Quotes, sayings and all that jazz

GNTLGNT

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
-Bruce Lee

EdwardJohn

I had heard the whispered tales
Of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book, I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops
Of eastern lands unknown
Time and man alone
Searching for the lost, Xanadu
Xanadu

Hedda Gabler

 'In the name of Boojum Snark, spirit of the fire, and Brillin Trant, spirit of the water and Grovely Barch, spirit of the air... I hereby declare us blood-brothers, never to be separated for ever and ever. '

-- Andy Griffith to Opie

EdwardJohn

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour
And assessing points to nowhere, leading every single one
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun
And take away the plain in which we move
And choose the course you're running
- YES 

EdwardJohn

A modern-day warrior
Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

Though his mind is not for rent
Don't put him down as arrogant
His reserve, a quiet defense
Riding out the day's events
The river
 Tom Sawyer

GNTLGNT

EdwardJohn

GNTLGNT said:

Ah ... if only this were true.

EdwardJohn

“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
― H.G. Wells

EdwardJohn

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
Stephen King

EdwardJohn

Shreds of black cloud loom in overcast skies.
The Necromancer keeps watch with his magic prism eyes.
He views all his lands and is already aware of the three helpless invaders
trapped in his lair...'

Brooding in the tower
Watching o'er his land
Holding ev'ry creature
Helplessly they stand
Gaze into his prisms
Knowing they are near
Lead them to the dungeons
Spectres numb with fear
They bow defeated

The Necromancer 

FlakeNoir

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” ~ Anne Frank 

spideyman

"Change the way you look at things, the  things  you look at change." Wayne Dyer

Hedda Gabler

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
― Benjamin Franklin

EdwardJohn

Hedda Gabler said:

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”
― Benjamin Franklin

Very true and even more apt for now than your period, Mr Franklin.

Notaro

"He who filters your good name steals trash". 

Stan Laurel  -  "Tit For Tat" (1935)

GNTLGNT

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”– Dalai Lama

EdwardJohn

“Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

EdwardJohn

I ... am ... INEVITABLE ...

Thanos

GNTLGNT

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

GNTLGNT

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

EdwardJohn

GNTLGNT said:

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not a fan of Cicero's beliefs, but that is a damn good quote. 

Notaro

"Fifty thousand pounds., that money must be worth a fortune"

Spike Milligan  - The Goon Show

GNTLGNT

“Life’s disappointments are harder to take if you don’t know any swear words.”
― Bill Watterson

GNTLGNT

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
― Jean Kerr

GNTLGNT

“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.”– George Burns