"Have you ever had a dream so big and so unreal and then all of a sudden it was right there?"
Ali Vincent
Some around here know that feeling. Congrat's to you.
Posted by Doctor (Member # 7736) on :
If you substitute dream out for "debt" then yes, I know exactly what he's talking about .
Posted by tnwilz (Member # 4080) on :
Lmao
Posted by Rhaythe (Member # 7857) on :
"I am a tyrant oppressed by a lack of any real power."
- Rhaythe
Posted by Elan (Member # 2442) on :
"Anyone who thinks he knows what's happening here doesn't really understand what's going on."
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
"If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost."
Posted by Merlion-Emrys (Member # 7912) on :
"Man of the wordly mind, do you believe in me or not?"
Lord how I love Marley..
Posted by TheOnceandFutureMe on :
"I don't care if he's a supernatural fish-slapper. He's Bucky food."
Posted by Devnal (Member # 6724) on :
I wish I liked anything as much as my kids like bubbles
~ Knocked Up
Posted by Cheyne (Member # 7710) on :
In language, as in life, it is possible to be perfectly correct -- and yet prefectly tedious or odious. -- F. L. Lucas
Posted by tnwilz (Member # 4080) on :
"I did not have sex with that woman. Oh wait - you mean the other woman. Oh yeah I had sex with her. At first I thought you meant the one in blue that kind of looks like a dude."
Posted by bandgeek9723 (Member # 7886) on :
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled," -Horace
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
"Your Mamma's got a wooden leg with a kickstand on it." -Eddie Murphy
Posted by Merlion-Emrys (Member # 7912) on :
"The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."
Some Alchemical manuscript, and the lid of Alucard's coffin.
Posted by PaulUK (Member # 7906) on :
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams
[This message has been edited by PaulUK (edited April 18, 2008).]
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
"There is a very fine line between being a genius and being crazy"
I keep tripping over the line......
Posted by TheOnceandFutureMe on :
"This she-wolf is a gift for my kinsman."
Anyone know it? This is the most intriguing line I've ever read.
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish - J. R. R. Tolkien
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago - Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert A. Heinlein
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly. - Robert A. Heinlein
Great deeds are usaully wrought at great risks - Herodotus
and finally, two from our workshop's founder:
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. - OSC
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. - OSC
Posted by Igwiz (Member # 6867) on :
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
and where's that from, you say? Why, it's from "a wholly remarkable book, ...a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters; Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and, Who is this God Person Anyway?"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglass Adams.
Talk about a man who could write a hook...
Posted by Ben Trovato (Member # 7804) on :
"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it." --Neil Gaiman, referring to Puck's line in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
“He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” --Nietzsche.
Posted by Jeff M (Member # 7828) on :
"All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain -- this is nothing beside a life without poetry."
Peter S. Beagle from “A Fine and Private Place”
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
"If you write, You are a writer. If you are not talented, you won't get published as often, or at all." O.S.C.
Posted by Merlion-Emrys (Member # 7912) on :
quote:"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it." --Neil Gaiman
Is this something he said or is it in one of his books?
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
Working toward a green planet
Blue planets are so yesterday
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I am an Earth First Person
We'll strip mind other planets later...
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Save the Whales
Collect the whole set.
Posted by Doctor (Member # 7736) on :
"Philosophy [as a degree] is the science of knowing what other people think instead of yourself."
Not sure I agree with it, but I thought it was funny.
Posted by tnwilz (Member # 4080) on :
The problem with the publishing industry today is too many people with half a mind to write a book, DO!
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
Don't try to save the world
Let it remain Buddhist......
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
Hey...Paraphrasing Ozzy Osbourne?:
quote: Don't try to save the world
I don't want to change the world; I don't want the world to change me.
Posted by shimiqua (Member # 7760) on :
It is a poor mind indeed who can only discover one way to spell a word. ~Thomas Jefferson. Paraphrased from memory.
I don't want the world, I just want your half.
Dippity dong dong da ding dang dippity dippity dippity dang dang da ding dong dippity deep... ~TMBG
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
"You're older than you've ever been . . . And now your even older"
TMBG.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams.
"Yell and the world will plug their ears, whisper and they will strain to listen."
Vincent Raymond.
Posted by shimiqua (Member # 7760) on :
Nice.
Posted by Cheyne (Member # 7710) on :
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. -- T.S. Eliot
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
Poets who read their work in public
tend to practice other disgusting habits in public too
Posted by Jo1day (Member # 7800) on :
"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert." --one of my geography teachers, on the subject of global warming (among other things)
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
Scientists learn more and more, about less and less, Until they know everything about nothing
Politicians learn less and less, about more and more, until they know nothing about everything
Posted by EP Kaplan (Member # 5688) on :
I've heard the same thing applied to specialist doctors vs general practitioners.
"Anyone meshuggah enough to call himself a Jew IS a Jew." -David Ben-Gurion
"Wake up and see that you must learn to believe." -Hansi Kürsch
Posted by TaleSpinner (Member # 5638) on :
I have had so much trouble with emotion in my life I thought it just would be fun to write someone who didn't have that problem. -- Gene Roddenberry (on Spock)
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -- Richard Feynman
It's kinda fun to do the impossible -- Walt Disney
Why am I doing this? Why am I not writing?! -- TaleSpinner
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