Facebook sucks but I always did like the favorite quotes page. So I’m putting my favorite quotes here!
“Some… would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.” -Terry Pratchett.
“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea’s asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there’s danger, somewhere there’s injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we’ve got work to do” - The Doctor
“Harry slammed his book shut. It wasn’t really a book, because the pages were made of lasers and the words were made of headless women making godless love to dragons made out of motorcycles, but it was still reading.” - SecondPillow
“Of course, he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That’s insane. But, thinking that they might be… Well, all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn’t? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we’d all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.” - Playfair (They Might be Giants)
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” - Douglas Adams
“To date, despite the efforts of millions of true believers to support this myth, there is no more evidence for the Judeo-Christian god than any of the gods on Mount Olympus.” - Joseph Daleiden
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”- Chuck Palahniuk
“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” - Carl Sagan
“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they’re doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out … You’re curious and smart and board, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting the think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are ALWAYS making up the future as you go” -Randall Munroe
“Reality is frequently inaccurate” — Douglas Adams
“When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it’ll never end. But however hard you try you can’t run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it.” - River Song (Doctor Who)
“Hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.” – Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World
“In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn’t a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.” — Neil Shusterman
“Never insult anyone by accident.” - Robert A. Heinlein
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses.” - Blues Brothers
“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.” - Herb Caen
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, it turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have been forced to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.” —Ursula K. Le Guin
“Not all who wander are lost” -
J.R.R. Tolkien
“I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” — Neil Gaiman
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the nieve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” - Thomas Szasz
“Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.” - Michel de Montaigne
“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.” — Lois McMaster Bujold
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and explores the society and culture that they were brought up in. People have attention spans of 5 seconds and as much depth as a glass of water.” - David Bowie
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!” — Frank Herbert
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” - Marcel Proust
“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”- Douglass Adams
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
“We should grant power over affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase the reluctance.” – Frank Herbert
“You will find that, in life as in literature, most episodes are arbitrary, confusing, and not meant for your benefit.”- Franz Kafka
“We’ve got ninety-nine percent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety percent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty percent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.” - Caryl Churchill
“Better the pride that resides in the citizen of the world than the pride that devides when a colorful flag is unfurled.” - Niel Piert
“A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.” - Mark Twain
There’s no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There’s no knowing where we’re rowing / Or which way the river’s flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? / Yes! The danger must be growing / For the rowers keep on rowing / And they’re certainly not showing / Any signs that they are slowing! [screams] - Willy Wonka
“Sometimes people do unthinkable things, in order to come home safely. Impossible things, wonderful things. And afterwards, do you think they go home? No. You find it’s much, much better to keep on travelling. Hard to stop, really.” - Kelly Link
“Travelers, like poets, are a mostly angry race” - Richard Francis Burton
“He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I’ll chase him ‘round the moons of Nibia and ‘round the Antares Maelstrom and ‘round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!” - Khan Noonien Singh
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”- Mark Twain
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.” - Albert Einstein
