Favorite Quotes
I guess this topic must have been there at some time in cellar. Still feel like digging the grave again (Sigh! when will this rain stop<add bored to death smiley here>).
Anyway, my all time fav:
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
Life is strange, grasshopper. Here's an ice cream cone to help soften the blow.
- Flint.
I never knew tube gates were a thing that some people hate.
Life is strange, grasshopper. Here's an ice cream cone to help soften the blow.
"Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!"
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The Road to enlightenment is long and difficult, which is why I've asked all of you to bring sandwiches and a change of clothes.
-B. Kliban
"It must be nice to lead a life unburdened by reality."
"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
J. Wellington Wimpy
"Thank you, Bacon.
Sincerely,
Water Chestnut the Third"
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Well I couldn't choose between several I thought of, but the cookie generator offers this:
A man should not make love with a leper, a friend, or a woman who cannot keep a secret.
- The Kama Sutra
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
--Edgar Allan Poe
I don't have the source in front of me, so this will be a paraphrase rather than a direct quote.
"No rocks causing ripples to be dropped in the pond" (The girl who kicked the hornet's list, Steig Larrson)
Here's the exact quote (but I think I actually prefer the essence of it).
"Edklinth had told her: no rings in the water. To raise the matter with the chief of Secretariat might be to chuck a very large stone into a pond."
Larsson, S 2009 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Macelhose Press, London, p. 242
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality doesn't discriminate. Reality is not different for different people. Not once has reality excused anyone for good intentions, ignorance, or stubbornness. Reality shows no mercy, accepts no excuses, and issues no pardons. Reality does not "turn the other cheek." This does not mean that reality is cruel, it just means that reality is.--Gary Ryan Blair[/FONT]
"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth"
- Plato
"That's when the fecal material hit the oscillating device."
"That's when the fecal material hit the oscillating device."
Variation:
"The feces have definitely hit the rotating oscillator" ;)
"You just shot an unarmed man!"
"He should have armed himself"
:lol:
I'm watching that right now!! (AMC)
[William Munny] Who owns this shithole?[/William Munny]
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ~Mark Twain 1894
Little Bill: You'd be William Munny, outta Kansas. Killer of women and children.
William Munny: That's right. I've killed women and children, killed just about everything that walked or crawled...And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill.
[COLOR="LemonChiffon"].................................[/COLOR]~Unforgiven
"I don't mind people thinking I'm an asshole, I just don't want to be an asshole" -- Jonathan Ross
"To no man shall I kneel" (ManOwaR from "Call to arms")
"To know man shall I kneel" (One of my ex-girlfriends)
More seriously :
"Potius mori quam foedari" (Death rather than stain) - motto of the Ducal House of Brittany
More seriously :
"Potius mori quam foedari" (Death rather than stain) - motto of the Ducal House of Brittany
"Potius mori quam Scat foedari" (Death rather than shit stain) - motto of the Fecal House of Brittany
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
--James D. Nicoll
Probably the same author, paraphrased:
The English language was created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and the result is no more legitimate than any of the other products of such unions.
Probably the same author, paraphrased:
The English language was created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up Anglo-Saxon barmaids, and the result is no more legitimate than any of the other products of such unions.
No. That's H. Beam Piper. IIRC it's from one of his Fuzzy books.
Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
-- J. Petit-Senn
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
OMG it's blue! How ya been, man?!
I'm fab thanks, just checked your profile and learned 2 things I never knew about autism. btw Is the old "this is a picture of me" thread still around? I'm much older and having problem with some of the names... plus I'm just all around slow today.
blue, my old friend. I miss you.
feel like this week like I can't buy a friend, maybe subconsciously that's what brought me back here, missed you too man, but let's not gay up the quotes thread.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-- R. A. H.
Just ran across this today...
Kathleen Barrett, a 67-year-old Democrat from Bridgeport, expressed disappointment with the ugliness of the campaigns as she showed up at the Black Rock School in Bridgeport to cast her vote.
“I didn’t want to know what your opponent did wrong,” she said. “I want to know what you’re going to do when you get there.”
feel like this week like I can't buy a friend, maybe subconsciously that's what brought me back here, missed you too man, but let's not gay up the quotes thread.
Gay it up all you want, blue.
This is where we keep the good stuff. Come on in, the water's fine.
Practice safe sex, go fuck yourself.
Spiritualists and Shamans do the same job psychiatrists and psychologists do, using the same tools, and obtaining about the same results.
E. Fuller Torrey, MD
Mind Games
Nil illegitimi Carborundum
Or
Don't let the Bastards grind you down
Quoted by Wolf: "Spiritualists and Shamans do the same job psychiatrists and psychologists do, using the same tools, and obtaining about the same results. "
Time to trot out another one of my theories: the psychologist fulfills the same function as the Catholic confessional.
Time to trot out another one of my theories: the psychologist fulfills the same function as the Catholic confessional.
Well, sorta ...
The Catholic Church can't bill your insurance. Instead they make you pay up in weekly increments that probably add up to more than a typical co-pay.
A psychologist works to try to make you feel better about yourself, regardless of your past actions. The Catholic Church aims for the opposite.
A psychologist may give you "homework" to do before your next session, but most of it will not require that you spend time on your knees repeating some words as though you were obsessive-compulsive.
