Quotes Post

jenny4ever · 12-01-2002, 11:39 PM

post cheesy quotes!(or noncheesy, if you so choose)

"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."- Steve Biko

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."- Henry David Thoreau

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."- Bertrand Russell

"O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!"- Michel de Montaigne

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."- Albert Einstein

hereisnowhy · 12-01-2002, 11:46 PM

I think a lot of those quotes are great - you think they're cheesy?

Here's one from our friend Ghandi: "You must become the change that you want to see in the world." I once mistakenly attributed this quote to Bono from U2.

jenny4ever · 12-01-2002, 11:49 PM

No, i dont think theyre cheesy at all. I guess its just cheesy when people use them in their AOL profiles and stuff, you know what i mean? i just want to be like "get off your intellectual high horse and shut up" . . . but i think theyre all good quotes. But the real cheesy ones are always fun to read. . . like the "dance like no one's watching" one. . . oh, thats CLASSIC.

hereisnowhy · 12-01-2002, 11:54 PM

Are you saying my sig is lame?

______________
"It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."- Steve Biko

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."- Henry David Thoreau

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."- Bertrand Russell

"O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!"- Michel de Montaigne

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."- Albert Einstein

12-02-2002, 12:06 AM

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Originally posted by hereisnowhy
Are you saying my sig is lame?

LOL

jenny4ever · 12-02-2002, 12:24 AM

I <3 your sig!

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."-G.B. Shaw

"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H.T. Leslie

"Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more." - John Bledsoe

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - James Baldwin

Junebug · 12-02-2002, 12:54 AM

I liked the last three in the first post, especially....

"If all else fails, there's always delusion" - Conan O'Brian

and I like this one for some reason. I can just see him saying this:
"I enjoy being a bitch. I enjoy being surrounded by bitches. Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling."-Freddie Mercury (queen)

sarmatianus · 12-02-2002, 12:59 AM

"SHUT UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Shut up! Shut, shut, shut, shut, SHUT UP!!"

- Dean Trumbell

Salena Child · 12-02-2002, 01:01 AM

jenniferkate · 12-02-2002, 03:31 AM

"a literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. by turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor of rhetoric, who know-all and judge-all, readily go in for a simplex of superiority. as for me, being an addict of felicitous reading, i only read and re-read what i like, with a bit of reader's pride mixed in with much enthusiasm. but whereas pride usually develops into a massive sentiment that weighs upon the entire psyche, the touch of pride that is born of adherence to the felicity of an image, remains secret and unobtrusive. it is within us, mere readers that we are, it is for us, and for us alone. it is a homely sort of pride. nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. all readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer. when the page we have just read is too near perfection, our modesty represses this desire. but it reappears, nevertheless. in any case, every reader who re-reads a work that he likes, knows its pages concern him. in jean-pierre richard's excellent collection of essays entitled poesie et profondeur (poetry and depth), there is one devoted to baudelaire and one to verlaine. emphasis is laid on baudelaire, however, since, as the author says, his work 'concerns us.' there is great difference of tone between the two essays. unlike baudelaire, verlaine does not attract complex phenomenological attention. and this is always the case. in certain types of reading with which we are in deep sympathy, in the very expression itself, we are the 'beneficiaries.' jean-paul richter, in titan, gives the following description of his hero: 'he read eulogies of great men with as much pleasure as though he himself had been the object of these panegyrics.' in any case, harmony in reading is inseparable from admiration. we can admire more or less, but a sincere impluse, a little impluse toward admiration, is always necessary if we are to receive the phenomenological benefit of a poetic image. the slightest critical consideration arrests this impluse by putting the mind in second position, destroying the primitivity of the imagination. in this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost. at least the reader participates in the joy of creation that, for [henri] bergson, is the sign of creation. here, creation takes place on the tenuous thread of the sentence, in the fleeting life of an expression. but this poetic expresion, although it has no vital necessity, has a bracing effect on our lives, for all that. to speak well is part of living well. the poetic image is an emergence from language, it is always a little above the language of signification. by living the poems we read, we have then the salutary experience of emerging. this, no doubt, is emerging at short range. but these acts of emergence are repeated; poetry puts language in a state of emergence, in which life becomes manifest through its vivacity. these linguistic impluses, which stand out from the ordinary rank of pragmatic language, are miniatures of the vital impluse. a micro-bergson-ism that abandoned the thesis of language-as-instrument in favor of the thesis of language-as-reality would find in poetry numerous documents on the intense life of language.
thus, along with considerations on the life of words, as it appears in the evolution of language across the centuries, the poetic image, as a mathematician would say, presents us with a sort of differential of this evolution. a great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language. it awakens images that have been effaced, at the same time it confirms the unforseeable nature of speech. and if we render speech unforseeable, is this not an apprenticeship to freedom? what delight the poetic imagination takes in making game of censors! time was when the poetic arts codified the licenses to be permitted. contemporary poetry, however, has introduced freedom in the very body of the language. as a result, poetry appears as a phenomenon of freedom."

gaston bachelard, from the introduction to the poetics of space.

oh wait. you wanted concise. oops.

