Quotable quotes that I encountered over the past couple months.
"[In 1992] Clark had no great hope that Americans wanted their computers to educate themselves. He assumed they wanted their computers to play Nintendo and otherwise divert themselves from the poverty of their existences. The answer he finally came up with was that people wanted to watch any movies they pleased, whenever they pleased."
-Michael Lewis, The New New Thing
"In a sense the library gave me back my life. It's helped me to meet others more mature than me, people who I can discuss issues with and learn things from. I would say that just like the body needs food, the soul needs books."
-Michael Lewis, The New New Thing
"In a sense the library gave me back my life. It's helped me to meet others more mature than me, people who I can discuss issues with and learn things from. I would say that just like the body needs food, the soul needs books."
-Mitch
Ziems
"The
Devil's at his strongest when we're looking the other way. Like a program
running in the background."
-Mr.
Robot
“A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that ‘sweat and tears’ often fail to dissolve”
-Hugh B. Brown
“It
was rules that got you where you were and more rules that kept you there.”
“When
you're whole and unharmed, no matter how scared you are there's always the
feeling that nobody's going to touch you, really. It's only when the pain
begins that you realize you're vulnerable.”
-Jack
Ketchum, Hide and Seek
“Man
will become better when you show him what he is like.”
“If
people agreed suddenly to be sincere, everything would go to the devil, would
fall to pieces...only savages and animals are sincere.”
-Anton
Chekhov
“Moses
knew that he couldn't create a society of free men from a generation born as
slaves. Moses kept his people wandering until the previous generation had
died."
Chuck
Palahniuk, Fight Club 2
“Don't
ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just...well, differently moraled,
that's all.”
“Did
the memory erasure device work, Uncle?"
"The
what?"
"The
memory erasure device. You were testing it when I last saw you."
"Don't
know what you're talking about, dear girl.”
“Religion
isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”
“I
don't believe in coincidences."
"Neither
do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?”
“The
industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before
date.”
-Jasper
Fforde, The Eyre Affair
"What
website did you meet on? OKStupid? Haha, nailed it!"
-Playing
House
“Don’t
be afraid to laugh. A person without a sense of humor misses much of the joy of
living”
-David
O. McKay
"I've
done everything for him! I changed religions, for God's sake! I'm not going to
Heaven now! What more does he want?"
-Wonderfalls
“I
remember once when he and I arrived at a country house where the going
threatened to be sticky, Jeeves, as we alighted, murmured in my ear the words
‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, sir’, and at the time I could make
nothing of the crack. Subsequent inquiry, however, revealed that this Roland
was one of those knights of the Middle Ages who spent their time wandering to
and fro, and that on fetching up one evening at a dump known as the Dark Tower
he had scratched the chin a bit dubiously, not liking the look of things.”
“Irishmen
are poets. They talk about their souls and mist and so on.”
-P.G.
Wodehouse, The Mating Season
“Break
me from this hold as I unfold blood eagle wings”
-Anthrax
“I
understand why you love this gun thing. It completely detaches you from the
guilt of your actions!”
-The
Brothers Grimsby
“He
kept his motor running, but he never kept it clean.”
-Skid
Row, “18 and Life”
“Why
do they always build banks to look like temples, despite the fact that several
major religions a) are canonically against what they do inside and b) bank
there?”
“The
first impression it gave Moist was: this is Hell on the day they couldn’t find
the matches.”
“People
don’t like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of
normal to another.”
“It
was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore
colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in
there somewhere.”
“A
weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.”
“You
get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”
“Whole
new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based
on bulls**t.”
-Terry
Pratchett, Making Money
“It
is some advantage to lead a primitive life if only to learn what are the
necessities...Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts are not
only dispensable but positive hindrances.”
-Thoreau
“I
don’t have a life. I have a schedule.”
-Parenthood
“What
I tend to see happening more and more is people retreating into their own
corners. People seem scared to get things wrong or be shouted at so they form
villages in which they agree with every other member, and maybe they go out and
shout at the people in the next village for fun, but there’s no interchange of
ideas going on. I think we have to encourage the idea that you’re allowed to
think things. I have thought a great many stupid things over the years, and I
can tell you that there’s not one stupid thing that I ever thought where I
changed my mind because someone shouted at me or threatened to kill me. On the
other hand, having great discussions with good friends, possibly over a drink,
has definitely changed my mind and made me try to do better. You’re allowed to
do better, but we have to let people do better.”
”I
think each of us tends to take something and use that as the place where you
begin making your art. If you’re going to make good art, it’s likely that
you’re going to go to the place where things are dark, and use that to shine
light into your life and, if you’re doing it right, into other people’s lives
as well. For Terry [Pratchett], it was always anger. There was a deep rage in
him that allowed him to create. For me, it tends to be sorrow or loneliness or
confusion.”
-Neil
Gaiman
“Self-conscious,
uncertain, I'm showered with the dust
The
spirit enters into me, and I submit to trust
Smash
the radio
(No
outside voices here)
Smash
the watch
(Cannot
tear the day to shreds)
Smash
the camera
(Cannot
steal away the spirits)
The
rhythm is around me
The
rhythm has control
The
rhythm is inside me
The
rhythm has my soul”
-Peter
Gabriel, “The Rhythm of the Heat”
“Satan
can kiss my ass!”
“Spaghetti
and meatballs is just too much excitement!”
-The
Gilmore Girls
“It
was Taine who said: ‘Democracies defeat themselves.’ Perhaps I haven’t got that
quotation right. It doesn’t seem to mean much.”
“[Trout
fishing] is nothing but a constant series of compromises with one’s better
nature, what with sneaking about pretending to be something that one is not,
trying to fool the fish into thinking one thing when just the reverse is true,
and in general behaving in an underhanded and tricky manner throughout the
day.”
“It
is only recently that doctors have discovered that we have many more elements
in our systems than was originally thought. Whether we have always had them and
just didn’t know it, or whether they were brought there and left by some people
who wanted to get rid of them has not been decided.”
-Robert
Benchley
-Compiled by Phony McFakename
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