Quotes
These are just some random quotes I've collected in the past year or so. All Jazz related quotes are Here. If I have the wrong person credited, the quote is incorrect, or, if by some chance, I have quoted you and you don't want it posted here, please let me know and I'll fix it.
It occurred to me that just because I live in a crappy apartment and I have no money ... that doesn't make me a loser. I'm actually TRYING here. That makes me a "failure". I feel much better.
- Keith Pople
Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration - - that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination...
- Bill Hicks
And in time all things shall pass away,
In time, you may come back someday.
To live once more, or die once more,
But in time, your time will be no more.
- Mark Collie, In Time
It takes nothing less than a Human to know a Human, eh? The problem only exists, then, with those that truly are less than Human…
- Away message
Live Long
Die Proud
Have Fun
and
Play LOUD
- unknown
When in doubt,
play louder
- Unknown
Never look at the trombones; it just encourages them
- Richard Wagner
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- Douglas Noel Adams
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much; the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
-Douglas Noel Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup.
-anonymous
What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists... [People] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but it's for real."
- Keanu Reeves
The solution continues to evade. Why are answers so hard to find? Why aren't people willing to share?
I know you're afraid
- Away message
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the Lord my soul to take
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beasts under your bed
In your closet, in your head.
-another away message
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
-Terry Josephson
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
-Alexander Jodorowsky
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
-Maurice Freehill
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly -- why, they are simply doomed.
- Unknown
Humans say the road to heck is paved with good intentions.
Why? Do they think there’s a shortage of bad ones?
-Unknown
The Enemy of my Enemy is still my enemy.
- Unknown
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Which is a problem,
if you are powerless.
-unknown
The Natural Life
You're born, you die
The Natural Life
You're wrong, you're right
The Natural Life
You're born, you die
The Natural Life's a Lie
- Another Away Message
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was blamed.
-Me