QUOTES!!!!!! yay!! *clapping*
i LOVE quotes! quotes quotes quotes. they always have some way of getting to me. i especially like FUNNY quotes...:) anyhoo...here are some of my favorites. some funny, some serious...all loved. :)im sure i will add more, once i find them. :)
"i gotta be me"
-sammy davis, jr.
"people are strange"
-jim morrisson
"what is the colour of the wind?"
-zen koan
"i cant god on!/you must go on./ill go on."
-samuel beckett
"what is the sound of one hand clapping?"
-another zen koan
"the universe never did make sense; i suspect it was built on a government contract."
-robert a. heinlein
"every passing hour brings the solar system forty-three thousand miles closer to the globular cluster M13 in hercules -- and there still are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
-kurt vonnegut, jr.
"sure im prejudiced!! none of my best friends are idiots!"
-larry niven
"i could carve a better man out of a banana."
-kurt vonnegut, jr. (what can i say, i love the man!) :)
"there are only two things in the universe that violate the law of conservation of energy: one is the road runner, the other is the coyote. you cant do it, and neither can i."
-diane duane
"this is the first age thats paid much attention to the future, which is ironic since we may not have on."
-arthur c. clarke
"of course life is bizarre. the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. the only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show."
-david gerrold
"run the the bookstore and get that book. if the school board tells you you cant read it, its probably what you need to know."
-stephen king, on banned books (one of my favorites)
"if you cant annoy someone, theres little point in writing."
-kingsley amis
"actually, all polution is simply an unused resource. garbage is the only raw material that we're too stupid to use."
-arthur c. clarke
"thin people are thin because they dont know any better."
-isaac asimov
"scoundrels are predictable, but you're a man of honour, and that frightens me."
-robert a. heinlein
"facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
-aldous huxley
"a census taker once tried to test me. i ate his liver...with some fava beans and a nice chianti"
-dr. lecter silence of the lambs
"imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as i am, for i shall not change."
-from the last will and testament of the marquis de sade
"sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."
-fox mulder
"if you have to ask what jazz is, youll never know."
-louis armstrong
"ring the bells that still can ring/forget your perfect offering/ there is a crack in everything/thats how the light gets in."
-leonard cohen
"veronica: i saw somebody peeing in jermyn street the other day. i though, is this the end of civilization as we know it? or is it simply somebody peeing in jermyn street?"
-alan bennett
"ill chop your head off! im a ninja! so take off, hoser!!"
-ninja guy
"the fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that i am here and you are out there."
-yasutani roshi
"what happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
-bertolt brecht
"teach us to care and not to care/teach us to sit still."
-t.s. eliot
"when hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what i mean."
-lin-chi
"we are more concerned about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake."
-diogenes
"why? because we're the griswalds!!"
-chevy chase in vacation
"im not a crook"
-nixon
"no more yanky my wanky! the donger needs food!!"
-long duk dong sixteen candles
"the notes i handle are no better than many pianists. but the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides!"
-artur schnabel
"we shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want."
-tao te ching
"i have nothing to say, i am something it, and that is poetry."
-john cage
"simmer down, mon"
-bob marley
"hey! how come andrew gets to get up? if he gets up...we'll all get up....itll be anarchy!"
-bender (judd nelson) breakfast club
"anything more than the truth would be too much."
-robert frost
WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS MEAN?? any ideas would be greatly appreciated: "butter tea and wind pictures, the crystal mountain, and blue sheep dancing on the snow -- its quite enough! / have you seen the snow leopard? / no! isnt that wonderful?"
-peter mattheissen
"a heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. what silence!"
-folk zen saying
"life moves pretty fast. if you dont stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
-ferris bueller ferris bueller's day off
"conventionality belongs to yesterday"
-beegees
"alles ist hubsch"
-andy warhol
"know thyself? if i knew myself, id run away!!"
-goethe
"when making your choice in life, do not neglect to live." -samuel johnson
"face it. youre a neo-maxie zoom dweebie."
-bender the breakfast club
"i must be crazy to be in a looney bin like this."
-r.p. mcmurphy
"i would like....if i may....to take you on a strange journey..."
-narrator (coroner) rocky horror picture show
"oh bother!"
-winnie the pooh
"the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didnt exist."
-verbal usual suspects
"i cant believe i gave my panties to a geek!"
-samantha (molly ringwald) sixteen candles
"bad spellers of the world, untie!"
-?
"it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-thomas jefferson
"inconceivable!"
-fezzini princess bride
"there is a time in every mans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. the power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
-ralph waldo emerson, from his essay self-reliance
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