Topic: OOC Edutainment - Our Own Little "Game"

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-03-31 08:26 EST
It would seem we need a harmless pastime of OOC silliness to be a complete forum so I have arrived at one that I think is amusing and enjoyable and edifying all in one:

Quotes.

I've noticed a proliferation of really great quotes on the website and since I collect them to decorate my office door with and to challenge Composition students to write something intelligible with, I would love to see a place to contain them. In addition, I find it satisfying to flesh out my characters as much as possible (as I'm sure the rest of you do as well) so I thought it might add an element if when you post a quote you explain what character it made you think about, or what character experience you think it links too.



I hope everyone finds this as enjoyable as I most assuredly will.

Angelica Rose

Date: 2010-03-31 08:29 EST
You know the saying, "I only look Sweet and innocent?"

That applies to Angelica considering people are FOREVER underestimating her based on her looks.

The one I'm using on the profile is a play on her middle name.

:twisted:

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-03-31 08:31 EST
Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

This one made me think of Oedipa = our resident innocent intellectual.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-03-31 08:32 EST
The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.

Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American Sociologist

And this one inspires thoughts of Aolani, Resident Seductress and Aukai, Resident Seducer.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-03-31 08:37 EST
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

OR

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

Arkon Daraul, Resident A-Type Personality or Megalomaniac

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-03-31 08:39 EST
I love it Angelica. Very fitting in fact ;) But, I've wasted more time than I should have this morning. I mean who really needs to prep for a lecture?

Angelica Rose

Date: 2010-03-31 08:52 EST
Might as well start this off with a bigger Bang...

"When one relies on sight to perceive the world, it is like trying to stare at the galaxy through a crack in the door." -Kreia (Wookiepedia)

I use this one on a blind Jedi.

These next two I got from Sherrilyn Kenyon. Big fan here...

"Sometimes it takes things going wrong before they go right." ~ Acheron
"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should." ~Acheron

I think they are self explanatory, especially with my characters... Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. You can probably have a field day with that one.

Personal quote here...
"If it wasn't for Bad luck, I'd have no luck."

This last one was from my days in the group Noble House Uth Dravon back on AOL...

"It is not power itself, but the legitimation of the lust for power, which corrupts absolutely." ~RHS Crossman

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-03-31 22:21 EST
Awesome idea, Sat! Love it! Here's a random assortment...

For Aolani:

"?for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover."
Louisa May Alcott

?Maybe?you?ll fall in love with me all over again.?
?Hell,? I said, ?I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me??
?Yes. I want to ruin you.?
?Good,? I said. ?That?s what I want too.?
Ernest Hemingway

"I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon."
Arthur Golden

For the Mistress of the Shade:

"Everything is more beautiful because we?re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
Homer

"But who can remember pain, once it?s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind."
Margaret Atwood

For the Sovereigns:

?Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price?
Jean Baudrillard

"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
Cormac McCarthy

?Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.?
D.H. Lawrence

"People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don?t dream at all."
John Steinbeck

To Aukai, who can lure in anyone...

?He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced?or seemed to face?the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself."
Fitzgerald

And general quotes, perfect for a myriad of different characters and situations:

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."
Yann Martel

"Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven."
John Milton

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
Oscar Wilde

And last, but not least:

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Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-04-01 13:10 EST
These are all so gorgeous and wonderful I don't even know where to begin! Wow. Now I'm going to have to contemplate putting all of them in my profile, ::LAUGHS!::

Jenillisa Darvin

Date: 2010-04-01 17:14 EST
Oedipa, those are wonderful! I just don't know which one I should snag! ;-)

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-04-06 11:59 EST
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. ~Ezra Pound

I love both the ones you picked out Oedipa and have decided to add them to my profile.

Thank you m'dear. And awesome writing. I would love to see more.

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-04-06 18:16 EST
"Death is a black camel that kneels at everyone's gate." ~ Somali proverb

I may have to create a new character just so I can use this as his/her signature!

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-04-06 21:36 EST
One of my favorite quotes: "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." (Maugham) ;)

And oh man... I love Ezra Pound, even if he was crazy... (I'm a sucker for Modernist poets).

"This is the time
of the tragic man
that lies in the house of Bedlam."
Elizabeth Bishop, "Visits to St. Elizabeths"

Some others I've stumbled across:

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less, but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust

"Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance."
Mary Shelley

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I?ve a call."
Sylvia

"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."
Goethe

And a poem:

"Under One Small Star"

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all.
Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.
May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade.
My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.
My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first.
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger.
I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths.
I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m.
Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time.
Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.
And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage,
your gaze always fixed on the same point in space,
forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed.
My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs.
My apologies to great questions for small answers.
Truth, please don't pay me much attention.
Dignity, please be magnanimous.
Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train.
Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then.
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once.
My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man.
I know I won't be justified as long as I live,
since I myself stand in my own way.
Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,
then labor heavily so that they may seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Baranczak and Cavanagh

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-04-09 13:07 EST
Again, I'm not sure who this would apply to, but it was too awesome to pass up:

"Yield, and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend?. ~ Tao Te Ching

Yejix Zabiru

Date: 2010-04-09 14:10 EST
-Invades, noms Riley, then offers a quote-

Translated from Ouexazi Dialect Taeran

"Insanity is nature's way of letting you know you aren't alone on this godforsaken planet." ~ Yejix Zabiru, to Stiles Mornay.

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-04-11 11:00 EST
This is an OOC one but I heard it last night at work and it immediately made me think of Grar and Sat: "Love is a friendship with erotic moments."

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-04-14 13:41 EST
"O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites!"

Othello, Shakespeare.

For Meleigh

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-04-14 13:44 EST
For Me:

" . . . slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath,
Rides on the posting winds and doth belie
All corners of the world."

Cymbaline, William Shakespeare.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-04-17 00:53 EST
Love this thought:

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Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-04-22 16:55 EST
Thank you Lani, I totally agree with that quote and even used it in class this week.

I like "however vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." It seems fitting in terms of what the Shaitan are meant to be: the absence of light.

After a week's discussion on the meaning of Romance a student wisely proclaimed that true romance is spelled: T-I-M-E.

Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Benjamin Franklin
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-04-22 18:45 EST
Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.


Ooh. From Ri to Lani. (Granted, it wasn't years...but the sentiment remains the same.)

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-04-23 22:46 EST
I do like that quote for Riley and Aolani. It is very powerful.

Here's one that speaks to my current state of mind:

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

Arkon Daraul

Date: 2010-04-23 22:53 EST
A rather decorous elucidation in regards to Arkon's origin.

"Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment."

Thomas Otway

Jessica

Date: 2010-04-24 05:33 EST
Red Dwarf is where a great deal of inspiration for some of the off the wall things Jessica is prone to saying came from. This is one of my favorite bits.

RIMMER: So, let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the King of the Potato People and plead with him for your freedom, and you're telling me you are completely sane?! I think that warrants 2 hours of W.O.O.
LISTER: What's W.O.O?
CAT: You had to ask.
RIMMER: With ... out ... oxygen. No oxygen for 2 hours. That will teach you to be bread baskets.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-05-01 12:33 EST
And no not a character comment but a thinker:

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults. ~Thomas Szasz

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-05-02 13:12 EST
?For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.?

Molly Haskell.

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-05-02 13:13 EST
?For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.?
Molly Haskell.

Absolutely brilliant, Lani-Bananai!

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-05-02 13:15 EST
And if we're positing OOC quotes, here is a personal favorite for those who deny the eroticism of life and breathe censorship:

?To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.?

William Rotsler.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-05-04 21:39 EST
Universal!

?Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.?
- Oscar Wilde

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-05-12 10:47 EST
"Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying, in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved." Alain De Botton

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-05-12 23:31 EST
"Decisions are never really made ? at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery."
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

"He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering."
- Visions of the Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

"People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know."
- My Mortal Enemy, Willa Cather

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
- The Book of Lies, Aleister Crowley

"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That?s how the world is going to end."
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Riley ORourke

Date: 2010-05-12 23:34 EST
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

Ooh. I like this one, rather a lot.

