Best Quote lately

[Entsuropi]

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
- Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant.

[Chimera]

From a YA book I'm plugging through:

"I am Odysseus, Prince of Ithaca."
The satyr's brow creased in thought. "Aah, yes--Ithaca. Sour grapes. Ugly women."
"My mother--" Odysseus began.
"All men's mothers are beautiful," Silenus said quickly.

That made me stop and laugh.  

[Chimera]

Okay, I know I just posted here last night, but being sick has given me lots of reading time and I keep finding great quotes. These are from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Newt's car was a Wasabi. He called it Dick Turpin, in the hope that one day someone would ask him why.

"So we're the other Four Horse--, um, Bikers of the Apocalypse. So which ones are we?" Pigboy asked.
...
Big Ted screwed up his face with the effort of thought. "G.B.H.," he said eventually. "I'm Grievous Bodily Harm. That's me. There. Wott're you going to be?"
"Can I be Rubbish?" asked Skuzz. "Or Embarrassing Personal Problems?"

[Chimera]

When I was playing Cinema Quote Sense I stumbled upon this quote. It seemed more appropriate for here:

"When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does."

--Meg Ryan's character in You've Got Mail

[Archon]

some day I will see you headbutting the collected works of Shakespeare trying to get it to give you money
- OnionofDeath

[fuzzyoctopus]

"While men may, indeed, be from Mars, women are from someplace much more complex and difficult to figure out. Maybe Boston."

- CNN article about cars

[42]

"Revenge is serving cold cuts."
                      -- Sobe bottle cap.

[Chimera]

(This didn't tie in to the current cinema quote, but I had to post it because we just watched the movie.)

"Men of sense, whatever you may say, do not want silly wives!"

--Mr. Knightly, Emma (the version with Gwyneth Paltrow)

[Fellfrosch]

"Pork, Mother--Pork!"

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

[10:09] BenKenobi: i should work on something
[10:09] BenKenobi: perhaps trying to tell my boss that we need to spend $1000 instead of the $300 I thought
[10:09] BenKenobi: which just kind of makes us all go "Ulp!"
[10:15] Penny`: "boss. i just realized. what i lack in cost projection analysis. i more than compensate for in spending ability"
[10:20] BenKenobi: oo, i should have put it that way
[10:20] BenKenobi: instead I have a research project
[10:21] BenKenobi: and like all good research projects, this one is going to start with a google search for pictures of Victoria Zemanova

[Entsuropi]

I regard digital piracy of my books as a sort of natural tax on being popular.

William Gibson, coolest man on the net

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

[11:41] Fawnn: Post on Calif earthquake thread yesterday: Just felt it!!
[11:41] Fawnn: Reply to that post:
[11:41] Fawnn: Stop that, or you'll go blind.
[11:41] Fawnn: Now, what about the earthquake?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

discussing the panning of War of the Worlds in Europe:
[08:45] Spriggan: kinda like ID4 where they got upset that it only showd the americans fighting back
[08:45] Beelzebubba: well, who else would fight back?
[08:45] Beelzebubba: the french? right.
[08:46] Spriggan: ya they've got an anti-ufo battle group. best of the best.
[08:46] Spriggan: it comes equiped with 13 different means of surrender

[The Jade Knight]

Feedback I just received regarding an Independent Study I'm taking through BYU:

'Hence answer "A" for question 16 of lesson one is the correct statement. The  student answered A which was the incorrect answer. The correct answer for this  question is "D".'


Makes sense to you, too, huh?

[Archon]

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one"
   - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray