Quotes

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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein

I made this one up recently:
Sometimes seeing is believing and other times you need to believe before you can see.....

Peace,
Mango

This one's from the song 'Dragonfly' by Ziggy Marley:
"Everybody's worried about time, but just keep that shit off my mind."

I think it's very powerful.
Srry 'bout the swear.

Peace,
Mango

" life isn't about waiting for the storm to stop, its about learning how to walk in the rain,"
" dont' frown someone might be falling in lvoe with your smile"
" today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday"
" Leap and the net will appear"

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i'm going to try and fix it

Happens to us all

An unexamined life is one not worth living.
-Socrates

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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

when life gives you vodka.....have a party.
-it's from some movie
Peace,
Mango

when life gives you lemons... find someone who's life gives them vodka... and throw a party...

from MASH
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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

Made this one up too:
"Every enemy or foe you posses is a gray cloud on your horizon....have enough and they will rain down upon you..."
Peace,
Mango

you can be the loud thunder constantly banging in someone's ear......Just kidding.....*smilez*
Peace,
Mango

*shakes her head* unbelievable......
Peace,
Mango

EYEGOTTWOGO! srry-- French practice.....bye
Peace,
Mango

i like your quote a lot

Don't obsess over the color of the candles, just be glad for the light they give.

I don't remember it exactly but this is pretty close.

no i love it

This is kind of a long one, but it's one of my favorites of all time...

The Procrastinator's Creed:

1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.

2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.

3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.

4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.

6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.

7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesmally small, is not exactly zero.

8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.

9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.

10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.

11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.

12. I know that the work cycle is not plan/start/finish, but is wait/plan/plan.

13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.

14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.

"When you're going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
not particularly funny or inspiring, but I like the image of a succinct, portly world leader kicking hell's butt (or at least getting through it and smiling on the other side).

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” -Jack Kerouac

"90 percent of everything is crap" -Sturgeon's Revelation

"Anything that can go wrong, will-at the worst possible moment" -Finagle's law

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's razor

"When life gives you lemons...choke on them and die...you stupid lemon eater."

I got that last one from a Dilbert comic.

"Concealing deadly scorpion inside gift packaging remains frowned upon. Hilarious as it may be."

i love them
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to stop, its about learning how to walk in the rain

These are spin offs I heard from Forest Gump.
-life is kind of like jumping off a building with your friends. It starts out fun but you all die eventually.
-Life is kind of like food. It tastes good but ends up as crap.
Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

Feeling a bit pessimistic Mango?

I suppose you are right. Terrible mood today...rather tired and all...
Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

I've got a good lemons one:
"When life give you lemons, squirt them in somebody's eyes and run like hell."

When life gives you lemons, regift them.

And of course, the all-powerful "LEMON FIGHT!"

I love it.

hehehe.
lemon fights would be fun.

Forget snowball fights. Hurtling knobby acidic yellow fruit at each other is the only way to go!

That actually would be fun. But can you imagine the possible injuries? "Yes, I got a concussion from a flying lemon."

Got to go. See you!

OK.

Aww...I'm all alone.

*sad face*

It is after midnight. You could, um, sleep.

Dammit! I can't seem to leave.

True.

Hm...Well, I suppose so.
After all, it's not like I'm doing anything online anyways.
Good night.
Hopefully I'll be online tomorrow.

I've been reading a really powerful book about the battle of Berlin in 1945 and the fall of Nazi Germany for research about the narrative that I'm doing, and some of the German's quotes are downright awful.

"Life is like a kid's shirt," one soldier said upon being captured. "Short and s***ty."

The sheer amount of stories that made me want to cry is amazing.

Another quote that I like:
"I think they named oranges before carrots."-Dmitri Martin

And my favorite by far is by a disenchanted vigilante, cornered and caught by the police when he was set up for the murder of an old friend. When he begins ink blot sessions with his psychiatrist, one triggers his first real case (the details of which are bit too gruesome to share here), and he explains how he got into the twisted mental state he was in currently:
"I looked at the sky through smoke and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever, and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later... existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs.

It's us.

Only us." -'The Watchmen', by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
I know it's really depressing, but I find it true. Plus,
Best. Thriller. Ever.

"Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

Indeed.
Go to imdb.com (Internet Movie DataBase)and look it up.
I think you'll find it.

Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go eat some lasagna.
I'll be back later on, unless my brother decides to be annoying.

By the way, I have to add this random note of information to your conversation, they made a Hallmark movie of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather.

It's... horrible. Death is animated.

ew...
that's just not right.

My opinion exactly. I had to stop halfway through and the only reason I watched to first part was due to morbid fascination.

Hallmark. Terry Pratchett. Just doesn't go together.

Who's Terry Pratchett??? Just curoius....
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" A person who goes to the YWP Convention will never ceased to be amused."

Oh. My. Gods.

You've never heard of Terry Pratchett? Usagi is more interested in them than I am, but I do passably well at explaining it.

Terry Pratchett is the world's most brilliant random, science fiction, English, writer. His books are on par with Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Douglas Adams books.

King of all Randomness.

Amazing writer. Strangely brilliant books.

That's a good way of putting it.