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1)    "It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

 2)     "I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

3)      "I must tell you that I was always afraid of the fury with which I loved you. It overwhelmed me. I thought it beyond comprehension, therefore my silence." - from Solipsist by Henry Rollins

4)     If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?" - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

5)      When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, to surprise yourself at how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough - like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it - you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks." - from Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins

    6) "We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blasé about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. Cause what matters is... If you believe in the sanctity of life, then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children. Theyre killing children...how many children were at Waco? Theyre killing children. What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up." - Bill Hicks

7) I sit here and wonder why people even bother... everything seems like a waste of time and when you attempt to do something right, it backfires... why do we care about gossip and laugh at the "dirty" people that don't fit in...Everyone complains about the evils of the world yet does nothing to change it (and in most cases contributes to it)... Or they cry about how life isn't fair...we consist of assholes, hypocrites and liars... Those who differ from the crowd are made fun of... Those who try to change the crowd are traitors...confusing little world we live in. - Elisa Fort

7) "There are just some things that don't seem very fair in the world, like this fucking hypocrisy of organized religion. I just don't understand how people can blindly believe a bunch of the shit they're fed, to believe it so that they don't think too hard about other issues. 'Be a good boy and you'll go to heaven.' If it works for you, fine, but it doesn't work for me and that pisses me off because I kind of wish it did." - Trent Reznor

8) "I think we were probably not very well suited, we never seemed to be happy doing the same things. We always had the greatest arguments over sex and fishing. Eventually we tried to combine the two, but that only led to disaster, as you can probably imagine." -from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

9) "Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them. If you hate someone, hate them until it hurts." -Henry Rollins

10) "You can get away with a lot of shit if it looks like that's all you know how to do." -Henry Rollins

11) "Half of life is fucking up - the other half is dealing with it." -Henry Rollins

12) "This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on T.V. everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing." -Tool

13) "Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?" -Bill Hicks

14) "Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... paranoid? You know what I mean? It's nature. How do you make nature against the fucking law?" -Bill Hicks

15) "Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

16) "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -Matt Groening

17) "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened." from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

18) "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear" -Thomas Jefferson

19) "The fact that mankind has the capability to discern logic from myth, and the fact that religion asks us to ignore this ability and accept faith is one of the many contradictions that make any faith-based organizations simply ludicrous." -Vic Sinclair

20) "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen Roberts

21) "Power corrupts;
Absolute power corrupts absolutely;
God is all-powerful.
Draw your own conclusions"

22) "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day;
Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish"

23) "We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." -Gene Roddenberry

24) "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail" -Gustaf Lindborg

25) If you have a problem, just try and shake it off. And if that doesnt work..well..stop shaking. - Bethany beicirk (SP?)

26) "Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." -Chapman Cohen

27) "It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark." -Michael Shermer

28) "I refuse to be labeled immoral merely because I am godless." -Peter Walker

29) Youre going downhill on the path of success. - Caleb Fort

30) "Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees. Ask for no security, there was never such an animal. If there were it would be related to the great sloth, which hangs upside down in a tree every day, sleeping its life away...To hell with that. Shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass."

31) "True, I talk of dreams; which are children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; Which is as thin of substance as the air, And More inconstant than the wind..." Mercutio - William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

32) I look at you, and all I see, is a soon to be, cut up mother fucker. Sean Gilbert

33) Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls around smoothly; at the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, and you heart will utter perverse things. Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying: 'They have struck me, but I was not hurt; they have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?   -Proverbs 23:31-35

34) The money doesnt know where it comes from - Deep Cover (Movie)

35) And dont you fucking think about running. Because if you do, Ive got six little friends that can run a whole lot fucking faster than you can. - George Clooney, From Dusk till Dawn (Movie)

36) It occurred to him almost instantly, with the instinctive correctness that self-preservation instills in the mind, that he mustnt try to think about it, that if he did, the law of gravity would suddenly glance sharply in his direction, and demand to know what the hell he thought he was doing up there, and he would suddenly be lost. - Life, The Universe, and Everything.

