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Anime and Manga

"Constellations of stars that I am seeing for the first time… you are all only allowed to exist as objects for my conquest and rule. Just wait." —Reinhard von Lohengramm, Legend of the Galactic Heroes

"There is nothing more noble and beautiful than a warrior with no distractions. One could say he is the closest thing to God." —Treize Khushrenada, Gundam Wing

"Man fears the darkness, and so he scrapes away at the edges of it with fire." —Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"Doctor Tenma. For you all lives are created equal, that’s why I came back to life. But you’ve finally come to realize it now, haven’t you? Only one thing is equal for all, and that is death." —Johan Liebert, Monster (manga)

"Feelings of love are just a temporary lapse in judgment. Like some kind of mental illness." —Haruhi Suzumiya, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

"Immortality is wasted on the young." —Alucard, Hellsing

"Romance [...] is flexible in that it can act as the central reason to include an array of props. Want tension? Create awkward scenarios that sprout from romance. Mind some comedy? There are countless cliché gags based on a romantic relationship. Want to keep a healthy male fan base? Add girls, some naughty camera angles, and you’ve got yourself a steady audience. Romance is versatile, but requires a lot of characterization and work on the story. Some anime producers decided that these weren’t important, but liked the broad spectrum of actions that romance covered. So they included the drama, comedy, and fan-service, but left out the tedious process of developing a proper romance." —Austin, Anime: The World of Fake Romance

"Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people discovered anime through [Carl] Macek's work, including a lot of the fans who went on to found North America's anime industry. You could make the case that the popularization of anime might have happened anyway, but the fact is, Macek was the one who did it." —Christopher Macdonald, CEO and editor-in-chief of Anime News Network, The 'Robotech' master

Film

"It’s a tiny bit arrogant of people to go around worrying about those less fortunate." —Nick Smith, Metropolitan

"Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women." —Nick Smith, Metropolitan

John 'The Hangman' Ruth: Major Marquis Warren, this here is Daisy Domergue. Domergue, to you, this is Major Warren. Daisy Domergue: Howdy, nigger. John 'The Hangman' Ruth: [laughing] She's a pepper, ain't she? Now, girl, don't you know darkies don't like being called niggers no more? They find it offensive. Daisy Domergue: I've been called worse. John 'The Hangman' Ruth: Now, that I can believe. —The Hateful Eight

"Padme, your boyfriend whom you've known for about 2 weeks by this point came home and ranted for a solid minute about how he savagely murdered a whole bunch of people, women and children included. Deary, this is the part where you pack your bags and quietly leave." —Big Issac, YouTube comment on a video of the scene described, from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones

For all the hard work SJWs and Feminists put into defending Ghostbusters [2016] from the legions of haters and dudebros, they ended up showed their support for the movie by.... staying home and not watching it at all. This is what artists, companies, etc, don't seem to understand, but it's been proven time and time again: there is NO reward in catering to SJWs and Feminists, because they have no concept of "voting with their wallet". They will NEVER reward you for doing the right thing, because---among other things---as far as they're concerned, that's what you're SUPPOSED to do in the first place, and so why reward someone for doing just that?" —Encyclopedia Dramatica on reports of empty theaters for Ghostbusters 2016, in their article about the film

Literature

"I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick." —Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

"I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid." —Dorothy Parker, The Lost Poems

"For a fellow who’s not too much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion." —Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence

"The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun. "The man that smokes--that reads the Times - That goes to Christmas Pantomimes - Is capable of ANY crimes!" —The Three Voices by Lewis Carroll

"[...] it is invariably the case that actions bright and exciting in the imagination are, unfortunately, often disappointing or farcical in practice, more so when they have not been thought through thoroughly. Deep thinking gives people a headache. They think they are thinking when in fact they are merely daydreaming. For instance, if you were to ask them what they thought of ‘adventure,’ they would express a vague, undefined pro-adventure attitude, as practically everyone does, albeit from the comfort of an easy chair. They equate, or confuse, their liking for the idea of adventure with an ability to possibly participate in the real thing. Whereas, in practice, they might immediately discover that real adventure — of the neck-on-the-line variety — is unsettling, like entering a fourth dimension where the comfortable laws and rules they take for granted in normal life no longer apply; adrenaline speeds the pumping blood and distorts the faculties; immersion in the immediacy of action obviates wider appreciation. Riding the whirlwind is an acquired taste. The psyche aspires to accommodate the new perspective of both inner and external vision. The more times you act as supreme architect, the more you become one. —Ian Brady, The Gates of Janus (Chapter Fifteen: Ted Bundy)

