Quotes

[buddhu]

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

[chas]

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

[gonzo914]

I guess this gets revisited every so often, but I can't find a generic quotes thread to resurrect. -- buddhu

[jsluder]

"... (his cat he calls her, but she owns him not) ..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien

[carrie]

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

[emmline]

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."

[izzarina]

* The best place to be is here, and the best time to be is now. Bill & Ted

Yay! Bill and Ted. Which goes quite well with my signature quote du jour

Be excellent to each other

[Sliabh Luachra]

"The time is coming when a carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." Paul Cezanne

[gonzo914]

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.

[Nanohedron]

"The first thing you should do when a horse dies, is dismount." -Kim Holden

I can think of some threads to which this would apply.

[Bloomfield]

"Can anyone recommend a good stain remover? TIA." --- Bloomfield



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[herbivore12]

"The time is coming when a carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution." Paul Cezanne

You know, Cezanne also said:

"With an apple I want to astonish Paris."

Guy apparently had a real thing for produce.

[Nanohedron]

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

[Wombat]

My current favourite.

'I must be right because I am never wrong.'
Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie character.)

[Montana]

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. - The Wizard of Oz