Tiatari

Date: 2010-05-25 17:34 EST
"Every day man crucifies himself between two thieves--fear of tomorrow and regrets of yesterday." --Benjamin Disraeli

Baby Ice

Date: 2010-05-27 15:56 EST
I was looking for a quiote for Icesong....

but i found this and thought of Aukai.


"But seduction isn?t making someone do what they don?t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already. " Waiter Rant

Baby Ice

Date: 2010-05-27 16:02 EST
"The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence".
Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764

what do you think of this one?

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-06-11 13:00 EST
In honor of the World Cup:

"I have 23 wildcats prepared to leave their skins on the pitch."
? Argentina Coach Diego Maradona, getting into the animal spirit of Africa. (The language associated with Futbol has to be one of my most favorite vernaculars)

"They must be clever and forget their ego to realize that the only thing that matters is the team, not them. If they don't understand that, I will need a gun."
? France Coach Raymond Domenech, talking to L'Equipe about player humility. (My favorite and most applicable to roleplaying)

"You didn't see any cows walking around at the hotel in Germany."
? American midfielder DaMarcus Beasley, telling the Washington Post how different the U.S. team's accommodations are in rural South Africa compared with the team's hotel in Hamburg in 2006. (Too adorable, he better be thinking about tomorrow's game and not the cows however, Watch out for Rooney!)

"I don't play alone, and I can't perform miracles."
? Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's most expensive player, shifting the blame ahead of the game. (Unless they win and then he did it alone and he did perform a miracle)

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2010-06-13 19:58 EST
Cristiano Ronaldo or however you spell his name shouldn't make me think of Aukai, all arrogant perfection ::Grin::


Re-reading some classics and Shelley's Cenci is once again giving me all sorts of fodder for the evil that exists in men:

All men delight in sensual luxury,
All men enjoy revenge; and most exult
Over the tortures they can never feel?
Flattering their secret peace with others? pain.


Anyone want to claim this one?

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-06-15 14:12 EST
That is surely an Austorc quote.

The Cenci is a wonderful look at the tyrannical evil of man, though I have a difficult time with Shelley's overarching demands. For a man so incredibly convinced in universal themes and enlightenment he surely had issues in his personal life. While I commend his search for a Promethean Hero as an answer to his era's need for a hero on the scale of Milton's Satan, I have never mucked my way through a more painfully boring work than Prometheus Unbound.

If you want evil on a less grandiose and lyrical scale you really should read the Duchess of Malfi. Still one of my favorites.

Some fellows, they say, are possessed with the devil,
but this great fellow were able to possess the greatest
devil, and make him worse.
The Duchess of Malfi, Act I, Scene i.

For our Lord of the Shaitan, Drakul Lothcar.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-08-02 11:44 EST
I think this sums it up nicely:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Thank you Lewis Carroll

L'loris Ondyn

Date: 2010-08-09 12:04 EST
"Some people have all the substance of a fart."

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-09-05 11:05 EST
"You can't depend upon your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."

Marc Twain.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-09-20 12:29 EST
"You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated." - Maya Angelou

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-09-22 20:48 EST
I know I haven't been around much (alas, lurking), but here I am, offering only a bunch of quotes from one of my favorite novels:

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud..."

"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed, hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see the God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."

"All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive."

"That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?"

"If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"

(all quotes from Life of Pi, Yann Martel)

L'loris Ondyn

Date: 2010-09-28 13:13 EST
"That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?"
I love the Life of Pi.

Great quotes. You should try reading Maxine Hong Kingston's The Warrior Woman. Most people who like one enjoy the other.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2010-09-28 20:51 EST
Great quotes. You should try reading Maxine Hong Kingston's The Warrior Woman. Most people who like one enjoy the other.

Sign me up as "most people," 'cause I love that book as well -- one of the few college texts that got a reread or two in the aftermath of academia. :grin:

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-10-25 19:03 EST
In an intense study of writing, Roland Barthes(a French theorist) wrote The Pleasure of the Text. While extremely difficult to read for all of the academic prose and references to psychoanalysts, critics, theorists, philoophers, writers, et al., his position on the act of writing as an act of erotica is fascinating:

"The generalized definition of the 'grain' of writing us hear in their materiality, their sensuality, the breath, the gutturals, the fleshiness of the lips, a whole preesence of the human muzzle (that the voice, that writing, be as fresh, supple, lubricated, delicately granular and vibrant as an animal's muzzle), to succeed in shifting the signified a great distance and in throwing, so to speak, the anonymous body of the actor into my ear; it granulates, it crackles, it caresses, it grates, it cuts, it comes: that is bliss."

