The following are a few of my favorite quotes. I hope you enjoy them as I do. I've also decided to bring back my extensive collection of love related quotes. You can find it here.
The thing I dislike most about the future is the inevitability of it all.
Matthew P. Cox
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
Adam Savage
How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
None. There's nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn't work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.
John Cleese
Penny was nice. So nice, in fact, that she refused to let me put my hand underneath or even on top of her bra, and so I was finished with her, although obviously I didn't tell her why.
Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking for 50 quid instead.
Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion ... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex—they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back.
Rob Gordon from High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
So computers are the tools of the Devil? thought Newt. He had no problem believing it. Computers had to be the tools of somebody, and all he knew for certain was that it definitely wasn't him.
Newton Pulsifer from Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.
New York Times, November 26, 1991
Now that all there was to say is said and everything we've done can't be taken back nothing will change the fact that you are you and I am me. And all together we were us.
Our lives are a connect-the-dot puzzle with no numbers to make it easier to find our way. We have the same little balck spots on the same stark white page. The difference is the lines we chose to make our picture of us.
And so what if it looks fucked up. I like my picture. It kinda looks like me in an abstract way. Maybe not how I want to look, but me anyway. And yeah, I could erase and redraw, it would look a lot different, and not so much like me.
Different may not be better and fucked up is the only way life happens when you're left to stuggle through it on your own terms.
Somedays I loved you more than anyone else sometimes I loved you less. There were times when I couldn't love anyone more than I loved myself.
I hope it balances out, cause I'm too tired to keep score.
We saw ourselves in each other, often it wasn't want we wanted to be reflected and sometiems it was beautiful.
It was still me and it was still you and all together it was us.
S. Astrid Paulson
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.
Stephen King - The Body
Each thing I do I rush through so I can do
something else. In such a way do the days pass—
a blend of stock car racing and the never
ending building of a gothic cathedral.
Through the windows of my speeding car, I see
all that I love falling away: books unread,
jokes untold, landscapes unvisited. And why?
What treasure do I expect in my future?
Rather it is the confusion of childhood
loping behind me, the chaos in the mind,
the failure chipping away at each success.
Glancing over my shoulder I see its shape
and so move forward, as someone in the woods
at night might hear the sound of approaching feet
and stop to listen; then, instead of silence
he hears some creature trying to be silent.
What else can he do but run? Rushing blindly
down the path, stumbling, struck in the face by sticks;
the other ever closer, yet not really
hurrying or out of breath, teasing its kill.
Stephen Dobyns - Pursuit
Life is a 'B' movie it's stupid and it's strange.
It's a directionless story and the dialog is lame.
But in the he-said-she-said sometimes there's some poetry,
if you turn your back on it and let it happen naturally.
Ani Difranco
When you stop to think about it life is strange. Some people believe in preordination, although I don't. Still you grow up knowing that somewhere out there is the person you are going to fall in love with. So you wonder what the person will be like. How she will look. How she will laugh. There's no way of knowing, of course, until you meet her. Then the realization that you have finally met her comes as a wondrous discovery, a peek into the works of life. Maybe a guy could fall instantly in love, but I doubt it. I think love creeps over you like a warm feeling on a clear blue fall day. This person is in your thoughts most of the time—all the time actually. You see her when you close your eyes, when you look off into the distance, when you pause from what you are doing and take a deep breath. You remember how her fingers felt when they touched you. The loved one becomes a part of you, the most important part. At least it is that way with me when I think of you.
Stephen Coontz
And when you meet someone and fall in love, and they fall in love with you, you ask them, "Will you take my heart—stains and all?" and they say "I will," and they ask you the same question, and you say, "I will," too.
Douglas Coupland - microserfs