Re: Favorite Quotes!

by Guest Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:15 pm

*chuckles at Eternity* Or water board. Supposedly it leaves no physical traces! Just horrible horrible psychological damage. Sort of like my childhood!

by Angel White Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:46 pm

The Mighty Fluffball wrote:No specific rule, no, but it's a good thing to remember that if you post a funny quote, people will be laughing with you, whereas if you post a serious quote, people will be laughing at you.

By "people" I mean Me, which I realize is a bit of an oxymoron. Heh, Ox-y Moron. Kinda like Kathryn! *ducks*

Well, if anything, I should hope you wouldn't be laughing at me, but rather, my poor choice of quotes! Embarassed

by **Kathryn Lacey** Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:51 pm

Fluffy is just a bizzle. Don't mind him. He'll laugh at anything.

by Guest Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:41 am

""There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is bought only at the cost of great pain... or so says the legend."

--The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough

by Fluff Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:29 am

Kathryn Lacey wrote:Fluffy is just a bizzle. Don't mind him. He'll laugh at anything.

Dis be my quote for the thread. 'Cause it's true.

by **Hello Danger** Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:36 pm

Madmartigan: This stinks, this whole thing stinks...If only I had a sword.
Willow: If only you stop talking about it.
-Willow

Madmartigan: I told you I get you here.
Franjean: What did you do?
Rool: All you did was hang around and eat all our eggs.
Willow: Hey I found a boat!
Madmartigan: Good, take these two lizards out and drown them.
Franjean: Who you calling a lizard?!
Rool: You mother was a lizard!
-Willow

by **Kathryn Lacey** Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:54 pm

They didn't use contractions in Willow? That's obnoxious.

by **Hello Danger** Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:03 pm

Don't know. I quoted that off the top of my head.

by **Kathryn Lacey** Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:16 pm

Oh... That's why I always look up the quotes I want online, or I grab the book/show and find it there and type it word for word. Then I get the proper grammar and/or the exact quote. ^^_^^

by **Hello Danger** Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:56 am

There's the difference. You care. I don't. Razz

by Guest Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:43 am

by **Kathryn Lacey** Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:25 pm

:: narrows eyes at Misery :: I heard that!

by Squall Reyes Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:01 pm

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

by Adrius Frostglare Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:38 pm

"Can I keep this?" - Deadpool

by **Hello Danger** Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:21 pm

Westley: "To the pain," means the first thing you lose will be your feet below the ankles, then your hands at the wrists, next your nose.

Prince Humperdinck: And, then my tongue I suppose. I killed you too quickly the last time; a mistake I don't mean to duplicate tonight.

Westley: I wasn't finished. The next thing you lose will be your left eye, followed by the right . . .

Prince Humperdinck: And, then my ears, I understand. Let's get on with it.

Westley: Wrong! Your ears you keep, and I'll tell you why. So that every shriek of every child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish, every babe that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out: "Dear God, what is that thing?" will echo in your perfect ears. That is what "to the pain" means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery, forever

-Princess Bride

by **Kathryn Lacey** Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:26 pm

I love that scene. It's awesome. The guy who played Westley was quite attractive in his youth... He didn't age well...

by **Fate Flyer** Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:03 am

The following is a quote from Robert Ingersoll's Voltaire lecture/book. He has many profound things he says in there, much of which relating to religion. I apologize if you are a religious person, but I find truth in what this man, an intellectual from my own state, speaks. I thought this was very accurate:

Voltaire approached the mythology of the Jews precisely as he did the mythology of the Greeks and the Romans, and the mythology of the Chinese or the Iroquois Indians. There is nothing in this world too scared to be investigated, to be understood. The philosopher does not hide. Secrecy is not the friend of truth. No man should be reverent at the expense of his reason. Nothing should be worshipped until the reason has been convinced that it is worthy of worship.

This one relates to teaching children to believe in God.

