Quotes of the day

"British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death."-John Oliver

Mario Auditore: Itsa me, Mario!

Treta tio

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
-Helen Keller

"Bitch you guessed it" - OG Maco

You guys are gonna fit in so well in Washington. Most of Congress is drunk all of the time.
Jen, Parks & Recreation

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.
-Publilius Syrus

When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer; say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. All this fires my soul, and provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodized and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost finished and complete in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. When I proceed to write down my ideas the committing to paper is done quickly enough, for everything is, as I said before, already finished; and it rarely differs on paper from what it was in my imagination.-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

-Charles V

Jean-Luc Picard: They took everything I was. They used me to kill and to destroy and I couldn't stop them. I should have been able to stop them. I tried. I tried so hard. But I wasn't strong enough. I wasn't good enough! I should have been able to stop them. I should... I should...
Robert Picard: So... my brother is a human being after all. This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. 

If you don't know what this is from, I feel bad for you:)

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

• Stephen Colbert, Knox College Commencement Address (3 June 2006)

"Yes! Who the hell is it?!"

- Picard, hearing the doorbell in his quarters while suffering from a massive headache 

Admiral William Adama: [as he's leaving for the final time] What do you hear Starbuck?
Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace: Nothing but the rain.
Admiral William Adama: Grab your gun and bring in the cat.

“Perfection. That’s what it’s about. It’s those moments. When you can feel the perfection of creation. The beauty of physics, you know, the wonder of mathematics. The elation of action and reaction, and that is the kind of perfection that I want to be connected to.” – Sam Anders, BSG

"Commander Adama was left with no choice other than to remove her from office. Ms. Roslin is now resting comfortably aboard this ship, where she will remain until such time as the Commander deems otherwise. As it appears obvious that the government cannot function under the current circumstances, I have decided to dissolve the Quorum of Twelve, and as of this moment... I have declared martial law."-Saul Tigh, Colonel, Colonial Fleet, assigned to Battlestar Galactica.

"Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated."-Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Emerging on the Enterprise-E bridge with his humanity fully intact, in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) story by Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore and Rick Berman; a derivative of the statement "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" attributed to Mark Twain, paraphrasing his remark: "The report of my death was an exaggeration."

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade. -LORD BYRON

Commander William Adama: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. -said by Capt. Jean-luc Picard, USS Enterprise 1701-D

You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much, risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.

– Thomas "Tommy" Angelo's dead body.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
Jon Stewart-host of the Daily Show from 1999-August 6th 2015.