"Life on Earth never settled down to doing anything very good. Science ran too far ahead of us too quickly, and the people got lost in a mechanical wilderness, like children making over pretty things, gadgets, helicopters, rockets; emphasizing the wrong items, emphasizing machines instead of how to run the machines. Wars got bigger and bigger and finally killed Earth." -William Thomas in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
-a poem in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
"The Second Law of Thermodynamics states cutting butter with a nuclear-electric chainsaw doesn't make sense and has got to stop." -The Rainbook
"Billionaires smile like weapons
Passing out platinum pensions
They're out of kontrol
No one knows how low they'll go"
-Beck, "Broken Train"
"True love needs no company, It can cure the soul, it can make it whole" -Bob Dylan, "If Dogs Run Free"
"Fartricide" -Ms. Kristina A. Wilson
"Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garret." -William Stendahl in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
"Our lives are in the hands of men no smarter than you or I. Many of them incompetent boobs. I know this because I've worked alongside them, gone bowling with them, watched them pass me over for promotions time and again and I say this stinks." -Homer Jay Simpson (from my "The Quotable Homer" desk calendar)
"love is a plague
in a mix-match parade
where the castaways look so deranged
when will the children learn
to let their wildernesses burn
and love will be new never cold and vacant"
-Beck, "We Live Again"
"It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of Horus. It is time for a new standard, a new canvas, and a new artist. We must forget this wasted generation and amputate it before the mind rots away with it. Paint it, record it, write it down before they kill you with their slow poisonous stupidity. Make yourself heard.
"This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don't let them break it.
"Fuck their world.
"Let's make our own."
-Marilyn Manson (Read it all here)
"You've got to dance like nobody's watching, & LOVE like it's never going to hurt." -Mary Chapin Carpenter (from Danielle's webpage)
"Texts always represent the biases of the writer through what they write or what they don't write." -Dr. Alexander Joffe
"I hate this feeling of thinking I'm doing right when I'm not really certain I am. Who are we anyway? The majority? Is that not the answer? The majority is always holy, is it not? Always, always; just never wrong for one little insignificant tiny moment, is it? Never ever wrong in ten million years? . . . What is this majority and who are in it? And what do they think and how did they get that way and will they ever change and how the devil did I get caught in this rotten majority? I don't feel comfortable. Is it claustrophobia, fear of crowds, or common sense? Can one man be right, while all the world thinks they are right? Let's not think about it. Let's crawl around and act exciting and pull the trigger. There and there!" - Captain Wilder in Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles
"They [The Martians] knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn't try too hard to be all men and no animal. That's the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced him and Huxley and Freud, all smiles. And then we discovered that Darwin and our religions didn't mix. Or at least we didn't think they did. We were fools. We tried to budge Darwin and Huxley and Freud. They wouldn't move very well. So, like idiots, we tried knocking down religion.
"We succeeded pretty well. We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated outflinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Darwin. We were and still are a lost people."
". . . They know how to combine science and religion so the two worked side by side, neither denying the other, each enriching the other.
". . . The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals. The animal does not question life. It lives. Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life . . .
". . . Man had become too much man and not enough animal on Mars too. And the men of Mars realized that in order to survive they would have to forego asking that one question any longer: Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of life and the living of as good a life as possible. The Martians realized that they asked the question 'Why live at all?' at the height of some period of war and despair, when there was no answer. But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way. Life was now good and needed no arguments."
". . . it paid to be naïve. They quit trying too hard to destroy everything, to humble everything. The blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle. They never let science crush the aesthetic and the beautiful. It's all simply a matter degree. An Earth Man thinks: 'In that picture, color does not exist, really. A scientist can prove that color is only the way the cells are placed in a certain material to reflect light. Therefore, color is not really an actual part of things I happen to see.' A Martian, far cleverer, would say: 'This is a fine picture. It came form the hand and the mind of a man inspired. Its idea and color are from life. This thing is good.'"
"Anything that's strange is no good to the average American." -Spender in Ray Bradury's The Martian Chronicles
"It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?" -Rage Against the Machine, "Guerilla Radio"
"It's glorious! The streets are paved with water! You could ride a walrus to work!" -Homer
"It's never too late to start all over again" -Steppenwolf, "It's Never Too Late"
"I believe In an intelligent, informed, motivated populace. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that I don't believe in you." -Jule
"Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan" -Chinese Proverb (from my Anthro book)
"You can never expect anything." -Mer
"You never know what you have until you lose it" -Light Green Motorcycle, "Through She Said"
"Your time is gonna come" -Led Zeppelin, "Your Time Is Gonna Come"
"I'd love to change the world
But I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you"
-Ten Years After, "I'd Love to Change the World"
"Walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
line up to the mind cemetary now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells"
-Rage Against The Machine, "Bulls On Parade"
"Many times I've lied - Many times I've listened
Many times I've wondered how much there is to know"
-Led Zeppelin, "Over the Hills and Far Away"
"What if the hokey pokey was really what it was all about?" -Meredith K. Bradford
"Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young." -Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
"Faith your driving me away
you do it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like hell
my brain says im receiving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life support
my iron lung
weRe too young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are losing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
our twentieth century bitch and we are grateful for our
iron lung"
-Radiohead, "My Iron Lung"
"Tierra, Justicia, y Ley!" -Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919 (got this off the shirt of a kid in my Astro class of all places . . .)
"Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!" -Rage Against the Machine, "Killing In The Name Of"
"Women seem wicked, when you're unwanted" -The Doors, "People Are Strange"
"I tell you this. I don't know what's gonna happen, man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames." -Jim Morrison
"Of course, even bad sex is better than no sex." -Ms. Kelly McDowell
"You labeled me
I'll label you
so I dub the unforgiven"
-Metallica, "The Unforgiven" (from Jessie)
"Academics are notorious for their maddening penchant for qualifying everything to the point of utter irresolution, but that's the nature of human analysis . . ." -Robert J. Wenke, Patterns In Prehistory
"Man is the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings." -Anonymous (from my Anthro book)
"Things happen for the best, you just have to find what that best is." -Mr. Anonymous (Hari said it to me, but thinks he got it from somewhere else so he rufuses to get credit for it.)
"Just because it did not take you where you wanted to go does not mean the journey was not good for you." -Rostek Horn in Michael A. Stackpole's I, Jedi
"If we suffer tamely an attack on our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom" -Samuel Adams, 1771 (From Jule)
"Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin of a dying man
And Night after Night we pretend it's all right"
-Pink Floyd, "One of my turns"
"In blackest night, any light is welcome." -Michael A. Stackpole's I, Jedi
"If the Bible has taught us nothing else- and it hasn't- it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such." -Homer (From my "The Quotable Homer" Desk Calendar yet again)
"Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein (Quoted in a book my Mommy was reading.)
"You don't know what it's like- I'm the one that's out there every day putting his ass on the line. And I'm not out of order! You're out of order! The whole freaking system is out of order!" -Homer (From my "The Quotable Homer" Desk Calendar again)
"Don't be afraid to care" -Pink Floyd, "Breathe"
"I am pleased to report that the scientific community has finally stopped wasting time on the origins of the universe and started dealing with the important question, which is: Are lobsters really just big insects?" -Dave Barry, "The Lobster Rebellion," Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus
"God, if people knew what murder is. So silly, so stupid, so- ugly." -Ray Bradbury, "A Touch of Petulance"
"It takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen." -Homer (From my "The Quotable Homer" Desk Calendar)
"Ain't it hard to want somebody who doesn't want you?" -Beck, "Bottle of Blues"
"Death creeps in slow 'til you feel safe in his arms." -Beck, "O Maria"
"To Alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." -Homer J. Simpson
"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
take a bow for the new revolution,
smile and grin at the change all around,
take up my guitar and play
just like yesterday,
and I'll get on my knees and pray.
We don't get fooled again.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
-The Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again"
"Do you think at all?" -Buffalo Springfield, "Bluebird"
"Honey, let me tell you something . . . in the end, who has the better ass does not matter." -Jennifer (Juniper) Crawford
"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall"
-Paul Simon, "Kodachrome"
"I know what I want but I just don't know how to go about getting it" -Jimi Hendrix, "Manic Depression"
"Music, sweet music, I wish I could caress caress caress" -Jimi Hendrix, "Manic Depression"
"That's what happens to innocent people. They're always dying for somebody else's idea of what's right or wrong." -Ray Liotta as Robbins in "No Escape"
"Robbins, we're all guilty in someone's eyes; especially so in our own. Maybe you can't forgive yourself yet, but eventually you have to, or you won't survive." -Lance Henrikson as The Father in "No Escape"
"Everything for everyone and nothing for ourselves!" -Rage Against the Machine, "Zapata's Blood"
". . . to hold the body of women in our arms is neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstacy granted to the race of men." -Ayn Rand, Anthem
"I am. I think. I will.
"My hands . . . My spirit . . . My sky . . . My forest . . . This earth of mine . . . .
"What must I say besides? These are the words. This is my answer.
"I stand hear on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
"It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect."
". . . I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." -Ayn Rand, Anthem
(I suggest you read all of Chapter XI of Anthem. It is the heart of the book and contains most of what Rand was trying to get across.)
". . . nutty people don't rat on you. Nice, friendly, ordinary next-door-neighbor types- they would rat on you and think nothing of it. But a a nutty person never would." -John Bellairs' The Curse of the Blue Figurine
"To fuss is human;
To Rant, divine!"
