Quotes of the day

The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never be sure they are true.
Abraham Lincoln.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

-Nick Cave

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Kenneth Grahame, author of the Wind in the Willows

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello

I see no god up here -Yuri Gagarin (<---- Maybe was him, still funny).

Life is deadlier than cancer... -Me

If the meaning of life is to be free and choose ones own meaning, why is one not free to choose to end it? -Me

What do you think about the weather? -Many People.

" If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."
Geezer Butler, bassist for Black goddamned Sabbath

“The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bailiffs realized they had to do something but the less they understood what it was.”
―Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
― Glen Cook, Water Sleeps

http://imgur.com/gallery/MOh2x
a sad day.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

When Albert Einstein (born March 14, 1879) graduated, his first job was as an assistant examiner at a patent office. His work there may have helped lead Einstein to his theories about the connection between space and time.

In honor of the holiday, a quote from one of my favorite Irish writers:

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."
-James Joyce

A lot of generations feel like they're living at the end times of history. we're one of the few where that's probably literal truth
-me to a friend a few moments ago

"humans don't live to die, but die because they lived ,
which is why they make sure to have lived a fulfilled life."
-Decim from Death Parade

"Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below."

-Noam Chomsky

"Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something."

-Morihei Ueshiba

"Juice"

-Adolf Hitler

Jay Sylvester: [regarding the changes made to the original Star Wars trilogy] "George Lucas may be the brainchild behind Star Wars; he may have come up with the story and a lot of the characters, but everyone who participated in making those films had some type of creative input. I mean they won an Oscar for best special effects. Some of those effects are stripped out and replaced with CGI enhancements, if you wanna call them that. I think that that's really disrespectful to the people who worked on those models and did those shots. "

From

Janson: "His name is Kettch, and he's an Ewok." 
Wedge: "No." 
Janson: "Oh, yes. Determined to fight. You should hear him say, 'Yub, yub.' He makes it a battle cry." 
―Wes Janson, to Wedge Antilles concerning entrants into Wraith Squadron

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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

" I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

April 4, 1968: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 47 years ago today. R.I.P.