Favourite quotes

[craigwend]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

(probably when Shaun forgets to pay the electric bill for CC)

 

[secretsqirrel]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

(probably when Shaun forgets to pay the electric bill for CC)

“if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes”

 

[craigwend]

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them."

Epictetus - various versions of the quote exist.

 

[icowden]

"That's not a knife. That's a knife."

and

"The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job"

 

[Ianonabike]

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

 

[All uphill]

I can take the despair, it's the hope I can't bear

John Cleese

 

[Ian H]

Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

 

[All uphill]

Lady Chatterley.

Who said this and about which book?

A queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

 

[swee'pea99]

 

[Shortfall]

'“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Mark Twain

 

[secretsqirrel]

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

Oscar Wilde

 

[Ian H]

Lady Chatterley.

Who said this and about which book?

A queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

I looked that up and I thoroughly disagree with it.

 

[All uphill]

I looked that up and I thoroughly disagree with it.

She (Virginia Woolf) was apparently shocked to suddenly be made into a conventional author by Ulysses.

 

[Ian H]

She (Virginia Woolf) was apparently shocked to suddenly be made into a conventional author by Ulysses.

One of my minor ambitions is to attend a Bloomsday parade.

 

[icowden]

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

The nice thing about this one is that it was not the original script but a rewrite by Rutger Hauer who didn't feel that the original lines worked.