Favourite Quotes

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Just came across an old list of some of my favorites, thought I'd share:


 "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much"
                                               Oscar Wilde


 "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand"           Thomas Carlyle


 "After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music"                   Aldous Huxley


 "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to"
                                                   Elvis Presley


 "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overature and not think of The Lone Ranger"
                                                   Dan Rather


 "He had heard people speak contemtuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it"
                                                   W. Somerset Maugham


 "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler"                                        Henry David Thoreau


 "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it"
                                                     Confucius


 "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes"
                                                      Doctor Who


 "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you"                              Dale Carnegie

[D. Sinclair]

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

Arvo Pärt!  Nice one!

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Just finished Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and this stayed with me the entire novel:

"I may be mad, but I prefer the shit of this world to whatever sweet ambrosias the next might offer."

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[weeniebeenie]

"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it."-Cameron

 "Life goes by pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."-Ferris

I've been watching too much Ferris Bueller lately. Can ya tell?

[megalicious]

This is one of, if not the, greatest speeches in American History:

Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968

This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.

It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.

Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.

No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lose their cause and pay the costs."

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.

Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.

We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.

[Angry Ewok]

[size=16]007: Do you expect me to talk?
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Or this...

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[purvis9876]

"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself"- Steinbeck

"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
~ Marcus Aurelius

"Everyone knows that on the docks or the platforms, or anywhere, you are never to let anyone insult your mother. kids know it from the time they re able to talk. you might not even like your mother, but that doesnt matter. they can say anything they like about you, but insulting your mother is pushing it and if you let it go you lose all respect. if you need someone to help with a load on the platform or the pier theyll turn their back. you dont exist. they wont even share a liverwurst sandwich with you at lunchtime. if you wander round the docks and the warehouses and you see men eating alone, youll know theyre in deep shit, men who tolerated insults to their mother or once scabbed across a picket line. a scab can be forgiven in a year but never a man who allowed an insult to his mother"- Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

"At the time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious that you're so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, that you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon the whole apparatus, and you've got to stop it and you've got to indicate to the people who run it and the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all"- Mario Savio

[Evening Rebel]

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein


"Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet that clings fast to the heel that crushed it." -?????

Two of my all time faves!!!

[Penny Lane]

All my favorites quotes have come from "strangers with candy"

You're just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of fag.

I do like black people. It just took a white one to prove it to me.

I hate to burst your bubble there, Tam, but that's not Blackman. That's just the chink with some spic food I ordered, hoping we'd have something to celebrate.
You don't wanna beat me or screw me!?  What kind of marriage is this?  Bring a book.

May all your showers be golden.

Dear Diary, I'm sorry for all those hateful racist things I said about you. Everything's changed; I'm in love... something you would never understand you dirty, dirty, dirty Jew diary. Just kidding, just kidding. Jerri Blank.

Florida. Beautiful weather - harsh penal system.

and the best...

It's not a cold sore! I bumped my lip on a biscuit! (Jellineck)

[Janet]

Two things are infinite:  the universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the universe.

-Albert Einstein

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i'm reading (and immensely enjoying) 'shakey: neil young's biography' and this part had me in stitches:

[Elliot] Roberts finally made a deal for Mitchell with Mo Ostin at Warner Bros.  At the same time, Mitchell, out on the road in Florida, encountered David Crosby, who had left the Byrds.  Their brief fling would lead to the next catalyst in Elliott's life.  As Roberts recalls, "Joan calls me and said, 'Listen, I'm fucking a Byrd.'  I go, 'Excuse me?; "

[weeniebeenie]

i'm reading (and immensely enjoying) 'shakey: neil young's biography' and this part had me in stitches:

[Elliot] Roberts finally made a deal for Mitchell with Mo Ostin at Warner Bros.  At the same time, Mitchell, out on the road in Florida, encountered David Crosby, who had left the Byrds.  Their brief fling would lead to the next catalyst in Elliott's life.  As Roberts recalls, "Joan calls me and said, 'Listen, I'm fucking a Byrd.'  I go, 'Excuse me?; "

I loved Shakey. The fact that it was so long made it better.

[AMightyCaporal]

Dum spiro spero

or the translated version

while I breath, I hope

[Dudley]

Rock n Roll Mcdonalds!!! - Wesley Willis.

[Penny Lane]

All my favorites quotes have come from "strangers with candy"

You're just a rack of bones covered in a thin layer of carrot.

I do like black people. It just took a white one to prove it to me.

I hate to burst your bubble there, Tam, but that's not Blackman. That's just the chink with some spic food I ordered, hoping we'd have something to celebrate.
You don't wanna beat me or screw me!?  What kind of marriage is this?  Bring a book.

May all your showers be golden.

Dear Diary, I'm sorry for all those hateful racist things I said about you. Everything's changed; I'm in love... something you would never understand you dirty, dirty, dirty Jew diary. Just kidding, just kidding. Jerri Blank.

Florida. Beautiful weather - harsh penal system.

and the best...

It's not a cold sore! I bumped my lip on a biscuit! (Jellineck)

bump for KY

[kydiddle]

Thanks so much Pennylane!!!  ;D ;D ;D Hee hee...Jellineck

I'll add one of my faves:

"You know I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. and then I laughed --- really hard"

[nickdavies7]

Timothy Leary has a beauty
"Think For Yourself, Question Authority."


Maynard James Keenan, the lead singer of Tool, doesn't say much, but when he does, it is very interesting:

"Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer."

"People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it."

This quote isn't accurate, but it is how i remember it:

"The whole emo genre is music made by untalented drunk, insecure, frat-boys for untalented, drunk, insecure, idotic, frat-boys."

It is worth checking out some Tool interviews on youtube. they are very interesting people, and never have a dull moment.

[Penny Lane]

Thanks so much Pennylane!!!  ;D ;D ;D Hee hee...Jellineck

I'll add one of my faves:

"You know I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. and then I laughed --- really hard"

sorry not trying to turn this into a Strangers w/Candy thread---but that is one of my favorite quotes--i think my favorite scene is when noblet and jellineck meet for a picnic lunch in the park and jerri runs over jellineck and he has to have his face sewn back on (LOL). also, we need to post some BlackMUN quotes. OMG....

[aMillionDreams]

"Think about how dumb the average person is, and then realize that half the people are even dumber than that!"

[Ghostess on TV]

"When I do good, I feel good.  When I do bad, I feel bad.  That's my religion."  -Abe Lincoln