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D Terminator XXXIII
09:22 / 22.03.07
How? How can you fight something that's made of light?

I don't care! He's going to illuminate the universe unless we find a way to snuff him! Just do it!

-- Alan Moore, Supreme #49
 
 
Tryphena Absent
10:25 / 22.03.07
This is a German saying rather than a quote but...

"Bacchus has drowned more people than Neptune"
 
 
jentacular dreams
11:00 / 22.03.07
I love charming sayings from lands afar.

For example the entertainingly graphic Russian: "A meal without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye."

And the wonderfully visual Parisian: "I am confused, like a chicken with a toothbrush."
 
 
Sole Eater
02:52 / 23.03.07
"Oderint dum metuant."

"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

- 'Caligula' Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
(AD 12 - AD 41)


and...

"I love deadlines! I love the "whooshing" sound they make as they whizz past."

- Attributed to the late, great Douglas Adams
 
 
EvskiG
19:31 / 23.03.07
Yiddish has some great, great curses:

"Your liver should come out piece by piece through your nose!"

"You should have one hundred houses, with one hundred rooms in each house, with twenty beds in each room, and a violent fever should throw you from bed to bed!"

"You should have a big, well-stocked store, and what you do have your customers shouldn't ask for and they should ask for what you don't have!"

"May you own ten ships full of gold and may you spend it all on your illnesses!"

"May worms hold a wedding in your stomach and invite their relatives from all over!"

"You should turn into a pancake and him into a cat, he should eat you and choke on you -- then we'll be rid of both of you!"

"Your teeth should all fall out except for one that should stay -- for a toothache!"

And my favorite:

"Go live underground and bake bagels!"
 
 
iamus
22:35 / 25.03.07
"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards, and in heels".

An old one, and paraphrased, but today was the first time I heard it.
 
 
Sole Eater
03:45 / 26.03.07
Just found these in the Bible:

"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake."

- 1 Timothy v 23

*'Nuff said*

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

- Acts ix. 5.

There was a whole slew of these I found on a website. I had to laugh as I read them because the addition of "A MAN..." would have deemed most of them suitable for the Barbarian Wisdom thread.
 
 
Blake Head
21:19 / 31.03.07
Cormac McCarthy: "I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this."
 
 
Papess
01:49 / 07.04.07
"Mum, how do we get out of the Universe?"
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:41 / 11.04.07
"...and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?"

Ginsberg. I'm all poety today. I'm going to be a poet at work when I'm supposed to be working, because of him.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:44 / 11.04.07
"Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?"
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:56 / 13.04.07
"Prim and proper...the girl who's never been kissed. Well, I'm tired of being pure, and not chased..." Eartha Kitt, baby.
 
 
Papess
11:33 / 13.04.07
"It is a fact, that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of any bird flying alone."

I have no idea who said this, but it is true. I have it written on a piece of paper from years ago, which I found when I was cleaning out a closet.
 
 
imaginary mice
12:01 / 13.04.07
From iLiKETRAiNS' myspace page:

Influences: History.
 
 
Princess
19:15 / 16.04.07
There is only one time
when it is essential to awaken.

That time is now.

-buddha
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
10:44 / 06.06.07
"We don't have roots. We're network people. We have aerials."

From the novel Distraction by Bruce Sterling. ('Inspired' by realising, after reading lots of threads in the Temple, that I have absolutely no spiritual character at all.)
 
 
---
05:12 / 02.08.07
No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide. - Fight Club
 
 
COG
17:05 / 02.08.07
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.--Bjarne Stroustrup
 
 
Fritz K Driftwood
21:55 / 02.08.07
The good Earth. We could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy! -Kurt Vonnegut
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:20 / 27.10.07
What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you sicken and die of them, still in silence? --Audre Lorde
 
 
petunia
19:30 / 06.12.07
O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell,
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.

- Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya
 
 
Shrug
21:00 / 27.12.07
A small excerpt from one of Maeve Higgins comedic rifts:
You know The Sound of Music that film with Julie Andrews where she makes uniforms from curtains because she loved the children so much. (Said very quickly) Well-I-suppose-she-really-didn't-just-pretended-to-so-she-could-get-the-house good-trick-that(/Said very quickly). Well anyway in Ireland in the eighties.....
 
 
Lama glama
23:46 / 27.12.07
I saw that tonight too Shrug! I never really rated her as a comedian until tonight, but that short set was so wonderfully funny and for a while I didn't know why I found her so endearing. What makes her work, is how she fills the silent moments with "ams" and "ums" and the whole effect reminds me of a primary school pupil being forced to stand in front of their class to speak about their weekend. Brilliant.
 
 
Shrug
22:05 / 28.12.07
Yep, I think the awkward primary school thing is a large part of it. She also does a merry tangent rambling thing and then gets back to the main point with this visible and sudden realisation of the audience's presence.
 
 
Dead Megatron
14:32 / 28.03.08
Here's a quote from a friend's blog:

O cérebro não foi feito pra pensar. Ele foi feito para não deixar o corpo tropeçar. Para mandar um conjunto de músculos correr, pular, abaixar, se reproduzir. Não para ter idéias, refletir e calcular logarítmos.

Usar o cérebro para pensar é como pegar um helicóptero e usar de submarino para buscar um tesouro perdido no mar. Você tem até como fazer algumas adaptações, mas não poderá ir muito fundo.


And, for those of you who do not speak Portuguese, a translation:

The brain was not designed to think. It was designed to keep the body from tripping over. To command a set of muscles to run, jump, duck, breed. Not to have ideas, reflect, or calculate logarithms.

To use your brain to think is like refitting a helicopter to be used as a sub to salvage a treasure in the bottom of the sea. You ain't going very deep.


And, thus, %I think%, is explained why humankind is so screwed-up.
 
 
Dead Megatron
14:37 / 28.03.08
BTW, said friend has a my5pac3 pag3 with some very cool "good free public home-made music". If you excuse me for the spam
 
 
Shrug
18:12 / 28.03.08
Someone somewhere on @forumz recently regarding Moses Hallucinatory Drugs thing in the news of late:

Picture the scene:

"
Moses: L1k3 S3r10usly G0d Sp0k3 to m3.
Non-Believers: STFU u Burn0ut!!!!!!!11!!
"

Why the pre-christian people chose to converse in L33T we will never know.
 
 
Papess
16:14 / 06.04.08
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise."

-Maya Angelou
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
05:27 / 09.05.08
Rudy Rucker, from good old Software:

"I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.

"That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.
 
 
· N · E · T ·
07:20 / 09.05.08
You are now aware of your breathing.

Do what you want to say.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he exists.

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes

Everyone laughs at the drunk in the gutter, but no one likes to admit that the drunk is laughing back.
 
 
grant
15:52 / 17.06.08
Gore Vidal, recent NY Times interview:

How did you feel when you heard that Buckley died this year?

I thought hell is bound to be a livelier place, as he joins forever those whom he served in life, applauding their prejudices and fanning their hatred.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:31 / 08.08.08
Peter Milligan:

Leafing through a three-month-old copy of the Village Voice, Lenny happens upon the personal column and, for want of anything better to do, starts reading... You know that feeling you get when you meet a stranger and it's as though you've known them all your life? That's what Lenny feels as she reads this message... "'A mysterious creature with mysterious grace seeks same or similar for cold, mechanical sex. Only time-wasters need apply.' I think I'm in love."
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:19 / 31.03.09
On another forum, someone proposed a drunk contest among the drinking posters (64 contestants, everyone gets to vote their favourite drunk, until only one is left standing), and they are all very in favour of it:

"Oh fuck yes. Me and booze in the finals. Livers at dawn. Moses has got some serious training to do."

(booze is actually the name of a ficsuit.)
 
 
Mistoffelees
09:48 / 01.06.10
I am rewatching Community and it's insanely quotable.

"If I had not already cried at the sunrise this morning, I would be weeping right now!"
 
 
Evil Scientist
10:55 / 28.02.13
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