"This is the Weighted Companion Cube. It will accompany you for the remainder of the test."
"The Weighted Companion Cube will not threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak."
"If the Companion Cube does talk, and Aperture Science would like to take this opportunity to remind you that it cannot, please disregard it's advice"
"Congratulations on completing the test, but the weighted Companion Cube can no longer accompany you and therefore must be euthanized."
"Although the euthanizing process is remarkably painful, 8 out of 10 Aperture Science engineers believe that the Companion Cube is most likely incapable of feeling much pain."
"While it has been a faithful companion, your Companion Cube cannot accompany you through the rest of the test. If it could talk - and the Enrichment Center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot - it would tell you to go on without it because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you."
Gamers
2007/12/14
2007/10/13
2007/08/19
Blood Type Personality
This custom is said to have started in 1916 when some doctors in Japan made a medical report stating that people with Type A Blood were generally mild-tempered and intellectual, while people with Type B Blood were just the opposite. Today in Japan, blood type is popularly used as a personality-type indicator. Even though it hasn't been proven to have any scientific basis, many Japanese people believe in these distinctions to one degree or another.
Type A
Speaking broadly, it is said that people with Type A Blood are calm, composed, and very level-headed and serious. They have a firm character, and are reliable and trustworthy (and hardheaded). They think things over and make plans deliberately, and they plug away at things steadily and assiduously. They try to make themselves more like their own ideal of what they should be. A Types may look aloof or distant to others. They try to suppress their own emotions, and because they have continual practice in doing this, this makes them appear strong. But, actually, they have a fragile, nervous side, as well. They tend to be hard on people who are not of the same type, and so they consequently tend to be surrounded with people of the same temperament.
Type B
People with Type B Blood are curious about and interested in everything. That's may be good, but they also tend to have too many interests and hobbies, and they tend to get all excited about something suddenly and then later drop it again just as quickly. But they do manage to know which of their many interests or loved ones are the ones that are really important, the ones they should hold on to. B Types tend to excel in things rather than just be average. But they tend to be so involved in their own world or become so carried away with something that they neglect other things. They have the image of being bright and cheerful, full of energy and enthusiasm, but some people think that they are really quite different on the inside. And it can also be said about them that they don't really want to have much real contact with others.
Type O
Type O Blood people are said to set the mood for a group and to take on the role of creating harmony among its members. Their image is one of taking it easy, of being peaceful and carefree. They are also thought to be big-hearted and benevolent, and they tend to spend money on others generously. O Types are generally "loved by all." But, they also, surprisingly, have a stubborn and strong-willed side, as well, and tend to secretly have their own opinions on things. On the other hand, they have the flexible, adaptable side of readily accepting new things. They are easily influenced by other people or by what they see on TV. They seem to appear level-headed and trustworthy, but they often slip and make big blunders inadvertently. But that is also the point that makes O Types lovable.
Type AB
People with Type AB Blood are said to have a delicate sensitivity. They are considerate of other people's feelings and deal with them with care and caution. On the other hand, though, they are strict with themselves and those close to them. They, therefore, seem to have two personalities: one for those "outside," and another for people on the "inside." They often become sentimental, and they tend to think too deeply about things. AB Types have a lot of friends, but they need time to be alone and think things through, as well.
Blood Type A is the most common Japanese blood type. In America, Blood Type O is by far the most prevalent. In Japan, schools carry out thorough physical exams, and so the majority of Japanese people find out their own blood types from the results of these exams. Many Japanese are amazed to learn that a large number of Americans don't know their own blood types. "What's your blood type?" is a question heard much more frequently in Japan than, say, "What's your zodiac sign?" is heard in America. It is sometimes even used in casual self-introductions in informal situations.
The internationally-adored Japanese cartoon Sailor Moon, by Naoko Takeuchi, mentions the blood types of her characters several times throughout the series. Blood type is considered an important enough characteristic in Japan for Ms. Takeuchi to give the blood types of each of her characters in their profiles. For example, in one such introduction of her characters, she includes "name," "birthday," "zodiac sign," "blood type," "age," and "school name," in that order. And sure enough, the personalities of her characters conform to a large degree to these blood-type stereotypes.
Sailor Moon Character's Blood Types
Type A
Ami (Amy)
Mamoru (Darien)
Setsuna (Sailor Pluto)
Type B
Minako (Mina)
Haruka (Sailor Uranus)
Type O
Usagi (Serena)
Chibi Usa (Rini)
Makoto (Lita)
Michiru (Sailor Neptune)
Type AB
Rei (Raye)
Hotaru (Sailor Saturn)
Type A
Speaking broadly, it is said that people with Type A Blood are calm, composed, and very level-headed and serious. They have a firm character, and are reliable and trustworthy (and hardheaded). They think things over and make plans deliberately, and they plug away at things steadily and assiduously. They try to make themselves more like their own ideal of what they should be. A Types may look aloof or distant to others. They try to suppress their own emotions, and because they have continual practice in doing this, this makes them appear strong. But, actually, they have a fragile, nervous side, as well. They tend to be hard on people who are not of the same type, and so they consequently tend to be surrounded with people of the same temperament.
Type B
People with Type B Blood are curious about and interested in everything. That's may be good, but they also tend to have too many interests and hobbies, and they tend to get all excited about something suddenly and then later drop it again just as quickly. But they do manage to know which of their many interests or loved ones are the ones that are really important, the ones they should hold on to. B Types tend to excel in things rather than just be average. But they tend to be so involved in their own world or become so carried away with something that they neglect other things. They have the image of being bright and cheerful, full of energy and enthusiasm, but some people think that they are really quite different on the inside. And it can also be said about them that they don't really want to have much real contact with others.
Type O
Type O Blood people are said to set the mood for a group and to take on the role of creating harmony among its members. Their image is one of taking it easy, of being peaceful and carefree. They are also thought to be big-hearted and benevolent, and they tend to spend money on others generously. O Types are generally "loved by all." But, they also, surprisingly, have a stubborn and strong-willed side, as well, and tend to secretly have their own opinions on things. On the other hand, they have the flexible, adaptable side of readily accepting new things. They are easily influenced by other people or by what they see on TV. They seem to appear level-headed and trustworthy, but they often slip and make big blunders inadvertently. But that is also the point that makes O Types lovable.
Type AB
People with Type AB Blood are said to have a delicate sensitivity. They are considerate of other people's feelings and deal with them with care and caution. On the other hand, though, they are strict with themselves and those close to them. They, therefore, seem to have two personalities: one for those "outside," and another for people on the "inside." They often become sentimental, and they tend to think too deeply about things. AB Types have a lot of friends, but they need time to be alone and think things through, as well.
Blood Type A is the most common Japanese blood type. In America, Blood Type O is by far the most prevalent. In Japan, schools carry out thorough physical exams, and so the majority of Japanese people find out their own blood types from the results of these exams. Many Japanese are amazed to learn that a large number of Americans don't know their own blood types. "What's your blood type?" is a question heard much more frequently in Japan than, say, "What's your zodiac sign?" is heard in America. It is sometimes even used in casual self-introductions in informal situations.
The internationally-adored Japanese cartoon Sailor Moon, by Naoko Takeuchi, mentions the blood types of her characters several times throughout the series. Blood type is considered an important enough characteristic in Japan for Ms. Takeuchi to give the blood types of each of her characters in their profiles. For example, in one such introduction of her characters, she includes "name," "birthday," "zodiac sign," "blood type," "age," and "school name," in that order. And sure enough, the personalities of her characters conform to a large degree to these blood-type stereotypes.
Sailor Moon Character's Blood Types
Type A
Ami (Amy)
Mamoru (Darien)
Setsuna (Sailor Pluto)
Type B
Minako (Mina)
Haruka (Sailor Uranus)
Type O
Usagi (Serena)
Chibi Usa (Rini)
Makoto (Lita)
Michiru (Sailor Neptune)
Type AB
Rei (Raye)
Hotaru (Sailor Saturn)
2007/06/09
V's Introduction
“Viola! 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 vangaurding 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.”
