Thread: Favorite Quotes

"Commit the oldest sins, the newest kind of ways." - William Shakespeare

"Those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands, those of you in the
more expensive ones rattle your jewelry." - John Lennon

"When you are down and out, something always turns up - usually the noses
of your friends."

"Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood". --Oscar Wilde

Did-a-chick? Dud-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-check? - Steven King[/b]

Dad-a-dum, dad-a-chee, not to worry Jake, you've got the key.

from Catch-22

"And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways," Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. "There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else, He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when he robbed old people of their power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?"

"Pain?" Lieutenant Schiesskopf's wife pounced upon the word victoriously. "Pain is a useful symptom. Pain is a warning to us about bodily dangers."

"And who created the dangers?" Yossarian demanded, He laughed caustically. "Oh, He was really being charitable to us when He gave us pain! Why couldn't He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of His celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person's forehead? Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn't He?"

"People would certainly look silly walking around with red neon tubes in the middle of their foreheads."

"They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony or stupified with morphine, don't they? What a colossal, immortal blunderer! When you consider the opportunity and power he had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering. It's obvious. He never met a payroll. Why, no self-respecting businessman would hire a bungler like Him as even a shipping clerk!"

"You'd better not talk that way about Him, honey," she warned him reprovingly in a low and hostile voice. "He might punish you."

"Isn't He punishing me enough?" Yossarian snorted resentfully. "You know, we mustn't let him get away with it. Oh no, we certainly musn't let Him get away scot-free for all the sorrow He's caused us. Someday I'm going to make Him pay. I know when. On the Judgement Day. Yes, that's the day I'll be close enough to reach out and grab that little yokel by His neck and -"


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"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." -- Sir Arthur Eddington

"Just as the ocean 'waves,' the universe 'peoples." -- Alan Watts

"That which is nowhere is nothing, and nothing is everywhere, so that which is nowhere is everywhere." -- Spencer Powers

"And if I seem to act unkind
It's only me
It's not my mind
That is confusing things." -- George Harrison

"Reality is not here, so why are we?" -- George Crosby

"His mind is in his head, which is outside of his mind, but not in his own mind." -- Spencer Powers

"Today's experts are tomorrow's assholes." -- a pamphlet promoting agnosticism

"Don't you know what the queers are doing to the soil?" -- The Dead Milkmen

my philosophy teacher: "i don't like the way you talk, you get this idea in your head, and you just belch it out, like... verbal diarrhea, it rattles, and it's untasteful..."

or something


(so: yeah, this is the proof that people who do philosophy ARE cool)

there is no devil...just god when he's drunk.

tom waits.

HAHA I love Tom Waits!

"Did the devil make the world while god was sleeping"

Originally Posted by SeventhGeneration

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. 1989 -
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Ha ha! Love it!

"Killin is my business, ladies!! AND BUSINESS IS GOOOOOOD!!"

-Major Payne

"Give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I cannot accept, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off."

"The glass is neither half empty or full. It's just twice the size it needs to be."

"If life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand the oranges you asked for."

"No, try not, do or do not, there is no try."

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all do."

Originally Posted by QwinsepiaSquared

"If life gives you lemons, throw them back and demand the oranges you asked for."

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That reminds me of a quote from somebody who is one of my favorite comedians, as of last Sunday when I saw a DVD of her stand up routine...

"If life gives you AIDS, make lemon AIDS." -- Sarah Silverman

Reality is a composition of human thoughts and ideas, for without those thoughts, we would have nothing but bare instincts [/b]

me

"When Life hands me lemons, I make beef stew!" - Andy Milonakis

oh yea


"Thundercleese, when life gets you lemons, BLOW THE LEMONS TO BITS WITH YOUR LAZER CANNONS!"

-Brak

Excellent theard.-


"Deceive me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me."

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."

"If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look."</span>

<span style="font-family:Comic Sans Ms">By the way I googled it.

Originally Posted by mountain

"decarte" is spelled descarte.[/b]

"descarte" is spelled Descartes.

Originally Posted by QwinsepiaSquared

"A friend in need is a friend indeed."

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"a nose in need deserves puffs indeed."

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
- Mohandas Gandhi

Originally Posted by Universal

"If life gives you AIDS, make lemon AIDS." -- Sarah Silverman
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lol&#33;

"The most impressive quotes are from your own context." ~ Me

Originally Posted by ;298147

Karlheinz Stockhausen on 9/11.

What has happened is — now you all have to turn your brains around — the greatest work of art there has ever been. That minds could achieve something in one act, which we in music cannot even dream of, that people rehearse like crazy for ten years, totally fanatically for one concert, and then die. This is the greatest possible work of art in the entire cosmos. Imagine what happened there. There are people who are so concentrated on one performance, and then 5000 people are chased into the Afterlife, in one moment. This I could not do. Compared to this, we are nothing as composers... Imagine this, that I could create a work of art now and you all were not only surprised, but you would fall down immediately, you would be dead and you would be reborn, because it is simply too insane. Some artists also try to cross the boundaries of what could ever be possible or imagined, to wake us up, to open another world for us.[/b]

...very strange.
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Yes, but then he claims it was taken out of context. From his wikipedia page:

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Stockhausen was alleged to have made the statement that the attacks were works of art. In a subsequent message, he stated that the press had hideously misinterpreted his meaning, and clarified as follows:

At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. After further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan appeared to be Lucifer&#39;s greatest work of art. Of course I used the designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified in Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal. (http://www.stockhausen.org/message_from_karlheinz.html)[/b]

May not have been the most appropriate thing to say, but it&#39;s still not that bad when put in its proper context.

I&#39;d have to quote the great Douglas Adams "in the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

and of course The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything "42"

Do as you like as long as nobody suffers from it.

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It&#39;s no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." –Pat Robertson

"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that&#39;s the way it is, period." –Pat Robertson

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." - Pat Robertson

"Well, I totally concur." –Pat Robertson to Jerry Falwell following the Sept. 11 attacks, after Falwell said, "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say: "You helped this happen."



btw does anyone in America actually listen to this man? Is he respected for all the things he has said? I can&#39;t even fathom the kind of ppl that listen to pat robertson...can you imagine a group of people that Stupid? I mean seriously how stupid can something actually get.





yah I know Karlheinz was taken out of context, there was another artist that also said 9/11 was art, i forget his name and can&#39;t find the quote though. 9/11 as art is pretty strange...its hard to agree to something like that...but the way it was done was so visual.