Favorite Quotes

[gejyspa]

"They love you for being so special... They then resent you for it." Something more or less like this, by Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

I think my character said that....

[Diego]

Another one by her: "Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul"

She never played Cantr.

that still involves reading, does it not?

"achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death"

"contradictions do not exist. whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. you will find that one of them is wrong"

"civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. the savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. civilization is the process of setting man free from men"

all are ayn rand.

[gejyspa]

Here's what my son just put in his middle school yearbook (the quote is from his own brain) -- "If I had one more finger, I could count to 2047". Those who will get it, will get it.

[caged_bird_sings]

Nietzsche is dead.
-God

No matter how hard we try, chickens will never be the rugged individualists that we want them to be.
-Joseph Heath

You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say,
"Oh my God am I here all alone?"
-Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better - it's not.
-Dr Seuss, the Lorax

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
-Pirsig

[randognsac]

My response to the last three posts:
My ex wife is a walking talking contradiction, and yes I checked all my premises.
gejyspa your son sounds like he is way to smart for me, I don't get it. Please explain.
Since when did God ever have a quote that post dated the Bible and other old religious works?

[caged_bird_sings]

My response to the last three posts:
My ex wife is a walking talking contradiction, and yes I checked all my premises.
gejyspa your son sounds like he is way to smart for me, I don't get it. Please explain.
Since when did God ever have a quote that post dated the Bible and other old religious works?

Yeah, I guess he's been pretty quiet for a while. Either that or mental health treatments have been improving. *is facetious*
I don't even know where that one came from...anyone know who actually made up that quote? I made it my yearbook quote XD

[Alladinsane]

Between the Ayn Rand and Robert Pirsig quotes, those are some of my favorite authors, along with Twain, Adams, C.S. Lewis and a hoard of others. But God is definitely my favorite.

And he still talks randog (didn't I used to talk to you in GLB? You aren't the Bradenton Beach guy are you? Sorry for my weak memory.)

...why he was just talking to Benny Hinn the other day.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. -C.S. Lewis

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
-Adam Smith

I am not young enough to know everything- Oscar Wilde

[Andu]

Here's what my son just put in his middle school yearbook (the quote is from his own brain) -- "If I had one more finger, I could count to 2047". Those who will get it, will get it.

I think it's actually 2048.


Anyway, I mostly like to quote myself, and various Civ4 tech quotes.

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

[gejyspa]

Here's what my son just put in his middle school yearbook (the quote is from his own brain) -- "If I had one more finger, I could count to 2047". Those who will get it, will get it.

I think it's actually 2048.

No, it's 2047. He can currently count from 0-1023. To get to 2048-4095, he'd need finger number twelve.

Does that help, any?

(edited 4191 -> 4095.... silly me!)

[Andu]

Silly me, you're right.

[Piscator]

It all depends whether you count in zeroes and ones or in ones and twos.

[Doug R.]

Ah, binary jokes...

[Genevieve]

[olivia751]

Hello,

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain

Nice thought....my favorites are:


“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Time is always with the people who have the courage to fly, & Not with the people who stands on the Ground & watch the Sky.

Regards,
Olivia

[Snickie]

I guess this thread has been bumped.

"The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."
~ Paul Fix

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable we have to alter it every six months."
~ Oscar Wilde

"Procrastinate now! Don't put it off!"
~ Ellen DeGeneres, Here and Now stand-up routine