- V, V for Vendetta
2007/05/17
2007/04/18
Fight Club - Chloe
“ Chloe was the genuine article.
Chloe was the way Joni Mitchell's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around a party being extra special nice to everyone. Picture Chloe's popular skeleton the size of an insect, running through the vaults and galleries of her innards at two in the morning. Her pulse a siren overhead, announcing: Prepare for death in ten, in nine, in eight seconds. Death will commence in seven, six . . .
At night, Chloe ran around the maze of her own collapsing veins and burst tubes spraying hot lymph. Nerves surface as trip wires in the tissue. Abscesses swell in the tissue around her as hot white pearls.
The overhead announcement, prepare to evacuate bowels in ten, in nine, eight, seven.
Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.
Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep backup of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.
Death will commence in five.
Five, four.
Four.
Around her, parasitic life spray paints her heart.
Four, three.
Three, two.
Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curdled lining of her own throat.
Death to commence in three, in two.
Moonlight shines in through the open mouth.
Prepare for the last breath, now.
Evacuate.
Now.
Soul clear of body.
Now.
Death commences.
Now.
Oh, this should be so sweet, the remembered warm jumble of Chloe still in my arms and Chloe dead somewhere.
Oh, this should be so sweet. For two years, Chloe's been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. Oh, the proof that one day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet. This is the amazing miracle of death, and it should be so sweet if it weren't for, oh, that one.”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Chloe was the way Joni Mitchell's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around a party being extra special nice to everyone. Picture Chloe's popular skeleton the size of an insect, running through the vaults and galleries of her innards at two in the morning. Her pulse a siren overhead, announcing: Prepare for death in ten, in nine, in eight seconds. Death will commence in seven, six . . .
At night, Chloe ran around the maze of her own collapsing veins and burst tubes spraying hot lymph. Nerves surface as trip wires in the tissue. Abscesses swell in the tissue around her as hot white pearls.
The overhead announcement, prepare to evacuate bowels in ten, in nine, eight, seven.
Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight.
Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep backup of renal fluid from her failed kidneys.
Death will commence in five.
Five, four.
Four.
Around her, parasitic life spray paints her heart.
Four, three.
Three, two.
Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curdled lining of her own throat.
Death to commence in three, in two.
Moonlight shines in through the open mouth.
Prepare for the last breath, now.
Evacuate.
Now.
Soul clear of body.
Now.
Death commences.
Now.
Oh, this should be so sweet, the remembered warm jumble of Chloe still in my arms and Chloe dead somewhere.
Oh, this should be so sweet. For two years, Chloe's been crying in my arms during hug time, and now she's dead, dead in the ground, dead in an urn, mausoleum, columbarium. Oh, the proof that one day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet. This is the amazing miracle of death, and it should be so sweet if it weren't for, oh, that one.”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
2007/04/03
Death Quotes
“If one lives intensely, the time comes when sleep means bliss. If one loves intensity, the time comes when death seems bliss.... The life I want is a life I could not endure for eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I prefer. Neither should I like not to die.... For most of us death does not come soon enough. Lives are spoiled and made rotten by the sense that death is distant and irrelevant. One lives better when one expects to die, say, at forty, when one says to oneself long before one is twenty: whatever I may accomplish, I should be able to accomplish it by then; and what I have not done by then, I am not likely to do ever. One cannot count on living until one is forty - or thirty- but it makes for a better life if one has a rendezvous with death. Not only love can be deepened and made more intense and impassioned by the expectation of impending death; all life is enriched by it.”
- Walter Kauffman, Faith Of A Heretic
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen
"Violence is as American as cherry pie."
- Rap Brown
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open to it."
- Luscius Annaeus Seneca
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell
"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."
- Horace
- Walter Kauffman, Faith Of A Heretic
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
- Woody Allen
"Violence is as American as cherry pie."
- Rap Brown
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open to it."
- Luscius Annaeus Seneca
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
- Bertrand Russell
"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow."
