Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 15 of 18

Thread: your undeliberatly most used quote

  1. #1
    defying description inbetween's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    germany
    Posts
    131

    your undeliberatly most used quote

    I very often think and answer in quotes without actually wanting it
    the one I use the most is "only this and nothing more"
    do you have such sentences too?
    Friends help you move. Good friends help you move bodies.

  2. #2
    Registered User
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Posts
    347
    "90% of everything is crud...but the remaining 10% is worth dying for"-Theodore sturgeon.

    Its actually a paraphrase and I don't actually think 90% of everthing is crud but I use it for a lot of genres and sub-genres of entertainment mediums.

    For example, I believe that most anime is crud but the good ones are worth dying for. Most SF is crud and unoriginal but the rest is worth dying for. Most poetry is crud but the rest is dying for. The examples are numerous.
    Last edited by Mr.lucifer; 06-14-2010 at 03:03 PM.

  3. #3
    Card-carrying Medievalist Lokasenna's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    In a lurid pink building...
    Posts
    2,769
    Blog Entries
    5
    "Lay on, MacDuff!" - I seem to say this at least three times a day...
    "I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche

  4. #4
    Literary Superstar Pryderi Agni's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Location
    On the spires of Paris, with the Red Queen...
    Posts
    418
    "Why so serious?"



    Seriously, though, I find myself saying "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy" quite often these days.

  5. #5
    Registered User andrewoberg's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2010
    Location
    Kochi City, Japan
    Posts
    52
    "Take 'er easy out there for all us sinners"

    Slightly adapted quote from the Cowboy in The Big Lebowski
    Teacher and writer living in rural Japan--very adept with chopsticks! Humorous serial shorts and historical fiction graphic novel at: http://drugstorebooks.com

  6. #6
    Registered User
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    The Everglades
    Posts
    15
    My current favorite is, "Without oxen a stable stays clean." It is from the Proverbs of Solomon. I say it when I have to clean up messes left behind by others. The quote reminds me to appreciate the blessings of the people in my life and gives me patience to deal with what is not always so savory.

  7. #7
    Metamorphosing Pensive's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2005
    Location
    Neverland
    Posts
    10,601
    Interesting topic!
    Mine probably is: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
    I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

  8. #8
    dafydd dafydd manton's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Location
    Sheffield, South Yorks, England. Tha knows.
    Posts
    4,831
    Blog Entries
    7
    "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof", or, in English, never mind tomorrow, lets worry about today!
    Dafydd Manton, A Legend In His Own Lunchtime!! www.dafydd-manton.co.uk

    My Work Has Been Spread Over Many Fields!

  9. #9
    Pièce de Résistance Scheherazade's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Location
    Tweet @ScherLitNet
    Posts
    23,903
    Use this in the class quite often:

    "Try not to have a good time... This is supposed to be educational."

    ~ Charles M. Schulz
    ~
    "It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
    ~


  10. #10
    Registered User Three Sparrows's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2009
    Location
    Hique et ubique?
    Posts
    171
    "Patience is a virtue", because life is often frustrating. I somehow always pop up with this one; either because of others, myself, and over zealous animals. Ugh.
    He prayed best, who loveth best
    All things both great and small;
    For the dear God who loveth us,
    He made and loveth all.

    ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  11. #11
    "Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb." - Bob Dylan.
    There is hope, but not for us.

  12. #12
    All are at the crossroads qimissung's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    Lost in the bell's curve
    Posts
    5,123
    Blog Entries
    66
    "So much time, so little to do!" Willie Wonka (movie)
    "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
    "Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai
    "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka

  13. #13
    Registered User shoftart's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2010
    Posts
    2
    "Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn

  14. #14
    Ostentatious Hypercritic Mr. Pedantic's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2010
    Location
    A Liberal Arts School in the USA
    Posts
    37
    "Beggar that I am, I am poor even in thanks" (Hamlet)

  15. #15
    Registered User Delta40's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Fremantle Western Australia
    Posts
    9,903
    Blog Entries
    62
    You can't miss it if you have never had it - my scottish mother (damn her!)
    Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blinds must be raised - American Proverb

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •