quotes...
For whatever reason we all have quotes that we like. I love the idea of hearing someone else's words and having them mean so much. They can stay in my mind forever; a way of compressing past thoughts that I would have otherwise forgotten into the words of a stranger. It's the connection between minds who would in some ways never meet otherwise. It's like poetry ...The greatest meaning in the smallest space...
So tell me, what are your favourite quotes and what do they mean to you?
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I'll start the ball rolling...with a few things I remember off the top of my head... firstly.. I remember an old woman I knew constantly saying 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all'...I always thought it was such an admirable outlook to have...but now when I think of it, it's much like an old trick used to keep your problems with others to yourself, and perhaps that isn't such a good thing... however I think the quote still has it's place, and it makes me think of the ideas of women of the older generations.
'A look between your naked legs is not a look at destiny' I like that for obvious reasons, though I can't remember where it came from. I'd love to hear more feminist or riot grrl quotes if anyone has any...
"Being skinny is neater and tidier, and it's not got bulges all over. If women were all thin and men were all muscly, it would be like two different species, like a horse having it off with a tiger" - Jarvis Cocker...
I like the above quote just because it pretty much hit the nail on the head with how fucked up body image is. I like the fact that a guy came out and said that he didn't think it was important for women to be thin...something which is force fed to so many. And it's the same with guys..I mean what's wrong with being thin...and just the fact that the way he said it was so very natural, it's refreshing to think some guys think that way. Not only that but I think the whole thing sums up alot of what Jarvis, and many other unconventional sex-symbols are about.
//'A look between your naked legs is not a look at destiny'
the thing is, so many girls I've known really do think that a look between their naked legs is a look at destiny...and I feel like shouting that quote at them all. I mean, that's what all girl catholic schools breathe into their students...that they arn't worth anything without a man. They're all so fucking repressed, and things will never be any other way. I thought it was higly ironic when I heard one of them say 'Sexism doesn't exist anymore, it never did and feminism has no purpose'.
I mean as a graduation speach one girl said 'I've finnished my vce, now all I need is a husband and kids'...I felt like crying.
//'I've finnished my vce, now all I need is a husband and kids'...I felt like crying.
And that makes me want to cry.....
As long as young women continue to tow the misogynistic attitude that motherhood is a subservient roll in life, we are women will never be able to be true partners in society.
My mum always told me that the best way to change the world is to raise responsible children.
"Some people walk in the rain.... others just get wet"
ha ha good one!
i like it!
Here's one, from Eliot's The Wasteland:
"Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead, up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you,
Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
--But who is that on the other side of you?"
Its meaning is rather ambiguous, but I think Eliot is trying to get at the nature of realtionships. I like it.
from James K. Baxter's High Country Weather:
"Upon the upland road,
Ride easy, stranger.
Surrender to the sky
Your heart of anger"
I always think of this poem when I'm driving through the central North Island.
I always think of High Country Weather when I'm in Kelburn.
"Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans"
John Lennon
"Conformity is death to freedom and jailor [sic] to growth"
John F. Kennedy
"Crime wouldn't keep backpackers out of Auckland. We are leaving only because it is so boring."
Line Schulz
"and now its on our new record. its white. and its got our fucking name on it. and our names called grinspoon"
at the Under the Influence concert in Oamaru, One of the guys from the D4 (can't remember who) said something along the lines of 'Is this what you do at a rock concert in oamaru? just sit around drinking coke and eating pies?' or something aboout coke and pies anyway. it was funny
mmm pies and warehouse cola. mmmm cheap
And did you like the "Satan is Nifty" on his chest??
Now that's a quote : )
//And did you like the "Satan is Nifty" on his chest??
I have the best ever photo of that : )
Cool. I didn't take a camera, but I had a great time : )
One final paragraph of advice. Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast- a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourself and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizzly, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for awhile and contemplate the prescious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotised by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.
Edward Abbey 1982 (Down the River)
more of a paragraph or rant.
my friend just e-mailed it to me. so i thought i'd throw it in the quotes.
"The Freedom to speak, is the freedom to lie"
"Go for Gold"
- my friend Rob. Telling me to ask his friend out coz i luved him...(i was unsuccessful but still, its a good motto to just go for what you want)
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That reminds me of one of my favourites - William Makepeace Thackeray said
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."
'Trust and you'll be trusted, said the liar to the fool' Peter Steele
"I have an idea. an idea so brilliant my head would probably explode if i even began to know what i was talking about" -Peter Griffin, Family Guy
"I'm a canterbury girl" - Nicky Watson after eating an insect on Celebrity Treasure Island. Simple yet bold.
"There's no such thing as death, Life is only an imagination of itself and us within it, heres John with the Weather" - Bill Hicks, can someone please correct me on this?
This is actually an email disclaimer, but it makes a good quote as well:
* I will not sell or pass your details in anyway to any other party, gathering, group of associates or rave. Privacy is big like Elvis in '56 or boy bands in the 12-14 demographic.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
"I'm all for people encouraging people to behave erratically" (Gary McCormick)
"... other people can only give off information about themselves insofar as they are audible, odorous, visible or tastable...."
dumb white guys with the ability to make the obvious sound really silly.
