Gathering of the Figments

Shaye · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: Some Quotes...

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up? Definitely optional.

I before E except after C. We live in a weird society!

Spotted on the back of a T-shirt worn by LAPD Bomb Squad: If you see me running, try to keep up.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain

Become who you are. -Nietzsche

Don't let yesterday take up to much of today.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900

When you're in up over your head, the first thing to do is close your mouth.

Live simply so that others may simply live... -Gandhi

Quit smoking on the anniversary of your birth, not the day of your death. - Corky Peterson

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Share your smile with everyone, but save your kiss for only one.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. -Ambrose Bierce

Stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.

Take the time to be right. It's faster than being wrong. -My 8th grade band teacher

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

In difficult moments, behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but keep paddling away underneath
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Hawkins · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

When you outsmart my brother, he'll just say "screw a lightbulb." which he thinks is the funniest thing in the universe...although it's mildly amusing, it's still just so wrong.
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Figment · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

"in difficult moments, behave like a duck..." LMAO!

no quotes to add, just thought that was funny... and the bit about the world sucking...

**EDIT**

I just remembered one!

"A true writer longs to write, not to have written..." something along those lines... not sure where it was from...
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Shaye · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:59 pm Post subject:

Nice. I like it Very Happy

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DarkWaltz · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject:

"'Thank you for trusting me, my lady. It is not easy to be a man like myself.'
'I should hope not,' Isgrimnur growled, 'Otherwise there'd be more of you.'"

hahaha! That's from To Green Angel Tower by Tad Williams. I can't think of any more at the moment, but I know a lot of good book quotes.

~J
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Shaye · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

I have one.

People are like stained-glass windows. They glimmer and shine when the sun reflects on them, but when night falls their true beauty shows when a light shines from within.

I love that one.
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trinity · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject:

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because your all the same.

Be yourself for those who matter don't mind and those who mind don't matter. (I think that's it......)

When people don't laugh at my stories I don't take it as a "had to be there kind of thing" I take it as a "you have to be just retarted like us kind of thing." lol I love that one.
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Shaye · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

Lol. The third one's by Dr. Seuss.

I <3 Dr. Seuss.
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Hawkins · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 4:28 am Post subject:

The one about it's not easy to be a man like myself...I should have wrote that one. xD Do you know how hard it is to be a heartless rock when you actually do care once in a while?
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pommie42 · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 3:06 am Post subject:

"Can I introduce you please?
To a lump of Cheddar Cheese?"

Laughing

"Me and me mum and me dad and me gran went of to Waterloo...
Me and me mum and me dad and me gran and a bucket of Vindaloo!"

Fat Les, Vindaloo
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Aurora Asha Ila · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject:

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow. - Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

i had a whole book of quotes somewhere. I dont know what ive done with them... Sad

Anyway. Victor Hugo's Les Misrables is full of them, go take a look.
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I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty, city,
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all.

Extract from Clancy and the Overflow, by A.B. Patterson.
Ironically he never actually went outside of a city his entire life, let alone Droving. phht. Henry Lawson was much more acurate, he didnt romanticise the Aussie bush.

DarkWaltz · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:13 am Post subject:

I LOVE Les Mis!!! Smile

My father was talking about his work the other day and trying to get some people to help him with his new project and he said something that I thought was really funny:

"Always appeal to people's basest insticts. As long as you can get someone to do the right thing for the wrong reasons, because you sure as hell won't get them to do the right thing for the right reasons."

Something like that. My Dad's not usually a cynic, but... Smile

~J
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pommie42 · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject:

If practice makes perfect but nobody's perfect, then why practice?
Not sure who invented that, but I first heard it frommy mate in England (though she now lives in France)

Always strive to be the best, but never claim to be the best
Me Very Happy

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Hawkins · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:30 am Post subject:

Me:

Always pretend you're the best, even though you're obviously not.
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The Grey Dawn · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:42 pm Post subject:

I love this one, it's so... rhymey. Despite the fact it's kinda nonsensical.

"Uram tuam sportulam."
or
"Tuam uram sportulam."
or
"Sportulam uram tuam."
or... well you get the picture. Anyway it's a little phrase I made up in Latin class that means, "I will burn your small gift basket."
Another good quote is: "Dum vita est, spes est." I'm not sure who said it, but it means "While life is, hope is."
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