Famous Quotations!

[Gregory]

Hey, what are your mostest favoretest quotations?

Heck, make one up that sounds cool. Like me...

"I guess this is the time to jump on the bandwagon and be non-conformists."

50 years from now, I'll be quoted as a genius :D


so, post some, ones you found, ones you made, whatever.

[gildash2]

lol
"this is an A and B conversation, go away!" lol... some dumb-butt girl at my school said this, i find it funny because she didnt say the quote properly and made a complete fool of herself, shes and alchoholic now, see what happens when you cross me? lol

[Gregory]

are you not brazilian?

EDIT: lol i meant to post this in the faces & names thread

[gildash2]

yea i am but my dad is american, i lived in brazil for the majority of my life, so i consider myself brazilian :)

[entimp]

'Always bite off more than you can chew...
Your mouth is usually bigger than you think.'

Entimp circa 1997.

'And this above all unto thine own self be true and it shall follow as the day the night - thou can'st not then be false to any man.'

Shakespeare... Hamlet.

[putts]

I'll let you guys guess the movie :D


Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll give it a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. So I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Send in the marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a ****. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number was called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some guy from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the skirmish to scare up oil prices so they could turn a quick buck. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what do I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. Why not just shoot my buddy, take his job and give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.



Clark: I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapitalism...
Chuckie: Let me tell you something, all right...
Will: (interrupting) Of course that is your contention...
Clark: Hold on a second...
Will: You're a first year grad student. You just got finished reading some Marxian Historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna' be convinced of that until next month when you get to James Lemon, then you're gonna' be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna' last until next year, you're gonna' be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talking about ya know, the Pre-Revolutionary utopia and the capital forming effects of military mobilization.
Clark: Well, as a matter of fact I won't because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social...
Will: (interrupting) Wood drastically... Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth. You got that from Vickers. "Work in Essex County", page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you going to plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that you thing, you come into a bar, you read some obscure passage, and then pretend, you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girl and embarrass my friend? You see, the sad thing about a guy like you is that in 50 years, you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped a 150 grand on a ****in' education you could have gotten for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
Clark: Yeah, but I will have degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive thru on our way to a skiing trip.
Will: (laughing) That may be, but at least I won't be unoriginal


And one more from another movie....

You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil who is standing center stage advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free.


There's oodles more but I love those three

[ExtraDog]

Laziness is the mother of all good code.

-Extradog

[RobRoyRogers]

one of my favorite lyrical stanzas of all time: I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pick-up truck
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.

[kevin]

Almost anything by Mark Twain is always good, humorous and insightful.

This page has a lot of them in an easy to read format:

http://www.sfheart.com/marktwai.html

This site has tons of Twain quotes but its harder to get to them because of the way they are organized:

http://www.twainquotes.com/quotesatoz.html

This page claims to have the top 10 Twain quotes (some are very famous and often quoted):

http://quotations.about.com/cs/marktwainquotes/tp/10_mark_twain.htm

[Kitti]

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking.... call 911.

Erma Bombeck

[Horus_Kol]

I think both of these were attributed to Churchill, but if you think otherwise let me know:


Woman: "Sir, you are drunk!"
Churchill: "Madam, in the morning I will be sober. However, you will remain ugly."


Woman: "If I were your wife I would poison you."
Churchill: "If I were your husband, I would take it."

[Blueangel]

...and the woman of the piece was Lady Astor.

The two had a deep abhorance of each other, but their public battles were prime examples of Churchill's great wit.

The quote I heard for the first example was:
Lady Astor: "Sir, I do believe you are drunk."
Churchill: "Madam, I do believe you're ugly...but in the morning I shall be sober."

...but I could be wrong.

My eternal favourite is "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde.

All my other favourite quotes are attributed to my mates when we've been much the worse for wear ;) the latest of which came from a drunken Australian friend last night...
"In the Aardvark Imperialist society that is to come, we will be the suicide bombers of the revolution." :D

[ExtraDog]

There is never time to do it right the first time, but there is always time to do it again.
-Unknown

[ExtraDog]

The problem with doing it right the first time is; nobody will realize how difficult it was to do.
-Extradog

[Horus_Kol]

that second quote is so true.

getting to the top of the mountain is only really considered an achievement when so many other people have tried and failed before.

[gildash2]

"and i find it kinda funny, i find it kinda sad, the dreams in which im dieing are the best ive ever had..."

[ExtraDog]

Hard before beer, you're in the clear.
Beer before hard, you're in the yard.
-Unknown Partyer

[darksidepuffin]

:rofl: I just woke up and that made me nearly fall over laughing :D

I am your worst nightmare,get used to it.
-Me

XD

[gildash2]

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

[gildash2]

"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare

[gildash2]

"complaining about being 14 is like complaining about a movie 5 minutes in"
-my dad

[RobRoyRogers]

Gildash, that last one is pretty dead on. You know, the more you mention your dad, the more I think I like him. haha.

[gildash2]

lol you can tell him yourself......if you want to see him, just look behind you :D mwuahahhahahhahaahah=:O

[Kram]

i have always liked to quote:


Fear is for those weak enough to accept it


kinda cool

[Horus_Kol]

my friend has this as a signature on another forum:


The only person you are destined to be, is the one you decide to become



And one of mine:


No matter where you go, you are always there

[ExtraDog]

Originally posted by Horus_Kol
And one of mine:
No matter where you go, you are always there


I'm not sure if this is the origin of that saying, but here's a movie quote from "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzi Across the Eighth Dimension"(1984)
Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

[Horus_Kol]

i remember that really dodgy film - it was great :)
I think the quote is probably Zen Buddhist in origin - which is why it is profound and meaningless in the same sentence.

[Kitti]

A friend of mine posted this on another forum...I'm not sure exactly where it came from, but I like it!

"You don't have to blow out my candle to make your look brighter"

[afterburn]

Originally posted by putts
I'll let you guys guess the movie :D





And one more from another movie....


There's oodles more but I love those three


Good Will Hunting?

[ExtraDog]

If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

[ExtraMonkey]

"Man with ichy butt,
wake up with smelly finger."
-My Dad A.K.A. ExtraDog

[ExtraDog]

Originally posted by ExtraMonkey
"Man with ichy butt,
wake up with smelly finger."
-My Dad A.K.A. ExtraDog

I was just quoting Con***ious.

[Ninkasi]

What ever happens, happens. No point dwelling on the fact.

[Ninkasi]

Just because you look like a gimp, doesn't mean you have to act like one...

- Me (at least I don't think I've heard it anywhere)

[ExtraDog]

Life is NOT like a box of chocolates.
Life is like a jar of jalapenos.

What you do today may burn your butt tomorrow. :hotbounce

[John84]

I have a list of inspiring quotations on my bedroom wall; the following are my favorites...

"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present."
- Bill Keane

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
- Epicurus

"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"
- Stephen Levine

"In the end, what we had in life isn't worth a thing... it's what we leave behind that counts."
- My philosophy :)

[ExtraMonkey]

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-Mahatama Gandhi
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
-Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

[rlmis]

nothing is perfect = perfect is nothing
birth going dead = dead going reborn

[HIQ]

"Life is just a bowl of cherries."