TeaRoom Saturday 6/26/10 Fave Book Quotes?

[Chip]

Rejoice, it is another TeaDay! Celebrate by sharing what is in your cup throughout the day.

Yesterday we discussed whether we are fanatical about cleaning our teawares. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. OK, last weekend was movie quotes, this weekend will be book quotes. Do you have any fave book quotes? Please be sure to share with us.

I am looking forward to sharing this TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up!

[Chip]

Oooops. Had this in a "draft room" and forgot to move it over last night.

[Victoria]

Likely, but trouble remembering. Only poetry comes to mind at the moment.

Puttibong Queen Organic Darjeeling from Tea Emporium to start the day.

Have a nice day everyone!

[artmom]

Chip!!!!!! (Imagine me throwing my arms about you) Thank goodness you are okay! You'll never know the awful things that I was imagining could have happened to you, Mrs. Chip, daddy Chip!!!!! Please don't do that to me again!!!

I was so upset I haven't had any tea yet!

Okay, a bit dramatic, but I really was worried. I was up early, so after I checked the last time, I took a nap.

[olivierco]

Among many others:

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

Nietzsche

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.

Shakespeare

Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis,
E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem,
Non quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas
Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.

Lucretius

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

Kierkegaard

Wakamatsu no mukashi matcha (koicha) this afternoon.

[Skippyandjif]

I have so many favorite quotes that I'll only share a few here. I think I may read a bit too much...

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.

As a physics major, I love that one. (Uncertainty principle for the win!)

Louis: You burnt my little house, didn't you?

Lestat: Can you blame me? Besides, I was human when I did that. It was human weakness. Want to come and live with me?

Either the best or the worst pickup line ever. Oh, those crazy vampires...

Dear Die-ary, today I stuffed some dolls full of dead rats I put in the blender. I'm wondering if, maybe, there really is something wrong with me.

From a comic book, yes, but it is a book. And one of my favorites of all time. ^.^

This morning's tea was pu-erh with chrysanthemums.

[artmom]

As a voracious book reader since the age of 7, I have many favorite quotes. At the age of 70, I can no longer remember some of them!

However, here are a few of my favorites:

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Joseph Heller – Catch 22

I didn’t read Catch 22 until late in life—and this quote stuck in my head because of a certain loved one and his view of life

"Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."

-Anne Frank from her published Diary

One of the saddest statements I have ever read

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I find this the heart of Machiavelli’s The Prince

In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre.

- Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness

This quote sticks with me not for what it says, but for the dramatic image these words produce in my mind.

Still no tea yet today.

[karmaplace]

I said this in the last post, but I love just about anything Douglas Adams wrote. Some of my favorites are:

This planet [Earth] has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical.

"Ford," he said, "you're turning into a penguin. Stop it."

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Tea related:

He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

And, my all time favorite, as it defines me to a "t":

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I love his works way too much.

Had some banana hazelnut muffin + white chai before my 7 AM meeting today.

[Seeker]

"Three rings for the elven kings..."

Hitting my own stash of YM (after my matcha of course!)

[ladybean]

I probably do have favorite quotes, but I sure can't remember them.

I finished off the last of my chocolate black tea this morning. The brewing is getting better and better. I think I WILL order more.

[Marco]

There are thousands - remembering sometimes is the problem.

Just some of my favourite author:

Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

'Stop that!' he shouted. 'You're soldiers! You're not supposed to fight!'

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot more Science than you think.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?

and some I realy like

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I'm drowning here and you're describing the water.

Come on in, and try not to ruin everything by being you.

Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.

Today has really been a TD for me.
Started with my "water experiment" with organic sencha Oku Yutaka, some Lung Ching with lunch, afterwards a White Monkey followed by a Yasmin tea and Oolong.

[Geekgirl]

Yay Pratchett! Some of my fav quotes are from Pratchett and from Gaiman. First one that popped into my head though, was Herbert:

"Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain." (and its various incarnations throughout the series...)

[Corona]

I had my first Puerh today, http://www.jas-etea.com/products/2008-M ... m-tuo.html

More than anything, the impression I got was...smooth? Delicious none the less, only on the second steep.

I'll have to try to remember a book quote..

[TIM]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref= ... 0415948223

"....It's is the search that is important, not the goal..."

[jazz88]

Too many to mention. Here are some anyway:

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"
~Jane Austen

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
~Jane Austen

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
~Jane Austen

Anyone watched World Cup today? Golden Curls is my cup.