OMG Meme. Hide the women and children.

[featherynscale]

I like this one! Go here and nab five quotations that make up a reasonably meaningful representation of your life/philosophy/etc. (Yes, you could say it better than anyone else, but we're looking for a best approximation here.)

My quotes:
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. - Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it. - Leo Rosten (1908 - )

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." - William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)

Special Bonus Quote: Famous Last Words (because I'm pretty certain these will be my actual last words...

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. - Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. -- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. -- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. -- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. -- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. Mary Hirsch

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.
Kate Chopin

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
Nancy Friday

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)