What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Henry Stanley Haskins
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
I love that one! @checkingthings
“Go ahead, make my day.”
Sudden Impact, 1983
"A man's got to know his limitations"
Dirty Harry in Magnum Force, 1973
"I'll be back."
The Terminator 1984
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
"Logic is not psychology. It does not describe what people think about or how they usually reach conclusions; it describes how they ought to think if they wish to reason correctly. It is more like arithmetic than history, for it explains the rules one must follow to reach correct conclusions, just as arithmetic explains the rules one must follow to arrive at correct answers."
—Dr. Gordon H. Clark
“Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.”
From The Long Earth, by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
“You’re whinging.”
“I’m not whinging!”
The Hound conversing with Gendry Storm, from Game of Thrones.
“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crown-less again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Prof. Fate: Leslie escaped? Gen. Kuhster: With a small friar. Prof. Fate: Leslie escaped with a chicken?
from the movie "The Great Race", 1965
“Mystical thinking poisons everything.”
Dawkins.
“Birth, n.: the first and direst of all disasters.”
From The Devil’s Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce.
"The world is a fine place worth fighting for." -- Ernest Hemingway
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.
Demetri Martin
"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful."
—Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oh I like that one @DarrenWalker
I don't have a quote of the day but i love this forum
"You want fries with that"?