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Whoo! Yes! I’ll start us off with a clasic Dougles Adams-
“In the begining, the Universe was created. This has made many people very angry and is widly regarded as a bad move.”
“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.”
“It’s a mystery beyond comprehension.”
“Kill the lawyer!”
second post!!! in honor, the classic 3rd grade quote “first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the treasure chest.”
i shall honor the first post with another douglas adams quote:
“to learn to fly is to learn to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
I love that quote.
And one of my all-time favourite manga quotes:
“Now where are we?” –Ryoga, Ranma 1/2
It’s really not that funny if you don’t know all the buildup around it, but when you do… oh my god. I fell off my bed laughing and bruised myself on the mess strewn across the floor.
“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Three guesses, and the first two don’t count.
“That’s a rather interesting view.”
-Kyoya from Ouran Koukou Host Club. ♥
“My gog, bit it’ll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgement when they come tumblin’ up here in their death-sarks, all jouped together an’ tryin’ to drag their tombsteans with them to prove how good they was; some of them trimmlin’ and ditherin’, with their hands that dozzened an’ slippy from lyin’ in the sea that they can’t even keep their grup o’ them.”
-Bram Stoker, Dracula
“We’ve just heard that Huw Weldon’s watch has been accepted by the London Electricity Board and transmissions for this evening can be continued as planned.”
-Monty Python’s Flying Circus
“So saying, I caught a fine sheep, and proceeded to put our plan into execution. I first fastened a broad piece of linen round its belly, and to this attached some corks and empty tins; then with Fritz’s help, I flung the animal into the sea–it sank, but a moment afterwards rose and floated famously.”
-Johann David Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
I think this qualifies as random.
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
“Spam Spam Spam Spam!!”
“I blow my nose in your general direction!”
“It’s only a model.”
5- the first quote… where is it from? it sounds familiar.
“That’s not a moon! That’s a melon!”
“THE DEATH MELON!!!”
“The giant fruit threateans us all…”
Sorry. I had to say it.
“Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishey and has lots of little pips, and some people have half of one for breakfast.”
Guess who
“So long, Superman”
“This had better work”
“Dress rehearsal for the next show starts in two minutes”
“Mice?”
Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
–Robert Frost
10 (FF)- Twelfth Night. Shakespeare.
15 (OEAD)- OMG NO ITALICS!!!!!11!!! *dies*
I get italics, but I wasn’t sure Robert Frost was supposed to, so I left ’em out.
I got this from my friend for when you’re feeling a bit depressed-
“If Choklit doesn’t fix it, call you’re friends and they will.”
Good advice, isn’t it?
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out Hate; only love can do that.” -The, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
17 (OEAD)- You names are almost the same, aren’t they? Coontz, Frost, where’s the difference? Meh. *remains dead*
RRR quote: (Visit! Visit!)
“‘Sandstone fortress…’ said Ehmer vaguely, who hadn’t been listening to the disturbing exchange between Archell and Nanook. ‘Where is the sandstone fortress? What is the sandstone fortress?’
‘It’s a fortress, presumably,’ said Archell, which was not a great deal of help. ‘Made of sandstone.'”
–One of the RRRers… I forgot who…
“Why, how now Hecate! You look angerly!” – YESSSS!! Shakespeare’s MacBeth, Act III, Scene V.
“The Thane of Fife had a wife. But where is she now??” – Lady Macbeth
” One…Two…’Tis time to do’t!” -Lady MacBeth again.
“Faith can move dog hair” – my bro, Drew, chief of the Drewids.
“Is Billy Idol doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?” – Freddie Mercury
“I’ll probably make loads of plans and then sit around on my bottom all day and do nothing.” – John Deacon
more to come. WONKY!! *giggle*
(18) Yeah, except when your friends can’t fix it…
I can’t think of any quotes right now… most of mine are MP or DNA, but those two bases seem quite covered already.
let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.
-Forrest Gump
someone beat me to second quote. darnit.
to somewhere over the rainbow:
1-You are NOT Jack Sparrow
2- You laughed.
3- I am not a member of any hate group, anti-meat or otherwise. I dislike meat, I don’t eat it, but I don’t hate it. I called bacon dead pig before I became vegetarian. I call eggs Chicken abortions, and I eat them.
