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Words that I try to keep before me always: "You have heard it said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, do not resist evil."

And another favorite:

"Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning faces with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept the fact that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing-down that will soften their real look." (Flannery O'Connor)

'I wanna fly like an eagle, I wanna sing like Sinatra, I gotta date with destruction, I wanna love like a mother...'

Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

One of my favourite lyrics, that.

'As soon as your born they make you feel small, by giving you no time instead of it all, 'til the pain is so big you feel nothing at all, a working-class hero is something to be...'

John Lennon

So is that, the whole song really - I just didn't feel like posting it all!

I absolutely love the words to this... hymn, I guess:

Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In Englands green & pleasant Land

That particular section of 'Jerusalem' always gives me goosebumps. Oh, and happy St. George's day!

"Vae victis (Woe to the Conquered)" - Brennus

Ik wil alleen maar zwemmen (I just want to swim)- Spinvis

Music is well said to be the speech of angels, in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

So in the Libyan fable it is told, That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, 'with our own feathers, not by others' hands, are we now smitten.

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort of another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time- we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

When men find they must inevitably perish, they willingly resolve to die with their comrades and with their arms in their hands

My favorite Poem:The young recruit is silly- 'e
thinks o' suicide
'E's lost 'is gutter-devil; 'e 'asin't
got 'is pride;
But day by day they kicks 'im
which 'elps 'im on a bit,
Till 'e finds 'isself one mornin'
with a full an' proper kit.
Gettin' clear o' dirtiness, gettin'
done with mess,
Gettin' shut o' doin' things rather-
more-or-less
-Rudyard Kipling


If you dont like Kipling...... then feth you. LOL

Wasn't that quote in Starship Troopers? XD Cause I think i've read that before. XD

It was. It was the author defending the practicalities of the Infantry.

"It takes all kinds of people to make a world"

Forgot where I heard it, but I use it to try and remain calm with the average person. I get annoyed/pissed easily with stupidity, so it calms the mind before I go off lol

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do"
"You can tell a lot about a man's character by the way he eats his jellybeans."
Prizes to who can guess the speaker.

My favorite quote is in my signature.

Soladrin wrote:Wasn't that quote in Starship Troopers? XD Cause I think i've read that before. XD

"COME ON YOU MISERABLE PUKES! YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!?"

"For Pony!"
"What?! That can't be your battle cry! Mine is for honor and those long dea-"
"Well, mine is for ponies. For Pony!"


"I'm a Sexy Shoeless God of War!"

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)

"People the better of 6 feet tall and half as wide often have uneventfull adventures. People jump out at them from behind rocks and say 'Oh i thought you were someone else'"

Never take life seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.

A human being should be able to change a diaper,
plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,
write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone,
comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,
solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure,
program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.

Robert A Heinlein

I agree with the second poster. Tsunetomo Yamamoto's book, the Hagakure Kikigaki, or In the Shadow of the Leaves, is kind of like my bible, I started reading it when I first started studying japanese (nihongo)...still not fluent. But I love that book, and it also inspired one of my most favorite movies.

so...no quotes, but that ENTIRE book, also, The Art of War by Sun Tsu...


and one of my most favorites...

"live every week like it's SHARK WEEK".

I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

Theres a difference between loving japan, and loving a good book.

Soladrin wrote:Theres a difference between loving japan, and loving a good book.

Well, duh.

I am aware of that, genius. My point is that sometimes it seems like every second person on this site is in love with Japanese culture. I personally have no time for it.

I've only seen like two guys in this thread yet...

Soladrin wrote:I've only seen like two guys in this thread yet...

...which is still quite a lot, considering. And that's only THIS thread.

Having a stiffy for Japan is just In for certain geeks now. I won't deny I like some stuff from Japan too, but I also think a lot of it is utter crap.

I harp on about the Balaklava far too much I know, but one of my favourite quotes is from that particular field of battle.

As 1000+ Russian cavalry prepare to descend on his position, Colin Campbell tells the 100 infantry at his command (the 93rd Highlanders), "There's no retreat from here men, you'll die where you stand."

A simple statement of fact i.e. no point in running, because you'll be cut down as you flee, may as well stand and fight.

As the Russians advanced, the Highlanders fired two volleys which staggeringly forced the Russians into a retreat. Inspiring words indeed!

Flashman wrote:I harp on about the Balaklava far too much I know...

Yeah, but fair enough - they ARE cool as feth.

Albatross wrote:

Soladrin wrote:Theres a difference between loving japan, and loving a good book.

Well, duh.

I am aware of that, genius. My point is that sometimes it seems like every second person on this site is in love with Japanese culture. I personally have no time for it.

@Malfred - Sweet theramin solo. That song was funny as feth! Reminded me of Flight of The Conchords, but waaaay slicker.

Dorothy Parker was an excellent well of quotes for urbane life:

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS

KingCracker wrote:

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS

I have to agree, She is hot!

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

I love all cultures. I like samurai because they were interesting. I like the book Hagakure because it gave interesting insight into the way a samurai thought about his world.

And with this another quote

To each their own.

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

I started studying Japanese before the majority of the anime fan (http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Wapanese) crowd fell in love with anime. This is largely cartoon networks fault, when it began airing "Tenchi Muyo" and "Inuyasha" back in the day. My interest in the language came from a massive research paper I wrote on Japanese culture from 50bc to 1950ad, that I wrote to get into college two years early, instead of finishing High School. I have gone to great lengths
to study as much as I can about Japanese culture and history. I am fascinated by ancient Japan, and the brutality of the Shogunate/Samurai Lifestyle. Being a photographer (architecture mainly) I love vintage Japanese architecture from late 70s and all through the 80s. I am a fan of a lot of Japanese music, mainly jazz. When I went to Osaka, I got became even more enamored. I thoroughly despise most anime, I can count the series and movies one two hands tha I enjoy, and most of them are animation from Japan, rather than your classic, low-frame, crap.* And it is a shame that the anime fan crowd that you speak of, on the interwebs, has over saturated the megaverse with their garbage...they even ruined Deviantart for me, and I have been there for over 5 years...they ruin everything....

so yes, a lot of people on the internet do love Japan, but some of us are legit.


*AKIRA
Cowboy Bebop
Samurai Champloo
Spirited Away
Venus Wars

...

if you were interested....there....ONE hand.


and these movies, mainly AKIRA, are some of the main reasons why I have been drawing and creating my whole life, and why I am in school for animation and media arts.


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I love how the word I use for "anime fan" is censored...wtf? it's no worse than saying "geek", or "nerd"?


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KingCracker wrote:

Albatross wrote:I've said it on another thread, and I'll say it again here - why do people on the internet always seem to love Japan?

Because the women are super hot/cute, and they have some crazy gadget for everything. The place makes most people think they are from the future. Beyond that, I couldnt tell ya. Oh yea and they have Hannah Minx over there. DE-LIS-CIOUS

she is part of the problem.

"When in doubt, tell the truth and run."
Myself.
"Now while you will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award Nomination for Best Suporting Actor.
Now go do that Voodoo that you do, so well!"
Hedey (The Hedley!) Lamar

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

General John Sedgwick.