Rafiki

I'd like to meet:

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Yoda - Two completely unrelated individuals, but both equally interesting, Samuel Clemens was a wonderful writer, and had some very interesting things to say about the nature of people, and the basic expieriences we all share or witness (it may not have been his profession, but he was still quite insightful).... Yoda too understood the nature of people, and come on, the force... thats good stuff right there

I will add to my original want to meet people and add V.... he is just way too kick ass not to be mentioned...

"Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Other Quotes:
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

"Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog."

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

"It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts."

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

"Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."

"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing."

"Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity."

"The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green but you learn not to expect this."

"A murderer is just an extroverted suicide."

"Failure is not an option. It is just a nagging possibility that helps me stay focused."

"Should you become separated from your mount, stand very still and make a noise like a carrot." -UK cavalry drill instructor

"First Law of Flying - Takeoff is optional; landing is mandatory."

"The only two things I don't eat for breakfast are lunch and dinner."

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. "

"What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad."

"When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me."

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."

"Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know."

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."

"Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is."

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for, dying for."

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer."

"Give all to love; obey thy heart."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."

"Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical."

"In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side."

"Glass and Steel"

Michael Aleksiuk

Shining towers of glass and steel,
Filled with people who cannot feel,
Is this shimmering vision real,
Or just an apparition?

You waken at the break of day,
With heart of stone and eyes of clay,
Life wasn’t meant to be this way,
But you need the money.

No time to pause, it’s time to go,
No time to watch the flowers grow,
Or marvel at the full moon’s glow,
You do not even notice.

You take the bus, the elevator,
You take your place, and eight hours later,
As your fear gets ever greater,
You take a tranquilizer.

The very next day you do it again,
And then again and again and again,
You say you will enjoy life when
Some day you can retire.

You’re not free like you’d hoped to be,
You’ve sold your soul, that’s plain to see,
For now … and for eternity,
The Devil would approve.

My darling child, I feel for you,
But there is nothing I can do,
You see, myself I’m that way too,
We’re in this thing together.

We’re slaves of Mammon, slaves of greed,
Craving things we do not need,
But self-made slaves, they can be freed,
The chains are in our heads.

Blushing fields of laughing flowers,
Kissed by sunshine’s gentle powers,
Bathed by joyful, soulful showers –
Could these simple things be ours?
They’re free to you and me.

Yet shining towers of glass and steel,
Are filled with people too numb too feel,
Can this unholy vision be real?
Is it a premonition…
Of the human condition…?