4- hurts HER feelings? She made me CRY!
5- YOU also called the bacon dead pig
6- nobody else took offense
But I digress. Think what you want. just PLEASE don’t be disrespectful.
And the fact is, I am scared of your mom. I don’t want to go to your house anymore, because she acted very rudely and I do not want to be around her. I apologize if she thouht I was being disrespectful or self righteous, but I did not intend to come across that way, and it was niether acceptable nor excusable to yell at me about my calling something exactly what it is, whether I eat it or not.
8- I love that movie.
“You’re in the groove, Jackson.”
-From one of the On the Road with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movies….Rio, I think…
“…purple brigade is marching from the grave…”
-TMBG, Purple Toupee
“Bother bother bother bother bother bother bother!”
-Potter Puppet Pals
“I plead not guilty, for, you see, I have no legs.” – Jim Morrison
“I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully” – Dubya
[On John Lennon’s song “God” – “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me”]: “A good point there. After all, he was the walrus.” – Ferris Bueller
“This is my ghetto-mobile!!” – my rocket-scientist cousin on his small SUV with a stuck lock
“The thing that’s wrong with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur” – Dubya, again
“Most imports are from outside the country” – Who d’you think?
“I have aa different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” – author of the latter
“Well, I think that is you’re going to do something and don’t do it, that’s trustworthiness” – again…
“I just want you to know that, when we’re talking about war, we’re really talking about peace.” – leader of the Free World
“This case has had full analysation and has been looked at a lot.” – Clinton’s successor (not very successful)
“our nation must come together to unite” – “not the greatest linguiest in the world”…
“Live a little, be a gypsy, get around, get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.” – Sir Paul
“Mankind doesn’t even have a the technology to make atoupee that doesn’t get laughs.” – Dave Lister
“You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you can ever be. Be free with your tempo, be free, be free, surrender your ego, be free, be free to yourself!” – Queen
“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now” – Led Zeppelin (only from the 45min long rock legacy)
“Na, na na nanananaaaaaaaa…nanananaaaaaaaa….” – sir paul in HIS 3 hour long rock composition
“Don’t shun it – fun it!” Roger Taylor
“Peacons for world eese!!” – Chev ad Mike (ie me and my buddy)
“Ozzy, did you cut one??” – Weird Al
‘I’m sure most of these scratches will buff right out.” – Jerry Seinfeld
“I think the problem was that we had a Stonehenge monument in danger of being crushed..by a dwarf” – David St. Hubbins
“Corky we love you! We want you to live!” – Catherine O’Hara in Waiting for Guffman
still more..
Oh Em Gee New Favourite Quote Awesomeness Love:
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
–Oscar Wilde
If that’s not pwnage, I don’t know what is. It describes the MB to a T.
29- Yes, it certainly does.
“So remember that you are representing the high school with the tremendous amount of scholarship, the tremendous amount of sex – success…” -Random High School Principal
28- I would laugh at the Bushisms if they were not so scary….
“YAY SPAM. Spam before it was spam! Spam tasted like my mother’s old boots.” -My friend Cathy.
KillerQueen: Ah yes, the Bushisms. Man, those are funny. Scary, though, and in spite of the fact that those were errors in speech, they tell a lot of truth about him.
“ÐИКТО ЗÐÐЕТ” -vid
Anything from Monty Python or Douglas Adams. Most of the things from Weird Al Yankovic.
Me, I’m dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, I’ts the honest ones you want to watch out for. Because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly stupid…
-Captain Jack Sparrow
There’s a favorite quotations page in the GABOOMBA.
https://musefanpage.com/NewFiles/quotations.html
Can’t think of anything specific and unmentioned that anyone would recognize.
there’s this great hippie book called ‘one pill makes you smaller.’ and these two sisters are making these comments about this one girls dad who is really depressed and does the same art over and over. and they say ‘sturm and drang, doom and gloom. brown and gray. i’d be bummed out too, if i had my head stuck in the black paint bucket all day.’ more like all year.
“an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”
“a good friend will bail you out of jail, a best friend is in there with you.”
“And now for something completely different.”
-Monty Python (duh)
“PWT PWNS!”