Quillyan Daewen

Date: 2010-11-05 22:32 EST
"Voil?! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-11-11 01:24 EST
"Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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."
The Critic as Artist, Oscar Wilde

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-11-11 01:31 EST
Oscar Wilde quotes shared due to this exchange today in class:

"But Professor, I don't want anybody else to read my writing."

"We will be peer-editing next class. This is good for you, it... and... and...." (Cutting explanations for brevity)

"But what if we write about something personal?"

"I wouldn't suggest committing to paper anything you wouldn't want anybody else to read."

"But, I only know how to write about myself."

"Well there is the old adage, write what you know. One could easily argue that all good writing comes from personal expression--"

"But then it's private...." Wailed.

So after an entire discussion that went on and on and finally culminated in my gentle encouragement to be proud of who you are, share only what you're comfortable with sharing, etc. I was left with this Oscar Wilde quote floating around in my head:

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde

Aukai

Date: 2010-11-11 01:54 EST
Let's (Voltaire) it up!

It is not enough to conquer; one must know how to seduce. (Voltaire)

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. (Voltaire)

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. (Voltaire)

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. (Voltaire )

The ear is the avenue to the heart. (Voltaire)

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext. (Voltaire)

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-11-23 15:07 EST
I think we need a little Jung up in here:

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Blizzard Vaughn

Date: 2010-11-24 11:58 EST
A quote that portrays Blizzard's way of thinking.


?A mind is like a parachute. If it doesn't open, you're f-ed!? - Don Williams, Jr

Scorched Druid

Date: 2010-11-29 20:29 EST
I must say, these are some grand quotes you all use to define your creations. So I'll offer this...

"Arrogance and Ignorance walk hand-in-hand as children of the Fool." - an original.

Tiatari

Date: 2010-11-30 15:54 EST
Sounds kinda Metallica-y.

;)

NO MORE!!!
The crap rolls out your mouth again
Haven't changed, your brain is still gelatin
Little whispers circle around your head
Why don't you worry about yourself INSTEAD!!!

Who are you? where ya been? where ya from?
Gossip burning on the tip of your tongue
You lie so much you believe yourself
Judge not l'est ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

Before you judge me take a look at you
Can't you find something better to do
Point the finger, slow to understand
Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

It's not you are it's who you know
Others lives are the basis of your own
Burn your bridges and build them back with wealth
Judge not l'est ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

Yeah who the hell are you?
Hey yo

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

NOT!!!


A personal fave. ;)

Nicholai

Date: 2010-11-30 19:03 EST
One thing that caught me with the Cruxshadows is the seemingly dark group with a high energy sound and positive message

Birthday
The Cruxshadows

Roll out of bed, look in the mirror
And wonder who you are
Another year has come and gone
Today is your birthday
But it might be the last day of your life
What will you do if tomorrow it's all gone?

You won't be young forever
There's only a fraction to the sum
You won't be young forever
Nor will anyone

So...
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, what do you want to do?
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, you haven't got forever

And tell me what really matters
Is it the money and the fame?
Or how many people might eventually know your name?
But maybe you touch one life
And the world becomes a better place to be
Maybe you give their dreams another day
Another chance to be free

You won't be young forever
There's only a fraction to the sum
You won't be young forever
Nor will anyone

So...
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, what do you want to do?
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, you haven't got forever

Happy birthday
Happy birthday (x4)


You won't be young forever
There's only a fraction to the sum
You won't be young forever
Nor will anyone

So...
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your, what do you want to do? (Look at your life)
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, it all comes back to you. (Look at your life) (x3)

Quillyan Daewen

Date: 2010-12-01 21:21 EST
Quilly's no Holden Caulfield, but this quote ain't half-bad:

?I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.?

