stare into the eyes of your opponent: he may mesmerize you. Do not fix your gaze on his sword: he may intimidate you. Do not focus on your opponent at all: he may absorb your energy. The essence of training is to bring your opponent completely into your sphere. Then you can stand where you like.
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Ueshiba
Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything.
Ueshiba
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No matter where you go, there you are.
-B.Banzai
-B.Banzai
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Get busy living, or get busy dying
(from the shawshank redemption)
(from the shawshank redemption)
Discordian_taco
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"Never forget its just a ride."
- Bill Hicks
- Bill Hicks
backflip10019
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"Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string." - from Emerson's Self-Reliance
Always picks me up when I'm feeling down.
Always picks me up when I'm feeling down.
Night_Trekker
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"I despise quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
backflip10019
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You live your life by a quote from Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift? Jesus Christ.-COOLIO- said:
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-COOLIO- said:
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"They say if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach a man to fish.... then he's gotta get a fishing license, but he doesn't have any money. So he's got to get a job and get into the social security system and pay taxes, and now you're gonna audit the poor cocksucker, cuz' he's not really good with math. So he'll pull the IRS van up to your house, and he'll take all your shit. He'll take your black velvet Elvis and your Batman toothbrush, and your penis pump, and that all goes up for auction with the burden of proof on you because you forgot to carry the one, cuz' you were just worried about eating a fucking fish, and you couldn't even cook the fish cuz' you needed a permit for an open flame. Then the health department is going to start asking you a lot of questions about where are you going to dump the scales and the guts. 'This is not a sanitary environment', and ladies and gentlemen if you get sick of it all at the end of the day... not even legal to kill yourself in this country. Thanks again John Ashcroft you weird bible addict, can't even handle your own drug. You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it. The only true freedom you find, is when you realize and come to terms with the fact that you are completely and unapologetically fucked, and then you are free to float around the system."
-Doug Stanhope
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