Favorite Quotes!!

[wildchild]

" ... for there is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so ... " - Hamlet by Shakespeare

I'd like to think I live by that quote. A lot of things, if not everything, is relative and it is mainly society that dictates what is good or bad. Our upbrining, experiences and who we are as humans help us regulate for ourselves what is good and what is bad. I think, at the end of the day, having an open mind is best.

" Swearing is my vice and I love it " Kiera Knightley.

Swearing is part of my vernacular. People assume that swearing is a sign of your lack of education but believe me, I have a very decent education. Part of being Australian and expressing yourself rawly and strongly involves swearing.

" You spend your whole life stuck in the labrynth, thinking how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. " - Looking for Alaska by John Green.

I was doing this to myself and when I read the book it rung true. Are you truly living or you're telling yourself you will, imaging how awesome it is .. but you're not. You're using it as a coping mechanism to make you feel better at the present. It's a hard reality to face, I believe.

 

[slimjim]

" Swearing is my vice and I love it " Kiera Knightley.

Swearing is part of my vernacular. People assume that swearing is a sign of your lack of education but believe me, I have a very decent education. Part of being Australian and expressing yourself rawly and strongly involves swearing.

Billy Connolly infront of a celebrity audience... my fav. is at 1:48sec:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[gb2000ie]

Billy Connolly infront of a celebrity audience... my fav. is at 1:48sec:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Fantastic!

I love Billy Connolly, and his stuff ages so well! Apart from the bad cloths, did you notice the people smoking in the audience! It's been a long time since that's been allowed!

Like the Auzies and the Scottish, the Irish swear a lot too, and it has nothing to do with a lack of education or up bringing, it's just a colourful local way of expressing yourself. I don't know a single more versatile word than fuck - it can intonate surprise, fear, anger, joy, you name it, and it can take the position of just about every kind of word grammar has bothered to name! You can even use it to make up words - like fan-fucking-tastic! Try doing that with other words!

(I did by accident last week, and hale-bloody-luia doesn't work nearly as well as fan-fucking-tastic I promise you)

I leave you with this great demonstration of my point:



B.

 

[Daedalus]

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
-Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

 

[topdog]

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. -- MAE WEST

 

[markjo]

Homer Simpson
it kills me to see her like that and if there's one thing I can't stand, it's being killed

 

[GB1991]

Been to see wicked countless times. This has to be my favourite quote between the wizard and the elphab

Elphaba "So you lied to them?"
The Wizard "only verbly."

Still makes me laugh. lol

 

[spazattack]

"And all at once the crowd begins to sing: Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same" - The Fray

"Regret is a pill to spill that never quite goes down" - David Ryan Harris

"Though we have not hit the ground, doesn't mean we're not still falling" - Maroon 5

"Built a wall around my heart / Never let it fall apart / But strangely, i wish secretly it would fall down while I'm asleep" - Maroon 5

 

[slimjim]

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

 

[gorgik9]

"Positive thinking won´t keep ships from sinking."

Jay Brannan

 

[gorgik9]

Life´s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more : it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.


William Shakespeare : Macbeth, act 5, scene 5.

 

[iryhousen]

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out out brief candle...


The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. ... Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

 

[chemun]

great minds think a like.

 

[gb2000ie]

great minds think a like.

and fools seldom differ!

B.

 

[gorgik9]

Two naughty limericks from WH Auden:

A friend, who is not an ascetic,
Writes:"Ireland, my dear, is magnetic.
No snakes. Lots of elves
Who just OFFER themselves -
Rather small but MOST sympathetic."



After vainly invoking the Muse,
A poet cried: "Hell, what´s the use?
There´s more inspiration
At Grand Central Station;
I shall go there this moment and cruise."

 

[gorgik9]

There´s so appalingly few quotes from Oscar Fingal O´Flahertie Wills Wilde in this thread. Just think about it - a quotation-thread in Gay Heaven almost without OW quotes.

Something MUST be done! So here´s a quote from De Profundis!

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else´s opinions, their life a mimicry, their passion a quotation."

 

[gb2000ie]

There´s so appalingly few quotes from Oscar Fingal O´Flahertie Wills Wilde in this thread. Just think about it - a quotation-thread in Gay Heaven almost without OW quotes.

Something MUST be done! So here´s a quote from De Profundis!

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else´s opinions, their life a mimicry, their passion a quotation."

To help remedy this travesty - I'll add OW's comment on Fox Hunting - "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable".

B.

 

[Fredric13]

Death is often hardest on the living.

Unknown

 

[moosy]

Life is too short to be surrounded by boring people.

Sam Donaldson

 

[Nelson]

Eccentricity is the surplus of character; boredom is the lack of character.