Favourite Quotes

[amateurmacfreak]

Quotes that have inspired, motivated you, given you a fresh perspection on the world....

What are your favourites? :)

[Foxglove9]

... we have flamethrowers. And what this indicates to me, it means that at some point, some person said to himself, "Gee, I sure would like to set those people on fire over there. But I'm way too far away to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw flame on them."

George Carlin :D

[SamIchi]

“Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

- Victor Hugo

“A riot is the language of the unheard.”

- MLK Jr

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”

- Voltaire

[Frisco]

“For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.”

- Lysander Spooner

[beatsme]

Quotes that have inspired, motivated you, given you a fresh perspection on the world....

What are your favourites? :)

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money." - Henny Youngman

"My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often." - Emo Phillips

"Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans would prefer they do it to someone else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." - PJ O'Rourke

"It is true that liberty is precious-so precious that it must be carefully rationed." - VI Lenin

"The main difference for the history of the world had I been shot rather than Kennedy, is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs. Khrushchev." - Nikita Khrushchev

"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." - Charles D. Warner

"There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that." - Steve Martin

"Where there is much light, there is much shadow." - Goethe

"In war, it is not men but the man who counts." - Napoleon

[Tanglewood]

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." - John F Kennedy

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" - paraphrased from Voltaire

"There is no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in pie, there is an 'I' in meat pie, the anagram of meat is team...I don't know what he is talking about" - Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead 2004)

[beatsme]

"There is no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in pie, there is an 'I' in meat pie, the anagram of meat is team...I don't know what he is talking about" - Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead 2004)

you get mad props for quoting Shaun of the Dead...has to be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. :D

[DZ/015]

My favorite author/poet to quote as of late is Oscar Wilde. Two quotes that stand out are "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability". And for all of those, myself included, in the political forum, "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow".

[Blue Velvet]

F*** you, you f***ing f***!

— Frank Booth

[skunk]

Yeah, I like the poetic qualities of that one, too.

[CellarDoor]

F*** you, you f***ing f***!

— Frank Booth

Blue Velvet was first rated R movie my dad showed me. I was 11 or 12. Unreal film.

"Now it's dark." -Frank Booth

[Manzana]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
-George Santayana

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow."
-King Solomon in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

[skunk]

Gnothi Seauton.

[ZoomZoomZoom]

too close for missiles, i'm switching to guns.

[CHAOS STEP]

Ok any guesses for whom said this;

'The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.'


?????


It is a very true quote.

[zwida]

Ok any guesses for whom said this;

'The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.'


?????


It is a very true quote.

That, I'm afraid, would be Adolf Hitler.

[Gorydays]

"I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your ****in' mouth."

-Bill Hicks

[MultiM]

"Take a joke without being one!"

Unknown


"...I'll kick you till you're dead."

from Moonstruck

[CHAOS STEP]

That, I'm afraid, would be Adolf Hitler.

That was quick.

Other of his classics were;

'Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.'

and

'Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.'

A terrible human Hitler may have been, but he had a few lines in him for sure :D

[sushi]

You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.

From the movie "You Only Live Twice"

[kretzy]

"I want to be effluent mum, effluent!" - Kim Day nee Craig
In case you didn't get it it's supposed to mean affluent
From an Aussie comedy series called Kath and Kim (see avatar). I actually used this quote in a mini-bio that was read out about me when I did my deb. My mother was so embarrassed, but everyone else laughed. :D

[twistedlegato]

You dont know, what you dont know, until you know, what you dont know...


That one is awasome!

[EGT]

Ahh yes, been meaning to start a similar thread myself. I like collecting quotes.

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands at times of challenge and controversy.
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
(George Orwell)

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race"
(no idea who wrote it, but me likes.)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.) - :p

The Wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages May be preserved by quotation.
(Benjamin Disraeli)

More later. :)

[Jaffa Cake]

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race"
(no idea who wrote it, but me likes.)I believe that pearl of wisdom is from Calvin Coolidge.

[rockthecasbah]

Quote from big Stevie J:

"My girlfriend always laughs during sex, no matter what she's reading." :D

[iSaint]

"God does not love us because we are loveable, we are loveable precisely because God loves us."

-Desmond Tutu

Blue Velvet was first rated R movie my dad showed me. I was 11 or 12. Unreal film.

"Now it's dark." -Frank Booth

I want to show my daughter so many movies. But, it's a bit early for her. Blue Velvet is on the list.

