Quotes that say "one of us!" to you...

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This is a thread for quotes from famous people (real or fictional, it doesn't really matter) which make you think "Hmmm, (s)he sounds like she could be one of us"...

("us" here meaning AS or similar traits, of course... )

a couple i found that gave me a smile of recognition:

"In youth I scarcely did any letter-writing - thanking anybody for a present was so much of an ordeal that I would rather have written a two hundred fifty-line pastoral or a twenty-page treatise on the rings of Saturn." - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

"You humans have got such limited, little minds. I don't know why I like you so much." - Doctor Who, as played by Tom Baker

other good examples?

My profile quote describes my way of thinking perfectly.

The first one that comes to mind is the one I often use to close posts:

"We're on the third mall from the sun."--Bill Hicks (R.I.P.)

Another quote from the same source:

"Don't you see? It's all a CIA plot to make you think that malls are good."--BH

I don't think Bill had Asperger's. His problem stemmed from being an intelligent agnostic growing up in a Southern Baptist household in Texas. As Bugs Bunny might say, that'd turn anyone screwy.

"Let's just solve this food/air deal, OK? Then you can go back to your rutting. And let's be clear about this--childbirth is not a miracle, any more than a turd coming out of your a** is a miracle."--BH (again)

I like the quotes in my signature block...


My first quote is from Alan Watts... I don't think he had AS but I liked the quote

The second came from Lord Byron... need I answer if I think he was AS? he was an Odd Bod.

The last... is mine

One guy: "Darian! No thrusting!"
Darian: "I don't see how i can move forward without thrusting."

Err... oh... aspie traits, nm.

'We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unaminously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.'

'Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.'

- Oliver Cromwell

Real: General Heinz Guderian (from his biography, a chapter entitled "A peculiar fellow"
"They have lost my respect. They accuse me of being an introvert... but to run with the mob is nothing to be proud of."

From the same book, J F C Fuller (who was in the same mould on the British side)
"... a monk in a trappist monastery, because when everyone around you is talking about the same things (foxes, duck and trout) morning, noon and night, they might just as well be saying nothing at all."

Fictonal: more than one of Gordon Dickson's heroes.

Dorsai! , the story of Donal Graeme opens with "The boy was odd."

"Who told you that?" he demanded
"No one, " said Donal. "It's obvious, isn't it?"
"Not to ninety-nine percent of the civilised world, it isn't."
...
"But surely it stands to reason -anyone would arrive at it as a conclusion, with a few minutes thought."
"Possibly the majority of us don't think, said Galt, [dryly]

Richard Nixon was being interviewed by BBC's political commentator, David Frost, for British TV. Before the filming had begun Tricky Dicky had engaged in no small talk and was unusually quiet for a celebrity, let alone a politican. When a break in filming arrived, he unexpectedly piped up in his famously booming voice and said to the assembled film crew and David Frost, "So, have any of you fellas been copulating over the weekend?"

How has the occupation of Blah been treating?

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