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"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
-- 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
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
"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."
- Ethel Barrett
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.
"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.
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 (attributed)
The combination of bureaucracy and Windows are unbeatable, neither wants to get the work done. - Øystein Sunde
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 (attributed)
The combination of bureaucracy and Windows are unbeatable, neither wants to get the work done. - Øystein Sunde
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
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
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."
"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."
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'
"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'
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 $$$$$$$ - hey, let's raze that land and put up houses to make millions.
idiots.
"nature does not belong to us. we belong to nature."
as a whole, humans don't respect our planet and the fact that nature is a part of us and we're a part of it. we see a wonderful chunk of forest and think $$$$$$$ - hey, let's raze that land and put up houses to make millions.
idiots.
"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
"The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow." -Unknown
"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
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
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
"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
-Tom Clancy
"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)
"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)
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Just to satisfy my inner librarian, there's a whole lot of other favourite quotes in this thread.
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