Favorite Book Quote/part And Why?
Ok, post your favorite BOOK quote, where it came from, and why is it your favorite?
Book:Star Wars:The New Jedi Order-Traitor
(spoiler warning if you are reading this series)
Author-Matthew Stover
Part
It was the light in Ganner's eyes
He was <i>happy</i>
"There are <i>thousands</i> of warriors out here, " Nom Anor repeated, waving a futile fist. "You are only one man!"
"I am only one Jedi"
"Your <i>insain!</i>"
The man's answering laugh was deep and long, and bright, full of joy and freedom. "No, I am Ganner"
He spun his shining blade in a dazzlingly complex flourish that illuminated the arch around him, making it shine like a rainbow frame for the pure, animal grace of his body.
"This threshold," he announced through a happy grin, "is <i>mine</i>. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I dont give a dam" His flourish ended with the blade slanted before his chest, and his teeth flashin in the gloom.
"None shall pass."
They come at him one at a time, an endless stream, each warrior in turn charging toward honorable single combat.
Then-
They came <i>two</i> at a time.
By the time they begin to come in groups, they have to scramble over bodies of thier dead comrades to reach him. A <i>pile</i> of dead bodies.
A pile that becomes a wall, a rampart.
Ganner Ryhsode builds a fortress of the dead.
Jacen sighed. "Ganner's last stand, to bad nobody saw it.
"Nobody? You mean, nobody from the New Republic. Let me tell you of a vision I have had, " she said. "An image of the far future. It came to me through the Force sometime ago, but now have I come to understand it. In that vision, I saw a new figure in the mythology of the Yuuzhan Cong. Not a god, not a demon, but an invincible giant called <i>The Ganner</i>.
"Your kidding right?"
"Not at all. They will become to believe that Ganner, the Jedi Giant, is the Guardian who stands before the gate to the Lands of the Dead. It is Ganner, and his forever blazing band of light, who stands as an eternal gaurd, to prevent the shades of the dead from passing back through the gate, to trouble the living. Its strange, there is a arch above his head, with letters in Basic
(english in starwars)"
"In Basic? What does it say?"
"NONE SHALL PASS"
Every time I read this, it gives me shivvers. Not only did Ganner give his own life to protect someone he didnt like, he became one with the force. No, he WAS the force for a few minuites. The book described his fighting as "The dance of the Force." He was always looked down apon, he tried to make himself look like a hero, but now, he is.
Book:Star Wars:The New Jedi Order-Traitor
(spoiler warning if you are reading this series)
Author-Matthew Stover
Part
It was the light in Ganner's eyes
He was <i>happy</i>
"There are <i>thousands</i> of warriors out here, " Nom Anor repeated, waving a futile fist. "You are only one man!"
"I am only one Jedi"
"Your <i>insain!</i>"
The man's answering laugh was deep and long, and bright, full of joy and freedom. "No, I am Ganner"
He spun his shining blade in a dazzlingly complex flourish that illuminated the arch around him, making it shine like a rainbow frame for the pure, animal grace of his body.
"This threshold," he announced through a happy grin, "is <i>mine</i>. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I dont give a dam" His flourish ended with the blade slanted before his chest, and his teeth flashin in the gloom.
"None shall pass."
They come at him one at a time, an endless stream, each warrior in turn charging toward honorable single combat.
Then-
They came <i>two</i> at a time.
By the time they begin to come in groups, they have to scramble over bodies of thier dead comrades to reach him. A <i>pile</i> of dead bodies.
A pile that becomes a wall, a rampart.
Ganner Ryhsode builds a fortress of the dead.
Jacen sighed. "Ganner's last stand, to bad nobody saw it.
"Nobody? You mean, nobody from the New Republic. Let me tell you of a vision I have had, " she said. "An image of the far future. It came to me through the Force sometime ago, but now have I come to understand it. In that vision, I saw a new figure in the mythology of the Yuuzhan Cong. Not a god, not a demon, but an invincible giant called <i>The Ganner</i>.
"Your kidding right?"
"Not at all. They will become to believe that Ganner, the Jedi Giant, is the Guardian who stands before the gate to the Lands of the Dead. It is Ganner, and his forever blazing band of light, who stands as an eternal gaurd, to prevent the shades of the dead from passing back through the gate, to trouble the living. Its strange, there is a arch above his head, with letters in Basic
(english in starwars)"
"In Basic? What does it say?"
"NONE SHALL PASS"
Every time I read this, it gives me shivvers. Not only did Ganner give his own life to protect someone he didnt like, he became one with the force. No, he WAS the force for a few minuites. The book described his fighting as "The dance of the Force." He was always looked down apon, he tried to make himself look like a hero, but now, he is.
