"Always take time to stop and smell the roses... and sooner or later you'll inhale a bee."
"Contrary to popular belief, 'Damn It' is not God's last name."
"Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?"
"Drive defensively. Buy a tank."
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
"If you think about it, somewhere there's a Logrus master with Amelia Earhart, a whole squadron of P-51's, and a mile-high pile of socks and keys."
"Ignorant?! Ha! I don't even know the meaning of the word!"
"It takes a child to raze a village."
"Never knock on Death's door; ring the bell and run away. Death really hates that!"
"Never question authority. They don't know, either."
"NEWS FLASH! Intelligence of humankind decreasing. Details at... uh, when the little hand is on the..."
"Not all people are annoying. Some of them are dead."
"One by one the penguins steal my sanity."
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts."
"Suicide is the most sincere form of self-criticism."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"The good news is that there is a god; the bad news is that it's Cthulhu."
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
"We see much, observe less, and perceive little."
"If... we assume that there is no God, it follows that morality is even
more important than if there is a Deity. If God exists, his unlimited power
can certainly redress imbalances in the scale of human justice. But if
there is no God, then it is up to man to be as moral as he can."
-- Steve Allen
"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
-- Woody Allen
"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned."
-- Heinrich Heine Almansor
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"
-- Isaac Asimov
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought
or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody.
It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm."
-- Marcus Aurelius
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
-- Hector Berlioz
"Climate is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks."
-- Wallace Broeker
"Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives
in the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect."
-- James D. Bryden
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
"Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky
who watches everything you do. And there's ten things he doesn't want you
to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the
end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money!
He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!"
-- George Carlin
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life
so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
-- Cherokee Saying
"Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and
thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only
of following my fancies as a butterfly, and was unconscious of my individuality
as a man. Suddenly I awoke, and there I lay, myself again.. Now I do not
know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I
am now a butterfly, dreaming that I am a man."
-- Chuang-Tzu, 3rd century BC
"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."
-- Winston Churchill
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"A man said to the Universe,
'Sir, I exist!'
'However,' replied the Universe,
'The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.'"
-- Stephen Crane
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by
embracing one another."
-- Luciano de Crescenzo
"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are
sure of."
-- Clarrence Darrow
"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but would have suffered a
hell of a lot more had I been understood."
-- Clarrence Darrow (1)
"My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be
in error, and man may have a soul, but I simply do not believe it."
-- Thomas Edison
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing
is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. I believe in the latter."
-- Albert Einstein
"I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm
of silence is large enough beyond the grave."
--George Eliot
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly
smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that
comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is
willing to trust him."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you're a real good kid, I'll give you a piggy-back ride on a buzz-saw."
-- W. C. Fields
"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his
own way."
-- Robert Frost
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use."
-- Galileo Galilei
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, in 1981
"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
-- Last words of Gautama Buddha, in Theravada tradition
"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
-- Ghandi
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There is strong shadow where there is much light."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet
is the mental institution of the universe."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will
piss on your computer."
-- Bruce Graham
"Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let
people be different."
-- David Grayson
"Sleep is the twin of death."
-- Homer
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
-- Japanese proverb
"And it should be the law: If you use the word 'paradigm' without knowing
what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."
-- David Jones
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-- Carl Gustav Jung
"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will
die for, he isn't fit to live."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
"I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man.
It is us."
-- Konrad
"Insanity is hereditary: you can get it from your children."
-- Sam Levenson
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
of fighting a foreign enemy."
-- James Madison
"For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It
was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light - our atmosphere. Obviously
this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my
life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance."
-- Ulf Merbold
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other
discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.
Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything
we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems
nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength,
if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has
the vision to recognize it as such."
-- Henry Miller
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually
die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with the idea from
the beginning."
-- Max Plank
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word
from your vocabulary: impossible."
-- H. Robert Schuller
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and
cats."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"It is generally agreed that 'Hello' is an appropriate greeting because
if you entered a room and said 'Goodbye,' it could confuse a lot of people."
-- Dolph Sharp
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to not get your heart's greatest
desire. The other is to get it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and
deeds left undone."
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it's looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
-- Dr. Seuss
"If you have build castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
-- Henry David Thoreau.
"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
-- Harry S Truman
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained."
-- Mark Twain
"There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible
because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind
of contention that we harbor within."
-- Morihei Ueshiba
"The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the
heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis
on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the
body is always limited."
-- Morihei Ueshiba
"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled
through the snow."
-- Jeff Valdez
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right
to say it."
-- Voltaire
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord,
make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
-- Voltaire
"There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity."
-- William Allen White
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment
is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
-- Oscar Wilde
"The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I
wondered, "Where the heck is my ROOF?!?"
-- Steven Wright
"If you meet the Buddha on a garden path, kill him."
-- Zen koan
"Next time you see me, I’m gonna be wearing my angry hat. And lemme
tell you, it’s one ugly hat."
-- Mr. Resetti, 'Animal Crossing'
"You've no idea what it's like to let go of everything that constitutes
our struggles in this life...pain, greed, envy, guilt. It's liberating,
even in its emptiness. I can honestly say that I wanted to come back, to
finish what I'd began with you, but that a small part of me wanted very
badly to stay. And I think that I carry that gray place with me always...a
small piece of death..."
-- Virgil, 'Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura'
"Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"
-- 'Bad Dudes'
"Reaching beyond the sky... I wonder if there's a feeling to express
that?
-- Princess Yoyo, 'Bahamut Lagoon'
"One has lots of time for reflection while waiting for the ENDLESS WAVES
OF BAD DOGGIE WEREWOLF MONSTERS THAT CHEW YOUR TOES WHILE YOU SLEEP!!"
-- Dradeel, 'Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'
"Oooh, mages are the best for hidden treasures. Back home, you couldn't
toss a turnip without some old wizard's stash of goodies. Occasionally
the wiz would still be in it, too."
-- Jan Jansen, 'Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'
Jarlaxle: Oh, right. We're at the 'gesticulating helplessly' part, aren't
we? Visaj, I thought I told you to remind me when we arrived at this point.
Visaj: My apologies, commander. An oversight on my part.
-- 'Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'
Nalia: Edwin, you should learn to walk a little more dignified; carry
yourself in a better manner.
Edwin: And exactly WHAT is wrong with my 'manner'?
Nalia: You... well, the way you walk about some might think you were
of... little moral fiber. You should present a more wholesome image if
you are to remain like this.
Edwin: I will not remain like this! I will not 'present a more wholesome
image,' nor will I acknowledge this form in any way! I will not be this
way for long!
Nalia: Very well, but if we get too close to the docks you might find
the less upstanding members of society getting more...familiar than you
would like. As well, I would suggest you treat the party with civility,
lest someone arrange for such an occurrence to happen. Perhaps nearer the
zoo.
Edwin: (When the time comes I must kill her first. Slowly, but first.)
-- 'Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn'
"A true leader will always be the target of misunderstandings and envy.
Of libel and slander. I daresay I am familiar with such outbursts."
-- Emperor Geldoblame, 'Baten Kaitos'
"Ding dong! That's right! Today's lucky winners will all receive a one-way
ticket to hell!"
-- Folon, 'Baten Kaitos'
"I'd rather give my trust and risk being deceived than live alone, trusting
no one my whole life. Wouldn't you agree?"
-- Gibari, 'Baten Kaitos'
"Meemai! Let me guess--the only reason you came with me was to save
Xelha. Talk about a free ride..."
-- Kalas, 'Baten Kaitos'
"Friend or foe... ...stand in my way, and I'll take you out."
-- Savyna, 'Baten Kaitos'
"Nothing really mattered to me... Nothing at all... I was just waiting,
waiting for so long... For fate to open its doors and show me something
worth fighting for."
-- Savyna, 'Baten Kaitos'
Imperial Commander: Ambassador Lyude! You dare to defy the Emperor?
To threaten your own people? To think that you'd stoop so low... You're
finished...traitor!
Lyude: Call me what you will, but I stand only for justice!
