This isn’t the greatest sentence, this is just a tribute.
“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’ll read this phrase but I won’t enjoy it
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
I’d agree, but that’s 2 sentences.
Dammit
Okay imagine there’s a semicolon there instead
“In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very unhappy and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”;
Still doesn’t work.
At least now it compiles
“I look both ways when I cross a one way street, because that’s how much faith I have in humanity.”
I live on a one way street. The amount of vehicles that zoom by in the wrong direction is ridiculous
“This too shall pass”
If something good happens, it’s a cautionary warning to stay humble.
If something bad happens, it’s a comforting reminder that things will get better.
I saw this quote on the desk of a proctologist I once visited.
Good point
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Somewhat famously this line (the entire soliloquy actually) was improvised by Rutger Hauer in the moment, so not strictly written down. Just taking the piss mate, best fucking movie ever!
The chinese poem “The Story of Mr. Shi Eating Lions”
Shíshì shī shì shǐ shì, shì shǐ, shī shì, shì shí shí shī. Shī sì shì shī. Shǐ shì shè sì, shì shī shì, shǐ shī shì shí shī shī, shì shí shí, shǐ shí shìshì. Shǐ shǐ shì shì shì shì, shì shī shì. Shì shì shì shì.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
Look at what “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” needs to mimic a fraction of that power
I wouldn’t label it as “the greates sentence ever”, rather as a great example why chinese is a highly cumbersome and impractical language.
“He who fights monsters must see that he doesn’t become a monster himself. For when you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back at you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
I hate how often I see this quote without attribution.
Also: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ummm
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger."
Yeah, that’s Kelly Clarkson, m’kay?
“What doesn’t kill you, makes you crippled”
Gregory House
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
"Do you think… God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he’s created, here on Earth? "
Dr Romero, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, written by Robert Rodriguez.
“A Florida woman has been accused of entering the penguin enclosure to teach them to tap dance, using a live alligator as her partner.”
I can’t fix her. She’s already perfect.
At this juncture, I would point out that !floridaman@lemmy.world also accepts “Florida Woman” submissions.
EDIT: Unfortunately, it appears to be fake.
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
“Elaine, if I’d a knowed that you’d a wanted to went, I’d a seen that you’d a got to get to go.”
*Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
I think we are at that point again but with “AI”.
“Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out.”
- Lucy Parsons
