Quote of the day . . .

[lighty]

"There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: the Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that can lead to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood in which large chunks of the day are spent inventing ways to make real life more like a fantasy novel. The other is a book about orcs."


- from Raj Patel's "The Value of Nothing."

[patch]

Thanks Lighty,You got me inspired to look up other quotes.I liked this one.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

[Sylvene]

I've always liked that one, Lighty.  A Librarian friend of mine has that as his signature in a forum.  :)

Here's one...

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~ Marilyn Monroe

[lighty]

My email sig line is a personal favourite . . .

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary” - John Nicoll

[Mike]

A smart woman has a lot of enemies; all stupid men. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How true, how true

[patch]

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.


Mae West

[DhampirVampire]

A smart woman has a lot of enemies; all stupid men. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

How true, how true

Very true and it is beacuse of that I have never had a boyfriend.


My quote for the day:
"At the end of the day, when you're stripped of everything, all you have is how you dealt with people. Everything else is, ultimately, rubbish." - Gideon Emery

[ladyblue]

" There is always a light in the darkness...somewhere, you just have to find it."

( I found it here, thank you all :) )

[DhampirVampire]

"No matter what happens, nobody can decide for me.
I'll face my own future , and walk on..." - Koda Kumi, Someday

[exbill]

"It was the infantry coats I wanted to see, though, for I know what matters. When the guns haven't come up, and your cavalry's checked by close country; and you're waiting in the hot, dusty hush for the faint rumble of impi or harka over the skyline and know they're twenty to your one- well, that's when you realise that it all hangs on that double line of yokels and town scruff with their fifty rounds a man and an Enfield bayonet."
Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE

[DhampirVampire]

"Why are the pretty ones always so dumb?" - Brian, Family Guy

[moonflower]

I'm enjoying reading these quotes!

It may have been forgotten, but we have another quote thread that was started last year.  It's in the Games and Quizzes forum, called Quotes of the Day.

[Mike]

Alcohol isn't a solution, it's a distillate. My teacher.

[Blue Jay]

 

[tinytim]

 

[DhampirVampire]

  Nice. XP


"I'd love to forget it all, every last bit of it. But I don't. Not ever." - The Doctor, Doctor Who

[Sylvene]

"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

[patch]

  

  "What dreadful hot weather we have!
    It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."


-   Jane Austen  

[exbill]

No sooner did we form into teams than we were re-organised.
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet every situation by re-organising and what a wonderful method it is for giving the illusion of progress whilst only producing confusion, inefficiency & demoralisation.
PETRONIUS AD 66