Collection o'Quotes

[Snafu]

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.

There's one we used to hang on our cubicles...a guy has his head stuck..well..where the sun don't shine...and it says something to the effect of:

Sometimes it's good to see things from the customer's point of view.

*snicker*

/Snafu

[Oasis]

Ty Webb: Do you take drugs Danny?

Danny Noonan: Everyday.

Ty Webb: Good, so what's the problem?

  -Caddyshack


"One day you'll know what love truly is.  It's the sour and the sweet. And I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet."

  -Jason Lee in 'Vanilla Sky'


I know I should get next to you
You've got a look that makes me think you're cool
I know it's just sexual attraction
It's not for real so I better keep a whackin'

Why bother?
It's gonna hurt me
It's gonna kill when you desert me
This happened to me twice before
It won't happen to me anymore

  -Weezer  'Why Bother' from "Pinkerton"


And of course just about any line by Gene Wilder in 'Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory'

[Yberiel]

I was watching some tv the other day, a rerun of Friends. And our dear Rachel had just finnished reading a book about some attic and wind and how the guys always steal the ladies wind. She was a little upset with Ross at one point and she said the very unforgetable words:

How do you expect me to grow, when you wont let me blow?

I just love that quote.


Ybbie..

[Kei]

Quotes are something I collect...  so to keep this from being pages and pages and pages long, I'll just take the favorite from the first few pages of the file.

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
   -Charles A. Beard

The Old Testament says it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak, and now nothing short of a miracle will keep one quiet
      -Life magazine, 1896

Hold it!  Everybody freeze!  One of the sandwiches just moved!
   -Hawkeye

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
   -Stanislaw Lem

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
   -Marie Curie

"Exactly.  There are all sorts of dream interpretations.  Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed that they serve a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.  And that people who don't dream - or don't dream in a way that they can remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way.  After all, the only practical compensation for having a nightmare is waking up and realizing that it was just a dream."
   -Glen Bateman, Stephen King's The Stand

Peace is better than war, because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
   -Croesus to Cambyrses

"One good reason for looking again at the Second World War is to remind ourselves how badly the world's leaders performed and how bravely they were supported by their suffering populations.  Half a century has passed, and the time has come to sweep away the myths and reveal the no less inspiring gleam of that complex and frightening time in which evil was in the ascendant, goodness diffident, and the British - impetuous, foolish, and brave beyond measure - the world's only hope.
   -Len Deighton

You can't depend upon your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
   -Mark Twain

"Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity.  It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind."
   -Thomas Paine

"I do not say this lightly.  I've asked myself many times whether my work in the Resistance was worth losing my health, my marriage, and ten years of my life, which is what it took before I could get hold of my nerves, get my energy back, and give myself completely to my work.  Was it worth those endless nights, for years after the war, waking up from terrible nightmares, fighting, screaming, and soaking wet?  ...Was everything I did for the Resistance really worth everything I went through in the KZ's and would I do it again?
My answer is still the same.  Yes.  Because without freedom life is nothing.  Never, never, do I want to live - or have those I love live - in hate, fear, and suppression.  And yes, yes, I would do it again.  And again and again."   
   -Svend Aage Holm Soreson

"Words are...the most powerful drug used by mankind."
   -Rudyard Kipling

There's a sampling.

[Hewe]

"Words are...the most powerful drug used by mankind."
   -Rudyard Kipling

I had never heard one like that, very nice 

[Hewe]

"It is nice to see old good Simyarins back, especially those who have many stories to tell about previous lives"

- A Simyarin

[Tredon]

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Oscar Wilde

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
Groucho Marx

[Hewe]

Any idiot can become Minar-Im-Simyarin. I am the living proof.
Tredon

I hope you are not thinking of me when saying this 

 

 

[Hewe]

and I was joking