Favorite Quotes?

[thescott]

dunno if it's already been posted:

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" - Hunter S. Thompson

[Akira]

"You know what happens tomorrow morning when this is all over, or tomorrow afternoon or tonight? We all become Americans. We support Barack Obama or John McCain 100% because if they fail, we fail."

Giuliani on NBC

[Quiver]

Some epic quotes in here.

I enjoyed the following quotes when they were sampled in A Necessary End by Saltillo

"When beggars die there are no comets seen;

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

Calpurnia

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;

Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

Caesar

Act II, Scene II from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

[avreal37]

sorta similar to the way static electricity sting see

truth brings light, light refracts off the mirror

visions of yourself and error could never clearer

the truth is that you ugly, not on the outside

but in the inside on the outside you frontin you lovely

the discovery of these things and all are well-hidden

but when you in denial of self it is forbidden, that's the truth

-pharoahe monch-

none but ourselves can free our minds

-bob marley-

radical changes in world politics leave america with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

-pope john paul II-

fuck it.. might as well..

-me-

[zimmerman]

"be a man, not a kid, hit the hole, not the lid" - unknown

[inah]

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken

[minou]

"When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom" - Martin Luther King Jr

my thoughts on the prop 8 issue.

[dino might]

"You know what happens tomorrow morning when this is all over, or tomorrow afternoon or tonight? We all become Americans. We support Barack Obama or John McCain 100% because if they fail, we fail."

Giuliani on NBC

this is gay.

[debaser]

life is like pubic hair on a toilet seat: sooner or later someone pisses you off

[iDANYO]

These pretzels are making me thirsty

[minou]

grow up and be a man

[longrun]

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

[selaviso]

all i need is some tasty waves a cool buzz and im fine

[pavlova cakesworth]

things in this world seldom come down to an either-or decision, and possible courses of action, and feelings, are as infinitely various as kinds of noses on the gamut from hooked to snub. forgive me, then, if i concede your entire argument and still try to find a loophole between the either and the or.

goethe goethe ehteog ehteog

[Chris-Craft]

"love, peace, and fuck the police."

[jaytheman]

"You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on." -Tupac

[enlightened.]

“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.â€

[juliaN.]

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." - William Butler Yeats

i also like these Bukowski quotes:

"some people never go crazy. what truly horrible lives they must lead."

"Anybody can get a job. It takes a man to make it without working."

[whitney]

"the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.."

"beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone"

[juliaN.]

Probably the single best written sentence I have ever read in any form of literature, from Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater:

"Lately, when Sabbath suckled at Drenka's uberous breasts - uberous, the root word of exuberant, which is itself ex plus uberare, to be fruitful, to overflow like Juno lying prone in Tintoretto's painting where the Milky Way is coming out of her tit - suckled with an unrelenting frenzy that caused Drenka to roll her head ecstatically back and to groan (as Juno herself may have once groaned), "I feel it deep down in my cunt," he was pierced by the sharpest of longings for his late little mother."

perfect.

[essentialfluids]

"one time one of my friends had a mango tree, i planted an avocado seed in my garden when i was like seven, and then we moved houses and I didn't get to see it grow. But I went back to see if it was growing but I didn't see it."

-Shane Cross

[black.]

"No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

[RoyaleWithCheese]

"There is a fine line between genius and insanity... I have erased this line"

-I can't remember who said that...

"I never let my schooling get in the way of my education"

-Mark Twain

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, imagination encircles the world"

-Albert Einstein

"What luck of rulers that men do not think"

-Adolf Hitler (ironically after Albert Einstein)

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell"

-Aldous Huxley

[juliaN.]

"You're such a wonderful person, but you got problems" - David Bowie, "Breaking Glass"

[Leonard Leroy]

"If you train hard, the fight is easy." - Manny Pacquiao

[Chicken]

"god didn't create man, man created god."

[dino might]

^too true.

[mpcec]

"I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something."

[034936]

really love that one, and that book as a whole.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

"Psychedelics often produce psychotic and even violent behavior in those that have never used them."

-Timothy Leary

"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual that the use of the drug itself."

-President Jimmy Carter (August 2, 1977)