-the Musers
I think this quote will eventually go down in history
my favorite:
“Not all who wander are lost.”
– Gandalf the White, probably from the Two Towers
You were DEAD! I ought to kill you myself!
(Numair from Wild Magic)
“You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” -Joseph Levine
“All say how hard it is that we have to die. A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.” -Mark Twain
(40) I was gonna post the “eye for an eye” one! I have a pin that says it. I love that quote. (by Ghandi, I believe).
(41) Actually, I believe it was Bilbo who said that, in a poem he wrote about Aragorn… but I think Gandalf said it too. *is pied for being nitpicky and correcting too much*
“I know I waste half my money on advertising. I just don’t know which half.”
(29) Holy shkamoly, do I know you? Because that whole “oh em gee” thing is totally a joke with my friends too…I guess were not quite as original as we imagined.
“Send not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee”
ABSOBALLYLUTELY!
-Basil Stah Hare, Redwall
Why do they call it rush hour if nothing moves?
-Mork
“Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a friend, an aquantaince, a relation, or a stranger.”
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you see.”
“Once you accept that the universe expanding into dark matter actually means something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easily ”
Whats wrong with wearing stripes with plaid?
“The fact that no one understands you doesnt make you an artist”
“Good luck is often with the man who doesnt include it in his plans”
“Tee Vee here, at your service. If at any time during this training session you forget what I asked you to do, click on me, and I’ll repeat myself.”
“Perhaps we’ve been incorrectly labeled.”
“Six fence segments per side is a good start for a basic exhibit.”
“You’ve got to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Don’t dream it, be it.” – Dr. Frank-N-Furter
“There’s no half-singing in the shower; you’rea either a rock star or an opera diva.” – Josh Groban
“I’m so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I’m saying.” – Oscar Wilde
“If you’re gonna do it, over do it, that;s how you know you’re alive. So go ahead, take yourself a coma nap, take a puddle-dive.” – Ani DiFranco
“Under the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel, there’s a fire just waiting for fuel.” – Ani DiFranco
“Life goes by pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller
Yay! I still have more, somewhere around here…
Yes, the Bushisms are scary, indeed. But amusing, in a scary way.
“A&B the C of D!”
(Above and Beyond the Call of Duty)
– Hares of Salamandastron, various “Redwall” books
“Aerodynamically, the bumblebee can’t fly. But it doesn’t know that, so it does it anyways.”
-ehhh can’t remember…
“A dead end is just a good place to turn around.”
-Naomi Judd
“When life throws you rocks, pick them up and throw them back as hard as you can.”
-Eddie Imm :]
“Don’t wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
– Sara Henderson
and this from Bob Dylan’s grandmother
“Be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
(50),
Everybody loves to cite that factoid about the bumblebee, but it’s not true.
So they say you’re trouble boy
because you like to destroy
things that bring idiots joy
well, what’s wrong with a little destruction?
Franz Ferdinand, The Fallen
If Queenie were here, she’d probably post a ton of amazing quotes.
I don’t have any more at the moment.
“Ye best start believin in ghost stories, Ms. Turner. You’re in one.”
– Capt Barbossa to Elizabeth in Pirates of the Caribbean 1
“There’s always room.”
– last line in Hotel Rwanda, delivered by Paul Rusesabagina.
“The precious, will be ours, once the Hobittses, are dead.”
– Golloum regarding Frodo and Sam in LOTR 3
“Kit, you wanna see a disaster?” (Nita to Kit regarding her parents’ attempts to set up their first computer, High Wizardry)
I’ll post a bunch of others from All Creatures Great And Small (a source of endless amusement) once I find them.
56- Oh! The So You Want to Be a Wizard series. I enjoyed that.
53- What do you mean? it is arodynamicly possible for it to fly? Because I know that it’s not imposible for it to fly itself… now i’m just babling. I’ll stop now.
“And so the Story continues.”
“I’m not ready for a dog to live in my pants!”
“So I’m your window to the stupid people.”
“And that, children, is why the dinosaurs went extinct.”
Hmm…other people say more funny stuff than me. Maybe I should actually talk once in a while. I’m trying to drop the ironic pessimistic perfectionist thing.
