Favorite Quotes

[SanguineScale]

"YOU'RE A SMELLY PIRATE HOOKER!"

"You look like a blueberry!"

"Why don't you go back to your home on WHORE ISLAND?!!"

-Anchorman=pure gold

 

[OpticalJunction]

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
? Terry Pratchett

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
? Terry Pratchett

"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
? Terry Pratchett

"To save the world takes one cold son of a *****."
? Terry Pratchett

"It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere."
? Terry Pratchett

"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
? Terry Pratchett

Much love for Mr. Pratchett

 

[Korak the Mad]

"Without proper knowledge of past events, history is doomed to repeat itself"- I can't remember who said that.

"Intelligence has it's limits. Human stupidity is infinite."- Can't remember who said that either.

 

[tabriaswolfe]

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." - Douglas Adams

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

And a silly one for fun

"But I need tacos! I need them or I will explode. That happens to me sometimes..." - GIR, Invader Zim

 

[TheKruzdawg]

I thought this was quotes from video games, and you guys got all philosophical on me! I easn't expecting that. But I'll just leave this here anyway.

EDI: I did not intend to provoke hostilities Mr Moreau.

Joker: Well think of it this way... shut up.

That just happened as I was playing Mass Effect 2

 

[arsenicCatnip]

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather, to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming loudly, 'Wow! What a ride!'"

~Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
~George Carlin

Two great ones.

I actually keep a notebook full of quotes, and add to it when I find one I really like.

Currently, I like:

"Take care of me, Lord; if you don't, you're gonna have me on your hands." ~ Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

"I have the heart of a small child... in a jar... on my desk." ~ Stephen King

"We are not God. Not only are we powerless, sometimes we are forced to become the Devil himself." ~ Nicolas D. Wolfwood

"You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need." ~ Mick Jagger

 

[Flaming Narwhal]

"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 services to engender distance between social groups. Besides, gangsters don't need defending; they have guns for that!"
-Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
-Mark Twain

And for giggles:

"I'm about to drop the hammer and dispense some indiscriminate justice."
-Over hear from my brother during a game of Starcraft

 

[Austin Howe]

Inserts the text of Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre.

 

[Austin Howe]

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

"Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor."

Yep. Sartre's a gold mine.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I think, therefore you are.

(No, I haven't written that wrong.)

 

[genericusername64]

Cocaine isn't habit forming, I should know I've been using it for years-Tallulah Bankhead
Patrolling in the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter- Everyone

 

[Prince Regent]

[HEADING=1]Don't Panic![/HEADING]​

~The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

 

[Spacefrog]

Sometimes you have to grab the bull by it's horns, and pray.

What doesn't kill you... makes you less likely to pull that shit again.

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities. ? Flavortext On the Enormous Baloth magic card

Science flies you to the moon; religion just flies you into buildings

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, but socially dead ? Yakko Warner

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus. "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." - The school motto of Hogwarts

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ? Arthur C. Clarke third law

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." - Barry Gehm

"Any technology, no matter how simple, is indistinguishable from magic for those who don?t understand it." - Florence Ambrose

"Any sufficiently advanced alien is indistinguishable from God." - Corollary

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." - Terry Pratchett

"The word technology... means... magic. It's basically anything that's really cool that you don't know how it works. And if it breaks, you have to buy a new one." - Strong Bad

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science." - Agatha Hetrodyne

 

[Vault Girl]

I tried. I mean, to live always free and above board like you. And, I don't know. I just can't seem to find no elbow room. - Cool Hand Luke (1967)

It was beautiful. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen. - A Clockwork Orange (1971)

"They said before that destruction is a form of creation. So the fact that they burn the money is ironic. They just want to see what happens when they tear the world apart. They want to change things" - Donnie Darko (2001)

"Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Unless weariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself." - John Milton

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds 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 would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee. - Jules Winfield - Pulp Fiction


I must be the author of my own salvation - Laurie H Huster - Personal Favorite

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus - Poem William Ernest Henley

 

[LarenzoAOG]

"Love creates miracles mutha fucka! Aint you ever read the bible? Now go forth with yo ****** ass,"

-Cleavon from I Love You Phillip Morris

I laughed so hard.