Thread: Favourite Quotes

my ultimate quote is "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet - i've got it as a tattoo on my foot. To me it means basically be who you want to be and be true to youself.... if others dont like you this way... thats their problem... dont change yourself for anyone (After too many years of trying to change me to "fit in")

my other one is my signature by Marylin Monroe

Originally Posted by December Charm

"Man hands on misery to man
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as quickly as you can
And don't have any kids yourself"


The amazing Philip Larkin

"Superheroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary"

"The darkest hour is just before dawn"
The Mamas and The Papas- this one is my life motto.


"It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as quickly as you can
And don't have any kids yourself"

This my friend, is one of the truest things ever written. I love Philip Larkin too! (I'm glad you left out the swearing!)

Originally Posted by clio gayton

This my friend, is one of the truest things ever written. I love Philip Larkin too! (I'm glad you left out the swearing!)

Yay, another Larkin fan!

I would have written the whole thing out but I really think the last stanza sums it up perfectly.

I squealed the other day when a woman on tv started quoting Annus Mirabilis. But at least she credited him, unlike the time Skins ripped off This be the Verse:

Character 1: (I'll leave the swearing out for you) "They f*** you up"
Character 2: "They don't mean to"
Character 1: "But they do"

Grrr!!!!

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” - Judy Garland

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation” - Robert Kennedy

but the greatest sage that ever graced this planet was General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett, with two quotes that I live my life by:

“You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!”

and

“If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through”

OK, another total sci fi geek clocking in here with:

"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: Energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."

G'Kar, Babylon 5

and

"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores."

Terry Pratchett

I think there's a theme here...

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

~
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.


I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Dirk Gently

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. ~


All Douglas Adams he does make me smile

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

“You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!”

I love this one, I need to go and watch some more Black Adder.
But Firefly and Serenity are my favourite geek out watvhing.

Jayne: "I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly when I'm gettin' paid."

Originally Posted by tempest devyne

“If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through”

I like this one. I think Mr C would claim this is my outlook on life!

Originally Posted by December Charm

Yay, another Larkin fan!

I would have written the whole thing out but I really think the last stanza sums it up perfectly.

I squealed the other day when a woman on tv started quoting Annus Mirabilis. But at least she credited him, unlike the time Skins ripped off This be the Verse:

Character 1: (I'll leave the swearing out for you) "They f*** you up"
Character 2: "They don't mean to"
Character 1: "But they do"

Grrr!!!!

I've been life long fan (Was kidding about the swearing btw)

Originally Posted by Buck Fast

I love this one, I need to go and watch some more Black Adder.
But Firefly and Serenity are my favourite geek out watvhing.

Jayne: "I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly when I'm gettin' paid."

Or we could go for the Serenity classic:

"I am to misbehave"

Mal Reynolds

Kind of sums a lot of us up, don't you think?