When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
- C. S. Lewis
I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom’s realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer’s Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.
- Conan of Cimmeria, Queen of the Black Coast, Robert E. Howard
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
I know it’ll never work, and you know it’ll never work, but what I’m asking is just to see if we’re wrong.
Published by 1 year ago in Movies. 0 CommentsDewey goes onto a porch, carrying a book. Gale is there, she point to Sidney and Cherokee.Sidney-Come on, Cherokee!
Dewey-Yeah, she’s doing great. Look. [He has a copy of Gale’s book, The Woodsboro Murders.]
Gale-What are you doing with that?
Dewey-Will you sign it for me, Gale?
Gale-You hate that book! Besides, I’m done with that kind of reporting.
Dewey-For me. Will you sign it for me?
Gale-You’re a nut! [She takes the book and opens it to reveal an engagement ring. She looks at Dewey]
Dewey-Will you?
Gale-Dewey!
Dewey-I know it’ll never work, and you know it’ll never work, but what I’m asking is just to see if we’re wrong. We don’t know everything, Gale. Well, you think you do. [They laugh]
Gale-You’re a brave man, Dewey Riley.
Dewey-I’m really scared right now.Gale kisses him. She puts on the ring.
- Scream 3
The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?
Published by 1 year, 1 month ago in Movies. 0 CommentsVivian: People put you down enough, you start to believe it.
Edward Lewis: I think you are a very bright, very special woman.
Vivian: The bad stuff is easier to believe. You ever notice that?Vivian: When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess… trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight… on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time… that I had this dream did the knight say to me, “Come on, baby, I’ll put you up in a great condo.”
Edward Lewis: So what happens after he climbs up and rescues her?
Vivian: She rescues him right back.
- Pretty Woman
Player: You have something we want… a Finger of Sartek.
Minotaur chief: All you will get from us is a cold axeblade between your eyes!
Player: I didn’t think you would give it up without a fight.
Minotaur chief: We are Minotaurs. We do NOTHING without a fight!
– Warlords Battlecry III
That’s the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with!
Published by 1 year, 1 month ago in Movies. 0 CommentsDr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night?
Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn’t with my wife, I was with my girlfriend.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems?
Boss Paul Vitti: No.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Then why do you have a girlfriend?
Boss Paul Vitti: What, are you gonna start moralizing on me?
Dr. Ben Sobel: No, I’m not, I’m just trying to understand, why do you have a girlfriend?
Boss Paul Vitti: I do things with her I can’t do with my wife.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Why can’t you do them with your wife?
Boss Paul Vitti: Hey, that’s the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with! What are you, crazy?
- Analyze This
Splitting matter and ideas
Published by 1 year, 2 months ago in Books, Novelists and Philosophers. 0 CommentsI accepted their insults, their frauds, their extortions. I thought I could afford to ignore them — all those impotent mystics who prattle about their souls and are unable to build a roof over their heads. I thought that the world was mine, and that those jabbering incompetents were no threat to my strength. I could not understand why I kept losing every battle. I did not know that the force unleashed against me was my own. While I was busy conquering matter, I had surrendered to them the realm of the mind, of thought, of principle, of laws, of values, of morality.
- Hank Rearden, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Sam: What do you think of the White House, Max?
Max: There aren’t nearly as many roller coasters as you’ve led me to believe, Sam.
- Sam & Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die
Filled to the brim with darkness deeper than night, with bitterness hotter than the depths of hell - that’s coffee.
- Godot, Gyakuten Saiban 3
I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn’t say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
- Sting
There is no political solution
To our troubled evolution
Have no faith in constitution
There is no bloody revolution
We are spirits in the material world
- The Police, Spirits in the Material World
Insult not the White Wizard, for I have many powers. Here, pick a card. Any card.
- Goodgulf Grayteeth, Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
- Carl Sagan
Sam: Max almost lost a finger in a fan like that once.
Max: Yeah, but it wasn’t my own finger.
- Sam & Max (new series)
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