TheTruth3225 Posted July 8, 2012 Posted July 8, 2012 What are y'all favorite quotes from history/entertainment? Mine is "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of a giant" -Isaac Newton
Moderators Munaus Posted July 8, 2012 Moderators Posted July 8, 2012 "what doesnt destroy me, makes me stronger" Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone knows this from Conan, and it has been my inspiration through all these years
Brunswick Posted July 8, 2012 Posted July 8, 2012 When you were born, your mother told me, a hush fell over the delivery room. A great red birthmark covered the left side of your face. No one knew what to say, so you cried to fill the vacuum. I always admired you for that; that you cried to fill whatever vacuum you found. I began to manufacture vacuums, just to enable you to deploy your talent. The birthmark faded by the time you were six, and had gone completely by the time we met, but your fascination with the empty, and its cure, remained. Those islands in the distance, I am sure, are nothing more than relics of another time, sleeping giants, somnambulist gods laid down for a final dreaming. I wash the sand from my lips and grip my wrist ever more tightly, my shaking arms will not support my fading diaries. Reading Donnelly by the weak afternoon sunlight. He landed on the south side of the island, followed the path to bay and climbed the mount. He did not find the caves and he did not chart the north side. I think this is why his understanding of the island is flawed, incomplete. He stood on the mount and only wondered momentarily how to descend. But then, he didn’t have my reasons. -Dear Esther-
okamikk Posted July 8, 2012 Posted July 8, 2012 "sometimes it makes me a little hazy, is it I, or them, thats crazy" Albert Einstein
Xylord Posted July 8, 2012 Posted July 8, 2012 “Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.” - Cort “A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.” - Roland Deschain I am reading the Dark Tower series right now... It's simply among the most epic books I've read in my life.
Pulse95 Posted July 8, 2012 Posted July 8, 2012 "USA Today; [Newspaper] You suck balls!" -Cenk Uyger/Host of The Young Turks Internet Media
hoho Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 "Teach a man to reason and he'll think for a lifetime" - Phil Plait "There is a cult of ignorance in US, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."" - Isaac Asimov
Jorcer Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 There are only two things in this universe that are infinite, the universe itself and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein
Jiggins Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 “YOLO" -Stupid people of Facebook/Twitter I believe this is one of the greatest ideas to hit the internet in terms of evolution. It accelerates the process of natural selection by slowly killing off the dumb people who use it. An example of the thoughts running through such a person’s mind; “No I shouldn’t, bath salts are dangerous. YOLO”… “That homeless man looks tasty…” That’s probably inappropriate, please don’t take me seriously. I know there are flaws in my theory but I find it amusing.
Xylord Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 “YOLO" -Stupid people of Facebook/Twitter I believe this is one of the greatest ideas to hit the internet in terms of evolution. It accelerates the process of natural selection by slowly killing off the dumb people who use it. An example of the thoughts running through such a person’s mind; “No I shouldn’t, bath salts are dangerous. YOLO”… “That homeless man looks tasty…” That’s probably inappropriate, please don’t take me seriously. I know there are flaws in my theory but I find it amusing. "I'm pretty sure YOLO is Carpe Diem for idiots." Jack Black Quote of the year.
maespinn Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Adlersch Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 I don't smoke, I will never smoke, I have no interest in smoking. But for the record, I am not a non-smoker. That's because I don't label myself based on s**t other people do! - Hal Sparks, on his comedy album Charmageddon.
Torezu Posted July 13, 2012 Posted July 13, 2012 "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald Ford - Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974)
althalus1337 Posted July 25, 2012 Posted July 25, 2012 "Steal one dollar, and you're a petty thief. Steal one hundred dollars, and you're a criminal. Steal a million dollars, and you're a government." - Terry Pratchett And, "In the beginning God created everything, this made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered as a very bad move." - Douglas Adams
Moderators Munaus Posted July 25, 2012 Moderators Posted July 25, 2012 It's going to seem idiotic to say this, but I think that at a given moment we all need a place to ourselves where we can refuge ourselves and cut ourselves off from the world. - Milla Jovovich
cmwatford Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 "Spend all of kakers money" - sct "Übung macht den Meister" - Paul Truesdell
Jorcer Posted July 26, 2012 Posted July 26, 2012 "Übung macht den Meister" - Paul Truesdell Translation: Practice makes perfect "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband I'd poison your tea." -Woman "And if you were my wife I'd drink it." - Winston Churchill
Moderators Munaus Posted July 28, 2012 Moderators Posted July 28, 2012 From the day Man was born, til the day he dies, the only thing he ever needed was someone by his side
jakj Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 "Solid stone is just sand and water, and a million years gone by." - Beth Nielsen Chapman "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James Tiberius Kirk
littleweseth Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Gerald Ford - Presidential address to a joint session of Congress (12 August 1974) Along these lines: "The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."
Zebrin Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 Boredom leads to structured insanity. Minecraft in a nutshell.
FFGF Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 "Atheism flies people to the moon, Religion flies people into buildings" -Unknown- I always loved that quote, every time I hear it I chuckle because it's so true (imo) (not trying to start a religion thread)
Xylord Posted July 28, 2012 Posted July 28, 2012 Along these lines: "The bureaucracy is expanding, to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. " Eugene McCarthy I think I somehow already used it once in those forums, don't remember when.
liXiomm Posted July 29, 2012 Posted July 29, 2012 "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. " Eugene McCarthy "The bureaucracy must expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." - I think it was some guy who helped out with Lewis and Clark, during the expedition westward in those days. Also, I like this one: Stupid is as stupid does. I have met some pretty awesome mentally disabled people who are a LOT smarter than some "intelligent" people at my school. Not trying to be a hater. :P
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