Your Favourite Quotes and Sayings

[Sammy G]

“When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one-bedroom house I'd bought with the small amount of money I inherited when our parents died. She arrived one afternoon unannounced in a taxi. She must have known instinctively that I'd take her in. I don't know how or why they released her. Probably due to overcrowding, and they had her scratch her name on a form then pushed her out the door. Or maybe she just slipped away when no one was looking (who'd notice in a place like that?)--she never did tell me and I didn't ask her. I was so happy to have her with me again that the last thing I wanted to do was break the spell by letting reality intrude. Ever since they'd dragged her away weeping with laughter and reaching out for me with our parents' blood still coating her hands with shiny red gloves, I'd felt amputated, like they'd pulled her kicking and screaming and insane out of my guts.”

"I never went outside anymore except to buy alcohol and meat. I'd get drunk, loosening my attachment to myself, and I'd eat the meat raw, pretending it was my sister, planting her flesh inside my stomach so she could grow and live through me, like a cancer. When they sentenced her to that place, my own life started to drain out of my body immediately. As I walked away from the courtroom out into the poison sun of Los Angeles, I felt the light shooting straight through my eyes into my skull unfiltered, causing a tumor to grow in the center of my brain. The tumor was shaped like a rose and its petals were as sharp as razorblades. With each new thought, a petal would spiral away from the body of the flower and slice a passageway through the meat of my brain, slowly boring out large sections of my identity.

"I hadn't seen her in three years when she arrived. It was the middle of summer. A constant regurgitation of corrosive yellow soot spilled out over the houses from the elevated freeway, burning my skin and eyes and tinting the neighborhood with a golden pigment that sparkled like sharkskin in the sun. The heat clung to the smog."

 

[kingme]

Faith" is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see -- / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. -Emily Dickinson, poet

 

[ScotchMist]

R.e.s.p.e.c.t

 

[Sammy G]

"Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art."

 

[foolsgold]

“When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one-bedroom house I'd bought with the small amount of money I inherited when our parents died. She arrived one afternoon unannounced in a taxi. She must have known instinctively that I'd take her in. I don't know how or why they released her. Probably due to overcrowding, and they had her scratch her name on a form then pushed her out the door. Or maybe she just slipped away when no one was looking (who'd notice in a place like that?)--she never did tell me and I didn't ask her. I was so happy to have her with me again that the last thing I wanted to do was break the spell by letting reality intrude. Ever since they'd dragged her away weeping with laughter and reaching out for me with our parents' blood still coating her hands with shiny red gloves, I'd felt amputated, like they'd pulled her kicking and screaming and insane out of my guts.”

"I never went outside anymore except to buy alcohol and meat. I'd get drunk, loosening my attachment to myself, and I'd eat the meat raw, pretending it was my sister, planting her flesh inside my stomach so she could grow and live through me, like a cancer. When they sentenced her to that place, my own life started to drain out of my body immediately. As I walked away from the courtroom out into the poison sun of Los Angeles, I felt the light shooting straight through my eyes into my skull unfiltered, causing a tumor to grow in the center of my brain. The tumor was shaped like a rose and its petals were as sharp as razorblades. With each new thought, a petal would spiral away from the body of the flower and slice a passageway through the meat of my brain, slowly boring out large sections of my identity.

"I hadn't seen her in three years when she arrived. It was the middle of summer. A constant regurgitation of corrosive yellow soot spilled out over the houses from the elevated freeway, burning my skin and eyes and tinting the neighborhood with a golden pigment that sparkled like sharkskin in the sun. The heat clung to the smog."

jesus christ sammy

 

[kingme]

Thats a mantra to recite before bedtime right there... corrosive regurgitation is where its at nowadays

 

[felix]

To get good customer service; all you need to do is be a good customer.

Me.

 

[Waterfall]

"...while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

Fuck me that's a good quote. And by the way it's from Eugene Victor Debs, leader of the American Socialist Party in the very early 20th century. They just don't make em' like that any more :'(.

 

[felix]

I like that.

Also:

"A bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end."

Not sure who said it first.

 

[Waterfall]

Lenin? Off the top of my head. Could've been Engels though. TBH I'm too fucked to bother searching it up

I retract my previous sentence, it was a British Pacifist slogan during the Second World War (I was way out). Originally attributed to Stephen Goranson.

 

[itsonlyme123]

"Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one" - Harold Francis Callahan

 

[Waterfall]

"Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one" - Harold Francis Callahan

"... and everyone thinks theirs is the only one which doesn't stink" - Mark Kermode I think.

 

[felix]

Lenin? Off the top of my head. Could've been Engels though. TBH I'm too fucked to bother searching it up

I retract my previous sentence, it was a British Pacifist slogan during the Second World War (I was way out). Originally attributed to Stephen Goranson.