Comments
"People used what they called a telephone becuase they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
<u>Slaughter House Five</u> by Kurt Vonnegut
"So it goes"
<u>Atlas Shruged</u> by Ayn rand
"So you think money is the root of all evil? . . . Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"
Favorite Quote
"America is not always in the right. What ciritcs completely ignore, however, is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the twentieth century, the United States saved the world: first from the Nazi threat, and then from Societ Totalitarianism. After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, America proceeded to rebuild both nations, and today they are close allies. Now the U.S. is heloing Afghanistan on the path to political stability and economic development. <i>Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after victory in the Cold War. And even though the United States does not have a serious military rival in the world today, America has not actied in the manner of regimes that have historically occupied this position.</i> For the most part, America is an abstaining superpower.: it shows no real interest in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. On occasion the U.S. intervenese to overthrow a tyrannical dictator or halt massive human rights abuses in another country, but it never stays in to rule that country. "
Yes, my favorite book is non-fiction politcal analysis.
What? Don't look at me like that.
Its better than a freaking star wars quote. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Ambassador to Chinese negotiators in Tom Clancy's 'The Bear And The Dragon'.
(Sorry I had to bypass the filter, just for this quote, it isnt anything bad... Just normal parts of our physiology right? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> )
What? Don't look at me like that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So was mine <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
Yep, Dilberts quote. Olny one I could think of off the top of my head.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
BTW, <span style='color:white'>***Moved.***</span> Such 'your favorite' threads are traditionally in O-T.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->"What's tatters?"<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"The Horror! The Horror!"
Joseph Conrad's - Heart Of Darkness
I like the description that Conrad gives for Kurtz's entire life, in the last remaining seconds of his life.
"America is not always in the right..." <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Patriotic indeed.
...don't go offtopic, don't go offtopic, don't go offtopic....
hell with it, Russians had just as big part in defeating Germany as USA
and not to go completely offtopic
My favourite book quote is "Now this is going to be your first day out on a strange new planet, so I want you all wrapped up snug and warm, and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters"
From Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Awesome book, reminds me of Monty Pythons <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
-John Wyndham Day Of The Triffids (First Line)
"It must be one of the race's most persistant and comforting hallucinations to trust that 'it can't happen here' - that ones own little time and place is beyond cataclysms."
-John Wyndham Day Of The Triffids (Again)
Those two are from one of the best books I have ever read.
My favourite book quote is "Now this is going to be your first day out on a strange new planet, so I want you all wrapped up snug and warm, and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters"
From Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Awesome book, reminds me of Monty Pythons <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
at least you didnt take mine.........
42!!!!!!
same book, same author, total win ^_^
<i>
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.</i>
and
<i>The enemy's gate is <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'> DOWN</span>.</i>
Tycho, is yours from Ender's Game or Ender's Shadow?
I always thought that was from Citizen Kane.
Anyway, as for mine, I'm gonna have to go with "A Prayer To Aflict The Comfortable" From Micheal Moore's "Stupid White Men":
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Dear Lord (God/Yahweh/Buddha/Bob/Nobody):
We beseech You, O merciful One, to bring comfort to those who suffer today for whatever reason You, Nature, or the World Bank has deemed appropriate. We realize, O heavenly Father, that You cannot cure all the sick at once--that would surely empty out the hospitals the good nuns have established in Your name. And we accept that You, the Omniscient One, cannot eliminate all the evil in the world, for that would surely put Thee out of a job.
&Rather, dear Lord, we ask that You inflict every member of the House of Representatives with horrible, incurable cancers of the brain, ****, and hand (though not necessarily in that order). We ask, Our Loving Father, that every senator from the South be rendered addicted to drugs and find himself locked away for life. We beseech You to make the children of every senator in the Mountain Time Zone ****--<i>really</i> ****. Put the children of senators from the East in a wheelchair and the children of senators from the West in a public school. We implore, Most Merciful One, just as You turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, that you turn the rich--<i>all</i> the rich--into paupers and homless, wiping out their entire savings, assets, and mutual funds. Remove from them their positions of power, and yea, may they walk through the valley and into the darkness of a welfare office. Condemn them to a life of flipping burgers and dodging bill collectors. Let them hear the wailing of innocents as they sit in the middle seat of row 43 in coach and let them feel the gnashing of teeth that are abcessed and rotted like the 108 million who have no dental coverage.
Heavenly Father, we pray that all white leaders (especially the alumni of Bob Jones University) who believe black people have it good these days be risen from their sleep tomorrow morning with their skin as black as a stretch limo so they may enjoy the riches and reap the bountiful fruits of being black in America. We humbly request that Your anointed ones, the bishops of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, be smitten with ovaries and unplanned pregnancies and a pamphlet about the rhythm method.
Finally , dear Lord , we call upon You to have Jack Welch swim the Hudson he has polluted, to force Hollywood's executives to sit and watch their own movies over and over, to have Jesse Helms kissed on the lips by a man of his own gender, to make Chris Matthews go mute, to let the air--quickly--out of Bill O'Reilly, and turn to ash all who are responsible for those who smoke in my office. Oh, yes, and unleash with a fury a plague of locusts to nest in the toupee of the Senate Minority Leader from the great state of Mississippi.
