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Jan 5, 2006 13:00:00 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jan 5, 2006 13:00:00 GMT 1
Yayish! I've created a new thread!
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Jan 6, 2006 15:56:10 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jan 6, 2006 15:56:10 GMT 1
From "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God "for proves denies faith and without faith I am nothing". "But," says Man, "the Babel Fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own argument you don't. QED" "Oh, dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It's at times like this, when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelegeuse about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was little." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Who said anything about panicking?" snapped Arthur. "This is still just the culture shock. You wait till I've settled down into the situation and found my bearings. Then I'll start panicking." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ford", he said. "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you telling me, he said, "that you set yourself up to become President of the Galaxy just to steal that ship?" "That's it," said Zaphod with the sort of grin that would get most people locked away in a room with soft walls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [The Guide] says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ England no longer existed. He'd got that - somehow he'd got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction. He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he thought, had sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock. McDonalds, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger. He passed out. When he came round a second later he found he was sobbing for his mother. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He was not conspicuously tall, his features were striking but not conspicuously handsome. His hair was wiry and gingerish and brushed backwards from the temples. His skin seemed to be pulled backwards from the nose. There was something very slightly odd about him, but it was difficult to say what it was. Perhaps it was that his eyes didn't blink often enough and when you talked to him for any length of time your eyes began involuntarily to water on his behalf. Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly too broadly and gave people the unnerving impression that he was about to go for their neck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse. what the game says when you call it an idiot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, the Paranoid Android, he said. "Yeah, we'll take him." "But what are supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin as if he was addressing a newly occupied coffin, "what are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arthur glanced around him once more, and then down at himself, at the sweaty disheveled clothes he had been lying in the mud in on Thursday morning. "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," he muttered to himself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
{Hah! So now you don't have to read the book, lol}
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Jan 7, 2006 13:27:25 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jan 7, 2006 13:27:25 GMT 1
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
Promise me, Pooh, that you won't forget me ever, because if I thought you would, I wouldn't leave. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 'Let's go and see everybody,' said Pooh. 'Because when you have been walking in the wind for miles, and you suddenly go into somebody's house, and he says, "Hallo, Pooh you're just in time for a little smackerel of something," and you are, then it's what I call a Friendly Day.' The House at Pooh Corner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
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Mar 7, 2006 14:53:26 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Mar 7, 2006 14:53:26 GMT 1
"Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss." ~Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for the Fish
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Mar 7, 2006 18:09:28 GMT 1
Post by bluelilian on Mar 7, 2006 18:09:28 GMT 1
(stavi ono od tolstoja iz karenjine. to je cool. i don't know, can't see)
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Mar 7, 2006 18:27:59 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Mar 7, 2006 18:27:59 GMT 1
wha'? i don't know what you're talking about. You put it
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Mar 14, 2006 23:08:32 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Mar 14, 2006 23:08:32 GMT 1
Life, said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.
Zaphod! Wake up! "Mmmmmwwwwwerrrrr?" "Hey come on, wake up." "Just let me stick to what I'm good at, yeah?" muttered Zaphod and rolled away from the voice back to sleep.
Is that robot yours? he said. "No," came a thin metallic voice from the crater, "I'm mine." "If you'd call it a robot," muttered Arthur. "It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine."
Drink up, said Ford, "you've got three pints to get through." "Three pints?" said Arthur. "At lunchtime?" The man next to ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep," said Arthur, "you should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you."
Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse. what the game says when you call it an idiot
My God, complained Arthur, "you're talking about a positive mental attitude and you haven't even had your planet demolished today."
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Jul 14, 2006 18:58:50 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jul 14, 2006 18:58:50 GMT 1
Terry Pratchett's
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. Lords and Ladies
You're not one of us. "I don't think I'm one of them, either," said Brutha. "I'm one of mine." Small Gods
In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Lords and Ladies
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Jul 14, 2006 19:05:29 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jul 14, 2006 19:05:29 GMT 1
Lewis Carroll's
It's as large as life, and twice as natural! Through the Looking-Glass (1872)
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Through the Looking-Glass (1872)
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Jul 14, 2006 19:15:06 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jul 14, 2006 19:15:06 GMT 1
Agatha Cristie Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Arthur Clarke When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
Dante Alighieri The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality.
Philip K. Dick Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (A Tale of Two Cities)
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. (Great Expectations)
For every feared thing there is an opposing hope that encourages us. (The Island of the Day Before)
Absence is to love as wind to fire; it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big. (The Island of the Day Before)
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Jul 14, 2006 19:23:27 GMT 1
Post by MoonFlower on Jul 14, 2006 19:23:27 GMT 1
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be defeated, but they start a winning game.
To act is easy; to think is hard.
Any time not spent in love is wasted. (Torquato Tasso)
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
Ernest Hemingway The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. (A Farewell to Arms)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Victor Hugo We all know the habit of cats of hesitating in an open doorway. Which of us has not said to a cat, 'Well, come in if you want to?' There are men who, in moments when a decision is called for, hover uncertainly like the cat, at the risk of being crushed by the closing of the door. These cautious spirits may run greater risks than those who are more daring. (Les Miserables Book Eight, Chapter IV)
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