Figured this thread could be some sort of clipboard, to put quotes and stuff you like of any origin and any mood. Chat, books, movies, music and whatnot.

Ima add two now, a classic quote from The Catcher in the Rye (Bass prolly recognizes this one:) and a haiku by japanese poet Bashō.


"I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people’s cars. I didn’t care what kind of job it was, though. Just so people didn’t know me and I didn’t know anybody. I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn’t have to have any goddam stupid useless conversations with anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they’d have to write it on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They’d get bored as hell doing that after a while, and then I’d be through with having conversations for the rest of my life. Everybody’d think I was just a poor deaf-mute bastard and they’d leave me alone."

~J.D. Salinger



"kono michi ya / yuku hito nashi ni / aki no kure

No one
walks along this path
this autumn evening. "

~Matsuo Bashō

The classic, brilliant and most amazing movie ever - Bladerunner

Batty played by Rutger Hauer to Deckard played by Harrison Ford

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

"A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle, and get out! The healthy wayfarer sitting beside the road scanning the horizon open before him, is he not the absolute master of the earth, the waters, even the sky?… His estate has no limits, his empire no law. No work bends him toward the ground, for the bounty and beauty of the earth are already his.

To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of the slavery that comes of contact with others."

~Isabelle Eberhardt

Also, another haiku...

"at the crescent moon
the silence
enters the heart"

~Chiyo-ni