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Za Sunji
State War Academy
Caldari State
#41 - 2014-04-18 09:29:12 UTC
"For the wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes.
And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets."

Catherynne M. Valente
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#42 - 2014-04-19 13:47:02 UTC
Jesus is like Frank Zappa: a talented, forward thinking guy with insufferable fans.

-- Anon.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
RAIN Arthie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#43 - 2014-04-19 18:40:18 UTC
After my father (a WWII vet) slugged a cop into the street he looked at him and said "I believe you left your oath in the trunk with your balls, would you like me to get them for you? "
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#44 - 2014-04-20 08:41:17 UTC
Too many people these days ride on the shoulders of classics when writing what they call science fiction. They tell stories in which they have created nothing new, imagined no new possibilities; this is not science fiction, it is fantasy.

The Platinum Rule: Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.

Both are my original quotes.

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#45 - 2014-04-20 13:30:01 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Too many people these days ride on the shoulders of classics when writing what they call science fiction. They tell stories in which they have created nothing new, imagined no new possibilities; this is not science fiction, it is fantasy.


Especially those writing TV and film productions have no clue at all:

"In Hollywood, the phrase "science fiction film" doesn't usually mean what it should. Most films sold with that designation aren't true science fiction, because they don't deal in ideas in a sustained, conscientious way; they don't extrapolate where we are and where we might be headed, and what it might mean for the human race intellectually, physically and emotionally.

"More often what you get are action or horror or superhero movies with a faint science fiction flavor—films that occasionally remind themselves to genuflect toward big themes when they aren't just having the characters run and jump and dodge explosions or be surprised by a monster lunging at them from the dark."

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#46 - 2014-04-20 13:39:23 UTC
Oh man, I can't wait to watch Jesus lay an egg on Sunday.

-- Anon.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#47 - 2014-04-20 13:39:31 UTC
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses

--Dorothy Parker

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#48 - 2014-04-20 15:06:27 UTC
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

Jean-Paul Sartre


Sibyyl wrote:
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses

--Dorothy Parker



Takes a mental note.
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#49 - 2014-04-20 15:35:02 UTC
I read "No Exit" for a class and fell in love with it. Sartre has many good quotes..

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.” <-- relevant to EVE?
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

My favorite:
"We do not judge the people we love."

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#50 - 2014-04-20 15:52:06 UTC
The odds of Jesus coming a second time are about the same as those of ANY man coming a second time.

-- Anon.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
RAIN Arthie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2014-04-20 16:31:29 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
I read "No Exit" for a class and fell in love with it. Sartre has many good quotes..

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
“I hate victims who respect their executioners.” <-- relevant to EVE?
"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."

My favorite:
"We do not judge the people we love."




"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.” --- I really like this one
RAIN Arthie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#52 - 2014-04-20 16:39:09 UTC
We soldiers are a dam)ned being. We do dam)ned things while being in dam)ning conditions, while not giving a dam)n.
RAIN Arthie
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#53 - 2014-04-20 16:40:26 UTC
RAIN Arthie wrote:
We soldiers are a dam)ned being. We do dam)ned things while being in dam)ning conditions, while not giving a dam)n.



by -RAIN Arthie.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#54 - 2014-04-20 17:20:55 UTC
"I learned that things are different now. Would Richard Pryor be able to survive now? Would George Carlin be able to survive now? Would Sam Kinison be able to survive now? Would Lenny Bruce be able to survive now?

"I don’t know. Everybody is supersensitive. We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say."

-- Tracey Morgan

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Astenion
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#55 - 2014-04-20 17:38:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Astenion
Commissar Kate wrote:
The one in my sig, I found it in a Russian flight sim forum. One of the Russian devs has it in his signature.

More times then not it turns out to be true


It would be much more powerful if it were punctuated correctly:

People who talk don't know. People who know don't talk.
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2014-04-20 19:39:10 UTC
Sibyyl wrote:
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses

--Dorothy Parker
That's because nerdy boys are shy.

Astenion wrote:
It would be much more powerful if it were punctuated correctly:

People who talk don't know. People who know don't talk.
I've been wanting to point that out for a long time now! I just keep getting distract--ooh...shiiiiny...

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#57 - 2014-04-20 21:11:40 UTC

"We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution."

Bill Hicks


Astenion wrote:
Commissar Kate wrote:
The one in my sig, I found it in a Russian flight sim forum. One of the Russian devs has it in his signature.

More times then not it turns out to be true


It would be much more powerful if it were punctuated correctly:

People who talk don't know. People who know don't talk.


I keep trying to put that quote into practice. I find it so hard sometimes OopsUghBear
Uthreignish
Baba Yagas
The Initiative.
#58 - 2014-04-20 21:26:07 UTC
A life Jimmy! A life! You know what that is? It's the sh@t that happens while you're waiting for things that never come.

Lester Freamon
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#59 - 2014-04-20 21:39:16 UTC
Uthreignish wrote:
A life Jimmy! A life! You know what that is? It's the sh@t that happens while you're waiting for things that never come.

Lester Freamon


....from the original "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Uthreignish
Baba Yagas
The Initiative.
#60 - 2014-04-20 21:50:31 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Uthreignish wrote:
A life Jimmy! A life! You know what that is? It's the sh@t that happens while you're waiting for things that never come.

Lester Freamon


....from the original "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans".




Might be. But still, it's a little bit different.