Memes and more
From Gods_lil_rocker:
Meme 1:
For everyone:
1.)Copy and paste this into your journal:
<*font color="yourusername">
<*b>yourusername<*/b> <*/font>
2.) (Eliminate the asterisks)
3.)See what color you are
Mine:
1.)Copy and paste this into your journal:
rantingitalian
2.) (Eliminate the asterisks)
3.)See what color you are
Meme 2:
1.Go into your LJ's archives.
2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions
My sentence:
"You'd think you notice a 4 inch nail in your mouth!!!!!!!"
From Possibly_sane18:
I was tagged by possibly_sane18 so I figure it would be a nice way to get "excited" about the day.
List 5 things that get you excited/happy/enthusiastic about life, in no real order.
1. Reading. This is my first love, and greatest obsession. For quite awhile during high school, I really didn't get to read very much new stuff and wasn't really inspired to, but lately I've gotten into it again, and I'm LOVING it! There really isn't anything quite like it, and it's one of life's greatest pleasures to get sucked into someone else's life, universe, thoughts, etc.
2. The rare times when I get truly inspired to write something, and the other rare times when I actually like what I wrote. There's no better feeling!
3. My family and my friends, of course. I couldn't leave y'all out.
4. College lifestyle. What's not to love? Well, alcoholic suitemaites, and crazy people on campus, and homework, and evil teachers, but that's besides the point b/c all the good stuff makes up for it!
5. Ack! I almost forgot my lovely fandoms! HP and LOST and Orlando Bloom and Dierks Bentley and everything else that I obsess about. Some might mock the fangirl lifestyle, but it's a lot funner than you think! Try it, you know you want to!
Tag 5 people.
Um... well....
kagome_18ash
gods_lil_rocker
picture_this41
sadly I just realized that I don't have 5 friends on my friends list b/c the majority of my friends are much too lazy to keep an lj even when I hound them to. So 3 will have to do. I know Hillary told me she got one, but she hasn't given me her screen name yet so what can you do? And for my friends who haven't yet gotten an lj (and who may or may not be reading this): WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Seriously, get off your butts, if I can do it, so can you!
AND ONTO OTHER NEWS:
Hiya, everybody! I know I haven't been updating this as much as I should have, but hopefully when I get back to the dorms (this Saturday!), I will be able to fall back into a routine. Unfortunately when I'm at home I have to fight just to get on the computer, so it's hard to regularly post. And even when I had time, my life has been so utterly boring that I couldn't even bring myself to talk about it. But there's always crazy stuff going on in college sooooooo...... Stay tuned for the adventures of moving day! Until then, here's another complaint from the automatic complaint generator (because it amuses me so!) - if you're confused see my last entry and/or check out the complaints tag for more info!
My complaint about Ms. Lisa M. Nelson
The only thing worse than being ignorant is not knowing how ignorant you are. That's Ms. Lisa M. Nelson's problem. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter, but the conclusion's general outline is that if I seem a bit dissolute, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Lisa on her own level. Continue to appease her, and Lisa will honestly manipulate everything and everybody. Given her current mind-set, if you've read any of the rude slop that she has concocted, you'll indisputably recall her description of her plan to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that Lisa says that her canards are our final line of defense against tyrrany. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that things have never been better. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this letter will at once understand that Ms. Lisa M. Nelson's efforts to dupe her advocates into believing that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders" have touched the lives of every person in this country. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this letter.
ROFL, that's probably my favorite one that it's done, to date! But I couldn't stop there so... READ ON!
My complaint about Heritage High School
My entire life I have been taught to stand up for my beliefs, to be a person of high morals and ethics. That's why I feel obligated to resolve a number of lingering problems. Here's my side of the story: This is not wild speculation. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact. Should we sit back and let Heritage High School utilize legal, above-ground organizing in combination with illegal, underground tactics to play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures, or should we strike at the heart of its efforts to level filth and slime at everyone opposed to its wisecracks? That choice sure sounds like a no-brainer to me. Sometimes it seems callow prigs are like a farmer who, in the spring, would work the ground, plant seeds, fertilize, and cultivate the ground for a period of time. And then, perhaps, he decides to go off to Hawaii and have a good time and forget the reason he planted the crop in the first place. Well, a farmer wouldn't do that. But Heritage High School would subject us to the ill-bred yapping of vulgar liars and cheats if it got the chance. Before you read this letter, you might have thought that Heritage High School's opinions enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. Now you know that its opuscula make many mainstream storytellers nervous.
