What's your favorite quote?

I'm kind of bored right now and want to see how many responses I get

What's your favorite quote?




I'd start it off, but I don't really have a favorite quote Hmm, well, look at my sig.

Some of my favorites...

"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education."
-- Mark Twain

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
-- Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
-- Albert Einstein

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
-- William Shakespeare

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-- Nietzsche

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." --Robin Williams

A few of my fav quotes.

William S Burroughs & Laurie Anderson:
"Language is a virus from outer space and I would rather hear your name than see your face."


Frank Lloyd Wright

"But there was a house that hill might marry and live happily with ever after. I fully intended to find it."

"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."


Marilyn Vos Savant:

"The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth."

"If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart."

"Those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither liberty nor security."

--- Ben Franklin

"There are no innocents. It is all of us together, through action and inaction, who make the world what it is."

"There is no better way in this world to lose something forever than to misfile it in a big library"
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (1992), pg.147


**forgot this one:

Used to have this on my car:

"Eat a beaver, Save a tree"

what comes around goes around.

live long and prosper

ahhhhck move yer ass or get run over.

what doesnt hurt you, will hurt someone else.

time will tell!

keep it simple bit**, cuz noone likes a fat head.


and my tag line.



oh and if you want translations of these quotes just let me know i'd be happy to put in fat head words.

heres an example
what doesnt hurt you, will hurt someone else translates to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

i think you get the idea now.

"I'm a gay man and a gay journalist, and that gives me a level of perception that is beyond ordinary people."
--Doug Dannger

"I'm very cut, I'm very ripped and I'm very with it."
--Bobbi Dooley

Geez I can't think of any serious quotes. . .these are quotes that come from a radio show. . .

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"Klaatu Barata Nicto"

"Beauty should be convulsive or not at all."

- Breton

At the moment it's "Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False", but it changes often.

"Welcome"
-Stevie Nicks

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"I dont practice what I preach because Im not the type of person Im preaching too"

"Get a life, will you people! I mean... for crying out loud, it's... it's just a TV show!" - William Shatner playing himself in a Saturday Night Live sketch

"Kneel! Kneel before ZOD!'

-General Zod, Superman II

General Zod's Webpage

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." (Sometimes attribute to Napoleon.)

"If you feel like you're in control, you're not driving fast enough."

- Mario Andretti

"We are the music-makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams,"
-- Arthur Edgar William O'Shaughnessy, 'Ode'

"Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight /
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way /
Do not go gentle into that good night."
-- Dylan Thomas, 'Do Not Go Gentle'

"The twenty-first century is a bad time to be bastards, children."
-- The Midnighter, in Warren Ellis's 'The Authority'

"It needs doing."
-- Pete Wisdom, in Marvel's 'Excalibur'

I love that first one Nergal! The "Ode" is very appropriate to this place, too, being about artists.

Ode

WE are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.

We, in the ages lying
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth;
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new world's worth;
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.

-- Arthur Edgar William O'Shaughnessy


Here's a couple of my favorites:

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance"

-- attributed to Thomas Jefferson


"As you journey through life,
take a minute every now and then
to give a thought for the other fellow.

He could be plotting something."

--Hagar the Horrible

You know, Ana -- you're even more right. I hadn't realized just how appropriate 'Ode' was to SL until you pointed it out. It's one of my utter favorites for the music of the imagery invoked when one takes the time to read it through.

Maybe it should be our patron poem (to shamelessly mangle a metaphor)

"Even if there is a God, he's one mean son of a bitch, and I don't want anything to do with him."

"If I knew I was going to be tourtured and killed at 12AM today, and I had nothing with me but a keg of beer and a naked woman to last me the 12 hours I'd got, I'd get more drunk than I've ever gotten, and I'd f*** her like you'd never know. Goddaammit, there's no point in dying if you ain't even lived."

"My cat can eat a WHOOOOLE watermelon."

"There are three fundamental elements that we have seen repeated over and over again throughout history: lying, cheating, and a general lack of effort."

"A clever saying proves nothing." – Voltaire (possibly apocryphal)

"If we have learned anything from history it's that we haven't learned anything from history." – Unknown