Holzi's favorite quotes

""Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited."
Phantasie ist wichtiger als Wissen, denn Wissen ist begrenzt."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fantasie, imagination

2 people liked it

"Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
— Jim Butcher (Storm Front)

tags: demon, paranoia, paranoid

148 people liked it

"Bob the Skull: You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me."
— Jim Butcher (Proven Guilty)

tags: evil, good, good-and-evil, humor, morality

45 people liked it

"Me and polite have never been on close terms."
— Jim Butcher

43 people liked it

"The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault."
— Jim Butcher (Blood Rites)

35 people liked it

"In name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!"
— Jim Butcher (Summer Knight)

36 people liked it

"There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen."
— Jim Butcher (Academ's Fury)

22 people liked it

"The best way to understand someone is to fight him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person."
— Jeffrey Sinclair

tags: bab5

1 person liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

9,588 people liked it

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: friendship

7,691 people liked it

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

tags: deadlines, humor, work

5,465 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi

3,351 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

3,048 people liked it

"Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination

3,566 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

2,924 people liked it

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
— Albert Einstein

tags: reality

2,177 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour

2,079 people liked it

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies

2,301 people liked it

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."
— Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)

tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science

317 people liked it

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
— Terry Pratchett

103 people liked it

"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..."
— Terry Pratchett

tags: humour

85 people liked it

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