It is with great sadness that I admit this is a fairly accurate description of HHS. Sigh.
But let's keep complaining, shall we?
My complaint about University of Tennessee
Let's talk again about an all-too-familiar subject: University of Tennessee and its humorless, avaricious diatribes. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how I will dedicate the rest of my life to my efforts to create greater public understanding of the damage caused by University of Tennessee's personal attacks. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, University of Tennessee demands obeisance from its apostles. Then, once they prove their loyalty, University of Tennessee forces them to trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry. I want to keep this brief: University of Tennessee can't, for the life of it, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of a morally crippled gang of foolish vermin. Am I being too harsh for writing that? Maybe I am, but that's really the only way you can push a point through to University of Tennessee. In keeping with all of their inner malodorous brutality, University of Tennessee's spokesmen violate all the rules of decorum. University of Tennessee never stops boasting about its generous contributions to charitable causes. As far as I can tell, however, its claimed magnanimousness is completely chimerical and, furthermore, if University of Tennessee thinks that it can make me waver between the alluring promises of an uneducated "new morality" and the sound dictation of my own conscience, then it's barking up the wrong tree. If you need proof that University of Tennessee's demented beliefs are largely due to its drawing mistaken conclusions from what it wrongly takes to be evidence, then just take a look at University of Tennessee. Now that this letter has come to an end, let me remind you that it was intended to provide an accurate, even-handed, and balanced discussion of University of Tennessee and its cock-and-bull stories. Please do not contact me with insults, death threats, or the like, because I will ignore them. If you disagree with my arguments or can provide further information about University of Tennessee, please contact me and I will endeavor to make any necessary corrections to this letter.
Just one more:
My complaint about Alchoholic Suitemaites
Please pardon the pathological overtones that will be found throughout this letter, but Alchoholic Suitemaites deserves to be punished. Before I launch into my rant, permit me the prelude caveat that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about Alchoholic Suitemaites and about hypothetical solutions to our Alchoholic Suitemaites problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to keep essential documents hidden from the public until they become politically moot. Do you understand the implications of what I have been telling you? Are you awake? Then you probably realize that whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may provide people the wherewithal to warn the public against those vengeful crackpots whose positive accomplishments are always practically nil, but whose conceit can scarcely be excelled, and, as the alternative, the unregenerate and disreputable dirigisme currently being forced upon us by Alchoholic Suitemaites. Choose carefully, because all Alchoholic Suitemaites really wants is to hang onto the perks it's getting from the system. That's all it really cares about. Nice try to besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures, Alchoholic Suitemaites. As everyone who has access to reliable information knows, I challenge Alchoholic Suitemaites to point out any text in this letter that proposes that the cure for evil is more evil. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. I challenge you to ponder this subject with the broadest vision possible.
Ok, so they aren't exactly an organization, but the letter still came out well! Very funny anyway!
Your Musical Tastes Match: Jennifer Garner
See her whole playlist here (iTunes required)
What Celebrity Matches Your Taste in Music?
Yay, I love her (although I am not happy about the new Bennifer, but, hey, it's her life to ruin I guess).
