Quote Of The Day

[Mandalor]

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

-Mandalor

[A§H»Tucker]

Two beautiful quotes about writing by poets:

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
-James Fenton

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
-Don Marquis

[Mandalor]

"There is a knife hanging over me. A clock is ticking."
-Roman Bellic

-Mandalor

[Mandalor]

What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of -. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
-Tony Montana

-Mandalor

[McMasta]

"You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!" -David Tennant (in role as the Tenth Doctor.)
-Mirz

[Mandalor]

"You Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose all their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker."
-Old Major

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[A§H»Shimmer]

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

~ Mark Twain

[Mandalor]

“Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.”
― Mike Norton,

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[Mandalor]

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
-Abraham Lincoln

-Mandalor

[Mandalor]

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
-Watcher78

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