Quote-o-rama:
The Sixth Miscellaneous File
"Actually, I don't care. I'd no sooner apply science to a Marvel comic book than I'd start lecturing Charles Schultz's corpse on anatomy..." _Brunching Shuttlecocks_ http://www.brunching.com/ "The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges." -Lillie Langtry "Ah, UPN. It's so nice to see a network that isn't afraid to touch these tough, socially current, hot-girl-on-girl-action-oriented issues." www.televisionwithoutpity.com "I worshipped this record in 12th grade. I wasn't very popular." pitchforkmedia.com "It's just that the first impulse with scary feelings -- yours, mine, everyone's -- always seems to be to 'cure' them, and I wonder if the better answer isn't just to go ahead and feel them. Don't act on them (no! no! no!), don't fight them, just splash around in the benign humanity that lies in between. Wear colors that flatter your tomato skin tones. See how the world changes when you view it from under your desk. Be the dork." -Carolyn Hax "You're closer to death than I." _Watership Down_ "I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood." -Clarence Darrow "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my great concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." -Abraham Lincoln "That's my philosophy of acting. The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along. Emotions are the natural result of striving for something." -William H. Macy "So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money?" -Ayn Rand "It is impossible to write ancient history because we lack source materials, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many." -Charles Peguy "Oh, who am I kidding? To call it a 'bit of a waste of time' is to insult the other wastes of time. This segment was the John Wayne Gacy of time-killers. It was the fire bombing of Dresden of killing time. It was the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki COMBINED of killing time." -Mike Antley, reviewing WWF Exxcess "My main goal was not to embarrass myself overmuch. I think I came out okay." -J. Michael Straczynski "Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go." -Napoleon "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 "Most of my nightmares start with you saying those exact words." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "The heart is not a prize. Proof: eBay won't let you put one up for auction." truemeaningoflife.com "And the secret to gaining enlightenment, I soon discovered, was to increase one's listening capacity. Where to start? Well, by shedding your arrogance, or at least trying to, and by respecting the other." _Scheherazade Goes West,_ by Fatema Mernissi "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." -Mother Theresa "There are two insults which no human will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble." -Sinclair Lewis "Only the man who finds everything wrong and expects it to get worse is thought to have a clear brain." -economist John Kenneth Galbraith Jason: Kim, do you have any solutions that won't result in jail time? Claire: Whoa there, Jason, let's hear her out. http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "That's such a waste of the word prepare! If I hadn't given in to my hatred already, I would now." truemeaningoflife.com "...we still had so much other fodder for further mayhem that facing the idea that things could be ending was very difficult. (It was helped by the fact that I slept with one of my player's wives, and now am too afraid for my life to go back to group.)" -from an RPG.net review "A man should remove his hat upon entering a room and leave it off for the rest of his life. Nothing looks stupider then a hat." -P. J. O'Rourke "To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration." -Jiddu Krishnamurti "I should have conquered the world." -Napoleon "Being designated driver sucks, but it's only worse being sober and stuck in the woods with a group of people dressed like drunken Vikings." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "'Building a Mystery'" was due to become the nation anthem of Quebec if they'd separated from the Union. Quebec is building a giant, secret superweapon to destroy us all." pitchforkmedia.com "I do not get my ideas from people on the street. If you look at faces on the street, what do you see? Nothing. Just boredom." -Marcel Marceau "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give that to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." -Gandalf, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "See that? That's a positive attitude and proper i-e ordering." truemeaningoflife.com "Stan Lee has always been credited with creating 'superheroes with problems,' but I think that's selling him short. His writing style - of which Spider-Man is the archetypical example - was to use the superhero format to tell every other kind of story, from science fiction to social commentary to soap opera to horror to mystery." -Andrew Smith "Americans drink Kirin while Japanese drink Budweiser, because everybody wants what seems 'foreign.'" -Eve Zibart, washingtonpost.com "I like to think maturity has many wonderful levels." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence." -Salman Rushdie "I thought it was cool how HHH just tossed Jericho out of the ring and made him vanish, possibly into another dimension, at the end of the match." -Dr. Unlikely, via spf2119 http://wienerville.slashwrestling.com "Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country." -Sinclair Lewis "Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of filial reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external." -Louise Imogen Guiney "Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty." -the man in black, _The Gunslinger_, by Stephen King [Kazz] Do vampires have anuses? Cause that's why I wouldn't let this kid invade a vampire's anus in this RPG, right, I was GMing, and his character was an Anus Shade, with the power to possess and control the anuses of people and animals.. and I figured that vampires don't have anuses. [Zaratustra] a vampire's anus is present, but non-working. [Zaratustra] like a network card without the appropriate driver. [Kazz] Wow. You're the biggest dork on Earth. [Sharkey] And