q u o t e s

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"Not all angst is good, and not all that is good is angst." - Alix

"Well, my fist doesn't agree with your face." - Caitlin


friends & other real life people

"Bloody women." - Adam

"My name is James." - Adrienne

"They're so cute... when they're not trying to kill you!" - my AP Bio teacher, on phages

"Holy Bank Balance, Batman!" - my AP Econ/Government teacher

"My memory is like the cat- it's fuzzy enough that nothing sticks to it." - Alex

"If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice?" - Andy

"And J.R.R. Tolkien said, 'Let there be Sam.' And there was. And it was good." - Anne

"Brendan has spoken. ...but we will not listen." - Anne

"Victory! Glory! Triumph!"
(WHAP!)
"...ow... pain..." - Anne

"We're not addicted- we can stop writing songfics anytime we want to. Really!" - Anne and Mandy

"Move, or I'll turn you into a grease spot." - Anne's mom

"Behold the Bagel! Worship the almighty Bagel!"
(takes a bite out of it)
"Mmmmm....sacralicious...." - Chris

"I'm the only girl!!" - Chris (I think he meant to say that he's the only guy on an all girl team, but... *shrug*)

"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ale." - Emily's motto through life

"It's cold in Siberia." - Fred (another long story...)

"Nice Mandy... Good Mandy... Mandy, get off my boob." - Jean (it's not what you might think- really!)

"That chicken has a rock in it!" - Jean (stating the obvious about the Almighty Chicken of Rock)

"Anyone else's mother would have been worried about their daughter drawing a picture of a naked chick with a sword stuck through her. Not my mom- she sees it and says 'You drew the breasts too high again.'" - Mandy

"Feel the wrath of my molecular knuckles!" - Mandy (Anne and I were making molecule models in Chem class...)

"Have you gotten in touch with your inner vegetable lately?" - Mandy

"I like to write angst with oddball comedy." - Mandy (it's true! I do ^.^)

"I've just had a revelation- 'Food is good' is a universal truth." - Mandy (and my English teacher agreed too! ^.^)

"Friends don't let friends go 'boingy boingy boingy'." - Mandy's mom ^^;;

"It's twerpidity." - Mandy's mom (on our cat)

"I demand a pregnancy!" - Meredith (on The Grapes of Wrath)

"I'm going lesbian!" - Meredith (after watching The Miracle of Life in health. It's supposed to be about giving birth...)

"I'm not naked- I'm au natural with an oomph!" - Meredith

"They grow back... right?" - Michael (Anne and Jean were explaining to him what the word "castration" means...)

"Me, out?" - Patches (my cat)


famous people

"Cogito ergo dim sum." - Robert Byrne ("Therefore I think these are pork buns.")

"640 K of memory ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981

"Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband, James

"In a mad world only the mad are sane." - Akira Kurosawa

"There is a very fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line." - Oscar Levant

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that somebody is looking." - H.L. Mencken

"...cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain

"Every time I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until it goes away." - Mark Twain

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards." - Mark Twain

"Nothing improves scenery like ham and eggs." - Mark Twain

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire


movies, anime, songs, books, and comics

"the main question is whether the stuff is literature or not"- archy, archy and mehitabel

"The Chad was great. The Chad was great! ...the Chad is stuck." - Chad, Charlie's Angels
(This movie came out before the 2000 election. I hold that this is proof that somebody could see into the future when they wrote the script for this movie, and this line was actually foreshadowing Things To Come.)

"It's nice. It tastes a bit like forever." - Delirium, The Sandman: The Wake

"Only, I've been thinking—it's really more like living inside something that's happened before. Without its really having happened at all." - Barney Drew, Silver on the Tree

"Perhaps I, too, am a dragon- only dreaming that I am a book." - Flowers, Roadmarks

"Ignore previous cookie." - message in fortune cookie

"Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race." - Dr. Sandra Foster, Bellwether

"Sometimes when I'm waking up, I have a feeling– I can almost put my finger on it– it's sort of a half memory about loving somebody who was very, very good. But maybe I made that up. Now you're laughing at me..." - Kay Hallowell, The Dreaming Jewels (also called The Synthetic Man)

"I'm only here for the food." - Jacqueline, Ever After

"Ok, world! My dream, my rules! No more gravity until I say so!" - Kano Jurgen, in Fireball's Kagerou

"I still maintain he kicked himself in the balls." - Kat, 10 Things I Hate About You

"Meteorology is a science, my boy. Mathematics is a black art." - ummm, one of the characters (this meteorologist, actually) in one of the books in Anne McCaffrey's Acorna series...