37) Remember this. The people youre trying to step on, were everyone you depend on. Were the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while youre asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges.We control every part of your  life.                                                                                      We are the middle children of America, raised by television to believe that someday well be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we wont. And were just learning this fact.    So dont fuck with us.     - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

38) On a long enough time line, everyones survival rate drops to zero.- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

39) Everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything your proud of will end up as trash. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

40) In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didnt commit. These men promptly escaped a maximum-security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hireThe A-Team. The A-Team opening dialogue

41) What the eyes see, and the ears hear, the mind believes. - Swordfish (Movie)

42) I'd rather die like a lion, then live like a dog. - Daniel Doyle (My Father)

43)   I lay down and waited for the swelling to dissapate. I wondered how this could have happened. It was as if a bunch of guys had gathered in a board room and said, "Okay gentlemen, what we've got here is an angle that people believe in, a wrestler who was willing to put his life on the line, and a fued that's going to draw a ton of money. Now tell me, what can we do about this nagging problem? I know, let's make the fans feel like idiots for ever believing in anything we did. That way, they'll be cynical and uncaring the next time we try to do an exciting angle on telivision. As for that wrestler guy, well, we'll show him. We'll make him curse the day he ever sacrificed his body for this company. Let's make him look like a complete nincompoop. Oh, we'll show him. Head bouncing off the concrete and all that concussion bussiness. We'll make a farce out of him, that's what we'll do. Gentlemen, you have my word that as long as I'm in charge, this company will never, and i do mean NEVER, make a dime. Meeting adjourned."  - The Mick Foley autobiography

44) It's like the physical embodiment of the fast food employment ads that show a black, an asian, an old white guy, a cripple, and a retard together. They just joined them all together like a giant equal-opportunity Voltron. - From Sean's Profile

45) When life gives you lemons...go to bed. - From Bethany's profile

46) "I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate."

47) "I have just as much authority as the pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it." - Carlin

48) Metlfan13: "Introducing the new Microsoft riot squad...give in to our demands or face the concequences as 250lb+ men barrel down on you with shields and batons"

Metlfan13: but it'll be in that AOL style voice

49)  AbOrTeDjEsUs83: i am sick and fucking tired of offers for sex from 14 year old girls
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: cant take advantage of the offer because of those damn stchitory rape laws
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: "do you have a girlfriend?"
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: no
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: "you wanna have some fun?"
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: goddamnit no!
      AbOrTeDjEsUs83: its like they dont even care that i am 19

50) You wanna know what the new black is???? The new black is the color of your blood drying on my hands when I wake up in a fucking ditch not knowing how I got there, or what I did to your family, ok??? -Mark

51) The new foreign exchange kids don't sport Sanrio watches. Apples in Stereo doesn't belong on their albums. A wicked transpacific marriage has been arranged and this guy is wearing the engagement ring. The world is going to end tomorrow, your computer will devour you, blood is the new mascara, transparent boxes of flesh and metal are very arousing......and in the same breath, garage emcees smack 15 year old girls, R. Kelly sex-tapes are being circulated, everybody loves Cannibal Ox, and Kylie Minogue is hitting America. We advise you to allow yourself to be infiltrated without resistance.

