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Awesome Quote!
2006-01-18, 4:38 PM #1
[QUOTE=Nathaniel Hawthorne]“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”[/QUOTE]

So awesome, it is in fact now part of my signature. I'm currently reading The Scarlet Letter, and I found this quote in the introduction. If you knew the school I went to, you would understand why this quote is both deeply applicable to me and quite comforting.

So, post your favorite quotes, how you found them, and why you like them so much.
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2006-01-18, 4:41 PM #2
Quote:
Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid.


:D
"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2006-01-18, 4:46 PM #3
I didn't enjoy the Scarlet Letter.

"Patriotism is the belief that one's country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." --George Bernard Shaw

Just a random one in my collection I like.
2006-01-18, 5:02 PM #4
Scarlett letter was incredibly boring. :(
2006-01-18, 5:12 PM #5
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." - (I forgot)
<Lyme> I got Fight Club for 6.98 at walmart.
<Black_Bishop> I am Jack's low price guarantee
2006-01-18, 5:12 PM #6
"That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'F--k you' right under your nose."

-- J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"
The cake is a lie... THE CAKE IS A LIE!!!!!
2006-01-18, 5:21 PM #7
Originally posted by JudgeDredd:
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." - (I forgot)


I heard that, but I can't remember either :(
"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."
2006-01-18, 5:22 PM #8
"Nailface."

-Spe
Think while it's still legal.
2006-01-18, 5:24 PM #9
"Strict Adherence to slavic ritual is proof that no one has anything better to think about" - Natasha Kerensky
Holy soap opera Batman. - FGR
DARWIN WILL PREVENT THE DOWNFALL OF OUR RACE. - Rob
Free Jin!
2006-01-18, 5:31 PM #10
[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]I heard that, but I can't remember either :([/QUOTE]

Quote:
Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised.


I have those four saved into a file called deepthoughts. I'm assuming I saved them from some online list or something, but that must have been a while ago.
<Lyme> I got Fight Club for 6.98 at walmart.
<Black_Bishop> I am Jack's low price guarantee
2006-01-18, 5:31 PM #11
This landing is gonna get pretty interesting
Define 'interesting'
'Oh god oh god we're all gonna die'?
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There is no spoon.
2006-01-18, 5:33 PM #12
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy. I think he has a series of quotes called Hazy Memories or something too.
omnia mea mecum porto
2006-01-18, 5:40 PM #13
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
-Jim Elliot

It makes me think about how I'm going to be a missionary, and what I gain in the future will far outweigh what I give up now.
2006-01-18, 5:45 PM #14
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin

Plus anything else Benjamin Franklin ever said.
2006-01-18, 5:59 PM #15
I keep a quote database. It has grown to be quite massive in recent years. Here are a few select quotes...


Quote:
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
-- Irving Howe

Quote:
We are the dreamers. We are the dancers. Life is the music. Love is the song.
-- Leonard Nimoy

Quote:
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier

Quote:
Producing software from a specification is like walking on water -- it's easier if it's frozen.
-- Boehm

Quote:
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Lord Peter Wimsey
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2006-01-18, 6:05 PM #16
Girl pants are for pussies.
2006-01-18, 7:06 PM #17
"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
-Jim Elliot

one of my favs too Axis, speaking of I guess you are going to see End of the Spear?


some of my fav. Chesterton quotes (not that I agree with everthing he said but I love how he said it)

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.” :D

“Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.”

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

and the sig.
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” -G.K. Chesterton
2006-01-18, 7:23 PM #18
[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]Girl pants are for pussies.[/QUOTE]

XD huzzah!
2006-01-18, 7:26 PM #19
"Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius."

-Max Zorin (Christopher Walken), A View to a Kill
2006-01-18, 8:12 PM #20
[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin

Plus anything else Benjamin Franklin ever said.[/QUOTE]
Even we he said "I need to take a ****?"
2006-01-18, 8:37 PM #21
Originally posted by Spork:
This landing is gonna get pretty interesting
Define 'interesting'
'Oh god oh god we're all gonna die'?

"Attention crew, we'll be experiencing alittle turbulence and then explode."


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"someone tries to kill you, you try and kill then right back."

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"Ta ma duh!"

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哎呀，壞了！・哎呀，坏了！

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"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn."
- Joss Whedon
On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals."
2006-01-18, 8:48 PM #22
Not my favorite, definitely one of the funniest if impersonated well though:

"Can I get me a huntin' license here?"
- John Kerry

Sorry guys, I found that hilarious. No offense to you Kerry supporters, but let's not get political here...

But, quite honestly, my favorites usually come from my dad who is a treasure trove a wisdom, although usually it's just "Piece of **** Commie *******." which is worthy of eternal quoting.

"There is nothing to fear, but fear itself." - Someone, I dunno
"Et tu Brute." - Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play entitled Julius Caesar.

Also, the whole "To be or not to be" speech from Hamlet in Hamlet is worthy of quoting as well.
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2006-01-18, 8:48 PM #23
That's from Serenity, huh? I never even saw the movie, just the previews, and I know those quotes. Lol.
2006-01-18, 8:56 PM #24
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." - Dan Quayle

"Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward." - Søren Aaby Kierkegaard

"Of course, [Quixote] carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be... Well, all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes." - George C. Scott, They Might Be Giants, 1971

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
"It sounds like an epidemic."
"Look, I don't know what that means. But it happens all the time." - Penny Arcade
Last.fm
2006-01-18, 9:02 PM #25
All we really need to do in this thread is put down numbers, because everyone knows that the best quotes are all on bash.org.

#183544
Stuff
2006-01-18, 9:29 PM #26
kyle, I search on bash and didn't find that number.

Delphian, you must go see serenity.
just go buy the dvd.
then go buy the complete series of firefly.
you know you want to.
On a Swedish chainsaw: "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals."
2006-01-18, 9:31 PM #27
Haha, I love Douglas Adams stuff. Son of a ***** just had to die on us though. :(
2006-01-18, 9:40 PM #28
"If you don't think this song is the greatest song ever... I will fight you.
That's no lie."
-Ron Burgundy, "Afternoon Delight"

"We'll let her decide."
"No! No, we absolutely cannot do that."
"Why not?"
"Because she'll choose you."
-Joe Blake and Terry Lee Collins, "Bandits"
(See also the quote in my sig from that same movie)

"What goes around, comes around. If not examined too closely, it looks like justice."
-Terry Pratchet

Now, I could put in about thirty years worth of song quotes, but that would be over-the-top. So, let's just condense it down to anything Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, or Kurt Cobaine ever mumbled into a microphone.

Ah hell.
"There is no dark side in the moon.
Matter of fact, it's all dark."
Does anybody know who that is/where it's from? It's the last words spoken on DSotM, Pink Floyd's Oz album. It's hidden in the heartbeat after the end of Eclipse, which, by the way, is also an awesome song, but I promised no lyrics.
Intros and out-tros are fair game.

"This is a folk tale, not a god damn Oxi Clean commercial."
-"Planes, Trains, and Plantains: The True Story of Oedipus Rex"

"It is necessary that the British public be assured
that they are in safe hands. It is not essential
that they should know whose."
-"M", LoEG

"**** sympathy. I don't need... ****ing sympathy, I need my ****ing johnson."
"What do you need that for, dude?"
-Dude Lebowski and Donny, "The Big Lebowski"

-And, of course, "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." ("Only a Sith deals in absolutes..."?)
2006-01-18, 9:53 PM #29
Most of these I have as away messages for AIM, as I was too lazy to go hunting down other good ones, like from the ISB or the like.

Quote:
"Never confuse wisdom with luck." ~ 44th Ferengi Rule of Aqquisition

"Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end." ~Spock, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country

"Hope: it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness." ~ The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded

"Art is an ever-lasting reality, life is an evanescent reflection." ~ myself, paraphrase of the "art is long, life is short" idea.

