| Neato Quotes/Poems Pt. 2 |
| According to Cocteau's plan, I'm the enemy, cause I like to think. I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy who likes to sit in a pgreasy spoon and wonder, gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbeegued ribs with the side order of gravy fries? I want high cholesteral. I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese. I wanna smoke a Cuban citgar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I wanna run into the streets naked with green jello all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Cause I suddenly might feel the urge to. -Edgar Freely, The Demolition Man |
| Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travl both. And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in teh undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was greasy and wanted wear; thougha s for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same. And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hench: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less travled by, And that had made all the difference. -Robert Frost |
| Jazz agers, flower children lost generation, beatniks, rockers, punks, nerds, hackers, lovers, generation X -- whatever the designation, there have always been outlaws in our society who live in pursuit of autonomy. At times hey are revered for their roles as pioneers, challenging the unknown; other times people consider them lawless desperadoes and a dangerous presence. Yet, really, it is only their exuberent music and an autonomy founded to express opinions different from those of otheres that set them apart from the rest of society. -Cowboy Bebop |
| Gods are fragile things; they maybe killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -Chapman Cohen |
| Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. -Robert A. Heinlein |
| The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything with happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. -Stephan King |
| Bent double; like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest geban to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hotts Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstacy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. -- Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, Adn watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin, If you could her, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs Bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. -Wilfred Owen |
| Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffereing can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller |
| He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. -Albert Einstein |
| Do not go where the path may lead, go instead wherre there is no path and leave a trail. It is only as a man puts off all foreign support and stands alone that I see im to be strong and to prevail. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe |
| Whe you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight. -Henry Drummond Inherit the Wind |
| The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing someone else's rules, while quitely playing by your own. -Micheal Konda |
| A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something on one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity. -Christopher Morley |
| Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain |
| You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. -Charles Austin Beard |
| Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. -Thomas Jefferson |
| People demand freedom of speech in compensatoin for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -Kierkegaurd |
| Power(n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. -Anonymous |
| We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. -Kahlil Gibran |
| Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -Henry Kissinger |
| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. -George Orwell |
| A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -Maxwell Planck |