I know there are spares among us. Where are the spares? Are we a troop together or a band of savages? —Stilgar, Dune

Live Action TV

"At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines that are way too dangerous to cross." —Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, The First Cut Is the Deepest

"Because of the ad skips.... It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming." —Jamie Kellner, then-chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting, in an interview with Cableworld, April 29, 2002

Music

"All of us get lost in the darkness Dreamers learn to steer by the stars All of us do time in the gutters Dreamers turn to look at the cars" —Rush, The Pass

"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship." —John Lennon

"On reflection it seems ironic and perhaps fitting that a series of musical pieces exploring themes of loss and melancholia should in themselves be impacted upon by an unexpected experience of loss ..." —An Imaginal Space, on "Loss"

Lost - another time we found now the power Crash - into a world of darkness and light Dust - of thousand stars into the reactor Life comes from death - blankness from light —Core Domain by Thunderblast

"That alert-sounding siren doesn't always have to go off at the start of a beat track; the sound of the beat nearly gives it away on its own." —CVoss on J Dilla, Rate Your Music

"An hour and a half of terrible grunge music! From a hip-hop artist! That's as polarizing as it gets! —Prismadoll, Rate Your Music review of Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven by Kid Cudi

Radio

"We're not a service industry. We're a business. Radio isn't an art form, it's an entertainment medium." —KDFC PD Bill Lueth, on radio today [mid-nineties].

"Underground radio meant something because it said something ..." —Pioneer FM deejay Charles Laquidara.

"[The Canadian radio industry] frustrates me so much. I want to see it flourish, I want to hear great material being produced by quality radio hosts, but instead it’s amateur hour all throughout the country as the corporations slash budgets and hire people fresh out of school (or who never even went to school) who aren’t ready to be in front of the mic in markets that should only be hiring seasoned veterans…" —A Dose of Buckley, Radio Hypocrisy

Video Games

"The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: A hero." —Spec Ops: The Line

"You're a disgusting, MMO-addicted NEET hermit... and I'm your beloved little sister!" —Rikana, Mix Ore

"You can't talk yourself out of loneliness, it doesn't work that way. You can't be the one writing both the questions and the answers, then there's no movement! Then there's no circulation! If all of your anxieties are being channeled into your work, then if the work ever fails you have no backup and you're just going to crash." —Davey Wreden of The Stanley Parable fame, on the dialogue of one of Coda's games, The Beginner's Guide

"Their catch phrase for EOS Online is "For the MMORPG that you've lost." The only thing that I have lost while testing this game is interest." —Steparu Review

"When many of us sit down and play titles that come out of Japan, we are specifically playing them because they are nothing like what we can get here. They often touch on subjects which are considered taboo to some western audiences, or tackle subject matter that others are afraid to tread through. We don't play Japanese games [...] because they are representative of our western cultural values, we play them because they aren't. They allow us to grow by experiencing fiction and fun from the point of view of an entirely different culture, and we learn a new form of appreciation for the world through it." —Mandatory Fun, Change.org petition (1 Million Gamers Strong for Japanese Gaming)

"While Clannad certainly has a bunch of the generic "lol Japan is perverts", I'd be hard-pressed to call it a game designed for porn. I mean, if you enjoy masturbating to your own tears, that's not the game's fault." —Ad__Hominem, Reddit (r/KotakuInAction, So the ABC tv show Good Game just did an episode on sex in games...)

"Who'd of thought it, huh? A bunch of small towners like us wrapped up in an adventure like this." —Olivia, Minecraft: Story Mode

"It's one of those games that seems to do exactly what it set out to do. Neverending Nightmares does indeed trap you in a seemingly never-ending cycle of wandering halls and avoiding monsters. It just does it in a far more tedious and uninteresting way than your own mind would." —Audish, Steam review of Neverending Nightmare

Web Comics

Alexia Murtaugh: Made in good faith, that offer puts us under Samaritan clauses. BOOM. We're here legally. Kevyn Andreyasn: Are we the good guys if we're this crafty about being the good guys? Alexia Murtaugh: I'm a career good-guy. This qualifies as "justifiably crafty righteousness". — Schlock Mercenary, April 22, 2016

Daisy: What's the cure for falling down the stairs? Cooper: Falling back up the stairs? Daisy: That's still in clinical trials! You could lose your license! —Daisy Owl, "Medical Science"

