Dragongrrl's Quotes
Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
-Marie Curie
He who laughs, lasts.
-David Myers
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live now.
-Joan Baez
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein
One thing only I know - and that is that I know nothing.
-Socrates
That all depends on what "is" is.
-President Bill Clinton
I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad here, it's the fad for many a year, if you think we're crazy my dear, you're right cause I'M mad, YOU'RE mad, we're ALL mad here!
-Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Stop taking life so seriously… it's not permanent.
Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
God was my co-pilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
"Everything's better when it sits on a Ritz." and "Everything's better with Blue Bonnet on it." What happens if one spreads Blue Bonnet margarine on a Ritz cracker? The thought is frightening. Is this how God came into being? Try not to consider the fact that "Things go better with Coke. "
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-Albert Einstein
I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with.
-Plato
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
-Arthur Dent, from Doulgas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month.
I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis
-Zaphod Beeblebrox, from Doulgas Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Don't Panic.
-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Love is patient and kind; Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude; Love does not insist upon its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices at the right. Love bears all things, beleives all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
-I Corinthians 13:4-8
Some men dream of fortunes, others dream of cookies.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese Proverb
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
- Sherlock Holmes
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, wondrously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
- Charles Darwin
If there is no God, then who pops up the next Kleenex?
- Art Hoppe
Procrastination is like masturbation. It feels good while you're doing it, but then you realize that you're just fucking yourself.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's just a game: find the eye.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details
we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.
- Albert Einstein
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star, but we can understand the Universe.
That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking
There are some microorganisms that exhibit characteristics of both plants and animals. When exposed to light, they undergo photosynthesis; when the lights go out, they turn into animals. But then again, don't we all?
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali
For someone who was never meant for this world, I must confess I'm suddenly having a hard time leaving it.
Of course, they say every atom in our bodies was once part of a star. Maybe I'm not leaving. Maybe
I'm going home.
- Gattaca
He who sees the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the beauty of the earth and still says 'There is no God'
is ludicrous.
- Renee Henderson
I am only one but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what
I can not do interfere with what I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil, because I'm the baddest mother fucker in the valley!
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out.
But from here I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods
come and Gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last, and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting
things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.
- Olethros, Sandman
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming."
Virgil
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche
God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own
devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players
[i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a
pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell
you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Good Omens
Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
George Orwell
1984
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill