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This is my first thread in General!!!! :D

Anywho, we've all heard some good quotes over the years. Which are you most fond of? Come forth, ladies and gentlemen, and list the quotes you've heard! Come one, come all!

(Please say who said the quotes too!)

"Some would say that Segways spoil the game of Polo. But doesn't giving the horses cocaine so that they'll run faster run the game as well?"

"Oh go head butt a bullet"

Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window.

"Why do i stay home and play on the 'net? cuz you have to take condoms to punk shows." -- callei

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. - Clement Freud.

People forget that Lennox Lewis is far from being whiter than white. - Radio 5 Live

If you're the chairman of a football club, and cocaine abuse is going on, you're going to have to take a line on it. - Graham Spiers

There were 150 drug-related deaths in Glasgow last year, an all-time high. - Emma Simpson.

Woman: My twin sister died when she was 54
Kilroy: How old were you then?

Interviewer: What do you think will happen if sperm donors' identities are revealed to their offspring?
Fertility Expert: It would be disastrous! They would just stop coming.
- Radio 4

And my one concession to a serious quote -

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
- William Pitt the Younger

"99% of all women kiss with their eyes closed. Which is why it's so difficult to identify a rapist."

"good thing stupidity doesn't hurt.. you would be in such pain... "

"A day without laughter is a day most wasted"

"99% of all women kiss with their eyes closed. Which is why it's so difficult to identify a rapist."
Ouch. I am most surely going to hell.

"Politicians are swine. You cannot reason with swine. You must hit them on the nose with a stick." - Bertold Brecht

"A Man is So In The Way In The House"
-Elizabeth Gaskell

I'M PASSING OUT BANS AS IF THEY WERE CANDY! WHOOOOO!
xxxxx

"God, if you can't make me skinny, please make my friends fat"
"Pul the pin and count to what?"
"She's got too much blood in her alcohol system"
"Show me the Tuna!"
"Gin, the fun way to your 5-a-day"

"I'm not working class, I'm Jewish!"
"She'd Rather have Colonel Gadaffi round for drinks than be seen dead in C&A!"
"The Carpet cleaners came a day early and the stupid au pair let them in.I told Marcus we shouldn't have a German but he said 'live and let live""
"I'm saying nothing, but it weren't me that left cards in every sweetshop window in Edmonton "Swedish Message". I hope your S**ual services are better than your spelling"
- Birds of a Feather

"Three Musketeers who never say die: Me, Myself and I"
- Chicago
"So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?"

KES Quotes:
"Farthings? They're extinct aren't they"
"I Thought you only had Christians in England 'cos it's the Church of England"

Former Quotes Of The Week:
"don't trust anybody ... not your favourite grandchild, not a bearded man lugging a cross through your living room"
"NASA isn't Rocket Science"

"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly"
-The Third Man

""Where Can I get some Curare?" "You Could try Boots""
"I am NOT Ding-Donging On Any Cow's Terminals!"
- Oh, Doctor Beeching!


"IT IS NOT GOING WELL"
"Where are you?"
"I HAVE STOLEN A BREAD VAN AND I'M CHASING MICHAEL DOWN MICHIGAN AVENUE"...
"When he kissed you, did he Kiss you back?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WERE LIP TO LIP!"
-My Best friend's wedding.

Quote of the Week:
Bree: "Phyllis, I am going to hire security for the funeral. Those security men are going to be armed with sticks and if you so much as step into that church they will be instructed to beat you with those sticks."

Carlos: "So my Lawyer's in traction and the Prison's on lockdown because you got h*rny?"
-Desperate Housewives.

Mark Twain's summation of Rhodes ("I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake"), from Chapter LXIX of Following the Equator.

Poss C. Rhodes quotes:
How can I possibly dislike a sex to which Your Majesty belongs?
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.
So little done, so much to do.

Qui desiderat pacem,praeparet bellum-Vegetius

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Hunter S. Thompson

"Good people drink good beer."

Hunter S. Thompson

(We were talking about "family" and "names" in my class, and one of the kids in my class was sooo cute!)
"So who has a last name?"
"Stitch has a last name!" (check out Disney movie Lilo and Stitch)
"Really? What is it?"
"NO. Just like my dog. They are brothers."

***

"Politics? I know all about politics. 'Poly' means many, and 'tics' are tiny, nasty blood sucking bugs that just dig and dig under your skin, sucking away all that is vital in life. That's called Taxes."

***

"Are you a woman or a blacksmith?"

"Sometimes I'm both."

~A Knights Tale

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"I hate being afraid. I hate it more than anything in the whole world. I hate being made to feel helpless. I hate being bullied, too, and (Mab) may as well have been raming (her) fist down my throat and demanding my lunch money."

~Jim Butcher, SUMMER KNIGHT (book 4 of the Dresden Files)

This is one I saw the other day that made me smile


"Les poissons de la mer parlent Breton."
-Jack Kerouac

I was playing Call of Duty 4 the other day, saw these:

I thought this was funny, having ridden in a number of military helicopters.

"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."
-Unknown

I thought this has more than a bit of truth to it.

"Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."
-Vladimir Putin

Qui desiderat pacem,praeparet bellum-Vegetius

errare humanum est-Seneca the Younger.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Kind of fits some things going on in the world right now.

From my favorite movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/)

"Ah, experience has conditioned you into thinking that all hearts are red and all spades are black because their shapes are similar. It's easier for your mind to interpret them based on that past experience instead of being open to the idea they could be different. We see what we expect to see, not necessarily what's really there. Children who have never played cards always pass this test. Makes you wonder how many other things are right in front of you - sights, sounds, smells that you can't experience because you've been conditioned not to. The good news is, if we do the test again, you'll pass. Once you're aware that there can be black hearts and red spades you'll be able to perceive them. Our brain's wiring is like the interstate highway system. It's easier to go from one well-traveled place to another. But the places in between, off the highway, even though they're there, most people zip right past them."

Bob Cody: Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know that if everybody follow that rule, there'd be a lot less trouble. Now, we still have a contract Mr. Oliver. I sure hope you're not thinking about breaking that contract.
Neal Oliver: Thinking about it? Yes. Doing it? No, Sir.
Bob Cody: [laughs] That's a very honest response. That's a breath of fresh air.

"Ever hear of Frederick Turner, Mr. Oliver? Well, he was an historian. About a hundred years ago he came up with a theory about the frontier. He said the frontier was a safety valve for civilization, a place for people to go to keep from goin' mad. So, whenever there were folks who couldn't fit in with the way things were, nuts, and malcontents, and extremists, they'd pack up and head for the frontier. That's how America got started - all the crackpots and troublemakers in Europe packed up and went to a frontier which became the Thirteen Colonies. When some people couldn't fit in with that, they moved farther west, which is why all the nuts eventually ended up in California. Turner died in 1932, so he wasn't around long enough to see what happened to the world when we ran out of frontier. Some people say we have the frontier of the mind, and they go off and explore the wonderful world of alcohol and drugs, but that's no frontier. It's just another way for us to fool ourselves. And we've created this phony frontier with computers, which allows people to, you know, think they've escaped. A frontier with access fees?"

"As we accelerate towards that on coming truck... which should be here in about... oh... 25 seconds. think about this. If we are dead, then this is the afterlife. and you accepted a job, signed in blood, from a man who knew everything about you including what you were going to say and when you will say it. Now who could that man be and would it be a good idea to piss him off?"

"High school... that's all it is, just a different name, but it's all the same. instead of a principal, you got a boss. instead of teachers, you got managers and supervisors. loading the trucks, well... that's just homework, and if you fuck that up, you're fired... instead of expelled. the names are different, but it's still the same... High School."

I could shower you with literary quotes, but I don't think that's what you're going for. ;) Still, here are some of my favourites:

"I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words so damning and brilliant.

None of those things however came out of my mouth.

All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.

A LAST NOTE FROM YOUR NARRATOR:

I am haunted by humans."

- Death, The Book Thief, Markus Zusak.

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"I suddenly feel that Henry is there, an incredible need for Henry to be there and to put his hands on me even while it seems to me that Henry is the rain and I am alone and wanting him."

- The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger.

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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten than we belong to each other."

- Mother Teresa

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Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, trying telling the storm how big your god is.

- Unknown

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"This made her so angry that she did the dishes. We never did this unless we were trying to be grand and self-destructive. I stood in the doorway and tried to maintain my end of our silence while watching her scratch at calcified noodles. In truth, I have not yet learned how to hate anyone but my parents. I was actually just standing there in love. I was not even really standing; if she had walked away suddenly, I would have fallen."

- "Something That Needs Nothing", No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July.

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Anyway. I have a notebook full of them. :p

"That, Mr. Anderson, is the sound... Of inevitability."

"Everyone's sexy in the dark"
-A drunk friend

Heck... from IMDB's Quote page for "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death"

Dr. Kurtz: This is a war! A war between men and women. Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

***

Frat Rat: This is gonna be a toga party and a beer bust, and for special girls like you, we are going to be having a wet T-shirt contest.
Bunny: But all my T-shirts are dry.

***

Jim: Do you know what jungle herb cures the poisonous bite of the river snake? Do you know where the only land route is around the white waters of death? Do you know the way through the secret maze caves that lie underneath Hangman's Cliff? Huh, do you?
Margo Hunt: Well, no, I don't. Do you?
Jim: Well, no, but I have this paperback.

