Shaped Like Itself/Quotes

"The following message is a message from the DORD Department."

—DORD Department, "DORD Department Message"

"Listen up! The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club."

—Xkcd, "Honor Societies"

"Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise."

—Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

"She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me."

—From a novel by Raymond Chandler

Zaphod Beeblebrox: This marble is as slippery as... Hey, Ford, what's the most slippery thing you can think of?
Ford Prefect: At the moment? This marble.
Zaphod Beeblebrox: This marble is as slippery as this marble!

—The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, Secondary Phase

Cliff: We should probably go back in and get something to tie down the dolly with.
Greg: Naah, it'll be fine.
Cliff: But the back's empty... It's gonna bang around back here.
Greg: So? What's it gonna hurt? It's a truck. It's made of truck.

—Real Life Comics on proper truck loading.

"Unfortunately, however, if there was one thing circumstances weren't, it was different from what they were..."

—Bertie Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

"The day is the same length as anything that is the same length as it."

—Sylvie and Bruno

"Cute girls are cute."

—Kazama Ushio, Sasameki Koto

Kate: Where are we going?
Richie: Mexico.
Kate: What's in Mexico?
Richie: Mexicans.

—From Dusk till Dawn

Plankton: It looks like an ordinary penny, because it is an ordinary penny!

—SpongeBob SquarePants

Jon: That cloud looks just like a cloud.
(Beat Panel)
Garfield: Which one?

—Garfield

"You might also find weapon leveling useful but that's only if you find weapon leveling useful, so whether or not you find weapon leveling useful is down to how useful you ultimately find weapon leveling."

—Jim Sterling, 100% Objective Review: Final Fantasy XIII

"You know why he has to stop? Because he has to stop!"

—romanosperfect300, Let's play Family Guy Part 16

"I baked you a pie!"
"What flavour?"
"PIE FLAVOUR."

—asdfmovie 2

"Look, there's a cave-like hole in that mountain! It might be a cave!"

—Amy Wong, Futurama

The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportion to the quantity of matter they contain -- the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

—The Devil's Dictionary on gravitation

A blind man's penis is erect because he's blind.

—John Trubee, Peace and Love

"... this made their respective children double first cousins. In addition, because Chang and Eng were identical twins, their children were genetically equivalent to half-siblings, thus making them genetically related in the same manner as half-siblings who are also first cousins."

—The Other Wiki's article on Chang and Eng Bunker.

The problem with asking about prehistoric history is, ahem, the lack of history.

—The Lady Herald of Realmslore, explaining about Time Abyss into which Recursive Precursors of Forgotten Realms blur.