Web Original

"Food isn't anime related, so stop posting it." —r/anime message, Reddit

"1) Does it have bass? 2) Does it blow your fucking mind? Then it's Future Bass. It's not a genre, it's a state of mind." —r/futurebass description, Reddit

Luigi: Guys, I think I found the switch to the lasers. Mario: How can you be sure? Luigi: There's a sign below the switch that says "Lazerz." Sonic: What a goddamn genius! —Mario & Luigi: The Great Castle Heist! (Machinima)

"You know, there's a really thin line between "YouTube Challenge" and "Snuff Fetish Film." —Andre the Black Nerd (Black Nerd Comedy), WORST OF 2015: Black Nerd Rants

"'A very important message from a shark.' Somehow, I don't think these two things belong in the same sentence. —TheMysteriousMrEnter, Tentacolino Review

Yeah, that's right, this site's under construction. I feel I must tell you this by posting multiple "under construction" images in case you didn't notice that it was "under construction" that way I don't feel as bad leaving it "unfinished." —shitty.website

"The Internet has brainwashed these teenagers, to the point where that's all they talk about when they're not on it. If only this wasn't accurate..." —YourMovieSucks, Megan is Missing review

"The modern information age got such a jump start from the "calculator wars" that it's bizarre that it isn't discussed in any more depth than it is." —LGR Tech Tales - The Calculator Wars

"[...] YouTube doesn't give a shit about fair use. They don't give a fuck who is making money off content, so long as they're getting their cut. So if one of these content creators slapped a third party content claim on my video, I'd just have to live with them making money off my hard work, writing skills, and general creativity. And that's just not something I'm interested in allowing. Not in this case." —A Dose of Buckley, YouTube Autopsy PDF (detailing fair use)

"Didn't they, like, put ads in a reaction video to a little girl's suicide video and a school shooting?" —Steve (a human being with empathy), Finebros React (Psychicpebbles short)

"We're reacting to ourselves now? That's so useless and redundant. (happy shrug) Why didn't we think of it before?!" —Rafi Fine, Finebros React (Psychicpebbles short)

"See, the future of YouTube is not you at all. It’s the corporations. They want the MythBusters here. They want the recording artists. They want people like Seth MacFarlane and his cavalcade of comedy. They don’t want you. They want the front page full of corporate content because that’s what’s working at Hulu.com... reruns of television shows. Very safe for an advertiser to put his ads up against. That’s what YouTube wants. They want corporate content up on the Most Viewed and on the Most Discussed" —TheeStranger (2008), HULU TUBE - PHASING YOU OUT OF YOUTUBE

"[Changes in modern media, compared to old works, make] the story reflect the sensibilities of a modern audience. Fiction is [a] product of culture, and culture is a product of circumstance. Our circumstances now are not the same as they were in classical times, so neither is our culture and neither is our fiction." —MrBtongue, Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage: Genre vs. Literature

"I talked to my friend and colleague Seth Schoen about the Ubuntu Software Center selling proprietary software, and he pointed out that it goes directly against the Ubuntu Manifesto. I looked it up and read it, and it sure seemed that way to me. Only now I can’t seem to find a copy of it. The only reference to the manifesto that I can find on ubuntu.com is in some documentation on an old release [...]" —Micah Lee, Why I’m Leaving Ubuntu for Debian (2013)

"Tropers have no sense of subtlety, ambiguity, or suggestion. These are some of the most important parts of poetry." —The Triumphant, The Problem With Poetry on TVTropes

Western Animation

Korra: You have a battleship? Varrick: Of course I do! I bought the first one they made! Named her the Zhu Li. Bolin: You named your battleship after your assistant? Varrick: Yep! They're both cold, heartless war machines. —The Legend of Korra, Night Of A Thousand Stars

"Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything." —Moe, The Simpsons

Other

"You see people, the truly ironic thing about all of this, is that going to College/University was supposed to be about expanding young minds. Helping them to broaden their own experiences and give them the best possible start in life. A new perspective; a chance to grow. Now it seems to be more about hiding new experiences from them and reinforcing their own pre-conceptions. Instead of preparing them for reality, we're teaching them to be reality ignorant." —Kleyno, Dr. Frankenstein regrets creating his monster: Even Salon.com thinks trigger warnings have ruined college (Voat thread)