52) We have spawned a new race. Rougher, simpler, more violent, more enterprising, less refined. We are a new nationality. We require a new nation. - Ben franklin, 1776

53) Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you, and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing" -Stephen king, the dark tower series

54) Listen to me, maggots. Listen for your lives, for thats what it could mean some day. You never see all that you see. One of the things they send you to me for is to show you what you don't see in what you see - what you don't see when you're scared, or fighting, or running, or fucking. No man see's all that he sees, but before you're gunslingers - those of you who don't go west that is - you'll see more in one single glance that some men see in a lifetime. And some of what you don't see in that glance you'll see afterwards, in the eye of your memory - if you live long enough to remember, that is. Because the difference seeing and not seeing can be the difference between living and dying.
    --cort, The Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of The Three

55) Hey Henry, o great sage and eminent junkie big brother, while we're on the subject of our feathered friends, you want to hear my definition of cooked goose? That's when the Customs guy at Kennedy decideds there's something a little funny about the way you look, or it's one of the days when they got the dogs with the PhD noses out there instead of at Port Authority and they all start to bark and pee all over the floor and it's you they're all just about strangling themselves on their choke-chains trying to get to, and after the Customs guys toss all your luggage they take you into the little room and ask you if you'd mind taking off your shirt and you say yeah I sure would I'd mind like hell, i picked up a cold down in the Bahamas and the air conditioning in here is real high and I'm afraid it might turn into pneumonia and they say oh is that so, do you always sweat like that when the air-conditioning's too high, Mr.Dean, you do, well, excuse us all to hell, now do it, and you do it, and they say maybe you better take off the t-shirt too, because you look like maybe you got some kind of a medical problem buddy, those bulges under your pits look like maybe they could be some kind of lymphatic tumors or something, and you don't even bother to say anything else, it's like a center-fielder who doesn't even bother to chase the ball when it's hit a cetain way, he just turns around and watches it go to the upper deck, because when it's gone it's gone, so you take off the t-shirt and hey, looky here, you're some lucky kid, those aren't tumors, unless they're what you call tumors on the corpus of society, yuk-yuk-yuk, those things look more like a couple of baggies held there with Scotch strapping tape, and by the way, don't worry about that smell, son, that's just goose. It's cooked.
  --Eddie Dean, The Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of The Three

56) Fault always lies in the same place, my babies : With him weak enough to lay blame.
    --cort, The Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of The Three

57)          My understanding of the Truth
                       By John Chambers

                The Gunslinger is the Truth.
                      Roland is the truth.
                 The Prisoner is the Truth.
          The Lady of The Shadows is the Truth.
   The Prisoner and the Lady are married. That is the Truth.
               The Way Station is the truth.
             The speaking Demon is the Truth.
          We went under the mountains and that is the Truth.
   There were monsters under the mountain. That is the Truth.
   One of them had an Amoco gas pump in between his legs and was pretending is was his Penis. That is the Truth.
             Roland let me die. That is the truth.
                       I still love him.
                    That is the Truth.
  When is a door not a door? When it's a jar, and that is the truth.
                   Blaine is the truth.
                   Blaine is the truth.
What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck, and that is the truth.
                   Blaine is the truth.
You have to watch Blaine all the time, Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.
       I'm pretty sure Blaine is dangerous, and that is the truth.
What is black and white and red all over?  A blushing zebra, and that is the truth.
                   Blaine is the truth.
         I want to go back and that is the truth.
         I have to go back and that is the truth.
I cant' go home unless I find a stone a rose a door and that is the truth.
Choo-Choo, and that is the truth.
Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo.
Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo.
Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo. Choo-Choo.
I am afraid. That is the truth.
Choo-Choo.
    -John "Jake" Chambers, The Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of Three

58) You mess with me...
I'll punch you in the neck.
You look at me strange...
I'll punch you in the neck.
You breath wrong...
I'll punch you in the neck.
You diss my mom...
I'll punch you in the neck.
You grunt when I punch you in the neck...
I'll punch you in the neck.
  -Bethany's Profile

59) To be your friend was all I ever wanted, to be more was all I ever dreamed...
   -Brandon's Profile

60) lol one time I realized I was dreaming and I had to kill this guy but a chipmunk got in my hand and bit me and even tho it was a dream I was pissed off.. because the chipmunk made me drop my knife.
 -Bethany, from a conversation about lucid dreams