“Never associate with muffins.”
-Me
“Yup. You got us. We’re all a bunch of squirrel fanatics in bad disguises.”
-All of my friends, to the conformist idgits at my school.
“He’s a killin’ machine disguised as an idiot!”
-Reggie Red Rooster, Racing Stripes
“If today were a fish, I’d throw it back.”
-Old Song Title
“I look like I’m drunk!”
-My friend Dominic, upon seeing his photo in the year book.
“Hooray for us and the Miniature Tape!”
-Mi Compadre Jensen
“Um… bahooka?”
-My Conrade Paul
“Diapers are the best thing in the world. I’m serious.” -Amanda, showing us just how one uses a diaper on a horses hoof.
“Duct tape is the best thing in the world. Really.” -Amanda, five seconds later, demonstrating putting duct tape over that diaper on the same horses hoof.
“Muffin transprot can very risky.”
-this one dude I know (is it just me, or are there a lot of muffin quotes? muffins seem to be an endless source of merriment around here.)
“And I haven’t killed anyone in thirty one years.”
-Sharkey, this really cool guy I met in New Orleans who just sort of drifted down there and decided to help out. He wouldn’t hurt a fly now.
“I could simply scoff sixty-six sticks of celery separetly, swallow seventeen swigs o’ sweet cider an’ sensationally scrunch a selection of salad whilst simperin’ smilin’ and singin’ soulfully to serenade Sister Alkanet’s stern stares!”
-Boorab(Bellscut, Oglecrop, Obrathon, Ragglewaithe, Audube, Baggscut) Taggerung
“Spoilsport!”
-Rockjaw Grang, The Long Patrol
#45 Top hole, wot! – Any Redwall book with a hare in it.
I think it is Stag not Stah
Now I have to read ‘The Young Wizards’ book again. Squeee!
…nuculer…
-supposedly a power source, said with a heavy texas drawl. guess who.
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 Guess who.
Sorry, didn’t mean to hit the reply button.
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000
“I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
“They misunderestimated me.” —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
“I aim to be a competitive nation.” –George W. Bush, San Jose, Calif., April 21, 2006
“As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself — not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel.” — After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” –Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000
I left my favorite out to see if anyone can find it. ‘Twas nicknamed the I believe, if ye want a clue.
“Anything is possible if you get up early enough.”
-my mom
The context was a conversation arising from me misunderstanding her to mean my piano lessons would be before school. I just thought it was funny at the time.
“El hombre gordo esta comiendo.”
-a repeated line in this weird Spanish book i had that took every chance to make fun of fat people.
“We have big jugs…of water.”
-my youth pastor after someone asked him if we had enough water for the day.
Please don’t burn my cows.
‘Very good, very good.’-Friar Bellows, Redwall
“you gave up being dry just to be wet!?!”
PWT PWNS!
“give a man fire and he’ll be warm for a night, put a man on fire and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life”
“Is he womiting?”
“Oh, aye, sorr, he’s womiting, he’s womiting bad.”- All Creatures Great And Small+All Things Bright And Beautiful
“I think of composers as setting up possibilities, not creating objects. There’s no such thing as Beethoven’s Seventh. It’s only a hypothesis.”
“Pieces of music are wormholes, which we can enter to escape our normal experience of time.”
— both quotations from conductor Robert Spano
“The problem here is simple, really: we’re trying to wrap a scientific definition around a culturally-defined word that has no strict definition.”
— Phil Plait, from his “Bad Astronomy” website, about the definition of “planet”
“You can’t have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”
Pink Floyd
“Childhood is short, maturity is forever.”
“The surface is fine and powdery.”
Neil Armstrong
That was on a Trivial Pursuit card from the Genus edition. Apparently, it’s called trivia because it’s trivial, and doesn’t matter. Who knew?
I knew!!!!
“Excersise produces endorphines. Endorphies make you happy. Happy people just don’t kill thier husbands. They just don’t.”
77: Hey, that’s Elle Woods/Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde. I’ve seen that movie enough times to recognize the line. I also have the words “ammonium thioglycolate” etched in my memory because of the court scene.
“It’s going to revolutionize the world and you named it Pasty?!”
