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noldo · 03-05-2002, 01:32 PM

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde

"I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has not got soul and they blame the computers: "There is no soul here." It's like you couldn't blame the computer: if there's no soul in the music it's because nobody put it there."
Björk

"Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."
Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland

"Intolerance is evidence of impotence."
Aleister Crowley

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow

"Someone's boring me. I think it's me."
Dylan Thomas

"When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before."
Mae West

"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels."
Goya

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde

"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."
Woody Allan

Nibs · 03-05-2002, 01:41 PM

"Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny."
-Spencer W. Kimball

"We have met the enemy and he is us."
-Walt Kelley (I think)

"Never tell me the odds."
-Han Solo

Arathorn · 03-05-2002, 01:51 PM

"Yo Adrian! I did it!!!!!" - Rocky Balboa

"Enjoy the Roast Pig while you're young for hypertension runs in the family" - Some of my older relatives

sun-star · 03-05-2002, 05:50 PM

From the Simpsons:

You know, the Chinese have the same word for crisis as they do for opportunity.
Yes. Crisortunity.

Perhaps you have to hear it to get its full power...

Nibs · 03-05-2002, 05:54 PM

"One man with courage is a majority."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
-Helen Keller

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain

LuthienTinuviel · 03-05-2002, 06:05 PM

the world's in fast forward. . . . stop.

Starr Polish · 03-05-2002, 09:20 PM

We are everday angels - Jewel

Now you're unique, like everyone else - bumper sticker

Maybe I'm just sane in an insane world - Susanna Kayson

Oooh, you're so special who gives a do you want to play? Jewel (you have to hear the song)

I am nobody, who are you, are you a nobody? There's two of us, don't tell...
Because I could not stop for death, Death kindly stopped for me, we sat in the carriage with just ourselves, and immortality - both Emily Dickinson

Preach the Gospel. If necessary, use words. - Anonymous

I search for a different kind of beauty. - Myself

He who dies with the most toys...still dies - Anonymous

Kick in the darkness till it bleeds daylight - Barenaked Ladies

Don't forget to win first place - Alanis Morissette

He's going for distance, he's going for speed - Cake (great track theme song!)

Of all the words of mouth and pen, the saddest are "It might have been" - Mark Twain

Laurelyn · 03-05-2002, 09:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Starr Polish
We are everday angels - Jewel

Which song is that from? . . . I can't remember and I'm too lazy to check the words to the songs . . .

Starr Polish · 03-05-2002, 09:51 PM

It's from the song "I'm Sensitive" from her first album I think.

Jewel is cool...hey, that rhymed

Laurelyn · 03-05-2002, 09:59 PM

Oh yeah, now I remember that part. . .it is indeed off her first album. Oh, and btw: Jewel ain't just cool, she's awesome!!

Wayfarer · 03-05-2002, 10:13 PM

I love and I hate. It hurts.

The Eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the Crow.

When a true genius arises in the world you may know him by this: All the dunces will form a confederacy against him.

Razors pain you,
Water is damp
Acids stain you,
and Drugs cause cramp
Gas smells awful,
nooses give
gun's aren't lawful,
you might as well live!
~You might as well live.

I know some poison I could drink,
I've often thought I'd taste it.
But mother bought it for the sink,
and drinking it would waste it!
~the cheerful abstainer.

**crickhollow** · 03-06-2002, 06:13 AM

Hebrews 12:1-3

Psalm 63:3-6

This one is a huge reminder for me to seek always to be more like Jesus:
"I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians; they are not like their Christ."~~Gandhi

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."~~Robert H. Shaffer

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

"Any child will tell you that the sole purpose for having a middle name is os he can tell when he's really in trouble."~~Dennis Frakes

"Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; itis difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel a smooth road."
~~Unknown

Well, folks, that's all I have posted on my bulliten board (aside from a bunch of sappy ones about friendship that you've all heard a million times).

bropous · 03-06-2002, 10:49 AM

"Religion is is best used in moderation"
- Unk

"That was a wonderful remark....I had my eyes closed in the dark...I sighed a million sighs....told a million lies....to myself....to myself..."
- Van Morrison, "Wonderful Remark"

***Earniel*** · 03-06-2002, 12:31 PM

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

bropous · 03-06-2002, 12:43 PM

"Under the Sun, all crows are black."
- Chinese proverb

Pailan · 03-06-2002, 12:50 PM

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. -unknown

Arathorn · 03-06-2002, 01:03 PM

A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.

