Jump on my sword while you can, evil! I won’t be as gentle!
- Minsc, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
Archive for January, 2007
Television has done much for psychiatry
Published by 1 year, 3 months ago in Novelists and Philosophers. 1 CommentTelevision has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock
Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.
- Groucho Marx, Duck Soup
“That leaves only Fordor,” said Orlon. “But even a retarded troll would not go there.”
“Even a dwarf,” admitted Legolam.
Frito suddenly felt that all eyes were on him.
“Couldn’t we just drop it down a storm drain, or pawn it and swallow the ticket?” he said.
“Alas,” said Goodgulf solemnly, “It is not that easy.”
“But why?”
“Alas,” explained Goodgulf.
- Bored of the Rings, Harvard Lampoon
Richard: What about you? How many wives do you have?
Anwar: I can only afford one.
- Babel
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I
The dead swans lay in the stagnent pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned
Around occassionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from
Time to time.
And sank into the pool’s mire.
They also smelt a great deal.
- Paul Neil Milne Johnstone
Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
Swords, not words!
- Minsc, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
The difference between self-indulgent wiener and a connoisseur
Published by 1 year, 3 months ago in Movies. 0 Comments[in a Ferrari dealership]
Roger the Car Salesman: My name’s Roger, Sir. May I be of some help?
Memphis: That’s funny, my name’s Roger… Two Rogers don’t make a right.
Memphis: Roger, I have a problem…
Roger the Car Salesman: Yes?
Memphis: I’ve been in L.A. for three months now. I have money, I have taste. But I’m not on anybody’s “A” list, and Saturday night is the loneliest night for the week for me.
Roger the Car Salesman: Well, a Ferrari would certainly change that.
Memphis: Perhaps, Mmmm. But, you know, this is the one. Yes, yes yes… I saw three of these parked outside the local Starbucks this morning, which tells me only one thing. There’s too many self-Indulgent wieners in this city with too much bloody money! Now, if I was driving a 1967 275 GTB four-cam…
Roger the Car Salesman: You would not be a self-indulgent wiener, sir… You’d be a connoisseur.
Memphis: Precisely. Champagne would fall from the heavens. Doors would open. Velvet ropes would part.
- Gone in Sixty Seconds
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
- Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
- Natalie Wood
Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying big and gettin’ the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you’ve got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you’ve got ‘em by the balls.
- Senator Roark, Sin City, Frank Miller
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
- Groucho Marx
I cannot be caged! I cannot be controlled! Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!
- Jon Irenicus, Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn
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