"If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb
"If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb
"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. And then you are to die at the required hour."
Babylon 5 "The Parliament of Dreams" (S1E5, 1994)
Garibaldi: No boom?
Sinclair: No boom.
Ivanova: No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here! Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!
Babylon 5 "Grail" (S1E15, 1994)
If no one else does this, I 100% recommend keeping a quote board in the notes app on your phone for whenever your friends say things that you find quote-worthy. I personally have about 6 years' worth of quotes from college from all my friends, and it grows every day.
One of my personal favorites. A group of my friends and I were hiking and it was dead silent as we took everything in. Out of no where one of my friends stops, looks at us all and proclaims "Moss is nature's napkin," and then kept walking.
"I've got some Old Milwaukee, an ugly woman, and a E36 M3ty bag of pot. But since you left me, baby, things are lookin' up." -Rusty McHugh
"This may come as shock but I'm not good at talking to girls."
"Why, is there someone you're good at talking to?"
- Simon and Zoe from Firefly, after Simon completely screwed up talking with Kaylee
The trick to life isn't to make money while you sleep, it's too get people to pay you for the privilege of doing the things you need to do anyway.
Me.
"There is evidence in hand for the belief that the perverted intelligence of man will be satisfied with nothing short of his own dissolution, accomplished in the most scientifically elaborate manner, but, at one pause in time and for a few decades, his quest of confusion and discomfort achieved, quite incidentally to be sure, a measure of taste and harmony." Lucius Beebe
"Love many, trust few. And always paddle your own canoe."
"See, what's taking all the extra time here is figuring out the right way to use the wrong tools for the job."
Project cars and Daily drivers are like wifes and mistresses; both good at what they do and best if they never cross paths.
Nohome
"The Lord forgives everything... but I'm just a prophet.... so I don't have to. Amen." - Zachary Hale Comstock
10. Keep your opinions to a minimum. It is not necessary for you to have an opinion on every public issue. Although you may be entitled to have an opinion, you probably are not qualified to have an opinion on most matters. Although middle-class America seems to require an opinion on everything, you will find it liberating to say the phrase “I don’t know enough about it to form an opinion.”
-Excerpted from Neil Postman's Advice on How to Live the Rest of Your Life
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