[Josias]

"pew pew pew"

Guy in my class.

[zap2]

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain." John Lennon

"You can live with dignity, we can't die with it." House M.D


"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong." John Lennon


"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" Star Wars

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs

[rtharper]

Irish proverb:

Ná nocht d'fhiacla go bhféadair an greim do bhreith.

Don't bare your teeth until you can bite.

[tvguru]

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci

[IJ Reilly]

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. (Zen)

[rtharper]

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
-Leonardo da Vinci

Someone who clearly was never on the wrong end of a TSA glove.

[21stcenturykid]

"you call that a kinife? THIS is a knife!!"

crocodile dundee- haha u know you love it!:p

[dops7107]

Surprised we've waited so long to see this one:

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

- Douglas Adams

[MacRy]

Surprised we've waited so long to see this one:

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

- Douglas Adams

Some more great DNA quotes:

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move"

"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"

"Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast"

Top bloke, sorely missed!

[dops7107]

Top bloke, sorely missed!

He certainly is. Here's a favourite:

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

[ZoomZoomZoom]

"you call that a kinife? THIS is a knife!!"

crocodile dundee- haha u know you love it!:p

The first time I read that quote, it was actually from an "odd news" story about an old lady who had a burgular break into her house. Burgular had a small knife if I remember right, and the old lady pulled out a huge one from the kitchen and said, "you call that a knife? THIS is a knife!"

[Zwhaler]

My mother.... caught me.

George Costanza

:D

[Chundles]

"They just dont understand, you cant buy what i've got. Its not a house, its a home, and a mans home is his castle. Its more than just bricks and mortar, its memories and sentimental stuff. but they seem to think that doesn't mean as much as a big f*cking driveway"

"That is going straight to the pool room."

[satty]

When a true genius appears in the world,
you may know him by this sign,
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift - "Thoughts on various subjects, moral and diverting"

[satty]

"They just dont understand, you cant buy what i've got. Its not a house, its a home, and a mans home is his castle. Its more than just bricks and mortar, its memories and sentimental stuff. but they seem to think that doesn't mean as much as a big f*cking driveway"

"That is going straight to the pool room."

So...
How is the serenity?

I shall watch this one tonight :D

[Chundles]

So...
How is the serenity?

I shall watch this one tonight :D

I dug another hole. It's filling with water.

[®îçhå®?]

too close for missiles, i'm switching to guns.
Top Gun, what a film, one of the best.
I feel the need, the need for speed.

Maverick: Mustang, this is Maverick requesting flyby?
Air Boss Johnson: That's a negative ghostrider, the pattern is full.

flew with your old man. VF-51, the Oriskany. You're a lot like he was. Only better... and worse. He was a natural heroic son of a bitch that one.

[®îçhå®?]

Surprised we've waited so long to see this one:

“The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.”

- Douglas Adams
Hear hear. There are a lot more from the great man.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

[Manzana]

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

-Elwood

[xsedrinam]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

[sushi]

"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses."

-Elwood
Classic! The original Bluesbrothers.

[Stampyhead]

"L'homme découragé tombe souvent." (He who is discouraged often stumbles.)
-Alfred de Vigny

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

[sushi]

Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.

Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito

[FFTT]

Sedagive! Give him a Sedagive! :D

Home!

Young Frankenstein

[MalcolmJID]

"Why.....why is it that the people who are against abortion are the people you wouldn't wanna **** in the first place?"
-George Carlin

[thedude110]

Yeah, well. The Dude abides.


It would be nice
To interfere with the accuracy of the world. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Robertson_(poet))

[calculus]

I've had a good time, but this wasn't it - Groucho Marx

[Peterkro]

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Denis Diderot

[auxplage]

"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."
From W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage

[whooleytoo]

Einstein. Funny guy - pretty clever too, apparently.

"You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving"

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

[Kernow]

Plenty of quotes from Douglas Adams here, but this is my favourite

'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by'

Perfectly encapsulates my approach to work. :D

[jive]

"If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... You keep your f***ing mouth shut."


From the back cover of Cut It Out by Banksy.

[EGT]

Einstein. Funny guy - pretty clever too, apparently.

