the quote thread

[Courtney]

just want to hear some good quotes...
i like this one and it has helped me as of late

"Hope is not a denial of reality. But it is also not some kind of spiritual elixir. It is not a placebo infused out of nowhere.Hope is a series of small actions that transform darkness into light. It is putting one foot in front of the other when we can find no reason to do so at all"

[galaxie]

"Later never comes."

One of my personal favourites. Can be applied to many instances on many levels.

[tiedye]

All good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff - Frank Zappa

[mikey]

get down or lay down ~ dams

[azazel]

"knowledge doesn't make you a master"

--Fedor Emelienanko

[gnosis]

"Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
The Fool to King Lear

Frosty
(Billy-boy had some winners!)

[cubed]

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

[djmarkpaul]

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he" - ascribed to James Allen but definetly much older.

[azazel]

Originally Posted by cubed

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

Comer Cotrell

Left is right and right is left.

--some ironic British guy

[Lush]

"the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
- William Blake

I'm still contemplating getting it tattooed across my hip

[lildonkey]

"I want what every man wants; I just want it more."
~ anonymous

by far my favourite quote.. and a quote to live by

[InSoMnIaK*]

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. Frank Zappa ...

[ebbomega]

Since everybody's quoting Zappa....
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

Also:
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
- Crowley
"Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant."
"Dear God; This is to inform you that your current position as deity is herewith terminated due to gross incompetence STOP Your check will be mailed STOP Please do not use me for a reference"
- Malaclypse the Younger

[JadoreJDM]

"Whatever is done from love, always occurs beyond good and evil."

-Nietzsche

[GSG9]

Originally Posted by djmarkpaul

"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he" - ascribed to James Allen but definetly much older.

For as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7


proverbs is full of good ones. its pretty much a book of quotable knowledge and common sense.


a fav of mine is " If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither yourself, nor your enemy, you will succumb in every battle"
Sun Tzu, the art of war.

great quote in any sort of confrontational situation.

[mojo]

"There has, in fact, come about a situation in which many who have lost faith in prevailing loyalties have not aquired new ones, and so pay no attention to politics of any kind. They are not radical, not liberal, not conservative, not reactionary. They are inactionary. They are out of it. If we accept the Greek's definition of an idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots"
C. Wright Mills

[Erin]

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon.

[ebbomega]

"THOU ART GOD!"
- Valentine Michael Smith

[esoter1c]

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. Sir Francis Bacon