-Mr. Garrison "Do you know what arses are, Patrick? Arses are the human race's FAVORITE thing. We like them on each other. We like them on magazine covers. We even like them on babies! When we're alone we like to scratch them. When there's a fire we like to warm them. And who among us, in a lonely moment, hasn't reached back for a discreet fondle? We LOVE our arses! When god gave us our arses he had to stick them 'round the back just so we wouldn't sit and stare at them all day. 'Cause when god made the arse he didn't say, 'Hey, it's just your basic hinge. Let's knock off early.' He said, 'BEHOLD YE ANGELS, I HAVE CREATED THE ARSE! Throughout the ages to come men and women shall grab on to these and shout my name!'" -Jeff, Coupling May have more later, too tired to think. ...but still able to type, which is quite telling.
My Dad: "Do You're Best, Be the Best and You'll Have the Best." Former MLB Outfielder Carl Everett: "Dinosaurs didn't exist."
"Most people would rather fail a public drug test for opium than be photographed stomping and cheering in the front row of an illegal dog fight."-- Hunter S. Thomson "With your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothin' done." Axle Rose "Scooby Doo can doo doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter." Homer J. Simpson "Boom goes the dynamite." Brian Collins
If we're quoting AXL Rose, this ones stuck with me as long as I can remember. "I don't worry about nothin' no, cause worryin's a waste of my fuckin' time." Also like, "Smoke'em if you got'em" at the end of 'Don't Damn Me.' I know he didn't coin that phrase, but no one has said it better. I like using that one. "To the bar..." from the end of 'You Ain't the First,' is uttered from my lips more than I care to admit. I'm just an enormous junky for GnR.
"Everybody, darlin, sometimes bites the hand that feeds." -W. Axl Rose "I see you standin there. You think you're so cool. Why don't you just...FUCK OFF!" -W. Axl Rose I could do this all day. FOCUS: See my signature. My dad's friend coined it. It reminds me that some men are still honest for honesty's sake. Not everybody will fuck you over. Just know who to trust. Also, an old football coach-turned-driver-ed teacher always had a sign in his class: "[coach's] 3 rules of life: 1. Be where you're supposed to be. 2. Be on time. 3. Act like you're supposed to act." It's worked so far.
- Aldous Huxley Huxley had a way with words. The revisited portion of Brave New World was eyeopening to say the least.
"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh "He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began." - Tolstoy "If you can't laugh at yourself, life's gonna seem a whole lot longer than you'd like." - personal mantra
Along those lines: “All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up"--Pablo Picasso
I hope I'm not the only one who thinks it may not be the best idea to take advice about hearing voices in your head from Vincent Van Gogh. I was always fond of "The only easy day was yesterday." If I recall correctly, it is the motto of the US Navy SEALs' BUD/S program. Although I'm not a SEAL.
"I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best." John Keats I have this pig-headed refusal to stop doing stuff I'm not good at until I'm good at it, and that quote sums up the mindset pretty well. Also, as long as Ali is in the thread title: "I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news." Smartarse.
"If there is a hell, I'll see you there." -- Trent Reznor Whenever anyone tells me to go to hell, I come back with that, or tell them that we are already there.
I liked this before I realized it was the author of my favorite quote: Sums up the importance of striving to be proficient in as many things possible over excellent in one thing or the other. There's a lot to live in this quote. I wonder what kind of thoughts he mused upon each day. Thanks dude, I find myself saying this alot.
quite a few favorites so in a tag Spoiler depressing, but I've always liked it I am so glad that some one else brought in a quote from Coupling, so I'll put in one of my favorite Steve rants The rant starts at 4:30, although the whole thing is entertaining A couple from one of my favorite books, Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: and of course, considering my name I had to put one of my favorites from the good doctor:
Probably one of the greatest lines I picked up on the RMMB. "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a cheating whore girl friend." -Tucker Max
"...God will not have his work made manifest by cowards" - Ralph Waldo Emerson The way I take it it basically means don't waste your life, don't be afraid to do the things you want to do. And in that vein: Nihil timendum est (Fear nothing) From Robert Greene and 50 Cent's 50th Law cover. & "I need you to hate me so I can use you for your energy" - 50 Cent It figures that if you're trying to accomplish something there will be people that tell you you can't do it for one reason or another. Good, let them doubt you, hate you, resent you or be jealous. Take that negative energy, that effort they put in to hating you and use it to power you towards your goal.
Odd way to stay clear of non-political territory. I guess we can all appreciate a quote from one man's terrorist or one man's freedom fighter but to say he died on hunger strike "for Ireland" is insanely provocative. Focus: Lao-Tze Virgil Garnett Thomson Spanish proverb.