– The Adventures of Captain Underpants
28-Objection! Besides the fact that Ferris Bueller was an idiot and the son of a star goat, the walrus was Paul. Remember that line from the song “Glass Onion”? “Well here’s a clue for you all-oh-aaall/The walrus was PAUL-oh-AAAAUUUL…” Lennon was never the walrus. But he was responsible for “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”, and that cheesy story about the kid’s icky kindergarten drawing is pure mashed potatoes.
54-Awww.
78-Don’t make me vomit.
MY QUOTES:
“No one has a higher opinion of your work than you do yourself.” -Michael Flanders
“Go get him, surgeons!”-That guy I saw playing Duncan in a Chicago production of Macbeth, who, in Act I, after listening to the wounded soldier’s account of the battle, said that instead of “Go, get him surgeons”. Yeah. Nice work, Dunkie my boy.
“I would swim with you in dangerous shark-infested water, disguised as krill, but the salt water would wreak havoc with my luxuriant beard, which would strongly upset our large gay following, whose term for a hirsute gentleman such as myself is a ‘bear.'”-Gideon Defoe, “The Pirates! In An Adventure With Ahab.”
“Hey Juliette! I think/You’re fine/You really blow my mind/Maybe someday you and me could run away/I just want you to know/I wanna be your Romeo/Hey Juliette/Hey Juliette”-LMNT
“Kim Mackovee:Juliet left home when she was 14!”
Rose: Yes, and look what happened to her.”-Bye Bye Birdie
“Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.”-John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”
“One foot on the pedal, one foot in the grave.”-Tom Petty
“You guys! Canadians are not from Canada!”-My friend Werser one evening at camp
“It’s not often that a day goes so perfectly to plan. Thirty minutes ago I decided I would go mad, and here I am chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric earth.”-Arthur Dent
“I would rather stick my foot in a bacon slicer.”-Rincewind, in Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
“And each time, as you lie there in absolute terror waiting for your end at the feet of the elephants, there is this bizarre counter-current of feeling, this amazement you feel at hearing . . . their stomach sounds. … It’s the most perfect sound on earth, low bass rumbles like the core of the earth like you’re a child again and you have the most perfect white-haired enormous loving grandpa who, just because he loves you, is going to lift you in his gnarled hands and put you in his lap and put your ear to his belly and just for you he’s going to belch loudly and so slow and deep that it will last and make you tingle happily until the next ice age comes, that’s what it sounds like, you’re lying there in your tent prepared for death and you’re surrounded by this wonderful lulling aura of stomach noise that makes you want to curl up and sleep like a puppy, but you can’t because there are f***ing elephants outside that are going to kill you, and invariably, you suddenly find yourself having to go outside the tent and take a crap. Once I really had to at such a time.”-Robert Sapolsky, A Primate’s Memoir, of which I would post more,but it makes good use of swear words and the GAPA keep hovering, so you’ll have to read it for yourselves.
“How would having a cheese thing for lunch make me see my deceased wife at dinner?”-Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit
“He spun round with a sort of guilty bound, like an adagio dancer surprised while watering the cat’s milk.”-P.G. Wodehouse
“Like so many substantial Americans, he had married and kept on marrying, jumping from blonde to blonde like a chamois of the Alps jumping from crag to crag.”-P.G. Wodehouse, again
More later.
Hey, I used to edit Robert Sapolsky’s essays when I worked at The Sciences in New York. Great guy, lovely writer. He lives in Rosanne’s part of the world; maybe she knows him.
79: PATSY, not PASTY… I used to love those books…
i’m as young as a muser can be and i have reread them and it’s in
the second one
81-Gasp! Envy! Jealousy! I heard him on the radio the other day. He talked about his study on people’s window for new experiences. Apparently it opens at 14-21 and is closed by 35. It was interesting, and it dissed Billy Joel. Apparently Sapolsky likes Bob Marley. ?!?!
Do we HAVE to mention Redwall?
My grandfather: What’s the word I’m thinking of? It’s in the ocean, it’s blue, it’s really clear, I mean, and it’s a liquid, and people drink it-
Chelsea: You mean, water?
My grandfather: Yes! Exactly!-My grandfather, of whom it should be fairly sad that English is his third language and he is what can only be described by ninety-six.
