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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#1 - 2013-10-17 12:10:01 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
Both of the following I heard this morning on the radio on the way into work. Two very different quotes from two very different people.

1) "I would have given more years of servitude if they had only moved me a few feet into the shade."



2) "Boy don't you dare walk around here like you hit a triple, you were born on third base."


1a) Solomon Northup while he was being hung for assaulting an overseer.

From the book 12 Years a Slave - A memoir of a northern black musician lured into a trap, by promises of becoming part of a traveling band, then sold into slavery. It was apparently squashed by the literary juggernaut Uncle Tom's Cabin which was released a year after his memoir.

I have not read the book but this interview has brought the book to my attention and I plan on reading it as it seems like a very very very interesting story. Recently it was made into a movie, but I will wait to see that until I read the book. It is not one I think I need to see on the big screen.

2a) Coorey Booker was quoted last night, after winning an impromptu Senate election in New Jersey. He was speaking to what his father would say to him when he was younger and caught him "walking with a little too much swagger or if he was acting too tall for his britches"


So yes neither of these quotes are earth shattering but I found power in the first one and good humor with the second. So I now open this thread to quotes of any flavor.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#2 - 2013-10-17 16:42:26 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
The first quote reminds me of the song "Cotton" by Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins. My #1 favorite musician ever, and I have a lot of favorites from all kinds of genres. That guy sure could play guitar and write a song.

I stood straight up in the field
Poor Lightnin' got to go find him some shade
Oh Lord have mercy
Poor Lightnin' got to find him some shade
Poor Mama sitting with her pencil and paper
Counting up every dime this family made
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-10-17 17:38:36 UTC
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Life is short and dinner time is chancy

Eat dessert first!
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#4 - 2013-10-18 00:11:49 UTC
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

-- Will Rogers

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
NightCrawler 85
Phoibe Enterprises
#5 - 2013-10-18 02:07:33 UTC
Every single creature in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark. But they're wrong. Because it's not irrational.

—The Tenth Doctor

Phoibe Enterprises

The Eve Reader -  Audio Recordings of Eve Chronicles
Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#6 - 2013-10-18 08:35:39 UTC
"The sands of Mars will run red with Earther blood!!!!"

Free Mars movement.

(thinks he's doing it wrong)
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#7 - 2013-10-19 02:19:14 UTC
Closing time. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Yeah.

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
Pepper Solette
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-10-19 03:43:50 UTC
"It's only illegal if you get caught."


I have lived that mantra for a long, long time.

** Miko Sunji:  "There is no better way to find out if you can swim, than swimming for your life."**
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#9 - 2013-10-19 04:53:50 UTC
Londo Mollari wrote:
Everybody's cute. Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple, I'm stunning!

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
Mudkest
Contagious Goat Labs
#10 - 2013-10-19 11:08:11 UTC
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#11 - 2013-10-19 15:31:54 UTC
Caleidascope wrote:
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill


I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill
Za'afiel
Imperceptible Bedevilment
#12 - 2013-10-19 16:10:50 UTC
"We continue to insult the coasts of these lords of the ocean with our little cruisers"
Benjamin Franklin

Shoot them all! Be polite.
Kyseth
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2013-10-19 20:16:46 UTC
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

-Every Cthulhu Cultist
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#14 - 2013-10-19 21:21:24 UTC
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
-Friedrich Nietzsche (Yes, I had to check the spelling)

Technically speaking it may not be true but it's something I've always kept in my mind.
stoicfaux
#15 - 2013-10-19 21:55:00 UTC
Never get emotionally attached to your data.


Pon Farr Memorial: once every 7 years, all the carebears in high-sec must PvP or they will be temp-banned.
Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#16 - 2013-10-19 22:04:28 UTC
"I never wanted to be a product of my environment. I wanted my environment to be a product of me."

- frank Costello (jack Nicholson), "the departed" 2006
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#17 - 2013-10-21 14:10:40 UTC
'The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.'
-Joseph Campbell (mythologist, writer, lecturer)
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#18 - 2013-10-21 21:24:59 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
'The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.'
-Joseph Campbell (mythologist, writer, lecturer)


That guy is awesome!!!111

Here are two others I really enjoy from him.


“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#19 - 2013-10-21 22:11:24 UTC
I am the Bill and Melinda Gates of the sympathy bang.

- Barney Stinson

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#20 - 2013-10-23 15:14:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Slade Trillgon wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
'The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.'
-Joseph Campbell (mythologist, writer, lecturer)


That guy is awesome!!!111

Here are two others I really enjoy from him.


“Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.”


Oh yeah, Joe Campbell is a modern day prophet/wise man to me. So much knowledge about all kinds of stuff, and so many insights. I need to watch more of his rambling lectures about mythology. Some really insightful gems pop up when his train of thought leads him off on some wandering tangent. He's not some kind of scripted lecturer or preacher; things he's connected together just come out as he talkes.
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