Favorite quotes, sayings.

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"if ignorance is bliss, then why aren't more people happy?"

i like this quote. what is your favorite?

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me." - Tim Burton

"You taught me hate I'll teach you fear" - Lamb of God

Well first one that came into my head tonight anyways

I have about a million favorites. I have word documents containing all my faves.

"God made me blind and unable to walk. Big deal."-Patrick Hughes (student, born with no eyes and limited/no use of legs)

"A man can't just sit around."-Larry Walters, "lawnchair larry" (truck driver)

"I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do! I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!"-Sartre (philosopher, among other things)

"I like people. I like watching them. It’s just that I’d prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars." –Geraldine McCaughrean, The White Darkness

"Our language has widely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."-- Paul Tillich

In my signature.

"The delight and pride of Aulë is in the deed of making, and the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

I also like "There is light at the end of every tunnel"

"All kids dream a marvelous image of what they want to do. But then society tells them they can't do it. I didn't listen. I wanted to live my dream." --Robert Ballard

this isn't my favorite but one of them.

"Confucius says, a closed mouth gathers no feet"

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire

I am consciousness trapped in a pipe. Sometimes it's hard to breathe.

-John Burdett, from "Bangkok Tattoo"

"If at first you can't succeed, try, try and try again."

"The more I study science, the more I believe in God."-Einstein

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. -C.G. Jung

in for a penny, in for a pound