Favourite Quotes

[Iain Aschendale]

"Everything looks like a conspiracy theory if you don't know what the fuck you're talking about."

-Nic, the Fat Electrician

 

[Louanne Learning]

“Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.”​

― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

 

[Louanne Learning]

"For old people, beauty doesn’t come free with the hormones, the way it does for the young. It has to do with bones. It has to do with who the person is. More and more clearly it has to do with what shines through those gnarly faces and bodies."

- Ursula Le Guin

 

[CatrionaGrace]

"The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness."

Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried.

 

[JLT]

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

--Isaac Asimov

 

[Heartlet Happer]

Brasier’s razor:
"The most boring answer is probably the correct one".
-- Martin Brazier. Prof. of Paleobiology at the Univ. of Oxford

 

[Naomasa298]

I was wrong. The three worst words for a pilot aren't, "I was wrong". They are, "Brace for impact".
-- YouTuber Captain Steeeve.

 

[GrahamLewis]

"You cannot talk to a power politician
As if he were a wise man.
If he seeks to understand you,
If he looks inside himself
To find the truth you have told him,
He cannot find it there.
Not finding, he doubts.
When a man doubts,
He will kill."

Chuang Tzu. "Symphony for a Sea Bird"

From Thomas Merton's The Way of Chuang Tzu (New Directions 1969) p.103

 

[Donnie]

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses," Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

In the later months of 1863, Lincoln was angered by General George B. McClellan's inactivity, despite his superiority in numbers over the Confederate forces.

In the end he wrote McClellan a single-sentence letter: "If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while.

Yours respectfully,
A. Lincoln."