"...and my inner bitch did the mambo." - Christine Lavin, Getting In Touch With My Inner Bitch

"Fear is a good thing. It means you're paying attention." - Keladry of Mindelan, Page

"My strategy is... RUN AWAY!" - Misty, Pokemon

"It's easier to try
Than to prove it can't be done." - Moody Blues, Blue World

"...short people shouldn't wear leather." - Peter Parker, Ultimate Spider-Man

"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo Possum, Pogo

"It's as if I were one of those minor characters in a melodrama who gets shuffled offstage without ever learning how things turn out." - Bill Roth, Sign of the Unicorn

"When I dream, sometimes I remember how to fly. You just lift one leg, then you lift the other leg, and you're not standing on anything, and you can fly." - Chloe Russell, The Sandman: Brief Lives

"When Obi-wan talked about the dark side of the force, who knew he was referring to Windows...?" - Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man

"Sundays...are always hotter than Saturdays. Espescially if you live in a village with a small stuffy church. James Stanton's Law, you can call that." - James Stanton, Silver on the Tree

"It's Tinky Winky- The world's first openly gay tellytubbie! We're right behind ya Tink!" - Sound & Fury, Testicles and the Sack of Rome (it's this play they preform over at Ren Faire...)

"It's all so stupid! We're supposed to be protecting the world, but who's protecting us?" - Yusuke Urameshi, Yu*Yu*Hakusho

"Inconspicuos Yuy Kick!" - Heero Yuy, in mbp's The World Is More Than Enough

"Just when we seem to regain some control of our destinies, it is taken from us. It is infinitely more painful to have hope – and then see it destroyed." - Zenith, in Alexe Cinz's Zenith Dreamscape


fanfiction & its writers

"And in a time long ago, a time still to come, and a time that was, always and irrevocably, now..." - from Abaddon's Sweet Dreams

"I don't like being a grown-up. The pay is good but the hours are awful," Sirius Black, in Sam Starbuck's Cartographer's Craft

"The chance to be furry and have a tail? Do I need an excuse?" - Sirius Black, in BrieflyDel's Prongs Rides Again

"Do one thing every day that scares you, although preferably within school regulations." - Albus Dumbledore, in Indigo Ziona's Everyone's Free to Tickle Dragons

"Sou. Fanfics make the world go round." - Talya Firedancer

"[Yohji] says that Omi has developed an intimate relationship with the computer and that he can't tear him away. " - Fujimiya Ran, in Marty's The Saga Begins

"I'm not that small, I've just had the bad luck to be friends with abnormally large people." - Remus Lupin, in Arsenic Jade's Transformation

"Some days, I really wonder about myself. Other days, I know." - Duo Maxwell, in Katsu no Miko's Acherontia Atropos

"Lunch was unidentifiable." - from Lori McDonald's Locked Up

"No one who finds themselves in the role of the hero wants to be there, Harry." - Severus Snape, in Shadowphoenix's Fine Lines

"Assassination does not count as a people skill!" - Quatre Winner, in Mel & Christy's Demon of Justice

"Fanfiction: a socially acceptable way to pretend you're three again." - Wishweaver


anonymous

"I am learning that critisim is not nearly as effective as sabotage." - anonymous

"I am Switzerland, I am neutral." - anonymous

"I would never eat anything that had DNA in it." - anonymous biology student who didn't understand the concept of geneticaly modified food...

"Joan of Arc heard voices too." - anonymous

"Once is chance, twice coincidence, three times a conspiracy." - anonymous

"What if hokey pokey really is what it's all about?" - anonymous

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