Quotes of the day

Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.

-Algernon Charles Swinburne

Decadent British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (born April 5, 1837) covered topics like sadomasochism and vampires, scandalizing the Victorians. At Oxford his roommate was fellow poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. They had a pet wombat.

"I'm not responcabel fer my computer's spleling errnors" - Xlorep DarkHelm

I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you"

• Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker”

"Some people are social butterflies. Others are social moths. We aimlessly bump into things over and over again until we find a flame and accidentally kill ourselves with it." - spongebob squarepants

"Why are we imprisoning letters?"
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I am known as Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobella Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andre Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third. Don't hesitate to call.
-Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidabohertz Gombigobella Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andre Charton-Haymoss Ivanovicci Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third (Vash the Stampede)

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
-Henry David Thoreau

"At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people."

-Ian Mackaye

As you're pretty, so be wise. Wolves may lurk in every guise! Now, as then, it's simple truth: You can't go wrong with a nice bit of cheese.
-Sheogorath (Not really)

I lost my faith in god when I lost my daughter to cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in church, I feel too cheated to worship.

-Vince Neil

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

“Which would you choose: a world with pyramids or a world without?”
~ The Wind Rises

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Anton Chekhov

If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.
-Richard Dawkins

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

• Shakespeare, King John, iii, 1

Hodor-Hodor

" Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Happy 89th birthday, Harper Lee! As a child, the American novelist was close friends with another writer-to-be, Truman Capote.

"The eye that you see is not an eye because you see it, it is an eye because it sees you."
- Antonio Machado.

Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
-Timothy Olyphant

Richard Sharpe: What are you smiling at, Fredrickson?
Frederickson: I'm not smiling, sir. A musket ball broke my jaw. I have false teeth. The sawbone stuck on the smile for free, sir. He also stuck on my hair. Hair belongs to a horse, sir.

C-3PO (Return of the Jedi): I’m rather embarrassed, General Solo, but it appears that you are to be the main course at a banquet in my honor.

In a somer seson, whan softe was the sonne,

I shoop me into shroudes as I a sheep were,

In habite as an heremite unholy of werkes,

Wente wide in this world wondres to here.

Ac on a May morwenynge on Malverne hilles

Me bifel a ferly, of Fairye me thoghte.

I was wery forwandred and wente me to reste

Under a brood bank by a bourne syde;

And as I lay and lenede and loked on the watres,

I slombred into a slepyng, it sweyed so murye.

Thanne gan I meten a merveillous swevene--

That I was in a wildernesse, wiste I nevere where.

-From the Prologue of The Vision of Piers Plowman

"to Succeed you don't need to preform well, but need to have others fail"