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 Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2008 2:34 pm
Inspiration can be found an various places and in many ways. One way, comes directly from the words of others. Let's share some of our favorite quotes and see if we can't inspire on another. They can be famous quotes, from speeches, bookmarks, fortune cookies, comics, books, poetry, anything. Try to post where the quote is from too, if you don't that's okay, and if you got it from an icon, go ahead and just post it!
I'll begin with a few of my favorite quotes from various people in history.
The fool thinks himself to be wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
--William Shakespeare
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
--James A. Michener
“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”—Christopher Reeve.
"Not all who wander are lost."
-- Tolkein
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 7:31 am
"Those who fight monsters should take care that they do not become monsters themselves; For when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Never trust a tall dwarf--he's lying about something." Unknown
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever." Unknown
"What rough beast, his hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" William Butler Yeats, 'The Second Coming'
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 9:02 am
xD Just a few of a whole book full of quotes:
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
~N/A
"Man created God. And in turn, God took care of Man. Man prayed and God provided. Both were needed to get the end result. That's how stories go... That's how stories are supposed to go..."
~Ovan (.hack//G.U.+)
"In the end, if you can't say 'thank goodness' together, then the 'saved' person wasn't saved."
~Nabari No Ou
"Good things come in small packages. But so does dynamite. So watch out."
~N/A
"What if safety is only an illusion? What if there is no such thing?"
"Then we fall. Chaos."
"What if that is only the begining of something new? What if, once we let go, we are freed?"
~Gemma & McCleethy (The Sweet Far Thing)
"The mind is not a cage, it's a garden."
~ N/A
"What harms, teaches."
~N/A
"Water can both float and sink a boat."
~N/A
"A person who is about to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself by saying 'I'm only human after all'"
~N/A
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 7:29 pm
Aeori, nice .Hack//GU quote, love it!
Now some of my favorite quotes: (darn you Lelandra for taking my Tolkien one! Grr!)
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
--Han Suyin
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
--Thomas Edison
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
--William Shakespeare
Ghosts were people too. --Ghost Hunters
I don't use big words when a diminutive one will suffice. -- from one of my fun t-shirts, otherwise unknown.
“Come on! Smile! Smiling makes the world go around!” – Kuhn(.Hack//GU)
“You’re like a walking encyclopedia of weirdness.” - Dean(Supernatural)
“You know, I guess one person can make a difference.” “Nuff said” – Stan Lee
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I don’t have any gifts, just a curse.” – Kitty Pryde(x-men evolution)
Knowledge is to be treasured: It is true power – the way to live a life without becoming a burden to others. – FMA CH 74
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 9:18 pm
x3 I love that game, that quote was from the manga though, I think Ovan says something similar in the actual game but I forgot to write that one down. (that game just draw me in!)
I've heard another variation of your first quote there though:
"Soft is Strong." Much easier to say. x3
More Quotes!
"You don't have what it takes to stab me!"
"I have a sword, and that's generally all it takes."
-- From a fanfiction (from FF.net), actually '.hack//FU' (chap.18 )
"There's a line between what might have been... And where we stand today."
-- A friend
"People are like Slinkies! Basically useless, and yet so amusing to watch fall down the stairs."
-N/A
"A fake truth, or a true fake?"
-- That dog-thing in the netslums in .hack//G.U. which will forever confuse me.
"The supreme irony of life is that no one ever gets out of it alive."
-- N/A
"You can check out, but you can never leave."
-- Hotel California (Song by the Eagles)
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than it is to forgive a friend."
-- N/A
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
-- N/A
I've decided I should definitely start writing down where these are from.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:19 pm
Some of my favorites (please forgive the self-quotes!) and I'll warn you ahead of time that I go for funny, not deep.
"I greeted a moving car once... While I was in a moving car. I'm like Pavlov's freaking dog!" - Me, in reference to my greeting conditioning due to working retail.
"Oh, so you stupided yourselves into extinction."-Muffin the Chromatic "Parrot" (8-Bit Theater)
"There's nothing like a paranoid with his gun pointed at your vulnerable parts to get the ol' blood flowing. Okay, that was a bad choice of words."-Duo Maxwell from one of my unfinished Gundam Wing fanfictions.
