quotation debate, part II

[zero]

"it is a trite remark," she began. i stopped. alas! i did not know what trite meant.

- dörte dömeland

[MoJoRiSin]

Down, down, down. Would the fall NEVER come to an end! 'I wonder how
many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. 'I must be getting
somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four
thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several
things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this
was not a VERY good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there
was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
'--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude
or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or
Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.)
~Lewis Carroll

[12"razormix]

imagination is more important than knowledge. for while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

albert einstein

[zero]

when i was sick and lay a-bed,
i had two pillows at my head,
and all my toys beside me lay,
to keep me happy all the day.

and sometimes for an hour or so
i watched my leaden soldiers go,
with different uniforms and drills,
among the bed-clothes, through the hills;

and sometimes sent my ships in fleets
all up and down among the sheets;
or brought my trees and houses out,
and planted cities all about.

i was the giant great and still
that sits upon the pillow-hill,
and sees before him, dale and plain,
the pleasant land of counterpane.

- robert louis stevenson

[MoJoRiSin]

the man of a thousand voices

sitting perfectly still

~Paul McCartney

[zero]

Demon: What an excellent day for an exorcism.

[MoJoRiSin]

"sure why not, I have nothing to loose"
~Alice (paraphrased)

[Anna]

Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee! Ashley told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite!

[MoJoRiSin]

"St. James's Palace ASSISTANT CURATOR - PICTURES: Fixed term for 9 months (Maternity Cover) c.£25,000 plus benefits "
Closing Date: Friday 21 November 2008
~royal dot gov dot UK

[Hyakujo's Fox]

You know Marge, I thought I had an appetite for destruction. But all I really wanted was a club sandwich.

~ Homer Simpson

[Anna]

[MoJoRiSin]

At the centre of the Buddha's teaching were the Four Noble Truths, which start very simply with the fact that all people suffer and the cause of this suffering is desire.

[magdalen]

"Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”
Groucho Marx

[zero]

the dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and i think that's just ridiculous. it's as bad as the church. my viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint - i believe that if you run into somebody in the street, it's for a reason. among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. i believe that.

- william s. burroughs

[MoJoRiSin]

Throw wide the doors and welcome Christmas's dawn!
~Harvey Peake