Good man to quote. :)

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
(Albert Einstein)

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
(Albert Einstein)

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' - a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
(Albert Einstein)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
(Albert Einstein)

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
(Albert Einstein)

[Phat Elvis]

I've always loved John Lennon quotes:

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"Live is what happens to you while your'e busy making other plans."

and I love this one

"A new study suggests that middle-aged adults who go on periodic drinking binges may face a heightened risk of dementia later on in life. The study is entitled, 'National Strategy for Victory in Iraq.'" --Tina Fey

[Lau]

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Goethe


It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Garrison Keillor

[mkrishnan]

"There's one thing I don't understand. The thing I don't understand is every motherf***ing word you're saying."

-- from the movie, The Limey.

:D

[JesseJames]

"Life is like a d**k, it's hard." -Mike Foley, grade school classmate.

[displaced]

"In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it isn't."

-- I Have No Idea!

[oblomow]

The fact that some girls wear ribbons, does not necessarily make them presents.

-dutch standup comedian ( whose name I forgot )

[tobefirst]

"Education is our passport to the future. It belongs to those tomorrow who prepare for it today." Malcolm X

"The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." Not sure

[Felldownthewell]

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
-Munch Edvard

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who Will Guard the Guards?)
-Plato "The Republic"

"Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!"
-Thomas Paine

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherf%&*ing snakes on this motherf#$@ing plane!"
-Sammy L.

[skunk]

Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? (Who Will Guard the Guards?) -Plato "The Republic"Unlikely, as Plato spoke Greek. Try Juvenal's Sixth Satire...

[oblomow]

"To refuse to face facts merely because they are unpleasant is
considered the mark of a weak character, except in the sphere of
religion."

Bertrand Russell - The Value of Free Thought.

[asxtb]

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
-- Holden Caulfield

[xappeal]

"never fry bacon whilst naked"

Mum

[inlimbo]

I dug another hole. It's filling with water.

ha ha! I almost fell of my chair! Your an 'ideas man' Chundles!

"All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art"
George Orwell

"Our guitars are more clitoris substitutes than phallus ones. We stroke them in a nicer, gentler way."
Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead

"Did it ever occur to you that making a speech on economics is just like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but not to anybody else?"
Lyndon Johnson to John Kenneth Galbraith

"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."
George W. Bush

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
JFK

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
JFK

"Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us!"
JFK speaking at the Berlin Wall

I could start on Simpons quotes but I will leave that to someone else. :)

[Lyle]

"You shouldn't have to jump for joy."

[Blue Velvet]

Living well is the best revenge.
- George Herbert

[vniow]

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, dee dee dee dee..."

-Lion King

[Palad1]

Some favorites..
- "King of the who? I didn't vote for you!"
- "You can't make an omelette without killing people".

[mkrishnan]

Santa Claus only brought two things in his bag this year: lollipops and whoop-ass. And I'm all out of lollipops. :D

[Luis]

"Don't take life to serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway.
-Ed Hubbard

"It's not over, 'till it's over"
-Yogi Berra (If I remember correctly)

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"
-Leonardo da Vinci

Luis

[macartistkel]

I have so many favorite quotes...this one kind of relates to what is helping me right now. One of my favorite Photoshop gurus Scott Kelby said the quote below. (And I buy almost every book that he and Dave Cross publish! These guys have helped me soooo much become an advanced Photoshop user)!:)

“I guess these experts felt that if they gave away all of their secrets, it would make them less valuable. I feel exactly the opposite.”
- Scott Kelby

[EmmaSarah]

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, dee dee dee dee..."

-Lion King

Also from "Pinky and Perky" :)

- "I am an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat." - Harold Wilson

- "The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary." - Vidal Sassoon

and finally...

-"Scrolls like butter.." - Steve Jobs

[kill-your-tv]

Here is one of my many favorites:

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.,

Don't have a favorite? Find one: http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/

[calculus]

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx

[devilot]

I dunno if it's my favorite, but it always makes me smile. :o Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

[BoyBach]

"I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."

- Nye Bevan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan)


I've always liked this one.

:)

[mrkramer]

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

[whocares]

"And it eats 8088s for breakfast!"

[spicyapple]

"...scrolls like butter."
– Steve Jobs

[vendettabass]

"if you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might aswel use both feet"

Keith Richards

[smueboy]

See my sig.

[calculus]

See my sig.

That's Groucho in the lead then!

