Collection o'Quotes

[poogie]

What are some of your favourite quotes? They can be about life, love, whatever. They can be song lyrics or pieces of poetry, things that inspire you or help you sustain your resolve.....

/P  

[poogie]

Here are just a few of my favourites, I have quotes everywhere....on my computer, in my planner, scribbled on pieces of paper around my apartment, etc. I love movie quotes and song lyrics but I'll dig all the really good ones out later.

"when the world is puddle-wonderful..."  
ee cummings
(I really love that image of those days when it's raining and you go out in the rain and jump in the puddles. That is so awesome, totally incredible. =))

"If you label me, you negate me."
  anonymous
(when you were a kid did you ever wonder who "anonymous" was? he always had the best quotes of all! :p)

"Snakes have no arms, that's why they don't wear vests."
  Vertigoii
(former nannymudder, this always makes me laugh for some reason. Yes, I'm a dork too.)

"Life's meaning is love's magic."  
anonymous

"Si la estupidez es una virtud, uds son virtuosos." (If stupidity is a virtue, you all are virtuous.)
  At the University of Peru

"Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct, what they like is to be a man's last romance."  
anonymous

"Comedy is life viewed from a distance, tragedy, life in a close up."
  Charlie Chaplin

"I may never get an Oscar but at least I'll have a game."
  Kevin Bacon

"Nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion."
  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"If you don't have anything to do, don't do it here."
  SSG Ray Emerson
(He was one of my sergeants when I was stationed in Hawaii.)

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
  Ernest Hemingway

I'll have more later.

[Kymn]

"I'll be here..."
"Why...?"
"I'll be waiting... here..."
"For what?"
"I'll be waiting... for you... so..
 If you come here...
 You will find me.
 I promise."

Final Fantasy VIII

[Snafu]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it
-tech support quote (I only wish certain people at work would heed it's advice)

/Snafu

[Snapple]

Hmm, my favorite quotes:
"Love is a sexually transmited disease" by Snapple.
and another I truly love:
"It's not rape if it's dead"  by Helmy.

[Allyene]

"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"

- Mr Blonde
Reservoir dogs
_____________

Male grunt
'Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?'

Female grunt
'No, have you?'

- Aliens

[Drig]

I like the two person quote (1st in latin might be mis-spelt - heck I have hard enough time just spelling in English)


"Dulce et decorum est pro patria morie."

"Heck no! It is far sweeter and more noble to let the other idiot die for his."


Annonymous - I think.


The other quote I like was used by my Engineering Physics teacher who could not understand why humanity majors thought his classes were a good science elective over something like general science.

(It sounded better in latin but I only know the English translation).

You can't make sugar from sh!t.

 

[cieran]

I don't know where this is from, I originally saw it in Mouser's plan:

"A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control.
She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve,
by where she is flat or straight or round.
She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers,
by all the outside things that don't ever add up to who she
is on the inside.
And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by
the things she can control, by who she is and who she is
trying to become. Because as every woman knows,
measurements are only statistics.
And statistics lie."

[eris]

I don't know where this is from, I originally saw it in Mouser's plan:

If I remember correctly that is from a Nike commercial.

/Eris

[Sharky]

http://www.beatmort.ro/quotes.html

Though it's a romanian site, the quotes are in english... and they get updated pretty often. (many thanks for this link to the person who posted it on the jokes board)

[Yberiel]

Most of my favourite quotes, I do not know who said or wrote, but here is a few of them, and I do believe I may have translated some of them wrong as well...


I rather be alone, than in a bad company.

Make friends while you don't need them.

To fail is human, but to really mess up takes a computer.

As a rule I avoid temptations, unless they are unresistable - Mae West

He who believes he knows everything, knows nothing.

Poor is he who wishes for more.

The best way to be fooled, is to believe you are so much smarter than everyone else.

[ladychris]

I sometimes like to write this on blackboard without saying a word... it takes kids a few minutes to realize it

(I hope my translation is correct)

"CAUTION! Before activating your tongue, please check your brain is connected."

[Yavathol]

Ok, want to see some of my favoirte sayings?  I thought of just posting them here, but I think you'll enjoy them more with the visuals:

http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

Be sure to browse the rest of the gallery of quotes here.

[Maggs]

Any number of Mohamid Ali quotes:

- no Viet Cong has ever called me nigger.

- look at Miss world is white, look at Miss universe is white. Even
Tarzan, in the middle of black Africa, is white.

- I know I have faults, we all have faults. You know, my greatest
fault is that I just don't realize just how good I am.

The Greatest.

M

[Carrion]

The Greatest.

Yepp, he sure was excellent!