"He says the pills make the phone calls go away."-Meatwad (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
"Yes, yes. The lord of the dead shall surely inherit the greatest kingdom given enough time. Now, hush the adults are talking."-Black Mage (8-Bit Theater: ep. 381)
"Ahem! There's SAND on my boots!!"-Kefka (FFIII)
"I haven't seen anyone freak out this bad since my brother told my mother he was gay!"-Imposter Gojyo (Saiyuki)
"Can anyone tell me what STP stands for?"-Chemistry Teacher
"Stone Temple Pilots!"-Student (actual conversation from my high school chemistry class)
"Aw, crap!! That things got, like, eight mouths!! I'm certain to be zombie chow, now!!"-Fat Ninja (Blade of Heaven, vol. 3)
"I just have two points. First point: Tohma's fish apron. Second point: Go home, baldy!"-Maki Murakami (Gravitation vol. 12 author's notes)
"When I was the Hell King, we'd feast on the souls of gluttons. It was like eating murder marinated in sin. It was bliss."-Black Mage (8-Bit Theater ep. 401)
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:02 pm
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself! Face the truth.
--Katherine Mansfield
No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
--Graceslick
I saw that – God (Icon) ^_^ it makes me laugh.
(from my FMA Video Game - cuz really, at times, the characters in games say some pretty funny and odd things)
“Houses don’t spontaneously catch on fire, Al…” – Edward Elric
“If beating up psycho cultist is wrong, then I don’t want to be right!” – Edward Elric
“Wow… your god is mean.” – Alphonse Elric
“It’s hotter than two Chimeras mating in a boiler room.” – Edward Elric
“Taste me, I’m Delicious” -- Dib, Invader Zim
"People are fragile, like teacups.” -- HRG/Mr. Bennet, Heroes
“Don’t mess in the affairs of Dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.”
--car bumper sticker
“Evil doers just don’t respect the snack time of others.”
--Kids Next Door Commercial
“Chaos, Panic, Disorder… my work is done here.”
--My brother’s T-Shirt.
Quotes I have Said or Written:
“I feel sorry for your brain.”
“How in Midgard did you manage that?”
“Who gave you permission to read my Icon?”
“Die your head off laughing”
"If people were more like snails, we'd have more time to get nothing done."
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Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:59 pm
"Whose more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars IV: A New Hope
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:34 pm
"God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh."
-- Voltaire
"I may not agree with what you say but I will fight to the death your right to say it."
-- Voltaire? (it's a V name, oh gods i feel bad for not remembering it ....)
"When life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand sugar."
-- Unknown
"Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this s**t."
-- John Prine
I'm not a big religious person but the first quote is my absolute favorite of all time and well, the last one is just common thought that I think nobody ever really says outloud. And the other Voltaire one was my favorite that I'd read in a history book. Very nicely done.
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:13 pm
"I'm bored out of my brain. My poor, non-existent brain" ~ME
"Everything it magical if you do it right" ~ my friend.
"It's so gold it's copper!" ~ME
"Every great idea I have gets me in trouble." ~tee-shirt
She sighed as her aching shoulders relaxed under his skilled hands “Marry me” she groaned.
He chuckled “You only want me for my body” he commented mournfully.
She laughed and straightened “What else is there?” she said as she leered at him.
He frowned “I’ll have you know that I am a multi faceted individual; I have layers, deep, deep layers” he said with a hand draped across his heart.
She hopped over the fence and followed him back to the Rider’s quarters “Like an onion” she commented innocently.
He scowled at her “An onion? That’s hardly very flattering” he said wryly. - From Fears in Solitude, by MagnetTarpit
'Just about now I would like to inform you of a crow’s adamant avoidance of long sticks and big knights aiming for them.' "- from Granddaughter to the Lioness, by skyflyte12
THE LAST TWO ARE FROM FANFICTION
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Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:37 pm
this is a quote by me, for which I'm proud, as it makes me laugh a lot.
"Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for natural stupidity"
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