Quote of the day!

[SheCat]

Cole: Nice trick.
Remy: I don't do tricks.
Cole: Well then, how'd you get out of your shackles?
Remy: Maybe I aint as dangerous as you.
Cole: Maybe, but I doubt it.
Fury: Which one of you is Cole?
Remy: The ugly one.
~X-Men/WILDC.A.T.S. crossover #2

*shhk* *kssht* Dinner time! Let's scrounge for plastic shavings and seat covers! *sssshtk* *ksssh*
~Gambit's Tape-Recorded Journal of Antarctica (I have no clue where it's from)

"Pokemon is a slave trade and Pikachu is the slave master!" ~Tracy Morgan, Saturday Night Live

"Poodles are the black people of the dog world!" ~Tracy Morgan, Saturday Night Live

"Actually, I do not wear blood around my neck, my brother and I broke up years ago and the satanic symbols are on my buttocks." ~Kelly Ripa as Angelina Jolie (Saturday Night Live)

"I find your perkiness disgusting." ~Kelly Ripa as Angelina Jolie (Saturday Night Live)

"Starfire, there's a great new grammatical invention here on Earth. It's called the 'contraction'." ~Fanfic Raven, Teen Titans Fanfic

"If everybody loved me I could balance the world." ~Leila a.k.a. sapphirescimitar/Sapphie

[NightPoofer]

"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world."
-Peter York

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby (1937 - )

"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
-Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right."
-Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)

"Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet."
-Chinese Proverb

"The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
-William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
-Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."
-Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
-Don Herold

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better."
-Laurie Anderson

"Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
-John Gunther (1901 - 1970)

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
-Dave Barry (1947 - )

"Sex is not a dirty word! Say it three times! Sex! Sex! Sex!"
-Mr. Bennish (There's my teacher for ya!)

[The French Biscuit]

Michealangleo - "Guys, the sharkl is here and he's humming the theme from Jaws!"

[NightPoofer]

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward."
-James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
-W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
-Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984

"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
-Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947

"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
-Howard Newton

"I shut my eyes in order to see."
-Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
-Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
-W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
-H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe."
-Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott

[Siona]

Ah, Quotes Act 3 is UP!! Used mostly Nightpoofer's stuff along with stuff fro Bored.com.

~Siona

[NightPoofer]

"I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency."
-Anonymous, French slogan

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
-Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
-Woody Allen (1935 - )

"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
-Jean Kerr

"The world is wide, and I will not wast my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
-Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)

"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."
-Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

"I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family."
-Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends."
-Jacques Delille

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
-Frank Moore Colby

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses."
-Margaret Millar

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"There are more of them than us."
-Herb Caen

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
-Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

"I improve on misquotation."
-Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."
-Jane Wagner WAGNER!!!

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
-Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

"He who laughs, lasts!"
-Mary Pettibone Poole

"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
-Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

"If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be."
-Peter McWilliams, Life 101

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
-Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
-Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."
-Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake

"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"
-Lily Tomlin (1939 - )

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
-H. H. Williams

"When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
-W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)

"Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his."
-Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953

[SheCat]

"Name a shrub after me. Make it prickly and hard to eradicate." ~Russel Crowe as Jack Aubery, Master and Commander

"Always choose the lesser of two weavils." ~Russel Crowe as Jack Aubery, Master and Commander

"The yellow ones don't stop!" ~Will Ferrel as Buddy (about taxis), Elf

"The purpose of life is to end." ~Agent Smith, Matrix Revolutions

"We have catapult, dogma, and cowabunga, but not a single word starting with sea slug!" ~Brett

[NightPoofer]

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
-Gore Vidal (1925 - )

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
-John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - )

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"

"The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say."
-Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
-Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)

"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
-Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists

"Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukelele."
-Bagdikian's Observation

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
-Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
-Robert Orben

"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
-A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
-Walter Anderson

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."
-Wally Lamb

"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship."
-Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
-The Dalai Lama (1935 - )

"Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry."
-Spanish Proverb

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
-Hugh White (1773 - 1840)

"All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!"
-Bob Newhart (1929 - )

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."
-Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others."
-Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)

"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
-Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up."
-Anne Lamott

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."
-Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
-Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

"Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."
-Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

[Siona]

"If William Shatner offers to show you the Captain's log, don't fall for it; I fell for it nine times!"
- Patrick Stewart on Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The National Rifle Association stated today that anyone who sells guns to minors and unstable people "should be shot!"

"A pink marine is a happy marine."
- Tony Curtis

" The sky is blue, the grass is green...get off your but and join the Marines!"
- John Wayne

The Fuhrer is alive, and living in Kate Smith!"
- ????, from Laugh-In

"All the kids at my school are jealous of the astronaughts; imagine staying THAT hight for THAT long!"
- Judy Carne

~Siona

[Orangatan64]

"To make a short story really short, I watched a lot of television and didn't bludgeon any more helpless little shoplifters. Although I wanted to."
- Me.

[NightPoofer]

"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way."
-John Tudor

"I felt like poisoning a monk."
-Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."

