Quotaria - Favorites

"Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth...
Tame the dragon and the gift is yours."
- Noela Evans

"A joke's a very serious thing."
- Charles Churchill

"A bookstore is one of the only
pieces of evidence we have that
people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est
Yes, that is a very large amount of corn

It does not do to leave a live dragon out
of your calculations, if you live near him.
- J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

Favorite Quotes

Two paradoxes are better than one;
they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller

"A child of five would understand this.
Send someone to fetch a child of five."
- Groucho Marx

Imagination is more important than knowledge,
for knowledge is limited while imagination
embraces the entire world.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke

"Never laugh at live dragons."
- J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

"In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night,
No Evil Shall Escape My Sight
Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might
Beware My Power, Green Lantern's Light!"
- DC Comics: The Green Lantern's Oath

Favorite Quotes

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust,
we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned
in the distance by an invisible player.
- Albert Einstein

Jack Napier: Have you ever danced with
the devil in the pale moonlight?
- Batman (1989)

The most beautiful thing we can experience
is the mysterious; It is the source of all
true art and science
- Albert Einstein

St Jerome - the patron saint of librarians and
scholars. St. Jerome is probably the correct
saint to pray to when your computer seems to
have evaporated a 25,000-word manuscript.
- Unknown

Spock: To hunt a species to extinction is not logical.
Gillian: Whoever said the human race was logical?
- Star Trek - The Voyage Home

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is braver five minutes longer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Favorite Quotes

Beast: Head’s up people!! We got ourselves a spatial
anomaly that’d make Captain Picard’s head spin!!
- Uncanny X-men # 345

Jean: I must confess, infuriating and arrogant as gambit can be.. those, eyes, that grin, that body.. it takes a girl’s breath away.
Cyke: oh really? When the next opportunity presents itself.. remind me to drop a truck on him.
Prof: Cyclops
Cyke: A big truck.
Prof: Cyclops!
Cyke: A really big truck
Prof: CYCLOPS!!
Beast: Not to worry professor. While you were away o’l fearless leader here mastered the art.. of deapan humor.
Cyke: Keep calling me that furball and I’ll show you “deadpan”.
- Uncanny X-men # 322

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old
problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination
and marks real advance in science."
- Albert Einstein

We are what we pretend to be, so we
must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007 ), Mother Night

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is
because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature
and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
- Max Planck

Look for the ridiculous in everything
and you will find it.
- Jules Renard

Favorite Quotes

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have
taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong
and every avenue has been covered, then is the time
to buy a house on the next continent.
- Terry Pratchett

The fox knows many things, but
the hedgehog knows one big thing.
- Archilochus

"Now this is not the end. It
is not even the beginning of
the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Science is a way of talking about the universe in
words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a
method of talking to the universe in words that it
cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible."
- The Phantom Stranger, BOOKS OF MAGIC #1

Insanity is often the logic of
an accurate mind over-tasked.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Khan: Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us, "Revenge
is a dish that is best served cold"? It is very cold...in space.
- Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

Favorite Quotes

There will come a time when you believe everything
is finished. That'll be the beginning.
- Louis L'Amour

"When love and skill
work together, expect
a masterpiece."
- John Ruskin

"Perpetual optimism is
a force multiplier."
- Colin Powell

Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every time you pick up a grain of sand you
hold a universe in the palm of your hand.
- Dr. Lao, "7 Faces of Dr. Lao"

Albus Dumbledore: "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts!
Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few
words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling.

Favorite Quotes

Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure,
and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show
to them many things which older people miss.
- Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa]

Books, the children of the brain.
- "A Tale of a Tub, Sec. 1" (1704), Jonathan Swift

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

Abu: Does the world have a roof?
Genie: Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and
the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie
whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie
stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the
bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
- Thief of Bagdad

MacGyver: The great thing about a map: it gets you
in and out of places in a lot of different ways.
- MacGyver (Episode: The Gauntlet)

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Favorite Quotes

Knowledge = Power = Energy = Matter = Mass.
A library is just a genteel black hole that can read
- Mort by Terry Pratchett

"The most dangerous creature in all the world is not a woman
scorned, rather an experienced Dungeon Master rallied to a cause."
- Annonymouse...

