Favorite quotes from books you've read, Entertain us, please! (Or at least me) |
 Sep 14 2005, 06:13 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper  Posts: 69 Joined: 8:07pm September 6, 2005 Location: NY, NY  |
These are all by Douglas Neil Adams (in his H2G2 trilogy):
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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 theory which states that this has already happened. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. 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. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart. A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting. Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash form point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all decide where the hell they wanted to be. Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited. Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it. Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. There is an art, or, rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind? -------------------- Proud founder of D.I.D.A.S.I.G.S.
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Sep 15 2005, 09:45 PM
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Professional Diagon Alley Window Shopper Posts: 75 Joined: 9:58pm June 22, 2005  |
There's a quote I like, but I can't remember where I read it, can anyone help?
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." -------------------- Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sarte Someone's boring me. I think it's me. Dylan Thomas |
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Sep 15 2005, 10:09 PM
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Kibble Boy/Girl at the Magical Menagerie Posts: 256 Joined: 1:46pm July 23, 2005 |
From Siddartha, by Hermann Hesse:
"The years passed, and no one counted them." From the Hobbit: "What's it gots in it's pocketsess, my Precious?" siad Gollum. And from Little House in the Big Woods: "...Laura lay awake listening to Pa's fiddle soflty playing, and to the lonely sound of the wind in the big woods. She looked at Ma, gently rocking and knitting.She was glad she had the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music. This could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now." |
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Sep 16 2005, 01:11 PM
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Flesh-Eating-Slug Catcher Posts: 188 Joined: 11:41pm July 18, 2005 Location: neither here nor there |
These come from various books by Christopher Moore
"Biologists had long speculated on the incredibly complex vocabulary of the killer whale. . . had they had the benefit of translation, this is what they would have heard: 'Hey, Kevin, fish!' 'Fish! I love fish!' 'Look, Kevin, fish!' 'Mmmm, fish.' 'You, Kevin, take a run down that trench, fake left, go right, hit the bait ball, nothing but fish!' 'Did someone say "fish"?' 'Yeah, fish. Over here, Kevin.' 'Mmmmm, fish.' And it went on like that. Actually, orcas aren't quite as complex as scientists imagine. Most killer whales are just four tons of doofus dressed up like a police car." - Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings "Skinner had finally talked the Food Guy into stopping work and going to get something to eat. Catching rats and hiking around in the mud was fun, but eating was important." -The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Skinner is a dog, Food guy is his owner) "Did you know that in a hotel they bolt the bedside lamp to the table, thereby making it an ineffective instrument of persuasion when trying to bring an obdurate angel around to your way of thinking? Thought you should know that. Pity too, it's such a substantial lamp." -Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal "You have to walk upright to have booty. This is why we are the dominant species on the planet, because we have booty" -Fluke:Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings -------------------- "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."- John Dryden "If you don't like something, change it."- Maya Angelou "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."- "Calvin and Hobbes" "Laugh uncontrollably . . . it clears the mind." - Dove Dark Chocolate Wrapper |
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Sep 16 2005, 01:22 PM
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Gringott's Security Goblin Posts: 3,963 Joined: 11:23am July 15, 2005 Location: Ollivanders |
QUOTE(Juli @ Sep. 15 2005,22:45 ) There's a quote I like, but I can't remember where I read it, can anyone help? "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." That sounds familiar--maybe from a Lord of the Rings or Hobbit parody? :conf: -------------------- |
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Sep 16 2005, 03:28 PM
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Knight Bus Driver in Training Posts: 570 Joined: 6:33am April 30, 2005 Location: The library |
QUOTE There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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 theory which states that this has already happened. Ooh, that was a favourite of mine a while ago, but at the moment my favourite quotes are (they change depending on what I've read recently):From Drowned Wednesday by (i think)Garth Nix '"Row you dogs!" roared the Second Mate "Row for your miserable lives!"' From The Archon by Catherine Fisher '"Your security is lax, mad child. Anyone could get in."' 2 From The Yowler Fouler-Up (I've no idea who by) ''As weeks go,' he thought, 'I've had better. I've been conned by a one-armed thief, pursued by a blasphemous bird, shot at by a gnome with brass teeth, healed by a stranger in a dirty coat and strangled by a dirty great ogre. And it's only Tuesday.' '"Do you blaspeme professionally, or are you still on the amateur circuit?"' And this was from the Red Dwarf TV series, but it may have been in the books as well, I can't remember '"Do you see something really strange in that mirror?" "Yes you, you ugly goit!"' From various books in the Pure Dead... series by Debi Gliori '"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes!"'(don't think that's originally from the book though) '"You complete and utter *toad*! You piece of *scum*!" Titus shrieked. "I hope you crash and burn, you *bastard*!"' '"NESTOR?" [the Sleeper, a.k.a. the Loch Ness Monster] screamed, sick with horror. "NESTOR? MA WEE MAN? HING OAN SON, DADDY'S COMIN' IN!"' --------------------  W.O.M.B.A.T.S: 1=Outstanding 2=Exceeds Expectations Proud Member of: S.K.I.M. H.O.W.L. |
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Sep 16 2005, 10:07 PM
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Shopping for a New Firebolt Posts: 807 Joined: 9:57pm July 15, 2005 Location: translating parseltongue for worried zookeepers |
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one." Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden.
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Sep 17 2005, 01:44 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 12 Joined: 5:33pm September 9, 2005 Location: Greece |
QUOTE(Juli @ Sep. 16 2005,5:45 am) There's a quote I like, but I can't remember where I read it, can anyone help? "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." It could be "Harry Potter" . I recently read that somewhere.... If I could only remember.... |
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Sep 17 2005, 10:35 PM
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Just Through the Brick Wall Posts: 6 Joined: 9:10pm January 28, 2005 |
QUOTE(Juli @ Sep. 15 2005,22:45 ) There's a quote I like, but I can't remember where I read it, can anyone help? "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." I don't know if it originally came from a book, but someone who went to my high school had it as a bumper sticker, I loved it. |
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Sep 22 2005, 11:59 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie Posts: 85 Joined: 3:09pm July 27, 2005 |
From Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger:
I'm sick of just liking people, I wish to God I could just meet somebody I could respect. ....this quote actually made me drop out of college. |
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