Favourite Quotes

[megisnotreal]

What are your favourite quotes?

Share, and be inspired. Or, at the very least, mildly amused.

Here are a few of my favourites:

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. "
-James Joyce

"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. "
-William Faulkner

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
-Plato

"That's just, like, your opinion, man."
-Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. "
-Ernest Hemingway

"I think I would like them... that is, if they didn't suck."
-My friend T.C.'s musings on Nickelback

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. "
-Vladmir Nabokov

[Chills]

"I think I would like them... that is, if they didn't suck."
-My friend T.C.'s musings on Nickelback

Haha, good observation!

Here are some of my favs. They are rather longish, sorry.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There the novel has no place. In any case, it seems to me that al over he world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties.

Milan Kundera


The most beautiful description of the power of music ever. To be found in Philip Roth's I Married A Communist.

"And yet what a lovely day it is today, a gift of a day, a perfect day lacking nothing in a Massachusetts vacation spot that is itself as harmless and pretty as any on earth (...) Enter Bronfman to play Prokofiev at such a pace and with such bravado as to knock my morbidity clear out of the ring (...)He doesn't let the piano conceal a thing. Whatever's in there is going to come out with its hands in the air. And when it does, everything there out in the open, the last of the last pulsation, he himself gets up and goes, leaving behind him our redemption. With a jaunty wave, he is suddenly gone, and though he takes all his fire with him like no less a force than Prometheus, our own lives now seem inextinguishable."


Finally, my spiritual and philosophical mentor:

"You grow up, you work half a century, you get a golden handshake, you rest a couple of years and you're dead. And the only thing that makes that crazy ride worthwhile is 'Did I enjoy it? What did I learn? What was the point?' That's where I come in. You've seen how I react to people, make them feel good, make them think that anything's possible. If I make them laugh along the way, sue me. And I don't do it so they turn round and go 'Thank you David for the opportunity, thank you for the wisdom, thank you for the laughs.' I do it so, one day, someone will go 'There goes David Brent. I must remember to thank him.'"

David Brent   :)

[SMc55]

David Brent - an inspiration to us all  ;)

Here's a favourite of mine:
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt

[FarmerYoda]

:-/ :-[ :-/
buzz's girlfriend... WOOF.
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[FarmerYoda]

as long as i can remember, i've lived forever.

[dragonboy]

'The best thing to come out of Kentucky since the Colonel's secret recipe.'

'One good thing about music - when it hits you, you feel no pain.'
Bob Marley

[Jaimoe]

Kick Out The Jams Motherfuckers

[primushead]

:-/ :-[ :-/
buzz's girlfriend... WOOF.
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Look what you did, you little jerk.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

There is nothing to fear but fear itself~JFK

A pretty well known one, but I've always loved it.

[Jaimoe]

I believe former Canadian Prime Minister made the following statement to U.S. congress back in the early 70's (although it could have been at a Nixon/Trudeau press conference in Washington):

"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."

[FarmerYoda]

I believe former Canadian Prime Minister made the following statement to U.S. congress back in the early 70's (although it could have been at a Nixon/Trudeau press conference in Washington):

"Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt."

that's simliar to one said from the french revolution, Austria's Prince Clemens von Metternich's
"when France sneezes, all of Europe catches a cold" line...

however, far from my favorite quote..,.

ehhhh

[fluffybear]

"Don't take it out on God, he may be as miserable as we are!"

[Jaimoe]

that's simliar to one said from the french revolution, Austria's Prince Clemens von Metternich's
"when France sneezes, all of Europe catches a cold" line...

however, far from my favorite quote..,.

ehhhh

I love the Trudeau quote because at the time, the U.S. mistrusted and/or hated him.

[SiOuxTribe]

 "You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."
-Black Elk

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-Mark Twain

"In case of Keith Moon, break glass"

"I wish a robot was elected president. That way, when he came to town we could all take a shot at him and not feel so bad." --Jack Handey

"Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me."--Jim Morrison

"What human flaw is the most common...Fear or Laziness?"

[primushead]

"Working is the curse of the drinking class"

I think it was Oscar Wilde.  I might be wrong, though.

[BH]

"You have noticed that everything as Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours....
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves."
-Black Elk

I like that.

I've always been a fan of this one.....

When you were born, you cried
and the world rejoiced.
Live your life
so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.

White Elk

[suebeeboo]

"I lost my virginity but I still have the box it came in."

[FarmerYoda]

 The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it.  There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

[dragonboy]

'It is enough when a single note is beautifully played.'
Arvo Pärt

[thebeard]

"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king"