-- 'Baten Kaitos'
Kalas: Umm... Can't we at least wait until nightfall? We can't exactly
sneak in during broad daylight.
Xelha: We don't have time for that. The sooner the better.
Gibari: Xelha's right. We gotta get movin'.
Kalas: All right, I see what's going on here now. You two are nuts!
If you get me killed in there, I swear I'll come back as a ghost and haunt
you forever. You've been warned.
Xelha: That's fine with me. I've always wanted a Guardian Spirit of
my own.
Kalas: Sheesh! Hey Guardian Spirit, why don't you hop into Xelha's
being for a change? Teach her a thing or two.
-- 'Baten Kaitos'
"YOU! INVADER! GET YOU THE HOT BULLETS OF SHOTGUN TO DIE!"
-- 'Battle Rangers'
"Doesn't this just beat all?"
-- Rei, 'Breath of Fire III'
"Insanity leads to chaos
Then to solitude
The fruitless effort of adding
Meaning to what is meaningless
A lone, crimson tear
Falls to the sea...
The echo of the remaining star
Cries out in the infinite vacuum
The least I can do
Is send my distant prayers
Over the wind of time,
Setting sail on dreams..."
-- Arni Villager, 'Chrono Cross'
"If the world's gonna be destroyed, then let it be destroyed! If history
is gonna be changed, then let it bloody well be changed!"
-- Kid, 'Chrono Cross'
There are two sides to every coin. Love and hate. Life and death. They
are all the same.
-- Lynx, 'Chrono Cross'
"There's nothing in the world as ruthless or impartial as death. All
living matter ages over time and eventually dies...
No matter how mighty or tiny its life force...
So being alive means you're creeping closer to death with every second...
But there's none of that here. No one and nothing ages. Nothing wastes
away. This quiet, boundless, and beautiful world...
An ideal world, straight out of a fairy tale, isn't it? A place and
time that belongs to no one...
Res nullius...
It's because this is a future that was eliminated!!!
History is composed of choices and divergences. Each choice you make
creates a new world and brings forth a new future. But at the same time,
you're eliminating a different future with the choices you didn't make.
A future denied of all existence because of a change in the past... A future
that was destroyed before it was even born rests here... condensed into
the Dead Sea."
-- Miguel, 'Chrono Cross'
"In order to survive, all living things in this world fight desperately
and devour those they defeat...
Must one kill other living things in order to survive? Must one destroy
another world in order to allow one's own world to continue?
The wounded in turn wound and torment those weaker than they themselves
are...
There are only the killers and the killed...
The sinners who are judged, and the victims that do the judging. What
meaning is there to such a world?"
-- Time Devourer, 'Chrono Cross'
"'The Mystery of Life'
Vol. 841, Ch 26
All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu...
This is the truth!
This is my belief!
...at least for now."
-- Book from 'Chrono Trigger'
"The black wind howls... One among you... will shortly perish."
-- Janus, 'Chrono Trigger'
"If history is to change, let it change. If the world is to be destroyed,
so be it. If my fate is to die, I must simply laugh."
--Magus, 'Chrono Trigger'
"Th... This can't be the way the world ends..."
-- Marle, 'Chrono Trigger'
NPC Girl: I heard the Hero was Sir Cyrus' friend. He must be a handsome
knight. Sigh...
Frog: ...... ...... Uwa, ha! What irony!"
-- 'Chrono Trigger'
"To think that once I could not see beyond the veil of reality, to see
those who dwell behind... I was once a fool..."
-- Alexandra Roivas, 'Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem'
"The devils inside the servant's skulls were trying to kill me! They
plotted behind doors locked and barred and planned the downfall of the
human race! I took care of the ones around me... Stopped their plans. Their
are others, I'm sure... Out there... Manipulating us... Secreting madness
inside our very heads, while our souls are pushed into the corners of our
skulls... watching as our hands do tasks that we have no control over!
Oh horrible... horrible... things... WE MUST PURGE THEM FROM OUR
MIDST!! Kill them all!! CUT THEM, BURN THEM!!! It's the only way... I know...
I've
done it... It... works..."
-- Maximillian Roivas' report on the Xel'latoth Bonethief, 'Eternal
Darkness: Sanity's Requiem'
"Quite pleased to make your acquaintance actually...for now. Let's get
the other bit of politness taken care of, shall we? What the bloody, bloody,
bloody
hell are you doing here!?"
-- Loxely, 'Fallout'
"Power only breeds war... I wish I'd never been... born."
-- Celes Chere, 'Final Fantasy VI'
"Son of a submariner!"
-- Kefka Palazzo, 'Final Fantasy VI'
"You people sound like chapters from a self-help book!"
-- Kefka Palazzo, 'Final Fantasy VI'
"That old psycho Ramuh came to me in a dream and told me to be expecting
you guys."
-- Mog, 'Final Fantasy VI'
"Why not? I don't have anything to lose but my life...and I got that
for free!"
-- Setzer Gabbianni, 'Final Fantasy VI'
"Oh yeah? Well to me it looks like a golden shiny wire of hope."
-- Barrett Wallace, 'Final Fantasy VII'
"Jealous... Envious..."
-- Cloud Strife, 'Final Fantasy VII'
"A pro isn't someone who sacrifices themselves for a job. That's just
a fool."
-- Reno, 'Final Fantasy VII'
"I don't care what you are doing, so much as the idiotic way that you
are doing it."
-- Vincent Valentine, 'Final Fantasy VII'
"Peace is but a shadow of death, desperate to forget its painful past...Though
we hope for promising years. After shedding a thousand tears, yesterday's
sorrow constantly nears. And while the moon still shines blue, by dawn,
it will turn to scarlet hue."
-- Kuja, 'Final Fantasy IX'
"I'm sharpening my knife, kupo."
-- Moguo, 'Final Fantasy IX'
"How do you prove that you exist? Maybe we don't exist..."
-- Vivi Orintier, 'Final Fantasy IX'
"You don't need a reason to help people."
-- Zidane Tribal, 'Final Fantasy IX'
"Don't blame me. Blame yourself or God."
-- Delita, 'Final Fantasy Tactics'
"I had a good feeling!"
-- 'Final Fantasy Tactics'
"You're a puppet without sparkle! Not just you, all Jumi who've lost
their sparkle, we're all puppets! We have lost the ability to cry and care
for others. We are the ones who should die, not Florina!"
-- Alexandra, 'Legend of Mana'
"Don't turn your back on me, Blackpearl. That's when I can see my own
destiny, Pearl."
-- Elazul, 'Legend of Mana'
"Pearl!! If my anger was what kept you moving, then the light of the
Clarius will keep on hurting people. The destiny of us stones is to heal
and soothe, shining with light from the sun. So long as men fight over
us, we light the flames of anger, and forget the power to heal. If that
truly is our destiny, should we just destroy everything? What do you say
Lady Blackpearl!? Blackpearl...I have not your strength...the strength
to destroy it all. I can only do one thing... Open a small exit..."
-- Elazul, 'Legend of Mana'
"To the Underworld I shall take you. I shall shut you away in darkness
so you may never hurt others again."
-- Lady Blackpearl, 'Legend of Mana'
"Everyone with a soul always disappears. We don't have souls so we always
stay."
--Sproutling, 'Legend of Mana'
"Is there anyone in this world who hates what is beautiful? Men compete...
sometimes they kill each other just to get it. The greater the beauty,
the more it is vied for, and the more it is hurt. Such tragedy..."
-- The Lord of Jewels, 'Legend of Mana'
Pearl: No one is saved through hatred. We must love each other like
we did ages ago.
Sandra: If so, then why don't cry? You'll become the sacrifice instead
of Florina!
-- 'Legend of Mana'
"You haven't found any energy discs yet, eh? Perhaps you fail to grasp
the urgency of your mission. ALAMAR IS GOING TO DESTROY XEEN!!! NOW GET
BACK OUT THERE AND SAVE THE WORLD!!!
-- Ellinger, 'Might and Magic V: The Darkside of Xeen'
"When a mind does not *know* itself, it is flawed. When a mind is flawed,
the man is flawed. When a man is flawed, that which he touches is flawed.