[Fearless Leader]

mrkramer stole mine :mad: :p

edit: found a new Einstein one

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

[mrkramer]

mrkramer stole mine :mad: :p

sorry about that.:D

[johnmartin78]

"When you got'em by the balls,their hearts and minds will follow"

John Wayne.

[RamSlack]

"Ello. My name is Enigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

~Enigo Montoya - The Princess Bride

[BoyBach]

"Ello. My name is Enigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

~Enigo Montoya - The Princess Bride


Great, great, great film!

:)

[poopyhead]

emancipate yourself from mental slavery
none but ourselves can free our minds

bob marley
redemption song

[DMann]

mrkramer stole mine :mad: :p

edit: found a new Einstein one

"NOTHING happens until something moves......"

[Phat Elvis]

Here is a warm and fuzzy one:

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
- Denis Diderot

[psychofreak]

Don't need a gun to blow your mind - John Lennon (whatever gets you through the night)

[smueboy]

That's Groucho in the lead then!

yup! :)


He sure had a way with words (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/groucho_marx.html).

[DMann]

"Never interrupt your enemy while he's making a mistake"

[DMann]

"I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

[MongoTheGeek]

"here I stand, I can do no other."

[calculus]

yup! :)


He sure had a way with words (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/groucho_marx.html).

I love this Groucho/Chico piece from 'A Night At The Opera'

Groucho - "Two beers bartender"

Chico - "I'll take two beers too"

Timeless stuff...

[DMann]

"Being busy isn't the same as accomplishing something."

[Butters]

"Jesus is a C**t" - classic, it's just so offensive and in more than one way

so much so that I'm sure I'll more than likely get in trouble for even repeating it here but meh.

I don't know many other quotes that have caused such a stir and even gotten people thrown in jail just for wearing a t-shirt with it printed on.

[iRachel]

I can't pick just one. Here are some favorites, both serious and non-serious.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx

""In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

[bob909bob]

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

- Salvador Dali

[dllavaneras]

Don't have a favorite quote, but this one has been playing a lot these past weeks on my iPod:

when the gavel descends your freedom ends
and the cost of your choice like lightning descends

Hourglass
"The Hammer's Strike"
CD: Subconscious

[j26]

"Most people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices" - David Bohm

[DMann]

"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be."

[kill-your-tv]

What "they" don't know may not hurt them, but it will
surly kill you.

-

kill-your-tv

[MalcolmJID]

"Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face!"
-John Travolta, Pulp Fiction.

[BigPrince]

1. "Liberals are so darned immature. Too many of them have been convinced that power corrupts always. They are well-meaning people afraid to take action."

2.
The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.

3.
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

[Kernow]

See my sig - very appropriate at the moment for me, with college and work deadlines piling up. It is a Douglas Adams quote.

[dukebound85]

"I suck both ways"

in reference to offense and defense in fooseball lol

[EGT]

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. - Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge (I think?)

[mac 2005]

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

Charles M. Schulz

Few of us ever live in the present, we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Louis L'Amour

[mac 2005]

"here I stand, I can do no other."

Ah, Martin Luther. Ex-ce-llent choice.

[mrkramer]

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.


That reminded me of a few more that I had seen.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949

[IJ Reilly]

Actors who say clever things in movies and on TV rarely deserve credit for them.

--IJ Reilly

[zap2]

John Lennon

''All we are saying is give peace a chance.''

''God is a concept by which we measure our pain.''

''I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!''

''If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.''

''Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.''


Steve Jobs

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

"I wish him(bill Gates) the best, I really do. I just think he(Bill Gates) and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd(Bill Gates) be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once"
Steve Jobs

See sig for House M.D.

[Zwhaler]

"...scrolls like butter."
– Steve Jobs

Haha! That one is always funny.

See sig for House M.D.

Great episode... House is the best! It comes back in 2 weeks I believe...

[fivetoadsloth]

Tragedy is when i cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks.

[Fearless Leader]

not a real person but...

Bite My Shiny Metal Ass. --Bender

[asxtb]

Wirelessly posted (Vodafone/1.0/V705SH/SHJ001 Browser/VF-NetFront/3.3 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

Frankenstein never scared me. Marsupials do... cuz they're fast!

