"All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living." -- Iain Thomas
Quotations
A group for sharing your favourite quotes and quotations, whether famous or not.
"Two people who were once very close can, without blame or grand betrayal, become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world." -- Warsan Shire
Jennifer Dittrich
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"I like Robert Hunter’s term 'the deep unreal'. It’s just something out there and things show up." -- composer/guitarist/videographer Henry Kaiser
chaz2b
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...on how he feels that, rather than creating music, he simply points out existing but invisible musical structures to an audience of onlookers/listeners.
- Big Joe Silenced
"Sometimes the riff is just SO fuckin' good that you wanna hear it over and over and over again... Sometimes, for fifty-two minutes!"
"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."
- Thomas Gray
Ken Morley
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Jennifer Dittrich
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A noiseless tenor wouldn't be a very useful tenor.
- John (bird whisperer)
perhaps forcing a tenor to wear a ball gag was their way?
- Big Joe Silenced
Fwd: "The society that separates scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." - Thucydides (via http://friendfeed.com/bluesun...)
"Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there." ~ Anonymous
"You can't have a university without having Jewish professors. The Real Estate Broker's Association and their supporters in La Jolla had to make up their minds whether they wanted a university or an anti-Semitic covenant. You couldn't have both."
Carless, Will (2005-04-07). "A specter from our past: Longtime residents will always remember the stain left on the Jewel by an era of housing discrimination". LaJollaLight.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
- Brent Schaus
The software company that hosted the conference I attended in San Diego houses their office a few miles away in La Jolla. I really hit it off with them, and there was talk around me possibly being considered for a professional connection. So, I was reading up on the history of La Jolla, and came across this gem.
- Brent Schaus
The article that quoted this passage goes on to say: "The issue was overcome; La Jolla now boasts a thriving Jewish population, and there are four synagogues in La Jolla."
- Brent Schaus
Thank goodness :)
- Brent Schaus
"IT'S NOT HIP HOP - IT'S ELECTRO!!!"
John (bird whisperer)
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Victor Ganata
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“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.” ― Robert Frost
*twitch*
- Big Joe Silenced
"Diane, I'm holding in my hand a small box of chocolate bunnies."
John (bird whisperer)
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Kirsten loves you
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"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." ~ Proverb
Ell Bee, See?
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Spidra Webster
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"It's so dark, you can't even see the stars" -- David Vorhaus
"Home is where the heart is. You’ll never guess where we hid it though."
"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better." Ellen DeGeneres
She's got the chronology wrong. "The heavens and the earth" were created in the dark :)
- Eivind
:)
- Son of Groucho
“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.” James Nicoll
"Don't pray to the ashes, pass on the fire." -- Gustav Mahler
That is fantastic. <3
- AHnix (Anna Haro)
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
"Bravery is by far the kindest word for stupidity..."
Mrs. Alix May
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probly everyone reading this knows exactly who said it and where it's from. :P
- Big Joe Silenced
QOTD: "The average hip replacement in the USA costs $40,364. In Spain, it costs $7,371."
Mrs. Alix May
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"That means I can literally fly to Spain, live in Madrid for 2 years, learn Spanish, run with the bulls, get trampled, get my hip replaced again, and fly home for less than the cost of a hip replacement in the US."
- Big Joe Silenced
about 13 years ago, i was pulling a mere $37k a year but had FANTASTIC insurance that covered nearly everything. the premium was paid for me by my employer and the deductible was $500/yr. now? the ppl i used to work with make damned near six figures but the insurance they get is practically worthless; high premium, high deductible and many things not covered.
- Big Joe Silenced
"Mother, my friends are no longer my friends and the games we once played have no meaning. I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why, so they've left me to my own daydreaming."
"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand." ~Karl Marx
Capital v. 1
- Eivind
Fwd: Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. Van Wilder (via http://friendfeed.com/sonofgr...)
"There’s not a problem in the world you can’t make bigger by drinking a fifth of whiskey. If it worked the other way, they would market it as 'problem solving whiskey'.” -- King Buzzo (The Melvins)
To alcohol! The cause of, AND solution to, all of life's problems.
- Eivind
i think there should be a hyphen in "problem-solving". WHO IS WITH ME?!?
- Big Joe Silenced
“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”—Aaron Swartz
"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know." Marvin Minsky.
"What's this guy payin' you boys? I'll double it and we'll beat the shit outta HIM."
Aloof Schipperke
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"Be careful of the fat one who sweats alot."
- Big Joe Silenced
"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion." Robertson Davies
I love Robertson Davies. He penned some great quotations.
- Brent Schaus
(and novels)
- Brent Schaus
When I am dead, let it be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of liberty.' Gustave Courbet
Eivind
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Jennifer Dittrich
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Fwd: "Everything happens for a reason. Usually, it's physics." — George Takei (via http://friendfeed.com/aswang...)
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity" - Dorothy Parker
with thanks to Shevonne for the quote!
- Big Joe Silenced