Rána Eressëa · 03-06-2002, 06:50 PM

"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference." --Libbie Fudim

"My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world." --George Bernard Shaw

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." --Robert Frost

"I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it."

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

bropous · 03-06-2002, 09:19 PM

A nice smile when ya show it, homemade lembas and Solzhenytsyn quotes.....why couldn't you be twenty years older?

Here's another favorite:

"For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the man was lost; for want of a man the squadron was lost; for want of a squadron the wing was lost; for want of a wing the flank was lost; for want of a flank the army was lost; for want of an army the victory was lost; for want of a victory the kingdom was lost." - Unk, kinda expanded....

bropous · 03-06-2002, 09:30 PM

I know we did Tolkien quotes elsewhere, but I do feel these words from my signature line are words to live by:

"...[W]ithout the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless..." John Roald Ruel Tolkien

Utterly beautiful. Absolutely THE greatest writer of the twentieth century.

How's that for pulling together three separate threads? Oh, yeah. Balrogs gots wings. That's four.

03-05-2002, 01:41 PM	#22
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	"Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap an eternal destiny." -Spencer W. Kimball "We have met the enemy and he is us." -Walt Kelley (I think) "Never tell me the odds." -Han Solo __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-05-2002, 01:51 PM	#23
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	"Yo Adrian! I did it!!!!!" - Rocky Balboa "Enjoy the Roast Pig while you're young for hypertension runs in the family" - Some of my older relatives __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

03-05-2002, 05:50 PM	#24
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	A Quotation which really inspires me From the Simpsons: You know, the Chinese have the same word for crisis as they do for opportunity. Yes. Crisortunity. Perhaps you have to hear it to get its full power... __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.

03-05-2002, 05:54 PM	#25
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	"One man with courage is a majority." -Abraham Lincoln "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller "I never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-05-2002, 06:05 PM	#26
LuthienTinuviel protector of orphaned rabbits Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Kalamazoo... yes, its a real place! Posts: 1,236	the world's in fast forward. . . . stop. __________________

03-05-2002, 01:32 PM	#21
noldo Elven Icon Maker Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Finland Posts: 517	"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde "I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has not got soul and they blame the computers: "There is no soul here." It's like you couldn't blame the computer: if there's no soul in the music it's because nobody put it there." Björk "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop." Lewis Carroll, from Alice in Wonderland "Intolerance is evidence of impotence." Aleister Crowley "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." Abraham Maslow "Someone's boring me. I think it's me." Dylan Thomas "When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before." Mae West "Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels." Goya "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." Oscar Wilde "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best." Woody Allan

03-05-2002, 09:20 PM	#27
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	We are everday angels - Jewel Now you're unique, like everyone else - bumper sticker Maybe I'm just sane in an insane world - Susanna Kayson Oooh, you're so special who gives a do you want to play? Jewel (you have to hear the song) I am nobody, who are you, are you a nobody? There's two of us, don't tell... Because I could not stop for death, Death kindly stopped for me, we sat in the carriage with just ourselves, and immortality - both Emily Dickinson Preach the Gospel. If necessary, use words. - Anonymous I search for a different kind of beauty. - Myself He who dies with the most toys...still dies - Anonymous Kick in the darkness till it bleeds daylight - Barenaked Ladies Don't forget to win first place - Alanis Morissette He's going for distance, he's going for speed - Cake (great track theme song!) Of all the words of mouth and pen, the saddest are "It might have been" - Mark Twain __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-05-2002, 09:51 PM	#29
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	It's from the song "I'm Sensitive" from her first album I think. Jewel is cool...hey, that rhymed __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

