Quotes
Doing my quotescrape on Livejournal reminded me of quite how many quotes I like and remember. For every quote I added there were loads that I couldn't quite make fit any of the questions or the question had too many in already (note how many I've forced into my secrets :) ). It's one of the things that I love most about words and language - that ability to resonate in the mind. So, with that in mind, I've decided to collect together all my favorites from long years of noting them down in various notebooks here where I can find them. Some make me laugh, some make me think, some I just like.
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Quotescrape - this is the evolving version... or will be when I get some time to evolve it :)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - On Mercury
Messed it up but rest assured,
No-one ever thinks they're cured
Sublime - What I got
Life is too short so love the one you've got
'Cause you might get run over or you might get shot
Michelle Branch - Sweet Misery
I was lost and you were found
You seemed to stand on solid ground
I was weak and you were strong
And me and my guitar strummed along
David Brookes
The people here tend to be lawyers, doctors and professors, and they drive around in Volvos, Audis and Saabs because it is socially acceptable to buy a luxury car as long as it comes from a country hostile to U.S. foreign policy.
Terry Pratchett
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The Postcard Manifestos (http://postcardmanifesto.blogspot.com/2006/07/postcard-manifesto-0007.html)
I am a soldier. I am a man.
I am a prophet. I have a plan.
I have a vision. I have a rage.
I am a Christ for the atheist age.
An empire of shit. A world-wide contagion.
Me at it's source : a man, not a nation
So kneel before me. Hear me laugh! Hear me lie!
For I am a soldier to see the world die.
Franz Schubert
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Emmylou Harris - Rough and Rocky
Can't you hear the lovebirds crying
Far across the deep blue sea?
When of others you are thinking
Won't you sometimes think of me?
Drugstore - Accelerate
Even plastic horses get put down.
Hey, we all gotta hit the ground.
Johann von Neumann
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
George Carlin
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect
J.R.R Tolkein - The Hobbit(Gandalf)
Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Aristotle
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
P.J. O'Rouke - A Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan,
Designed and directed by his red right hand.
Amy Studt - Beautiful Lie
I can say it will be fine,
It's a beautiful lie so please
Don't leave it all up to me.
Amy Studt - Nobody
Nobody knows, nobody cares that I die on the inside,
Nobody sees the lie that is me cos I smile on the outside,
Nobody knows, nobody cares that I walk on the wrong side,
Nobody, nobody, nobody but you
Douglas Adams
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
John Steinbeck
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, 'Why don't you make something for me?'
I asked you what you wanted, and you said, 'A box.'
'What for?'
'To put things in.'
'What things?'
'Whatever you have,' you said.
Well here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts - the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.
And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you.
And still the box is not full.
Anon - http://www.gorjuss.com/luvly/20040317-blogless.html
I mean, a monitor screen has reflective properties, but that doesn't mean you should use it as a mirror.
Marc Smith
ETech keynote speach
if you're 1 in a million, then there are 768 of you on the internet
Stephen Jay Gould
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.