[furious]

"You know "that look" women get when they want sex? Me neither."
-- Steve Martin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
-- Jimi Hendrix

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
-- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely."
-- Lubna Azmi

"Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut."
-- Robert Newton Peck

"One of the hardest things to imagine is that you are not smarter than average."
-- Jonathan Fuerbringer

"You´re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
-- Dean Martin

:p

[mac-convert]

You know I was talking to my friend Desdemona the other day.
She runs this space station and bake shop down near Boomtown.
She told me that human beings are flawed individuals.
The cosmic bakers took us out of the oven a little too early.
And that's the reason we're as crazy as we are and I believe it.

Jimmy Buffett - "Fruitcakes"

[xsedrinam]

[Graffitti on a wall in downtown Bogotá, Colombia]
"La inteligencia me persigue, pero soy más rápido."
Intelligence is chasing me, but I'm much faster.

and

"You'd be paranoid too, if everyone was out to get you."
-anonymous

[devilot]

"You'd be paranoid too, if everyone was out to get you."
-anonymousI love it. :D Thanks for the smile. :D

[iBlue]

So many come to mind but one that always stands out for me is:


"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."
- Ethel Barrett

[xtopher]

im suprised no body said "do or do not. there is no try"- all wise Yoda:D

[Apemanblues]

"Who died and made you f*****g king of the zombies? "

Ed - Shaun of the Dead

[siurpeeman]

it's not my favorite but it's the best thing i've heard all year.

"you don't call retarded people retards. it's bad taste. you call your friends retards when they're acting retarded."

michael scott - the office.

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

There are no stupid questions, just stupid people... - Mr. Garrison (South Park)

What Jesus fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem. - Reg (John Cleese) in Life of Brian

If you're just passing time, use a PC. If you want anything done use a Mac. - Øystein Sunde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98ystein_Sunde) (attributed)

The combination of bureaucracy and Windows are unbeatable, neither wants to get the work done. - Øystein Sunde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98ystein_Sunde)

[bartelby]

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Only sick music makes money today.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Apemanblues]

I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas handing on the wall behind him, and God asks me, "Why?"
Why did I cause so much pain?
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love?
I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong.
We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
And God says, "No, that's not right."
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 30

[Cassie]

My favorite:

"I've often tried to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming."- Jimmy Carter.



George Burns is always good for a few-

"I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."

"You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there."

[psychofreak]

I've already posted, but this one just screamed out to me while listening to a Ramones song (Substitute-originally by The Who)

"I look pretty young but I'm just backdated"

I am waiting to say that to the next person who says 'you look pretty young for your age'

[Keebler]

grey owl once said (and i'm not a die hard environmentalist, but we need to listen and understand this one better :)

"nature does not belong to us. we belong to nature."

as a whole, humans don't respect our planet and the fact that nature is a part of us and we're a part of it. we see a wonderful chunk of forest and think $$$$$$$ - hey, let's raze that land and put up houses to make millions.

idiots.

[tobefirst]

"Education is our passport to the future. It belongs to those tomorrow who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X

"The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." -Unknown

[TheBusDriver]

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? We make tools for these kinds of people. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do."--Apple Computer

[IJ Reilly]

George Burns is always good for a few-

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

[USMaC]

"Never ask a man what kind of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"

-Tom Clancy

[BigPrince]

"Never ask a man what kind of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?"

-Tom Clancy
Well I think thats one of my new favorate quotes.

[kill-your-tv]

Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire

[apple1984]

"And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
-Paul McCartney, as originally sung in "The End"

[zap2]

"There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank." Ringo Starr



"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." John Lennon

"Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone." George Harrison

"It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." House M.D.


And my sig has one!(Already talked aboit before in this thread, as possible w/ some of my quotes)

[paddy]

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - one Woody Allen quotes that I love.

The one in my sig is by Oscar Wilde.

[Lau]

Just to satisfy my inner librarian, there's a whole lot of other favourite quotes in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=231898). :)

[Mod note: Threads merged... thanks! :)]

[ghall]

See below.

[nickster9224]

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello goodbye.-Jimi Hendrix

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

(Copied this one from somewhere recently, but cannot remember where :o)

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
- Doctor Who

[Lau]

Just read this on the Guardian letters page and rather liked it.

The fundamental philosophy of the right is: "It's a tough world out there and you've got to look after your own.". That of the left is, or should be: "It's a tough world out there and we've got to look after each other."

It was written by a man called Michael Peel from London.

[Angelus]

If you stay at Pepsi, five years from now all you'll have accomplished is selling a lot more sugar water to kids. If you come to Apple you can change the world."

Steve Jobs to John Sculley