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Quotes
I guess this gets revisited every so often, but I can't find a generic quotes thread to resurrect.
A few I like:
* We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin
* You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
* If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
* You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams
* You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
* In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. Albert Camus
* The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. * We have to imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus
* The best place to be is here, and the best time to be is now. Bill & Ted
And a bit lighter...
* The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. George Bernard Shaw
* My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Winnie the Pooh
* Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you. A A Milne
* I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis
* If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Albert Einstein
* If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
* I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen
* When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz
* Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx
A few I like:
* We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin
* You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
* If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
* You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams
* You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
* In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. Albert Camus
* The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. * We have to imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus
* The best place to be is here, and the best time to be is now. Bill & Ted
And a bit lighter...
* The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. George Bernard Shaw
* My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Winnie the Pooh
* Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you. A A Milne
* I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis
* If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. Albert Einstein
* If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
* I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. Woody Allen
* When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz
* Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Groucho Marx
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
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It's difficult to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious -- Henry Ford
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction -- St. Exupery
You can be what you want to be if you believe in yourself and you work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible. Don't feel sorry for yourself if obstacles get in your way. -- Kirby Puckett
If it sounds good, it IS good -- Duke Ellington
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction -- St. Exupery
You can be what you want to be if you believe in yourself and you work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible. Don't feel sorry for yourself if obstacles get in your way. -- Kirby Puckett
If it sounds good, it IS good -- Duke Ellington
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"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
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"Our work puts heavy metal where it belongs -- as a music genre and not a pollutant in drinking water." -- Prof Ali Miserez.
I admit it: sometimes life seems like a struggle to me. That's why I keep these inspirational quotes "handy."
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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
Deep Thoughts, Jack Handy
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Carol
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Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes.
Deep Thoughts, Jack Handy
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Carol
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Carol, it's because you have a son. That's why you're quoting Jack Handy.
This is the quote my 14 year old wants to use in his 8th grade graduation speech: (yeah, he goes to a small school)
"If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song."
This is the quote my 14 year old wants to use in his 8th grade graduation speech: (yeah, he goes to a small school)
"If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song."
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Re: Quotes
Yay! Bill and Ted. Which goes quite well with my signature quote du jourbuddhu wrote:* The best place to be is here, and the best time to be is now. Bill & Ted
Izzy's Siggy wrote:Be excellent to each other
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
When I paint my masterpiece.
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My absolute favorite Jack Handy, first seen in a Michael Nesmith film called "Dr. Ducks Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce" --
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
Crazy for the blue white and red
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
Crazy for the blue white and red
And yellow fringe
Crazy for the blue white red and yellow
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Here are some from the land of academe (there are some good ones out there):
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"They are not massive enough to be WIMPs."
"The [B m c² + q phi] part of this should be soothing."
"Those are very sad universes. There is no Christmas in those universes."
-Dr. Stephen Hsu
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"So it's like a doctor who does tomography on a patient's head and finds that, in some region, there is not just nothing but less than nothing!"
-Dr. Lvovsky
"Why is that surprising? I mean, we all know such people."
-Paul Czonka, responding from the audience
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"Fake honesty is the best policy."
-Dr. Susan Coppersmith
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"They are not massive enough to be WIMPs."
"The [B m c² + q phi] part of this should be soothing."
"Those are very sad universes. There is no Christmas in those universes."
-Dr. Stephen Hsu
*
"So it's like a doctor who does tomography on a patient's head and finds that, in some region, there is not just nothing but less than nothing!"
-Dr. Lvovsky
"Why is that surprising? I mean, we all know such people."
-Paul Czonka, responding from the audience
*
"Fake honesty is the best policy."
-Dr. Susan Coppersmith
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician