Quotes (Page 7)!
- "Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense. The goal is the Theory of Everything, but Ponder would settle for the Theory of Something and, late at night, when Hex appeared to be sulking, he despaired of even a Theory of Anything." ~Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
- "But even ordinary books are dangerous....A man sits in some museum and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven't even read it are dying because the ones who did haven't got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber." ~Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
- "Nothing pains some people more than having to think." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "What if they're trying to reach us and they're being thwarted by narrow-minded logic-heads" ~Clarissa Darling on extraterrestrials
- "It has been said in this courtroom today that only a human being can be free. But I think that is wrong. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom--who knows that there is such a concept, and desires it with all his will--is entitled to freedom." ~Andrew Martin
- "The essential point that has been raised here today, I think, is that there is no right to deny freedom to any...object...that possesses a mind sufficiently advanced to grasp the concept and desire the state." ~Judge Kramer
- "You have something real and valuable to give the world here. It won't be worth a thing, though, if you suppress what you feel and write only what you think others want to hear." ~Paul Charney
- "After all these years, you are still trying to reason out the human being. Poor Andrew, don't be angry at me for saying this, but it's the robot in you that drives you in that direction." Chee Li-hsing
- "He who laughs last thinks slowest." ~A bumper sticker
- "If I was slaughtered to death..." ~Mr. Jaffurs
- "The closer we get to Utopia, the closer we are to our end." ~Lynna
- "Chanese's face blocked my train of thought." ~Lynna
- "Do you want the government to take your cows away?" ~Justin
- "[Darn] duck." ~Colin Mochrie
- "I like a lot of wheels. If I could have eight wheels, I would." ~Jon Stewart on motorcycles
- "If that happened to me, I'd wear bubble wrap." ~Jon Stewart on motorcycle wrecks
- "Look! Those are Ryan's shoes!" ~Kathy Greenwood's Other Things You Can See from the Moon Besides the Great Wall of China
- "My feeling about weights is that they're far too heavy." ~Matthew Perry
- "If Brian jumps off a bridge because he forgot his calculator and Mrs. Redgate was picking on him..." ~Mrs. Redgate's "real life" physics problem
- "The Vietnam war was fought over portion size." ~Jon Stewart
- "When did you first know that this was going to have happened?" ~Moe Rocca interviewing a psychic
- "Nonetheless, Jim realized that there were certain advantages in being poor. No one could be bothered to cut off his hands." ~J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
- "Words are...important, Jim. Put aside a new word every day. You never know when a word might be useful." ~Basie
- "It's a good idea if you want to win a war." ~Jim Graham on bravery
- "Jim had always been impressed by strong religious beliefs. His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of a foreign ritual." ~J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
- "[Jim] had learned that having someone to care for was the same as being cared for by someone else." ~J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
- "It's rare to find someone so prolific in the works of Monty Python." ~Marshall
- "It's just I love to watch people too much, I guess." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly. If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! he'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "[Guy Montag] wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back." ~Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- "Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jerseys are they wearing as the trot out on the field?" ~Clarisse McClellan's uncle
- "Oh, they don't miss me. I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this. Or talking about how strange the world is." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you?" ~Clarisse McClellan
- "[School]'s a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going." ~Clarisse McClellan
- "We need not be left alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" ~Guy Montag
- "Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more." ~Beatty
- "With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar." ~Beatty
- "I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive." ~Faber
- "The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my definition, anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies." ~Faber
- "That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want." ~Faber
- "The books are to remind us what...fools we are." ~Faber
- "Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore." ~Faber
- "Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge." ~Faber
- "If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn." ~Faber
- "Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found." ~Alexander Pope
- "A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again." ~Alexander Pope
- "It's hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent." ~Q
- "Oh my god, you're a Muppet!" ~Bonnie Hunt about Jon Stweart
- "That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973." ~Jon Stewart
- "I never thought I'd say this, but get me Yankovic." ~Jon Stewart
- "No. Because we are not talking when you think we are. It's probably October." ~Jon Stewart
- "You know who you might not want to repeat that to...? The world." ~Jon Stewart
- "People get depressed for a lot of reasons. Maybe one is because they only get a day and squirrels get a week." ~Ed Helms regarding National Depression Screening Day versus Squirrel Appreciation Week
- "Shouldn't EVERY week be Infection Control Week?" ~Ed Helms
- "Get off my ship." ~Captain Jean-Luc Picard
- "The data doesn't lie." ~Mr. Jaffurs
- "Come on, Bronx. No sense staying up here where it's safe." ~Brooklyn
- "Thanks for saving my bacon before it got fried." ~Brooklyn to Lexington
- "Books are lighthouses erected in the dark sea of time." ~Jeffrey Robbins
- "Okay, I'm freaking..." ~Iago
- "I'm not 100% sure, but I think this is a good thing." ~Iago
- "Kids – don't play with evil incarnate. Someone always gets hurt." ~Genie
- "Come to the dark side, Peter, we'd love to have you here." ~Jon Stewart to Peter Jennings
- "There's nothing wrong with telling people what you intend to do with a 30,000 pound hunk of metal." ~My mother on blinkers
- "...everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?" ~Beatty
- "But you didn't. So you won't. Time travel's funny that way." ~David Xanatos
- "Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation." ~Beatty
- "It doesn't matter what you do, [my grandfather] 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 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
- "As you can see, I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored." ~Ray Bradbury
- "I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!" ~Ray Bradbury
- "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches." ~Ray Bradbury
- "For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics." ~Ray Bradbury
- "If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture." ~Ray Bradbury
- "See Tommy, wishes really don't come true!" ~Chuckie Finster
- "Nothing that roller skates and rocket boosters won't fix." ~Genie
- "I don't think it's grand theft if you leave a note." ~Doctor Bruce Kellerman
- "She hardly didn't eat anything at lunch today." ~Quinn Morgendorffer about Stacy Rowe
- "Remind me not to get hit by one of those." ~Brooklyn on trains
- "They should have Halloween more often." ~Lexington
- "I'm an orphan, Daddy, I'm an orphan!" ~Chanese
- "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." ~MacBeth
- "It only takes once to die." ~Mrs. Ostazeski
- "You can have your faith, but you can also take a side of reason." ~Gwendolyn Lockwood
- "There is no constant in History." ~Heather
- LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING. ~Death
- "'If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly,' said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "The smith nodded. He didn't really understand, but he correctly surmised that if he revealed this fact Granny would start going into horrible details." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "You're a bit young for this, but as you grow older you'll find most people don't set foot outside their own heads much." ~Granny Weatherwax to Esk
- "Granny had heard that broomsticks were once again very much the fashion among younger witches, but she didn't hold with it. There was no way a body could look respectable while hurtling through the air aboard a household implement." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "Granny had spent a lifetime bending recalcitrant creatures to her bidding and, while Esk was a surprisingly strong opponent, it was obvious that she would give in before the end of the paragraph." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about life and had seen the joke." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "�enough blips of sense reached her through the heterodyne wails of a thousand minds all thinking at once to convince her that the world was, indeed, as silly as she had always believed it was." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spend ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air every day." ~Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- "And on the second quarter note, He rested." ~Mr. Keech
- "Are you sure this water's sanitary? It looks questionable to me!" ~Tantor
- "Death is always pointless. That is the point." ~Anubis
- "A land with a hero soon finds other deeds for him to do." ~Goliath
- "What you choose to do with your life is your own affair, as long as it doesn't involve me." ~Hudson
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