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Favorite Quotes
The things we quote provide insight into who we are. These are quotes I like to use in my .sig files. Wander around and have a peek - I'll warn you, though, it's full of twisty mazes and a little dark and scary in places. Roomy, though... |
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 Books |
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Books | A room without books is like a body without soul. --Cicero | ||
| Library | They got the library at Alexandria. THEY'RE NOT GETTING MINE! | |||
| Cats |
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| Cat-run | See cat. See cat
carrier. See cat see cat
carrier. See cat RUN. Run, cat, run... |
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| Cats-answering | Dogs come when you call. Cats have answering machines. | |||
| Feet | If I wanted to hear the pitter-patter of little feet, I'd put shoes on my cats. | |||
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Food |
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| Caffeine | "It is by
Caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion- It is by the beans of Java, that my thoughts acquire speed- The hands acquire shakes; the shakes become a warning- It is by Caffeine alone that I set my mind in motion... |
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| Food | Life is too short to eat bad food. | |||
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Games |
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| Dragon | It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations. | |||
| Harmless | If I'd known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself! | |||
| Lose | Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose. | |||
| Nice | Just because you're a vampire, it doesn't mean you're not a nice person... | |||
| Ratrace | Remember - even if you win the rat race, you're still just another rat... | |||
| Rats | Just when you think you're winning the rat race, they bring in faster rats! | |||
| Rigged | Of course the game is rigged - but if you don't play you can't win! | |||
| Win | You can't win, you can't break even and you can't get out of the game. | |||
| Irish |
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| Irish | "There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart" -Thomas Adcock | |||
| Life |
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| Buck | The buck does not even PAUSE here! | |||
| Cable | I'd rather get cable service from the phone company than phone service from the cable company... | |||
| Candle | Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends... ...tell me where to get more wax! | |||
| Center | Turning and turning in
the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed up on the world ... Yeats - The Second Coming |
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| Dance | You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt. | |||
| Desperation |
People used to live lives of quiet
desperation--now they go on talk shows. ** Frank and Ernest **
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| Duct-tape | Duct tape is like the Force - it has a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together. | |||
| Easier | There is always an easier way to do it. | |||
| Enemies | Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. | |||
| Evil | All evil is good become cancerous -- Isaac Asimov | |||
| Fear | The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H.P. Lovecraft | |||
| Ghosts |
you ask whether i believe in ghosts - of
course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either perhaps i have been unfortunate in my aquaintance but the ones i have known have been a bad lot -- Don Marquis's Archy and Mehitabel |
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| Ignorance | There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. | |||
| Immortality | I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. --Woody Allen | |||
| Lecter |
Hannibal Lecter Dinner Theater - For a
Tasteful Evening Menu - Fresh Liver, Fava Beans, and a Light Chianti Now Playing: Man of La Muncha |
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| Life |
My life is filled with Romance, Danger,
Lust... and dust balls the size of cantaloupes! |
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| Madness |
Madness takes its toll...
please have exact change |
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| Monsters | Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. --- Friedrich Nietzsche | |||
| Never | I was put on this Earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. I am now so far behind I can never die... |
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| Talk2 | My thinking is usually pretty good; unfortunately I tend to do it after my talking, by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. | |||
| Source | Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. | |||
| Stars | We are all in the gutter - but some of us are
looking at the stars. O. Wilde |
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| Wisdom | Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. | |||
| Women | What do women want? The same things as men, only in prettier colors... Northern Exposure | |||
| Sex |
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| Sex | Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. The answer is "Yes"! | |||
| Shakespeare |
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| Vasty | GLENDOWER: I can call spirits from the vasty
deep. HOTSPUR: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? - Henry IV |
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| War |
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| Foxhole | Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. | |||
| Subtle | Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of range before it's understood. | |||
| Writing |
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| Author | I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. -- Samuel Johnson | |||
| Passion | "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft" H.G. Wells | |||
| Writing | Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money. Virginia Woolfe | |||
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