Favourite quotes

[If I had a unicorn...]

What are your favourite quotes? Please cite authors.

Here is one of mine:
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde

[Malcolm Tucker]

"There’s no reason why everyone has to listen to records in hi-fi. Having violin on the left and bass on the right doesn’t make the music more profound. Its just a more complicated way of simulating a bored imagination." - Haruki Murakami




"That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture." -Milan Kundera




" And though you were grown up by then, you felt as lost as a child. And though your pride was broken, you felt as vast as your love for her. She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

For a long time, it remaided hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it." - Nicole Krauss

[tiohn]

"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it." - John Cage

"You had
an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I
fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy
ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny
little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your
hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when
every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know
Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in
a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish
noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat
wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a
bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory
at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts
in my face so that I may know their smell also." - James Joyce

[If I had a unicorn...]

"sex is good if you can get it, if not theres beer" -DemoniusX

[Aeon221]

"Shut the fuck up, Donny."

[Demon G Sides]

Thanks Arthur

[nutsak]

There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say so long as you don't insist on saying it.

It was on the calender at work.

[Tortilla]

Gravity is a harsh mistress.

[madkevin]

Eternal nothingness is O.K. if you're dressed for it.

- Woody Allen.

[Athryn]

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

[Lazy Shiftless Bastard]

"Hey kid, want a candy bar?"

- JC Denton

[Demon G Sides]

"You ever seen a grown man naked?"

[Rimbo]

"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." -- Faber, the old man in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.

[Dirt]

"Before embarking on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

"A cynic is a disappointed romantic."

[MikeSofaer]

We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.

[Alan Au]

I'd kind of hoped that my life spent in the simulator would have prepared me for battle when the time finally came. Unfortunately, it seems to have mainly prepared me to play new videogames without having to first read the manual.

- Alan

[Rimbo]

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, ... and this knowledge he holds as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason?

Another favorite.

[Dirt]

"What the goddamn fucking hell are you shitheads talking about?"

[metta]

In the end, it is not the words of our enemies we remember, but the silences of our friends.
-Martin Luther King

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.
-Prospero, The Tempest

[JMR]

"Life is like a sore dick, ya just can't beat it" --- old neighbor of mine.

[Robert Sharp]

"This one fact the world hates: that the soul becomes."---Emerson

[Reldan]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." -Churchil

[BlueJackalope]

"There are two kinds of people - Weasels and Weasel Slappers."

- Road Warrior Hawk

[WarrenM]

"The universe is a big place. Whatever happens, you won't be missed."
- Heard it somewhere

[Kyle Wilson]

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

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[dermot]

"Other people are quite dreadful; the only possible society is one's self" - Wilde

"'Ere long done do does did" - Morrissey

"A life of work is a life of crime: you pay your taxes, you do your time" - Bobby Gillespie

Actually, that last one is what made me realise that Bobby Gillespie is a fucking donkey.

[LesJarvis]

"Don't, for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense. But you must pay attention to your nonsense."

-Wittgenstein

[WarrenM]

It's pretty common for pussies, dumbasses, and their families to blame their problems on vague influences like the media and society. The truth is, fuck you.

- Seanbaby

[HUMBY50]

"The universe is a big place. Whatever happens, you won't be missed."
- Heard it in the warhammer 40,000 rulebook

"Announcing your plans is a good way to hear god laugh" - Al Swearengen

[baruk]

See, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!

- Wittgenstein