here are some quotes that i like. feel free to add your own.
“my style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, i want his heart, i want to eat his children…” mike tyson
“your levity is good it relieves tension, and the fear of death” -arnold from terminator 3
Woody: “We’re gonna explode!”
Buzz: "Not today!
[i]“We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“The Americans will always do the right thing . . . After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
“I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Lady Astor to Churchill: “Winston, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”
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…and perhaps he’s most famous quote:
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Sir Winston Churchill
W.C.
these go to eleven - Nigel Tufnel
-Imp
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.” - Albert Einstein
“Advances in thought are tolerated in proportion as they respond to and, as it were, kindle into flame ideas which are already smouldering obscurely in many minds.” - Elwes
“You could not discover the limits of soul, even if you traveled by every path in order to do so; such is the depth of its meaning.†– Heraclitus
“Strive to give back the Divine in yourselves to the Divine in the All.” – Plotinus
“Buddha’s do but point the way, work out your salvation with diligence.” - Siddhartha Gautama
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
-Woody Allen
“The Argentines know which side their bread is buttered on…”
The press often ask me, well, is this the – is the evil one hiding from us in Afghanistan, the ones who have done this to America? I said, I don’t know. We don’t know yet. But we do know the evil one who hides thinks in ways that we can’t possibly think in America – so destructive, such a low regard for human life. And anybody who puts anthrax, trying to kill American citizens, shares the same set of values. Whoever has done it shares that same value of evil that we saw on September the 11th. - George W. Bush
There is a certain sense of fascination with previous wars in Kosovo and Desert Storm, where people could turn on their TV screens and see high-tech weaponry burrowing into bunkers and massive explosions.
– Commander-in-Chief acknowledging the coolness of watching stuff blow up, Washington, D.C., Oct. 9, 2001
People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‘Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.’ They’re changed. Trust me.
– Interview with the New York Times, Mar. 15, 2000
There is something healthy about people campaigning, saying, this is what I’m for. [Palestinian] President [Abbas] ran on a peace platform. You know, maybe somebody will run on a war platform – you know, vote for me, I promise violence. I don’t think they’re going to get elected, because I think Palestinian moms want their children to grow up in peace just like American moms want their children to grow up in peace. As a matter of fact, I think the people that campaign for peace will win. - Dubya
You know, you can’t discriminate. Freedom is not a discriminatory thought, at least in the White House – in other words, if you say, certain people should be free, but others shouldn’t free. It’s a universal thought, as far as I’m concerned.
The Oval Office is an interesting place to meet, particularly, people who are beginning to struggle with democracy and freedom because it’s a reminder that the institutions, at least in this country, are always bigger than the people. Sometime we’ve got an all-right President, sometimes not all right. But the presidency, itself, exists.
– Roswell, New Mexico, Nov. 22, 2004
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. - The great one
People can read everything they want into it when they hear “faith-based initiative.” That all of a sudden opens everybody’s imagination in the world to vast possibilities, some which exist and some which don’t.
– On faith-based initiatives, Washington, D.C., Jul. 16, 2003
And my favorite…
“Well let me extent my congradulations to Prime Minister Horton on achieving his double double”
- Bush (still a senator), when asked by a Canadian prank show host his thoughts on Prime Minister Horton’s double double. Horton refering to the coffee chain across Canada known as ‘Tim Hortons’. A double double is an abbreviation for ‘double cream, double sugar’.
“The majority of our customers are scum buying suits for their first court appearance” - Chief executive of topshop
“We’re only taking 22 players to Spain, I mean Italy, where are we Jim?” - (sir) Bobby Robson on why Paul Gascoigne wasn’t selected for the 1998 World Cup, which was in France
“It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.” - Frank Drebin, Naked Gun
“Just think, next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested.” - ditto
Mrs. Nordberg: Oh, my poor Nordberg! He was such a good man, Frank. He never wanted to hurt anyone. Who would do such a thing?
Frank: It’s hard to tell. A gang of thugs, a blackmailer, an angry husband, a gay lover…
“The attributes and styles of crap teen poetry. Must be written in a funky color of ink, must include dominant themes of alienation, sexual ambivalence, self-loathing, death, etc. “
~ Veronica Mars
“The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.”
~ Joseph Campbell
Conquer the self and you will conquer the opponent.
~ Takuan Soho
The jury is still out on this one, I don’t know if that show is good or not yet. And by that I mean… I’ve never watched the high school crime solver V.M.
