Interesting Quotes

[Karea07]

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
- Gandhi

 

[Hobgoblin]

"Bridges....shouldnt fall down."
-Headline on CNN, covering Minnesota bridge collapse

"There is a word for someone who thinks everyone is out to get them. It starts with a 'p'." "Thats right. 'Perceptive.'"
-Woody Allen, "Curse of the Jade Scorpion"

"Dont p!ss down my back and tell me its raining."
a Clint Eastwood movie

"Truth marries no one."
-Spanish proverb

My personal favorite: "We need not visit a madhouse to find diordered minds; out planet is the mental institution of the universe."
-Goethe

 

[Captain_Death]

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - Albus Dumbledore

 

[hammy]

"You can not run away from weakness. You must fight it out or perish. And, if that be so, why not now - where you stand?"

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[kytrigger]

"Learn to use the friggin' search function." - jaguarr




jag

To be fair, he probably did do a search. The only problem is this thread didn't show up under "bestest kewl kwotes".

 

[Addendum]

"Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's. Never eat food at a place called Mom's."

"You have that vacant look in your eyes that says 'hold my head to your ear and you can hear the sea.'"

"I've always said you can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word."

"On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range."

"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors."

 

[Superhobo]

"NIXON: "Getting assigned to cover Nixon is like being sentence to six months in a holiday inn."
HUMPHREY: "He looks like he died in 1959 and has been frozen over since."
MCGOVERN: "To be President, McGovern would need one dark, kinky streak of Mick Jagger in his soul."
MUSKIE (campaigning in Wisconsin): "He talked like a farmer with terminal cancer trying to borrow money on next year's crop."
WALLACE (campaigning in Florida): " The air was electric even before he started talking, and by the time he was give or six minutes into his spiel I had a sense that the bastard had somehow levitated himself and was hovering over us. It reminded me of a Janis Joplin concert."

Hunter S. Thompson on several presidential campaign contenders in Newsweek (quoted from "Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson by Paul Perry).

And of course...

" We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive.." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going around a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"

 

[OctaviusINC]

^ Hunter S. Thompson, my favorite author. Pure Gonzo journalism.

"Buy the Ticket. Take the ride."

 

[Bill]

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

 

[Superhobo]

^

And if they do, they get a roof dropped on them.

 

[redmarvel]

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

- Cecil Baxter

 

[Zoken]

"the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patirots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson

equally

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" Oscar Wilde

But I prefer...

"The best drink in the Universe is the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains bashed out by a lemon wedge wrapped around a gold brick."

 

[redmarvel]

Stealing from one source is plagiarism.
Stealing from many sources is research.

- Albert Einstein

 

[redmarvel]

"In the U.S., ta-tas are so big, that entire medical specialties, magazines and chicken wing chains are devoted to them. The boob tube has become just that. You can get your eyes poked out changing channels."

- Antonia Zerbisias in a column for The Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/living/Columnist/article/244390

 

[Bill]

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
-George Bernard Shaw

 

[Addendum]

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. - Theodore Roosevelt

 

[MakeMineMarvel]

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

Charles Schultz

 

[Excel]

potential is nothing unless its fullfilled

walk and talk and act like your black think your cool walking with your pants half way down while your still rollong in the rich side of town

 

[redmarvel]

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
- Spider Robinson

 

[Kar]

(During the time of the BP oil spill)

Me: "Aw man you heard China had an oil spill too?"
Eddie: "China's always tryna compete with us."

 

[HisMagicTrick]

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter - Friedrick Nietzsche

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being - Friedrick Nietzsche

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves - Thomas Edison

 

[gn6196]

" It's time for me to stop being afraid , and for other people to start"

Charlie Sheen -The Rookie (1990)

 

[Kane52630]

"If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live." -Tommy Wiseau

 

[Godsfireworks]

"Our job is to let people know when a hazard exists, yet the moment we mention hazard, we are alarmists."

 

[redmarvel]

"Our job is to let people know when a hazard exists, yet the moment we mention hazard, we are alarmists."

Godsfireworks - you forgot to attribute your quote to the originator of the statement.