Here I've put a bunch of quotes that really strike a chord with me, or that I think are just plain amusing. I've included the source if I know it.
"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world." -- Octave Mirbeau
"I'd be too afraid we'd end up walking down railroad tracks with bags over our heads trying to find Jesus." -- Andy
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"Relapse: Just got into work, and systems are squirreled.
Shadow: Squirreled?
Shadow: They're hiding their nuts in dead logs?
Relapse: Yup, to stop anyone from kicking them."
"Life is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So you're stuck with this undefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup, or an English Toffee. But they're gone too fast - the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers." -- Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files
"Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound." -- Bash.Org
"Thinking within a fixed circle of ideas tends to restrict the questions to a limited field. And, if one's questions stay in that limited field, so also do the answers." -- David Bohm, Physicist
"History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it." -- Robert Heinlein
"The way to make money is to start your own religion." -- L. Ron Hubbard
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." -- Mark Twain
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." -- Galileo Galilei
"This planet has -- or rather had -- a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy." -- Douglas Adams
"Fool-proof implies a finite number of fools." -- Anonymous
"Remember, nothing is so bad that it can't get worse. " -- Anonymous
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." -- Robert Frost
"Everything happens for the best. It's just a matter of turning your point of view around so you see it that way. " -- Anonymous
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will Rogers
"You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair." -- Chinese Proverb
"When we judge something we only prove that we have an incomplete view of it." -- Anonymous
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." -- Helen Keller
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." -- Ralph Hodgson
"Fortune knocks but once, misfortune has much more patience." -- Jonathan Swift
"I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with." -- Plato
"There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened,
but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us
and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment." -- Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)
"You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd. " -- Anonymous
"Imagination is the foundation of reality. " -- Anonymous
"No matter how bad a situation is, if you can't laugh at it, you are in really deep sh*t." -- Anonymous
"To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle." -- Don Juan (Carlos Castaneda)