you're DMing an rpg with Anus Shades. http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/ "This bothers me beyond all words. My rights were not given by a benevolent creator. They were won, with blood and tears and the courage of the human spirit. Of a people that wanted the right to rule themselves and to be their own nation." -Josh H. "Wear the old coat and buy the new book." -Austin Phelps "Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart." -Russell Hoban "There was no official reaction because we figured it was so stupid." -Pentagon spokesman, on Meyssan's 9/11 conspiracy theory "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." -Benjamin Franklin "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." -Carl Schurz "His strength will return... but the wound will never fully heal." -Elrond, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ [SlapAyoda:#916] felix, do these girls names end in jpg or gif? http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/ "'To travel is the best way to learn and empower yourself... You must focus on the strangers you meet and try to understand them. The more you understand a stranger and the greater is your knowledge of yourself, the more power you will have.'" -Yasmina, Fatema's grandmother, _Scheherazade Goes West,_ by Fatema Mernissi "Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." -Gene Fowler "And that in a few minutes became my view of the world about me: no longer a dull and ordinary pace where ordinary people walked and worked, but a a place where secret torrents flowed which might at any minute sweep away the unwary." _Half a Life_, by V. S. Naipaul "Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." -Charles Bradlaugh "Roll the dice. I want to see if I eat your spleen." -Igor, _Dork Tower_ "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -George Orwell "Since this episode actually has nothing resembling a plot, that's essentially our 'theme mallet' for the week. And like the usual theme mallet, it's going to be hitting us again and again and again." www.televisionwithoutpity.com "I gave you the chance of aiding me willingly, but you have elected the way of pain." -Saruman, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics." -Brian Redman "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you got it made." -Groucho Marx "There are two ways to slice easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking." -Alfred Korzybski "But as a result of evil, there's some amazing things that are taking place in America. " -George W. Bush "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." -E. M. Forster "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." _The Screwtape Letters,_ C. S. Lewis "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." -J.P. Getty "Everything that can be invented has been invented.." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "What I did is immense. What I had decided to do, and what I had projected were still more so." -Napoleon "All my Sufi heritage, I was forced to discover, did not protect me against the most obvious form of barbarism: the lack of respect for the foreigner." _Scheherazade Goes West,_ by Fatema Mernissi "Nerd-to-braggart conversion is now complete!" www.dieselsweeties.com "The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety." -Eric Sevareid "AND NOW, AS A PUBLIC SERVICE, A SEVEN WORD REVIEW OF THE SEASON PREMIERE OF 'MANHUNT:' Eh. HEY was that American Gladiator ZAP?" -CRZ, 2001 "Television is a triumph of equipment over people." -Fred Alle "History, in general, only informs us what bad government is." -Thomas Jefferson "You know what I love? In the comics or the extremely slow-paced comic strip, whenever Parker's in his civilian identity but needs to climb up a wall nonetheless, he takes his shoes off! That's attention to detail! Even if you've been bitten by an irradiated insect, you can't climb walls with your shoes on! Don't be silly! That's the sort of quality control that made Marvel a publishing giant except between the years 1993 and 2000." _Brunching Shuttlecocks_ http://www.brunching.com/ Joel: "Tom, what are you doing?!" Tom Servo: "Just playing God. It's going pretty well." _Mystery Science Theatre 3000_ "Good lookin' folks getting the heck scared out of 'em. Sounds like fun to me." -Jen Raffensperger, on _The Haunting_ "Croup and Vandemar, the Old Firm, obstacles obliterated, nuisances eradicated, bothersome limbs removed and tutelary dentistry undertaken." -Mr. Croup, _Neverwhere_ "Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." -Anna Freud "Dissent is not sacred; the right of dissent is." -Thurman Arnold Harry: But what does a Ministry of Magic _do_? Hagrid: Well, their main job is to keep it from the Muggles that there's still witches and wizards up an' down the country. Harry: Why? Hagrid: _Why_? Blimey, Harry, everyone'd be wantin' magic solutions to their problems. Nah, we're best left alone. _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone_ by J. K. Rowling "The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust." -Elizabeth Bowen "Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen." -H.G. Wells "It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions." -Michel de Montaigne "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." -Henry Emerson Fosdick "Where do you stand in the caste system of rocking out?" www.dieselsweeties.com "Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change." -Frederick Moore Vinson, speech at Arlington Cemetery, Memorial Day, 1945 "City people think cows give milk. Country people know you have to take it." -Winston Durham "A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything." -Napoleon "Tact is, after all, a kind of mind-reading." -Sarah Orne Jewett "Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage." -Winston Churchill "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." -Thomas Carlyle "9-11 showed that TV news has the capacity to rise to the occasion, but it still has the capacity to sink to any occasion. This poor girl [Levy] is never going to rest in peace until the media decide there's no more audience they can use her to bring. There is no level of ghoulishness too embarrassing for the tabloid instincts of TV news." -Robert Lichter, Center for Media and Public Affairs "Do that which you fear to do and the fear will die." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye ..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it." -Robert Heinlein "Tarpals was the Anthony Hopkins of Gungan society." -Todd F. "I honestly can't imagine what it must be like to sit through an imaginary memorial for a loved one, run by an actor pretending to be a minister, giving a speech written by a bad television hack." www.televisionwithoutpity.com "Oh, we kid the rich and powerful because we love them." -Nathan Lane "The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer." -Oscar Wilde "I wanted a perfect ending. ... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner "...and you must fight for your heart with all you've got, or the Devil will surely own it for himself." -Concrete Blonde "Country road in the fall. I have completely given up trying to keep track of the seasons on this show. The season is: Vancouver." www.televisionwithoutpity.com "I can remember being in the ring with Shawn Michaels in Europe one time where the people were so good that we would look at each other and go, 'Don't tell Vince, but I would do this for free.'" -Scott Hall "Let us not be deceived - we are today in the midst of a cold war." -Bernard M. Baruch "Take the next exit off the pretentiuosness turnpike." -Dennis Leary "Don't you appreciate getting a straight answer? I could have just said 'it's something in the water.'" -Neil Gaiman, book signing, 6-24-97 "If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder." -Walter Damrosch, on Aaron Copland "I don't do punk, fucknuts." -Sarah Moore "If we don't turn a real-life tragedy into an ill-conceived, poorly written, mawkish, jingoistic, plot-free 'very special episode,' run it during sweeps, and then publicly pat ourselves on the back for it as if we had actually done a heroic deed of our own rather than just cashed in on the misery of others because we're crap-ass hack writers, then the terrorists will have already won." -from the 7th Heaven recap, http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/ "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible." -Ray Bradbury "Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." -W. C. Fields "There is a lid for every pot." -Mandy M. "Skeptics laugh in order not to weep." -Anatole France "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." -Frank Tyger "Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." -Heinrich Heine "In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed." _Scheherazade Goes West,_ by Fatema Mernissi "The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." -John Muir, first Sierra Club president "Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism." -John Haynes Holmes "The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease." -Marianne Moore "The English language is not for the meek." -Master Onion, truemeaningoflife.com "We don't know if John Wayne died in a state of grace or not -- that fact was between him and God, and neither of them has yet seen fit to disclose this information." -www.snopes.com "I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves." -Harriett Tubman "Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance." -Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11, 1964 "Vince McMahon is the modern day P.T. Barnum." -MSNBC commetator "People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. " -Saint Augustine (354-430) "Like cramps, but more... iambic." -Amber C. "I wished to found a European system, a European Code of Laws, a European judiciary; there would be but one people in Europe." -Napoleon "I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?" -Dimitri Mitropolous "There are a billion people selling it bootleg on the Internet - feel free. I absolve you." -Neil Gaiman, book signing, 6-24-97 "Instead of relying on filtering technology, we should be educating children. It's not only learning the difference between right and wrong but how to use information wisely. ... There are no quick fixes." -Judith Krug, American Library Association "This is why I've stopped leaving my house. Okay, not really, but this is why sometimes I don't want to." -Carolyn Hax "You bump into the dwarf. Roll for bruised kneecaps." _Dork Tower_ "Basically, sequels mean the same film. That's what people want to see. They want to see the same movie again." -John Carpenter, on why he would not make a Halloween sequel "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." -George W. Bush "Delay is like death." -Peter the Great "The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." -William Jennings Bryan "Despite the efforts of his inner circle to paint the post-9/11 president as the rough-riding, straight-shooting second coming of Teddy Roosevelt, the events of the last six months have actually revealed him to be the anti-Teddy - a politician who speaks very loudly while, more often than not, carrying a very small stick. Or having someone else carry it sometime 'next week.'" -Arianna Huffington, for Salon "Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us." -James Billington "Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full." -Henry Kissinger "Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me." -Anatole France "Nonono, this is all about me and I have a question..." -Jill R. "Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care." -William Safire "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" -Abraham Lincoln "I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king, as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love." -Edward VIII, on his abdication "It's like market research, male fantasy, marsupials, and the company credit card got together and started using drugs." -Penny Arcade "We reserve the right to limit happiness during busy serving periods." -Dalmuti's Cafe (WotC Game Center) "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." -Brendan Behan "The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them." _Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone_ by J. K. Rowling "Storms make trees take deeper roots." -Claude McDonald
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