Favourite Quote

Oh man, I have an entire word document dedicated to collecting quotes. :icon_bigg

The one that I have memorized and repeat to myself whenever I feel down is as follows:

"To the Loneliest One,

There is in certain living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you."

- From "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon

 

"Only two things are infinite the universe and stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein

 

Courage isn't just a matter of not being afraid. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

The Third Doctor
Planet of the Daleks

 

"Those who stay will be champions."
-Bo Schembechler

 

Aurelio Voltaire (I'm Sorry)
"All's black and white when you're just a baby
You get some hair on your chin, you think you know everything
The years go by, and everything's 'maybe'
And all that you believed drowns in a sea of grey..."

Shakespeare (King Lear Act IV, Scene 6)
"Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it."

 

"The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all." -Mark Twain, talking about the Socrates quote, "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being."

 

''Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.'' -The Marquis de Sade (I know, right?)

 

I have a few:

"Our fingerprints never fade from the lives we touch." Gandhi

"Whenever I eat ramen noodles, I feel like a greasy rag that's been slapped against the wall." - My sister

"I'm sorry, I can't hear you. I'm allergic to excuses." - My ex-friend Teefie

"It ain't what people call you, it's what you answer to." Madea

 

In no particular order ...

"If not you, who else?" - Terry Pratchett

"I'm a woman - phenomenally, phenomenal woman, that's me" - Maya Angelou

"The sky's been cleared by a good, hard rain" - Bruce Springsteen

"Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams" - W B Yeats

"End the vanity of nations, we have one earth on which to live" - Billy Bragg

 

A few I really like:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
-Thomas Paine

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke

 

I've heard it quoted a lot but never knew the source - I've always liked that one!

 

Gotta love enlightenment France!

 

Agreed. Mine was from the enlightenment too...just maybe the other side of the coin. Lol.

 

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

-Groucho Marx

 

Hmm... it's hard choose one eusa_doh, but i thought...

"If the boy who draws let's you look over his shoulder,
If the poet smiles and show you her words,
If the girl who sings for the shower only hums a song in front of you,
Know that you're no longer a person but the air and dust that fills their lungs
When the world perishes, and all things cease to exist,
you'll inside an ink stain,
a paint brush,
a song."
-Alaska Gold

 

The one in my signature. It's from an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, called "Been there, done that" It's hilarious, honestly. Another 2 quotes that mean a lot to me are:

"To conquer others, is to have the power. To conquer yourself, is to know the way." - Lao Ma, also a character from Xena.

"Don't be sorry, be better." - Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy. At least that's where I've heard it from.

 

Graham Greene:

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations.


Doug Wilson from Weeds:

I smuggled her here. I think that merits some of my cockamole on her faceadilla. :roflmao:

 

Delay is preferable to error- Thomas Jefferson.
I use that on my teachers but they don't always buy it.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.- Albert Einstein.
I wish I could tell this to the NY education system.

 

first off i would direct any one to this page as kurt vonnegut was a genius and i cant choose only one of his

Kurt Vonnegut - Wikiquote

also ....
I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing- manic street preachers lyric from "faster"

there are so many others however i may have to revisit this page x