100 Greatest Movies Quotes of All Time | Apocalypse Now

Number 12.
Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore; “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

Beverly Hills, the Upper East Side, Palm Beach, these days, even the best part of any city is just a deluxe luxury suite in hell. Outside your front gates, you still have to share the same gridlocked streets. You and the homeless drug addicts, you still breathe the same stinking air and hear the same police helicopters chasing criminals all night. The stars and moon erased by the lights from a million used car lots. Everyone crowds the same sidewalks, scattered with garbage, and sees the same sunrise bleary and red behind the smog.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Quote of the Day:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” - John F. Kennedy, 1962.

Seemed fitting in light of today’s events.

Every century has had an invention that has revolutionized their time. Something that the world had never seen before. Yet, afterwards, it couldn’t believe it went so long without it.

The 1800’s had the invention of the telephone, thanks to Alexander Graham Bell.
Instant communication between vast distances.

The 1900’s had the automobile, thanks to Henry Ford.
Instant transportation to physically anywhere.

And the 2000’s has had the evolution of the computer, thanks to Steve Jobs.
Giving us an instant access to information, communication, and entertainment, basically anywhere at anytime!

Steve Jobs will go down in history as a great mind that compares with some of the brightest inventors to have ever lived. Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, and Benjamin Franklin are just a few of many he will join. Jobs’ work will not be challenged when saying that it was life-changing! There will not be a hesitation to teach this. And we, ourselves in present day, have still not grasp the thought of how incredibly drastic the world has forever been changed. All thanks to the 33 years of work Jobs has given to this world. It goes way farther than just being a man who created personal computers, portable music players, cell phones, and e-mail tablets. He’s paved the way for an evolution in technology that will continue to amaze, stun, and most importantly, change the world decades after his death. One can only imagine how many thoughts, or ideas, or projects, or inventions Jobs had that didn’t come to fruition.

But as Jobs himself said, “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

It is no question that Jobs lived by his word all the way to the end. With just yesterday’s release of the iPhone 4S. And though it may not be another stunning invention. It is stunning to see that truly to the end of his life, Jobs was giving to the world his inventions that it uses without hesitation.

Rest In Peace, Steve.

“The ship was sinking. And sinking fast…

The captain told the passengers and crew, ‘We’ve got to get the lifeboats in the water right away.’

But the crew said, ‘First, we have to end capitalist oppression of the working class. Then we’ll take care of the lifeboats.’

Then the women said, ‘First, we want equal pay for equal work. The lifeboats can wait.’

The racial minorities said, ‘First, we need to end racial discrimination. Then seating in the lifeboats will be allotted fairly.’

The captain said, ‘These are all important issues, but they won’t matter a damn if we don’t survive. We’ve got to lower the lifeboats right away!’

But the religionists said, ‘First, we need to bring prayer back into the classroom. This is more important than lifeboats.’

Then the pro-life contingent said, ‘First, we must outlaw abortion. Fetuses have just as much right to be in those lifeboats as anyone else.’

The right-to-choose contingent said, ‘First, acknowledge our right to abortion, then we’ll help with the lifeboats.’

The socialists said, ‘First, we must redistribute the wealth. Once that’s done everyone will work equally hard at lowering the lifeboats.’

The animal-rights activists said, ‘First, we must end the use of animals in medical experiments. We can’t let this be subordinated to lowering the lifeboats.’

Finally the ship sank, and because none of the lifeboats had been lowered, everyone drowned.

The last thought of more than one of them was, ‘I never dreamed that solving humanity’s problems would take so long… or that the ship would sink so SUDDENLY.’”

― Daniel Quinn

“I do know people that have stalkers and it’s not nice… Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun…”
-Daniel Craig

-Pablo Picasso -Banksy

Favorite Villain #1: The Joker

“You have nothing, nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength.”

The Joker is like a natural disaster.
Just as simple as that, A Natural Disaster.
It’s not about whether he was meant or wasn’t meant to be.
(Like when a tornado finally connects with a storm or a tropical storm becomes a hurricane.)
It’s that he does and we have to deal with it.
And there’s no way that there isn’t going to be a mess.
That nothing can frighten him, because he has no sense of life.
He doesn’t respect the living.
He doesn’t care for living.
He doesn’t make a living.
He lives only cause he is.
No reason for his existence except for the fact that he does.