It is the duty of every man to destroy the superstitions of his time, and yet there are thousands of men and women, fathers and mothers, who repudiate with their whole hearts the creeds of superstition, and still allow their children to be taught these lies. They allow their imaginations to be poisoned with the dogma of eternal pain. They allow arrogant and ignorant parsons, meek and foolish teachers, to sow the seeds of barbarism in the minds of their children -- seeds that will fill their lives with fear and pain. Nothing can be more important to a human being than to be free and to live without fear.

It is far better to be a moral free man than an immortal slave.

Fathers and mothers should do their utmost to make their children free. They should teach them to doubt, to investigate, to inquire, and every father and mother should know that by the cradle of every child, as by the cradle of the infant Hercules, crawls the serpent of superstition.

by **Kalon Ordona II** Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:37 pm

There is nothing in this world too scared to be investigated, to be understood. The philosopher does not hide. Secrecy is not the friend of truth. No man should be reverent at the expense of his reason. Nothing should be worshiped until the reason has been convinced that it is worthy of worship.

I like that. Very true.
"Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good."

by Ragter the junior greeter Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:30 pm

Eh...somewhat corny quote that I came up with some time ago when I was in 8th grade..

No one has a voice if others aren't willing to listen

Short, and sweet, in my opinion, very true as well.

by **Kalon Ordona II** Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:21 am

I came up with this myself, a few months ago.

Kalon Ordona II wrote:Inspiration, Serendipity, and Luck
are things to be Conquered and Enslaved.

I dunno if that rings true or not... but it sounds cool. I was mostly just playing around with making up cool quotes, but I do sort-of think we can influence things like inspiration and seeming coincidence... and bend them to our own devices. Twisted Evil

lol. At least to a degree. Master of one's destiny type of thing, I suppose.
Or, if it's not possible to master these things on our own, I'm sure there's some other way to do it.

Anyway, it's probably somewhere between profound truth and wishful thinking. Laughing

by **Hello Danger** Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:48 am

Fate, you encouraged me to pull out one of my favorite quotes! Razz

"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."

- Albert Einstein

by **Kathryn Lacey** Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:54 am

That is an amazing quote, Danger. I love it.

by **Hello Danger** Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:06 am

Thanks! I love it too. Very Happy

Here's some more from my man.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

- Albert Einstein

by **Kathryn Lacey** Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:16 am

I love it!

by **Kalon Ordona II** Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:46 am

Oooooh, I LOVE that! What fantasy is all about! xD

by Ars Longa Vita Brevis Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:48 am

"How many rappers does it take to change a lightbulb? Three. One to change the lightbulb and two to argue about how the old one was better." - Sage Francis

"There is no such thing as revolution, just a world with new laws." - Chris "Cage" Palko

"Just because I don't want a war with you, doesn't mean go warm up the barbecue." - Aesop Rock

"...If your message ain't shit? Fuck the records you sold, because if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck. It just means a million people are stupid as fuck." - Immortal Technique

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." - George Bernard Shaw

by Squall Reyes Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:05 am

"...If your message ain't shit? Fuck the records you sold, because if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck. It just means a million people are stupid as fuck." - Immortal Technique

BEST FUCKING LINE EVER! Immortal Technique FTMFW

But now for Deadpool

Cable/Deadpool #4

"(whilst melting away)....been thinking of starting up a super hero porn site...nothin too rude, i mean tasteful naked shots of SUE RICHARDS...when's she VISIBLE, 'cos otherwise, DUH..."

by Ars Longa Vita Brevis Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:24 pm

Were Immortal Technique and Deadpool just included in the same post? I smell something epic...

by Squall Reyes Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:26 pm

It is beyond epic my friend. Way beyond. Headbang

by **Fate Flyer** Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:00 pm

Those are pretty great Einstein quotes, Danger.

I, myself, am more of a logical left-brainer (which is odd, seeing as I am an art student and love to write stories), and I can't help but favor logic and reason over imagination and belief. I cherish those more, and they just mean more to me.

It's entirely true though that not even the most knowledgeable and intelligible human could even begin to grasp the secrets of the universe and all there truly is to know and understand.

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