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Awesome Quotes...

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[url=http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html wrote:Kung Fu Monkey[/url] via Koumei]There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
This quote inspired me, and so I finally broke down and started a new thread. I'm not one for signatures - they piss me off - but I like a lot of quotes that frequently find their way to someone's sig.

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The representative of the supreme leader at the University of Yazd said that since the skin of one's elbow is similar to the skin of a man's testicles, people should refrain from wearing short-sleeved shirts.

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I offer this: http://www.lspace.org/books/pqf/index.html

And its sister collection: http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/index.html

And an eloquent one I like from the Nightside: "
He's a killer," I said. "Razor Eddie. Punk God of the Straight Razor. These days he kills with good rather than bad intentions, but in the end all he is, is killing. And he wouldn't have it any other way. Hard to get close to a man like that. Someone who's gone much further into the dark than I ever have. But... he turned his life around, Joanna. Whatever epiphany he found on the Street of the Gods, he threw aside everything that had ever had power over him, in order to earn redemption. How can you not admire courage like that? If someone like him can change, there's hope for all of us.
--Something From the Nightside, Simon R. Green.

I have a liking for the atoners.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." - G.K. Chesterton

is my favorite quote.
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Neeeek wrote:"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated." - G.K. Chesterton

is my favorite quote.
Chesterton is a quote goldmine.

“A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. "

"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. "

"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. "

"It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. "
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Maj wrote:
[url=http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009/03/ephemera-2009-7.html wrote:Kung Fu Monkey[/url] via Koumei]There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
This quote inspired me, and so I finally broke down and started a new thread. I'm not one for signatures - they piss me off - but I like a lot of quotes that frequently find their way to someone's sig.

:maj:
I told that one to a coworker yesterday and he laughed. This is partially because he bought Atlas Shrugged out of curiosity, and quit reading part way through.
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I use this Stoppard quote when people ask why RPGs/videogames/movies have so much violence.

'We're from the school of blood, love, and rhetoric. We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, or we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, or we can do you all three consecutive or concurrent; but we can't do you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.'
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The quote in my sig always amused me. Some clarification if people don't get the reference:

One of the video series I watch is the Angry Videogame Nerd. In one of his videos, he's playing the Friday the 13th video game for the NES.

When you get Game Over in that game, the message is "You and your friends are dead. Game Over". He said that message was the best game over message ever in any game. He then proposed an even better game over message.

The video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raUvGNbZFg

Starts 8:10 into the movie.
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I present the quotes in my sig. At one point, they just illustrated the need to identify as to what kind of cynic I am/could be. But over time, I just started putting in things that made me laugh. Point of fact, Keith's quote in my sig.

Also Ambroce Bierce and Bill Bailey are some of the best comic geniuses of their times.
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"If the quest to find your lost love means getting the wind to carry you over the sea... that's what it takes".

Also, on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, buried at the gate of Westminister Abbey "So that no king or queen may ever be crowned without first stepping over the grave of a soldier who gave his life for his country":

"They buried him among the Kings, because he has done good toward God and toward His House."
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I just spotted this one in a wine blog Terroirist
Interviewing Bobby Parkerchuk wrote:Are you glad Parker is going to continue reviewing wines from Bordeaux and the Rhône?

of course bro…my Pappy is a legend…gr8est critic of all time any where any field…2 C him continue is like watching cal ripken if he were still playing 2day…batting about .096 and slow around the bases…but still a legend…
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One of my favorite quotable authors is Dorothy Parker. I actually used one of her quotes as my yearbook quote and had to have a talk with the principal because they never caught it in time. But I didn't care, I already had my diploma in my hand.

"“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.” - Dorothy Parker.
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Emerson

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Gene Wolfe, Book of the New Sun wrote:We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges. When soldiers take their oath they are given a coin, an asimi stamped with the profile of the Autarch. Their acceptance of that coin is their acceptance of the special duties and burdens of military life--they are soldiers from that moment, though they may know nothing of the management of arms. I did not know that then, but it is a profound mistake to believe that we must know of such things to be influenced by them, and in fact to believe so is to believe in the most debased and superstitious kind of magic. The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.
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A lion would never cheat on his wife but a.. Tiger Wood!! -- unknown
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"Religion is like an erection. You have every right to have one, but don't go waving it around in public, and for the love of all that is sacred don't try to shove it down my children's throats."
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.

--The horror of Mario

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"What is the use of one man standing in front of a tank? That one man stood. You would have folded. That man may be dead but he is a man. You are not."
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violence in the media wrote:
Richard Feynman wrote:Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give us some practical results but that's not why we do it.

I love Feynman so much.
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