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of
darkness, and stands between darkness and light.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The little things are infinitely the most important."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Identity

Human subtlety...will never devise an invention
more beautiful, more simple or more direct than
does nature, because in her inventions nothing
is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"In my profession all sorts of odd knowledge comes
useful, and this room of yours is a storehouse of it."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Favorite Quotes

The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled
with an infinite number of images which are produced by the
various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is
the target, a lodestone, of these images.
- Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations
of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface
of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"The theories which I have expressed there,
and which appear to you to be so chimerical,
are really extremely practical — so practical
that I depend upon them for my bread and cheese."
- Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything
which the mind of man could invent."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Red-Headed League

Picard: "Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk."
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode: Darmok

"I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles."
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Favorite Quotes

"You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode:Force of Nature

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the
inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my
disguise must be able to strike terror into their
hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black,
terrible... A... A... A bat! That's it. It's an
omen... I shall become a BAT!"
- Batman #1

Favorite Quotes

Once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back,
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid’s music.
- Oberon, Scene I, Act II, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but if we covered the world in
salad dressing wouldn't the aspargus feel left out?"
- Pinky and the Brain

Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: Whoof, oh, I'd have to say the odds of that are terribly slim, Brain.
Brain: True.
Pinky: I mean, really, when have I ever been pondering what you've been pondering? Brain: To my knowledge, never.
Pinky: Exactly. So, what are the chances that this time, I'm pondering what you're pondering?
Brain: Next to nil.
Pinky: Well, that's exactly what I'm thinking, too.
Brain: Therefore, you are pondering what I'm pondering.
Pinky: Poit, I guess I am!
- Pinky and the Brain

"Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but isn't a cucumber that small called a gherkin?"
- Pinky and the Brain

Tattoo: Da plane. Da plane.
- Fantasy Island

"Candor dat viribus alas"
Sincerity gives wings to strength

Quotes - Favorites

Black holes are where
God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright

"What you are will show in what you do."
- Thomas A. Edison

"Last night I dreamed I ate a
ten-pound marshmallow, and when
I woke up the pillow was gone."
- Tommy Cooper

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien
menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
- Unknown

Don't kick the monster!
Program a robot to smash it, Shoot it,
Spear it or even Throw something at it
(preferably a grenade), but NEVER kick the monster!
NOTE: does not apply to BLACK BELTS.
- Unknown.

"Nothing is fool proof to a
sufficiently talented fool."
- Unknown

Quotes - Favorites

To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

"Nature is never finished."
- Robert Smithson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak
and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson

Remember that the solitary mortal
is certainly luxurious, probably
superstitious, and possibly mad.
- Samuel Johnson

The only good is knowledge and
the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey

Quotaria - Favorites

"Never get a mime talking. He won't stop."
- Marcel Marceau

"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso

To err is human, but to really
foul things up requires a computer.
- Paul Ehrlich

Prepare for trouble, and make it double
To protect the world from devastation,
To unite all people within our nation,
To denounce the evil of truth and love,
To extend our reach to the stars above
- Team Rocket (Pokémon)

Amor est vitae essentia
Love is the essence of life.
- Robert B. Mackay

I should warn you that underneath
these clothes I'm wearing boxer
shorts and I know how to use them.
- Robert Orben

Quotes - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria - Favorites

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds
one in its net of wonder forever."
- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The reverse side also has a reverse side."
- Japanese Proverb

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Certain flaws are necessary for
the whole. It would seem strange
if old friends lacked certain quirks.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to
find disordered minds; our planet is
the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes - Favorites

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved
without significant intelligence."
- Henrik Tikkanen

There is no mistaking a real book when one
meets it. It is like falling in love.
- Christopher Morley

Remember tonight... for it
is the beginning of always.
- Dante Alighieri

Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

If knowledge can create problems, it is not
through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

Quotaria - Favorites

There's always somebody who is paid
too much, and taxed too little - and
it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower

"First get your facts; then you
can distort them at your leisure."
- Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange
and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and
some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams

The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream
things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotaria - Favorites

"The pine stays green in
winter... wisdom in hardship."
- Norman Douglas

Change is the constant,
the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but
should not set limits to imagination."
- Bertrand Russell

"When you have a dream, you've got
to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett

If you are planning for a year, sow rice;
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

"You know you've read a good book
when you turn the last page and
feel as if you've lost a friend."
- Anonymous

Quotes - Favorites

Nightcrawler: "You young gentlemen like this film? I, also.
Chewbacca's my favorite character. I have a friend who's
much shorter, but almost as hairy and I always let him win too."
- Classic X-Men 4

"The real problem is not whether
machines think but whether men do."
- B.F. Skinner

Be bold and mighty powers
will come to your aid.
- Basil King

Catwoman: I am Catwoman. Hear me roar.
- Batman Returns

Batman: Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.
Catwoman: A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.
- Batman Returns

Batman: [reading a riddle] What has yellow skin and writes?
Robin: A ball-point banana!
Batman: [reads the second riddle] What people are always in a hurry?
Robin: Rushing people... Russians!
Batman: So this means...
Robin: Someone Russian is going to slip on a banana and break their neck!
Batman: Precisely, Robin!
- Batman(1966/I)