Lie · 12-02-2002, 03:50 AM

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Originally posted by jenniferkate
gaston bachelard, from the introduction to the poetics of space.

I have that book! I was just telling someone on here a while ago that they should read it. Let us bask in this moment of shared literary wonder.

12-02-2002, 04:16 AM

Here he is, the Biggest Douche in the Universe. In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You're reached the top, the pinacle of Douchedom. Good goin, douche. Your dreams have come true. A doop a doop a doop a do. De dop de doop de dilly doop de dop de dum.

Where were you when they built the ladder to heaven? Did you make you feel like cryin'? Or did you think it was kinda gay. Well, I for one believe in the ladder to heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. nine eleven. I said nine eleven. I said nine eleven nine eleven nine eleven, yeah. Nine, nine, nine . . . eleven.

Oh great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward Lemmiwinks or you will soon be dead. The journey before may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the gay man's ass so your tale can be told. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks

South Park

relaxor! · 12-02-2002, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ugly
Here he is, the Biggest Douche in the Universe. In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You're reached the top, in pinacle of Douchedom. Good goin, douce. Your dreams have come true. A doop a doop a doop a do. De dop de doop de dilly doop de dop de dum.

My god, that quote has changed my life. What's it from?

12-02-2002, 04:22 AM

see newly editied post. episode is called "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"

relaxor! · 12-02-2002, 04:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ugly

see newly editied post. episode is called "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"

Awesome! Thanks.

StillBecomingApart · 12-02-2002, 06:46 AM

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Originally posted by eyesbomb
I love swans, they are so pure.

jenniferkate · 12-02-2002, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lie

Let us bask in this moment of shared literary wonder.

13 · 12-03-2002, 06:40 AM

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."

--Henry Kissinger

drowned · 12-03-2002, 07:54 AM

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Emerson

and the cheese . . . .

"eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark."
-happy harry hard-on

12-01-2002, 11:39 PM	#1
jenny4ever Apocalyptic Poster Location: Boone, NC Posts: 1,026	Quotes Post post cheesy quotes!(or noncheesy, if you so choose) "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."- Steve Biko "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."- Henry David Thoreau "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."- Bertrand Russell "O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!"- Michel de Montaigne "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."- Albert Einstein

12-02-2002, 01:01 AM	#9
Salena Child Apocalyptic Poster Location: Ohio Posts: 2,127	. __________________ Salena "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief; all kill their inspiration and sing about the grief." - U2 To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

12-02-2002, 04:22 AM	#14
Ugly Posts: n/a	up see newly editied post. episode is called "The Biggest Douche in the Universe"

12-01-2002, 11:46 PM	#2
hereisnowhy Minion of Satan Posts: 7,621	I think a lot of those quotes are great - you think they're cheesy? Here's one from our friend Ghandi: "You must become the change that you want to see in the world." I once mistakenly attributed this quote to Bono from U2.

12-01-2002, 11:49 PM	#3
jenny4ever Apocalyptic Poster Location: Boone, NC Posts: 1,026	No, i dont think theyre cheesy at all. I guess its just cheesy when people use them in their AOL profiles and stuff, you know what i mean? i just want to be like "get off your intellectual high horse and shut up" . . . but i think theyre all good quotes. But the real cheesy ones are always fun to read. . . like the "dance like no one's watching" one. . . oh, thats CLASSIC.

12-01-2002, 11:54 PM	#4
hereisnowhy Minion of Satan Posts: 7,621	Are you saying my sig is lame? ______________ "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."- Steve Biko "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone." - Pablo Picasso "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."- Henry David Thoreau "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."- Bertrand Russell "O senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm and yet will make Gods by the dozen!"- Michel de Montaigne "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."- Albert Einstein

12-02-2002, 12:24 AM	#6
jenny4ever Apocalyptic Poster Location: Boone, NC Posts: 1,026	I <3 your sig! "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."-G.B. Shaw "The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H.T. Leslie "Religion is like chemotherapy, it may solve one problem, but it can cause a million more." - John Bledsoe "Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"-Friedrich Nietzsche "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - James Baldwin

12-02-2002, 12:54 AM	#7
Junebug Minion of Satan Posts: 7,072	I liked the last three in the first post, especially.... "If all else fails, there's always delusion" - Conan O'Brian and I like this one for some reason. I can just see him saying this: "I enjoy being a bitch. I enjoy being surrounded by bitches. Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling."-Freddie Mercury (queen)

