| Author | Thread |
|
|
04/09/2011 05:05:39 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by raish:
Granny Weatherwax: Things that try to look like things often look more like things than things. Well known fact.
—Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
e.g. |
Fantastic - another Terry Pratchett fan !
He will be doing talks in Australia next week. |
|
|
|
04/10/2011 05:13:18 AM · #27 |
Polly reached the troll bridge, which crossed the river in a narrow gorge. It cost one penny to cross, or one hundred gold pieces if you had a billygoat. Trolls might not be quick thinkers, but they don't forget in a hurry either.
Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment
Or if you want to be sad and serious -
History records very little in the way of mental activity on the part of the mass of mankind.
Aldous Huxley - Point Counter Point (I think)
Message edited by author 2011-04-10 08:43:29. |
|
|
|
04/10/2011 07:38:42 AM · #28 |
On the headstone of one of my idols, Spike Milligan, is the gaelic quote:
'Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite'
Translation:
'I told you I was ill' |
|
|
|
04/10/2011 08:28:08 AM · #29 |
Someone asked a Zen master "Is there life after death?"
The Zen master replied "How should I know?"
The person said "You're a Zen master aren't you?"
The Zen master replied "Yes, but not a dead one!"
From the book Hardcore Zen the author says before discussing life/death/reincarnation we should first ask ourselves "Do we really know what life is and who's living it?" |
|
|
|
04/10/2011 09:22:23 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by Qiki:
On the headstone of one of my idols, Spike Milligan, is the gaelic quote:
'Duirt me leat go raibh mé breoite'
Translation:
'I told you I was ill' |
Nice to see some Irish here! Just corrected a lack of accenting.
A miserable old author named Peig Sayers from Ireland wrote the most boring, depressing drivel that we, as Irish students, were forced to study for our 'high school' exams.
I think it's the first line that goes "I am an old woman now, with one foot in the grave and the other on its edge," and while what I'm going to say next is crude, beyond the pale and something I wouldn't agree with anyone doing... but someone has graffiti'd on her gravestone "Now the other foot's in there, Peig!" which has amassed fame around the country. The book was so depressing that about 10 years ago there was an advert on the radio that started off with a person laughing. Then an old woman's voice asked "What's that?" and the laugher answers "It's laughter, Peig!" It captures perfectly how miserable the book was. I mean she kept on telling old women who survived the great famine in Ireland (which killed about a quarter of the Irish population) that they didn't have the slightest idea what hardships were.
Great Irish in it though...
|
|
|
|
04/10/2011 10:20:39 AM · #31 |
photographer "OSCAR i could have taken that photograph myself
oscar wilde "no doubt you will" |
|
|
|
04/10/2011 11:25:36 AM · #32 |
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Ansel Adams
|
|
|
|
04/11/2011 01:33:14 AM · #33 |
| "Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty" Wilde |
|
|
|
04/11/2011 02:16:15 AM · #34 |
"if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke"
The Father speaking about his son in Cormac McCarthy's book The Road. If you are a father to a son and have read this book you understand this line perfectly.
Here are a couple more, but they are from memory so I hope they are correct.
Churchill to a powerful woman in the political world whose name I have forgotten
Woman- "Mr Churchill, if you were my husband I would poison your tea."
Churchill- "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
The Great Warren Zevon
"I spent the summer working in my father's carpet store
Laying tacless stripping and housewives by the score." |
|
|
|
04/11/2011 02:38:49 AM · #35 |
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur
|
|
|
|
04/26/2011 11:04:52 PM · #36 |
Among the native peoples a myth exists that in the extremest cold words themselves freeze and fall to earth. In spring they stir again and start to speak, and suddenly the air fills with out-of-date gossip, unheard jokes, cries of forgotten pain, words of long disowned love.
Colin Thubron - "In Siberia" |
|
|
|
04/27/2011 12:27:49 AM · #37 |
“You already have zero privacy - get over it”
Scott McNealy (long before the current iPhone 4 and Android location flap)
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Hold my beer and watch this ..."
Various
"OH Sh........ "
Various - famous next line.
(Pronounced OSH)
|
|
|
|
04/27/2011 06:13:55 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Above from memory... They used to call me "Pooh" :-)
R. |
Me, too! It was the one book (two, really, in one volume) that I took around the world with me at the age of eight. Tiddly-pom. |
|
|
|
04/27/2011 08:13:08 AM · #39 |
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” John Muir
(especially true if you carry your camera!) |
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:16:44 AM · #40 |
"The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour." Anonymous (And I have a good one about Anonymous some where that I'll dig up eventually.)
|
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:21:24 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Quotes... I can't remember any off the top of my head, but what immediately came to mind was "Winnie-the-Pooh". Have you ever read it as an adult? It is the most wonderful, soothing, peaceful thing one can ever read, imo. The language is magnificent.
Now you guys are stuck. I'm going to have to find my Winnie-the-Pooh book and give a quote each day. The first one isn't a quote from the book itself -- it's the dedication of the book from A.A. Milne to his wife:
___________________
To Her
Hand in hand we come
Christopher Robin and I
To lay this book in your lap.
Say you're surprised?
Say you like it?
Say it's just what you wanted?
Because it's yours--
Because we love you |
My fav Pooh quote:
“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
Message edited by author 2011-04-27 09:21:58. |
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:23:57 AM · #42 |
"Never pass up the opportunity to take a pee." - Gerry Roach
|
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:24:32 AM · #43 |
"A person is smart. People are stupid"
Tommy Lee Jones - MIB |
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:24:54 AM · #44 |
"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself"
Northern Exposure, CBS Television, February 1992
The episode aired the night before my thesis defense...and it is the one line from any TV show that I can quote to this day.
|
|
|
|
04/27/2011 09:42:30 AM · #45 |
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.
and
Having a wider heart and mind is more important than having a larger house.
Cheng Yen |
|
|
|
05/01/2011 12:07:21 AM · #46 |
| ....it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation to another as something alive..... - Rilke |
|
|
|
05/04/2011 10:32:55 AM · #47 |
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time." ~ John Stuart Mill
Message edited by author 2011-05-04 10:33:07. |
|
|
|
05/04/2011 11:04:59 AM · #48 |
Oh my. I still remember that episode. The piano! Loved it!
Originally posted by bassbone:
"It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself"
Northern Exposure, CBS Television, February 1992
The episode aired the night before my thesis defense...and it is the one line from any TV show that I can quote to this day. |
Message edited by author 2011-05-04 11:05:36. |
|
|
|
05/04/2011 01:35:12 PM · #49 |
"But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses."
— Robert Ardrey
|
|
|
|
05/04/2011 02:10:24 PM · #50 |
My favorite inspirational words to live by...
"Life is pain. Get used to it."
-from "The Long Kiss Goodnight" |
|
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Prints! -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2024 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 04/27/2024 02:04:25 AM EDT.