Some quotes (b/c I love them, and I know if I put them here I will be able to find them later, so it's more for me than y'all, but oh well!):
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." -- Harry Potter
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Albus Dumbledore, CoS
"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." -- Albus Dumbledore
"And now Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." --Albus Dumbledore, HBP
"- yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man." -- Albus Dumbledore, HBP
"Time is making fools of us again." -- Albus Dumbledore, HBP
“Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn’t you? They were just lurking out of sight, that’s all. You heard them.” -- Luna Lovegood, OotP
"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..." -- Phineas Nigellus, OotP
"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." -- Remus Lupin, HBP
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned in life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." -- Robert Frost
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -- Anatole France
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain, after reading his own obituary, June 2, 1897
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour." -- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie
''Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me." -- Emily Dickinson
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." --Joseph Addison
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." --G.K. Chesterton
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -- Gene Fowler
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." --Enrique Jardiel Poncela
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." ---Logan Pearsall Smith
"... for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. " -- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
OMGWTFPOLARBEAR! -- every single LOST fan
Sayid: Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose. --LOST
Charlie: [sarcastic] Oh, you guys have an inside joke. How absolutely wonderful for you both. --LOST
Hurley: [to Sawyer, commenting on his glasses] Dude! Looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter! -- LOST
Charlie: [to Jack] Locke? Guy's a freak of nature, highly disturbed. Chances are he probably killed all his mates at the Post Office the day his mum forgot to put a cookie in his lunch tin. -- LOST
Jack: Three days ago, we all died. We should all be able to start over. --LOST
Locke: You're not going crazy, Jack. Crazy people don't think they're getting crazy. They think they're getting saner. --LOST
Charlie: [to Michael] You didn't hear about the polar bear? -- LOST
Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no." --PotC
Elizabeth: You like pain? Try wearing a corset. --PotC
Jack Sparrow: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. --PotC
Jack Sparrow: Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. --PotC
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.
Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide. -- PotC
Jack Sparrow: That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom. -- PotC
Jack Sparrow: But why is the rum gone? -- PotC
Barbossa: So what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?
Jack Sparrow: Or you could surrender. --PotC
Sorry about the way too long post, btw!
Meme 1:
For everyone:
1.)Copy and paste this into your journal:
<*font color="yourusername">
<*b>yourusername<*/b> <*/font>
2.) (Eliminate the asterisks)
3.)See what color you are
Mine:
1.)Copy and paste this into your journal:
rantingitalian
2.) (Eliminate the asterisks)
3.)See what color you are
Meme 2:
1.Go into your LJ's archives.
2.Find your 23rd post (or closest to).
3.Find the fifth sentence (or closest to).
4.Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions
My sentence:
"You'd think you notice a 4 inch nail in your mouth!!!!!!!"
From Possibly_sane18:
I was tagged by possibly_sane18 so I figure it would be a nice way to get "excited" about the day.
List 5 things that get you excited/happy/enthusiastic about life, in no real order.
1. Reading. This is my first love, and greatest obsession. For quite awhile during high school, I really didn't get to read very much new stuff and wasn't really inspired to, but lately I've gotten into it again, and I'm LOVING it! There really isn't anything quite like it, and it's one of life's greatest pleasures to get sucked into someone else's life, universe, thoughts, etc.
2. The rare times when I get truly inspired to write something, and the other rare times when I actually like what I wrote. There's no better feeling!
3. My family and my friends, of course. I couldn't leave y'all out.
4. College lifestyle. What's not to love? Well, alcoholic suitemaites, and crazy people on campus, and homework, and evil teachers, but that's besides the point b/c all the good stuff makes up for it!
5. Ack! I almost forgot my lovely fandoms! HP and LOST and Orlando Bloom and Dierks Bentley and everything else that I obsess about. Some might mock the fangirl lifestyle, but it's a lot funner than you think! Try it, you know you want to!
Tag 5 people.
Um... well....
kagome_18ash
gods_lil_rocker
picture_this41
sadly I just realized that I don't have 5 friends on my friends list b/c the majority of my friends are much too lazy to keep an lj even when I hound them to. So 3 will have to do. I know Hillary told me she got one, but she hasn't given me her screen name yet so what can you do? And for my friends who haven't yet gotten an lj (and who may or may not be reading this): WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Seriously, get off your butts, if I can do it, so can you!
