The Quotes File

This is a collection of various things I've used as .signatures, and also just a collection of various quotes from usenet/mailing lists etc.

And here are some links to other pages of quotes I like, most of these ppl are frineds of mine. I'm also quoted on some of these :)


enjoy!


"We are all addicted to something stranger than ourselves" - Jeff Noon

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dream"

"In here all of my dreams become realities and some of my realities become dreams"

"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men"

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers" - Technomage (Babylon 5)

It's all too much, too grim, too lovely.
It's general chaos." - Edward Gorey

Sandro - it's Saturday, 1:30am, Farinelli is on telly, utterly surreal situation, more booze than blood in the veins, and the only question should be: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?

I guess it depends one whether one defines idealism or the ikea nesting instinct as maturity... -loki

Television is one big advertisment for the way other people want society to be.

"Theres is no name for the love I have for the peculiar combination of wetsuits, semolina and four caps of MDMA." -entrippy on acg

"The greatest mistake the Lord ever made was to give me breasts and intelligence" -Kate

"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this."

"if music were a drug, where would it take you?"
"if drugs were music, how would you listen?"
- Jeff Noon

"First star on the right and straight on til morning" - Peter Pan

"Here you live and die by your words. Nothing more, nothing less.
Thats it."
- entrippy on acg

"Orange is the colour of my Revolution"

"The only reason to walk that road is the hope that somewhere along the line you will meet someone else travelling the other way, and walk together for a time."
-Morgan

"Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days"
"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are"
"One equal temper of heroic hearts,"
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will"
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
-Tennyson Ulysses

We all take speed and we're all going to die, but we have a few more years and we will be happy. We don't want to live more than a few more years, and while we live it will live it as we are: stupid, blind, loving, talking, being together,kidding, propping one another up and ratifying the good things in one another. No group of people can be this happy. We knew we were ignoring some fundamental aspect of reality, such as for example money, or in my case sleep. Soon it will catch up with us. That's all one can really hope for, I think, to be happy awhile and remember it."
-Philip K Dick.

"The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
- G'Kar (Babylon 5)

"The way to a man's heart is through his chest"
-Iain M Banks

"It just seems right and correct that it should be happening now, at this space in time. Right here and right now being the end of the century, the non-existent year double-zero. The year where trend itself is outdated, and there is no mode."
-Jeff Noon

"And the moral of this story is never lean on the weird. Or they will chop your head off. And perverts will eat your brains." - Hunter S. Thompson

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

"There is nothing quite so satisfying as a morally justifiable act of violence"

"live. do the maximum of things before you die, because we cannot know for sure if you'll get a second chance." -jraff on acg

"So, do I think sex is like a pizza? Well, no. If it was, that'd mean I'd only be able to eat Small Vegetarians. ;)"
-Barbarella on acg

"I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite."
-- Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light"

"It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold"
--Hunter S Tolkien

"I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside."
-- Unknown UNIX Jedi

"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS"
- the BOFH

"we fought against the empire of heaven. We were - that I will not deny - vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave them victory; to us remains the glory of dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have atempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy."
- Giambattista Marino

i just love having an ultra chic dysfunctional family. we're like the simpsons. except with more knife fights. - #gothic

"oh, I'm sorry WEBMISTRESS, I've been bad, I've been using Windows"

(Holocaine) arty: Non-gender-specific deranged axe wielding homicidal maniac.
(LilacAnge) at this time of month?
(arty) maybe its the time of months that made them deranged
(Holocaine) Lilac: Are you suggesting the non-gender-specific deranged axe wielding homicidal maniac is menstruating?
(LilacAnge) well they could be - makes me testy
(Holocaine) Lilac: But that makes it a gender-specific deranged axe wielding homicidal maniac.
(arty) non-gender-specific deranged non-specific sharp pointy thing on a stick weilding homicidal maniac
(Holocaine) arty: You mean Hobbes?
-conversation on #gothic