Well, he certainly emulates Bob Marley’s hairstyle.
Robert (81),
I don’t know Robert Sapolsky but I can tell you that a friend of a friend of a friend of mine was a postdoc in his lab and told me that he’s great to work with.
#64-I know. Typo.
Here’s something nice and random:
“‘Ahoy, there, you lubbers!’
‘It is the captain. He must be closeby!’
‘We tied the redskin to the tree, Cap’n.’
‘Set her free!’
‘But Captain – ‘
‘Cut her bonds, or I’ll plunge me hook in you!'”
Betcha can guess what that’s from.
And there’s no way you won’t be able to guess who wrote this:
“To be, or not to be: That is the question
(something else)
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
(Something)
(rest of monologue)”
How about:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
There’s another one everyone knows.
Here’s from a book that I love but haven’t read in quite a while. It’s randomly picked from the first section I opened it to:
“Shouldn’t we see if we can’t free your dress?”
Since there’s no way anyone will know what that’s from, I’ll tell you. “The Doll People – by Ann M. Martin & Laura Godwin”
LIfe is a battle. You either go in armed or you surrender immediately. -Trix Gilmore
I’m your only friend,
I’m not your only friend,
But I’m your little glowing friend,
But really I’m not actually your friend…
TMBG
“I don’t know why anyone dies, unless they are burned to a crisp by a dragon or skewered by a valiant knight.”
Meryl, Two Princesses of Bamarre
“Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts can hale souls out of men’s bodies?”
Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing
Oh! And, of course, “Pwt Pwns!”
How did I forget?!?!?!
horger has a quote of the day on her board in journalism. XD yay quotes! i think yestiddy’s was “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens” (Jimi Hendrix). Unless that was the day before’s. But whatev. It’s a good quote.
“I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry,they can wear cute clothes,and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships.”
-Gilda Radner
“Speak when you’re angry,and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
-Ambrose Bierce
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
-Voltaire
“The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.”
-King Charles I of England
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
-Oscar Wilde
whoooooooooo
80- Ooo, we’re doing Bye Bye Birdie for our fall Musical this year.
And a poem from our teachers wall, can’t member the author-
“Life is mostly froth and bubble/two things stand like stone,/
Kindness in anothers trouble,/ Courage in your own
Pwt Pwns? Vwat ees zat?
O vwell. PWT PWNS! (Eeven tho I like Aeiou better.)
“Life is like a cake. What you put inside affects how it tastes.” ~ Dunno where thats’s from…
4 all u fellow gilmore girls fans:
“Nothing is more important than school except family………and pie.”
“Say what you feel and be true to yourself
for those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind.”–Doctor Seus
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
Both Benjamin Franklin, teh awesomeness. For a Founding Father, at least.
This thread is just asking for Firefly quotes.
“We have candy. We don’t have lotion. But we do have books, lots of books. And Kleenex. We have have Kleenex. Speaking of Kleenex, here’s the school nurse.”
-The library guy who spoke at this dumb school assembly which basically tried to boost ‘school spirit’, tell freshman that they were an important part of the school, contrary to popular opinion, and telll one what do if one finds oneself puking one’s guts out. The library guy is pretty much my favorite teacher. That probably has something do with the fact that he’s not a teacher.
“Now if you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy. Good-bye.”
-Miss Tick of The Wee Free Men
“Water is clear but gives off a dead-fish odor. Helpful Hint: Remove dead fish.”
– The New Aquarium Handbook
“You underestimate the power of the DARK SIDE!”
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Dada Verrth
Unscramble for the answer!
38- hee hee I was the one who started that! Back in the Gaboomba days…
44-That is by Gandhi. the poem is:
“All that is gold does not glitter
not all those who wander are lost
the old that is strong does not whither
deep roots are not reached by the frost
from the ashes a fire shall be woken
a light from the shadows shall spring
renewed shall be blade that was broken
the crownless again shall be king.”
It has more punctuation in it than I can remember. I memorized the words though…
“I don’t wanna play ‘I don’t wanna go down to the basement'”
-A Ramone
“Well, I could be talking to my cows, if cows could talk, which is a shame on one hand and a bloody relief on the other because what would they say ‘what have you been doing all day’ ‘Out standing in a field. What have you been doing?’ ‘Out standing in a field.'”