"the movements and countries and mazes and colours and dismays and rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams" (Dylan Thomas)
My favourite quotes are from Einstein (being a scientist myself...).
"Imagination is more important than knowledge".
"Where the world ceases to be the stage for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder, to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science. If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not accessible to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art. Common to both is the devotion to something beyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary."
I have the latter hanging above my desk at work.
from T.S. Eliot (out of Prufrock, my fave poem)
"...in a minute there is time for decisions and revisions that a minute will reverse"
and of course, Mae West
"It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men"
"Marriage is a fine institution, but then I'm not ready for an institution".
Heh.
mmm science.
My favourite Einstein:
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
if you love something let it go- if it comes back to you it's yours- if it doesn't- hunt it down & kill it
Funny quotes are the best...
"Don't fight it. It makes it harder. It's like escaping a riptide. Best thing to do is just let it take you out to sea and drown you."
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
"It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren’t the people the people who made up the phrase “people are people everwhere” had traditionally thought of as people."
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
"A friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body."
"We are the suckiest bunch of suckers that ever sucked!"- Homer Simpson
"I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent.
but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head
with a large steel pipe and take my shoe."-Jack Handy
"Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you do criticize that person,
you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."
"You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the guy next to you."
"I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."-Groucho Marx
Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done
Smile, everyone loves a moron
I'm Not Schizophrenic, And Neither Am I
If you don't like my driving, stay off the sidewalk
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it
just because you are paranoid, don't mean they not out to get you
Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.
New Zealand...the land where the men are men......and the sheep are nervous.......
I only support 2 teams, new zealand and anyone playing aussie
KENTUCKY: Five million people, Fifteen last names.
They call it "PMS" because "Mad Cow Disease" was already taken
Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!
I always lie. In fact, I'm lying to you right now!
Don't ask me, I'm making this up as I go!
As I said before, I never repeat myself.
Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
Eat american lamb...ten million coyotes can't be wrong!
Husbands are proof that women have a sense of humor.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
And on the eighth day God said, "O.K. Murphy. You take over."
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?
The most common form of marriage proposal: "YOU'RE WHAT!?"
When man discovered milk came from cows, what did he THINK he was doing?
I have PMS and a GUN! Oh, I'm sorry, did you have something to say?
Like Mega's they're not inspirational, but funny quotes are goooood.
A bubble like virginity... one prick - all gone.
Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs
Man who run behind car get exhausted. Man who run in front of car get tired
"r u ready??? LETS ROLL" - Todd Beamer
"Ready, Steady, Freddy??? Aight all, lets smash 'em down" Lucifer_Sam
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"if one keeps too open a mind people will take the oppurtunity to fill it full of rubbish"
anon
all the good quotes were at indigo tonight.
"i always wash my hands when im stoned"
- some dude in the toilets.
"whyd you have to be so fucking tall?" [or something not dissimilar]
- nato to the fucking tall dude in front of him.
"why does everyone in this town have good guitars?"
- carl
quotes are for the mentally impared who can't come up with their own analogies
That's a good one! I'm going to write it down for future use.
"quotes are for the mentally impared who can't come up with their own analogies"
- fur boy.
heh someone's got a sense of humour :D
"dooooode, goes, show on, goes show on"
- Myself in 2001 after smoking 3 joints to myself
'heh someone's got a sense of humour :D'
- fur boy
hahahaahahahahaha
"i hate people because they hate me, and that makes me hate them even more"
-martin lawrence....i think
"but i know we can't all stay here for ever, so i'm gonna write my word on the face of today" -shannon hoon (RIP)
"Food goes in here" -Homer
"Your damned if you do & your damned if you don't" - Bart Simpson
"I didn't do it, you can't prove anything" - Bart Simpson
"Grunge was never born, so grunge will never die - Dave Grohl
I'm such a piece of work - SychoGrandpa
I'm so stupid - Tama Drummer
I'm a bag of shit - chronickiwi
I'm a reject - Josie
God damn I'm gay - Moosus
I'm such a big bag of scum - Lucifer_sam
Why i am so useless - Carl
How can a human being be so imbecil like me - Stefan
Maybe I should go to a shrink - Postman
I can stand the fact that I'm a BIG LOSER - SaidInJest
.... I got nothing to do - Soph_ie
I'm everything but funny - Megaccino
I have my moments - lena o
I don't even Understand myself, how can anyone understand me - AchillesHeel
I'm not a man, neither a woman, I'm in the middle - Limegreen
....SHIT SOMEONE HELP ME - Nyahh
I'm gay and I can lick my own balls thank you - Fur Boy
Nahh, You don't get mad about this right?
quotes are funny...
// Why i am so useless - Carl
did you hear about my steak bro?
"You want to turn your steaks. You have to show each steak an equal amount of love. Don't walk away from the grill. If the steak gets lonely, it will burn. You don't want that. Ok? You just don't want it."
- dave.
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// How can a human being be so imbecil like me - Stefan
I am the idiot king.
I'm just happy to have made the list...
That's it??? You're not going to kill me??
Shit, I'll have to try harder.
Carl's mom is a bitch
I'm jealous because I'm not on the list.