The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
John Lennon

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable".
Douglas Adams

“F.U.N.
F is for fire that burns the whole town down!
U is for uranium-BOMBS!
N is for no survivors!
Down here in the deep blue sea!”
Plankton

"Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life."
- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

"Sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think?"
Jayne

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
- Oscar Wilde

I stood in-between the doorway between light and dark. What was left of my sanity implored me not to enter, but that voice was just a whisper now…
Shenro Frostwind

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
- Winston Churchill

Am I not supposed to have what I want? What I need?
What am I supposed to do?
Peter Parker

Am I not supposed to have what I want? What I need?
What am I supposed to do?
- Peter Parker

"According to convention, I am simply not what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real "me" than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is!"
Alan Watts

“Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth.
I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.”
- Gandalf

"In this still place I follow my nature, be what it may."
KrestelCat

“What's taters, precious?”
“o-ta-toes? Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew.
Lovely, big, golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.”
“(juicy spit noise)”
“Even you couldn't say no to that.”
”Oh, yes, we could! Spoil a nice fish…
Give it to us raw… and wriggling. You keep nasty chips.”
Smeagal & Sam

"The aimless life is the constant theme of Zen art of every kind, expressing the artist's own inner state of going nowhere in a timeless moment."
- Alan Watts

“Three hundred lives of men I've walked this earth, and now I have no time.”
Gandalf

“The withering of all woods…
…is drawing near.”
- Treebeard

“Not the beard!”
- Gimli

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
Confucius

"What's happening out there?"
"Shall I describe it to you?
Or would you like me to find you a box?"
Gimli & Legolas

“Will you look into the mirror?”
“What will I see?”
“Even the wisest cannot tell.
For the mirror shows many things.
Things that were…
…things that are…
…and some things…
…that have not yet come to pass.”
- Galadriel & Frodo

“I wish none of this had happened.”
“So do all who live to see such times.”
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
- Frodo & Gandalf

“Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?”
Dave "Strype" Ferris

“Oi! We’re coming too! You’ll have to send us home tied up in a sack to stop us.”
“Anyway, you need people of intelligence on this sort of…
…mission. Quest. Thing.”
“Well, that rules you out, Pip.”
- Merry & Pippin

“That still only counts as one!”
Gimi

“Bring your pretty face to my axe!”
Gimli

"Man is the only animal that blushes - or has reason to."
Mark Twain


“Does this look familiar? Do you know what it is? Neither do I… I made it last night in my sleep… I put a button on it! I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will happen if I do…”
- Goon

“There is nothing in this world so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
- Winston Churchill

“Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. “
Thomas E. Lawrence

“English doesn't borrow from other languages; English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and sifts through their pockets for loose grammar.”
- James Nicoll

"The magma has solidified in the bowels of the volcano, effectively blocking the exit."
"I get the same problem with sauerkraut."
Mole & Packard

“I have lived long enough to see the future become history… Empires crumble, there are no exceptions.”
- Dorian Grey

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, and those are very good odds."
- Maverick

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“One thing I have learned about hobbits:
They're most hardy folk.”
“Foolhardy maybe. He's a Took.”
- Aragorn & Merry


“Horse-men…
I wish I could muster a legion of Dwarves, fully armed and filthy!”
Gimli