January 2010
HI. I TOTALLY EXIST. I was just planning on changing the format of the comm to a monthly comm, and... Figured it would be better to do that at the start of the new year. Oh yes.
AND NOW, FOR THE PROMPTS.
1. "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god...The trick is not to fear him."
-Princess Mononoke
2. "Look at me. Look at my smile. Your son is dead."
-Lucky Number Slevin
3. "Gambling is risk-taking. It might be said the owner of a casino gambles, takes risks, but he has the odds in his favour, so that’s intelligent gambling. If I wanted to gamble, I’d buy the casino."
-John Paul Getty
4. You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
5. "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates him for it? This is it."
-Jeepers Creepers
6. The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
-Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
7. "I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.."
-Beatrix Potter
8. "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Unknown
9. "We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse. All war depends upon it."
-Band of Brothers
10. Speirs: You wanna know if they're true or not, the stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new, really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakkin' about how Tertius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.
Lipton: Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it
Speirs: Maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest son of a bitch in the whole Roman Legion.
-Band of Brothers
11. "When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."
-Baltasar Gracian
12. "It may be true that death is a large empty hole and that sorrow is knowing just how deep the hole is, but it is only true when one is sober. If one has snaps one can fill up the hole with all the beautiful thoughts one can think of, and all the fine words one can hit on. One can fill it right up to the brink, and then put a stone there"
-Stig Dagerman
13. "Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!"
-The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
14. "No second chances. I'm that sort of a man."
-The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
15. "Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all."
-River Song, Doctor Who
AND NOW, FOR THE PROMPTS.
1. "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god...The trick is not to fear him."
-Princess Mononoke
2. "Look at me. Look at my smile. Your son is dead."
-Lucky Number Slevin
3. "Gambling is risk-taking. It might be said the owner of a casino gambles, takes risks, but he has the odds in his favour, so that’s intelligent gambling. If I wanted to gamble, I’d buy the casino."
-John Paul Getty
4. You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don't even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of the next
moment.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
5. "You know the part in scary movies when somebody does something really stupid, and everybody hates him for it? This is it."
-Jeepers Creepers
6. The world's a stage where God's omnipotence,
His justice, knowledge, love, and providence
Do act the parts.
-Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
7. "I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.."
-Beatrix Potter
8. "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Unknown
9. "We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassion. Without remorse. All war depends upon it."
-Band of Brothers
10. Speirs: You wanna know if they're true or not, the stories about me? Did you ever notice with stories like that, everyone says they heard it from someone who was there. Then when you ask that person, they say they heard it from someone who was there. It's nothing new, really. I bet if you went back two thousand years, you'd hear a couple centurions standing around yakkin' about how Tertius lopped off the heads of some Carthaginian prisoners.
Lipton: Well, maybe they kept talking about it because they never heard Tertius deny it
Speirs: Maybe that's because Tertius knew there was some value to the men thinking he was the meanest, toughest son of a bitch in the whole Roman Legion.
-Band of Brothers
11. "When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."
-Baltasar Gracian
12. "It may be true that death is a large empty hole and that sorrow is knowing just how deep the hole is, but it is only true when one is sober. If one has snaps one can fill up the hole with all the beautiful thoughts one can think of, and all the fine words one can hit on. One can fill it right up to the brink, and then put a stone there"
-Stig Dagerman
13. "Think you've seen it all? Think again. Outside those doors, we might see anything. We could find new worlds, terrifying monsters, impossible things. And if you come with me... nothing will ever be the same again!"
-The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
14. "No second chances. I'm that sort of a man."
-The Tenth Doctor, Doctor Who
15. "Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all."
-River Song, Doctor Who