-Professor Roderick Random Childermass in John Bellairs' The Curse of the Blue Figurine
"People are funny creatures. If they think they're ugly, then they really are ugly. If they think they're weak then they really are weak. Whatever you think you are, that's what you are." -Mr. Beard in John Bellairs' The Curse of the Blue Figurine
"The professor believed in thought. He was always telling his students that you could get to the unknown by using the known. If you just put the facts that you knew together in the proper way, you might get some truly amazing results." -John Bellairs' The Curse of the Blue Figurine
"Fools aren't born . . . pretty girls make them in their spare time." -Jeff Daniels in "101 Dalmations"
"Only one way to argue with a woman, Doc- don't." -Luke in "The Haunting"
"I like quotes. They're a great short cut to thinking. Instead of explaining myself, I can quote Socrates or the Bible, and people go 'ah, true true', no matter how stupid the idea was. This is why I'm also in favor of large scale ass-whoopin's. I will close this brief piece with a few words from Homer: 'mmmmm... slanty'" -Julius E. Maurer, III
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts the lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." -Granger in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
"He's a new and better man- Doctor Robert." -The Beatles, "Dr. Robert"
"Love has a nasty habit of disappearing overnight." -The Beatles, "I'm Looking Through You"
"Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to, isn't he a bit like you and me?" -The Beatles, "Nowhere Man"
From "Money For Nothing":
Bad Money Laundering Guy: In terms of empathy, in the sense of putting oneself inside the skin of another person, I admire that man. He was an inventor. He had an imagination. He was a bit of a fatso but he was sexually active. And of all of the founding fathers whos' faces appear on hard currency, he's the only one cracking a smile. Ben Franklin.
Joey Coyle (John Cusack): Why's Ben smiling?
BMLG: He was smart enough not to be President. He lived in a treehouse for a period of time, Joe.
and later in the movie . . .
BMLG: You know, the only real question about money is do you possess it or does it possess you?
Joey: Shut up. And I don't wanna hear about Ben Franklin having sex in the treehouse.
"You will become a hypocrite. You'll become a liar. You'll try to paper up your own cracks, and your own- you know- and everybody does it, and that's what being an adult is. Then you have babies and that's it." -Thom Yorke
Look here for some dialogue from the movie "Ghostbusters." The movie, as with most movies involving Bill Murray or Dan Aykroyd, is full of really really funny one liners and exchanges between characters.
Check here for some great quotes and dialogue from Stanley Kubrick's film "Full Metal Jacket."
From "The Blues Brothers":
Lady: Are you the police?
Elwood: No, ma'am. We're musicians.
"If I could be who you wanted" -Radiohead, "Fake Plastic Trees"
"War may be seen by some as political action carried to the extreme, but I know there is a difference. Warefare is a different beast, where power is displayed in its raw and naked form and there is no running or hiding from it. In politics one seeks to bend another to his will. In war the object is to shatter another completely, so neither he nor his will offers further resistance." -Prince-Admiral Krennel in Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
"It's called the gray fallacy. One person says white, another says black, and outside observers assume gray is the truth. The assumption of gray is sloppy, lazy thinking. The fact that one person takes a position that is diametrically opposed to the truth does not then skew reality so the truth is no longer the truth. The truth is still the truth." -Captain Tycho Celchu in Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
"Warefare is an occupation from which one can never retire too young." -Admiral Ackbar in Michael A. Stackpole's X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
"Zsinj's doctrine. No matter what the odds look like, if the enemy has chosen the battleground, he has more resources than we're aware of. It becomes imperative to choose a new battlefield, one the enemy can't have prepared." -Aaron Allston's X-Wing: Solo Command
"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." -Albert Einstein, 1935
"I'm in shape. Round is a shape." -Garfield
"Of all the things I've lost, I think I miss my mind the most." -Ozzy Ozborne
"I am gross and perverted
I'm obsessed and deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I'm the tool of the government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
and regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can't look away
I make you think I'm delicious
with the stuff that I say
I'm the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I'm the slime oozin' out from your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don't need you
Don't go for help, no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
(That's right folks don't touch that dial)
Well, I am the slime from the video
Oozing along on your living room floor
I am the slime from the video
Can't stop the slime, people look at me go"
-Frank Zappa, "I'm The Slime"
"I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures. And the natural world- our traditional source of direct insights- is rapidly disappearing. Modern city-dwellers cannot even see the stars at night. This humbling reminder of man's place in the greater scheme of things, which human beings formerly saw once every twenty-four hours, is denied them. It's no wonder that people lose their bearings, that they lose track of who they really are, and what their lives are really about."
"All generlizations are dangerous, even this one." -Alexandre Dumas (I picked this one up from 'Stall Stories'- this publication PSU makes and hangs in the stalls in the bathrooms for reading material- after my roomate had re-dubbed it 'STAHL Stories' and taped it to my closet.)
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men - true nobility is being superior to your former self" -Radiohead (unless they were quoting somone else, I dunno . . .)
"If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it." -anonymous (Meredith got it off of some trivia page for me. Thanks!)
"Rob, you must remember...at heart, if you think about everyone you know, every one is an asshole...you can quote me on that." -Jessie Maurer
"Life is one long struggle against boredom." -Dr. Daniel Weedman
"Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children." -The Crow
