~Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)Quote:
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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~Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)Quote:
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
It is difficult to pick a favorite quote, but here are three that I really like:
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.” – Albert Einstein
"I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way." - Mark Twain
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...d27/inigo1.jpg
'Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
"Our lives are shaped by those who love us, and by those who refuse to love us."
~Anonymous.
( I know its not as intellectual as this forum would usually require, but what the hey)
'SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEN' ' (Tony Montana) (Al Pacino, Scarface)
'You're only a rebel from the waist down' (Winston to Julia) (George Orwell, 1984)
"Here lies an anachronism in the vague expectation of eternity"
Rather a gloomy quote by Lord Peter, but it just stuck in my mind. He wanted it for his epitaph
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Originally Posted by Wizard272002
:yawnb: :lol: :yawnb:
when you come up the stairs into my apartment, it's the first thing you see framed on the wall under his b/w picture:
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
-Jack Keraouc
I have only recently come across that quote in context, it is truly,truly fabulous :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1jt
"Yo! Yo! Yo! What Up, Homie!? Word! Fo shizzle! Mi hizzle! Ain't no thang but a chicken wang! Word!!!"
-Many, many people...That's including me!:D
neo, that was really funny!!!
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place - zora thurston
“Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.”
Sam Austin
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
I don't know who said that, though. :bawling:
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. The more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.
Notes from underground
"Earth's the right place for love..." Robert Frost from Birches
It was said by Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary (Chiapas). Do you know who was he? But this sentence is attributed also to Che Guevara (he's well-known, I think you know who was he) and to Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria", who was a revolutionary woman that fought against the Fascism in Civil War, in Spain (1936-1939) ). I don't know if you know who was she. She's not very well-known outside Spain or here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt the Man
So I think it was originally from Emiliano Zapata, but the other two people said this as well. It's a nice sentence and also were the people who said that. :thumbs_up So now you know who was the person who said it!! :D
My favourite quote
"Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once."
--From Julius Caesar (II, ii, 32-37)
Actually, you are wrong! It's Jose Marti in original, leader of the Cuban independence movement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. Dalloway
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jose_Marti
look at the end of the page:idea:
:blush: ooh! you're right!! I thought it was from Emiliano! :( :( :( anyway, thanks xD it's good to learn these things xDQuote:
Originally Posted by bazarov
New honorary knight Bono shuns 'Sir'Quote:
You have permission to call me anything you want - Lord of Lords, your Demigodness...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...45255_bono.gif
I read that! cheeky, isn't it?
"All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..."
-Oscar Wilde
Good one, good choice, Heike Marie! If there were a contest to determine who contributed the most with quotable epigrams and aphorisms, Wilde would win it easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by heikemarie
I don't have a favourite quote. Had a real hard time choosing from a vast array of them to post here... At the moment, this is one of my favourites:
"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else" - Tom Stoppard
As well as the one written below this sentence :p
"Now is the very witching time of night when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world" - Hamlet
Nice one, hyperinsomnia:thumbs_up I have another quote from Hamlet
I may be bounded in a nutshell, but I consider myself king of infinite space- Hamlet
That one's quite good!
I was torn between that and
"... I love thee best, O most best!"
For some reason it appeals to me and i'm often shouting it at people for no reason. I also enjoy:
"Your noble son is mad!"
and of course:
"...he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true, 'tis pitty; And pitty 'tis 'tis true..."
"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
-Eeyore.
Poetry, like all art, is a gesture towards the immortal. - A Writer Friend
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby
"The whole world sees me as just one person, I want just one person to see me as the whole world."
I like this, so beautiful.
“This recommendation of steadiness and uniformity does not proceed from an opinion, that particular combinations of letters have much influence on human happiness; or that truth may not be successfully taught by modes of spelling fanciful and erroneous: I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.”
—[from Samuel Johnson's Preface to his A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)]
Beautiful, stays in my head definitely!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by della
I second the sentiment of this being a keeper! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by della
Who said that?Quote:
Originally Posted by della
'Lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb'
Bournemouth reviewing law from 1766 on who cannot stand for election.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/default.stm
I see it in the first page of this thread,by Admin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Admin
Heaven for climate, hell for the company
-mark twain
ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
-john steinbeck
" Man is a mystery if you spend your life trying to puzzle it out , then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery because I want to be a man"
said in the brothers karamazov that dostoevsky as an 18 year old wrote these words to his brother.
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Originally Posted by JaneB
Is there any specific place that Mark Twain said that first one about? Just curious. I'm a very distant cousin of his. I have never come across that quote of his before. Some places from my own life come to mind though...;)