It is said that what a flawed man sees, his hands make broken."
-- Dak'kon, 'Planescape: Torment'
Nordom: In the 13.7th Revolution, we were required to fix gear and cog
sub-set thirty-one in the fifth ring of Mechanus. We removed the obstruction
and the gear turned as per its normal speed. Upon completing our task,
we were then returned to the Source.
Morte: What in the hells was that, you stupid polygon?! That's the
most boring story I ever heard!
Nordom: It was what took place. With embellishments, of course.
Morte: Embellishments?
Nordom: I thought the return to Source was a particularly fitting image
to close the tale.
-- Nordom's tale to Yves the Tale-Chaser, 'Planescape: Torment'
Fall-from-Grace: You know, Nordom, you are perhaps the cutest little
rogue modron I have ever encountered.
Nordom: 'Cutest' is a subjective term. I prefer the designation 'fearsome
cubed warrior'.
Fall-from-Grace: Of course! That's why you're so cute.
-- 'Planescape: Torment'
Morte: Hey Nordom, knock-knock.
Nordom: Why do you persist in addressing me as a door?
Morte: It's a joke, you stupid polygon! You're supposed to answer "Who's
there?"
Nordom: I know who is there. It is you. Why would I ask a question
when I already know the answer?
Morte: You know what? I--just forget it.
-- 'Planescape: Torment'
"What little life there is in the world is draining out this hole in
my body. The world can burn, the planes can burn, just give me life! I
will destroy this life so badly, break it, smash it, and stain it in blood
and feces, so you cannot live it either! Let all creation burn for I cannot
die!"
-- 'Planescape: Torment'
"Don't touch the poster at the Game Corner! There's no secret switch
behind it!"
-- Team Rocket member, 'Pokemon Red/Blue'
"You die a hopeless drug addict."
-- Death Scene, 'Quest for Glory 3: Wages of War' (after
lighting and using the pipe three times)
"Just one more screw and it would become the hyper gold luxury full
automatic real final romancing throbbing dragon machine!"
-- The Professor, 'Romancing SaGa 3'
Hawkeye: Deathjester! Are you the one who took the fairy?
Deathjester: Oh, heavens no! If I had, I wouldn't be lollygagging around
here! I'd be waiting behind you in an ambush, preparing to take you with
the element of surprise!
Hawkeye: Hmm, should we walk back out, come in again and pretend you're
not here...?
-- 'Seiken Densetsu 3'
"I learned that no matter what happens, you have to be strong. Even
if your home is burned to the ground... Even if you're facing impossible
odds... And even when you don't know who to trust... You have to be strong
and fight for a better future!"
-- Fina, 'Skies of Arcadia'
"Later on, Captain Clara found Gilder's ship! She was so happy! She
started firing at his ship to get his attention. Gilder fired back. How
romantic."
-- Nara, 'Skies of Arcadia'
"Elders, I understand your wish to mold the world into how you see fit.
But... You will not be the ones with the power to make that decision."
-- Ramirez, 'Skies of Arcadia'
"Impossible is just a word to let people feel good about themselves
when they quit."
-- Vyse, 'Skies of Arcadia'
"That's right. You have no head. That darn pool must have been filled
with acid. You obviously can't go on living that way."
-- Death Sequence, 'Space Quest I'
"You'll be proud to know that you have filled today's nutritional requirements
for many of the local carnivorous insects. Adventuring is not always pretty."
-- Death Sequence, 'Space Quest II'
"I intend to infest your planet with genetically-engineered, door-to-door
insurance salesmen."
-- Sludge Vohaul, 'Space Quest II'
"You get the ladder and put it in your pocket. Ouch."
-- Narrator, 'Space Quest III'
"As the green slime dissolves the flesh from your bones, you think,
'Hey! This stuff consumes 47 times its weight in acid!'"
-- Death Sequence, 'Space Quest IV'
"Just as you fade from the living organism club, you think, in amazement,
'So that's what my spleen looks like!'"
-- Death Sequence, 'Space Quest IV'
"Take it from someone who knows sick: licking corpses is going
waaay beyond demented. Get a grip, pal."
-- Narrator, after Roger tastes the deceased Sequel Policeman
on Estros, 'Space Quest IV'
Sequel Policeman: Help! A giant branch has penetrated my vital organs,
and I can't get up!
Narrator: Seriously, do you really think this guy has time to talk
to you? He's too busy being dead!
-- 'Space Quest IV'
"Barrel... Colorful barrel... Barrel BARREL Barrel BARREL Barrel."
-- Ashton Anchors, 'Star Ocean II: The Second Story'
"Booster, sir! There's a 70% chance that the object you're standing
on is a cake..."
-- Snifit, 'Super Mario RPG'
"You know, some people use something called a DOOR to get in and out
of their houses."
-- Toad, 'Super Mario RPG'
"Evil Wizards. They're like Richard III on crack."
-- April Ryan, 'The Longest Journey'
"Don't stop liking me, okay? No matter what I am..."
-- Rain, 'Treasure Hunter G'
"When alone against many, all bullies are cowards."
-- Red, 'Treasure Hunter G'
"Disturb me not, for I seek to eliminate odd-order intermodulation distortion
in linear power stages!"
-- Magician in Castle Britannia, 'Ultima IV: The Quest for
the Avatar'
"How delightful. I thank you from the bottom of the gaping void in my
soul."
-- Arngrim, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"There are many who would agree. But there are many who would not."
-- Lawfer, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"If at all possible, I prefer to forge my own path through life, then
call it "destiny" once the cards have settled..."
-- Lezard Valeth, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"I have been called stalker... pervert... and dirty old man... criticized
harshly by all during development.You might be a Goddess... but I shall
prove more than a worthy opponent for you!"
-- Lezard Valeth in the Seraphic Gate, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"The Philosopher's Stone. I found it. Well, figuratively speaking, I
did. A more apt description of the Stone would be the ten-billion-page
codex..."
-- Lezard Valeth, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"I've made it this far. Wasn't that enough?"
-- Lucian, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"I'd choose to sleep forever, if it'd mean I'd never stop dreaming."
-- Mystina, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"What can one do when one loses what matters most?"
-- Nanami, 'Valkyrie Profile'
"Thanks for the encouragement. I'll try to believe in it, too."
-- Yumei, 'Valkyrie Profile"
"I peed in the ocean and the Ocean Guardian, Lucadia, got angry..."
-- Bed-ridden sailor on the Sweet Candy, 'Wild Arms'
"Is a world where innocent children and kind people are the first to
die worth protecting?"
-- Calamity Jane, 'Wild ARMS'
"A sword is made for cutting and a spear for stabbing. Mercy is precious,
but mercy can also be an indulgence in a world like ours."
-- Jack van Burace, 'Wild Arms'
"Here I am! The Grim Reaper's pen pal! The ultimate Macho Man!"
-- Zed, 'Wild Arms'
"They all look the same. Let's start hitting some buttons."
-- Bart Fatima, 'Xenogears'
"Some things only the weak can feel... but weakness does not make them
secure. It's because they are weak, that they can develop kindness...
and never look down on people."
-- Elly van Houten, 'Xenogears'
"Probably, deep inside I didn't want to help. Somehow, I get the feeling
that all I've done I did because I wanted to be needed."
-- Fei Fong Wong, 'Xenogears'
"War is like that. It abolishes good and bad."
-- Guy in Shevat, 'Xenogears'
"I'm different from you all! I'm not special like you! A
'normal' guy like me has no choice but to do this!"
-- Hammer, 'Xenogears'
"Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ!?"
-- Hammer, 'Xenogears'
"Overprotection only stunts the will to be independent."
-- Kelvena, 'Xenogears'
"That's because...
I am!
A man!
Of the sea!"
-- The Captain, 'Xenogears'
"Is there anyone who is almost dead, with no arms and legs, or in need
of an abdominal operation? No one...? Well, that's depressing."
-- Yggdrasil doctor, 'Xenogears'
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely
foolproof, is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
-- Douglas Adams, 'Mostly Harmless'
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter
in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect
with the universe and move bits of it about."
