Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums

Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > Other > Writer's and Artist's Hangout

cor_raven

Jul 31 2004, 11:23 PM

hey every one share some quotes from your favorite books
i'll start
this is from legend by david gemmell
this is after the battle
"what will you do now friend"
"i think i will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good deeds"
"no i mean today"
Ah today i shall get drunk and go who***ing"

Scorpius

Aug 1 2004, 04:58 AM

It's from...a book...damn the book is upstairs and I forgot the title and the quote I was thinking of

. Gonna have to edit this post once I grab the book from my room

Angelfish

Aug 1 2004, 05:33 AM

"So long and thanks for all the fish" ~ The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
"For Truth, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, And A Hard-Boiled Egg" (meh, something like that) ~ Night Watch.
That's all I got for now

Kismit

Aug 4 2004, 10:38 AM

Cross Stitch , D. Gabolden.

QUOTE

"Good," I said, completely provoked. "You deserve it. Maybe that will teach you to go haring round the countryside kidnapping young women and k-killing people, and…" I felt myself ridiculously close to tears and stopped, fighting for control.
Dougal was growing impatient with this conversation. "Well, can ye keep one foot on each side of the horse, man?"
"He can't go anywhere!" I protested indignantly. "He ought to be in hospital! Certainly he can't---"
My protests, as usual, went completely ignored.
"Can ye ride?" Dougal repeated.
"Aye, if ye'll take the lassie off my chest and fetch me a clean shirt."

and

QUOTE

"Do ye sleep now, mo duinne. No one shall harm ye; I'm here."
I burrowed into the warm curve of his shoulder, letting my tired mind fall through the layers of oblivion. I forced myself to the surface long enough to ask, "Do you really believe me, Jamie?"
He sighed, and smiled ruefully down at me.
"Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would have been a good deal easier if you'd only been a witch."

RulerOfSquirrels

Aug 4 2004, 03:44 PM

QUOTE

"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."

--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

QUOTE

The vegetable chef was found much later in the soup cauldron, gibbering unhelpful things like "The knuckles! The horrible knuckles!"

--The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

Me_Again

Aug 6 2004, 10:36 PM

"there is much I have learned
yet, much I still seek to fathom
in some silent depths I feel mysteriously drawn to
probe
for lost Essenic pearls of truth
which first appear, then disappear
in swirls of deep, green water
wisps of love...hazes of
fear
sometimes distorted...
sometimes clear
and always the question
why?
what is this insistent pull on my mind?
what is it urging me to find?
is it simply a need to pursue, with
Aries persistance
the reason of humanity's continued
existance?
no, I fear it is something more...long lost on a
forgotten shore
calling me on and on...to explore...the
ancient laws
of Karma"
-Linda Goodmans STAR SIGNS

Apocalyptic Cryptid

Aug 27 2004, 01:51 AM

These Are Some Quotes From My Favorite Author

Well OK I Love H.G. Wells......

"Even now, for all we can tell, the coming terror may be crouching for its spring and the fall of the humanity be at hand. In the case of every other predominant animal the world has ever seen ... the hour of its complete ascendancy has been the eve of its entire overthrow."
H.G. Wells The Extinction of Man

"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) wan expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated."
H.G. Wells The Time Machine

"When at last the crowd made way for Kemp to stand erect, there lay, naked and pitiful on the ground, the bruised and broken body of a young man about thirty. His hair and beard were white---not grey with age but white with the whiteness of albanism, and his eyes were like garnets. His hands were clenced, his eyes wide open, and his expression was one of anger and dismay."
H.G. Wells The Invisible Man

"'Cover his face!' said a man. 'or Gawd's sake, cover his face!' and three little childeren, pushing forward through the crowd, were suddenly twisted round and sent packing off again."
H.G. Wells The Invisible Man

"'Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not men?'
'Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not men?'
'Not to eat Flesh or Fish; that is the Law. Are we not men?'
'Not to claw Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not men?'
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not men?'"

H.G. Wells The Island of Dr Moreau

"'His is the House of Pain.
'His is the Hand that makes.
'His is the Hand that wounds.
His is the Hand that Heals.'"

H.G. Wells The Island Of Dr Moreau

I ran out of time......It took me for ever to find them and copy them out of my books... but i think that is enough quotes for now..... I Love them all!!!!!!

Me_Again

Aug 27 2004, 02:52 AM

"You have moved to higher ground.
For what purpose therefore
Does the soul abound?
Again we contemplate the philosophers' stone
And we realize that in life
There is much for to atone.
The atonement, then,
Is the balancing of every wrong.
Let us not lose the song
Of the bird within the heart
That sings and sings again,
Even when bowed down-its earthly wings-
By soot and chemical warfare
And the burdening of the toil of earth.

Your souls would fly,
Yet you are also encased in form
That binds you to a mortal coil
And a gravitational pull.
Yet it is the will, the perception,
The set of the sail and the heart!

My point: As the blacksmith,
Let us strike a blow-
A strong blow for the Lord!
Let us provide for others
Who will follow after.

Let us rid ourselves
Of the stifling of a pleasure cult
That has its goal no tomorrow
But the surfeiting of today
And lacks the vision.
And men wear spectacles
While they themselves are a spectacle
Across the board of life,
As we who count ourselves among the wise
Wonder when they will face
The inevitable demise
Of an ego long spent
And the realization that
Only the soul can fly!
But it cannot fly unless it test its wings
And form those wings as pinions of light.

Without the wings of prayer and hope,
Without a destiny and a concern,
Where may the soul fly
When the body has no more heart
Or nerve or verve to continue in this octave?"
-Lords of the Seven Rays MIRROR OF CONSCIOUSNESS
By Mark & Elizabeth Prophet

Daughter of the Nine Moons

Aug 30 2004, 01:38 AM

“And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”

~The Count of Monte Cristo-Alexandre Dumas~

This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.