"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
-Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
-Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"

"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."
-Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)

"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."
-Dr. David M. Burns

"The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it."
-Al Batt, in National Enquirer

"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor."
-Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
-Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

"[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system."
-Dan Quayle (1947 - )

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

[LittleBlueGirl]

I heard this one in church yesterday (during preaching), and i thought it really caught my ear.
"The lord is your only true friend."
Those 7 little words explain so much!:)

[NightPoofer]

"War is not nice."
-Barbara Bush (1925 - )

"Women should be obscene and not heard."
-Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily."
-George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough."
-Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
-Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997), in her Nobel lecture

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
-Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News

"You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose."
-Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
-Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)

"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."
-Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
-Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

[NightPoofer]

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
-Woody Allen (1935 - )

"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."
-Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)

"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and
stupidity."
-Harlan Ellison (1934 - )

"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."
-Willie Tyler

"Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you."
-Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)

"Talking with you is sort of the
conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
-Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin & Hobbes

"We can lick gravity, but
sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
-Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)

"There are people who think that
everything one does with a serious face is sensible."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
"-Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )

"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
-Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)

"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
-Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
-Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1999

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
-George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's."
-William Blake (1757 - 1827)

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
-John Keats (1795 - 1821)

"It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable."
-Jessamyn West

"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."
-David Letterman (1947 - )

"Nothing ever goes away."
-Barry Commoner (1917 - )

"There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people."
-Muhammad Ali (1942 - )

"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."
-Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."
-Franklin P. Jones


"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
-Simon Cameron (1799 - 1889)

"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
-Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow."
-J. A. Spender

"Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend."
-Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)

"Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure."
-The Mishnah

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."
-Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
-Noelie Altito

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
-Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
-Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
-Japanese Proverb

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
-Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."
-G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
-James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent
Fly"

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
-Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

"For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change."
-Ingrid Bengis

"I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't."
-Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948


"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience."
-George Washington (1732 - 1799)

"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public."
-Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of
Justice, 196
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"Man is what he eats."
-Ludwig Feuerbach

"Never give advice unless asked."
-German Proverb

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
-John Wayne (1907 - 1979)

"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing."
-Elizabeth Goudge

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
-Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
-Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)

"He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)

[SheCat]

I'm not a movie star, I just play one on TV.

Don't call people names, you hypocrite.

*pow* We don't hit.

"They all say, "let the children expreth themselvth!" Right. That your kid on top of a 7-11 with a deer rifle expressing himself?" ~Bill Engvall

"Why do they name Viagra after Viagra Falls?" ~Brett

Evian backwards is naive.

Mother-in-law can be rearranged to spell "Woman Hitler".

[BLUE_2007]

Actually, guns DO kill people.

inner.calm

"You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C. S. Lewis

Never let your mother brush your hair when she's mad at your father.

Don't use a big word where a diminuitive one will suffice.

If you don't want to wash the dishes, then do 'em bad the first time.

Don't judge a book by its movie.

Eagles don't flock.

Be the kind of person you always wanted your parents to be.

"Not all who wander are lost." - J. R. R. Tolkien

No one gets to choose their lot in life, but we can all choose what we build on it.

No pressure, no diamonds.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stupid SHOULD hurt.

You're such a muggle!

Either shut up or render me unconcious.

Shhh.... that's the sound of nobody caring what you think.

Go fascinate someone else.

Harsh words break no bones, but they do break hearts.

When no one trusts, does it matter that everyone lies?

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Did you eat an extra bowl of stupid this morning?

But why is the rum gone?

Optimistic, even in the face of reality.



Welcome to the internet (pants optional)

In cyberspace, no one can hear you whistle.

Extinct is forever.

I'm looking forward to regretting this.

I'll start exercising as soon as I get into shape.

I'm the kind of person my parents want me to stay away from.

I have not yet begun to procrastinate.

"I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde

I'm one of those BAD things that happen to GOOD people.

I'm going off to find myself. If you see me before I get back, please let me know where I'll be.

My favorite memories are of the past.

I'll rise, but I won't shine.

I'd live up to my potential if it didn't cut into my sitting around time.

Fogive and forget, but keep a list of names.

This year, vacation in Hell, and coming back to work won't seem so bad.

Relish today, ketchup tomorrow.

Utinum barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant! (May barabarians invade your personal space!)

Men only have to faults: everything they say and everything they do.

Depression: anger without enthusiasm.

I think it's time to consult the oracle.

It's lonely at the top. What, like it's a party at the bottom?

The cutest kitten has the sharpest claws.

What we learn from history is that we fail to learn from history.

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

The favorite tie attracts the gravy.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers

"To test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

Perfection, as a concept, is inherently flawed.

You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

"Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the week. - Spanish proverb

Everyone in kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. - Yiddish proverb

"Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines." - Edward Young

Having the right to do something doesn't mean it's right to do it.

"It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied." - Aristotle

There isn't always a tomorrow.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

People would rather be wrong than be different.