- Horace
2007/03/18
Revenge Quotes
"Don't get mad, get even."
- Robert F. Kennedy
"All the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. "
- Phaedrus, Fables
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
- William Shakespeare
"Sweet is revenge--especially to women."
- Lord Byron, Don Juan
"It is sweeter far than flowing honey."
- Homer, The Iliad
"At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti."
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
- Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires
"Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina."
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman
- Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires
"Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu."
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, Le Medecin Malgre Lui
- Robert F. Kennedy
"All the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours. "
- Phaedrus, Fables
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you."
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
- William Shakespeare
"Sweet is revenge--especially to women."
- Lord Byron, Don Juan
"It is sweeter far than flowing honey."
- Homer, The Iliad
"At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti."
Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
- Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires
"Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina."
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman
- Decimus Junius Juvenal, Satires
"Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu."
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
- Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, Le Medecin Malgre Lui
2007/03/04
Nature Quotes II
"Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral."
- John Burroughs
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
- Linda Hogan
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
- Rachel Carson
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour."
- William Blake
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
- John Muir
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are."
- Osho
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Kahlil Gibran
- John Burroughs
"There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story."
- Linda Hogan
"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
- Rachel Carson
"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
- Walt Whitman
"To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
An eternity in an hour."
- William Blake
"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
- John Muir
"I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are."
- Osho
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
- Kahlil Gibran
Financial Quotes
"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 work, 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 TV's 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 know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are 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 gonna 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 got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! 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!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" "
- Network 1976, Howard Beale
"There is something behind the throne greater than the king himself."
- Sir William Pitt, House of Lords 1770
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
- Benjamin Dislaeli 1844
"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
- Franklin D Roosevelt 1933
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
- Thomas Jefferson
"If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the nation's credit."
- Sir Josiah Stamp
"The Morgan interests took advantage... to precipitate the panic [of 1907] guiding it shrewdly as it progressed."
- Fredrik Allen, Life Magazine
"[Our] Great Industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit, our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activites are in the hands of a few men... Who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."
- Woodrow Wilson
"A world banking system was being set up here... A superstate controlled by international bankers...acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The Fed has usurped the government."
- Louis McFadden
"Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation."
- Charles Lindberg, 1920 Panic
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty
You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! 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!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it:
"I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" "
- Network 1976, Howard Beale
"There is something behind the throne greater than the king himself."
- Sir William Pitt, House of Lords 1770
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
- Benjamin Dislaeli 1844
"The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson."
- Franklin D Roosevelt 1933
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
- Thomas Jefferson
"If you want to remain slaves of the bankers and pay for the costs of your own slavery, let them continue to create money and control the nation's credit."
- Sir Josiah Stamp
"The Morgan interests took advantage... to precipitate the panic [of 1907] guiding it shrewdly as it progressed."
- Fredrik Allen, Life Magazine
"[Our] Great Industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit, our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activites are in the hands of a few men... Who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."
- Woodrow Wilson
"A world banking system was being set up here... A superstate controlled by international bankers...acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. The Fed has usurped the government."
- Louis McFadden
"Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation."
- Charles Lindberg, 1920 Panic
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Founder of Rothschild Banking Dynasty
2007/02/13
V For Vendetta
“I know there's no way I can convince you this is not one of their tricks, but I don't care. I am me. My name is Valerie. I don't think I'll live much longer, and I wanted to tell someone about my life. This is the only autobiography that I will ever write and God, I'm writing it on toilet paper.
I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottle Brook and she used to tell me that God was in the rain. I passed my 11 Plus and went to girls' grammar. It was at school that I met my first girlfriend. Her name was Sarah. It was her wrists. They were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew. Sarah did. I didn't.
In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me. He told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing. But I'd only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.
I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life and in 2015 I starred in my first film, The Salt Flats. It was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again. We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our window box and our place always smelt of roses. Those were the best years of my life. But America's war grew worse and worse and eventually it came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone.
