Favorite Quotes

[Vanilla]

Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple - Hugh Macleod

 

[Ste11aeres]

"I'll stick around to indulge your obsession...I got one thing. Same as you...That obsessive nature of yours, that's a big secret. You don't risk jail and your career to save somebody who doesn't want to be saved unless you've got something, anything. The reason normal people got wives and kids. hobbies, whatever, is they ain't go that one thing that hits them that hard and that true. I got music. You got...this. The thing you think about all the time. The thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great. Makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else."
John Henry Giles, Season 1, episode 9 of House

 

[Loomis]

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

Bertrand Russell

 

[Manuheleku]

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

Bertrand Russell

I really like this one!

 

[Sev]

"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

 

[Tarragon]

Reminds me of the joke:

There are two kinds of people in this world:
1) Those who extrapolate from incomplete data​

Then there's another one of my favourites:-

"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

 

[Ste11aeres]

"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
G.K. Chesterton.

 

[wyverary]

Another one for Arrogant Penguin -

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

 

[Vanilla]

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

- Kurt Vonnegut

 

[wyverary]

Just seen on Facebook:

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
​

Alvin Toffler

 

[Loomis]

"We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity--it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me."

Jean Paul Sartre

 

[Manuheleku]

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski

 

[wyverary]

One sees well only through the heart.​

Antoine de St-Exupery, Le petit prince

(sorry if the translation isn't precise...I only have my French-language copy to go on)

 

[Ste11aeres]

One sees well only through the heart.​

Antoine de St-Exupery, Le petit prince

(sorry if the translation isn't precise...I only have my French-language copy to go on)

Well you could have just given us the French.

 

[wyverary]

Well you could have just given us the French.

On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur.

 

[Ste11aeres]

Rispondeo dicendum quod aliud est esse infinitum secundum suam essentiam, et secundum magnitudinem.

Thomas Aquinas

 

[Vanilla]

"The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
 - Oscar Wilde (Dorian Gray)

 

[Loomis]

Rispondeo dicendum quod aliud est esse infinitum secundum aliud essentiam, et secundum magnitudinem.

Thomas Aquinas

I Repond we speak that it is some thing to be infinite in essence and some other in magnitude.

 

[Manuheleku]

Love the avatar, Loomis, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza!

 

[Loomis]

Love the avatar, Loomis, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza!

Before I found out I was aspie I was just tilting at windmills.