Nie moj cyrk, nie moje malpy. ("Not my circus, not my monkey.") —Polish proverb

"The aquarium was once the best way to encounter the wonders of sea life. It has become a mere travesty, tacky and cruel." —Subtitle for Through a Glass, Sadly by Bernd Brunner

"The truth is our standards for what a “successful relationship” should be are pretty screwed up. If a relationship ends and someone’s not dead, then we view it as a failure, regardless of the emotional or practical circumstances present in the person’s lives. And that’s kind of insane." —Mark Manson, Healthy Relationships Habits Most People Think are Toxic (Quartz article)

"China Is Banning Erotic Banana Eating on Live Streams But what of cucumbers?" —Headline and Subtitle of a 2016 article by Erik Shilling on Atlas Obscura

"My five-year-old son just got a trophy for soccer. I was as pleased as any father could be, and I pulled him on my lap, and praised him. Then I figured out everyone got a trophy. All my praise turned to lies in my mouth. I could not unsay what I had just said to a five-year-old. I could not tell him that this trophy was meaningless. I could not tell him to try his best, either, because the reward was the same for his best as for his worst. My other son quit the team before the season ended, and the coach wanted to give him a trophy in any case. I was revolted by the idea, deeply offended. They are trying to make my sons into little, weak, selfish, puling nonentities: boys who will cry if they do not get the same reward for hard work as for goofing off. Boys who will grow up to think life is unfair unless they are handed everything they never earned on a silver platter. I cannot regard this attempt with anything but a deep mistrust, bordering on hatred. Who are these people, and what do they have against my boys? Why are they trying to spoil them?" —John C. Wright, If everyone is Super, no one will be

"Kafkaesque doesn't even begin to describe how fucked up this is. Those poor kids are going to have their lives ruined because some fuckwad at the police station decided that was the only charge they could stick on them. Our legal system is too fucked up to even repair at this point. It's become a series of depressing stories like this highlighting how broken it is but, until people are impacted by it themselves, most are not willing to raise their voices and demand change." —Bananassassin, Teen Boy Will Be Charged As Adult For Having Naked Pics of a Minor: Himself (Voat thread)

"Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, "This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments." I hear people try to do it — give the five-line summary — but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant." —Stanley Kubrick, 1987 Interview with Rolling Stone

"Transcendental meditation is for human beings, and it transforms life for the good, no matter who you are or what your situation is. For instance, everybody knows education is pretty bad shape these days. There's lots of problems, even in the so-called "good" schools. Stress is hitting kids at a younger and younger age, and there's bullying, there's fights, there's legal and illegal drugs, there's bad relationships, bad grades, nobody likes to learn, there's teacher burnout, and it's kind of a mess. People have tried many things to help, but in my opinion, lots of these good things are surface cures--they don't address the torment inside the student, or the teacher, or the principal. When they get this transcendental meditation, it's a mental techique that allows them to dive deep within to the deepest level of life, which underlies all matter and mind. At the border of intellect, you transcend and experience that unbounded level of life: all positive, pure consciousness with qualities of intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy, and peace. I like to say gold flows in and garbage goes out." —David Lynch, 25 February 2014 Q&A on Rolling Stone

Everybody laughs in the same language. —Anonymous

"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." —Helen Keller

We see several German soldiers in a bunker, who in order to receive the American guest have borrowed old uniforms from a military museum. Their faces express at once both desperation and cheerfulness. —Das schwarze Korps (Newspaper for SS members) review of Superman comic

For the first edition, I exchanged a few e-mails with him, directly and indirectly, and then the finished books were run past him to be approved and, as he put it, sprinkled with fairy dust. I'm happy and honoured to say that he didn't feel that they needed much from him. (Actually, he threatened me with assassination. But in a very flattering way.) —Phil Masters, discussing his (minimal) interaction with Terry Pratchett while writing GURPS Discworld

For example, the first draft had numbers for a couple of siege engines. But then the manuscript looked to be running long, and I thought "Hang on - a ballista or a cannon will either be something in the background in a wartime siege scene, in which case it's a symbol that stuff just got real and something not to stand in front of, or as a Chekhov's Gun that will show up as a piece of furniture in scene 1 because there'll be a giant monster on the rampage in scene 3, in which case it does Enough Damage To Kill A Giant Monster. So let's not waste that space." —Phil Masters, discussing writing The Discworld Roleplaying Game

Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage —Winston Churchill, "The Coalmining Situation", Speech to the House of Commons, October 13, 1943