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In language, as in life, it is possible to be perfectly correct -- and yet prefectly tedious or odious. -- F. L. Lucas
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"I did not have sex with that woman. Oh wait - you mean the other woman. Oh yeah I had sex with her. At first I thought you meant the one in blue that kind of looks like a dude."
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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Adams
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It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish - J. R. R. Tolkien
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. - Groucho Marx
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago - Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. - Robert A. Heinlein
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly. - Robert A. Heinlein
Great deeds are usaully wrought at great risks - Herodotus
and finally, two from our workshop's founder:
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. - OSC
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. - OSC
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."
and where's that from, you say? Why, it's from "a wholly remarkable book, ...a highly successful one - more popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters; Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and, Who is this God Person Anyway?"
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglass Adams.
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"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it." --Neil Gaiman, referring to Puck's line in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
“He who fights monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” --Nietzsche.
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"All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain -- this is nothing beside a life without poetry."
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"If you write, You are a writer. If you are not talented, you won't get published as often, or at all." O.S.C.
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quote:"'I am that merry wanderer of the night'? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it." --Neil Gaiman
Is this something he said or is it in one of his books?
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The problem with the publishing industry today is too many people with half a mind to write a book, DO!
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"You're older than you've ever been . . . And now your even older"
TMBG.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams.
"Yell and the world will plug their ears, whisper and they will strain to listen."
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"For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert." --one of my geography teachers, on the subject of global warming (among other things)
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I have had so much trouble with emotion in my life I thought it just would be fun to write someone who didn't have that problem. -- Gene Roddenberry (on Spock)
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. -- Richard Feynman
It's kinda fun to do the impossible -- Walt Disney
Why am I doing this? Why am I not writing?! -- TaleSpinner
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