Longer Quotes
& Short Passages.
1. Look at your opponets move.
2. Make the best possible move.
3. Have a plan.
4. Know what your men are worth.
---Arthur Bisquier, international chess grand master, from
"Ten Tips to Winning Chess"
"11:15, restate my assumptions:
1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through
numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.
Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature."
Maximillian Cohen, PI
"Every time we have some lunatic run amok and shoot someone,
when we have kids in schoolyards blowing each other's asses off,
everybody says, 'What was the reason? What was the motivation?
' There is no fucking motivation! The world is turning
into a cesspool of imbeciles! The genetic pool has been so hideously
polluted, and we have condoned all of it--every bit of stupidity
from bad movies and cheap novels and shit fast food to rap music
to pretending that the gun lobby is not an evil and insidious
operation that serves the gunmakers... All of this crap is part
of our inability to deal with the size of our own brains."
Harlan Ellison, interview with theonion.com
"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed
to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed
a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature
like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your
God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever
really want to see an angel?"
Thomas Daggett, Prophecy
"I'm an angel. I kill newborns while their mamas
watch. I turn cities into salt. And occasionally, when I feel
like it, I tear little girls apart. And from now till kingdom
come... the only thing you can count on... in your existence...
is never understanding why."
Gabriel, Prophecy
"I read the Satanic Bible and all that stuff, but it was
so adverse to what I wanted, and is hasn't been until the past
couple of years that all that stuff's been shaken. I've had to
go through a lot of spiritual healing to get clean. I don't think
people really realize how intense that stuff is and the marks
it can leave on you. There was one time where I did some witchcraft
on this guy who had punched me, and it physically affected him,
and to this day I regret it. That will never leave my mind--the
power of that stuff. I would rather light a candle than curse
the darkness. There was a time when I was very comfortable being
part of the darkness because I didn't understand the light. But
now I like seeing people smile more than watching them wrinkle
up their forehead and make the devil's sign. If half these kids
only knew that the way they make the devil's sign really means
'I love you' in sign language anyway."
(Mustaine, of Megadeth-1995)
"Evil personified appears at first sight repulsive. But
the more we study the personality of the Devil, the more fascinating
it becomes. The Devil is the rebel of the cosmos, the independent
in the empire of a tyrant; he is the individualising tendency,
the craving for originality, which bodily upsets the ordinances
of God that enforce a definite kind of conduct; he overturns
the monotony that would permeate the cosmic spheres if every
atom in unconscious righteousness and with pious obedience slavishly
followed a generally prescribed course."
- Paul Carus, The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1900)
"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me.
I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then
your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission,
you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars
in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and
you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke,
your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the
streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool
but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and
the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb
at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and
then you die. Maybe. "
-- Denis Leary
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one
advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet a success
unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will
pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal
laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him;
or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in
a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a
higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life,
the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude
will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, Your work need not be lost;
That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Thoreau "Castles in the Air."
"There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish
we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's
a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either-or
proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the
bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience?
Face the darkness. Stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche
said, being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark
night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!"
Chris Stevens, "Northern Exposure"
Sam: "Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt.
That's the first thing they teach you."
Vincent: "Who taught you?"
Sam: "I don't remember. That's the second thing they
teach you."
from Ronin
"I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although
I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection,
puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it.
I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the epitome
of everything I have ever looked for in another human being.
And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing
that line is the furthest thing from an option you would ever
consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore.
I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't,
I can't look into your eyes without feeling that, that longing
you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to
you without wanting to express my love for everything you are.
And I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended
- but I had to say it, because I've never felt this way before,
and I don't care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing
this to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts
me. But God, I just, I couldn't allow another day to go by without
just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by
the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And,
you know, I'll accept that. But I know...I know that some part
of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of
hesitation, then that means you feel something too. All I ask,
please, is that you just, you just not dismiss that - and try
to dwell in it for just ten seconds. Alyssa, there isn't another
soul on this fucking planet who has ever made me half the person
I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for
the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there
between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even
if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever
changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which
- while I do appreciate it - I'd never need a painting of birds
bought at a diner to remind me of."
Holden McNeil, Chasing Army
"There's the television. It's all right there - all right
there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive
anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What
are we *for* then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy
a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a
lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What?
Mentally *ill*. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet
paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual
devices, servo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers
with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers
-"
Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys
The two versions of Ezekiel 25:17 according to Jules in
Pulp Fiction:
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by
the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed
is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the
weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's
keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down
upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would
attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know
my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides
by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds
the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly
his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will
strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger
those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you
will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you."
From Kevin Smith's Dogma:
LOKI : "Leaving 'Alice in Wonderland' aside, look closely
at 'Through the Looking Glass' - particularly 'The Walrus and
the Carpenter' poem: what's the metaphorical meaning?
NUN : "I wasn't aware there was one."
Loki: "Oh, but there is - it colorfully details the
sham that is organized religion. The Walrus - with his girth
and good-nature - obviously refers to either the Buddha, or -
with his tusks - the lovable Hindu elephant god, Lord Ganesha.
This takes care of the Eastern religions. The Carpenter is an
obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was purportedly raised
the son of a carpenter. He represents the Western religions.
And in the poem. what do they do? They dupe all the oysters into
followmg them. Then. when the oysters collective guard is down.
the Walrus and the Carpenter shuck and devour the helpless creatures,
en masse. I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says
that following faiths based on these mythological figures insures
the destruction of one's inner-being."
"Organized religion destroys who we are or who we can
be by inhibiting our actions and decisions out of fear of an
intangible parent-figure who shakes a finger at us from thousands
of years ago and says "No, no!"
"Through the Looking Glass' - a children's tale? I think
not. "
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"The year, 1994. From out of space, comes a runaway planet,
hurtling between the Earth and the moon, unleashing cosmic destruction.
Man's civilization is cast in ruin. Two thousand years later,
Earth is reborn. A strange new world rises from the old. A world
of savagery, super-science, and sorcery. But one man bursts his
bonds to fight for justice. With his companions, Ookla the Mok
and Princess Ariel, he pits his strength, his courage, and his
fabulous Sunsword, against the forces of evil. He is Thundarr,
the Barbarian!"
"Thundarr the Barbarian" [Opening title narration]
"On the 26th day of October we arrived at the metropolis,
called in their language LORBRULGRUD, or Pride of the Universe.
My master took a lodging in the principal street of the city,
not far from the royal palace, and put out bills in the usual
form, containing an exact description of my person and parts."
--"Gulliver's Travels" Jonathan Swift
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