Favourite Quotes

[Havelock Vetenari]

"Yes well,when i see 5 weirdos dressed in togas stabbing a guy in the middle of the park in full view of a 100 people...i shoot the bastards,that's my policy."
Lieutenant Frank Drebin.

(Edit : I like Frank's better : )

 

[arf777]

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."


4th Amendment, U.S. Constitution

Heh. Have you read last week's SCOTUS decision, Fernandez v California, yet? Messed this up in a big way.

 

[DDave]

So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don't want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner. - Al Bundy

 

[crawdad]

loved that show


anyways....

if you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.
- capt beefheart

 

[DDave]

loved that show


anyways....
if you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.
- capt beefheart

Love Al!

Especially with the David-Lee Bundy hairdo! Or any other hair style for that matter!

 

[3serieSensi]

Stop quoting laws to us. We carry swords.




Dun dun duuunnnnnn

 

[Crohnie]

Martha: "I swear if you existed, I'd divorce you."


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

 

[Havelock Vetenari]

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Or how about a very appropriate one sitewise :
"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times..."

Both quotes from the great Mark Twain(/Samuel Langhorne Clemens) of course.

 

[Crohnie]

"I love God. He's so deliciously evil."


Stewart Gilligan Griffin

 

[arf777]

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

Carl Sagan

 

[Havelock Vetenari]

"Act well your part,there all the honour lies."
/
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
Alexander Pope

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
/
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!"
Wiliam Shakespeare

 

[grokit]

"Set out to correct the world's wrongs,
and you will almost certainly wind up adding to them."

~ Harold, Person of Interest

 

[Snake Plissken]

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” - Nelson Mandela

 

[DDave]

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”
― Terry Brooks

 

[Crohnie]

"I rather like this God fellow. He's very theatrical, you know, a pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence. Gotta get me some of that."


Stewart Gilligan Griffin

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Buildozer]

"It's often easier for one to give advice, than it is for a person to run one's own life.." -Guru

 

[arf777]

Some Zizek:

Who dares to strike today,when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

The only appropriate stance is unconditional solidarity with all victims.

It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymous power, which, without any democratic public control, regulates their lives.

Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

 

[Crohnie]

Catherine: "Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters."


The Heiress, 1949

 

[Havelock Vetenari]

“This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.”
/
“He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.”
Stephen R. Donaldson,some more(@DDave) from one of my favourite authors .

"In the beginning there was darkness,and the darkness was without form and void.
And in addition to the darkness there was also me.
And I moved upon the face of the darkness.
And I saw that I was alone...let there be light."

The bomb in Dark Star,always loved that bit :

 

[arf777]

Some more Phil Ochs:

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate
They twist away our freedom & they twist away our fate
Fear is their weapon and treason is their cry
We can stop them if we try

 

[Havelock Vetenari]

"I ought to put that in. You're going to return fire to the gods?"
"Yeah.With interest."

From a conversation between Cohen the Barbarian and the minstrel the Silver Horde kidnapped to chronicle their saga in The Last Hero.
(The fire in question being a large sled packed with explosive Agatean Thunder Clay...)

"The Hashishim, who derived their name from the vast quantities of hashish they consumed, were unique among vicious killers in being both deadly and, at the same time, inclined to giggle, groove to interesting patterns of light and shade on their terrible knife blades and, in extreme cases, fall over."
From Sourcery also by Terry Pratchett of course.

 

[grokit]

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich."

~ John F. Kennedy



"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Crohnie]

A little introvert humor


"My first instinct when I see an animal is to say hello. My first instinct when I see a person is to avoid eye contact and hope it goes away."