Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Favorite Quotes: September 2017



"Man is a god in ruins.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Lookee here, hot shot. You can forget your plans, man. ‘Cause we’re gonna stop you. Gonna stop you cold.”

“I don’t like the life you’re leading.”
“Well, it’s MY LIFE, dad!”
-Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

"The Canal was frozen in its concrete sluice like a frozen river of rose-milk, its surface humped and cracked and cloudy. It was moveless yet completely alive in this harshly puritanical winterlight; it had its own unique and difficult beauty."

"We laughed a lot back then...We were afraid all the time, but we couldn't stop laughing, any more than I can stop now."

"I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a bellyache."
-Stephen King, It

"Speak then and ask the forest and the loam.
What do you hear? What does the land command?
The earth is taken: this is not your home."
-Karl Shapiro, "Travelogue for Exiles"

“Science fiction is supposed to be about the future. Why are its fans so obsessed with the past?”
-Con Man

“This place reeks of death and negative vibrations, and yet you walk around is if nothing had happened!”

“You’re asking me to forget everything I ever knew about physics! I’m not ready to do that!”
-Video Demons Do Psychotown

“You're nobody's rainbow.
You're nobody's princess.
You're nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
-Seanan McGuire

“It’s hammer time.”
-Shaquille O’Neal, holding a hammer in Steel (1997)

(Answering phone)?“Hello?...I’m sorry, but the doctor died of rectal hemorrhaging...Would you like his voice mail?”
-Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

“His lips were melting together, but he didn’t seem to notice.”

“At twilight, I carried buckets of my wife out for burial.“
-Carlton Mellick III, Sunset with a Beard

“There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.”
-G.K. Chesterton

“What will we do as the earth is set loose from the sun?”
-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science



Also this doesn't really warrant an entry of its own, so here, these are some graphic novels (or "comic books," for all you snobs) that I've read and enjoyed lately:


Small Gods     Ray Friesen

Black Panther v.2: A Nation Under Our Feet            Ta-Nehisi Coates
Creepshow      Stephen King
Ghostbusters: Total Containment       Erik Burnham
Parasyte, Trilogy          Hitosi Iwaaki
Batman, v.10: Epilogue          Scott Snyder
Harrow County, v.5    Cullen Bunn
One Punch Man, v.1  ONE
Spill Zone        Scott Westerfield
All Star Batman, v.1   Scott Snyder


-Phony McFakename


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