""What I control as my own is a question I still dwell upon. There are many who have done both good and bad in 'the will of God,' submitting themselves to a master weaver whose threading is as much mysterious as He is divine. Those that submit their control to 'other gods' such as money, drugs, and alcohol, are considered addicts. Lying awake, I wonder if I am addicted to sleep, slow to realize that I worship idol stars that seek to conquor, or if I suffer restless for a greater good above me. I fear what truth may come in reach as I fall asleep, only to lose when I wake." ~ myself, Dreamer's Addiction

“It is true I am guilty of these things-- an idealist? For I have never had the courage to believe in nothing.” ~ Cerventes, responding to the charges brought against him, Man of La Mancha

"I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no brave last words, only their eyes, filled with confusion, questioning "Why?" When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Too much sanity may be madness. To surrender dreams - -this may be madness; to seek treasure where there is only trash. And maddest of all - -to see life as it is and not as it should be." ~ Cerventes, Man of La Mancha

"Inspiration will strike you, and leave you for dead. The police will do nothing." ~ random mock horoscope.

"You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here!" ~ Jayne, Firefly
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2006-01-18, 10:38 PM #30
"He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust," some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."

"Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition."

"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny."

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."

-Jack Handy
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2006-01-19, 12:05 AM #31
"There are two kinds of people in the world my friend, those with loaded guns, and those that dig."

OK, so it's from a movie and doesn't particuarly mean anything, I couldn't think of a proper quote to write though. Ten Tony Points to whoever names the movie though.
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2006-01-19, 12:10 AM #32
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

-Willie S.
2006-01-19, 12:25 AM #33
Quote:
Give yourself to the Dark Side. It is the only way to save your friends. Yes. Your thoughts betray you. Your feelings for them are strong. Especially for....sister. So. You have a twin sister. Obi-Wan was wise to hide her from me. Now his failure is complete. If you will not turn to the Dark Side. Then perhaps she will!

All from memory. Sad, oui?
Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.
2006-01-19, 12:29 AM #34
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting" - E. Rutherford
"If you need statistics, you did the wrong experiment" - also

"I never got a hole in one, but I did hit a guy once. What's par for hitting a guy? One. If you hit a guy in two, you are an *******." - Mitch Hedburg
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2006-01-19, 2:31 AM #35
"Never be afraid to tell the world who you are."
- Anonymous

"If there IS a God, and I ever meet him, I'm just going to kick him in the balls over and over."
- Tycho (Penny Arcade)

When the farmer seeds his field with corn he knows that the weeds will grow also. They will grow faster than his crop, the roots digging deep, drawing the nutrients from the land. Therefore, if he is wise, he patrols his feeld, uprooting the weeds. Every human heart is like that farmer's field. Evil lurks there, and a wise man will search out the weeds of evil. Beware the man who says, "My heart is pure", for evil is growing within him unchecked.
- The Wisdom of the Deacon Chapter XIV (Bloodstone)

"I don't care how 'badass' you are, there is NO acceptable time to piss on a man's corpse."
- Sorrow (The Last Days of FOX-HOUND)

"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
2006-01-19, 5:22 AM #36
Originally posted by AKPiggott:
"There are two kinds of people in the world my friend, those with loaded guns, and those that dig."

OK, so it's from a movie and doesn't particuarly mean anything, I couldn't think of a proper quote to write though. Ten Tony Points to whoever names the movie though.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, obviously. :D
And when the moment is right, I'm gonna fly a kite.
2006-01-19, 5:27 AM #37
"**** me *****" - Alexis Amore
Was cheated out of lions by happydud
Was cheated out of marriage by sugarless
2006-01-19, 6:39 AM #38
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Sorry for the lousy German
2006-01-19, 6:43 AM #39
Don't try and tell me that there's not one bit of difference between space and null. That's exactly how much difference there is!
Ban Jin!
Nobody really needs work when you have awesome. - xhuxus
2006-01-19, 6:44 AM #40
Originally posted by Impi:
There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

Whenever I wear the shirt I have with that on it, I only ever get two responses.
"That's not 10 kinds, its only two" or "I geuss I'm on of the ones who don't understand it"
"It sounds like an epidemic."
"Look, I don't know what that means. But it happens all the time." - Penny Arcade
Last.fm
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