Draxcilian Khaul

Date: 2010-12-04 09:47 EST
Strength is rarely witnessed in the strong, but often seen in those who triumph over weakness. ~ Draxcilian Khaul

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-12-05 16:42 EST
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Satariel Shah

Date: 2010-12-20 13:57 EST
For Dragidar:

"Nor have I seen a mightier man-at-arms on this earth than the one standing here: unless I am mistaken, he is truly noble. This is no mere hanger-on in a hero's armour." (Beowulf 244-251)

Mystriana DeSabre

Date: 2010-12-21 00:26 EST
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

For my profile. :GRIN: Btw you all have mail.

Mystriana DeSabre

Date: 2010-12-21 00:35 EST
Oh! And I liked this one as well:

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn

Fleur Rousseau

Date: 2011-02-04 13:14 EST
He?s splitting me open, I thought. He?ll break me and then I?ll die.
She's Come Undone,
Wally Lamb

For Fleur Rousseau

HowlingMoon

Date: 2011-02-07 00:10 EST
This one I feel applies to Saph as she's really a contradiction in so many ways once you get past that shy demeanor. Demure and fierce, gentle and crazy enough to kill hapless bunnies.

"And what if I'm a snowstorm burning
What if I'm a world unturning
What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep
What if I'm the kindest demon
Something you may not believe in " ~ Emilie Autumn, 'What if'

I know it's a song but I find it brilliant

Vliss Arcanum

Date: 2011-02-09 00:01 EST
I love it!

Quotes I've found that I adore:

From one of my favorite poets EVER:
For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.?
Christina G. Rossetti quotes (English Poet. 1830-1894)
For Saphira and Mystriana.

I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
MOON PALACE, PAUL AUSTER
For Vliss and Damien

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, JANE AUSTEN
Quillyan

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
SPINDLE?S END, ROBIN MCKINLEY
Blizzard and Alaric

Angelica Rose

Date: 2011-02-09 06:44 EST
?If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.? Unknown
Damien's relationship with his friends and family

?Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you're just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky his is to have you.... The one who turns to his friends and says, 'that's her.'? Unknown

?I don't pretend to know what love is for everyone, but I can tell you what it is for me; love is knowing all about someone, and still wanting to be with them more than any other person, love is trusting them enough to tell them everything about yourself, including the things you might be ashamed of, love is feeling comfortable and safe with someone, but still getting weak knees when they walk into a room and smile at you.? Unknown
Damien & Vliss

?One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.? Unknown
Damien on the bond between Vliss and Brais before things progressed.

?Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves? Joseph Addison

?Jealousy is a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart? Unknown
Quillyan

?Go around asking a lot of damn fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.?Unknown
Albion

?Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.? Terry Pratchet
Natolii and the Covenant members as a whole ;)

(Credit - http://thinkexist.com/quotations/)

Angelica Rose

Date: 2011-02-09 07:01 EST
Some really bad humor from one of the series I read. Dark hunters by Sherilyn Kenyon

Fang (Were-Hunter): "Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud?"
Acheron (Atlantean God/Dark Hunter)"No, thanks. The last thing I want to catch is parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants."

And here is some more interesting Quotes:

"The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell." - Savitar
Vliss

"Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not." - Devereaux Peltier in regards to the dark Huntress Samia Savage

Damien & Vliss

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-02-11 13:07 EST
Love them all!

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown

Whoever said this is a fucking idiot.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-02-18 09:14 EST
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay



Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~Jean Giraudoux



Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine


As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you. ~Toto

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-02-20 11:49 EST
Don't get so caught up on a goal that you lose sight of what a goal is for:

?Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.? Anthony Robbins

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-02-25 08:19 EST
The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

Bryn Barron

Date: 2011-02-26 10:05 EST
Three from Camus:

?Life can be magnificent and overwhelming ? that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.?

?Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.?

?In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.?

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-03-02 12:22 EST
I love that last one Bryn.

"An invincible summer within." I'm so going to use that as a title of something.

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww'"-- On the Road--Jack Kerouac


For Angelica:

"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
- from Jane Eyre

For the Pious Violette:

"Carmen hated the 'life is too short' rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because 'life is too short not to,' you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it."
? Ann Brashares

For my Husband:

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
? Alfred Lord Tennyson

And another on Writing:

"Let that be the poetry we search for: worn with the hand's obligations, as by acids, steeped in sweat and in smoke, smelling of the lilies and urine, spattered diversely by the trades that we live by, inside the law or beyond it.

