Quotes
This is a mixture of many different types of quotes. All, that I thought were worth showing...and at least somewhat made you think. Many, if not all of the quotes were said by famous people. So, take them with a grain of salt...and enjoy. By the way, some of the quotes are from movies, so I don't know what you'll get out of them...other than a laugh.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." --Douglas Adams
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." --William Blake
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." --Abbie Hoffman
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." --Jimi Hendrix
"Never mistake motion for action." --Ernest Hemingway
"America is a vast conspiracy for making you happy." --John Updike
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." --Oscar Wilde
"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." --IBM maintenance manual, 1925
"Language is a virus...We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind
and not of the image of the thing itself."
- William S. Burroughs
"Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order." Gary Snyder- Ibid
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
--H. L. Mencken
"Religion... is the opium of the masses." --Karl Marx
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." --George Orwell
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." --Steve Prefontaine
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." --T.S. Eliot
"Sanity is madness put to good use." --George Santayana
"You see things and say why? But I dream things that never were; and I say why not?" --George Bernard Shaw
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past." --Percey Byshe Shelley
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." --Noam Chomsky
"49% of all statistics are wrong." -- Statistics Canada
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." --Lord Byron
"I don't know. I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference." --Jack Kerouac
"I see my light come shining through, From the West down to the East, Any day now, any day now, I shall be released." --Bob Dylan
"Sanity -- that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought." --Erich Fromm
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Pable Picasso
"Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental." --Sleepless in Seattle
"Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" --(The Breakfast Club, John Bender)
"Hey, how come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up...we'll all get up...it'll be anarchy! --(The Breakfast Club, John Bender)
"I was never more certain of how far away I was from my goal than when I was standing right beside it." --"Gattaca, Vincent)
"Anyone who isn't dead or from another plane of existence would do well to cover their ears right about now." --(Dogma, Metatron)
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." --H.G. Wells
"If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of." --Maier's Law
"There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third." --Timothy Leary
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent." --Victor Hugo
1. Do more than exist, live.
2. Do more than touch, feel.
3. Do more than look, observe.
4. Do more than read, absorb.
5. Do more than hear, listen.
6. Do more than listen, understand.
7. Do more than think, ponder.
8. Do more than talk, say something
--John H. Rhoades
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." --Henry David Thoreau
"Before I sink into the big sleep, I want to hear the scream of the butterfly." --Jim Morrison
"Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money."--Marilyn Manson
"Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not." --Friedrich Nietzsche
"One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion." --Voltaire
"My Karma ran over your dogma." --Unknown
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice, not something to wish for, but to attain." --William Jennings Bryan
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken bird that cannot fly." --Langston Hughes
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." --Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." --Ayn Rand
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." --Edgar Allan Poe
" Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." --John Lennon
"Religion is for those who believe in hell, Spirituality is for those who have been there." --David Bowie
"I talk to G-d but the sky is empty." --Sylvia Plath
"G-d is DEAD, and no one cares. If there is a hell I'll see you there." --Trent Reznor
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothing." --Henry David Thoreau
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." --Douglas Adams
"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change." --Confucius
"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." --Jerome K. Jerome
"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." --Turkish proverb
" The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." --Socrates
"You can t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need." --Mick Jagger
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." --Thomas Jefferson
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know." --John Keats
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." --J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Patrick Overton
"If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad." --Sheryl Crow
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve
them." --Isaac Asimov
"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all." --Stephen Hawking
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on." --Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven)
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." --John Keats
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." --(Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris Bueller)
"There's a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path." --(The Matrix, Morpheus)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." --Frank Zappa
"People dictate their own behavior." --(Clerks, Randal Graves)
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" --Niels Bohr
"In the end, everything is a gag." --Charlie Chaplin
"..take the draw." --(Searching for Bobby Fisher, Josh Waitzkin)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." --Aldous Huxley
"There are only two tragedies in life" one is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it." --Oscar Wilde
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." --Albert Einstein