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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 10 Aug 2006 07:07 PM |
Today's Topic (again): Writing
I saw the following in various books (and a poster); the names of the people that actually said these lines were never recorded.
"Every morning I regurgitate into my type writer, then spend the rest of the day cleaning it up.
The next morning, I do it all again."
"When writing a novel, change the word 'very' with the word 'dang.' When your editor looks through your work, he will remove those words and everything will be as it should."
"Writers spend 90% of their time thinking, and only about 10% of it is used for writing."
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 10 Aug 2006 07:13 PM |
"When writing a novel, change the word 'very' with the word 'dang.' When your editor looks through your work, he will remove those words and everything will be as it should."
LOL....that is the best piece of advice for writing I've heard in a while...I will remember that one (and use it) for a long time.
*tries to imagine what his CEO might think next time he receives his edited speech full of "damns"* |
The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for...
-- Ernest Hemingway |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 12:45 PM |
Today's Topic: Life
Life isn't life if you aren't there living it. Ya know?
-Mykal |
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 12:52 PM |
Today's Topic: Life
Life isn't life if you aren't there living it. Ya know?
-Mykal
We're all excited
But we don't know why
Maybe it's cuz
We're all gonna die
And when we do (When we do)
What's it all 4 (What's it all 4)
U better live now
Before the grim reaper come knocking on your door
-Prince |
Famous last words:
Mykal> it's my new wireless router.
* > Mykal has quit (Ping timeout)
Vulpina> Hey!! IRC didn't boot m.....
* > Vulpina has quit (Exit: DarkMyst WebChat) |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 04:41 PM |
Two quotes about Life...
Here's first one:
"The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive."
-Private Joker from Full Metal Jacket.
Second one:
"Think about all the good in your life.
- It's only temporary.
Think about all the positive sides in life.
- They never last forever."
-Lyrics from a song "Nephente" by "Sentenced". |
Nightmare this may be, but it's not a dream. |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 05:14 PM |
Today's Topic: Life
Life's a piece of ****
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughing as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the right side of life...
(Come on guys, cheer up!)
Always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the bright side of life...
(Worse things happen at sea, you know.)
Always look on the bright side of life...
(I mean - what have you got to lose?)
(You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!)
Always look on the right side of life...
This song is from Life of Brian and later from The Meaning of Life both by Monty Python.
.... I know its a Monty Python quote, but how can you not with a topic like that? |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 05:54 PM |
Today's Topic: Life
Life isn't life if you aren't there living it. Ya know?
-Mykal
"Anyone who does not see life purely as a form of entertainment is missing the entire point."
- George Carlin
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 06:02 PM |
"Today's color is black, and today's word is METAL."
-Barnas |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 11:54 PM |
| I disagree, I vote for Sleep and PLENTY |
ELVES! |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Aug 2006 11:55 PM |
'We buckle and bend and sway
With the stress of life on a seam;
It's not the loving that's hard,
It's the living in between."
-VK |
"You know, a gong. Large, flat object that you hit when you want things. Sort of like a waiter, but less portable."
-Radra |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 31 Aug 2006 07:50 AM |
"Today's color is black, and today's word is METAL."
-Barnas
Oh, come on. That's just WAY too easy! |
Nightmare this may be, but it's not a dream. |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 31 Aug 2006 08:58 PM |
"Life is the most common of sexually transmitted dseases."
-?? |
"I've got a sword and it's a good one, but all the bleedin' thing can do is keep someone alive, listen. A song can keep someone immortal!" - Cohen the Barbarian |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 01 Sep 2006 05:25 AM |
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-John Lennon |
"You know, a gong. Large, flat object that you hit when you want things. Sort of like a waiter, but less portable."
-Radra |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 01 Sep 2006 05:42 AM |
| Life is a game you never get out of alive. |
Purpose in life: finding better ways of allowing players to kill themselves. Repeatedly.
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"...Cause he mixes it with love
And makes the world taste good."
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<@James42> Lawful good isn't in your vocabulary, it's on your menu.
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 01 Sep 2006 05:44 AM |
Life is a game you never get out of alive.
Not with our DM team anyway :P |
ELVES! |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 23 Oct 2006 08:48 AM |
Today's Topic: Sadness
bI'IQchugh yIvang!
(Translation from Klingon: If you are sad, act!) |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 23 Oct 2006 12:59 PM |
| Klingons endorse theatre?! Wow! Willom shall use this as his new motto! |
Willom Wilde--Actor, Playwrite, Head of Wilde's Vials, and fearful of all things cheesy
Califus Sarten--Mercenary for Hire
Bennigan Songsinger--Brooding bard. |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 30 Oct 2006 06:23 AM |
Today's Topic: Hope
This is the important part. So listen.
Listen.
Creation is built upon the promise of hope, that things will get better, that tomorrow will be better than the day before.
But it's not true. Cities collapse. Populations expand. Environments decay. People get ruder. You can't go to a movie without getting in a fight with the guy in the third row who won't shut up.
Filthy streets. Drive-by shootings. Irradiated corn. Permissible amounts of rat-droppings per hot dog. Bomb blasts and body counts. Terror in the streets, on camera, in your living room. Aids and Ebola and Hepatitis B and you can't touch anyone because you're afraid you'll catch something besides love and nothing tastes as good anymore and Christopher Reeve is in a wheelchair and love is statistically false.
Pocket nukes and subway anthrax. You grow up frustrated, you live confused, you age frightened and you die alone. Safe terrain moves from your city to your block to your yard to your home to your living room to your bedroom and all you want is to be allowed to live without somebody breaking in to steal your TV and shove an ice-pick in your ear.
That sound like a better world to you? That sound to you like a promise kept?
Those who come to me, come of their own accord because they come to believe. As you will come to believe. We will prove that the maker of all things is a liar, a fraud and a pretender.
And then what?
I win.
The "Other Guy" (presumably The Devil)
J Michael Straczynski,
Midnight Nation |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 10 Nov 2006 09:11 AM |
Today's Topic: Unity
We're one, but we're not the same.
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again.
You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.
One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
U2
((...she says, as soon as she comes home from the most awesomest U2 concert)) |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 10 Nov 2006 09:20 AM |
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
(Imagine all the people sharing all the world)
Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say Im a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
"Imagine,"
As performed by 'A Perfect Circle.' |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 10 Nov 2006 12:14 PM |
| Wow. 'A Perfect Circle' did "Imagine"? I've gotta hear that. |
T'mok Gurzi
Resident Gnoll Warlord
patron for the noble yet drink addled
Timik Gorozai the Mistake |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 05 Dec 2006 09:30 AM |
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 07 Dec 2006 03:31 AM |
What persuades, is someone's character, not his language.
-Ménandre |
Frodo : What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam : That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
-The Two Towers |
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 07 Dec 2006 04:15 AM |
"How a man wins shows some of his character.
How that man loses shows all of it."
-Unattributed
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Re: Mykal's Quote of the Day
Posted: 23 Jan 2007 10:36 AM |
Today's Topic: Parenthood
I give you a poem by Philip Larkin.
This Be The Verse
They f**k you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were f**ked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
My thanks to Aranel for pointing this one out to me. |
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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