no. 456

Jamie: "You're an asshole"
Cheryl: "I'm a woman. I'm not an asshole, I'm a bitch."
Jamie: "Bitches bring puppies into the world. You're an asshole."

From the comic "Leftover Soup"

no. 447

"It's weird, they're words, but you're lining them up stupid."

Skull, in Corporate Skull

no. 442

"I would respect postmodernism if it called itself mad humanities"

Zach Wiener in Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (bonus button)

no. 434

no. 418

"Euphemism is the opposite of swearing. Swearwords work because they carry an emotional charge derived from their direct reference to taboo objects, orifices, and actions. Euphemisms exist to cover up those same taboos, to disguise or erase the things that prompt such strong feelings."

Melissa Mohr, Holy Shit, p.197

no. 379

"Cinema is a language. It can say things-big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequences. You’ve got dialogue. You’ve got music. You’ve got sound effects. You have so many tools. And you can express a feeling and a thought that can’t be conveyed any other way. Its a magical medium. For me, it’s so beautiful to think about these pictures and sounds flowing together in time and in sequence, making something that can be done only through cinema. Its not just words or music-it’s a whole range of elements coming together and making something that didn’t exist before. It’s telling stories. It’s devising a world, an experience, that people cannot have unless they see that film. When I catch an idea for a film, I fall in love with the way cinema can express it. I like a story that holds abstractions, and that’s what cinema can do."

David Lynch, Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity


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no. 286

"If I’d had children and had a girl, the first words I would have taught her would have been 'fuck off' because we weren’t brought up ever to say that to anyone, were we? And it’s quite valuable to have the courage and the confidence to say, 'No, fuck off, leave me alone, thank you very much'."

Dame Helen Mirren

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no. 236

That's Stephen Fry, if you dont know. And the reason to swear is because it is fun.

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no. 113

"If an alien was looking down on us and inspecting our language, they would see that the worst thing we do on this planet is we torture, we kill, we abuse, we harm people… we’re cruel. And those are the things for which we should be ashamed. Amongst the best things we do is we breed children and we raise them, we make love to each other, we adore each other, we’re affectionate and fond of each other. Those are the good things we do. And they would say ‘How odd, that the language for the awful things is used casually all the time.’ ‘Oh the traffic was agony. It was hell, it was cruel. Oh, it was torture waiting in line!’ They’d say ‘You use words like torture! That’s the worst word!’ And yet if we use the f-word, which is the word for generating our species, for showing physical affection one to another, then we’re taken off air and accused of being wicked and irresponsible and a bad influence to children. Now, we’re part of this culture so we often don’t question it, but if you think of someone from outside it, it is very strange."

Stephen Fry

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no. 90

"So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do."

Dead Poets Society