- 2 days
“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”.
2 days“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”
- Lucy Parsons
“Elaine, if I’d a knowed that you’d a wanted to went, I’d a seen that you’d a got to get to go.”
- wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish2 days
Somewhat famously this line (the entire soliloquy actually) was improvised by Rutger Hauer in the moment, so not strictly written down. Just taking the piss mate, best fucking movie ever!
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“He who fights monsters must see that he doesn’t become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I hate how often I see this quote without attribution.
Also: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ummm
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger."
Yeah, that’s Kelly Clarkson, m’kay?
“I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that’s how much faith I have in humanity.”
- 2 days
I live on a one way street. The amount of vehicles that zoom by in the wrong direction is ridiculous
- neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
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.
It has not been written yet. But it will be soon. Look in the obituary sections.
“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.
- 3 days
"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.
