"If you talk to the animals, they will talk with you, and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them you will not know them.
And what you do not know you will fear.
What one fears, one destroys."
"Rule Number One: If you are going to vacate a chair at higher than manufacturer-recommended velocity, make sure you land on the side where your gun is."
"What is up, everyone? Hello, hello and welcome.
PPHHBBTT! Oh, the camera's on! The camera's been on the whole time, huh?
I don't even know....
.... Hello ... "
"'Good' is an infinitely recursive term—it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on."
Hope is not a way to live for the ones that make it. I'd postulate hope kills more people annually than even heart disease. I mean did any of us read the story of Pandoras Box? If so remind yourself what the last nymph to be released from the chest was. That's right it was a little fucker called Hope. Cute and reassuring sounding isn't it. This little Fuckers gonna save us from the countless other evil bastards she let loose right? NO! In the time that story was created Hope was defined as follows
Hope
n An extension of SUFFERING.
Hope is a bad SOB. It tricks people into waiting to die of illness, loose a job, wife ect all by waiting for it to do something when that was never the plan in hopes mind. I'll take a gram of self reliance then a pound of hope anyway.
Anyone can can follow the directions on the back of a box or make the same thing over and over again until you're good at it. That doesn't make you a good cook. What makes you a great cook is having all of your dishes finish at the same time. - my dad.
This has always stuck with me. It changed my whole approach in the kitchen.