Your Favourite Quotes

[Maruno]

Here's a thread for all those quotes you love. They can be inspirational, though-provoking, or simply funny, anime-related or otherwise. All that matters is you like them.

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I've got a whole bunch, some of which I've written down somewhere. I rarely have an absolute favourite anything (the only favourite I have is a colour - purple), so I'm not quoting my best ones here. They're all good.


"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)


"Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."
Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"


"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


"Things are only impossible until they're not."
Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'


"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
Steven Wright (1955 - )


"When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway."
Clyde B. Aster


"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
Doctor Who


"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)


"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Douglas Adams

[Indefinite Description]

See my autosig. (Not the Abney Park line, although those lyrics are nice too.)

[Falciferum]

I can't think of too many right now, but everytime I do I'll probably come back and modify this post.

"The only difference between a madman and I is that I am not mad."
Salvador Dali

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"
Oscar Wilde

"We demand the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now."
Withnail (Richard E. Grant) from Withnail and I

"I once asked a lady why she had so many children, she said it's because she loves her husband. Well I said to her that I love my cigar, but I like to take it out every now and then."
Groucho Marx

My absolute favourite:

"Half of what happens to you in life is good luck, the other half is getting ninjaed in the face."
Daniel Chapman, a close friend of mine and massive fan of Yu-Gi-Oh

[Maruno]

"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
Larry Hardiman


"Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination."
Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"


"I like life. It's something to do."
Ronnie Shakes


"It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."
Woody Allen (1935 - )


"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect."
Ted Turner


"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"


"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
Paul Dirac (1902 - 1984)


"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference


"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
Doctor Who

[project_2501]

"you dont have to burn books to destroy culture, just get people to stop reading them."

Mahatma Ghandi

[bonjob]

"Ever since I met you, I feel like,
i've lived to meet you". it's from the anime
"Bokura Ga Ita". it's a nice anime. you better
check it out if you don't want to miss
half of your life. HAHA.

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