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[ravencallscrows]

All in all, life is damn good.

I have many of you to blame for this.

I'm still going to ask for more. I'm thinking about seeding a random quote generator, and figured one really good way to make it diverse was to ask for submissions. So, how about it? Got a favourite quote- whether ancient or contemporary, even somewhere in between; from literature, history, music or film; whatever. Doesn't have to be profound or funny, or anything- if it's not a language i understand, please provide a translation, but other than that, nearly anything goes. And please cite it- at least author/character, but however detailed you'd like to be, within reason.

I'll share the component when it's done if anyone's interested.

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[greenshadows.livejournal.com]

assorted weirdness -

Madonna: "Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another."

Dr. Frank N. Furter: "Give yourself over to absolute pleasure...swim the warm waters of sins of the flesh..."

Aleister Crowley's last words: "I am perplexed."

Sorry, lame I know, best I can manage tonight. ;) Must find my Oscar Wilde anthology, much treasure there!

[greenshadows.livejournal.com]

one more for tonight -

Anais Nin: "Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth."

Here's a few. Peruse at your whim.

[advancedbeing.livejournal.com]

God gave man two major organs: a brain and a penis. Unfortunately, He only gave man enough blood to run one of them at a time. -- Robin Williams

A psychiatrist is someone who charges you $400 an hour to let you figure out what's wrong with yourself. -- Rik Robertson

It's better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not. -- Anonymous

[calimbrium.livejournal.com]

"I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality."
-J.J. Rousseau


it's been my favorite quote (and semi-motto) for years.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[inanna.livejournal.com]

"This above all, to thine own self be true." Shakespear

"Magic is the art of changing consiousness at will." Dione Fortune

"I like the pretty lights." The Crow

"Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help." Psalms

"It's over...go on... go home." paraphrased, Ferris Bueller

"Do not be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before we can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." Richard Bach

"Get your fork off your penis and eat your dinner." a's mom.

"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me for a member." Groucho Marx

"The body of
B. Franklin, Printer
(Like the Cover of an Old Book
Its Contents torn Out
And Stripped of its Lettering and Gilding)
Lies Here, Food for Worms.
But the Work shall not be Lost;
For it will (as he Believ’d) Appear once More
In a New and More Elegant Edition
Revised and Corrected
By the Author."

Epitaph for himself, written by Benjamin Franklin

[janeoftrades.livejournal.com]

"In het spel des levens; krigt niemand één programme." --Dutch saying (Anonymous)

Translation: In the game of life, no one receives a program.

(It has more of a feeling of the play of life, though.)

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't; it ain't. That's logic." --Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking Glass)

Oh, and I love the Bucky quote! ;)
My favorite of his is much too long to quote but it's a wonderful, long bit on doppler effect and how if one were exploding and one's ear drums were still attached to a registering part of the brain and the exploding airplane bits around one were accelerating away.... It's lovely and rediculous and of course contains a lot of his rediculously long sentences which makes it quite fun to attempt to read aloud. *grin*

*hugs*

Good Quote

[kubrickfan.livejournal.com]

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know if where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." - Holden Caulfield

Here's a few more. Some are movie quotes.

[advancedbeing.livejournal.com]

There is a plague upon Man, the opinion that he knows something. -- Montaigne

I doubt, therefore I might be. -- Anonymous

If you're perfect at something, that means you've never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein

"Greed is for amateurs. Disorder, chaos, anarchy...now that's fun!" -- 'Top Dollar', The Crow

"Dance with the Devil and the Devil don't change; the Devil changes you." -- 8MM

"We all know God invented liquor to keep the Irish from ruling the world." -- The Ghost And The Darkness

You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart throws a sword at you. -- Monty Python