[SheCat]

The only constant is change. Now tell me, how much do you hate it when people say that? It's so stupid! There are plenty of constants, like the USA never getting their big noses out of people's faces, like the Middle East in turmoil, like there's lotsa stars out there. Come to think of it, I don't know where exactly out there is. I can't see the stars, I have bad eyesight. ~Brett (I love this quote. He wrote it in an email. It was probably the first semi-intelligent thing he ever said.)

[Gaz]

"This is a quote!"
-Me

[NightPoofer]

"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
-Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)

"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television."
-Unknown

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
-Bill Vaughan

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915

"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by."
-Annie Dillard, 'The Writing Life'

"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
-Arnold Bennett

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
-Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."
-Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
-Steven Wright (1955 - )

"MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's."
-Doug Ferrari

"My favorite animal is steak."
-Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
-Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

[SheCat]

Tom: But I am waking up.
Jim: You don't look it.
Tom: The signs are interior.
~Tennessee Williams' The Glass Managerie

{Maybe I posted this one before...but I love it (I used it in a fanfiction intro).}

Some people will tell you, holding on is hard. But more often than not, it's the letting go.


{This one too.}

If you had one last chance to call one last person and tell them one last thing, who would you call? What would you say? Why are you waiting?


Tom: Yes, I have tricks in my pocket; I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion with the look of reality. I give you reality with the pleasnt disguise of illusion.
~Tennesse Williams' The Glass Menagerie

[The French Biscuit]

Chin- You know Fuji, you should really try and get along with Tang.
Fuji- *scoff*
Chin- I mean, you act like he's your nemesis or something.
Fuji- He's more of a nuissance actually.
Food Fighters


Ezy-I'm the cute one!
Raz- We're all cute.
Ezy- Well, I'm the especially cute one.
Ninja Poms

[Tengu Aberdeen]

"You mean to tell me that Hitler's deputy is in Britain!? Well, Hess or no Hess, I'm going to the cinema."
__________
Winston Churchill


I live by this quote:

"The pursuit of wealth cannot be the only viable goal a man should have."
__________
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz

[SheCat]

I'll rise, but I won't shine.

(This quote is used a lot, but the earliest refernce I found was by Tom in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. Just so you know.)

Tom: And you come in and say "Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine!" Rise an Shine, and I think, how lucky dead people are!
~Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie


Amanda: When?
Tom: Pretty soon.
Amanda: How soon?
Tom: Quite soon.
Amanda: How soon?!?!
Tom: Very soon.
Amanda: When is the gentleman caller coming?!?!
Tom: Oh, you want to know when the gentleman caller is coming?
~Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

[NightPoofer]

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."
-Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)

"Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected."
-Robert Orben

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
-Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."
-Yogi Berra (1925 - )

"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly."
-Brendan Francis

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this years fashions."
-Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952

"God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it."
-Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002

"Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth cant last."
-Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003

"Statistician: A man who believes figues dont lie, but admits that under analysis some of them wont stand up either."
-Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esars Comic Dictionary

"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
-A. Whitney Brown

"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."
-John Cage (1912 - 1992)

"I cant complain, but sometimes I still do."
-Joe Walsh

[NightPoofer]

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."
-Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)

"With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
-Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."
-George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface

"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
-Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
-John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
-John Erskine (1879 - 1951)

"All things must change to something new, to something strange."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
-Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm."
-Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away."
-Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."
-George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), (attributed)

"It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive."
-Pema Chodron

"'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'"
-Leslie Nielsen (1926 - ), as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, "Police Squad"

"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
-Alice Kahn

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
-Gore Vidal (1925 - )

"Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light."
-C. V. R. Thompson

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
-Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
-Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)

"If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?"
-Steven Wright (1955 - )

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
-Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)


From Original Script of Kill Bill
Yuki's Revenge (Go-Go Yubari's Sister)
[spoiler]
Yuki:Conigute wa!
Bride: Conigute wa... Yuki?
Yuki: Bingo!!!
Bride: Can I help you?
Yuki: You can kill yourself. *giggles*On a trip?
Bride: I was.
Yuki: You still are. One way!
Bride: I know you feel you have to avenge your sister. But I beg you... walk away.
Yuki: *giggles* You call that begging? You can beg better than that! *giggles and takes out a flashlight* Can I see your face? I've heard your beauty is exquisite. I would like to see for myself.
Bride: Sure *bride turns around*
Yuki: Oooohhh... look how pretty your face is. Oooohhh I wanna touch it.
Bride: Domo.
Yuki: Your face is so pretty. I just want to put my palms against them and give you little tiny kisses. *points flashlight at her face* How do I look?
Bride: Very Pretty.
Yuki: your just saying that because I told you how pretty you are.
Bride: Yuki, Your gorgeous.
Yuki: Really? Is that how you'd describe me to somebody if I wasn't here? Yuki's gorgeous?
Bride: You bet. Yuki, don't make me kill you.
Yuki: Okay. *Yuki removes the Israel sub-machine gun from behind her back and FIRES A LOUD INTENSE VOLUME of firepower at The Bride. [/spoiler]