Potent Quotables !

[Dirac]

"God does not exist, and Dirac is his prophet." -Wolfgang Pauli

[Riot]

"Some say it's not what you do, but who you know,,,,
I say it's not what you know, but who you're doing!"

[Solstice]

"Its been closed." - Q or Gelatinous Cube

(sorry, couldn't resist )

[MysticTheurge]

I humbly submit to you:

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world." - Francis Bacon

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." - Epicurus

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - The Buddha

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself." - Blaise Pascal

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Albert Camus

"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?" - Immanuel Kant

"Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire." - John Dewey

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty." - David Hume

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." - Aristotle

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." - John Locke

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." - Obi-wan Kenobi

[kyebosh]

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

-George Carlin

[TechNoFear]

I spent most of my money on booze, birds and fast cars............the rest I squandered.

George Best

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your f***ing mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

Frank Zappa

[Killum]

You can not sedate all the things you hate. -Marlyn Manson

[Clay]

This country is founded, at least in part, on the firm belief that unpopular speech is vital to the health of our nation.

- Alan Isaacman (People VS Larry Flint)

[Helmet]

"This wallpaper is killing me; one of us has to go." - last words of Oscar Wilde

wow
i almost need to change my shorts.

[Nefahrin]

There's a balance you have to learn, between being able to do a little of everything, and therefore nothing at all really well, and becoming overspecialized and completely useless outside of your specialization.
Learning that balance is, I've always believed, part of becoming an adult.
I figure I'm about 20 years overdue to learn it.
~ Walter Slovotsky
(Character created by Joel Rosenberg)

[ShadowBlade]

I forget who said it first:

"It was fate that brought me here, but it's the hate that makes me stay."

Live on New Xoriat, live on...

[Ron]

"I can't help it, I'm a natural born lever puller."

Ringo Starr

[JayDubya]

The road to quality has no end. So technically, it's more of a death march.

or

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

- Bess Stanley (usu. attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[Memnir]

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

[Tryp]

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers just exactly what the universe is for and why we are here, that it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

I love deadlines. I especially love the swooshing sounds they make as they fly by.


All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss.


The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-Douglas Adams

[Uamhas]

THE SKY IS FALLING!" -Chicken Little
"Wolf!" -Peter.

[MysticTheurge]

"Wolf!" -Peter.

You know. "Peter and the Wolf" is a different story than "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

[Uamhas]

Well, if Peter and the Wolf is the one with the musical score that has a different instrument for each character, then that's the one I meant.

[Magus_d]

Dance like no ones watching.

~Google has this attributed to 6 different people so I'll skip them all and say unknown

[Gaermain]

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. ~ Ayn Rand