Yeah, I thought it had some Marxist-Leninist origins (sounds like it), or whatever, but it's still relevant today. The first time I read it I was blown away by its simplicity and truth.

And yet here I am, seeking employment in the defence & aerospace sector.

 

[Waterfall]

Hahaha you always become what you most hate don't you? Have fun contributing to the inevitable downfall of the human race through promoting the profit margins of bloated City companies over the interests of the children in the third world who will have their limbs blown off by the cluster bombs your chosen sector are all about. Neo-colonialism for the win! An Iraqi ten-year olds legs are worth fuck-all in comparison to Boeing Defence UK's bottom line. This is how we fix the world.

Should probably include an n/b that that was not meant as an insult, I understand it's a complicated world and we can do fuck all to change anything. No personal judgement meant. I'm just quie fucked and ranting (not against you, against the universe).

 

[felix]

Hahaha you always become what you most hate don't you? Have fun contributing to the inevitable downfall of the human race through promoting the profit margins of bloated City companies over the interests of the children in the third world who will have their limbs blown off by the cluster bombs your chosen sector are all about. Neo-colonialism for the win! An Iraqi ten-year olds legs are worth fuck-all in comparison to Boeing Defence UK's bottom line. This is how we fix the world.

Should probably include an n/b that that was not meant as an insult, I understand it's a complicated world and we can do fuck all to change anything. No personal judgement meant. I'm just quie fucked and ranting (not against you, against the universe).

Heh. Quite. I've spent 20-odd years assisting Big Oil harvest the planet up North so it's not a big leap to jump onto the military-industrial complex down South. I'm just a pawn in game of life and am acutely aware that neither of these theatres of operation are the most altruistic way of making a living. But I'm geographically, financially and educationally trapped by circumstances outwith my control, and hope that you all trust me that I have more enlightened ambitions. I'm fighting the system from within, just you watch.

BTW, I've spent some time in Angola (amongst other wartorn hellholes), and have encountered child amputees and other effects of a 10 year long civil war over resources with my own own eyes, so yeah, I do have an insight into how fucking horribly shitty the world can be. Such images will live with me forever.

edit2: sorry if that all went a bit bleak. Just sharing. :D

 

[igetdown]

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
-John Lennon

 

[itsonlyme123]

. I'm fighting the system from within, just you watch.

BTW, I've spent some time in Angola (amongst other wartorn hellholes), and have encountered child amputees and other effects of a 10 year long civil war over resources with my own own eyes, so yeah, I do have an insight into how fucking horribly shitty the world can be. Such images will live with me forever.

edit2: sorry if that all went a bit bleak. Just sharing. :D

You're not fighting the system youre a part of it you hypcrite.

 

[felix]

You're not fighting the system youre a part of it you hypcrite.

:D

First of all, in what way am I am a hypocrite? What did I say to make you think that?

And tell us what you're doing with your life? Are you in a superior position to judge me in some way?

Do tell.

 

[Sammy G]

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”

 

[Sprout]

“When my sister was released from the mental hospital, she came to live with me in the tilting and crumbling one-bedroom house I'd bought with the small amount of money I inherited when our parents died. She arrived one afternoon unannounced in a taxi. She must have known instinctively that I'd take her in. I don't know how or why they released her. Probably due to overcrowding, and they had her scratch her name on a form then pushed her out the door. Or maybe she just slipped away when no one was looking (who'd notice in a place like that?)--she never did tell me and I didn't ask her. I was so happy to have her with me again that the last thing I wanted to do was break the spell by letting reality intrude. Ever since they'd dragged her away weeping with laughter and reaching out for me with our parents' blood still coating her hands with shiny red gloves, I'd felt amputated, like they'd pulled her kicking and screaming and insane out of my guts.”

"I never went outside anymore except to buy alcohol and meat. I'd get drunk, loosening my attachment to myself, and I'd eat the meat raw, pretending it was my sister, planting her flesh inside my stomach so she could grow and live through me, like a cancer. When they sentenced her to that place, my own life started to drain out of my body immediately. As I walked away from the courtroom out into the poison sun of Los Angeles, I felt the light shooting straight through my eyes into my skull unfiltered, causing a tumor to grow in the center of my brain. The tumor was shaped like a rose and its petals were as sharp as razorblades. With each new thought, a petal would spiral away from the body of the flower and slice a passageway through the meat of my brain, slowly boring out large sections of my identity.

"I hadn't seen her in three years when she arrived. It was the middle of summer. A constant regurgitation of corrosive yellow soot spilled out over the houses from the elevated freeway, burning my skin and eyes and tinting the neighborhood with a golden pigment that sparkled like sharkskin in the sun. The heat clung to the smog."

Fuuuuuck. Where is this from?