Quotes and Passages

Everyone else seems to have one of these so I want one too. (It's called jumping on the bandwagon.)

Quotes from Gundam Wing

"Stop. Space is a place of peace."

~ Lady Une~

"Live strongly and passionately and violently!"

~ Dorothy~

"Death is a gift given at birth."

~ Dorothy~

"The god of death? Well, it sounds much better than a hero who commits mass murder."

~Duo Maxwell~

"Oh, man, Quatre loves to blame himself for everything if you let him. Sooner or later, he'll start saying that there's no air in space because he didn't work on it hard enough."

~Duo Maxwell~

"Peace is nothing but a result of war."

~Heero Yuy~

"That's funny, I'm crying. And I'm not sad at all."

~Quatre~

-Submitted by Suzanne Lara-

"Those who have laid eyes on a Gundam shall not live to tell about it."
~Trowa Barton~

"Don't behave like a spoiled child!  The people who live... who will live
without you won't be able to do anything but cry."
~Catherine Bloom *tell him Catherine!*~

"Well, hurry up and die, you're wasting good air."
~Dr. G to Dr. J~

"I will kill you."
~Heero Yuy's famous quote (when does he not ever say that?)~

"Then I'll give you one piece of advice... dying hurts like hell."
~Heero Yuy~

"Stop making me repeat myself, it's bad for my health."
~Duo Maxwell~

"Sorry, but this is the end of the line for me.  This is so uncool, what a
lame way to go!"
~Duo to Wufei~

Quotes from Kabuki by David Mack

"When I write, words can be my best friend... My most powerful tools. Sometimes words are all I have." 

~Kabuki Agents: Scarab~

"Whisper your secret now or die screaming it later." 

~Kabuki: Circle of Blood~

I am armed only with the power my physical presence commands. I have no weapons, no gadgetry--nothing to match the 14 guns aimed at me from both sides of the doorway. I have only my training, my body and my will to go further than my enemy. ...And I have a smile. 

~Kabuki~

If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

~Kabuki~

"Death is such a nasty word."

~Snapdragon~

"I often wonder where a flame goes when it is blown out..."

~Butoh~

You can't kill time without injuring eternity.

~Kabuki~

Quotes from Terry Pratchett Novels

"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE."
-- Death is obviously not a dog person

~Sourcery~

"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."

~Sourcery~

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.

~Wyrd Sisters~

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".

~The Colour of Magic~

Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

~Interesting Times~

If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have gotten no further because of all the people saying "What colour?"

~Men at Arms~

He was said to have the body of a twenty-five year old, although no one knew where he kept it.

~Men at Arms~

It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy.

~Lords and Ladies~

I MUST SAY THESE ARE VERY GOOD BISCUITS. HOW DO THEY GET THE BITS OF CHOCOLATE IN?
-- Death has a snack

~Lords and Ladies~

I LIKE TO THINK I AM A PICKER-UP OF UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES. Death grinned hopefully.

~Lords and Ladies~

The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.

~Lords and Ladies~

"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."
-- Popcorn comes to the Discworld

~Moving Pictures~

- "It looks worse than you can imagine!"
- "I can imagine some pretty bad things!"
- "That's why I said *worse*!"

~Moving Pictures~

It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

~Soul Music~

The question seldom addressed is *where* Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.

~Soul Music~

"Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong."

~Soul Music~

- "Pardon me for living, I'm sure."
- NO-ONE GETS PARDONED FOR LIVING.

~Mort~

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

~Mort~

It is a fact that although the Death of the Discworld is, in his own words, an ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION, he long ago gave up using the traditional skeletal horses, because of the bother of having to stop all the time to wire bits back on.

~Mort~

- I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD.
- "Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?"
-- Death consults a job broker

~Mort~

DROP THE SCYTHE, AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY.

~Reaper Man~

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

~Reaper Man~

Not matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

~Reaper Man~

I EXPECT, he said, THAT YOU COULD MURDER A PIECE OF CHEESE?
-- Death talks to the Death of Rats

~Reaper Man~

Kids! Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your home.

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

Humans suffering from a conflict of signals aren't the best people to be holding guns, especially when they've just witnessed a natural childbirth, which definitely looked an un-American way of bringing new citizens into the world

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

Of course he was all in favour of Armageddon in *general* terms.

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

It wasn't a dark and stormy night.
It should have been, but there's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is complete and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.

~Good Omens written with Neil Gaiman~

Miscellaneous Quotes

"God, I frickin' hate having pleasant dreams, 'cause...'cause... 'cause I always wake up."

~Magical Drama Queen Roxy~

"Hey, an extra pair of wings. Thanks death!"

~Angel duck~

"The fool that willingly provokes a woman has made himself another evil angel, and a new hell to which all other torments are but mere pastime."

~Cupid's Revenge~

"That's not fair!"
"You say that so often, I wonder what you're basis for comparison is?"

 ~Sarah and Jareth from Labyrinth~

"They say every type of story has been written and categorized. My goal in life is to find the story that hasn't been written and write it!" 

~Tiryana~

"Life's a bitch then you die, huh? Let's try I'm a bitch, then you really die... and that line was corny even for me."

~Chance~

"I'm a girl... society says if I eat anything in a day I'm going to hell."

~Chance~

“You do NOT ask a woman with menstrual cramps to give up chocolate... that's a basic survival tip.”

~Shan~

"He likes salt and vinegar chips. That's such a rarity in men."

~Mae~

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and three hundred sixty-two admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

~I don't know~

A scar is a sign of success. Say I were to stab you, if you have a scar you lived through it. If you don't... well, you're dead.

~Ms. Hanson my Anthropology teacher~

Passages

"You're just in time for my daily count to infinity."

"Fantastic. What number are you on?"

"Two."

"Two is day and night, male and female, yang and yin, light and dark, right and wrong, right and left. We have two hands, two feet, two eyes, two lungs, two kidneys, and two ovaries. This is no accident; even the simplest vertebrates exhibit bilateral symmetry, the appearance of the same thing on the other side as the other. Only backwards. This anatomical symmetry is deceptive when reflected. Mirrors fool us into thinking we see our selves, when in fact, we see exactly the opposite."

"Why do mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down?"

"Gravity. Gravity bends time and space. Like light, time is made up of particles. Particles have mass. Mass has weight. Time has weight and therefore velocity. That's why the older you get, the faster time progresses. If you're not careful, it will run right over you! 

"But I digress from my discussion of the symmetrical properties of the number two. Human symmetry, though more than skin deep, is not total. We have but one heart, and it is not symmetrical, but located to the left of center. Unless we are a pair of mirror twins, in which case it may turn up on the right. Which brings me to the twin-twin paradox. The theory of relativity claims that time passes at different rates according to the motion of the observer. If one twin travels by plane they return to earth younger than the sibling. When first formulated the twin paradox was contrary to experience that many cited it as proof that relativity must be wrong. Nothing in everyday life leads us to believe that time is relative. A pair of twins are the same age from cradle to grave. The paradox lies in our own mistaken assumptions about the way the world works. Rather than the logic of the situation. Common sense is wrong. Even a reflection is relative. 

"Alice does well to wonder whether 'looking glass milk' is good to drink. It probably isn't, for subatomic particles... have their opposite antiparticles. And when the two meet... they annihilate each other. Another deviance from human symmetry, even with something we have two of, is hand orientation. Chinese is written vertically starting at the top. Many other scripts read from left to right, inconvenient to the left-handed... who must contort the writing hand to avoid dragging a sleeve in fresh ink. In Japan, one simply learns to write with the right hand even if one is left-handed, and that ends the matter. Thought westerners have more leeway in this regard, many of our tools (and weapons) only work properly in the right hand. 

"Left-handedness is associated with the right-hemisphere dominance in the brain... which is divided in two. Our left hemisphere have a corner on language and logic. So right-handedness tends to be accompanied by a rational analytical world view. By contrast the left-handed tend to have an easier time viewing things in holistic terms... and are more likely to draw things as they are... rather than... 'the way they are supposed to be.' All children seem to have this ability to some extent, but most appear to lose it by adolescence. Even strongly right-handed adults, however, can learn to draw (again) by coaxing their right hemisphere into partnership. One technique is to sketch things upside down, so that their line and form predominate, and our eyes are not subverted by the tyrannical left brain's attempts to make sense of what we see. 

"It is not clear why our brains are bicameral, but in general having two of something gives us backup in case one of the vital organs calls it quits. Unfortunately, we do not have two hearts. 

"Two eyes have the additional merit of establishing depth perception. Seeing double, of course, is a classical metaphor for visual derangement. It is perhaps a testimony to the tenacity of dualistic thought that so many western countries have legends about doppelgangers. It is incredibly bad luck for you to meet this double of yourself... and probably not so great for them either. Well, that's two."

~Conversation between M.C. Square and Akemi from Kabuki~

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