Quotes, sayings and all that jazz

Hedda Gabler

From my Boston Legal viewing:  Alan Shore (James Spader) is defending a small girl who was injured in a car wreck. Her nerves in her face were damaged and she can't smile.  And thusly, doesn't fit in with the other kids.  So he tells her this story.

Alan: Have you ever heard of a Greek philosopher named Epictetus? 

Marissa: No.

Alan: He was a funny man, with a certain flair for life. Epictetus compared “people who fit in” to the white threads of a toga: indistinguishable. He wanted to be the purple thread; that small part which is bright and makes all the rest appear graceful and beautiful. Why then, he asked, do you tell me to make myself like the many, and if I do, how shall I still be purple? 

Marissa: Sometimes being purple is kind of a pain.

Alan: Yes.

EdwardJohn

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King.

Notaro

Pelutho (n.): A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.

Douglas Adams & John Lloyd - The Meaning Of Liff

GNTLGNT

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”– Al McGuire

EdwardJohn

GNTLGNT said:

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”– Al McGuire

That is indeed a mystery. 

EdwardJohn

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

Notaro

"It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass."

Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy 

GNTLGNT

"She was standing in front of a tall, shabby building with lots of windows that looked like an insane asylum and was therefore probably high school."
- Stephen King, The Talisman

EdwardJohn

GNTLGNT said:

"She was standing in front of a tall, shabby building with lots of windows that looked like an insane asylum and was therefore probably high school."
- Stephen King, The Talisman

I know what Steve means.

FlakeNoir

"A reader is a carrier, not a creator." ~ Mr. Harrigan (Stephen King) 

EdwardJohn

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

EdwardJohn

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett

EdwardJohn

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Byron

FlakeNoir

This is not his quote (though he sang it) and it's not even the correct version of the original. But it still speaks to me.

EdwardJohn

"It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

- Teddy Roosevelt 

Notaro

Godber: What is it? 

Fletcher: Cops.

Godber: Copse, you mean like a wooded glade?

Fletcher: Yeah, a wooded glade filled with bleedin' cops.

 Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais  -  Porridge 

GNTLGNT

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?

Mitch Hedberg

EdwardJohn

“Some things it don’t pay to be curious about.”
Stephen King, Pet Semetary 

GNTLGNT

BevVincent

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”

― Frida Kahlo

EdwardJohn

“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

GNTLGNT

 “I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

– Thomas Edison

Notaro

"There's No Smoke Without The Worm Turning "

David Nobbs  -  The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin 

EdwardJohn

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

EdwardJohn

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

EdwardJohn

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King