Strange memories of this nervous nite in Abyss...The Great Melbourne Acid wave of five, six years ago.. It seemed like a life time, or at least a main era. The kind of peak that never comes agian. Melbourne in the middle 90's was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something, maybe not... In the long run. But no explanation, no mix of words can touch that sense of knowing that you were there, and were alive, in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant. But I was absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was..And it was madness in any direction, and any hour. You could strike sparks everywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense, that whatever we were doing was *right* and we were winning. and that I think, was the handle, Thats sense of inevitable victory of the forces of old and evil. Not in an mean, or military sense, we didnt need that, Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point fighting on our side or theirs, We had all the momentum, We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. SO know, Less that 5 years later, You could go up on a steep hill in Melbourne and look west, and with the right kind of eyes, you could almost see the high water mark. That place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back....
-Neef, with some help from Hunter S Thompson

"Magic, for me, is a working technology for exploring alternate realities, breaking down behavioral programs, coming to an understanding with Death and having a laugh."
- Grant Morrison

"Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death."
- Hunter S Thompson

"I thought having my own webpage was special till I discovered my deodorant has it's own webpage..."

"Pooh?"
"Yes Piglet?" - said Pooh
"Nothing Pooh, I just wanted to be sure of you"

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Trayce> The mind, verily, boggles. And I can see Barbarella lining up with her > wallet at the ready as I type this *grin*

Barbarella >*swiftly hiding money behind back*

Wha...?? Who me??

I arr.... hell no... I was just errr... *looking* at all this money... wasn't planning on *doing* anything with it.. y'know, like, *buying* stuff with it.... Nooo... never crossed my mind... at all! Never even stopped to think how good a life-sized Neef Doll with real hair, warm-to-the-touch skin, authentic tattoos & piercings, mega-soundbyte vocabulary, moveable limbs, removeable clothes, DJ accessory kit, Drug Insertion Option, snooze button, drink card, credit card, video playback, humour modulator, added sugar, more than 3.7 standard drinks per serve, "long play" (*ahem*) and a lifetime supply of batteries would look sitting up in my bed tormenting the cat, admiring my books, mixing a martini and patting the pillows down. NEVER GAVE IT A THOUGHT, I TELL YOU!

At.

All.

-Trayce and Barbarella on acg
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There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met.
Part heaven, part space, or have I found my place?
You can just visit, but I plan to stay.
-gonzo (I'm going to go back there someday)

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it,
And look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers, and me.
-Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection)

Life's like a movie, write your own ending
Keep believing, keep pretending
We've done just what we set out to do.
Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers, and you.
-Muppet Movie Finale

"...because if the 90s have taught us anything, its that soundbites are more valid than discussion."
-Madi on acg

This sounds like the kind of conversation two people can only have when one of them is female
-Fierce Creatures

"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

You are not your label.
You are not your wardrobe.
You are not your burgundy velvet or your black lace.
You are not your peer-pressured drug abuse, or your drinking problem.
You are not your bad makeup or your smeared eyeliner.
You are not your faux-silver candelabra with artistically faked dripping wax.

You are not a unique and beautiful Vampire.

--Solitaire in ACG

"HTML's a cheap whore. Treating her with respect is possible, and even pref- erable, because once upon a time she was a beautiful and virginal format, but you shouldn't expect too much of her at this point." (Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes)

"A man is defined by his actions, not by what he tells his ex-girlfriends"
-Strange Planet

"If you play tennis with the devil you can't complain when he cheats"
-Strange Planet

"Wake up. Shut up. See for yourself. Love yourself. Love something that wasn't sold to you. Get a fucking life."
-Cam on acg

"Science Fiction in a black leather jacket."
-Megan's definition of Cyberpunk

"Let's secure our moral high ground with indescriminate violence"
-Platinum Grit

When in doubt, keep in mind that "O gallant Piglet" is always a very thoughtful way of beginning a piece of poetry.
- Piglet

"The only fucking advice that should _always_ be adhered to, imo, is - Never, Under Any Circumstances, Have Sex With Anyone From Whom You Haven't Already Witnessed Evidence Of A Sense Of Humour."
-Barbarella