12-02-2002, 12:59 AM	#8
sarmatianus Apocalyptic Poster Location: Charm City Posts: 1,033	"SHUT UP!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Shut up! Shut, shut, shut, shut, SHUT UP!!" - Dean Trumbell

12-02-2002, 03:31 AM	#10
jenniferkate bitch please. Location: wicked witch of the east coast Posts: 5,682	"a literary critic is a reader who is necessarily severe. by turning inside out like a glove an overworked complex that has become debased to the point of being part of the vocabulary of statesmen, we might say that the literary critic and the professor of rhetoric, who know-all and judge-all, readily go in for a simplex of superiority. as for me, being an addict of felicitous reading, i only read and re-read what i like, with a bit of reader's pride mixed in with much enthusiasm. but whereas pride usually develops into a massive sentiment that weighs upon the entire psyche, the touch of pride that is born of adherence to the felicity of an image, remains secret and unobtrusive. it is within us, mere readers that we are, it is for us, and for us alone. it is a homely sort of pride. nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. all readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer. when the page we have just read is too near perfection, our modesty represses this desire. but it reappears, nevertheless. in any case, every reader who re-reads a work that he likes, knows its pages concern him. in jean-pierre richard's excellent collection of essays entitled poesie et profondeur (poetry and depth), there is one devoted to baudelaire and one to verlaine. emphasis is laid on baudelaire, however, since, as the author says, his work 'concerns us.' there is great difference of tone between the two essays. unlike baudelaire, verlaine does not attract complex phenomenological attention. and this is always the case. in certain types of reading with which we are in deep sympathy, in the very expression itself, we are the 'beneficiaries.' jean-paul richter, in titan, gives the following description of his hero: 'he read eulogies of great men with as much pleasure as though he himself had been the object of these panegyrics.' in any case, harmony in reading is inseparable from admiration. we can admire more or less, but a sincere impluse, a little impluse toward admiration, is always necessary if we are to receive the phenomenological benefit of a poetic image. the slightest critical consideration arrests this impluse by putting the mind in second position, destroying the primitivity of the imagination. in this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost. at least the reader participates in the joy of creation that, for [henri] bergson, is the sign of creation. here, creation takes place on the tenuous thread of the sentence, in the fleeting life of an expression. but this poetic expresion, although it has no vital necessity, has a bracing effect on our lives, for all that. to speak well is part of living well. the poetic image is an emergence from language, it is always a little above the language of signification. by living the poems we read, we have then the salutary experience of emerging. this, no doubt, is emerging at short range. but these acts of emergence are repeated; poetry puts language in a state of emergence, in which life becomes manifest through its vivacity. these linguistic impluses, which stand out from the ordinary rank of pragmatic language, are miniatures of the vital impluse. a micro-bergson-ism that abandoned the thesis of language-as-instrument in favor of the thesis of language-as-reality would find in poetry numerous documents on the intense life of language. thus, along with considerations on the life of words, as it appears in the evolution of language across the centuries, the poetic image, as a mathematician would say, presents us with a sort of differential of this evolution. a great verse can have a great influence on the soul of a language. it awakens images that have been effaced, at the same time it confirms the unforseeable nature of speech. and if we render speech unforseeable, is this not an apprenticeship to freedom? what delight the poetic imagination takes in making game of censors! time was when the poetic arts codified the licenses to be permitted. contemporary poetry, however, has introduced freedom in the very body of the language. as a result, poetry appears as a phenomenon of freedom." gaston bachelard, from the introduction to the poetics of space. oh wait. you wanted concise. oops.

12-02-2002, 04:16 AM	#12
Ugly Posts: n/a	Here he is, the Biggest Douche in the Universe. In all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. You're reached the top, the pinacle of Douchedom. Good goin, douche. Your dreams have come true. A doop a doop a doop a do. De dop de doop de dilly doop de dop de dum. Where were you when they built the ladder to heaven? Did you make you feel like cryin'? Or did you think it was kinda gay. Well, I for one believe in the ladder to heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. nine eleven. I said nine eleven. I said nine eleven nine eleven nine eleven, yeah. Nine, nine, nine . . . eleven. Oh great adventure is waiting for you ahead. Hurry onward Lemmiwinks or you will soon be dead. The journey before may be long and filled with woe. But you must escape the gay man's ass so your tale can be told. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks. Lemmiwinks South Park

12-03-2002, 06:40 AM	#18
13 Apocalyptic Poster Posts: 2,453	"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." "Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." --Henry Kissinger

12-03-2002, 07:54 AM	#19
drowned Oblivious Virgin Posts: 46	"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -Emerson and the cheese . . . . "eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark." -happy harry hard-on