-- Douglas Adams, 'Mostly Harmless'
"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes
something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that,
in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't
necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
-- Douglas Adams, 'Mostly Harmless'
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or
repair."
-- Douglas Adams, 'Mostly Harmless'
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting
this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly
insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are
so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty
neat idea..."
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
"Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much
bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning
size, real 'wow, that's big,' time. Infinity is just so big that,
by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied
by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're
trying to get across here."
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
"Intelligence is the ability to reconcile totally contradictory situations
without going completely bonkers -- for example, having a stomach ache
and not having a stomach ache at the same time, holding a hole without
the doughnut, having good luck and bad luck simultaneously, or seeing a
real estate agent waive his fee."
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
"It's not impossible, just highly improbable."
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"
-- Douglas Adams, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy'
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil
being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help.
-- 'Calvin & Hobbes'
"At one time, China was the world's most advanced nation. The Chinese
invented gunpowder, rockets, the printing press and paper currency. How
did such an advanced nation fall so far behind? Probably because the Chinese
also invented bureaucracy."
-- 'China: Travel Survival Kit', by Buckley, Samagalski,
Storey, Taylor, Lindenmayer
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game
of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any
other players (i.e. everyone), to being involved in an obscure and complex
version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes,
with a dealer who won't tell you the rules and who smiles all the time."
-- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 'Good Omens'
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions:
that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than
a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
-- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 'Good Omens'
"This gas which constitutes the raw material of life, the permanent
store upon which all that grows draws, and the ultimate destiny of all
flesh, is not one of the principal components of air but rather a ridiculous
remnant, an 'impurity' thirty times less abundant than argon, which no
one even notices... From this ever renewed impurity of the air we come,
we animals and we plants, and we the human species, with our four billion
discordant opinions, our millenniums of history, our wars and shames, nobility
and pride."
-- Primo Levi, 'The Periodic Table' (2)
"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human
face forever."
-- George Orwell, '1984'
"For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things
to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks."
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Equal Rites'
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind."
-- Rincewind; Terry Pratchett, 'Faust Eric'
"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across
the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from
behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone
else.""
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Guards! Guards!'
"Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in
the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah,
good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.""
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Interesting Times'
"Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a
paper hat would be someone saying "What happens if I do this?""
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Interesting Times'
"If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it
saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH", the paint wouldn't
even have time to dry."
-- Terry Pratchett, 'Thief of Time'
“I'm not screwed, I'm beyond screwed: Screwed is sitting across the
room, waving at me and saying, ‘Hi, glad I'm not you.’”
-- 'Things in Heaven and Earth'
"Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced
amid those that open when you don't want them to."
-- Roger Zelazny, 'Blood of Amber'
"I trusted him like a brother -- which is to say, not at all."
-- Roger Zelazny, 'Nine Princes in Amber'
"There is always a reason. Whenever anything has been mucked up, whenever
anything outrageous happens, there is a reason for it. You still have a
mucked-up, outrageous situation on your hands, however, and explaining
it does not alleviate it one bit. If someone does something really rotten,
there is a reason for it. Learn it, if you care, and you learn why he is
a son of a bitch. The fact is the thing remains, though."
-- Roger Zelazny, 'The Hand of Oberon'
"You know what?! There is no Easter Bunny!! Over there, that's just
some guy in a suit!!"
-- 'Mallrats'
"Trying to use the Dragon Slave on Shabranigdo is like saying, 'Hello,
Mr. Dark Lord, help me kill you!'"
-- Lina Inverse, 'Slayers'
Xelloss: (* trying to read inscriptions on a wall, sudden recognition*)
This is--!!
Lina: What?! What is it?!
Xelloss: (*cheerful smile*) Something I can't read.
-- 'Slayers TRY'
"Never run from anything immortal; it only attracts their attention."
-- 'The Last Unicorn'
“Life is pain, Highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-- Westley, 'The Princess Bride'
"Suicide? ...To tell you the truth, I disapprove of suicide more than
anything."
-- Vash the Stampede, 'Trigun'
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