About romance

"Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece." -Lisa Simpson, "Another Simpsons clip show" Episode 106, season 6.

Newspapers and Mark Twain

"If you don`t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed". -Mark Twain

Why not lovers?

"...Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.

What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us, or the desire of another life?..."*

*The English Patient, p. 238.

Nietzche

"The secret of the greatest fruitfullnes and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously."

-Nietzche.

My favourite quotes and scene in "Lawrence of Arabia"

Prince Feisal: Colonel Brighton means to put my men under European officers, does he not?

T.E. Lawrence: In effect, my lord, yes.

Prince Feisal: And I must do it... ...because the Turks have European guns. But I fear to do it... ...upon my soul I do. The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.

T.E. Lawrence: Then you must deny it to them.

Prince Feisal: You are an Englishman.Are you not loyal to England?

T.E. Lawrence: To England and to other things.

Prince Feisal: To England and Arabia both? And is that possible? I think you are another of these desert-Ioving English.

Doughty, Stanhope...

...Gordon of Khartoum.

No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees. There is nothing in the desert. And no man needs nothing. Or is it that you think we are something you can play with... ...because we are a little people, a silly people... ...greedy, barbarous and cruel?

Or do you know, lieutenant, in the Arab city of Cordoba... ...were two miles of lightingin the streets... ...when London was a village.

T.E. Lawrence: Yes, you were great.

Prince Feisal: Nine centuries ago.

T.E. Lawrence: Time to be great again, my lord.

Prince Feisal: Which is why my father made this warupon the Turks. My father, Mr. Lawrence, not the English. But my father is old...

...and I...

...I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba.

However, before the gardens must come the fighting.

To be great again, it seems that we need the English... ...or...

T.E. Lawrence: Or?

Prince Feisal: What no man can provide, Mr. Lawrence.

We need a miracle.

Quoting Star Wars, purpose, inspiring temperance

“You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars IV: A New Hope

Faith vrs. Reason

"It's not an Island. It's a place where miracles happen."

–John Locke

"There is no such thing as miracles."

–Jack Shephard

Movie Quotes

Richard: My name is Richard. So what else do you need to know? Stuff about my family, or where I'm from? None of that matters. Not once you cross the ocean and cut yourself loose, looking for something more beautiful, something more exciting and yes, I admit, something more dangerous. So after eighteen hours in the back of an airplane, three dumb movies, two plastic meals, six beers and absolutely no sleep, I finally touch down; in Bangkok.