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zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 4 2015, 7:20am

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We've had a thread of favorite movie quotes, but I don't remember one with favorite quotes in general. So how about it? What are some that resonate with you, that move you, that make you stop and think or just make you laugh?

Here are some of mine.


"Vivir con miedo es como vivir a medias." (Roughly translated: To live with fear is like a life half-lived)
From Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom


"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon


"...those prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."
E.M. Forster, Howards End


"Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place."
Beau Biden


"The cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff, we are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Carl Sagan, Cosmos


And of course from our dear Professor Tolkien:

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


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Starling
Half-elven


Aug 4 2015, 8:00am

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I've always loved the Camus one [In reply to] Can't Post

that goes, "In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."
That's the serious one.

But the one I really wanted to post as my favourite is the ultimate Kiwi classic:

"Always blow on the pie."
Sound advice.




zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 4 2015, 8:17am

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See...that's the sort of quote I tried to think of [In reply to] Can't Post


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"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."


I used to love many of the French writers and poets I studied at school twenty-some -odd years ago, but what I remember is a made up proverb from a silly camp comedy (Strictly Ballroom) Laugh I love that film, but I wish I had been able to remember something from, say, Baudelaire. Crazy

I also like the pie one. Laugh

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


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Starling
Half-elven


Aug 4 2015, 8:50am

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The pie advice comes from the police [In reply to] Can't Post

As someone said in the comments below the clip, it makes me proud to be a New Zealander. Cool
Safer communities together.




Ataahua
Forum Admin / Moderator


Aug 4 2015, 7:13pm

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This one is one of my favourites:


Whaia e koe ki te iti kahurangi; ki te tuohu koe, me maunga teitei.
(Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head, let it be to a lofty mountain.)

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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Darkstone
Immortal


Aug 4 2015, 8:30pm

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In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away—
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
-Lewis Carroll

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
-Isaac Asimov

It has been said that fiction is often held to a higher standard of logic than real life.

Correlation may not prove causation, but as a great mathematician once said, it does “waggle its eyebrows suggestively and mouth ‘look over there’.”
-Randall Munroe

Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins.
-Ricardo Montalban

The tragedy of territorial geeks is that they found the wonderful world of fantasy, then missed its point.
-Luke McKinney

What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it's supposed to be.
-J Cole

That's not right! That's not even wrong!!
-Wolfgang Pauli

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
- Emo Philips

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Space is what prevents everything from happening to me.
- John Archibald Wheeler

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry
-Emily Dickinson

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Gianna
Rohan


Aug 5 2015, 12:50pm

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“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” -Mother Teresa

“Forever is composed of nows.” -Emily Dickinson

“A story must be told or there’ll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Whatever colour the pots, the kettle may indeed be black.” -H.V.D. Dyson

“A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.” -C.S. Lewis

“Let us remember that love lives through sacrifice and is nourished by giving. Without sacrifice, there is no love.” -St. Maximilian Kolbe

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” -C.S. Lewis

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou

~There's some good left in this world. And it's worth fighting for.~


zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 8 2015, 7:29am

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Haha! Love it! // [In reply to] Can't Post

 

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 8 2015, 7:30am

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Beautiful! [In reply to] Can't Post

Especially in Maori. Smile

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 8 2015, 7:39am

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Oh my! [In reply to] Can't Post

Quite an eclectic collection - Emily Dickinson to Emo Philips Laugh - and all great. Smile

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


zarabia
Tol Eressea


Aug 8 2015, 7:48am

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Excellent choices, Gianna [In reply to] Can't Post

I'll have to add some of these to my list of favorites. Smile

You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round

~Do You Realize?, The Flaming Lips


Elarie
Grey Havens

Aug 8 2015, 11:59am

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One that's been going through my mind a lot this week here in the U.S.: [In reply to] Can't Post

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

Winston Churchill

Unsure

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Gold is the strife of kinsmen,
and fire of the flood-tide,
and the path of the serpent.

(Old Icelandic Fe rune poem)


refrigeratorbob
Registered User

Aug 10 2015, 12:48pm

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Do or not to do but there is no try.


Annael
Immortal


Aug 10 2015, 4:39pm

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Once one of my students told me about acting.
"The secret is that you cannot use a negative motivation," he said. "You cannot portray 'not wanting to say,' only 'wanting to leave.' You cannot be a person who 'does not want to be alone,' only a person who is 'eager to be with others.' "
"Why are you telling me this?"
"Because this knowledge has changed my life."
"I am not following you."
"Acting starts with just that," he said patiently. "Action. It starts with a simple act portraying a simple positive intention. One intention, one action, then another, and another, and gradually you are asserting your vision. Your audience--the people who are around you--can recognize and respond to something solid and authentic."
"All this so magically, so fluidly?"
"It's a gradual process, of course," he said," but the point simply is to make an initial act toward what you want to become. Stop ruminating and reconsider your life in terms of actions you can take."

From Lydia Minatoya's Talking to High Monks in the Snow

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the words begin to move around … The words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.

-- Gaston Bachelard

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Meneldor
Valinor


Aug 10 2015, 5:13pm

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Mock not my delusions, for they bring me great comfort. [In reply to] Can't Post

-me.


They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, these see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep. -Psalm 107


Starling
Half-elven


Aug 10 2015, 5:50pm

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Always blow on the pie flag design! [In reply to] Can't Post

Look at this gem of an entry in our national search for a new NZ flag. I am so gutted to hear it hasn't made the top 40 shortlist. Frown





Ataahua
Forum Admin / Moderator


Aug 10 2015, 7:15pm

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I suppose that's the 'long white cloud' doing the blowing, [In reply to] Can't Post

but it's open to interpretation...

Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."

"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.


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Starling
Half-elven


Aug 10 2015, 7:19pm

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Exactly [In reply to] Can't Post

Quote: but it's open to interpretation..


Just like all good art. Cool




 
 

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