03-05-2002, 09:59 PM	#30
Laurelyn Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Valinor, right next to Telperion . . . what did you expect, Michigan? Posts: 1,315	Oh yeah, now I remember that part. . .it is indeed off her first album. Oh, and btw: Jewel ain't just cool, she's awesome!! __________________ The Third Age of Entmoot has begun. Angel of music, guide and guardian! Grant to me your glory! The country I eat and spend the day in is by no means the country I sleep and dream in. Define patriotism. Hold the boat, you spastic monkey! ~ Elenka

03-05-2002, 10:13 PM	#31
Wayfarer The Insufferable Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,333	I love and I hate. It hurts. The Eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the Crow. When a true genius arises in the world you may know him by this: All the dunces will form a confederacy against him. Razors pain you, Water is damp Acids stain you, and Drugs cause cramp Gas smells awful, nooses give gun's aren't lawful, you might as well live! ~You might as well live. I know some poison I could drink, I've often thought I'd taste it. But mother bought it for the sink, and drinking it would waste it! ~the cheerful abstainer. __________________ Disgraced he may be, yet is not dethroned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned

03-06-2002, 06:13 AM	#32
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Hebrews 12:1-3 Psalm 63:3-6 This one is a huge reminder for me to seek always to be more like Jesus: "I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians; they are not like their Christ."~~Gandhi "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."~~Robert H. Shaffer "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." "Any child will tell you that the sole purpose for having a middle name is os he can tell when he's really in trouble."~~Dennis Frakes "Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; itis difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel a smooth road." ~~Unknown Well, folks, that's all I have posted on my bulliten board (aside from a bunch of sappy ones about friendship that you've all heard a million times). __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-06-2002, 10:49 AM	#33
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	"Religion is is best used in moderation" - Unk "That was a wonderful remark....I had my eyes closed in the dark...I sighed a million sighs....told a million lies....to myself....to myself..." - Van Morrison, "Wonderful Remark" __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-06-2002, 12:31 PM	#34
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. Last edited by Earniel : 03-06-2002 at 04:14 PM.

03-06-2002, 12:43 PM	#35
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	"Under the Sun, all crows are black." - Chinese proverb __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-06-2002, 12:50 PM	#36
Pailan Elven Warrior Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: aisle 12, seat#2 Posts: 449	Put that in your pipe and smoke it. -unknown __________________ "Holy Entmoot, Batman!" "Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single sevice ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuosly, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished." Oh, btw, Frodo lives.

03-06-2002, 01:03 PM	#37
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures... Last edited by Arathorn : 03-06-2002 at 01:04 PM.

03-06-2002, 06:50 PM	#38
Rána Eressëa The Rogue Elf Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,722	"Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference." --Libbie Fudim "My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world." --George Bernard Shaw "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." --Robert Frost "I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it." "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Last edited by Rána Eressëa : 03-06-2002 at 06:51 PM.

03-06-2002, 09:19 PM	#39
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	A nice smile when ya show it, homemade lembas and Solzhenytsyn quotes.....why couldn't you be twenty years older? Here's another favorite: "For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; for want of a horse the man was lost; for want of a man the squadron was lost; for want of a squadron the wing was lost; for want of a wing the flank was lost; for want of a flank the army was lost; for want of an army the victory was lost; for want of a victory the kingdom was lost." - Unk, kinda expanded.... __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

03-06-2002, 09:30 PM	#40
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	I know we did Tolkien quotes elsewhere, but I do feel these words from my signature line are words to live by: "...[W]ithout the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless..." John Roald Ruel Tolkien Utterly beautiful. Absolutely THE greatest writer of the twentieth century. How's that for pulling together three separate threads? Oh, yeah. Balrogs gots wings. That's four. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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