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Post by Lady Idril on Oct 11, 2006 0:08:24 GMT -5
This is very random, but I thought it would be fun to have a thread where, if somebody happens to come by a quote they think is interesting and would like to share, they can post it here! I love quotes, I find a lot of inspiration and motivation in them. ;D I'll start off with a quotation I found on my Starbucks cup "Life’s too short to read a book you don’t love. At age 50 or younger, give a book 50 pages to see if you like it. Over 50, subtract your age from 100 and that’s the number of pages to read before you bail on a book you’re not enjoying. And when you turn 100, you get to judge a book by its cover!" -- Nancy Pearl Librarian and author of Book Lust.
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Post by Anime Monster on Oct 18, 2006 17:55:43 GMT -5
Interesting idea. Well I guess I'll share one of my favorite quotes, no this isn't from anything special, I just found it while searching for a quote of the week for my high school newspaper back in the ninth or tenth grade.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein
Also, Ri and I often have a line that we throw back and forth at each other (she used it in her art contest entry, I, unknowingly, in my original fiction entry, do to the fact that it's so ingrained into me now that I just say it):
"We are as similar as we are different."--If someone said it before I did, than I don't know who
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Post by LadyRiona on Oct 18, 2006 23:33:19 GMT -5
I have a whole bunch of quotes on one of my notepads.....one of my favorite is:
"If you think you can, you can; if you think you can't, you're right." --Unknown.
^^ The rest of my quotes are random things from friends and a couple others from famous people, like Eleanor Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin.
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Post by Anime Monster on Oct 20, 2006 14:00:04 GMT -5
Oh, I like that quote.
I quoted a line of poetry to Ark the other day,
"We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--"
(I got one word wrong when I quoted it, I said face instead of cheeks).
The full poem:
"We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,-- This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.
"Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.
"We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!"
"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It's my favorite poem.
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Post by Lady Idril on Oct 24, 2006 13:42:03 GMT -5
These are just funny... Ri probably knows all the Dean Martin quotes from the Rat Pack: Live & Swinging dvd. "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker
"I do not want people to be agreeable as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - Jane Austen
"You're not drunk if you can lay on the floor without holding on." - Dean Martin
"I don't drink anymore. I freeze it now and eat it like a popsicle." - Dean Martin
"When you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin
"I feel sorry for you people that don't drink, cause when you wake up in the morning that's as good as you're gonna feel all day." - Dean Martin
"Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.” - Frank Sinatra
"An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay." - Robbie Williams
"I like listening to good music-and I can't stop playing my album." - Robbie Williams
"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.” - Sammy Davis Jr
"This is not a novel to be tossed around lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker
"The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off." - Bob Hope
"With a face like this? I don't get ignored. You know who does get ignored? Johnny Depp. It's my looks that all the girls fawn all over. Nobody was bothered about Johnny on set. Ohh I do art house movies! Ohh I have scissors for hands! Willy Wanka? Johnny Wanker." - Orlando Bloom (guest-starring on Extras on BBC - obviously not his real opinion)
"Elf Envy...they all had it." - Orlando Bloom
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Post by alanna on Oct 24, 2006 18:25:25 GMT -5
"Harry are you ok?" "Yeah i'm fine.....it's not like i have a homicidal maniac and his cheerleaders after me!............oh yeah i do don't I?"
This is from a random fic i read and i quote it to Wolf all the time!!!!!!!!! Also "Harry we best go now we don't want dumbledork and his order of the Flaming Flamingo's after us." OR ""Harry we should go now Dumbledork and his order of the Rosting Turkies are after us." ALSO FROM 2 RANDOM FICS I READ LOL LUV AL
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Post by Anime Monster on Oct 25, 2006 0:12:31 GMT -5
Idril, I recognize the first Dean Martin one from a fic I read, I didn't know where the quote was from.
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