“Money can’t buy happiness, but it’s better to cry in a taxi than on a bus.” - Marcel Reich-Ranicki (German literary critic)
I changed the last word in the translation to bus for the US readers. It should be tram or streetcar but I assumed bus is more common and widely known.
“In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move”.
You have nothing to loose but your chains
“The man in black fled across the desert, and the Gunslinger followed.”
“Long days and pleasant nights.”
"Do you think… God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created, here on Earth? "
Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.
“I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that’s how much faith I have in humanity.”
The chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions”
Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
I wouldn’t label it as “the greates sentence ever”, rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.
“A traveller from an antique land who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert.”
OZYMANDIAS
- PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
These words have ways stuck with me, reminding me of the rest of the poem, but mainly reminding me that even vast, expensive and truly effortful things that many once cared about will eventually decay and become forgotten. Similar to the other post that this too shall pass.
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
You left out the most poignant part of the verse: “Nothing beside remains.” Look on your works? They all turned to dust.
Despite all our accomplishments, we all own our existence to a 6 inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
I found it somewere on the Internet and can Not forget it.
“I have a hawk and it’s trained to kill cops”
We apologize for the inconvenience.
*Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
I think we are at that point again but with “AI”.
“That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse”
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes
Mrs. Higgins’ body was found in the pantry, bludgeoned with a potato ricer and lying atop a fifty-pound sack of Yukon golds, her favorite for making gnocchi, though some people consider them too moist for this purpose.
-Joel Phillips
Life is best when we build bridges between people, not walls.
- Billy Crystal at the funeral/celebration of life ceremony for Muhammad Ali
(He wrote this down in his script for his speech beforehand, so don’t… just don’t.)
