Ice Cream Koan/Quotes
Otacon: Okay... There's a saying that goes "Even a bird on high dies a glutton's death, as do the fish of the deeps." The lesson is -- er, don't be greedy. The fish that belonged to a family called the Deeps died from overfeeding, and so did a bird that got high on something -- probably fermented fruit. |
Otacon: Do you know the saying "Those who walk a hundred leagues think not that their journey is half ended until the ninetieth league?" That means... what does it mean? Okay, it means that if you're planning to walk that far, you'd better damn well know how to do simple arithmetic. Study! Stay in school! |
The Sphinx: If you do not learn to master your rage- |
time / and beauty / are orthogonal |
We eat chickens. We take a bird and we put it in our bodies. In our stomach it dissolves down into atoms and then those atoms enter our bodies. We do this every day all over the planet. Now, think about this: WE are the chickens.
—Mike Gravel, "Candidate Questions Overlooked by the Associated Press," Something Awful
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Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.
—Samuel Hagar
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Parker: A man with one watch knows the time. A man with two is never sure. —Leverage, "The Snow Job"
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You talk in circles, Cernd, but that's okay. Boo runs in them.
—Minsc, Baldur's Gate II
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'Now here they throw more pretentious crap on the screen. How 'bout givin' me some pretentious patterns instead? This ain't good enough. |
You speak entirely in parables, don't you? You're like a crap Jesus.
—Toby to Chad, In the Loop
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"In unifying your chi with that of your opponent--in aligning the breath of your life and theirs--you will storm the strongest fortress. There! Is that a good Secret?" |
In the Second Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised, a story is written concerning one day when the apprentice Clodpool, in a rebellious mood, approached Wen and spake thusly: |
Wait, what did [Yoda] just say? Maybe he isn’t that wise, because that don’t make a lick of sense. "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." Can’t anger lead to fear, fear lead to suffering, and then suffering lead to hate? See, when you have three totally interchangeable emotional states, they can’t really be arranged in a certain pattern of logic. —Mr. Plinkett reviews The Phantom Menace
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What would Uncle do? "Zuko, you have to look within yourself to save yourself from your other self. Only then will your true self reveal itself." *Beat* Ugh, even when I'm talking for him I can't figure out what he means.
—Zuko, Avatar: The Last Airbender
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Haikus are easy |
"Darkness is light's light of darkness as a dark farewell to dark lightness."
—The Boss, Hiimdaisy: Let's Destroy the Shagohod!
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