AND ONTO OTHER NEWS:
Hiya, everybody! I know I haven't been updating this as much as I should have, but hopefully when I get back to the dorms (this Saturday!), I will be able to fall back into a routine. Unfortunately when I'm at home I have to fight just to get on the computer, so it's hard to regularly post. And even when I had time, my life has been so utterly boring that I couldn't even bring myself to talk about it. But there's always crazy stuff going on in college sooooooo...... Stay tuned for the adventures of moving day! Until then, here's another complaint from the automatic complaint generator (because it amuses me so!) - if you're confused see my last entry and/or check out the complaints tag for more info!
My complaint about Ms. Lisa M. Nelson
The only thing worse than being ignorant is not knowing how ignorant you are. That's Ms. Lisa M. Nelson's problem. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter, but the conclusion's general outline is that if I seem a bit dissolute, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Lisa on her own level. Continue to appease her, and Lisa will honestly manipulate everything and everybody. Given her current mind-set, if you've read any of the rude slop that she has concocted, you'll indisputably recall her description of her plan to substitute breast-beating and schwarmerei for action and honest debate. If you haven't read any of it, well, all you really need to know is that Lisa says that her canards are our final line of defense against tyrrany. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that things have never been better. Anyone who examines the historical development of the last hundred years from the standpoint of this letter will at once understand that Ms. Lisa M. Nelson's efforts to dupe her advocates into believing that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders" have touched the lives of every person in this country. That's all I have to say. Thank you for reading this letter.
ROFL, that's probably my favorite one that it's done, to date! But I couldn't stop there so... READ ON!
My complaint about Heritage High School
My entire life I have been taught to stand up for my beliefs, to be a person of high morals and ethics. That's why I feel obligated to resolve a number of lingering problems. Here's my side of the story: This is not wild speculation. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is documented fact. Should we sit back and let Heritage High School utilize legal, above-ground organizing in combination with illegal, underground tactics to play on people's conscious and unconscious belief structures, or should we strike at the heart of its efforts to level filth and slime at everyone opposed to its wisecracks? That choice sure sounds like a no-brainer to me. Sometimes it seems callow prigs are like a farmer who, in the spring, would work the ground, plant seeds, fertilize, and cultivate the ground for a period of time. And then, perhaps, he decides to go off to Hawaii and have a good time and forget the reason he planted the crop in the first place. Well, a farmer wouldn't do that. But Heritage High School would subject us to the ill-bred yapping of vulgar liars and cheats if it got the chance. Before you read this letter, you might have thought that Heritage High School's opinions enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. Now you know that its opuscula make many mainstream storytellers nervous.
It is with great sadness that I admit this is a fairly accurate description of HHS. Sigh.
But let's keep complaining, shall we?
My complaint about University of Tennessee
Let's talk again about an all-too-familiar subject: University of Tennessee and its humorless, avaricious diatribes. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how I will dedicate the rest of my life to my efforts to create greater public understanding of the damage caused by University of Tennessee's personal attacks. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, University of Tennessee demands obeisance from its apostles. Then, once they prove their loyalty, University of Tennessee forces them to trick academics into abandoning the principles of scientific inquiry. I want to keep this brief: University of Tennessee can't, for the life of it, understand why anyone would prefer so much as one minute of solitude to the company of a morally crippled gang of foolish vermin. Am I being too harsh for writing that? Maybe I am, but that's really the only way you can push a point through to University of Tennessee. In keeping with all of their inner malodorous brutality, University of Tennessee's spokesmen violate all the rules of decorum. University of Tennessee never stops boasting about its generous contributions to charitable causes. As far as I can tell, however, its claimed magnanimousness is completely chimerical and, furthermore, if University of Tennessee thinks that it can make me waver between the alluring promises of an uneducated "new morality" and the sound dictation of my own conscience, then it's barking up the wrong tree. If you need proof that University of Tennessee's demented beliefs are largely due to its drawing mistaken conclusions from what it wrongly takes to be evidence, then just take a look at University of Tennessee. Now that this letter has come to an end, let me remind you that it was intended to provide an accurate, even-handed, and balanced discussion of University of Tennessee and its cock-and-bull stories. Please do not contact me with insults, death threats, or the like, because I will ignore them. If you disagree with my arguments or can provide further information about University of Tennessee, please contact me and I will endeavor to make any necessary corrections to this letter.