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I've never cried so hard in my life. It wasn't long till they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”
- Valerie, V For Vendetta
I was born in Nottingham in 1985. I don't remember much of those early years, but I do remember the rain. My grandmother owned a farm in Tottle Brook and she used to tell me that God was in the rain. I passed my 11 Plus and went to girls' grammar. It was at school that I met my first girlfriend. Her name was Sarah. It was her wrists. They were beautiful. I thought we would love each other forever. I remember our teacher telling us that it was an adolescent phase that people outgrew. Sarah did. I didn't.
In 2002, I fell in love with a girl named Christina. That year I came out to my parents. I couldn't have done it without Chris holding my hand. My father wouldn't look at me. He told me to go and never come back. My mother said nothing. But I'd only told them the truth. Was that so selfish? Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free.
I'd always known what I wanted to do with my life and in 2015 I starred in my first film, The Salt Flats. It was the most important role of my life. Not because of my career, but because that was how I met Ruth. The first time we kissed I knew I never wanted to kiss any other lips but hers again. We moved to a small flat in London together. She grew Scarlet Carsons for me in our window box and our place always smelt of roses. Those were the best years of my life. But America's war grew worse and worse and eventually it came to London. After that there were no roses anymore. Not for anyone.
I remember how the meaning of words began to change. How unfamiliar words like "collateral" and "rendition" became frightening, while things like Norsefire and the Articles of Allegiance became powerful. I remember how "different" became dangerous. I still don't understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I've never cried so hard in my life. It wasn't long till they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses and apologized to no one. I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An inch. It is small and it is fragile and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must NEVER let them take it from us. I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the worlds turns, and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that, even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”
- Valerie, V For Vendetta
2007/02/07
Friendship Quotes
"Blessed are they with a cheery smile who stopped by to chat a while... Blessed are they that make it known that I am loved and not alone."
- Grace McDonald
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all around is dark."
- Robert Crowell
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."
- Saki H. H. Munro
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
- Woodrow Wilson
- Grace McDonald
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorous, seen plainest when all around is dark."
- Robert Crowell
"The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them."
- Saki H. H. Munro
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."
- Woodrow Wilson
2007/01/15
Fight Club
“ The insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.
I feel like crap and not relaxed at all. What’s said about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I feel. I want to destroy everything beautiful I'll never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. I want to kill all the fish I can't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'll never see.
I want the whole world to hit bottom.
I really want to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.
Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing.
I want to breathe smoke.
I want to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elign Marbles with a sledge-hammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world now.
This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead.
Drunk Drivers Against Mothers
Make Mine Veal
Recycle All the Animals”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I feel like crap and not relaxed at all. What’s said about being the crap and the slaves of history, that's how I feel. I want to destroy everything beautiful I'll never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. I want to kill all the fish I can't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'll never see.
I want the whole world to hit bottom.
I really want to put a bullet between the eyes of every endangered panda that wouldn't screw to save its species and every whale or dolphin that gave up and ran itself aground.
Don't think of this as extinction. Think of this as downsizing.
I want to breathe smoke.
I want to burn the Louvre. I'd do the Elign Marbles with a sledge-hammer and wipe my ass with the Mona Lisa. This is my world now.
This is my world, my world, and those ancient people are dead.
Drunk Drivers Against Mothers
Make Mine Veal
Recycle All the Animals”
- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
2007/01/04
Nature Quotes
"They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy."
-Star Richés
"The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is life giving and warmth giving and happiness giving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving."
-Jessi Lane Adams
"Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape."
-Jareb Teague
"I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time."
-Emily Dickinson
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?"
-Mathew Arnold
"The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian."
-Pepper Giardino
"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
-Dogen
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
-Star Richés
"The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is life giving and warmth giving and happiness giving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving."
-Jessi Lane Adams
"Sunshine has no budget, the sea no red tape."
-Jareb Teague
"I'll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time."
-Emily Dickinson
"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?"
-Mathew Arnold
"The moon is like a mystery novel, the sun like a motivational self-help book, and the stars a coffee table book of photography. The sky is the whole library, and God the librarian."
-Pepper Giardino
"The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech."
-Dogen
"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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