If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it - now quiet; they're about to announce the lottery numbers! - Homer Simpson
Implied, Lisa? or Implode?- Homer Simpson
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand. - Homer Simpson
Stupid risks make life worth living.-Homer Simpson
Yes, all by Homer! He's just a bib bubbling fountain of wisdom, ain't he? lol
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
-Marilyn Manson
My favourite quote is courtesy of Mark Twain.
"In certain trying circumstances, desperate circumstances, urgent circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."
"they say:a word is died when it's said,but i say it just starts living that day"
"an eye for an eye would make the whole world blind"
but no idea of who said them
Gandhi.Originally Posted by no name
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
I am by no means a disciple of Schopenhauer, but this quote of his concerning writing is golden:
"It would generally serve writers in good stead if they would see that, while a man should, if possible, think like a great genius, he should talk the same language as everyone else. Authors should use common words to say uncommon things."
—A. Schopenhauer, On Style
Pretty much anything Dorothy Parker ever said. I know, not exactly pity enough to be carved in granite and displayed on a giant building, but hey, they're good for a smile. Besides, this thread was getting a bit heavy, and someone has to lighten the mood.
A few of my favorites:
"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."
"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires."
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
And finally, after being asked to use the word horticulture in a sentence:
"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
I try and just kick it but what can I do.
We've all got our junk, and my junk is you.
-Steven Slater, Spring Awakening
There are so many wonderful quotes, but my favorite has, for two decades, been this one:
My favorite quote, though not from a book, is very telling of life If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.
. It was a quote made by Cousteau in his life and it really seems to sum up the human existance. Faith and hope are two of the most common themes in literature and it is what makes life worth living. If we didn't all hope for a better tomorrow after a particularly bad day what would be the point in living life? Hope is what makes life bearable, when the human condition is more or less one big tragedy.
I have many favorite quotes. Heres a few:
"If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, ‘I love you,’, I must be able to say, ‘I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself‘"-The Art of Loving/Fromm
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude, don't complain. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you will understand what little chance you have in trying to change others." (I forget who said this, sorry.
LADY MACDUFF:
Sirrah, your father's dead;
And what will you do now? How will you live?
Son:
As birds do, mother.
LADY MACDUFF:
What, with worms and flies?
Son:
With what I get, I mean; and so do they. MacBeth
"Listen to many, speak to a few." (once again, dont know who said it.)
"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they
tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and
concentrate on the good ones" Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse five"
"Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
Looking into the heart of light, the silence." T.S. Eliot
"I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it's not pretty.
it was the first time I'd
realized
that."- Charles Bukowski
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
and also this: CHARLIE BROWN: I think lunch time is about the worst time of the day for me. Always having
to sit here alone. Of course, sometimes mornings aren’t so pleasant, either--waking up and
wondering if anyone would really miss me if I never got out of bed. Then there’s the night, too --
lying there and thinking about all the stupid things I’ve done during the day. And all those hours
in between--when I do all those stupid things. Well, lunch time is among the worst time of the
day for me. Well, I guess I’d better see what I’ve got. Peanut butter. Some psychiatrists say
that people who eat peanut butter sandwiches are lonely. I guess they’re right. And if you’re
really lonely, the peanut butter sticks to the roof of your mouth. Boy, the PTA sure did a good
job of painting these benches. There’s that cute little redheaded girl eating her lunch over there.
I wonder what she’d do if I went over and asked her if I could sit and have lunch with her. She’d
probably laugh right in my face. It’s hard on a face when it gets laughed in. There’s an empty
place next to her on the bench. There’s no reason why I couldn’t just go over and sit there. I
could do that right now. All I have to do is stand up. I’m standing up. I’m sitting down. I’m a
coward. I’m so much of a coward she wouldn’t even think of looking at me. Why shouldn’t she
look at me? Is she so great and am I so small that she couldn’t spare one little moment just to
... She’s looking at me. She’s looking at me.
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
I know my name isn't Debra sue, but i LOVE that quote! Macbeth is great!!
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
To nomoredrama28: Fav. quote: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new". Samuel Beckett first line of the novel, "Murphy"
"CARPE DIEM", SEIZE THE DAY.
love that. Dead Poets Society is brilliant.
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
"Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now"
was that Samuel Beckett as well? I have a poster with him on it! good guy!
“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
"Amazing how grimly we hold on to our misery, the energy we burn fueling our anger. Amazing how one moment, we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. Not hours of this, or days, or months, or years of this... But decades. Lifetimes completely used up, given over to the pettiest rancor and hatred. Finally, there is nothing here for death to take away."- CB
caveat emptor / impramatur / nihil obstat / my lease fav. quotes quasimodo1
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