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Quotes to inspire

Postby Nikki 2 » 02 Aug 2010, 21:40

I love these - just thought I would share them with you.

"What the imagination seizes as beauty, must be truth"
John Keats

"Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it, or amaze it with itself, but with its subject."
John Keats
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Re: Quotes to inspire

Postby Aitrus » 02 Aug 2010, 22:28

Great quotes. Here's some of my favorites.

"Is this the real life?
Is this it just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies,
And see."
- Opening lines to "Bohemian Rhapsody"

"Why are we here?
Because we're here.
Roll the bones.
Why does it happen?
Because it happens.
Roll the bones."
- Rush, "Roll the Bones"

"Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. . . . The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value."
- R.A. Heinlein

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
- Mark Twain

"Here's to all your coffins. May it be a hundred years before any of them are ever needed."
- My customary toast in any given setting
You may not be able to outrun Death, but you can sure make the Bastard work for it!
-Opening line from an Andromeda episode

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Re: Quotes to inspire

Postby Nikki 2 » 02 Aug 2010, 22:55

I like them!

I sang along to the first one! (luckily you didn't have to listen to me though). :-)
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