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"The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change."
— Joseph Campbell (The Hero with a Thousand Faces)

tags: myth
1 person liked it

"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
— Kahlil Gibrán (Visions of the Prophet)

tags: love
1 person liked it

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert A. Heinlein

303 people liked it

"I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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— Mark Twain

tags: humor
2 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. "
— Plato

tags: monster-, philosophy, plato
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"This is not for you."
— Mark Z. Danielewski

32 people liked it

"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
— Stephen Colbert

tags: history
37 people liked it

"We must assume that creatures whose machines still function after three million years may build a society equally long-lasting."
— Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey)

tags: history, sociology
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"Not that i loved Caesar less but i loved Rome more."
— William Shakespeare

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""Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"

Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL"
— Jacqueline LaTourrette

tags: humor, italy, paris, pompeii, rome, suspense, women
3 people liked it

"By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction."
— Peter Heather (The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians)

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"Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?
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— Joss Whedon (The Gift: Cinemanga)

tags: buffy, tea
43 people liked it

"Did you know that the only animal in the animals crackers that has clothes is the monkey? So, I'm wondering, do the other cookie animals feel sorta ripped? Like, is the hippo going,'Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'And you know the monkey's just,'I mock you with my monkey pants!
-Oz"
— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

23 people liked it

"It's a baby. You got to keep it safe and teach it Christian values."
"My egg is Jewish."
"Then teach it that dreidel song."
— Willow and Xander from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

tags: buffy, eggs, slayer, vampire, willow, zander
9 people liked it

"To read makes our speaking English good."
— Xander Harris

tags: buffy, humor, language, xander
6 people liked it

"Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
Cordelia: I stand corrected.
Oz: Just keeping things in perspective."
— Buffy the Vampire slayer cast

5 people liked it

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

tags: books
305 people liked it

""think left and think right, and think low and think high, oh the things you can think up if only you try!""
— Dr. Seuss

tags: humor, philosophy
6 people liked it

"If i had it all to do again there would be more bodies."
— Phil Baker

tags: inspirational, philosophy, religion
2 people liked it

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Soren Kierkegaard

tags: life, philosophy
2 people liked it

"We live for books."
— Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)

tags: books, reading
42 people liked it

"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
— Graham Chapman (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

tags: comedy
61 people liked it

"I don't wanna be a Pirate!!!!"
— Jerry Seinfeld

13 people liked it

""Have you ever seriously considered dying?"-Scully
"yes, once. At the Icecapades"-Mulder "
— X-Files

4 people liked it

"Resistance, however, is useless. (1939)"
— A.E. Van Vogt

tags: borg, fiction, science, star, trek
5 people liked it

"In every tribe a man shall prosper by deeds of love."
— Anonymous (Beowulf: A New Verse Translation)

4 people liked it

"Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim.
(I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.)

(Gilraen's linnod)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

tags: hope, inspirational, others
122 people liked it

"Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard."
— Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)

11 people liked it

"It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim."
— Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)

6 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,180 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,672 people liked it

"I have immortal longings in me."
— William Shakespeare

2 people liked it

"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
— George Orwell

2 people liked it

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt thou the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: love
186 people liked it

"The earth has music for those who listen."
— William Shakespeare

tags: nature
174 people liked it

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
— William Shakespeare

tags: inspirational
118 people liked it

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
— William Shakespeare

109 people liked it

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
105 people liked it

"“It s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.""
— Jerry Seinfeld

tags: humor
11 people liked it

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Arthur C. Clarke (Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible)

tags: science, technology
158 people liked it

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't to forget make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."
— Neil Gaiman

385 people liked it

"What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!"
— Gustave Flaubert (Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour)

tags: language, poetry, stars
5 people liked it

"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
— Albert Einstein

tags: funny
589 people liked it

"Science fiction is an existential metaphor, which allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said: "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.""
— Episode 200, Stargate SG-1

3 people liked it

"To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad."
— Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

tags: funny, humour
319 people liked it

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: anti-christian, christ, christianity, christians, jesus
918 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,168 people liked it

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
— Niels Bohr

tags: science, truth
126 people liked it

"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth
93 people liked it

"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: life, purpose, truth
7 people liked it

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