May You hear our prayers and grant them, O King of Kings, Who sits on high and watches over us best You can, considering what screwups we are. Grant us some relief from our misery and suffering, as we know that the men You shall smite will be swift in their efforts to rid themselves of their misfortune, which in turn may rid us of ours.
With this we pray, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy-Spirit-Who-Used-to-Be-a Ghost, Amen.
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edited to pluralise dolt, since another person was rather dim (unless of course the line was stolen from somewhere else for the Fellowship movie)
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Without consulting my library of books, I guess I could throw out a link to one of my favourite short stories instead (second only to Michael Marshall Smith's "The man who drew cats") - Haruki Murakami's <a href='http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/murakami-perfect.html' target='_blank'>On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning</a>.
Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger by Stephen King
"The man in black fled accross the desert and the gunslinger followed"
This first line captures the entire plot of the first book. Fun, is it not?
Dark Tower Series(various) by Stephen King
"I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."
This line is the ahh..best way I can put it is the creed of the gunslingers. The gunslingers are/were basically the jedi knights of this world. Their only powers were incredible survival skills, and the ability to hit whatever they aimed at with their twin .44's.
So if you ever need a good quote to bash someone with heres where you can get them <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--Gandalf+--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Gandalf)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
"Kneel, and swear fealty to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt."
Said by Mazrim Taim at the aftermath of the awesome battle of Damai's Wells. Anyone who has read the series will understand that line and why it kicks so much ****.
" he looked like the greek god of theft in the sober uniform of an austrian infantryman"
"sveijk declared that if they threw any one out of a lunatic asylum they had no right to do so with out giving him lunch"
Catch 22
mouse and 45
major major major
ex-pfc wintergreen
esssentially the whole book
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"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and throughly immoral - doctorine that 'violence never settles anythings' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Naopleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in hisory than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that have forgotten this basic truth have payed with their lives and freedoms."
"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you've ever met take sleeping pills."
"It is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished."
Above quotes from "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein. Also include all sections of the book divoted to the many History and Moral Philosophy classes (too lazy to type).
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"May you live as long as you wish, and love as long as you live."
"By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy that is dangerous to man - man himself."
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it"
"Get a shot off fast. This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect."
"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death. But there is no evidence against it eiter. Soon enough you'll know. So why fret about it?"
"A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future."
"Your enemy is never a villian in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate, and quickly."
"Cheop's law: Nothing ever gets built on time or under budget."
"Most gods have the manners of a spoiled child."
"Never appeal to a mans 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
"You can have peace, or you can have freedom. Dont count on having both at once."
"Stupidity is the only universal crime: the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity."
"Courage is the compliment of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)"
"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make a mess in the house."
"Speicalization is for insects."
"$100 placed at a 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increace to more than $100,000,000 - by which time it will be worth nothing."
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
"YOu live and learn. Or you dont live long."
"One man's 'magic' is another mans engineering."
"Never underistimate the power of human stupidity."
"Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
"Does history record any case in which the majority was right"
"A 'critic' is one who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. THere is a logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally"
"Money is truthful. If a man talks of honor, make him pay cash."
"The greatest productive force is human selfishness"
"Is it possible that the percentage of honest and competent **** is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enourmously higher than that of professors."
"Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again."
"A man does not insist on physical beauty in a woman builds up his morale. After a while he realizes that she is beautiful, he just didnt notice it at first."
"If 'everyone knows' such-and-such, then it ain't so, by atleast ten thousand to one."
"A committee is a life form wilth six or more legs and no brain."
All from "Time Enough To Love" by Heinlein
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"Its not like I'm using." ... "It's like my body's developed a major drug deficiency." It was a sprawl joke and a sprawl voice.
-"Neuromancer" by William Gibson
"Not unless you got a morbid fear of death."
-"Neuromancer"
"She'd make an excellent trophy mounted on Harkonen linnen."
-"Dune"
"TANSTAAFL*"
-"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress"
Darn you for taking the Gunslinger's Litany.
<a href='http://www.bluejo.demon.co.uk/poetry/poems/rol.htm' target='_blank'>Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came - Robert Browning</a>. The poem that inspired the Dark Tower series, which was itself based off of Eddie's poem in King Lear (look at the connections between this work and Mejis in "Wizard and Glass").
<a href='http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html' target='_blank'>The Wasteland - TS Eliot</a>
*There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Took you guys a while.
"The sky is clear, the wind is fresh, and life tastes very fine. What will you do now?"
"I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer and good works."
"No" Said Rek "I mean what will you do today?"
"Ah! Today I will get drunk and go whoring," Said Bowman
-David Gemmel 'Legend'
Took you guys a while. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
But it IS from Citizen Kane, and that was made a good while before LotR. I win.