I need to find a good quote for the yearbook this year (all seniors can choose quotes). I could do something deep, serious and insightfull...nah! The vegetable sellers one is very tempting. Terry Partchett has lots of fun quotes.
Scarlet Phoenix
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(9/1/02 12:33 pm) Reply
Quotes
LOL, I forgot about that! Can't you just see the look on my parents' faces when I choose something Terry Pratchett...or Elizabeth Peters... Or- J.K. Rowling- how about, "Decent people are so easy to manipulate." That would be so nice, wouldn't it!
Re: Quotes
here you go phoenix.
i don't know about anyone else, but this sounds perfect for a school year book
"Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."
or possibly
"SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot more Science than you think."
maybe its just me
p.s. how many people are actually in this board, cause 5 votes in just under a year is a little sad, not that i am complaining, having been looking for a good pratchett fan forum for ages
Patrician with faithful Luggage
(11/29/02 12:01 am) Reply
Re: Quotes
Hmmm, the first one probably wouldn't be considered "school appropriate", at least by the people at our school. Too bad I already had to send in a quote, that science one is great although we also had a stupid 15 word limit. *grumbles about stupid school"
As far as members, some people haven't been posting in while so it's kinda hard to keep track and we've only been up for just under 4 or 5 months, not just under a year. I just have to remember to beg the nice Discworld Monthly people to keep an add up for us if they can.
Scarlet Phoenix
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(11/29/02 5:16 am) Reply
Re: Quotes
unfortunately I seem to have missed this plee at the time, so I understand the following is a little late, but here's a selection of my favourate quotes, taken from my rolling stock of sigs
"The usual rejoinder to someone who says "They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Galileo" is to say "But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
-Carl Sagan.
IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINITY PRINCIPLE.
'What's that?'
I'M NOT SURE.
Terry Pratchett, 'The Fifth Elephant'
I shall add no more, but that a mathematician will easily percieve it is not put in such a Dress as to be taken notice of by him, there being an abundance of Words spent to make the more ordinary sort of People understand it.
John Arbruthnot, Of The Laws of Chance (1692)
"Are you a physicist?" "Me? I don't know anything about science!" "Marvellous. Ideal qualification!"
Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett, Diggers
He didn't look mad, but they never did.
Terry Pratchett, Strata
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the date last shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
"What're quantum mechanics?"
"I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose."
Terry Pratchett, Eric
The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so.
Terry Pratchett, Eric
"Remember - that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
"And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED 'LIVING'.
Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
"If anybody wants to clap," said Eeyore whe he had read this, "now is the time to do it." They all clapped. "Thank you," said Eeyore. "Unexpected and gratifying, if a little lacking in Smack."
AA Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
Patrician with faithful Luggage
(11/29/02 11:24 am) Reply
Re: Quotes
Terry Prachett has some of the greatest quotes ever- I like the people's lives do pass in front of their eyes before they die. Death has some of the best quotes too. A lot of these would have met the 15 word limit too. Oh well, I'll have to add it random quotes when I sign yearbooks then.
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sorry bout the date thingy, i keep getting mixed up by u'r wacked out american dating system, maybe u could join the rest of the world and do it normally, but, no, that would be too easy :P:P:P
i also agree, death does have some of the best quotes/ phrases, but rincewind also has some awesome ones
e.g.
*Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.
*- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
(i'm pretty sure thi is rincewnd - it sounds like the sort of thing he would say)
there are others i just can't remember them.
Some other wicked pratchett quotes i remember include
*Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.
*They say the heat and the flies here can drive a man insane. But you don't have to believe that, and nor does that bright mauve elephant that just cycled past.
*The vermine is a small black and white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.
*In fact, no gods anywhere play chess. They prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight to Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.
*What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
*A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.
not to mention the all time favourite *++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++
thats enough for today.
happy hunting
robcraine Out of mind, be back... sometime
(11/30/02 9:17 am) Reply
Re: Quotes
Quote:- "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger."
- "And that which does kill us leaves us dead!"
actually its from CJ... I think its nearish the start when the Vampyres are in the Coach. I think its between Vlad and his father.
you don't like merkin dates? me neither.... where abouts are you then?
Patrician with faithful Luggage
(11/30/02 10:05 am) Reply
Re: Quotes
Slightly confused about the date thing. I'm not too great at metric either (although I'd be the first to admit that it makes WAY more sense than our system), I can convert celsius to farenhiet (though I can't spell it)... I'm not completely clueless.
Scarlet Phoenix
Mrs Grim Commandress of the City Watch
(12/7/02 1:57 pm) Reply
America
I am proud to say that I cannot convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, but at least I can spell it. I believe America is a bit backwards and I live there. We only use our system because it pisses everyone else off that we won't change it.
I remember that from Carpe Jugulum...I have absolutely no inkling as to who said it, though. I pride myself on my memory, but I swear I get stupider everyday.
Mrs Grim
"What's optimism?" asked Cacambo.
"Alas," said Candide, "it's a mania for insisting that everything is right when everything is going wrong."
--Candide by Voltaire
Patrician with faithful Luggage
(12/10/02 5:51 pm) Reply
Re: America
Oh yeah! The chem tests where they give you all the formulas, wonderful!!! And then in geometry where the teacher volunteered to program calculators for exams.... I HATE memorising formulas, very evil.
Scarlet Phoenix
squirel52 Out of mind, be back... sometime
(12/16/02 10:36 pm) Reply
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