Some are inspirational, others funny, and many more are simply good to help put things into perspective.
I hope you'll enjoy a few of these as much as I did.
Drop a comment and say which was your favorite or perhaps add another to the list! ^_^
Never trust a Game Master with a big smile.
--unknown
"Do you see no hope?"
"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it."
--Conversation between Tanis Half-Elven & Raistlin, Dragonlance Chronicles
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
--Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
People who want happy endings have to write their own.
--Paine, Final Fantasy X-2
The hardest person to ever know is yourself.
--Paine, Final Fantasy X-2
Know thyself --Ancient Greek aphorism
We have choices. Some people like to stand in the rain without an umbrella. That's what it means to live free.
--Roger Smith, The Big O
All that is gold does not glitter;
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither;
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
--excerpt from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
--Dr. Seuss
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
--Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
--Shing Xiong
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
–-unknown
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0 – unknown
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
--A. Whitney Brown
I dream of a better tomorrow... where chickens can cross roads and not have their motives questioned
--Unknown
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
--Dale Carnegie
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
--Oscar Wilde
Familiarity, the first myth of reality: What you know the best, you observe the least.
Devotion, the second myth of reality: The faithful are most hurt by the objects of their faith.
Conviction, the third myth of reality: Only those who seek the truth can be deceived.
Fellowship, the fourth myth of reality: As the tides of war shift, so do loyalties.
Trust, the fifth myth of reality: Every truth holds the seed of betrayal.
--Magic, The Gathering
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so "profound" that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn't ceased...
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote Proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law, (gas cools off when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
"First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate that souls are moving into Hell and the rate they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let us look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there are more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. Of course, if Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa Banyan during my Freshman year, "...that it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you.", and take into account the fact that I still have not succeeded in having sexual relations with her, then, #2 cannot be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and will not freeze."
This student received the only A.
--Unknown
good times.
Stay happy and well
ciao tutti
~your local wannabe jedi
~Shawn
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