The Quote Wall: things heard along the way

Attitudes are contagious things - that is both wonderful and dismal depend on which you are exposed to!

"It's precisely because I've known darkness that I wouldn't wish on anybody that I insist on trying to light candles" weret hekau as a birthday (her birthday) gift to her readers.

"Wormtongue does evil retail, Sauron is a wholesaler" - Shelby while watching the LotR Two Towers DVD set.

"Blessings on the walking bones of Saint Jen the one-armed" - Lou & Amanda coming home to a pre-warmed house.

"She's like a bad fifties safety film"

"If I can't find girl gamers, I'll breed them" - Steven about his daughter

"It's a competitive game. You're supposed to kill each other. Just don't fight about it!"
- instructing young boys on how to play Risk.

"oh I do like adventures...I like the ones that end with dry boots the best though"
- commentary made after falling hip deep into a bog.

(On one's spouse fighting in Crown)
"what will you do if he wins?"
"we will celebrate"
"and if he doesn't?"
"...we'll celebrate more!"

(seen on a license plate on a Honda) "BMW ASAP"

"You look so nice with your Raven (necklace), your tattoos, and those jeans you're wearing" - a six year old gentleman named Brendan, while he helped in the kitchen.

"Cogitating is what codgers do. Its like thinking only there are no nouns" - David Katz

"There is not enough room inside his skull, so he keeps them on the outside of his head!"
(on meeting a Pekinese dog) - Shelby Clark

"I have visited your website. It is interesting, whimsical, and hard to follow … rather like you" - Sean McCord.

After a deep philosophical discussion with a fellow carnivore, V. concluded that, "All life is sacred, except when it is yummy"

So, the sign really said, "Shear Designs - Artist Salon" but what I read aloud was "Artist Salmon".
Shelby brought it another step by hearing "Autistic Salmon".
"So, what happened to you?!?" reply: "An Autistic Salmon cut my hair!"
...floppity flop floppity flop snip snip snip...

"Never mistake my silences for indifference" - Kevin Black

"Your street is showing dear" - Kevin Luck

"You're lowering yourself to her level."
Reply: "If someone is hitting you in the shins you may need to drop your shield a bit to protect yourself."

"I will not shun nature's bounty for personal vanity!" - on the year's abundant berries

"compassion always has at least a tinge of recklessness in it" Sarah

"I like mystery in my religion, not my tech!"

"We Discordians don't pray: it is far too dangerous"

"She sat, if that sprawl across chair and tabletop could be called sitting, and wrote about things that I cannot even imagine."

"Would you rather continue those practices of yours or sleep well at night?"

"Not a pretty girl, her features too irregular for that, but one that might stay in your mind after the pretty ones are gone."

"Its okay, I speak typo" - Ashley

"Rio wags in eight-point font": wagwagwagwagwagwagwag

(Shelby and Shanna had this exchange after Shelby had been to the pharmacist for allergy medications)
Shelby -- "Shanna, do you have any cash?"
Shanna -- "Yeah. What happened to all your money?"
Shelby -- "I spent it all on drugs."

"We can't put the entire world on an 8-inch cake" -- Icing On the Cake

"Christians tithe. Wiccans pick up garbage." - Shanna

"Skiing is the triumph of will over common sense." - Shelby

"Eris, Coyote and Loki walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, 'Order please?" - Party of the Gods 'Find the Punch Line' game winner, Jeremy the MadBaker

Exchange: (Regarding mountain living)
Derek -- "What are we going to do, order in women?"
Shelby -- "Are you kidding? They don't even deliver PIZZA here!"

"You don't live in the Middle of Nowhere but I think I can see it from your deck." - Matt Dragon

"I feel so pleasantly toxified." - John Torres (post party commentary)

"Everyone should live for a season in a little orange pup-tent in the mountains with their dads!" - REI Geezer