A poetry impure as the clothing we wear, or our bodies, soup-stained, soiled with our shameful behavior, our wrinkles and vigils and dreams, observations and prophecies, declarations of loathing and love, idylls and beasts, the shocks of encounter, political loyalties, denials and doubts, affirmations and taxes.

The holy canons of madrigal, the mandates of touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing, the passion for justice, sexual desire, the sea sounding---willfully rejecting and accepting nothing: the deep penetration of things in the transports of love, a consummate poetry soiled by the pigeon's claw, ice-marked and tooth-marked, bitten delicately with our sweatdrops and usage, perhaps. Till the instrument so restlessly played yields us the comfort of its surfaces, and the woods show the knottiest suavities shaped by the pride of the tool. Blossom and water and wheat kernel share one precious consistency: the sumptuous appeal of the tactile.

Let no one forget them. Melancholy, old mawkishness impure and unflawed, fruits of a fabulous species lost to the memory, cast away in a frenzy's abandonment---moonlight, the swan in the gathering darkness, all hackneyed endearments: surely that is the poet's concern, essential and absolute.

Those who shun the "bad taste" of things will fall flat on the ice."

-- 'Towards an Impure Poetry' by Pablo Neruda.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-03-05 22:50 EST
Continuing with the Pablo Neruda:


Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

but this, in which there is no I, or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.



Poetry

And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.

I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-03-07 10:03 EST
I love Pablo Neruda!

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
I may have to steal this for Tasha Van Blaudin and the North Wind.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-03-08 21:04 EST
So, I was researching Mark Twain quotes to force my students into writing, and I came across some good ones:

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

And my favorite, that had me a-pondering...

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-03-18 13:30 EST
One cannot go wrong with Twain.

Another great, Kate Chopin, from The Awakening:

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant . .
For Cadence

Mystriana DeSabre

Date: 2011-03-25 17:30 EST
For Mystri

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it?s much the same.
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

Natolii

Date: 2011-03-30 21:28 EST
Just because it strikes me as fitting...

Delphine: You must have such a great childhood with a man like that for your father.

Jericho: Yeah. All puppy dogs and rainbows and those weird furry people with padded coat hangers on their heads that look like space aliens on acid.

Berith: You mean Teletubbies?

Jericho: The Fact that you know what they're called, Berith, truly scares me.

Berith: As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You'd be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies.

Jericho: Not really. I'de rather battle a brain-zombie any day than hear them sing.

Delphine: You are both sick individuals...

~Dream Warrior by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2011-04-01 18:20 EST
From the great bard:

"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.?

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-04-29 15:17 EST
I?d cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell


For Tasha:
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

- Naguib Mahfouz

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-05-20 00:36 EST
"Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don't blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being "in love", which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
? Louis de Berni?res (Captain Corelli's Mandolin)



Does anyone ever roleplay this kind of love?

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-05-29 22:58 EST
Of the heart and mind...

?What is pushed to the back of the mind makes its way forward somehow. Ghosts can be very fierce and instructive. They cast strange shadows? ?
Flannery O?Connor

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Mary Shelley

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality."
Shirley Jackson

"Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it?s much the same."
Margaret Atwood

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
Homer

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-05-29 23:20 EST
Just realized that Mystri already posted the Atwood quote. Great minds, I guess. :smile:

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-06-07 13:44 EST
I love the Atwood quote. So apt. So beautiful. So terrible.

Loves me some David Eddings:


"What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
"Brill," Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on.
"Again?" Belgarath demanded with exasperation. "What was he doing this time?"
"Trying to fly, last time I saw him." Silk smirked.
The old man looked puzzled.
"He wasn't doing it very well," Silk added.
Belgarath shrugged. "Maybe it'll come to him in time."
"He doesn't really have all that much time." Silk glanced out over the edge.
From far below - terribly far below - there came a faint, muffled crash; then, after several seconds, another. "Does bouncing count?" Silk asked.
Belgarath made a wry face. "Not really."
"Then I'd say he didn't learn in time." Silk said blithely."
? David Eddings (Magician's Gambit)


"I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed.

