All Quotes

"There was this boy who played in a rock n' roll band And he wasn't half bad at saving the world She said he could do no right, so he took his life The story is true."

"Toward another, he has gone To breathe an air beyond his own."

"Disturbed by the fame Just like Kurt Cobain."

"Kurt Cobain reincarnated Sighs and licks his face."

"See the whites of their eyes, white skin, white lies House of Pain white, Everlast, Kurt Cobain white Elvis, simple and plain white, John Wayne white."

"So I watched pay per view and polished my shoes and my gun Was diggin' on Kurt Cobain sing about lithium."

"He rocked the United States by flying all over the country and playing that rock and roll He is a good singer He is my rock star."

"Xzibit easily dispersed like crack cocaine See I lent my shotgun to Kurt Cobain And the motherfucker never brought it back (Ah, that's wack)"

"Too late, He sleeps with angels Too soon, He's always on someone's mind."

"You said you liked my Cobain shirt."

"The only trend I do not like in rap right now is the message rap. I consider the message rap the equivalent of what strings were to rock 'n' roll in the late '50s - a capitulation to the adult norm who can't accept the music on its own terms. The people who considered "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward and the , "Annie Had a Baby" - as the pinnacles of '50s R&B now are super uptight over the - in quotes - hotel/motel lyrics of rap. Rap is definitely as true to the essence of rock 'n roll as anything that's out there today."

"Marian: Rabies, what's thick and chops down trees? Rabies: Erm, me. Marian: Correct."

"Marian: Robin, do stop talking in that silly voice. One of these days we're going to be famous, and our story will be told all over the world in moving picture galleries. It's going to look really stupid if we're all nicely spoken and you're gibbering on like a posey cowboy, isn't it."

"Sheriff: Sew up my elephant! Gladys: Pardon? Sheriff: Sew up my elephant! Gladys: What you said doesn't make any sense! Why ... don't... you... take... another... look... at your... phrase... book"

"Sheriff: [singing] From the moment I saw you I swore you would make me foolhardy How I wanted to loosen your hair And to take off your... cardy! There's never been a moment like this! Of absolute bliss! I've been pierced, I've been pierced I've been pierced, I've been pierced I've been pierced through the heart by your eyes!"

"Marian: How about laying a patio? Snooker: I couldn't handle the pain. Marian: Pardon? Snooker: Have you seen the face of a chicken when it lays an egg? And a patio is like 100 times bigger! NO, thank you."

"Robin: See! I set fire to your underpants!"

"Marian: Stop! One false move and I'll run this man through! Sheriff: Oh goodness me. What a terrible threat. Let's all put our weapons back in their cases and go home, shall we. Are you mad?? Do you think I have the slightest interest in that worm's life?? I've seen more interesting faces on the wrong end of a donkey!! Guards - Kill her! And if he gets in the way, hack him to pieces!! Marian: I said stop! Do you see what he has in his hands? King John's underpants! If he gets run through, what'll happen to them? Great big red stains! And have you ever tried to get blood out of weasel wool? It's impossible! Graeme: She's right sir! I tried it with my usual washing powder, and the stains just wouldn't shift!"

"Robin: GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY UNDERPANTS!!!"

"King John: Under what are you accused? Barrington: Selling a rat, answering back, whistling in the corridor and dumb insolence. King John: Then I find you... Guilty! Hahah hah! Barrington [sarcastically]: Aw, thanks very much! King John: And I sentence you to 500 lines, and a months torture! Barrington: Awww... I HATE lines..."

"Marian [fantasising about her plans for a freedom fighting band]: We'll have bows and arrows, and we'll hold rich travellers to ransom! Robin: What, money you mean? Marian: Yes! And we'll give it all to the poor! Robin: I want to go home. Marian: And we'll surround ourselves with a band of highly attractive respectable young men who are just a tiny bit rough, and are dedicated to freeing our country from tyranny, and injustice, and cruelty to animals and stuff! And we'll swing through the trees on long ropes... and we'll have our own costumes, and we'll never be cross or grumpy! And we'll do these fantastically brave deeds with a merry smile on our face, and everyone will say: "Good heavens, it's those merry men! Come in and have a cup of tea! Can I have your autograph?" And nobody will dare stand against us. And our names will go down in history. And we'll be famous forever! And people will name pubs after us! What do you think? Robin: ..... .... We'll really have our own costumes? Originals I mean, not out of a catalogue? Marian: Yep! Robin: Who's going to design them? Marian: ... You? Robin: Right! You're on!"

"Guy: I'm happy as a chappy with a great big nappy!"

"Guy: I'm as clean as a queen as a washine machine! King John: You'll be as bruised as a queen as a washine machine!"

"Πᾶσιν γὰρ εὖ φρονοῦσι συμμαχεῖ τύχη."

""Η τοῖσιν εὐφρονοῦσι συμμαχεῖ τύχη."

"Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise."

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."

"ἡ γὰρ σιωπὴ τοῖς σοφοῖσ ἀπόκρισις."

"Σοφὸς ἦν τις, ὃς τὸ θεῖον εἰσηγήσατο."

"Most cunning doctrine did he introduce, The truth concealing under speech untrue. The place he spoke of as the God's abode Was that whereby he could affright men most,— The place from which, he knew, both terrors came And easements unto men of toilsome life— To wit the vault above, wherein do dwell The lightnings, he beheld, and awesome claps Of thunder, and the starry face of heaven, Fair-spangled by that cunning craftsman Time,— Whence, too, the meteor's glowing mass doth speed And liquid rain descends upon the earth."

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."

"Account no man happy till he dies."

"Circumstances rule men and not men circumstances."

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad."

"Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are."

"I could not bear Euripides at college. I now read my recantation. He has faults undoubtedly. But what a poet! The Medea, the Alcestis, the Troades, the Bacchæ, are alone sufficient to place him in the very first rank."

"The Orestes is one of the very finest plays in the Greek language. Among those of Euripides, I should place it next to the Medea and the Bacchæ. It has some very real faults; but it possesses that strong human interest which neither Æschylus nor Sophocles,—poets in many respects far superior to Euripides,—ever gave to their dramas."

"The Bacchæ is a most glorious play. I doubt whether it be not superior to the Medea. It is often very obscure; and I am not sure that I fully understand its general scope. But, as a piece of language, it is hardly equalled in the world. And, whether it was intended to encourage or to discourage fanaticism, the picture of fanatical excitement which it exhibits has never been rivalled."

"I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely to Kill Everyone at a High School Dance."

"She's just as bored as me she caught me off my guard it amazes me, the will of instinct"

"I don’t have a ton of theory knowledge. I’m inspired by it, but I mostly use my ears to pick up on interesting things, which is what I did back then. So if people come up to me and say, ‘Why don’t you play this note or this scale?’ I honestly don’t know what they're specifically talking about. I play what sounds good. I skipped the whole music theory thing and focused on what was important to me."

"Nobody dies a virgin… Life fucks us all."

"In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots."

"I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine."

"It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place."

"Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock."

"I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male."

"Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes."

"Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend."

"I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me."