Your Favourite Quotes

[Cmaier]

Happy birthday!

Your present? Being told you probably posted in the wrong thread ...

I’m chaotic neutral.

 

[lizkat]

I’m chaotic neutral.

Happy birthday anyway!


As to favorite quotes, there are too many, but one of mine is really really old, no matter who first said it.

"No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man."​

-- usually attributed to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus​

 

[DT]

I’m chaotic neutral.

I used to think I was chaotic neutral, with a slight tendency towards evil, but I feel like I'm more true neutral

 

[Thomas Veil]

Here’s one that seems particularly apropos of our time:

Ambassador G’Kar, quoting the G’Quan:

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

 

[Edd]

My dad said this once and it stuck with me:

"Getting old isn't for pussies"

 

[Edd]

Re: Taking acid before watching a film, I recommend trying this with The Jerk. It's an experience.

 

[Thomas Veil]

I’m told during the premiere of “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968, one particular moviegoer dropped some acid before the monolith’s famous psychedelic light trip and ended up running straight through the screen yelling, “It’s God! It’s God!”

 

[lizkat]

One of my favorite "quoted quotes" was offered up in a Paris Review interview of Anita Brookner (1928-2016). She included Stendhal (1783-1842) when asked about early influences on her writing:

"Stendhal was the one I loved most. He was the true romantic: 'I walk in the street marvelling at the stars and I’m run over by a cab,' he said. That sums it up!"

 

[mac_in_tosh]

"There are 3 types of people. Those who can count and those who can't."

-not sure on the source

Along those lines, this from philosopher Yogi Berra:

"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical."

 

[Herdfan]

Along those lines, this from philosopher Yogi Berra:

"Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical."

Met him once. Was a nice guy.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

Met him once. Was a nice guy.

I've always wondered if those famous sayings of his were intentionally meant to be funny or that was just the way he talked.

 

[lizkat]

An idea that a lot of Americans could afford to latch onto these days:

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”​

—Bertrand Russell​