Lines you Love and Abhor

[Laindessiel]

Sentences or phrases from books, quotes, movies, people, authors, painters, artists, you name it, what the heck, or even things that you're brother just said to you that either keeps you from sliding down the manhole OR a sentence that lets you have a stagnant gray matter.

It could be from ANYWHERE and ANYONE, cupcakes. :lol: (Just don't forget to put the name who said it.)

I'll start:

I like
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
Oh, just like what I do when I'm stretching my nerves out at midnight just to keep this forum company.

I detest
"This is one man who found beauty in "ham, pig's tongue, pork fat, sides of beef seen in a butcher's window and all that death." - forgot who that man is
I hate him.

[RobinHood3000]

"You like pain? ~WHAM~ Try wearing a corset."

Makes me cringe.

[Laindessiel]

And stilettos that are 10 inches high. Gaak...

[stlukesguild]

"Ham, pigs, tongues, sides of beef seen in the butcher’s window, all that death, I find it very beautiful. And it’s all for sale—how unbelievably surrealistic!"
Francis Bacon

Knowing Bacon's work, it makes complete sense:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k255/Stlukesguild/BaconTriptychsmall.jpg

There are far too many favorite sentenses for me to choose a single one... and in most cases, it must be admitted that the impact is owed largely to the context in which it is placed. I do, however, deeply admire the closing lines of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities:

And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if ther is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

[subterranean]

Greene is currently my most fav author, so I'll take something from one of his works, The Power and the Glory:

"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity -- that was a quality God's image carried with it."

[Laindessiel]

"Ham, pigs, tongues, sides of beef seen in the butcher’s window, all that death, I find it very beautiful. And it’s all for sale—how unbelievably surrealistic!"
Francis Bacon

Knowing Bacon's work, it makes complete sense:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k255/Stlukesguild/BaconTriptychsmall.jpg

There are far too many favorite sentenses for me to choose a single one... and in most cases, it must be admitted that the impact is owed largely to the context in which it is placed. I do, however, deeply admire the closing lines of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities:

And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if ther is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Thanks for "dropping the knowledge" on who said that, Sub. And I am soo embarrassed that I got it all mixed up. Got the newspaper I got it from to blame. :flare: