Quotes - Jo García (Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui, Venezuela) Showing 1-30 of 98

#1

“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: humour, individuality, science-fiction

6233 likes

#2

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

467 likes

#3

“What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: belief, decency, honesty, morality, religion

664 likes

#4

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

tags: humor, religion

286 likes

#5

“I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.”
― Terry Pratchett

2215 likes

#6

“Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

94 likes

#7

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

37982 likes

#8

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151426 likes

#9

“Hard fun is, of course, the idea that we take pleasure in accomplishing something difficult: the joy in meeting and mastering a challenge. As a result, when someone is doing something that is hard fun, moment by moment it looks more like "work" than "fun," but the net effect is pleasurable overall.”
― David Williamson Shaffer

tags: hard-fun, learning, video-games

8 likes

#10

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: h2g2, hitchhiker-s-guide, humor, panic

4705 likes

#11

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humor, philosophy, science-fiction

4045 likes

#12

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humour

3462 likes

#13

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

tags: humor, proverb

12933 likes

#14

“The story so far:
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

23456 likes

#15

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, zaphod-beeblebrox

800 likes

#16

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

399 likes

#17

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: sanity

301 likes

#18

“I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: zaphod-beeblebrox

209 likes

#19

“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

91 likes

#20

“The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: depression, h2g2, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy, humor, marvin

217 likes

#21

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines

2628 likes

#22

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16214 likes

#23

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

2695 likes

#24

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: 1984

1760 likes

#25

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1798 likes

#26

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: orthodoxy

904 likes

#27

“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984

1804 likes

#28

“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

tags: revolution

333 likes

#29

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: flight, flying, hg2g, humor

4990 likes

#30

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

tags: humor, paradox, religion

828 likes

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