Favorite Quotes!

Fate Foretold wrote:t's entirely true though that not even the most knowledgeable and intelligible human could even begin to grasp the secrets of the universe and all there truly is to know and understand.

And that's all I was getting at.

I think Operation Ivy put it best.

"All I know is that I don't know."

People always look at me like I'm on drugs when I say I love Marilyn Monroe. But, come on, look at her quotes.

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am
out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me
at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."


"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."


"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"

People don't like Marilyn Monroe? What kinda age we living in? You don't become that popular without brains not in THAT day and age. Now sure you can with the right agent but Hollywood and entertainment was very different back then.

I know, she's pretty brilliant in certain respects!

That's what I say Brownie! Everyone is under the impression that she was some bimbo but she was an amazing woman with a humble beginnings and a sad death. I wish she was alive today. D:

Sadly that comes with today's generation who take everything at face value and never put any research into it. With notable exceptions of course. (Like the many fine people here on this site )

*sings sadly* Like a caaandle in the winnnd....

"This just might do nobody any good. At the end of this discourse a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts. But the elaborate structure of networks, advertising agencies and sponsors will not be shaken or altered. It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to you journeymen with some candor about what is happening to radio and television. If what I have to say is responsible, then I alone am responsible for the saying of it.

Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live. We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent. We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge, and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East. Would the corporate image of their respective sponsors be damaged? Would the stockholders rise up in their wrath and complain? Would anything happen other than that a few million people would have received a little illumination on subjects that may well determine the future of this country, and therefore the future of the corporations?

To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. Good night, and good luck." - Edward R Murrow

I know it's long but the man was THE reporter in TV infancy and even back then he could see the direction it was headed. Sadly it seems that no one has listened, and his apocalyptic vision of the future of T.V has come true. Perhaps it's worse off than envisioned.

He was an amazing man, and he deserves massive amounts of respect. At first, when I saw this huge-ass quote, I was like, "Well... crap... Did he quote an entire novel?" Then I read the first line, and I realized you were quoting Edward R. Murrow, and I was eager to read the entire thing. XD

"The world ends at your horizons and the best moments slip away."

Sanae Hanekoma, TWEWY.

AWESOME quote, Squall. I never heard that before.
TV could have been used for so much good--there is some, I think, but precious little--but greed won over, and little kids get to sit in front of Cartoon Network and let their brains turn to jelly rather than spending time with their family, learning something useful, or enjoying nature. And then beg their parents to get them the action figures.

Sad, sad indeed.

Hey! Some good things came out of cartoons on television! Just look at Avatar: The Last Airbender! There are some amazing morals in that show.

Hey guys, I finally dug up one of my favorite quotes of all time! xD

"Severed limbs, gaping wounds, crushed heads, burning flesh!
These are a few of my favorite things."

--The Knight, from Lords of the Realm II

"How am I not myself?"
I Heart Huckabees

You guys have too much time on your hands.

LULZ

Kalon, that was pure amazing. xD I can't believe what our eightball said to you guys haha.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. That eightball never, ever gets old.

I have a LOT of quotes I like... But I'll share just a few for now.


"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance." - William Shakespeare

"The best way to become boring is to say everything." - Voltaire

"The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." - Woody Allen

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." - Will Rogers

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

Mouth: "Hey Chunk, I have some naked pictures of your mom, taking a bath. Really nice."

Mouth: "There's no way! 'Cuz that means your mom's gotta drive. Then you've gotta make it with her and your mom!"

Mouth:(In Spanish) "Never go up there. It's filled with Mr. Walsh's sexual torture devices."

Mouth: (In Spanish) "If you do a bad job you'll be locked in here with the cockroaches, for two weeks without food and water."

- The Goonies

"There is one thief whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to us; Time" -Dunno where it's from, just a phrase I heard on a forum I go to.

"give up on yourself, and you give up on the world" Joshua, TWEWY

"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats."
-- H. L. Mencken

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required."
-- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

I might have posted this quote before, and it's even in my "status," but I just love it, so I'll post it again. xD

"Without a monster or two it's hardly a quest! Merely a gaggle of friends wandering about."
--Owl (from Winnie the Pooh) in the Search for Christopher Robin

Hero: Listen to me. A storm o'hell's coming down on this place any second. I don't know what they are, I don't know where they came from. All I do know is that these fuckers are fast, nasty, and hungry... and there's four of 'em. They got claws like Ginsu knives and more teeth than a chainsaw. They're comin'... right now. So we gotta lock this bar down. That means doors, windows, drains, and zippers, and we gotta do it now. You! Get a phone, call the cops, National Guard, townies, anybody who kicks ass, and get 'em out here. Any questions?

Bartender: Yeah. Who the hell are you?

Hero: I'm the guy that's gonna save your ass.


BEER GUY: I mean, we'd been together for so long and then... bang! She drops me. Since then, it's been like a damn country song: she's gone, the car's repossessed, and a father figure made a pass at me. I'm not saying I
ever had it. But I have definitely lost it.

-Feast

There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. [...] Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[...] the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
"Freedom," he said aloud.
Trillian came on to the bridge at that point and said several enthusiastic things on the subject of freedom.
"I can't cope with it," Zaphod said darkly, and sent a third drink down to see why the second hadn't yet reported on the condition of the first. He looked uncertainly at both of her and preferred the one on the right.
He poured a drink down his other throat with the plan that it would head the previous one off at the pass, join forces with it, and together they would get the second to pull itself together. Then all three would go off in search of the first, give it a good talking to and maybe a bit of a sing as well.
He felt uncertain as to whether the fourth drink had understood all that, so he sent down a fifth to explain the plan more fully and a sixth for moral support. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"I didn't do that because I was drunk, I did that because it was fucking hilarious!" - My friend, Zack, from Freshman year of college.

“Sometimes a dream turns into a dream” – Line from Cadence of Her Last Breath by Nightwish (lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen).

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.” – Walt Whitman

“Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is it the deadliest sin – to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time, soon to be freed from human care, from human pain.
My tale is of the most bitter truth:
Time pays us with earth and dust, and a dark, silent grace.
Remember my child:
Without innocence the cross is only iron, hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul’s nothing but a name…
The Child bless thee & keep thee forever” – Spoken words at the end of Bless the Child by Nightwish (Lyrics by Tuomas Holopainen).

“A heart that’s left alone becomes a heart of stone” – From chorus of Always & Never by Norther (Lyrics by Jukka Koskinen)

“There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasm of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked bck through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.” – Second paragraph of Celephaïs written by H.P. Lovecraft in early November of 1920 and first appeared in print n Sonia H. Greene’s amateur journal, the Rainbow in May of 1922.

"HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON!"

Gunneh2113 wrote:"HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON!"

Simply the best quote yet.

Flying is learning how to throw youself at the ground and miss. -Douglas Adams

You tried your hardest and failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try. - Homer Simpson

He who smiles when things go bad has found someone to blame it on - Robert Bloch

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. - Unkown

And my personal favorite
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.

"You're not human!"
"Why? Would you have shot me if I was?"

Seras and Alucard, from Hellsing

A personal favorite of mine, since I love pondering simple yet potent philosophical musings.