Quote-o-rama:
The Seventh Miscellaneous File
"Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter." _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_ "Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth." -Susan L. Taylor, journalist "As far as I'm concerned the Ancients are all a bunch of dickweeds." -http://truemeaningoflife.com/ "That's either gross or really convenient." -http://dieselsweeties.com "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." -John W. Gardner "There ought to be limits to freedom." -George W. Bush, 21 May 1999 "Psychology, which explains everything, explains nothing, and we are still in doubt." -Marianne Moore "There needs to be a better word for 'weird.'" -http://homestarrunner.com "Only where there is language is there world." -Adrienne Rich "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." "Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." -Barry M. Goldwater "If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. ... The guarantee of continuity is quality." -Eddie Rickenbacker "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -Mother Theresa "'Never be ashamed,' my ol' dad used ter say, 'there's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botherin' with.'" -Hagrid, _Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire_ "...that general morass of white knowledge in the back of your head." -Neil Gaiman, book signing, 6-24-97 "See, we thought his t-shirts said "Dexter Manley" cause he was gay." -Imam S. "An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty." -Eugene McCarthy "It's only TV. I don't care about TV, I only care about movies." -John Carpenter, DragonCon '98 "The older one grows the more one likes indecency." -Virginia Woolf "We are fleeing for our lives, Gregor, on the most exclusive and opulent mode of travel Gudrun has to offer. I suggest we flee for our lives in style." _Hereticus_, by Dan Abnett "When you make your peace with authority, you become authority." -Jim Morrison "This is not a mistake, it's 'arty.'" -Kat R. "But men only speak to one another in humorous one-liners. Men are such emotional cripples, as the women would call us, that we're only capable of communicating in one-liners. I had a dear friend who was dying -- literally dying in front of me -- and he's making one-liners. That's how men do it. Women have serious conversations. Men don't do that. They sit around making one-liners." -Felix Dennis, Maxim publisher Celie: So, I saw you got yourself a cat and a midget. Davan: You're still quite the queen of craptacular segues, I see. http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "It is to be a fact that _some_ of us are to be _fond_ of space battles." -Space Rocket Monkey http://www.c-realm.com/comix/sgnp/ "The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em." -Jackie 'Moms' Mabley "It is the anonymous 'they,' the enigmatic 'they' who are in charge. Who is 'they'? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even 'they' themselves." -Joseph Heller "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." -Simonides, on Thermopylae "You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." -Marie Curie "It feels like I'm being born but in reverse!" http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated." -Ellen Glasgow "You're in the same tax bracket as a dancing bear." http://www.c-realm.com/comix/sgnp/ "What is happening? Have professional sports been supplanted as the painfully dull thing people like to talk about for no reason?" http://truemeaningoflife.com/ "Now you have to wonder, is that what it tastes like, or is that what it causes?" -Dayv B., Thanksgrabbing 11/02 "When this happens, your opponent will be so confused, and his army in such disarray, that you could go have a smoke and let a chimp finish the game for you. But don't do that. First, smoking is bad for you. Second, the chimp might think that HE won the game, and there's nothing worse than a chimp with a big head." -Jim, leadership10.com "A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence." -Friedrich von Schiller "He'd be like the Afghan Justin Timberlake." -Steph H. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead "It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptation." -Walter Bagehot "It's a frail, sad line between optimism and delusion, my little Canadian." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "When I asked the secretary at a cosmetic surgeon's office if she'd ever heard of a cosmetic testicular implant, she said, 'No. And I've worked with surgeons in California, too.' And if they're not doing nut implants in California, they're just not being done." -Dan Savage, _Savage Love_ "I wish the Ring had never come to me... I wish none of this had happened." -Frodo, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance." -Jane Addams "When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna." -Napoleon "The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for an opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time." -Joseph Lewis, on Voltaire, 1929 "Goddammit, Jason! Stop using my ugliness as a tool to strong-arm people into stripping!" http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "I was in the shower the other day, thinking about the Nosferatu..." -Wendi "The way of a superior man is three-fold; virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear." -Confucius "What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "It's not the voting that's democracy - it's the counting." -Tom Stoppard "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." -James Baldwin "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote." -George Jean Nathan "...my symbol will be an eagle with a mullet, with a bottle of canadien beer in one hand (to show our friendship with our friends to the north) and a burrito in the other (for mexico)." rpg.net "Moria - Khazad-dum! Greatest of the Dwarf Halls - what I would not give to look on its treasures! -Gimli _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "The fear of dying and the fear of having to fight for your life overcomes pain as we know it. But it's a worse pain, the fear of dying. That you're in really big trouble is something equal to pain." -Rodney Fox, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ "The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest, and the rarest." -Milovan Djilas "The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it." -Agnes Repplier "The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds." -Edgar A. Guest "Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare." -Pierre Corneille "I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. ... No matter what, God wants us to be happy. He doesn't want us to be sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?" -Rose Kennedy "Don't forget to love yourself." -Soren Kierkegaard "Watashi no pantsu no naka ni samurai desu!" [Translation: "Sweet fucking Pikachu shit! Godzilla has gripped punch and he's rampaging Tokyo!" ...sorta.]" http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "In politics, the exit can be sometimes more difficult than the entrance." -Jean Chretien, 1985 "It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you." -William C. Menninger "I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death." -Gary Numan "To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak." -Jean Baptiste Massillon "I met hundreds and thousands of people, and none finer than the midgets and the Siamese twins and the caterpillar man and the bearded woman and the human seal with the little flippers for hands. I never asked them any embarrassing questions and they never asked me, and God, it was a great adventure." -Johnny Eck "If only the rest of the world saw me through your dangerously high blood/alcohol level." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance." -Lane Kirkland "The public! The public! How many fools does it take to make up a public?" -Nicolas Chamford "I will take it... I will take the Ring to Mordor... though I do not know the way." -Frodo, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "I didn't know what it was at the time. We didn't know much about sharks in those days. I couldn't have named three or four sharks in those days. Sharks were sharks. It's like saying, Religion or Death, or Hell or Fear. It was just a shark." -Rodney Fox, http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Well, I'm trying to show that it's okay to share your knowledge, yet remain comfortable in one's own masculinity. (Because SURELY writing about something as homoerotic as professional wrestling AT LEAST twice a week isn't proof enough.) Hmm, touche." -CRZ, http://slashwrestling.com/ "There were just two realities: the blackness of the foxhole below and the brilliant inferno of the bombardment above." _First and Only_ by Dan Abnett "They took the Rings without question... and one by one, regardless of their strength to good or evil... they fell." -Strider, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "A river has no politics." -David E. Lilienthal "The movie is based on a true story, which means if I make fun about the characters, I'm a total jerk with no class." -the Self-Made Critic, Brunching Shuttlecocks "It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true." -Alfred North Whitehead "The world needs more magazines devoted to ants and spiders and snakes. I think there's too much focus on people." -Tom Waits "Midget whores is just a weird place for me." -Jenna S. "At least now I'll never have to wonder what a mummy tastes like." _Red Meat_ "I just rolled a critical fumble in my pants." http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." -Walter Lippman "Caring makes you completely vulnerable. But that's something to get used to, not over. People stumble, lie, change, move, die, and there's nothing you can do about it. This kind of pain, a great friend once told me, is the price you pay for loving people. And I have yet to meet someone who doesn't believe it's worth it." -Carolyn Hax "Fight hard if you have to fight and don't let them see you coming." -the 'warrior code of Tanith,' _First and Only_ by Dan Abnett "It is only on paper that one moralizes - just where one shouldn't." -Richard Le Gallienne "The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again." -Alan Paton "We are not an 'industrial band'... we are Satanic Electro-Glam." -The Electric Hellfire Club "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business." -Izaak Walton "What is everybody's business is nobody's business - except the journalist's." -Joseph Pulitzer "I think someone should transmit to Vince that what the networks found quirky and cutting edge when he was getting 6-7 ratings they find offensive when the ratings drop into the 3's with no sign of pulling out of the death spiral. Funny how mainstream no longer refers to Vince as a marketing genius and the next P.T. Barnum." -redsoxnation, http://wienerville.slashwrestling.com/ "She's distracted and I have a plasma cannon." -Anne R. "I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean." -Audrey Tautou "I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that." -Princess Diana "I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man. It's a form of communication and it's gonna reach you in a way of growth - most of the time." -Michelle Rodriguez (in an interview about _Resident Evil_) "So, is my Jedi 'if you don't do what I say I'll crush your fucking larynx, you assshole' trick influencing you