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Or best you've ever heard. Throw some out here--it can tell a lot about your personality!*
Anyway, mine are in my sig.


*positive spin. ignore it.

Stephen King wrote in one of his books something to the effect of:

"In every persons life, there must be something they would be willing to give their life to protect"

im surprised i remember it, i read that book about a year ago.

Hm. Stephen King. Now I'm trying to remember what I know about him.

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Ah yes. Nearly died in a car crash a while back, wrote an excellent book about the Boston Red Sox and is the king (geddit) of horror novels, at least currently.

"If you're expecting a kick in the balls, and instead get a slap in the face, you should consider it a victory."

I don't know the guy's name who said this, but it's always the quote that comes to mind when i see these types of threads.

"Hey atob"

Probably my most heard-of quote recently :P

I say that a lot. Oh well.

dejablue wrote:"If you're expecting a kick in the balls, and instead get a slap in the face, you should consider it a victory."

I don't know the guy's name who said this, but it's always the quote that comes to mind when i see these types of threads.

Awesome.
"Love is like pissing yourself: Everyone can see it, but they can't feel the warmth."

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." O.o duh, duh, duh, DARK NIGHT!

Erik-Player wrote:"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." O.o duh, duh, duh, DARK NIGHT!

"The night is darkest just before the dawn!"

"No more dead cops!"

"Things are worse than ever!"

"I am batman!"

- DARK KNIGHT

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people asking questions. My grade 7 teacher.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see one.(the dark knight spoof)

"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die" - I can't remember

"And now, for something... completely different" - Monty Python

"The rubber band is one of the most stretchy objects in the universe; second only to the cheese on a take-away pizza" - robert Llewellyn

Jessica Simpson : "I'm not anorexic. I'm from Texas. Are there people from Texas that are anorexic? I've never heard of one. And that includes me."

"Twas beauty killed the beast"

-King Kong

eganic wrote:"Twas beauty killed the beast"

-King Kong

Love that moment in an otherwise overlong and irritating movie.

flagmyidol wrote:

eganic wrote:"Twas beauty killed the beast"

-King Kong

Love that moment in an otherwise overlong and irritating movie.

that movie was totalfy wonderful!

anyway,

"if you're good at something, never do it for free"

- The Joker

eganic wrote: that movie was totalfy wonderful!

????
Er...

Are we talking about the same one?

Four hours, VERY long scene in which King Kong is squeezing the heroine to death as he swings through the jungle and she's enjoying it way too much, occasionally bizarre acting performances....

Really?

I agree with Flag.

and my quotes.

"Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."

"Praying to milk cartons is better than praying to God. But only because you know the milk carton is there."

"Hairy Pothead and the Marijuana Stone"

"Once upon a time, Snape killed Dumbledore. The End"

"Praying is like riding a rocking chair, in that it gives you something to do and that it gets you nowhere. Although, praying isn't nearly as fun..."

"But of course, that's just an impossible dream, because Jesus would never be elected president. How many right-wing Christians are gonna vote for a liberal Jew?... He's from the Middle-East and he looks like a goddamn hippie; Fox Network would crucify him! (If he hadn't already been arrested as a terrorist). I think right now that America is probably just a little too Christian for Jesus" (lol Pat Condell)

"After this, Sarah (Palin) rode a vegetarian T-Rex all the way to the creationist museum, where together they repelled witches and prayed for leadership experience."

"Set a trashcan on fire and keep a bum warm for a night. Set the bum on fire, and keep him warm for the rest of his life."

"Why buy the cow when you can steal the milk for free?"

"The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality--it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." Richard Rahl

"Only a fool walks into the future backwards." -Commander General Trimack

"The time for desperation is upon us. Let's play." -First Wizard Zeddicus Z'ul Zorander

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

I've got two long quotes that I really like:

"It's a simple choice: We can all be good boys and wear our letter sweaters around and get our little degrees and find some nice girl to settle, you know, down, with... take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care... Or we can blaze! Become legends in our own time, strike fear in the heart of mediocre talent everywhere! We can scald dogs, put records out of reach! Make the stands gasp as we blow into an unearthly kick from three hundred yards out! We can become God's own messenger delivering the dreaded scrolls! We can race dark Satan himself till he wheezes fiery cinders down the back straightaway! They'll speak our names in hushed tones, 'Those guys are animals' they'll say! We can lay it on the line, bust a gut, show them a pair of clean heels. We can sprint the turn on a spring breeze and feel the winter leave our feet. We can, by God, let our demons loose and just wail on!"

That one's from Once a Runner, by John L. Parker Jr.

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A: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
B: When did we forget our dreams?
A: What?
B: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
B: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
B: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
B: FUCK .
B: THAT.
B: SHIT.

And that, my good friends, is xkcd #137.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

The best SK quote ever. Also, the start of a 7 volume read.

MattKestrel wrote:"Hey atob"

Probably my most heard-of quote recently :P

Someone: Hey LV.
LittleViking: 'Eeeeey.

IRC conversation from last night.

I hear that a lot. And yeah, atob.

"If you're afraid to fly, then I guess you never will."

ChaoStar wrote:"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

The best SK quote ever. Also, the start of a 7 volume read.

I hate those books!

:D