名人名言 - 11-03-2016_120002

No. 0. Quote:
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously
-- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.
-- John Keats

No. 1. Quote:
So this is it. We're going to die.

No. 2. Quote:
So this is it. We're going to die.

No. 3. Quote:
You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.

No. 4. Quote:
It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best
judge of one.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 5. Quote:
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone
of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
-- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"

No. 6. Quote:
Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.

No. 7. Quote:
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

No. 8. Quote:
I do desire we may be better strangers.
-- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

No. 9. Quote:
"What's this? Trix? Aunt! Trix? You? You're after the prize! What
is it?" He picked up the box and studied the back. "A glow-in-the-dark
squid! Have you got it out of there yet?" He tilted the box, angling the
little colored balls of cereal so as to see the bottom, and nearly spilling
them onto the table top. "Here it is!" He hauled out a little cream-colored,
glitter-sprinkled squid, three-inches long and made out of rubbery plastic.
-- James P. Blaylock, "The Last Coin"

No. 10. Quote:
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
-- Mark Twain

No. 11. Quote:
Chicken Little only has to be right once.

No. 12. Quote:
The Priest's grey nimbus in a niche where he dressed discreetly.
I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go.
A voice, sweetened and sustained, called to him from the sea.
Turning the curve he waved his hand. A sleek brown head, a seal's, far
out on the water, round. Usurper.
-- James Joyce, "Ulysses"

No. 13. Quote:
Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Sam and Janet.
Sam and Janet who?
Sam and Janet Evening...

No. 14. Quote:
Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.

No. 15. Quote:
"You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as --"
"My blushes, Watson," Holmes murmured, in a deprecating voice.
"I was about to say 'as he is unknown to the public.'"
-- A. Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear"

No. 16. Quote:
I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;
And from that full meridian of my glory
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall,
Like a bright exhalation in the evening
And no man see me more.
-- Shakespeare

No. 17. Quote:
He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream too.
-- Lewis Carroll

No. 18. Quote:
Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?
A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!

No. 19. Quote:
Excellent day to have a rotten day.

No. 20. Quote:
Your business will go through a period of considerable expansion.

No. 21. Quote:
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man
who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that
there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 22. Quote:
You will not be elected to public office this year.

No. 23. Quote:
Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.

No. 24. Quote:
Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly.
-- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1

Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.
-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to I/O system services.]