yet?" http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes." -Queen Elizabeth "Win or lose, we win by raising the issues." -Charlotta Bass "The Net is vast, Brent. You can't keep any secrets from it." -PVP, _pvponline.com_ "It was comforting to know that every deity was flawed in some way, so that its terrible power couldn't become real and overwhelm us all." _Half a Life_, by V. S. Naipaul "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -Oscar Wilde Homo Omega: You can't win. Kar Fai: I don't need to. _Shadowfist: Dark Future_ "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." -Brendan Behan "One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes." -Helen Merrell Lynd "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." -Hermann Hesse "Time wearies all of us - even those who do not measure it." -Elrond, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "The film wants to be slow, creepy, uneasy and artistic. It certainly succeeds in being slow." -the Self-Made Critic, http://www.brunching.com/ "Journalism is the opposite of pancake makeup and boudoir lighting. The farther journalists get away from you, the worse you look." -P. J. O'Rourke "History is a better guide than good intentions." -Jeane J. Kirkpatrick "There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, and not as many separate ones." -Anwar Sadat "Being IC champ in the WWE is like watching porno when you could be having really great sex." -Jack Epstein "There are no warlike peoples - just warlike leaders." -Ralph J. Bunche "Show me the country in which there are no strikes and I'll show you that country in which there is no liberty." -Emma Goldman "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -Abraham Lincoln "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis "You look like someone agonizing over the first draft of a suicide note." _House of Sleep_ by Jonathon Coe "Odds are, your mom sort of looks like Anne Murray. Anne Murray is the mother of Canada. All of Canadian culture spills from her womb like a maple placenta. Gross, Anne!" pitchforkmedia.com "One day she left without a word, she took away the sun. / And in the dark she left behind, I knew what she had done." -"Lemon Tree," Peter, Paul & Mary "As a prince must be able to act just like a beast, he should learn from the fox and the lion; because the lion does not defend himself against traps, and the fox does not defend himself against wolves. So one has to be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves." -Niccolo Machiavelli "I haven't built a still since I was in eleventh grade." -Gene Morris "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?" -Nelson Mandela "I come for the topical banter, I stay for the top notch information on various maritime diseases." -"Spank E," wienerville board, http://wienerville.slashwrestling.com/ "As mercenaries, therefore, they excelled. They would fight, peerlessly, savagely and to the death, in the Emperor's name, provided that name was stamped on high denomination coinage." _Hereticus_, by Dan Abnett "If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation." -Oscar Wilde "The mind of man - how far wil it advance? Where will its daring impudence find limits? If human villiany and human life shall wax in due proportion, if the son shall always grow in wickedness past his father, the gods must add another world to this that all the sinners may have space enough." -Euripides "A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side." -Joseph Addison "Nearly all our disasters come from a few fools having the 'courage of their convictions.'" -Coventry Patmore "What is man but his passion?" -Robert Penn Warren "Pronouncing the first "r" in "February" is like making a homemade Seaquest DSV uniform: It's a pain in the butt and very few people appreciate the effort." -the Brunching Shuttlecocks http://www.brunching.com/ "I love them, the bastards, but you'll notice that when they say 'the few, the proud, the Marines,' there's no mention of 'the smart.'" truemeaningoflife.com "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." -Balthasar Gracian "I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." -e. e. cummings "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." -Abraham Lincoln "Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood." -George Santayana PeeJee: I didn't know you could foam like a rabid dog on command. Davan: Well, a guy's gotta have some secrets. http://www.somethingpositive.net/ "It's long. It's slow. More forgiving people might say instead that it takes its time and draws out the tension. I say, it's long and it's slow." -the Self-Made Critic, Brunching Shuttlecocks "Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future." -Jakob Burckhardt "Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "Study men, not historians." -President Harry S. Truman "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." -Hal Abelson "Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy." -Gerald Kaufman, Labour Party "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank "You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." -Ethel Barrymore "They were Kings... great Kings of Men. Sauron gave to them Nine Rings of Power and with them the promise of eternal rule... unending life." -Elrond, _The Fellowship of the Ring_ "The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance." -Karl Menninger "Really, I don't see how you can go wrong with facial hair named after meat." _Brunching Shuttlecocks_ http://www.brunching.com/ "All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship." -George Bernard Shaw "I know God answers our prayers. But I had to learn that sometimes His answer is no." -Rev. Sherita Seawright
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