Quotes from the Dark Side


"No sane man will dance."
Cicero


"Be slow of tongue and quick of eye."
Cerevantes


"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you."
Françoise Sagan


"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemmingway


"A voice spoke in my head:
She said,
'Dark is not the opposite of light, it is the absence of light.'
And I thought to myself, 'She knows what she's talking about.'
And for a moment I knew what it was all about."
Beastie Boys


"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
William Blake


"The shortest distance between two points is through hell."
Brian Clark


"If you have two religions in your countries, they will cut each other's throat; if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace."
Voltaire


"Bible siding?"
Eve watching cheap commercials on WXMT


"I'm gonna cover this land with beef as far as the eye can see."
John Wayne in Red River, either referring to cattle or a giant 2-inch steak


"We see the flowers fade and the leaves drop, but we also see the fruits ripen and the buds form. Life belongs to the living and we who live must be ready for change."
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"Keep tight hold on the present. Every condition, every moment even, is of infinite worth because it is the representative of Eternity."
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"We only really live when we forget life."
Goethe


"I want you to dance as if you were going to fall down if you didn't move."
Dee Birnbaum


"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."
Leonardo da Vinci


Mike: (playing a SimCiv-esque game) My civilization is the greatest in the world! Muwahahaha!
Eve: (watching) Yes, the greatest on your.. island.
Mike: Silence, woman!
Eve: Hah. Your people can take a wondferful trip to exciting... Scansea. Where they can... buy a rug! And see the mimes in the streets! And stone them. But the mimes will not die, for these are very small stones indeed.
Mike: (laughs) Where did you get that?
Eve: I made it up.
Mike: (sighs) I wish I were random.


"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
Karl Marx


"God wants no narrow-minded souls and empty heads for His children."
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"Men are great for having willed and accomplished something great--not something based on conceit or presumptuousness, but rather something right and necessary."
G. W. F. Hegel


"I had to put away the cat. I mean, come on, she was pink and dancing."
Eve


Buddhist Barbie:
In the 5th century B.C.
an Indian philosopher Gautama
teaches, "All is emptiness"
and "There is no self."
In the 20th century A.D.
Barbie agrees, but wonders how a man
with such a belly could pose,
smiling, and without a shirt.

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Barbie is American--
half victim and half pink soldier.
Denise Duhamel, Kinky


Eve vs. Rhodes Professors:
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Prof. Lacy: Eve, can I make you a compatibilist?
Eve: (Pause.) No. (Pause.) You can't even make me talk.
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Prof. Shade: You look so far away, Eve
Eve: (surrounded by diagonal empty desks on other side of room) That's just perspective, Professor Shade.


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Intro
Comic Strip
Quotes from the Dark Side
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