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jadesfireThe subject line explains the spamming. Apologies to the flist, and I promise to use "ETA" from now on.
We all know that my general klutziness is one of the things that makes me a danger to myself and others - an inability to walk through doors rather than into them, a tendency to forget to swipe open locked doors and hence bash my nose on them, and a complete ignorance as to where the exact edges of the bookcases are all mean that I really, really wish all the sharp corners of the world should be padded. And while I'm usually covered in bruises, today is the first time the books have drawn blood. I scraped my hand along the corner of a book and have a nice graze, right along the knuckle, just enough to make typing really, really painful. Ow!
Also, the second part of Stephen Fry's series on the English language is about Quotation, and is just as brilliant as the first. As Dorothy L Sayers puts it "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" and therefore I absolutely love it. My brain retains quotations much more easily than anything else, which is both useful and annoying (remembering my PIN would be a whole lot more helpful). I'm perfectly capable of holding entire conversations almost entirely in quotations, mostly from Buffy and the Discworld, and it's incredibly useful when you can't think what else to say. There should be a link to the programme from the Radio 4 website.
So tell me, oh wise and wonderful flist, what's your favourite quote? Or your top three? I'm hard-pushed to choose, but if I have to?
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
ETA: I'm going to update as we go, so come and add yours!
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
"Walden" Henry David Thoreau's viapwcorgigirl
"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen viaaeron_lanart
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain viaaeron_lanart
Humans need fantasy to be human... to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett viasmithy161
We all know that my general klutziness is one of the things that makes me a danger to myself and others - an inability to walk through doors rather than into them, a tendency to forget to swipe open locked doors and hence bash my nose on them, and a complete ignorance as to where the exact edges of the bookcases are all mean that I really, really wish all the sharp corners of the world should be padded. And while I'm usually covered in bruises, today is the first time the books have drawn blood. I scraped my hand along the corner of a book and have a nice graze, right along the knuckle, just enough to make typing really, really painful. Ow!
Also, the second part of Stephen Fry's series on the English language is about Quotation, and is just as brilliant as the first. As Dorothy L Sayers puts it "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought" and therefore I absolutely love it. My brain retains quotations much more easily than anything else, which is both useful and annoying (remembering my PIN would be a whole lot more helpful). I'm perfectly capable of holding entire conversations almost entirely in quotations, mostly from Buffy and the Discworld, and it's incredibly useful when you can't think what else to say. There should be a link to the programme from the Radio 4 website.
So tell me, oh wise and wonderful flist, what's your favourite quote? Or your top three? I'm hard-pushed to choose, but if I have to?
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
ETA: I'm going to update as we go, so come and add yours!
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson via
darththaliaI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
"Walden" Henry David Thoreau's via
pwcorgigirl"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like"
Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen via
aeron_lanartOf all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain via
aeron_lanartHumans need fantasy to be human... to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape
Hogfather, Terry Pratchett via
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:21 pm (UTC)I was reshelving in our Law section back in college, and for some reason there was a combination of a sharp edge and heavy books. I slid the books onto the shelf, and managed to slice a flap of skin all the way along the edge of my little finger. *winces*
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:25 pm (UTC)Yeah. Books are vicious. I actually laughed at my doctor when he said I had "a fairly sedentry job". This building has FIVE FLOORS and the books don't move around them by themselves...
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:31 pm (UTC)And I'm not the klutziest person ever, but it seems like I'm always finding bruises that I don't know where I got. Sorry about your knuckles.
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:36 pm (UTC)“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
And I often mutter, "What fresh hell is this?" when the phone rings. I like to imagine that Dorothy Parker hated telephones as much as I do! :D
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:37 pm (UTC)I've been covered in bruises and scrapes pretty much since I was old enough to walk. It's a gift ;) I'm not bleeding any more, which is good, but it would still be much easier if I could just type right-handed. Ouch!
Ooh, and I put your commentary for 'Snookered' up over here (http://heretoutopia.livejournal.com/53963.html). It was fascinating to do, thanks. I could get into the habit of these commentary things...
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Date: 2008-09-01 02:39 pm (UTC)*grin* Yeah, I have a tendency to just yell "Oh go away!" when the phone rings. Yours is much better :D
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:04 pm (UTC)Reminds me of a conversation I had in work once...
"What's that bruise on your arm?" (I shall say at this point that this was a most impressive bruise, about 3.5 inches long down the length of my forearm)
Me: "Door bit me."
"You're supposed to walk through doors, not into them!"
Me: "I was! No-one told the door though."
Cue exasperated look from work colleague.
And the quotes I like the best?
"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like" - Deanna Troi, Star Trek Next Gen (It has a certain appeal, what can I say? *g*)
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." Mark Twain
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-01 03:07 pm (UTC)*giggle* I might have predicted the first... I'll add them to the list :D
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:09 pm (UTC)*adds to list*
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-01 03:15 pm (UTC)Mine do. But only when I want them.
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:19 pm (UTC)I do that, too. One of these days I'm going to get into trouble when someone else picks up the phone while I'm yelling 'Bugger off!' at it. I shout at the door too.
The ward I work on is an assessment area with 24/7 access required. We have the *stupidest* security system - no-one can be let in unless *we* open the bloody door for them (staff have passes thank goodness). This means that visiting time is hellish; every time you go to do something with a patient the door goes buzzzz and if you don't answer it straight away people start buzzing incessantly. It drives me nuts! In fact one relative complained about me telling her not to ring the bell more than once (we have a cctv, we can *see* that they're still there, they don't need to buzz more than once!). Admittedly I was quite short with her, but I was *trying* to look after my patients on a short staffed and very hot day. Bah!
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:00 pm (UTC)"Give me a fulcrum, and a fixed point to place it, and I can move the world" - Archimedes
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:05 pm (UTC)I love deadlines, I like the whooshing sound they make when they rush by - Douglas Adams (and I will so quote him when they activate CERN about the bizarre universe, too)
The doors to Heaven and Hell are adjacent and identical - Nikos Katzanzakis
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. - Carl Sagan (probably my favourite at the moment as I can so relate to that ^^)
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:20 pm (UTC)(The Little Book of Complete Bollocks)
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:20 pm (UTC)Thanks :)
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:21 pm (UTC)cool, thanks! I'll add them to the rapidly growing list...
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-01 04:24 pm (UTC)AVON: Tarrant is brave, young, handsome - there are three good reasons for anyone not to like him.
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:31 pm (UTC)2. Writers are liars, my dear. - Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Preludes & Nocturnes)
3. I'm a liar and I have a drinking problem. Which is as good a description of a writer as you'll ever see. - Mark Manning
I have a weakness for snarky quotes about writing and writers that point out that ZOMG WE'RE NOT MAJIK.
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:49 pm (UTC)"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side and the truth in between." - J. Michael Straczynski.
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Date: 2008-09-01 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-01 06:13 pm (UTC)I love the Gaiman quote - must reserve the Sandman books at the library. Why do they never have Volume 1?
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Date: 2008-09-01 06:13 pm (UTC)