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"If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked."
"Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
"Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night."
"But being the mirrors for each other's souls has a cost: by the time they part from each other, the individuals in the mating pair have become indistinguishable. Before their merger, they each yearned for the other; as they part, they part from the self. The very quality that attracted them to each other is also, inevitably, destroyed in their union."
"People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions."
"I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them."
"We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory."
"We'll hold the distinction of being the only Nation in the history of the world that ever went to the poor house in an automobile. Radio broadcast, Bacon, Beans, and Limousines, October 18, 1931"
"And kid Congress and the Senate, don't scold 'em. They are just children thats never grown up. They don't like to be corrected in company. Don't send messages to 'em, send candy."
"You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one."
"You've never in your life seen a picture, I bet any one of you, never seen a picture of one of these old Pilgrims praying when they didn't have a gun right by the side of them. That was to see that he got what he was praying for."
"That's one thing about Republican Presidents. They never went in much for plans. They only had one plan. It says "Boys, my head is turned. Just get it while you can.""
"How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses."
"Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life."
"[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby."
"...Then you start building things like the Berlin wall to keep people inside your community. In anthropological terms, that's tribalism. A tribal Perl programmer might say, "If you leave the Perl tribe to go and join the Python tribe, we will hunt you down, cook you, and eat you." Or if you join the Ruby tribe, you will explode. By and large, I am not in favor of tribalism. Except for my tribe, of course."
"The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other."
"There's really no way to fix this and still keep Perl pathologically eclectic."
"…I also discovered Larry's First Law of Language Redesign: Everyone wants the colon."
"Larry's 2nd Law of Language Redesign: Larry gets the colon."
"When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?"
"Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible."
"As for whether Perl 6 will replace Perl 5, yeah, probably, in about 40 years or so."
"If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation."
"Dead we become the lumber of the world."
"A merry monarch, scandalous and poor."
"Not only our well-being, but the well-being of our sons and grandsons depends on disseminating patterns of "sobriae ebrietas" (sober inebriation), which reconsider the use of psychedelic drugs as a moral and aesthetic challenge."
"I like the FedEx driver, because he's drug dealer and he don't even know it. And he's always on time!"
"All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon."
"MDMA got you feeling like a champion, The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien."
"The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers -- common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons."
"Hiya kids. Here's an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a rock star, and they give you them for free!"
"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"
"My head hurts, this shit isn't getting me high </br>My chest is so tight, am I going to die? </br>My stomachs in knots, as the room starts to spin </br>As I wait for this Valium to slowly kick in."
"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
"This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel ... total lack of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue — severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."
"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug – especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes."
"A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole."
"Remember: KING KONG Died for your Sins"
"Momomoto, famous Japanese, can swallow his nose."
"Bullshit makes the flowers grow & that's beautiful."
"Mrs. Cushing: Dr. Spezio, may I see you for a moment, Doctor, if you don't mind? Doctor is this your handwriting, if you don't mind? Am I supposed to read this? Was that a sprain? Was that a broken wrist? I can't read that scribbling. I mean I have to bill these people. I know you doctors are the ministering angels and I'm the bitch from the accounting department, but I've a job to do too. I mean, if you don't mind, Doctor."
"“I realized that the difference that I saw between things was the same thing as their unity, because differences (borders, lines, surfaces, boundaries) don't really divide things from each other at all, they join them together, because all boundaries are held in common”"
"Vincent Gray: Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do. I do."
"Pipe bands greeted the Queen and the Queen mother when they visited us and a few people turned out. But everybody appeared to see this woman Madonna. She had them all in the palm of her hand."
"I think she glows, she's an amazing performer and her work inspires me. There will be no other Madonna." (From the book "Madonna talking" by Mick St. Michael)"
"She's a dream pupil; She's very driven, listens to what you say and just wants to do it and improve. You can always get somewhere with someone like that. When I started teaching her she hadn't jumped at all and now she can jump a course of 1.05m. Jumping and hacking are her two favorite things."
"Father Ripper: We must pray the other teenagers of Sherwood, Ohio know the name of that righteous dude who can solve their problems: it's Jesus Christ, and he's in the book."
"Vernita Green: Black Mamba. I should have been motherfucking Black Mamba."
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"Buck: My name is Buck, and I'm here to fuck."
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