Favorite Quotes

[Aidinthel]

In my last post I forgot about the quotes I've made up. Or possibly that I've simply forgotten about hearing before. Either way I'm claiming them.

"A picture is worth a thousand words, but not necessarily true ones."

"Even good guys need their own legion of doom."

"I'd rather be uncertain of everything than be certain of even a single falsehood."

-Me

 

[careful]

what can you do against the lunatic who is smarter that you, gives your argument a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy

 

[Dr_Horrible]

For a quote I just plain like:

"You read the Bible, Brett? Well there's this passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17? 'The path of the righteous ma is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish, and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill sheperds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers! And you will know my name is the Lord when I rain my vengeance upon thee!'" (Proceeds to murder Brett)

-Pulp Fiction (as if you didn't know that)

For something insightful:

"In my class, you will learn to think for yourselves again. You will learn to savor words and languages. No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world. I see that look in Mr Pitts' eyes like 19th century literature has nothing to do with going to business school or medical school, right? Maybe. You may agree and think yes, we should study our Mr. Pritcher and learn our rhyme and meter and go quietly about the business of achieving other ambitions. Well, I have a secret for you. Huddle Up...Huddle UP! We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business these are all noble pursuits necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, and love; these are what we stay alive for."

-Mr. Keating, Dead Poet's Society

 

[boss1592]

"those who are without reason, won't be conquered by it"
Ayn Rand

"People say STI's are more common in the city, well so is everything else... including sex, coffee and conversation"
Dylan Moran

"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof"
Christopher Hitchens

"Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything i hold in veneration: courage, clear-thinking, honestly, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth"
H.L. Mencken

 

[Gypsy Ninja Pirate Zombie King]

"It takes an idiot to do cool things. That's why it's cool"
Haruko Haruhara

 

[katsumoto03]

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it."

-George Carlin

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

"I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset because I can no longer trust you."

-Nietzsche

"You know the difference between an average man and a great man, Cole? An average man will shy away from pain and flinch when he is beaten. A great man learns to accept the pain, to accept the beating. To love the beating. Because if he doesn't, he will fail."

-Kessler, Infamous

I'm positive I paraphrased that one, but I don't feel like playing through the entire game again just to get it right.

 

[Cipher1]

"Death is opon me..... like a fine hat"
"You keep your head down you get on with it and then you die... if your lucky"

Both still crack me up almost 10 years after first hearing them.

 

[mastiffchild]

"Sleep, how I hate those little slices of death."-Edgar Allen Poe. IIRC.

"No paths of truth led me where I could walk but the lies that I made led me out of the swamp."-Alun Woodward(Lord Cut Glass).

 

[Hylke Langhout]

"Last words are for people who haven't said enough"
Karl Marx's last words

 

[godofallu]

Stephen King:

"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear."

Dark Tower

You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die? Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is absurd.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

"nothing should be taken seriously, because nothing really deserves it"
Tucholsky
Take this all you " i am offfended by this" idiots.

"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things"
T.Pratchett

 

[glyphseeker]

"like cats, always meowing and pissing everywhere"
Greg the Grim Reaper (dont laugh)

"Death be not the end of hope"
The Fairy guy from Drakengard (PS2)

 

[Queen Michael]

"It is not that I do not understand what you are saying. I understand what you are saying. But I think you are wrong and I will continue to think you are wrong no matter how many times you repeat the same stupid things that you keep repeating."
-Dave Sim

 

[Shock and Awe]

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

 

[The Wykydtron]

"My name is Garcia Fucking Hotspur, hunter of demons and slayer of pendejos like you!"

Oh and theres this gem from Persona 4, *starts up boss fight music* I am a Shadow... The true self..."

I fucking love that line

 

[Araxiel_1911]

Movie Related:

"Hey, Fucko, we like to call it inter-species erotica" - Clerks II
"Psycho's do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are!" - From Dusk Till Dawn
"By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" - Galaxy Quest
"Little hand says it's time to rock and roll" - Hot Fuzz
"Kill the queen...the jukebox" - Shaun of the Dead
"We're going in with the first wave, means more bugs for us to kill. You smash the entire area, you kill everything that has more than two legs, YOU GET ME?" - Starship Troopers
"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll whisper 'no.'" - Watchmen
"SAKUJO!" - Death Note
"Home? I have no home. Haunted... despised... living like an animal. The jungle is my home! But I will show the world that I can be its master. I shall perfect my own race of people... a race of atomic supermen that will conquer the world!" - Bride of the Monster
"And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future." - Plan 9 from Outer Space
"Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost." - Ghost in the Shell
"No. I have the memo. It's...right..here...whatever" - Office Space
"Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English." - The Fifth Element
"No, it was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty. And then Sutler will be forced to do the only thing he knows how to do. At which point, all V needs to do is keep his word. And then... " - V for Vendetta
"The one with the rifle shoots! The one without follows him! When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following picks up the rifle AND SHOOTS!" - Enemy at the Gates
"No, it's for me" - The Lives Of Others
And my all time favourite movie quote:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."

Real Life:

"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"If Hitler and people like you would not be afraid of our opinion then we would not stand here [at court]" - Hans Fritz Scholl
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto von Bismarck
"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring." - Otto von Bismarck
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain

 

[Srcrackbaby]

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
-Stephen Roberts

I love that quote. Was going to post it but you ninja'd me.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

"Only two things are infinite, the Universe and Human stupidity; and I'm not so sure about the Universe."
-Albert Einstein

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to produce bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the Universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning."
-Rich Cook

"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
-Christopher Dawson

"You know what? A society where anyone can make jokes about anyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only serves to engender resentment and distance between social groups. Besides, gangster rappers don't need defending; they have guns for that!"
-Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

 

[superdelux]

" "
-Gordon Freeman

"Finishing this fight"
-Master Chief

"Nope"
-Engineer