The Catholic Church frequently offers family sessions, where an ethical psychological provider will refer you to another provider.
"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'." -Andy Dufresne
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, I'll have you on your back with your pants around your ankles so fast it will make your head spin.
When you go to a restaurant on the weekends and it’s busy so they start a waiting list, they say, “DuFresnes, party of two, table ready for DuFresnes, party of two.” And if no one answers they’ll say the name again: “DuFresnes, party of two.” But then if no one answers, they’ll move on to the next name. “Bush, party of three.” Yeah, but what happened to the DuFresnes!? No one seems to care! Who can eat at a time like this!? People are missing. You people are selfish. The DuFresnes are in someone’s trunk right now, with duct tape over their mouths. And they’re hungry. That’s a double whammy. We need help. “Bush, search party of three.” You can eat once you find the DuFresnes.
-- Mitch Hedberg
[FONT=georgia, bookman old style, palatino linotype, book antiqua, palatino, trebuchet ms, helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, avante garde, century gothic, comic sans ms, times, times new roman, serif]The stars are the street lights of eternity. ~Author Unknown[/FONT]
Everyone needs believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer. :beer:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Not a quote as such, but a line from Peter Gabriel's Mercy Street
"looking down on empty streets, all she can see
are the dreams all made solid
are the dreams all made real
all of the buildings, all of those cars
were once just a dream
in somebody's head"
"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
I'll have you on your back with your pants around your ankles so fast it will make your head spin.
I laughed way too hard at that :thumb:
If you spot a tornado, always remember to point at it, yell "tornado!", and run like hell.
blue's sig line has always been one of my favorite quotes.
"hurt and bitterness are like acid on the soul, but anger is like fire, burning it clean, so fuck it and fuck you"
~ me, kinda (yeah I have an anger problem lately)
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
-Dr. Adrian Rogers
I like that one classic.
"hurt and bitterness are like acid on the soul, but anger is like fire, burning it clean, so fuck it and fuck you"
~ me, kinda (yeah I have an anger problem lately)
yeah, sometimes enough is enough! Whomever said," What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is nuts.
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist." - Ayn Rand
"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
--Wilde
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919, 26th President of the United States; historian, naturalist and author; Nobel Prize 1906.
"My father told me I could grow up to be anything I wanted to be. I decided to be an asshole." -Unknown
"This is business not personal."
The Godfather, an ex-boss, a hooker, a car-salesman, or an asshole at large...take your pick.
"Are you a thinking man?"
"Aww, I can get outta the rain."
~"The Lusty Men"
My brother the other weekend said this to my boyfriend after my sis-in-law and I had been discussing some of our recent female problems.
"After being married and having to hear about all of this for awhile, every morning I wake up glad to have a dick."
"The words a man speaks today live on in his thoughts or the memories of others, and the shot fired, the blow struck, the thing done today is like a stone tossed into a pool, and the ripples keep widening out until they touch lives far from our own." -Louis L'Amour from "The Daybreakers"
Old Louis said a lot of great things.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
good ones classic and grav
“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes
In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who’s suffering. But we must also think about the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It’s all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see the terrorists as a relative who’s dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There’s nothing better. — Richard Gere (liberal)
Richard Gere {Buddhist} [/correction] :rolleyes:
Richard Gere {Buddhist} [/correction] :rolleyes:
Richard Gere {gerbil murdering liberal buddhist}
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health — New York city councilman Charles Barron (liberal)
America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for… — Cindy Sheehan (liberal)
I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. — Sheryl Crow (liberal)
Hey, it's the sort of thing you can find on, say, Dissecting Leftism, Mangan's, or Left Wing Lunacy...
...voluntary proof of an idiot's own idiocy. The intellects are on the conservative side. The non-intellects... we know where. Some are educated -- and then look at the use they make of it. Some folks who do that sort of thing with their talents end up doing 25-to-life.
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Gere {gerbil murdering liberal buddhist}
1. The Gerbil survives felching.
2. It wasn't Richard Gere, it was Jerry Penacoli
I agree with you on the turkey burgers, but if you put enough nitrates and salt into turkey bacon, it tastes just like the real thing.
richlevy Dec '10Goals that must be completed at all costs, usually cost all.
I should print this so I can remember. For someone who has let goals go for the common good, I appreciate it. It has lighted my guilt load. Yes, I have guilt. I lied when I said I didn't.
"The only thing crazier than schizophrenics is the way society treats them."
-- 1/22/11 10:06 am @ My wife
1. The Gerbil survives felching.
2. It wasn't Richard Gere, it was Jerry Penacoli
For a gerbil to be involved in
felching, you'd need a really tiny tube/hose/straw, even if it's the gerbil doing the felching.
BTW: I used to know a guy with the last name of '
Fulcher'. Guess what we called him...
There's a Felch street in Ann Arbor. I chortle.
I chortle.
When felching/being felched? Or just in general?
:p:
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. ~Doug Larson
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!
http://vimeo.com/3802602:notworthy
I ain't no freakin' monument to justice! I lost my hand! I lost my bride! Johnny has his hand! Johnny has his bride! You want me to take my heartache, put it away and forget?
"A day spent wasted is not necessarily a wasted day."
Me
very nice
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.(unknown)