You Can Quote Me On That

("or don't; it's entirely up to you...")*

I was editing my Facebook profile a bit this morning, adding in some new stuff and taking out some old, and one of the sections I was adding to was my favourite quotes. Now, this may sound strange, but I really like my favourite quotes. I mean, duh, "favourite" and all that; but I mean, I also go so far as to make sure they are arranged in a quasi-linear fashion as far as topic goes. I'd like to think my quote section has a nice flow to it as you read through, with one thought or concept transitioning easily into the next. In the end, you have a bunch of seemingly random quotes, all chosen because they somehow represent me or my own thoughts.

So today, I decided I'd post this list of favourite quotes of mine, just because damn, they're good. And it's an easy post. ;)

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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
- Wilson Mizner

"I love to do the things the censors won't pass."
- Marilyn Monroe

“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
– Emma to her father, in Jane Austin’s 'Emma'

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane."
- R. D. Laing

"We must ‘make the impossible possible,’ and common-sense individuals often can’t accomplish this. Breakthroughs can only be achieved by those who are a bit eccentric."
- Koki Ando, President of Nissin, in an interview about the company's future in the dried noodle market

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
- Douglas Adams

"Are you okay?"
"Of course not, I'm an artist."
-Joe's Apartment

"I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it."
- Dorothy Parker

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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*while not something I have (yet?) quoted in my Facebook profile, the parenthesi-ed line is a quote from the Mr. Show episode, "Jeepers Creepers Semi-Star". We've been watching a lot of Mr. Show lately, though some of the earlier episodes leave me feeling like I had not imbibed enough of whatever substance for it to be actually funny. But that's the way sketch comedy can be in its early times. Nonetheless, damn, I loves me some Jack Black singing action.