Boats thread

Projeck

a thread for your favorite quotes

such as one of mine,

Kurt Vonnegut wrote:

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

now it's your turn!

mensch-o-matic

"Its either mean or its arbitrary and either way I've got the heebie jeebies."

Fandyien

I like Claudius the cripple, he is my favorite roman

"No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. "

mensch-o-matic

"(Well, we all have something

against our crooked selves.)"

Munkus Beaver

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but it dies in the process.

Henroid

Mark Twain wrote:

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

William Blake wrote:

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Proverbs 24:17 wrote:

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

Orikaeshigitae

what do you say, for instance, about a generation who has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? if making love might be fatal and if a cool summer breeze can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison scum right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except tv and relentless masturbation.

it's a strange world. some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Edcrab

Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

ascot

People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

Svidrigailov

See sig:

Henroid

ascot wrote: »

People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

I knew this was coming. :o

Liiya

Edcrab wrote: »

Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

That's Terry Pratchett?

ascot

Henroid wrote: »

ascot wrote: »

People quite Mark Twain when they've nothing good to say themselves

I knew this was coming. :o

You can tell it's not a real quote because it had a typo

Wimble

Look how Greenzo's testing! They love him in every demographic! Colored people, broads, fairies, commies... Gosh, we gotta update these forms.

Faricazy

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my facilities are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened.

Olivaw

All seems infected that the infected spy
as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye

Edcrab

Liiya wrote: »

Edcrab wrote: »

Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.

That's Terry Pratchett?

:^:

Antimatter

Tell my tale to those who ask it. Tell it truly, the ill deeds along with the good, and let me be judged accordingly. The rest... is silence.

Xyyz

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Dichotomy

You accuse me of being a madman. What right have you to judge what is sane and what is not?
I have fought with the shadows on the edge of your vision.
I have seen the faces that laugh at you in your nightmares.
I have smelt the foetid breath that issues from the mouth of hell itself.
I have heard the silent voices that make your spine tingle with dread.
I have entered the realms between worlds where there is no time or place.
I have clashed with creatures the sight of which would sear your soul to the core.
I have bested horrors that chill with a gaze and tempt unreasoning terror.
I have faced death eye to eye and blade to blade.
I have stared into the eyes of insanity and met their all-consuming stare.
I have done all of this for you, for your protection, and the guarantee of a future for mankind.
And yet you accuse me of being a madman, you who have never had your sanity tested so sorely.
What right have you to call me a heretic and a blasphemer, who have not heard the whisper of dark gods in your ear?
You are weak. Vulnerable. Human in your frailty. I am strong and yet still you judge me.
And yet you still judge me for my sins, you who art most sinful to the heart?
Only the insane have strength enough to prosper; only those that prosper truly judge what is sane.

Liiya

It's awfully easy to lie when you know that you're trusted implicitly. So very easy, and so very degrading.

Henroid

And that's how she got to the same party as me. Oh shit. I skipped something. Damn it. This whole robot bit. I made a big deal, then I like totally forgot. Fuck, this is bad narrating. Like my dad telling a joke. "Oh, wait back up. I forgot to tell you the cowboy rode a blue horse." Fuck. Anyway, I don't know if you want to see it now, but here's the fucking robot stuff for your viewing pleasure. Can I say "fuck" more?

autono-wally, erotibot300

Be excellent to each other

Henroid

You remember the one I said that got away, yeah well that one was her. It all came flooding back how I was the one she confided in, the one she trusted, meanwhile she was doing every other guy in school. It was the first time I felt it, how pitying someone and wanting to fuck them can get all tangled up in your head... overwhelming sadness while having a rodney. Is that sick? Hm yeah, I think that's sick...

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov

Olivaw

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Kuribo's Shoe

George Carlin wrote:

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Dichotomy

What is victory, then, if one hasn't suffered?

celandine

"The way to Tara is via Holyhead."
--James Joyce

Darric

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people."
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."
- Bertrand Russell

Avraham

"Your brain likes to rationalize your actions to seem consistent with the person you believe you are." - Scott Adams

"My client of choice is AIM, which I gravitate towards over its more practical competitors due to its rich featureset of me being too lazy to try anything else." - Andrew Hussie

from a school friend on facebook:

Jay: "when i was little i'm pretty sure the only problem in Israel i was aware of was that they didn't have enough trees"

Jordyn

Mediocrity deserves applause! Let's all find a Ford Focus and clap around it!

Pony

Hunter S. Thompson wrote:

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit — no matter how often he's reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life. A toad who believes he got a raw deal before he even knew who was dealing will usually be sympathetic to the mean, vindictive ignorance that colors the Hell's Angels' view of humanity. There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Raneados

i borrowed good omens from the library

i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

Xyyz

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

I love that one.

Kuribo's Shoe

George Carlin wrote:

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Olivaw

Robert Downey Jr. on acting wrote:

I've always just shown up and tried to figure out what's for lunch and am I going to get to play some racquetball that night.

Darric

Raneados wrote: »

i borrowed good omens from the library

i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

It's far more important you read Good Omens than whatever those other two are!

I hate those other two.

Kuribo's Shoe

George Carlin wrote:

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

Raneados

Darric wrote: »

Raneados wrote: »

i borrowed good omens from the library

i have until the 24th to read it and 2 other 500-ish page novels

It's far more important you read Good Omens than whatever those other two are!

I hate those other two.

sherlock holmes collections

after this one story I'll switch to good omens

Pony

shoe you got an axe to grind on religion or something lately or what