Greatest Quotes of all Time

[LibertyHarkness]

What is your life?
My honour is my life.
What is your fate?
My duty is my fate.
What is your fear?
My fear is to fail.
What is your reward?
My salvation is my reward.
What is your craft?
My craft is death.
What is your pledge?
My pledge is eternal service


"pledge from the Astartes to the Emperor of mankind"


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"You carry the Emperor's will as your torch, with it destroy the shadows."




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Where there is uncertainty, I shall bring light
Where there is doubt, I shall sow faith
Where there is shame, I shall point atonement
Where there is rage, I shall show its course
My word in the soul shall be as my bolter in the field.


"Littany of Devotion"






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One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness
One last blade, forged in defiance of fate
Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered
And my final gift to the species I failed


"The Emperor of Mankind - during the Horus Heresy"






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Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death. My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die".


"Carab Culin - The Red Scorpions Chapter"




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For eleven hundred years, I have fought and I have seen the darkness in our galaxy. I have seen the vileness of the alien and the heresy of the mutant. I have witnessed the sin of possession. I have seen all the evil that the galaxy harbours, and I have slain all whose presence defiles the Emperor. I have seen what you will see. I have fought what you must fight, and I have slain what you must slay... so fear not and be proud, for we are the sons of Sanguinius, the protectors of Mankind. Aye, we are indeed the Angels of Death.


"Commander Dante - Blood Angels chapter "

[hondarobot]

[trish]

"Pass the salt, please."_____the attributions of this much celebrated phrase are too numerous to list.

[hondarobot]

Lol. Good to see you again Trish.

"That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. . . "

Lou Costello

[NHG]

"Earth is the cradle of the mind -- but you cannot live in the cradle forever."
Arthur C. Clarke in "Out of The Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
First published in Dude, March 1959
Collected in Tales of Ten Worlds
Collected in The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clark

[danthepoetman]

Hmmm..I don't agree, as I cannot understand that the music of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Verdi is useless, far from it -not only does it give me endless pleasure and inspiration, it also sets a lot of people to work as musicians, recording engineers, concert promoters, opera houses, and so on. And before photography painting was an essential part of propaganda, religious expression, vanity...far from useless it was crucial to the discourse of power. Effective writing, much of it distilled in the quotes in this thread, speaks to centuries of inspiration, some of it for political change. Words matter, the soul lives on.

Having such thoughts is normal for an artist or an art admirer in the world we live in, which put so much emphasis on production. Artists don't make bread, cars, don't put food on the table, don't drive busses or purge the pipes of your drain... For a Beethoven or a Bartok, there are countless artists who will go unnoticed and miserable. A great number, instead of expressing themselves, will have to resort to entertain the populas, which I must admit is not unnoble or unvalidating in itself, on the contrary, but steps aside from authentic art... That's what I meant by my last reflection, Stavros. Art, for most artist, is completely free, but not yet just for these reasons; it is free because it is a compulsion: an artist can't do anything but create. Anyone who pretends to art without such intimate, visceral drive is not an artist.
So you see, we've tried forever to define what differentiate us from animals. We thought it was reason, but we know today that our reason is greater quantitatively rather than an element of a different nature to the intelligence of animals. We then thought it might be tools before discovering how many animals are using and even creating some. We thought it might be laughter, but we now know many animals have some kind of laughter. We thought it was the "instinct", a word largely discredited today, when ethology showed us we also are the prisonners of primary pulsions. We thought it was a sense of aesthetic before witnessing apes admiring every night the sunset, or female bird choosing their male mate by appreciation of the artefact he create to seduce. We thought it might be suicide before acknowledging such behavior in many animals. So I'm thinking that maybe, if there really is a difference, it's the fact that we can do things totally gratuitously, make gestures that don't have any survival, social, material value. Difficult to say if we are the only animals to recognize the futility of what is, I tend to think we're the only ones to be able to act accordingly.

As to Artaud, he hated our notion of art. To him, a created object of admiration, be it a symphony, was anything but artistic expression. Any such separation of aesthetic from the feeling of individuals was an abomination to him. He made his whole purpose as an artist to reunite the art "object" and the living artistic emotion. The only true art for him, was the one that we lived off of. We admired infinitely the art of traditional cultures, which is never considered as art, but always a vivid experience of meaning, aesthetic, spiritual, functional. He wanted art to have, as it does in such cultures, the same meaning as hunger. Then again, Artaud was as nutty as a fruitcake...

[danthepoetman]

I love the old guy...

[Rolando]

Flirting is way more electrifying than sex! It's the anticipation! Kenny Rogers talking about Dolly Parton

[danthepoetman]

François de La Rochefoucauld, XVIIth century...

[pantybulge69]

" No, you clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks!" ....

- Walter White ( Breaking Bad episode " Cornered" )