'"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead. He fought for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap. He was delirious and rotting, coming downstairs now, bump bump bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. "
Yes, it's Tigger! Tigger! by Alfred Bester and A. A. Milne. The US title is of course The Stairs my Destination.'
Dave Langford - Ansible

Sandro - soylent green is purple

"Because I know when I'm out dancing, the best thing in the world is when a complete stranger comes up and starts to psychoanalyse me. "
-- Gadge

Sandro - great punk music used to be better than watching two beautiful women having sex on your bed :)
-- Sandro on acg

"I love syphilis more than I love you"
- Spike on Buffy

See, I would have been more than happy with the prettiness, if only they hadn't led me on like a tawdry trollop through the early parts of the film, promising a cerebral blow job, only to leave me blue-balled through the second half while that painted jezebelle slowly injected my awaiting member with medical grade anesthetic.
--Entrippy on Matrix, acg

(cut dialogue from the next movie)
Riker:Captain, Lt Commander Worf is boarding.
Picard: Power up foward phaser array, go to red alert.
Riker:But sir, we are in dock over the most peaceful planet in the galaxy
Picard:It's Worf number 1, something always is happening. And look there is a cellist behind you.
-- Usekh on acg

when god closes a door, he always opens a window somewhere
Julie Andrews - Sound of Music

"I have a way of dealing with temptation, I succumb"
- Michael Marshall Smith

"I was being patient, but it took too long"
- Anya, on Buffy

"Since 1945, I've brought the list, the Americans have bombed China, Korea, Guatemala, Indonesia, Cuba, The Congo, Peru, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Grenada, Libya, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. How humanitarian can you get?"
- Tony Benn

"And just at that instance there rose from the bowels of the earth a light not of this world, the light of many suns in one."
William Laurence, In reference to the First Atom bomb test in 1945, July 15.

What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it's all about?
- Delwyn

Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
--Benjamin Franklin

"During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days."

"time ... time is what turns kittens into *cats*"
- Demon on Buffy

"When did the building fall down?"
- Buffy, the morning after

"HTML in e-mail fulfills the noble service of providing crayons to those who believe them indispensable to the communications process."
-- Jim Williams

Enough of top and bottom -
I want relationships with strangeness and charm!

"Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce"
Mg Frank Burns - M*A*S*H

Have a shower - psssshhhhh! Have a shave - scraaaape! Put on moisturiser - shllop! Do some packing ... ummm ... Reheat the soup - glop! Post to livejournal - tiptap! Do some packing ... ummm ... Invade Poland - ratatatboom! Invent Cure for Cancer - wirrrrrr! Solve Middle East situation - natternatter! Do some packing ... umm.
-- Madi on LJ

"Reality is that which when you stop believing in it doesn't go away."
- Phillip K Dick

"This signature has yet to be classified by the office of film and literature classification"
- Holocaine on #gothic

"I tried a moebius strip once, but i kept putting my clothes back on"
- Madi

"Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Enjoy Today for it is a gift
That's why they call it the Present"
- Sign in Manhattan Shop Window:

One Gojira, two Gojira, three Gojira, four
Four Gojira rising from the murky ocean floor
See them crushing Tokyo, breathing smoke and flame
Even though there's more than one, the noun is the same

"I don't regret one second of my checkered past. These weren't failed ventures at all but successful reconnaisance missions in the vast, uncharted terrain of human relationship potential."
- Alison Bechdel (Dykes To Watch Out For)

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. - Logan Pearsall Smith

And I'm blaming Truckosaurus for all the noise in my wall. I think it's captured Phillip Glass and is consuming his body in order to subsume his knowledge of avant-garde minimalist music. Any other explanation just seems unlikely, somehow.
- Halo on LJ

From: nigelw
applied maths = knowing which formula to plug numbers into to work out a measurement
theoretical maths = knowing how to get that formula if you start of with a rock and a stick.