your kick ass quote

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:45 pm

The poet Charles Simic was once asked to describe his ideal city: "My ideal city already exists. It is New York. ... New York is the place where my imagination and my intellect are at home. ... I'm not surprised various religious fundamentalists and nationalists hate it. To see different races and ethnic groups work together and get along terrifies them since it goes against everything they believe. ... The revenge of the small-town bullies, village priests and provincial fascists has been the secret force behind so much recent history. They all dream of burning down the cities. What frightens them and makes them froth with hatred are the things I adore."

edited - NYC hasn't done it for me, but there is one city this makes me think of.

quiet girl · Post by **quiet girl** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:03 pm

ROB:i can't believe no one's put this one up yet. tiara, this was your thread originally, right, from 2002?

Nope, it was mine, back when I used to talk more to people around here. 2002, correct, but Playaquest resurrected it before the 2003 event.

quiet girl · Post by **quiet girl** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:05 pm

Oh, and

"You get what you settle for."

-Louise to Thelma

alice · Post by **alice** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:52 pm

quiet girl wrote:ROB:i can't believe no one's put this one up yet. tiara, this was your thread originally, right, from 2002?

Nope, it was mine, back when I used to talk more to people around here. 2002, correct, but Playaquest resurrected it before the 2003 event.

my apologies, quiet girl. most excellent thread.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 7:55 am

"Art is the difference between seeing and just identifying."
Jean Mary Norman

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:45 am

If it ain't broke, you're not trying hard enough.

mr smith

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:10 pm

"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you."
Christ

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:57 pm

then stomp them in the ass.

Amen

quiet girl · Post by **quiet girl** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:40 pm

"Something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
-- Mark Twain's definition of a classic

quiet girl · Post by **quiet girl** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 1:42 pm

"The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types--fainting on our sofas...nobody where I grew up ever acted like that. We were about as fragile as coal trucks."

--Lee Smith

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 3:15 am

"Out of chaos, stars are born"

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:48 am

"Life is what you can get away with."
RAW

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:59 am

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad... Everybody's out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter, punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

"All I know is, you've got to get mad! You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, goddamn it! My life has value!'

"I want you to go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"

-Peter Finch as Howard Beale in The Network

Ms.Y.Depraved · Post by **Ms.Y.Depraved** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:49 am

ugly dougly it's
"Reality is what you can get away with" RAW
I'm a fan who was fortunate enough to spend time with him and Arlen his wife back in 93 when I got to videotape him for a week in Chicago.

Ms.Y.Depraved · Post by **Ms.Y.Depraved** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 1:51 am

the quote I like this year comes thanks to fellow burners My Holy Book peeps "All paths lead ultimately to God.Sin is only of the mind."

Crazy White · Post by **Crazy White** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:04 am

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:26 am

"They will listen to Reason." - Hiro Protagonist, Snow Crash.

DangerMouse · Post by **DangerMouse** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 9:27 am

G.E. Miniguns. We bring good things to life!

tzimisce1313 · Post by **tzimisce1313** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:30 am

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

-Thomas Jefferson

symbolsimon · Post by **symbolsimon** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:35 pm

Stormy wrote:He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

my fave was "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

symbolsimon · Post by **symbolsimon** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:48 pm

nymphgonebad wrote:i can't believe no one's put this one up yet. tiara, this was your thread originally, right, from 2002?

"a radioactive cat has 18 half lives"

dj dml

I just want to say that I'm very impressed by the quality of the sense of humor of burners in general and this twisted thread, in particular.
I love you guys, no really.
Jim "Halitosis Is Better Than No Breath At All" Strand

My favorite Yogi Berra gem was, "Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it's always so crowded," until I heard, " I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."
All the best to burners everywhere this holiday season and a couple two three weeks after.
Peace

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:04 am

Remember half the people you know are below average.

""Did you ever hear of the Chain of Command? It's the chain I'm going to go get, and beat you with until you realize I'm in command" - Firefly Commander"

fartly,
mr smith

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 10:57 am

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"

- Abba Eban

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

III · Post by **III** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 12:55 pm

>Remember half the people you know are below average

your statement is based on the presuppositions that:

(a) the people i know constitute a represenative sample from society as a whole.

(b) that whatever your'e measuring is present in a typical gaussian distribution.

i'm quite sure neither of those are true.

Concept2w · Post by **Concept2w** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:11 pm

"Present is the time including all times,
each second is eternity as eternity is now,
and now, now is forever"

"Il est toujours assez tot d'y retourner dans la tombe."

"Élimine ton ennemi avant que celui-ci fasse de-même avec toi"

"-"What're we stopped here for? What's the matter with that space over there?"
-"It's too tight."
"-Too tight? You can land a jumbo f*cking jet in there.""

Last Real Burner · Post by **Last Real Burner** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:19 pm

III wrote:>Remember half the people you know are below average

your statement is based on the presuppositions that:

(a) the people i know constitute a represenative sample from society as a whole.

(b) that whatever your'e measuring is present in a typical gaussian distribution.

i'm quite sure neither of those are true.

"Don't Quote me on that, my boss said it first." - Rabbi Dali Rick 9-26-1961
suprisingly,
mr smith

Silver · Post by **Silver** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:14 am

The world is full of bastards

The easiest way to a man's heart is up through his stomach; you don't want your knife gett'n caught up on the rib bones.

Whatever you do, don't trust a preacher.

and, PC speak had just really started not long before he died and:

Damnit, I'm no handicapped senior citizen, I'm an old cripple; watch out for bullshitters like that one boy.

Chai Guy · Post by **Chai Guy** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 4:17 pm

"You know how it is when you go to be the subject of psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time"

- Steven Wright

enthropic · Post by **enthropic** » Mon Dec 22, 2003 8:10 pm

An honest man has nothing to fear. I'm trying very hard not to be scared..

Chimp · Post by **Chimp** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 8:15 am

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between

Oscar Wilde

C'mon ya got to admit its funny

your kick ass quote

Whadda ya mean it won't burn...

going way back

Just for the record...

Re: your kick ass quote

I believe the children are our future...

my 2 favorites...well for right now.

Release The Hounds.....

From my grandfather born 1895