favorite quotes!

[Hood he/him]

The ending poem of The Crippled God has pretty awesome lines. My favourite are:-

 

"[...]

 

            We were never what people could be.

                    We were only what we were.

 

                             Remember us "

[Orlion Blight he/him]

The Malazan quote that sticks with me is the following:

 

The shore gives way to the sea

And the sea, my friend,

Does not dream of you.

[The Invested Beard]

"Truth suffers from too much analysis."

 

-Frank Herbert

[Stormgate he/him]

How do you get a one-armed Herdazian out of a tree? Wave.

--Brandon Sanderson

[Matrim Bloody Cauthon he/him]

"I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you."

                                  -Robin Williams

[Citadel16 he/him]

Well it's a well-known fact, sonny-Jim, that there's a secret society of the 5 wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually in a secret country mansion in Colorado known as The Meadows. (So who's in this Pentavirate?) The Queen, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, the Vatican...and Colonel Sanders before he went belly up! Ooh I hated the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face! Ohh you're gonna buy my chicken! Ooh! (Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?) Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.

 

[The Honor Spren she/her]

A few of my favorites:

Edited January 27, 2016 by The Honor Spren

[Amrynn he/him]

Here are 2, one serious and one ridiculous:

"There's 7 billion, 46 million people on the planet, and most of us have the audacity to think that we matter."

-George Watsky

Sarge: "Get over here! Give me a boost!"

Caboose: "Okay..."

[walks up close to Sarge]

Caboose: "You... are a good person. And people say... nice things about you."

Sarge: "Not a morale boost, moron, a physical one. I need to see what's in that window."

Caboose: "That window is very high. I don't think you are tall enough."

Sarge: "I know. I need you to help me look through it."

Caboose: "I don't think I am tall enough either. Also, my head is *round*, that window is *square*."

[The Invested Beard]

Well it's a well-known fact, sonny-Jim, that there's a secret society of the 5 wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually in a secret country mansion in Colorado known as The Meadows. (So who's in this Pentavirate?) The Queen, the Gettys, the Rothschilds, the Vatican...and Colonel Sanders before he went belly up! Ooh I hated the Colonel, with his wee beady eyes and that smug look on his face! Ohh you're gonna buy my chicken! Ooh! (Dad, how can you hate the Colonel?) Because he puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes you crave it fortnightly.

 

Quoting So I Married an Axe Murderer instantly makes you my friend.

[Orlion Blight he/him]

"Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already."

-Anthony Powell

[Full Metal Rithmatist]

"I dont think i could finish that, 2 or 3 spoonfuls and id be done" 

 

"get your pudding spoon out and man up torode"

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We must be swift as the coursing river
With all the force of a great typhoon
With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon

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"The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules."

"Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many"

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"How can a man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his of his fathers, for the temples of his gods"

"I created you jack, i am your god"



 

Edited February 5, 2016 by Full Metal Rithmatist

[Sunbird she/her]

"I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office." - William Ritter, Jackaby

 

"It makes me happy that an arm of the US government has, in some official capacity, issued an opinion on the subject of firing nuclear missiles at hurricanes." - Randall Munroe, What If?

 

"No one takes you seriously when you're naked." - Kevin Hearne, Hunted

 

"'Try no to look like that,' Ascher said under her breath, after we were in the elevator. 'Like what?' I asked. 'Like you're expecting ninjas to leap out of the trash cans. This is a party.' 'Everyone knows there's no such things as ninjas,' I scoffed. 'But it will be something. Count on it.'" - Jim Butcher, Skin Game

[Hood he/him]

I recently glanced over (not a re-read) over "The Gentlemen Bastards"  books. These were my favourite quotes:-

 

1. “What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"

"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go storm yourself with this bag of money.”

 

2. “I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls.”

 

3. "[...] If your father says "bark like a dog" I say "What breed, Your Honour?"

[Stormgate he/him]

A satsuma. Doesn't that just sum up Christmas?

[Pinnacle-Ferring he/him]

"To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavor of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other."

- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

[Kasitor's Tanavast he/him]

"sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds, because it has more to prove"

"believe in lies, or how else do they become?" 

~ unarguably the best author ever 

[Master Elodin]

" In the Telhin's cassock."

Kvothe Six-String

[Stormgate he/him]

I have a very delicate constitution. Death seemed unhealthy, so I decided not to participate.

--A Cognitive Shadow

[The Invested Beard]

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

 

- C.S. Lewis

[The Honor Spren she/her]

"I have a bad feeling about this."

~Every Single Star Wars Character Ever

Edited March 14, 2016 by The Honor Spren

[aeromancer he/him]

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

 

(Also, anything Kane says.)

And as long as I'm making video game references:

 

"Kane lives!" - Kane

 

"Princess, I do hope you haven't forgotten my role in this story. I'm the leading man." - Balthier, FFXXII

 

"So what if it looks hopeless?" - Zack Fair, Advent Children

 

"Hope will never die!" - Lucina, FE:A

 

"Yah!" - Link, Legend of Zelda

 

And for my favorite quotable video game character:

"Honor can be quite a burden at times." "Embrace your dreams and protect your honor." "You're a little more important than my sword ... but just a little." "No story is not worth hearing."

Edited March 14, 2016 by aeromancer

[Silverblade5 he/him]

I really do know you. You only think you know me.

-- Burn notice

[ecohansen]

Probably the most useful phrase I've ever learned:

 

出门如见大宾--Go out the door as if greeting magnificent guest.

-- Kongzi

[Orlion Blight he/him]

"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

-Mark Twain

[Stormgate he/him]

"Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me?"

--Obi Wan to Anakin Skywalker.