Favorite Quotes

[Lord_Gareth]

What do you think this is, a house of mirrors? Pop in with your favorite quotes, one-liners, or whatever. Here's one of mine, relatively newly found for me -

"In the singing, shattered midnight / By the coral sands of time
Through the bloody gates of Heaven / Past the sentries in my mind.
Bring about the change so quickly / Bring about the terror's night
Bring about tbe blood of lovers / Bring about the smell of fright."

[Scorpina]

In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!" - Galadriel

"I tried keeping a diary once. Not chronological, of course. But the trouble with time travel is, one never seems to find the time." - The Doctor

"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain, eor live and fight your sorrow! Now is th time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!" - Auron

"Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on -- none of you are safe." - Batman

"Bugrit! Millenium hand and shrimp!" - Foul Old Ron

[Rinquist]

"Now you will receive us! We do not ask for your poor or your hungry. We do not want your tired and sick!

It is your corrupt we claim! It is your evil that will be sought by us. With every breath we shall hunt them down. Each day we will spill their blood ‘til it rains down from the skies!

Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles, which every man of every faith can embrace!

These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behavior! And those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost!

There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth not to push the bounds and cross over into true corruption, into our domain.

For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day, you will reap it!"

-Connor and Murphy MacManus

[Lord_Gareth]

Niiiice ^_^. I just watched Boondock Saints last night for, like, the fiftieth time. That movie kicks so much ass...

[MeklorIlavator]

Here are a couple of my favorites:
Here's and interesting pair:
"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution"
-V.K. Plehve, Russian minister of the interior on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War(1903)

"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions"
-Robert Lynd, 1879-1949

Some people are like slinkies. They're not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when they fall down the stairs.

"What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to a mind? Our unity is full of wonder, which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive."
-The Many

"Mistrust is the tyranny of the individual. Your own kind sees you as a threat. Why do you murder our unity? No matter. The line is drawn. You will cease to be. It is just a question of who will bring your end. Us, or you."
-The Many

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me?", then a voice answers "Nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."
-- Charlie Brown

[Lord_Gareth]

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths are a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

Sadly, it's true.

[wojonatior]

fromV for Vendetta
(sorry its a bit long)

V: [Evey pulls out her mace] I can assure you I mean you no harm.

Evey Hammond: Who are you?

V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.

Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.

V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.

V: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.

V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
[carves V into poster on wall]

V: The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]

V: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?

V: I am quite sure they will say so. But, to whom am I speaking with?

Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.

V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.

Evey Hammond: What does that mean?

V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.

[Raven T.]

See the first one in my sig. It comes from this story.

[Catch]

"Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

— Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes

@V Such an awesome parody.

[Chaotic Bob]

Once more, quoting Richard from his little song "Slaughter Your World" (look it up on Youtube if you feel so compelled to find out about it):
"You see a wife?
I see a widow."

Actually....I'd like to list that entire song as my favorite quote.

[Skippy]

I really like this one:

"Only a fool quotes himself" - Radikalskippy

[Sage of Laputa]

My friend and I were studying some math for a test tomorrow, and he came up with a good quote.

"Imaginary Numbers; It's all fun and games until someone loses an i."

[Jokes]

"Sure, if you believe in coincidences. But I prefer inevitablility. Every event is inevitable - if it wasn't, it wouldn't happen"
O.W. Grant (Interstate 60)

[Icewalker]

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words ... English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."


time for FIREFLY!

"Drunks are so cute." -Malcolm Renolds, Firefly

"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." -Malcolm Renolds, Firefly
(Technically Shepard Book says the line, but it is responded to "now you're quoting the captain" so I label it as his quote.)

"Live with a man 40 years, share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man." -Shan Yu, Firefly

"What'd ya'll order a dead guy for?" -Jayne Cobb, Firefly

"Mercy is the mark of a great man. *stab* Guess I'm just a good man. *stab* Well, I'm alright." -Malcolm Renolds, Firefly

"Ya'll see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find, it was kind of out of our way and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's looking to kill some folk. So really it's his will ya'll should worry about thwarting." -Malcolm Renolds, Firefly

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle." -Malcolm Renolds, Firefly

"Preacher, don't the bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?"
"Quite specific. It his however somewhat fuzzier on the subject of...kneecaps." -Zoe and Shepard Book, Firefly

[FoE]

"No time is wasted that you enjoyed wasting."
-T.S. Elliot

[The_Chilli_God]

"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional."
I've forgotten who that was from, and I'm not even sure if that's the correct quote, but it's a life philosophy of mine.

[Sir_Norbert]

"No-one is ever told what would have happened." -- Voyage of the Dawntreader

"The roaring of the rains of God none but the lonely love." -- Chesterton, "The Last Hero"

"The awful daring of a moment's surrender
Which an age of prudence can never retract,
By this and this only we have existed." -- Eliot, "The Waste Land"

[thubby]

"a story without a hero goes untold, a hero without a cause goes unheard"
not really sure where i read it, some book, but it always stuck with me.

[Quirinus_Obsidian]

"What he lacks in smarts he makes up in lack of smarts"
-Xander Harris, making fun of a bully. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

[Cyrano]

Badger: Of course, you couldn't buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle. I got my hands on a couple.
*Amused silence while Badger looks on uncomprehendingly.*
Badger: Of invites!

Because everyone must quote that at least once where Firefly is mentioned.

[FoE]

"Kids, you tried, and you failed miserably. The moral is: never try."
-Homer Simpson

[Icewalker]

Also, some demotivators:

"That which does not kill me postpones the inevitable."

"The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly."

"There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots."

"If you're not a part of the solution,there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."

"A company that will go to the ends of the Earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans."

"In the battle between you and the world, bet on the world."

"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."

"Leaders are like eagles. We don't have either of them here."

"When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor."



A good serious one. This actually seems like something to live by.
"Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you."

This one has always really stuck with me
"Always remember that you are unique. Just like everybody else."

[TSGames]

"Everybody is equal, some are more equal than others."

"I want my name to be spaghetti!" -ATHF

[ybn1197]

"My mind works like lightning; one bright flash then total darkness."

"Never judge a man till you have walked a mile in his shoes. Then you are a mile away and have his shoes."

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."

[unstattedCommoner]

"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."

If the enemy can see you, your sergeant can see you.

[FoE]

I want my name to be spaghetti! -ATHF

Tonight. You.

Most. Disturbing. Episode. Ever.

[thubby]

If the enemy can see you, your sergeant can see you.

true, but your sergeant isn't shooting at you.

just remembered one
"1 scientist harnessed electricity, a group of scientists created the atom bomb, and there was an angry mob at a scientific convention last week. the lesson? people get stupider in numbers"

[ybn1197]

just remembered one
"1 scientist harnessed electricity, a group of scientists created the atom bomb, and there was an angry mob at a scientific convention last week. the lesson? people get stupider in numbers"

My college philosophy teacher had a very similiar one:
"An individual is smart. People are stupid."

[TSGames]

"An individual is smart. People are stupid."

Quoted for truth.

[ForzaFiori]

"Things come to those who wait, but only that left by those who hustle"
-Abraham Lincoln.