Favorite Quotes

[BassBear]

oh my... where to start... what an amazing thread. super points to you klover. i'll get some more later but here's one of my faves of all time... and please do me a favor and read it all.
(read this with "Get Together" by the Youngbloods playing in the background and i promise you it will send shivers down your spine.)

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime - the kind of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there, and alive, in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right - that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense - we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west. And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S. Thompson

[PaulFrank]

Rumi:

"There is a field beyond good and evil. Let's meet there."

Both of these are from Mahabharata:

Vyasa: "May this ancient Bharata become a jewel garland that will never leave you. Duryodhana causes all creatures to be slain, and wastes the Earth; he fans the flame of hostility that at last consumes all. But in my opinion life is taken with every breath, what do you think?"

And Krishna: "Let each one go to his limit."

And finally, Khalil Gibran:

"Defeat, my Defeat, my shining sword and shield,
In your eyes I have read
That to be enthroned is to be enslaved,
And to be understood is to be levelled down,
And to be grasped is but to reach one's fullness
And like a ripe fruit to fall and be consumed."

[The Joker]

"Fuck you you fucking fuck." - some guys t-shirt.

[PhoenixXx_X]

Originally Posted by Klover

bump this back up.

i love this thread, as simple as it is.

ive already found more favorites/quotes i'd forgotten.

great place i can always go back to for more.



lol you so would.

and i've had that convo with a bum before to.

along with him asking me for weed and vice versa.

TTLG...lets fuckin chill.

Hahahaha.
Oh man.
I AGREE.
And its like an everyday process right when I leave the front door.

BUT YES.
TTLG.
I will be look for THE KLOVER.
And yes, there will be sum kandi waiting for you.

[sputnik]

"They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em..." Rage Against the Machine

[PhoenixXx_X]

Originally Posted by BassBear

oh my... where to start... what an amazing thread. super points to you klover. i'll get some more later but here's one of my faves of all time... and please do me a favor and read it all.
(read this with "Get Together" by the Youngbloods playing in the background and i promise you it will send shivers down your spine.)

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime - the kind of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there, and alive, in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right - that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense - we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west. And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S. Thompson

o0o0o I LOVE THIS.
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is one of my favorite movies.
That Hunter S. Thompson is a trip.
Hahaha.

[tK_pLutO]

all quotes by albert einstein

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."

[Klover]

Originally Posted by BassBear

oh my... where to start... what an amazing thread. super points to you klover. i'll get some more later but here's one of my faves of all time... and please do me a favor and read it all.
(read this with "Get Together" by the Youngbloods playing in the background and i promise you it will send shivers down your spine.)

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime - the kind of peak that never comes again.
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there, and alive, in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right - that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense - we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west. And with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunter S. Thompson

holy fuck this did send shivers down my spine.

and it reminded me a ton of the movie "Groove!!!"

love it.

[oxytocination]

Originally Posted by The Joker

"Fuck you you fucking fuck." - some guys t-shirt.

love that shirt.

Also love the one that says:

Front - "There are two people fucking on the back of this shirt."
Back - "Just Kidding (Picture of Jesus laughing) Believe in Jesus!"

hmmmmmmm..... there are so many awesome quotes...

"All that we see and seem, is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. " - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day." - Jean-Paul Sartre


"It is so hard to believe, because it is so hard to obey. " - Soren Kierkegaard



Anyone ELSE a fan of these philosophers/writers?

[Zacks.on.fire]

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
-George Carlin

"Once I personally realized I would never completely have my shit 'together', I finally started to enjoy life....sort of."
-Bill T. Miller

"You can improve the humor value of almost any situation by injecting a weasel into it."
-Dave Barry

perhaps more serious offerings when I can get at my books

[vo!?]

raging terror of where you're headed is the surest sign that you're traveling in the right direction
- Marty McConnell

i live in search of a cause worth dying for
- Marty McConnell

the only way to survive in this society is to have a hustle mentality. As long as you’re working for your money and your money is not working for you you’ll forever be a slave
- Tommy Bottoms

This is basic economic. Buy low sell high, your price determine where demand meet supply. See most of us don’t want to admit it or even hear it, you see being a drug dealer is the epitome of the entrepreneur spirit
- Tommy Bottoms

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is
- Steve Martin

our lives will make our kids jealous!
- Lo and me

DE GUICHE:
Qu'un moulinet de leurs grands bras chargés de toiles
Vous lance dans la boue!
CYRANO:
Ou bien dans les étoiles!
- Cyrano de Bergerac

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain

[lurpy]

"gods gonna sit this one out"

and

"fuck sac"