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"The tradgedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - Anonymous

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father - prepare to die." - Inigo Montoya, THe Princess Bride

"Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha..." Vizzini, right before death, The Princess Bride

This thread is just plain awesome! xd

Here's some of my favorites:

sappy/inspiration quotes

"I try to believe that God doesn't give you more than one little piece of the story at once. You know, the story of your life. Otherwise your heart would crack wider than you could handle. He only cracks it enough so you can still walk, like someone wearing a cast. But you've still got a crack running up your side, big enough for a sapling to grow out of. Only no one sees it. Nobody sees it. Everybody thinks you're in one whole piece, and so they treat you maybe not so gentle as they would if they could see that crack." ~Vivi

"People see God every day. They just don't recognize him." ~ Pearl Bailey

"No matter how painful. As long as we're alive, something good will happen." ~ Nana Komatsu from NANA (Ureshii fansubs)

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~ Donna Roberts

"I shouldn't project frightening things. Grandfather once told me that the reason I do this is that I have a storyteller's imagination, and that it's both blessing and bane." ~ Vicky Austin from A Ring of Endless Light page 283.

"Not all who wander are lost." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien.


amusing quotes

"Something homely, like how you tell your spaghetti's done by throwing a strand against the wall; if it sticks, it's done." ~ Vicky Austin from A Ring of Endless Light page 56

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." ~ Frieda Norris

"Eavesdropping Sir? I don't follow you, begging your pardon. There ain't no eaves at Bag End, and that's a fact." ~Sam Gamgee

"Sometimes, I like to think we're all just fish in the sea, and annoying people are going to get eaten." ~April (my younger sister)

"Sometimes geekiness happens. Comes out of ya like a disease." ~ April

"Tyron, You know how much I love watching you work, but I've got may country's 500th aniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Gilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."
~ Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)

Thoughtful quotes

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
~Wesley (The Princess Bride)

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." - Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

"I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it." ~ Merry to Haldir in Lothlorien

"Home is behind
the world ahead
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadow to the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight
Mist and shadow
Cloud and shade
All shall fade
All shall fade...."

-Peregrin Took, Return of The King

"I made a promise, Mr Frodo. A promise. "Don't you leave him Samwise Gamgee." And I don't mean to. I don't mean to. " ~Sam Gamgee

From the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Movie:
Sam: It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo : What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam : That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

We need some Henry quotes, because Henry's a silly goose.


"Descartes was such a maths nerd. When I read his work, I feel like I'm 16 and failing calculus all over again. It's highly depressing."

"You should really read some *ridiculous French accent* Alain de Botton, who is English, and I do not know why I'm still speaking in this silly accent."

"Ignore the French man sleeping on my desk. Much like Baudelaire, he doesn't bite unless you want him to."

"Mathemiticians are the highest degree of not sexy. They are like the anti-sex. Fabulous contraceptive, mathematics is."

"English slang is so wonderful. When I ask my friend for a f**, I am not asking her if she has a tiny homosexual in her purse. Although now that I think of it, that would make an interesting tourist novelty."

"People never fall in love until they stop trying to fall in love, at which point they're likely to fall in love with the first thing that so much as glances in their general direction."



And now for some Oscar Wilde:

"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read." (The Importance of Being Earnest)

(The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"When cannibals are starving, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary."

"I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. That is why I intend to die a Catholic, though I could never live as one."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"The Chaplain would not kneel to pray
By his dishonoured grave:
Nor mark it with that blessed Cross
that Christ for sinners gave,
Because the man was one of those
Whome Christ came down to save."
(The Ballad of Reading Gaol)

"Yet all is well; he has but passed
To Life's appointed bourne:
And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourner will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn."
9The Ballad of Reading Gaol)


(Can you tell I love that poem?)



Okay, not for a list of more random stuff.

"This is interesting. I'm losing myself in an ideological leather bar. The more appalling I find your politics, the more I want to hump you."
-Tony Kushner, Angels in America

"My faith is just as much a part of me as my sexuality. To live my life with only one or the other is impossible."
-Trembling Before G-d

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl."
-Pink Floyd

"Julius Caesar was an abisexterous man."
-Alan Watts

"I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life."
-Anthony Perkins



More to come later, I'm sure.

It very well may go like that. I've never watched rent with subtitles, nor have I looked up the lyrics. I'll trust you on this one.

"I've got a rockappotomus in my hand"
-Red Hot Chili Peppers, Warlocks in Wonderland

I love the Chili's and their crazy lyrics.


Furthermore...


"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn’t thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.


-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams is my favorite atheist. He has very little competition for that title, but that's beside the point.

Oh, just came across this recently:

-- Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a Protestant?

-- I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but not that I had lost self-respect. What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?

~ from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

xd It amused me greatly.

"I went to the store the other day and bought 6 apples. The cashier asked me, 'Would you like a bag?' I said, 'No, I juggle. But I can only juggle 6, so if I'm ever here buying 8 apples, bag 'em up.'" - Mitch Hedberg

Today I bought two boxes of crackers, a block of cheese, and a can of soup, and the cachier asked me if I wanted a bag. This quote poped into my head and it's been there ever since. blaugh