The Mothman Prophecies
“More chilling than The Blair Witch Project!”
New Best Friend
“Mia Kirshner is the hottest Canadian import since maple syrup!.”
Master Of Disguise
“You can’t hide laughs like these!”.
Radio
“Cuba Gooding Jr. shines, Oscar-style!”
The Forgotten
“Unforgettable!”
Anger Management
“Adam Sandler at his Adam Sandleriest!”
-Keith Phipps writing as David Manning, fake film critic
The Island
“Instead of a movie, he’s delivered a beer commercial version of Logan’s Run for the lobotomized.”
heh
“When Socrates believed that God is, he held fast the objective uncertainty with the entire passion of inwardness, and faith is precisely in this contradiction, in this risk. Now it is otherwise. Instead of the objective uncertainty, there is here the certainty that, viewed objectively, it is absurd, and this absurdity, held fast in the passion of inwardness, is faith. Compared with the earnestness of the absurd, the Socratic ignorance is like a witty jest, and compared with the strenuousness of faith, the Socratic existential inwardness resembles Greek nonchalance.”
“The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…”
“Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?”
“Exactly.”
“Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?”
“Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?”
“I don’t know.”
“Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?”
“Put it up to eleven.”
“Eleven. Exactly. One louder.”
“Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?”
"…These go to eleven. "
-Spinal Tap
“The loving mother teaches the child to walk alone. She is far enough from him so that she cannot actually support him, but she holds out her arms to him. She imitates his movements, and if he totters, she swiftly bends as if to seize him, so that the child might believe he is not walking alone…And yet, she does more. Her face beckons like a reward, an encouragement. Thus, the child walks alone with his eyes fixed on his mother’s face, not on the difficulties in his way. He supports himself by the arms that do not hold him and constantly strives towards the refuge in his mother’s embrace, little suspecting that in the very same moment that he is emphasizing his need for her, he is proving that he can do without her, because he is walking alone.”
-Kierkegaard: Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing
That one almost brings me to tears.
Couldn’t you just weep in ecstasy after reading that?
“The moment I take Christianity as a doctrine and so indulge my cleverness or profoundity or my eloquence or my imaginative powers in depicting it, people are very pleased: I am looked upon as a serious Christian. The moment I begin to express existentially what I say, and consequently to bring Christianity into reality, it is just as though I had exploded existence - the scandal is there at once.” -Kierkegaard
I can just about picture such a scene in my head. Kierkegaard sits before the clergy and proposes something slightly unorthodox, something bittersweet, leaving them disarmed and suspicious of him.
“200. The man of an age of dissolution which mixes the races with
one another, who has the inheritance of a diversified descent in
his body–that is to say, contrary, and often not only contrary,
instincts and standards of value, which struggle with one another
and are seldom at peace–such a man of late culture and broken
lights, will, on an average, be a weak man. His fundamental
desire is that the war which is IN HIM should come to an end;
happiness appears to him in the character of a soothing medicine
and mode of thought (for instance, Epicurean or Christian); it is
above all things the happiness of repose, of undisturbedness, of
repletion, of final unity–it is the “Sabbath of Sabbaths,” to
use the expression of the holy rhetorician, St. Augustine, who
was himself such a man.–Should, however, the contrariety and
conflict in such natures operate as an ADDITIONAL incentive and
stimulus to life–and if, on the other hand, in addition to their
powerful and irreconcilable instincts, they have also inherited
and indoctrinated into them a proper mastery and subtlety for
carrying on the conflict with themselves (that is to say, the
faculty of self-control and self-deception), there then arise
those marvelously incomprehensible and inexplicable beings, those
enigmatical men, predestined for conquering and circumventing
others, the finest examples of which are Alcibiades and Caesar
(with whom I should like to associate the FIRST of Europeans
according to my taste, the Hohenstaufen, Frederick the Second),
and among artists, perhaps Leonardo da Vinci. They appear
precisely in the same periods when that weaker type, with its
longing for repose, comes to the front; the two types are
complementary to each other, and spring from the same causes.”
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
What you don’t feel, you will not grasp by art,
Unless it wells out of your soul
And with sheer pleasure takes control,
Compelling every listener’s heart.
But sit - and sit, and patch and knead,
Cook a ragout, reheat your hashes,
Blow at the sparks and try to breed
A fire out of piles of ashes!
Children and apes may think it great,
If that should titillate your gum,
But from heart to heart you will never create,
If from your heart it does not come."
(from Faust I)
“It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening though which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation.â€
Joseph Campbell