I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have."
? David Eddings (Queen of Sorcery)


"I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk"
? David Eddings


"My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen"
? David Eddings

Misty

Date: 2011-06-07 19:39 EST
*Loveloveloves the David Eddings!!!*

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-06-15 10:06 EST
?Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.?

Shel Silverstein

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-06-15 10:10 EST
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

So where does that leave Fleur if Brais continually surprises her?


Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
~Oscar Wilde

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-06-17 11:43 EST
I do believe Sir Arthur might have taken issue with a great many of the students of the IAP (most notably Ivinia perhaps?):

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man. Where the real sex feeling begins, timidity and distrust are its companions, heritage from old wicked days when love and violence went often hand in hand.

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For Veronique and Leda, I can so hear Veronique saying this to her:

"Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance."

A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde


And for the Shaitan in general:

"Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease."

Adam Bede by George Eliot

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-07-16 10:42 EST
?People say that what we?re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don?t think that?s what we?re really seeking. I think that what we?re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.? -- Joseph Campbell, "The Power of Myth."

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-07-16 10:50 EST
I thought it was too funny not to share:

Women are angels...and when you break off our wings we continue to fly. Usually on broomsticks..we're flexible like that. - Anonymous.

Leda

Date: 2011-07-16 11:04 EST
I love that quote! Not much makes me properly guffaw out loud - that did!

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2011-07-20 17:36 EST
Margaret Atwood, "Siren's Song"

"This is the one song everyone
would like to learn: the song
that is irresistible:

the song that forces men
to leap overboard in squadrons
even though they see beached skulls

the song nobody knows
because anyone who had heard it
is dead, and the others can?t remember.
Shall I tell you the secret"?

Aolani...Secret Keeper and Sierene.

Arkon Daraul

Date: 2011-07-20 21:40 EST
Dead on.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-07-22 11:37 EST
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
- Jean Genet

Aolani Malvlasta

Date: 2011-07-24 10:11 EST
"Make it dirty, make it clean, make it quick, make a scene..." Jace Everett.

With Wicked Intent

Date: 2011-07-28 14:24 EST
Seriously?

With all the dark, dastardly types of characters here, this quote did not make it in to the last seven pages?

All right, then, I guess I'll be the one to do it.

This one (particularly the last part) goes out to just about everyone involved in the Covenant and the IAP.

"He who does battle with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not himself become a monster...and when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

EVERY time I read this quote I get chills.

With Wicked Intent

Date: 2011-07-28 14:29 EST
And while we're on Nietzche, this one sums up just about the entirety of Jacen's life, from birth until now.

This should give Bryn's player a little more insight into him, since she was asking some interesting questions the other night.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-08-09 12:03 EST
Blame Facebook for making me crack open the little thin book that sat next to my monitor completely overlooked for awhile now.

"-the French have a vocabulary of eroticism, an amorous discourse which smells neither of the laboratory nor of the sewer, which just--attentively, scrupulously--puts the facts. In English, we have either the coarse or the clinical, and by tradition our words for our pleasures, even for the intimate parts of our bodies where we may take those pleasures, come awkwardly when they come at all. So that if we wish to speak of the kind of pleasure we take--the supreme pleasure, say, associated with sexuality at its most abrupt and ruthless pitch--we lack the terms acknowledged and allowed in polite French utterance; we lack jouissance and jouir. " --Richard Howard, Foreward of Roland Barthes' The Pleasure of the Text.

It's not just that the language is pretty...it's that even the context is prettier.

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-09-11 10:17 EST
?I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.?
? Margaret Atwood, Variations on the Word Love

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-09-11 10:19 EST
?Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping, waiting and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir - open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us - guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love, the clarity of hatred, the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we?d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion - we?d be truly dead.?
? Joss Whedon

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-09-11 10:27 EST
For Margot:

?She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.?
? Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)

Satariel Shah

Date: 2011-11-10 13:14 EST
Absence makes the heart grow fonder....?


Or it just makes me a whiny little witch.

OedipaLydia

Date: 2011-11-23 19:21 EST
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre