Potent Quotables !

[Udaar]

Mark Twain's comments to reporters after his return from Europe where he was reported to have died.

" As you can see the reports of my death were greatly exaggerated!"

[binnsr]

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "
Simone Weil

[Lizzybrat]

We're not going to die.. we can't die.. we're just too pretty for God to let us die." - Mal "Firefly"

[Shamguard]

"Everything happens for one of two reasons:
1. They are B*$tards and they hate you.
2. You are a F**king idiot.
We would like it to be the first but it's probably the second.
The great thing about this is it works for everything. Just try it out.
The sun comes up to eary why? Because they are B*$tards and they hate me, for making me get up with the sun.
The sun come up to eary why? Because I'm a F**king idiot, for staying up so late when I knew I had to get up at sun up."
My friend Paul Burton (I don't know if he got it from someone else, but I like to give him credit for it.)

Then there is the other part of this:
Everyone is an idiot. At some point in our lives we all are an idiot. The what makes the difference is some of us recognize this fact and deal with it. Others just don't know they are idiots. These are the people we make fun of.
Paraphrase of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, from his first book that I don't remember the title of, why see #2 above.

[binnsr]

"There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary and those who don't." -anonymous

[Borrigain]

"Some say the pen is mightier than the sword.....Well, I say f*** the pen, cuz you can Die By the Sword!"

- Tom Arya, Slayer



Borr.

[Borrigain]

....

Then there is the other part of this:
Everyone is an idiot. At some point in our lives we all are an idiot. The what makes the difference is some of us recognize this fact and deal with it. Others just don't know they are idiots. These are the people we make fun of.
Paraphrase of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, from his first book that I don't remember the title of, why see #2 above.

Well, I'm not an idiot......I'm a moron!

At least that's what my wife says

Borr.

[Shyver]

"Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it possible."

~~T.E. Lawrence

[Deriaz]

I've got quotes I love from two authors, both of which, I believe, are geniuses. :3


Voltaire:

"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow."

"Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare;
The truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bold, proclaim it everywhere:
They only live who dare."

And my personal favorite from him: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."



Vonnegut, now:

"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
"Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
A Man without a Country

"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
Breakfast of Champions

"How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Slaughterhouse Five

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
Slaughterhouse Five

And my personal favorite from Vonnegut: "All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
Slaughterhouse Five


-D

[Music_Man]

"Some say the pen is mightier than the sword.....Well, I say f*** the pen, cuz you can Die By the Sword!"

- Tom Arya, Slayer

Obviously he's never seen Casino ...
viscious short people.

[Valzoric]

"Heroism consists of being able to hang on one second longer" ~ Norwegian Proverb

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. " ~ Croesus

"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

[Scarsgaard]

"Sometimes when you win you win, sometimes when you win you lose, sometimes when you lose you win and sometimes when you lose... you lose... what matters is knowing the difference"

Clive Owen, The Croupier

[weyoun]

I've . . . seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those… moments will be lost . . . in time . . . like . . tears . . . in rain. Time . . . to die.

-Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer)

Best movie anti-hero ever!!

[Theris]

"Tell me about an ambush. I ambushed you with a cup of coffee!"

[Pittminion]

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Tryp]

"Time... line? Time isn't made of lines! It is made of circles. That is why clocks are round."

~Caboose, RVB

[Pfamily]

* Who's that than?
+ Uh, must be the King.
* The King? How can you tell?
+ He hasn't got s**t all over him.

-Monty Python

[hennebux]

Nice quotes all !!! A friendly reminder, cite the source if at all humanly possible , I know y'all like alot of the characters quotes, but try and dig deep and name the artist if possible....Thnx

"Work is the curse of the drinking class."
-Oscar Wilde

[Rayzorlew]

A dreamcatcher works, if your dream is to be gay.
-- Demetri Martin

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
-- Henry Youngman

Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
--Winston Churchill

You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither!
-- Drew Carey

My computer goes down on me more often than my girlfriend.
-- Robert Paul

The only way to make your PC go faster is to throw it out a window.
-- Robert Paul

[loki523]

"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."

Sorry Vonnegut. It was thousands of years actually and they were robbing, cheating, and killing each other LONG before the Europeans did it. That's how humans roll...