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“Every hour wounds. The last one kills”
American Gods, Neil Gaimen (but I don’t remember where he got it from)
“Count no man happy until he is dead”
Herodotus (quoting some one).
"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."
— Frank Loesser
Ironic. I wrote this quote about an hour ago in some thread in MPIMS.
“Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
-Shakespeare
“IT’S AN INTELLIGENCE TEST”
Message to “Unk” in Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“This job would be great if it wasn’t for the fucking customers.” - Randal Graves, Clerks
“Better the pride that resides
In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colourful rag is unfurled”
-Neil Peart
“Dirty…yeah, she loves you, Dirty Mutha Fuzz / She’s built like a candy store and Lord, I ate too much…”
- The Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Dirty Mutha Fuzz"
Oh yeah, and…
(you knew it had to happen at some point)
“Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – Gandalf, in The Return of the King
In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness the trees are full of starlight
and all I see is him and me forever and forever…
-Eponine, from Les Miserables.
Oh, and Ferggis? I’ll see your quote, and raise it another:
“You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.”
-Gandalf, in Moria (One of my favorite quotes from the trilogy!)
“Up Eorlingas! Fear no Darkness!”
Theoden
It is possible to make a small fortune in aviation
–provided you start with a large one
We do not shape stone with battle-axes, nor with our fingernails…
Gimli, after being asked to do some masonry in the middle of battle*
Excuse me, I’m not used to talking to someone who has a day of the week named after him
main char, talking to Thor (one of the Dirk Gently books)
Nuke it from orbit, its the only way to be sure
Ripley, Aliens
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate
Brian
*quote in honor of the TT trailer
A lawyer with his briefcase, can steal more than a hundred men with guns–Don Vito Corleone
Legolas on my left, and Aragorn on my right. None shall stand before us.–Eomer, Eomund’s son
In the right place now…
“‘I must take the A Train’ said the butterfly politely” and “It cannot be ill fortune to have loved a unicorn. Indeed, it must be the [best?] luck, though the hardest earned” both from "The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle.
The obligatory LOTR: “Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger”-Gandalf maybe???
and “Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup” --No idea…
Life moves pretty fast, you need to slow down every once in awhile or you might miss it - Ferris Bueller
“It is lucky for rulers that men do not think.” — Adolph Hitler
“Thank God, I still have my hair.” Doc, Back to the Future.
Just keeps getting more meaningful with every passing year.
Hmph. Mine got erased. Too long, perhaps?
“It is sad that we should meet again only at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think that we shall meet again.”
-Treebeard to Celeborn and Galadriel, ROTK, but they had Galadriel say it in the beginning of FOTR
“Ignore the environment, it’ll go away.”
-Bumper Sticker
“God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of mankind may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere upon its surface and say, ‘This is my country.’”
Benjamin Franklin