61) Arnold Hrabowski: Hello, this is the French Landing Police Department, Officer Hrabowski speaking. You've Dialed 911. Do you have an emergency?
[Unintelligible sound...throat-clearing?]
AH: Hello? This is Officer Hrabowski answering on 911. Do you-
Caller: Hello, asswipe.
AH: Who is this? Do you have an emergency?
C: You have an emergency. Not me. You.
AH: Who is this, please?
C: Your worst nightmare.
AH: Sir, could I ask you to identify yourself?
C: Abbalah. Abbalah-doon. [Phonetic]
AH: Sir, I don't-
C: I'm The Fisherman.
[Silence]
C: What's wrong? Scared? You ought to be scared.
AH: Sir. Ah, Sir. There are penalties for false-
C: There are whips in hell and chains in Shayol. [Caller may be saying "Sheol.']
AH: Sir, if I could have your name-
C: My name is legion. My number is many. I am a rat under the floor of the universe. Robert Frost said that. [caller laughs]
AH: Sir, if you hold, I can put you on my cheif-
C: Shut up and listen, asswipe. Your tape running? I hope so. I could shag [Caller may be saying "scram" but word is indistinct] if i wanted to but i don't want to.
AH: Sir, I-
C: Kiss my scrote, you monkey. I left you one and I'm tired of waiting for you to find her. Try Ed's Eats and Dogs. Might be a little rotten, now, but when she was new she was very [Caller rolls r's. turning the word into "verrrry"] tasty.
AH: Where are you? Who is this? If this is a joke-
C: Tell the coppiceman i said hello.
   -Stephen King, Black House

62) Nah Nah Banana: Hey mr.mail man.. you wanna play house
     Nah Nah Banana: I can be the screen door
     Nah Nah Banana: and you can slam me all night long!!

63) "One other thing, The Pledge of Allegiance.  This is probably the sneakiest way to start today's youth off on the rightful path of nationalism.  You're probably thinking, "oh he's gonna bitch about the Under God thing."  Not a chance, I realize that this country was founded on the basis of Christianity (as well as hatred), so I'll just not touch that.  My problem is with the last line: With liberty and justice for all.  Nah hells no, this has got to be one of the biggest lies ever mass-produced.  I mean, could they possibly mean for all?  If not today, then back in the 1500s definitely.  I mean Jesus, we enslaved people.  I think our forefathers meant it to be "and justice for all white men who are in good economic standing."  The only difference now is "and justice for all who can afford it." since something went "terribly wrong" and blacks/women were freed from their respective slaveries and started gaining rights.  I just dont understand, not at all.  Americans eat that up too, they love pledging allegiance.  Maybe it's just me, but its a hell of a lot easier to see once you open your eyes.
                                       Smash Tradition
                                                Smash Hypocrisy
                                          Hug Your Local Radical
"       -C.R.Clark

64) Religious missionaries frequently practice in systematic Cultural-Genocide. -Will Ore

65) And seeded inside each of these personal turning points is the crux of the ongoing global apocalypse: You get to choose whether you will adjust by taking a path that keeps you in alignment with the values of the dying world or else that makes you hum in resonance with the new civilization that is being born. In effect, you get the chance to vote, with your entire life, for which aspect of the apocalypse you want to predominate.   -Rob Brezny (http://www.freewillastrology.com_

66) War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better persons than
himself.
--John Stuart Mill

67) If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
-Rene Descartes

68) Most heroes are defined by the quality of their villians.

69) Training is absorbtion of skill, learning is the acquisiton of new hungers. -Robert D. Raeford

70) Its interesting that two drugs that are legal, alcohol and ciggarettes, two drugs that do absolutely nothing for you whatso ever; and drugs that grow naturally upon this planet, drugs that open your eyes up to make you realize that you're being fucked everyday of your life...those drugs are against the law...coincidence? I dont know.
-Bill Hicks

71) People are gonna have guns, They're gonna have abortions, and smoke crack. If you wanna go out of your way to make it illegal, We'll just move it out of site, and take it to the backalley. -Me