“‘ I like curly-wurlys [a british candy, swirled carmel coated in chocolate. They are quite good.]
‘Could you say something longer?’
‘I like curly-wurlys. With sausages!'”
-Paraphrased from the Vicar of Dibley, a british TV show because I don’t quite remember them.
(101)
“They weren’t cows inside. They were waiting to be, but they forgot. Now they see sky, and they remember what they are.”
–River, Firefly
Isn’t Firefly another Cricket magazine?
Nope. The “bug” magazines are Cicada, Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, and Babybug.
“Mom, my kidnappers are here!”
-Gilmore Girls
William Feather – “No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
Then what is Firefly? It is brought up every few months and i’m always totally clueless, so i just duck until it passes.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
-The Hobbit
I think I said it right. I don’t know. I don’t have the book with me, so I can’t tell. I hope I didn’t mess it up.
90- w00t.
“I’m going to memorize your name and throw my head away.”
– Oscar Levant. No idea who he is. I just thought it was a funny quote.
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.”
– John Stuart Mill
I agree very muchly.
“It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
– Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
– Jules de Gautier
“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”
– H. Jackson Browne
“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
– Arthur Stringer
Hmm…
“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes.”
– Victor Frankl
“My only regret in life is that I’m not someone else.”
– Woody Allen
That’s just weird.
Jadestone (95),
Princess Diana liked to quote that. It’s Victorian verse from something called “Ye Wearie Wayfarer” by Adam Lindsay Gordon. The modern English writer Kinglsey Amis wrote a cynical, funny version:
Life is mainly grief and labour,
Two things get you through.
Chortling when it hits your neighbor,
Whingeing when it’s you.
(“Whingeing,” as I’m sure you trans-Atlantically literate Musers all know, is Britspeak for whining.)
some one who can only spell a word one way lacks imagination
sumwun hoo kan onlee spelle uh wurd won waye lax imaginashun,
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
I like that one.
I’m reading The Great Thoughts. I finished “A” in lunch today. My favorite so far:
“There is never a genius without a tincture of madness”-Aristotle
Certainly Museblog-applicable. Only Abigail Adams so far thinks that women have thoughts and feelings and are people too, though.
“Trust me, he is not here. If he were, there would be a lot of screaming.”
Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony
“Doesn’t he scare you”- My friend, on a boy in my play
“His hair scares me.”- Me, on the same boy
“Dum da dum bam bam deeeeeeeee dum dum deeee dum dum”- Crazy Frog in Axel F
“Life is pandemonium!”- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
“With lipstick and callous and fishnets and malice”- OK Go
“Wherever you go, there you are.”- Kurt Vonnegut
“Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas”- My dad
“George Bush had my love-child”- My Social studies teacher.
“I like to be able to face the people I eat” – PixieCorpse
“Since when do lions swim in lakes?” – My physics teacher
“Hitler COULD have been a poet…but it would have been REALLY ****ty poetry” -My English teacher
113- Really? Cool. It’s on my english teachers wall. I’ll recite that one next time i remember.
Ok, obviously I’m going to have to go back and read all these posts, but just to mention that I said the quote from the first class during english and even mentioned that it was from HG2TG and NOBODY GOT IT!!! It made me long for muse blog where if you don’t quote douglas adams you are considered insane.
“Writing a novel is like being on crack. You need it, live for it, and constantly crave more” – My writing teacher (different from the English teacher).
wierd analogy. Someone asked him if that meant he knew what bieng addicted to crack was like, to which he replied “Cut me some slack”
And this is our TEACHER?!
“First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.”
Martin Niemöller
88: Ah, yes.
“To be, or not to be? Whether ’tis nobler, in the eyes of men”… then something, something…. “To die, to sleep no more”
’tis nobler in the mind, no? to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by so opposing, end them. apols, pater read shakespeare to me as a baby. he does weird things like that. like the song “you make me feel like a natural woman?” i could sing the entire thing by the time i was 5. my parentals are so weird…
“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read but three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.”
“I reject your reality and substitute my own.”-
“May I offer you a chair?
Certainly. May I offer you a fish?”