Just one more:
My complaint about Alchoholic Suitemaites
Please pardon the pathological overtones that will be found throughout this letter, but Alchoholic Suitemaites deserves to be punished. Before I launch into my rant, permit me the prelude caveat that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about Alchoholic Suitemaites and about hypothetical solutions to our Alchoholic Suitemaites problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that I'm not a psychiatrist. Sometimes, though, I wish I were, so that I could better understand what makes organizations like it want to keep essential documents hidden from the public until they become politically moot. Do you understand the implications of what I have been telling you? Are you awake? Then you probably realize that whatever your age, you now have only one choice. That choice is between a democratic, peace-loving regime that, you hope, may provide people the wherewithal to warn the public against those vengeful crackpots whose positive accomplishments are always practically nil, but whose conceit can scarcely be excelled, and, as the alternative, the unregenerate and disreputable dirigisme currently being forced upon us by Alchoholic Suitemaites. Choose carefully, because all Alchoholic Suitemaites really wants is to hang onto the perks it's getting from the system. That's all it really cares about. Nice try to besmirch the memory of some genuine historic figures, Alchoholic Suitemaites. As everyone who has access to reliable information knows, I challenge Alchoholic Suitemaites to point out any text in this letter that proposes that the cure for evil is more evil. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. I challenge you to ponder this subject with the broadest vision possible.
Ok, so they aren't exactly an organization, but the letter still came out well! Very funny anyway!
Your Musical Tastes Match: Jennifer Garner
See her whole playlist here (iTunes required)
What Celebrity Matches Your Taste in Music?
Yay, I love her (although I am not happy about the new Bennifer, but, hey, it's her life to ruin I guess).
Some quotes (b/c I love them, and I know if I put them here I will be able to find them later, so it's more for me than y'all, but oh well!):
"I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me." -- Harry Potter
"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Albus Dumbledore, CoS
"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." -- Albus Dumbledore, PS/SS
"You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." -- Albus Dumbledore
"And now Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." --Albus Dumbledore, HBP
"- yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man." -- Albus Dumbledore, HBP
"Time is making fools of us again." -- Albus Dumbledore, HBP
“Oh, come on. You heard them, just behind the veil, didn’t you? They were just lurking out of sight, that’s all. You heard them.” -- Luna Lovegood, OotP
"You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style..." -- Phineas Nigellus, OotP
"Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit." -- Remus Lupin, HBP
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned in life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation." -- Robert Frost
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -- Anatole France
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain, after reading his own obituary, June 2, 1897
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour." -- William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." -- Marie Curie
''Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me." -- Emily Dickinson
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn." --Joseph Addison
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." --G.K. Chesterton
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -- Gene Fowler
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing." --Enrique Jardiel Poncela
"What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers." ---Logan Pearsall Smith
"... for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for. " -- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
OMGWTFPOLARBEAR! -- every single LOST fan
Sayid: Hope is a very dangerous thing to lose. --LOST
Charlie: [sarcastic] Oh, you guys have an inside joke. How absolutely wonderful for you both. --LOST
Hurley: [to Sawyer, commenting on his glasses] Dude! Looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter! -- LOST
Charlie: [to Jack] Locke? Guy's a freak of nature, highly disturbed. Chances are he probably killed all his mates at the Post Office the day his mum forgot to put a cookie in his lunch tin. -- LOST
Jack: Three days ago, we all died. We should all be able to start over. --LOST
Locke: You're not going crazy, Jack. Crazy people don't think they're getting crazy. They think they're getting saner. --LOST
Charlie: [to Michael] You didn't hear about the polar bear? -- LOST
Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no." --PotC
Elizabeth: You like pain? Try wearing a corset. --PotC
Jack Sparrow: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid. --PotC
Jack Sparrow: Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. --PotC
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.
Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide. -- PotC
Jack Sparrow: That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and hull and a deck and sails. That's what a ship needs. But what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom. -- PotC
Jack Sparrow: But why is the rum gone? -- PotC
Barbossa: So what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?
Jack Sparrow: Or you could surrender. --PotC
Sorry about the way too long post, btw!