Meredith Wilson
- Ya Got Trouble - the Music Man
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table. Pockets that mark the difference Between a gentlemen and a bum, With a capital "B," And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool! And all week long your River City Youth'll be fritterin' away, I say your young men'll be fritterin'! Fritterin' away their noontime, suppertime, chore time too!
Ursula K. Le Guin
- Tenar to Therru -- Tehanu
"You are beautiful," Tenar said in a different tone. "Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren't the scars. You aren't ugly. You aren't evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.
Academician Prokor Zakharov
- For I Have Tasted the Fruit
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore He must exist.
Academician Prokor Zakharov
- From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extends the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn nonetheless for the latter.
Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
- From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
We hold life to be sacred, but we also know the foundation of life consists is a stream of codes not so different from the successive frames of a watchvid. Why then cannot we cut one code short here, and start another there? Is life so fragile that it can withstand no tampering? Does the sacred brook no improvement?
Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Under the Bridge
Sometimes I feel like I don't have a partner. Sometimes I feel like my only friend. Is the city I live in, the city of angels lonely as I am? Together we cry. I drive on her streets 'cause she's my companion. I walk through her hills 'cause she knows who I am. She sees my good deeds and she kisses me windy. Well, I never worry, now that is a lie.
Richard Stallman
- Lisp
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.
George R. R. Martin
- beautiful world
This is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don't want to be most of us.
lilithsdatura
"But Gen Z is so weird!" No, teenagers are weird. Teenagers are supposed to be weird, they're learning and exploring and going through all sorts of developments. We all were teenagers once. Calm down and eat your salad.
novellaqueen
Do older generations not get fatalistic humor? Like the other day my friend's parents were hanging around and we were joking and I was like, "Well no matter what I can always fling myself off the nearest cliff," and they didn't laugh. Then later the mom pulled me aside and was like, "Maybe you should get some help, sweetie." Like.. Help? In this economy? I don't think so, Debra.
Anonymous
- Gen-Z Culture
Gen-Z culture is debating if it's milk before cereal or vice versa in class and then having that one kid come in and go, "I put my bleach before cereal," and then dabbing as the rest of the class laughs and goes, "Same," while your Gen-X teacher looks horrified.
Grainger, Stevenson, Chang
- Per-Unit Impedances of Transformers
When bases are specified properly for the various parts of a circuit connected by a transformer, the per-unit values of impedances determined in their own part of the system are the same when viewed from another part.
Da Baby
- Am bored
The boredom is unreal right now, even though I can go outside and play basketball. I am really bored because I have a lot of school work but I do not want to do it and I also could watch a movie but I do not have the attention span to watch it. What should I do right now?
Barbara Kingsolver
- The Poisonwood Bible (p. 90)
And the rain poured down and I wondered, Are we lost right now without knowing it? It had already happened so many times in my life (my wedding day comes to mind) that I thought I was out of the woods, not realizing I'd merely paused on the edge of another narrow precipice in the midst of a long, long fall.
Barbara Kingsolver
- The Poisonwood Bible (p. 76)
I was struck through with my own wayward brand of reverence: praise be the lord of all plagues and secret afflictions! If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked his own socks off with the African parasites.
Mari
- Let's Fall In Love For The Night - Finneas
Let's fall in love for the night and forget in the mornin'. Play me a song that you like you can bet I'll know every line. I'm the boy that your boy hoped that you would avoid. Don't waste your eyes on jealous guys, fuck that noise. I know better, than to call you mine.
William Nelson
- Typing Crisises Reprise
About a year ago, I wrote a quote about the more philosophical quotes on this site, and my opinions on them. I talked about how much I didn't want to have existential crises while typing; I just wanted to type. Since then, after getting hundreds more of this type of quote, they have grown on me. I now find them much more enlightening, and just as interesting as any other quote.
Tumblr user personsonable
- What the mushroom said
Can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within? The fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. You cannot kill me in a way that matters.
Shouya Ishida
- A Silent Voice
I intended to listen to your voice, but it really was nothing but intentions. It's pretty obvious, huh? Of course there's more going on than what people choose to tell you... But I convinced myself that was all there is to a person. I knew that, but still I interpreted the stuff I didn't understand about you in ways convenient for me... That's just how I am.
Yuyuko Takemiya
- Toradora
There is something in this world which no one has ever seen. It is soft and sweet. If it is spotted, I'm sure everyone will want to have it, which is why no one has ever seen it. For this world has hidden it quite well, so that it is difficult to obtain. But, there will come a day when it is discovered by somebody, and only those who should obtain it will be able to find it. That is all.
