Over the years, I've read a ~lot~ of books, articles, comics, etc. as well as seeing tons of movies and TV. This particular branch of the web-site is dedicated to some of my favourite sayings from all those things and more, and where I can I'll try and quote where the things came from. *smiles* Including some of my own. Hope you enjoy.
*Smiles softly* Here's something I read recently and find it to be very true:
"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been."
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation." 1
Jone's Motto: Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Korman's Conclusion: The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
Handy Guide to Modern Science:
1. If it is green or it wiggles, it's biology.
2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
1 Yes, I know this isn't the proper quote from the poem, it's from "Thoughts for the day" that popped up on our highschool computers when we logged in. So are any following "Murphy's Military Laws" and a few others - like all of those not in quotes.
"Which is the more foolish: The fool, or the fool that follows him?" Star Wars: A New Hope.
"When 900 you reach, look as good you will not." Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
"Grab it, store it, stuff it." Susan Ivonova, Babylon 5, when waking up and talking to her computer.
"Until we meet again in the place where no Shadows fall." Vow between Captain John Sheridan and Ambassador Delenn. Babylon 5.
"And so it begins..." Ambassador Kosh Naranik, Babylon 5.
"No boom today, boom tomorrow, there is always a boom tomorrow." "What?!" "Look somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later BOOM!" - Susan Ivanova. might be wrong about the quote, will do research this week-end.
"Morning, Lt. Commander"
"Commander."
"Sleep well?"
"Sleeping isn't the problem. Waking up, that is the problem. I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside."
"But it's always dark in space."
"I know...I know."
- Conversation between Susan Ivanova and Commander Jeffrey Sinclair. Babylon 5
"My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance, Vir." Lando Molari, Babylon 5.
"I am too late. Everything is to late." G'Kar, Babylon 5.
"I have been studying Human writing recently, and perhaps they are far more intelligent than we thought." G'Kar to his aid Na'Toth, before going on to read the following...
"Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold. Mear anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. And what rough beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Bethlaham to be born."
..."Maybe, but God was there first and He didn't need solar batteries and fusion reactors to do it."
"Perhaps, prehaps not. It is within that ambiguity that my Brothers and I exist. We are dreamers, shapers, singers, makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and evocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things."
"Such as?"
"The True Secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever, seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you. That is why we are going away, to preserve that knowledge." Captain John Sheridan speaking with the Technomage leader Elric, Babylon 5
"Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all." G'Kar, Babylon 5.
"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will grow with time. I could warn you, of course, but you would not listen. I could kill you, but someone else would take your place. So I do the only thing I can. I go." Elric to Ambassador Lando Molari.
"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise I have considerable work to do." Lennier - assistant to Ambassador Delenn, Babylon 5.
"Morning, gentlemen. This is your wake-up call." - Sheridan before exploding a bomb in deep space, Into the Fire.
"A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, their side, and the Truth." - Sheridan to Vorlon representative, Into the Fire.
"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other." - G'Kar to Dr. Franklin, Epiphanies.
"He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest that he intends to go far beyond harsh language." - Lennier to Delenn.
"Next time...Next time you want a revelation, could you possibly find a way that isn't quite so uncomfortable?" - Marcus the Ranger, to Nairoon.
"An old Egyptian blessing?"
"May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." - Marcus and Ivanova, Shadow Dancing.
"Ready?"
"Why do your people ask if someone is ready right before you're about to do something massively unwise?"
"Tradition" - Delenn to Ambassador Sinclair, War Without End, Part 1.
"How far are they from the station?"
"They've taken up firing positions all around us."
"Okay. Activate the defense grid, launch all starfuries. If they move, shoot 'em. If they don't move, shoot twice. They are probably hiding something." - Leutenant Corwin on the link to C&C, Movie: River of Souls
"Yes, ye shall find many useful tidbits within this morass of information that Volo has seen fit to call a book. I shall clarify as needed." - Elminster
"'As needed' but not 'as wanted' or 'as requested', eh wizard?
So be it, scribble where ye must." - Volo
"The more your reputation has fallen, the more you must donate... Priests have long memories." - Volo
"A notorious embellisher and braggart, Volo's guide is remarkably accurate - for him. Perhaps this reflects the influence of an unnamed, wiser eye looking over Volo's shoulder." - Elminster
"Such organizations (the Cowled Wizards) give wizards like me a bad name!" - Volo
"Your bad name is your own doing." - Elminster
Referring to Illithids: "I have heard these monsters will suck the brain right from a person's head!" - Volo
"Then, Volo, you should be safe enough." - Elminster
"These are only a few of the hundreds of monsters you'll ecounter, my friend. Rest assured that I'll be thinking of you as I down my mug of ale!" - Volo
"Your bravery is touching, as always, Volo." - Elminster
"Dialoguing with strangers is a large part of my research...though occasionally my conversations take a turn for the worse." - Volo
"Occasionally, one developes an unsavoury reputation through no fault of their own." - Volo
"No comment." - Elminster
Referring to the Fighter and kit types: "Many different names, one basic function. I prefer to avoid violence, myself." - Volo
"Perhaps because everyone you meet tries to direct their violence in your direction." - Elminster
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