Charting new courses to old places
…He did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart’s desire, their dream…but the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
ALL THIS IS A DREAM…. Still, examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it’s true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It’s not even coincidence. It’s just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.
Major Strasser: “What is your nationality?” Rick: “I’m a drunkard.”
(Source: hark.com)
Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that’s bad.
Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
Homer: [relieved] That’s good.
Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
Homer: [worried] That’s bad.
Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
Homer: [relieved] That’s good.
Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
Homer: [stares]
Owner: That’s bad.
(Source: snpp.com)
…every minute spent in your company becomes the new greatest minute of my life!
A man’s Buchananity is what separates him from reptiles and lawn furniture
Nathan Fillion - “Commentary! the Musical”
This is hilarious in context.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
- Oscar Wilde -