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"The world is a fine place and worth figthing and I'd very much hate to leave it."-For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway.
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
"You hate America, don't you?" she said.
"That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."-Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
"Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.
But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes... and let's go home. "-Watchmen, Alan Moore
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
"You hate America, don't you?" she said.
"That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."-Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut
"Thermo-dynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermo-dynamic miracle.
But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.
Come... dry your eyes, for you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes... and let's go home. "-Watchmen, Alan Moore
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Qonfused said:
From the mouth of every sci-fi villian?
From memory, I remember Dr. Evil saying it.
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Speaking of song quotes, I do particularly like one from It Was Fear Of Myself That Made Me Odd, by Alexisonfire.
I will play until the sky is black. Breathe in all the air, exhale, and choke the land with carbon.
From where I stand, I can see the curvature of the Earth, and I want to make it flat.
I will play until the sky is black.
That, and: "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson
I will play until the sky is black. Breathe in all the air, exhale, and choke the land with carbon.
From where I stand, I can see the curvature of the Earth, and I want to make it flat.
I will play until the sky is black.
That, and: "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson
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NIN / Nine Inch NailsQonfused said:
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"Creationism is the belief that God's abilities are limited by man's imagination."
Hell if I knew who said that. It's by all means not my favorite quote but it just works perfectly if you want to win some argument against a creationist. Those bastards sucked my dick. You can also even add intelligent design if you want too, it still makes sense. I probably would never ever use this quote in real life anyways.
Hell if I knew who said that. It's by all means not my favorite quote but it just works perfectly if you want to win some argument against a creationist. Those bastards sucked my dick. You can also even add intelligent design if you want too, it still makes sense. I probably would never ever use this quote in real life anyways.
