User:Springeragh/Wikipedian Notebook

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The Wikipedian Notebook

The Wikipedian Notebook aims to provide a collection of quotes and quotations that fellow Wikipedians enjoy . Consider yourself the commentator for the day, and construct the ultimate notebook, or just tell us what your favourite quotes are.

This page has been blatantly plagiarised from Phaedriel's beautiful Soundtrack of Wikipedians page, many thanks for the great idea. Please add your favourite lines here and share your emotions by them. —$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-¢|ε|Ŀ|T|♫-)

Just a few suggested guidelines:

  • Please limit your list to no more than 25-30 entries! You may of course post as many as you want, but other people will be unlikely to go through a list of a hundred lines.
  • List your favorite lines from movies, books, etc., and just that, please! There's no use in commenting others' selections or your own here. It's great if you wish to do so, but please, do it at the talk page instead.
  • You may or not want to post an image, either your pic or whatever you want to present yourself - that's entirely up to you—no fair use images please!
  • Please add yourself following alphabetical order. (No, the joke will not be on top!) ;) The easiest way to add your entry is to copy and paste an existing one, and then replacing the proper information with your own. Don't be afraid to mess up! This is just for fun - if you malformed your entry, somebody else will fix it later for you, don't worry.
  • If you have any doubts and/or suggestions, please contact me at my talk page. Have fun! :)


->SPRING<-eragh
  • On the wiki
    • Phædriel
      • "When a good friend and Wikipedian leaves for good, a wound that never heals opens in our hearts." —from user page
    • The Halo
      • "Thought you didn't like the way she did her hair or something." —from RfA
  • Off the wiki
    • "Dear God, what is that thing?" —Westley
    • Risky: "It is better to be rude, then wish you had been nice; than to be nice and wish you had been rude." —My gpa

My favorite quotes.
  • "Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who [still] oppose him." - J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
  • "The difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde
  • "Animals feel pain; only humans suffer." - George Weigel
  • "It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them." - Frederick Mosteller
  • "In God we trust; all others must bring data." - W. Edward Deming
  • "All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box
  • "Data are not Information; Information is not Knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom." - unknown
  • "If you are going through Hell, ...don't stop." - unknown
  • "Time is the greatest teacher. Unfortunately, it kills its students." - unknown
  • "Conventional wisdom has it, "There are no atheists in foxholes." In truth, atheists can be found even in foxholes, but often they're atheists whose deepest yearning is to be wrong." - John L. Allen, Jr.
  • "All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand." - Steven Wright
  • "You can't have everything. Where would you put it? " - Steven Wright
  • "Tradition is always a good thing, except when it is a bad thing." - Baccyak4H (tautology of the day)
  • "Music is the language of the soul." - Baccyak4H
  • "Asserting 2 + 2 = 4 is in no way discrimination against the number 5. And calling a spade a spade is in no way anti-rake bigotry." - Baccyak4H (my version of WP:DUCK)
  • "The problem with politicians? Politicians on the left think they're God's gift to the world; politicians on the right just think they're God." - Baccyak4H
  • "Sometimes the hardest thing in life is telling the difference between being in a groove and being in a rut." - Baccyak4H
  • "How come saying you have no comment is indeed a comment, but saying you have no excuse is not an excuse?" - Baccyak4H
  • "Why is it that whenever anyone gives you their two cents' worth, they never charge for it?" - Baccyak4H


Hereford steer :)
  • Off the wiki... random quotes from movies, musicians, etc that either make me laugh, or are inspiring, relevant, etc.
    • "Dear God, what is that thing?" —Westley
    • "It's difficult to watch somebody deteriate"- Gerard Way
    • "This may be the most important moment of your life. Commit to it." V from V for Vendetta
    • "... for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are immortal." From Madeleine L'engle's A Wrinkle In Time
    • "If for one minute you think you're better than a sixteen-year-old girl in a Green Day t-shirt, you are sorely mistaken. Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about." -Gerard Way.
    • "The Black Parade's only got two songs left, but next up is My Chemical Romance. If you're asking me, which you aren't, but anyhow, I think they're horrible dressers. And their language is atrocious."- yet another by Gerard Way.
    • "Just make sure when others ask you why you were praying at a pole, you tell them, and not cover up or be embarrassed! You know, like... oh, that was the other prayer group." (See You At The Pole leader). "Yeah... 'NO! We were See You At The OTHER Pole!" (Me)

And that's all I can think of... how pathetic of me :)
The Halo's hat
  • "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
  • "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
  • "No human thing is of serious importance." - Plato
  • "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" - Nelson Mandela.
  • "An eye for an eye, and the whole world is blind." - Gandhi
  • "In a revolution, one triumphs or dies." - Che Guevara
  • "A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx
  • "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Cheif Seattle
  • "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action, how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me - nor women neither." - William Shakespeare.

  • "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
  • "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man" - Che Guevara
  • "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell
  • "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
  • "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole
  • "When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame." - Dan Quayle
  • "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F Kennedy
  • "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
  • "The trees are watching... and they are hungry." - Tree Biting Conspiracy