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Off-Topic / Do you know some funny/sarcastic anti-quotes?
« on: February 11, 2016, 03:30:47 pm »
Hello folks,
I recently started doing some bookbinding as a hobby and now want to start a small project. The project consists of unusual quotes being illustrated (nice fonts, cool backgrounds, merged together, etc.) and then printed and binded into a hardcover book. Since I dislike all those hipster-inspirational-deep-shit quotes (see examples), I want to take a different approach and use unusual quotes from films, games or interesting people, it might not be that serious of a content. I have already collected some, but I need at least 12-20 to actually have enough content for a book. Quotes should have an author (game character, film character, real person etc., not "unknown" or "old chinese saying") and have "one line" (game quotes tend to need situation explanation or are more a conversation, which makes it harder to illustrate).
You can find the ones I already plan to use inside the spoiler:
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Zitate
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This is where you might help. If you know any cool quotes which might fit my criteria, feel free to post them. I would be happy for any help!
I recently started doing some bookbinding as a hobby and now want to start a small project. The project consists of unusual quotes being illustrated (nice fonts, cool backgrounds, merged together, etc.) and then printed and binded into a hardcover book. Since I dislike all those hipster-inspirational-deep-shit quotes (see examples), I want to take a different approach and use unusual quotes from films, games or interesting people, it might not be that serious of a content. I have already collected some, but I need at least 12-20 to actually have enough content for a book. Quotes should have an author (game character, film character, real person etc., not "unknown" or "old chinese saying") and have "one line" (game quotes tend to need situation explanation or are more a conversation, which makes it harder to illustrate).
You can find the ones I already plan to use inside the spoiler:
[spoiler]
Zitate
Quote
"A-Poc-Key-Lips. I think I found my new favorite word!"
Deadpool
Quote
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Quote
Alright, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?! Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down – with the lemons!
Cave Johnson, Portal 2 (Game)
Quote
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,
"I'm as mad as hell,
and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
Howard Beale, Network (Film)
Quote
GET TO DA CHOPPA
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predator (Film)
Quote
I have often been told to be bold, and take the bull by the horns, but, as I rather think that the amusement is more pleasant than profitable, I shall leave it to those who are so cracked already that an ugly poke with a horn would not damage their skulls.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Quote
„…“
Gordon Freeman
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This is where you might help. If you know any cool quotes which might fit my criteria, feel free to post them. I would be happy for any help!