Quotations

[Kellanium]

"Be what you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter, don't mind."

-Some guy.

Not Dr. Seuss, as is often said.

[Chumley]

"I don't give two splats of an old negro junkie's vomit for your politico-philosophical treatises, kiddies. I like noise. I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin."
Steve Albini

Steve Albini is cool.

[Kellanium]

Because someone had to do it, and I'm watching the movie right now...

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to die."

-Roy Batty as played by Rutger Hauer.

[wsas3]

Yippy kai ay, motherfucker
Bruce willis

[jrmy]

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird." - Frank Zappa

[IEatCats]

"Chop wood, carry water."
"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Zen proverbs.

[SPACERITUAL]

"No video bombing--no repeat duplicate embeds. Some people have rationed internet and pay for data used. Stop or be temp-banned. Thanks."

Daltons, Thom. My Time With Our Savior From Space, Collected Interactions With Jamie Griggs. London: Yale University Press, 2044. Print.

[theavondon]

hahahahahahahahahahahaha

okay, okay

"Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind."

-Donne

[dubkitty]

"if you're going to wallow, wallow deep."--Mark Almond

"be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to be"--Stephen Gaskin

"Howie, i've made an entire career out of singing flat"--Stephen Stills in the studio, 1977

"maybe money can't buy happiness, but i'll tell you what: it'll buy me a boat big enough to sail right the fuck up NEXT to it"--David Lee Roth

"The day I die, my parting words will be, 'Please God, in my next life, will I not do that every day of my life?'"--Pete Townshend, 1995.

[Big Mon]

Wotan's sig has a good one from the movie True Romance:
I'm the Antichrist. And you can be sure to tell the angels in heaven that you've never seen evil so singularly personified, as you did in the face of the man who killed you.

[Seedy]

Einstein-

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

[jrmy]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNgAiGQ_IM[/youtube]

YouTubed for proper tone and quote length.

[jrmy]

"No video bombing--no repeat duplicate embeds. Some people have rationed internet and pay for data used. Stop or be temp-banned. Thanks."

Daltons, Thom. My Time With Our Savior From Space, Collected Interactions With Jamie Griggs. London: Yale University Press, 2044. Print.

Damn, that was a good read. I particularly enjoyed Vol.s 4, 9 and 17 (from the unabridged edition, natch).

[jrmy]

Re: Real Genius: See also:

"This? this is ice. This is what happens to water when it gets too cold.

This? This is Kent. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated."

EDIT:

Also:

"Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed. There was what, no one at the mutant hamster races, we only had one entry into the Madame Curie look-alike contest and he was disqualified later. Why do I bother?"

[D.o.S.]

One more from Real Genius (which is a goddamn goldmine)

"Have you ever seen a body like this before in your life?"
"She happens to be my daughter."
"Oh. Then I guess you have."

And a "real" one:

There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then
eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"

This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. The story ["thing"] turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre, but if you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude, but the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance, or so I wish to suggest to you on this dry and lovely morning.
-David Foster Wallace.