***

Dr. Margo Hunt: Dr. Kurtz, I'm unfamiliar with the academic guidelines at Radcliffe, but I would think any major university would consider warring on the United States and eating prisoners of war a serious breach of ethics.
Dr. Kurtz: Always the cautious scholar, huh, Dr. Hunt?

***

Dr. Margo Hunt: Bunny, Bunny, you don't have to live your life to please me. The important thing is that you're happy. And as for what I've taught you, well, listen, I've always believed that every woman should get as much education and intellectual stimulation as possible, and that she should develop her mental abilities to their utmost potential. But in your case, well, there's just no point.

***

Dr. Kurtz: All right, I was exploiting the Piranha women. You don't know what it was like. David Letterman, God, the horror... the horror of that show... the horror.

***

Dr. Margo Hunt: The women of this jungle must unite, and I'm going to settle a score with a certain renegade ethnographer.

***

Jim: I'd rather have you kill me than make me a gelding.

***

Jim: Gee, you guys are pretty big, for wimps. Of course, the joke's on you when those broads come back and start picking out ingredients for chicken McMacho.

***

Jim: Bunny, don't worry! You'll save me!

***

Dr. Margo Hunt: The secret temple of the Piranha women. Their architecture is surprisingly advanced.
Jim: It looks like a big lego to me.

***

Bunny: I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

***

Jim: All you women have ever done is, what? Some French chick invented kryptonite, or something.

***

Margo Hunt: It was a one-night stand. I was half-drunk and left right after we had sex. We didn't say eight words to each other, and all yours were composed of one syllable.
Jim: Hah! Just like you to count the words, Dr. Hunt.

***

Margo Hunt: They're an ancient commune of feminists, so radical, so militant, so left of center they... they eat their men.
Bunny: Oh, that. Well, if I like a guy, I usually start at...
Margo Hunt: They don't eat their men like that, Bunny.

***

Dr. Margo Hunt: Can I tell you a secret I've never told anyone before?
Bunny: Sure.
Dr. Margo Hunt: In a way, Jim is right; I am afraid of men. My relationships have been, well, I've had a lot of one-night stands. A little to drink, you know, give myself an excuse, then I subconsciously fall for jerks I know I'll never be emotionally involved with. It's all so empty, passionless, really. I guess deep down I'm afraid that there can never be any real respect or equality between the sexes, not really. I've avoided commitment because I'm afraid I'll be emotionally dominated by my lover or equally sad that I dominate him. I guess that seems kind of strange, huh?
Bunny: Can I tell you something too, Dr. Hunt, something I've never told anybody before?
Dr. Margo Hunt: Of course, Bunny, I'm glad we get to share this.
Bunny: Well, sometimes when I'm with a guy, I wish that he'd tie me up with red licorice ropes, and then spank me, and then he'd eat the ropes, and then he'd free me, and then we'd make love while the Philharmonic played "Bolero".
Dr. Margo Hunt: Thank you, Bunny, you've really put my thoughts in perspective.
Bunny: I feel better too.

***

Margo Hunt: San Bernardino, a rough speck of civilization on the edge of the avocado belt. We'll head down to some local establishments and see if we can find a mercenary to guide us through the jungle.
Bunny: [scared] I've never been to San Bernardino before.
Margo Hunt: Don't worry, Bunny,
[pulls out gun]
Margo Hunt: we'll be all right.

***

Jim: Oh my God, you're marinating me!

***

Dr. Kurtz: There's your sacrifice. If you wish to become a piranha woman you must first take his body, and then his life. What is your decision?
Dr. Margo Hunt: I refuse to kill another human being in cold blood. However, in deference to your cultural traditions, I would be willing to have sex with him.
Dr. Kurtz: Forget it! You want your cake, you'll have to eat it.

***

Ford Maddox: We don't care if these girls want to eat their men. That's the Piranha Man's problem. We just want the avocados.

***

[first lines]
[Fred and Sam are hacking their way through the Avocado Jungle with machetes, then pause to take stock of their situation]
Fred: We're lost.
Sam: No, we're not - look! Over there!
[the camera zooms in on an avocado hanging from a twig. The two guys approach it, and Sam pulls the avocado into his hand. Fred takes it and stashes away]
Fred: Sam.
Sam: Yeah?
Fred: I think we should head back. We're getting in too deep.
Sam: Oh, don't - Wait a second. What's that I hear? It sounds like... women! Laughing!
Fred: Let's get outta here.
Sam: No, no, come on, man, don't be such a coward. Let's check this out!
[He gleefully pushes the foliage aside and strides forward; Fred follows. A small waterfall roars down into an idyllic scene: a pond filled with gorgeous women who have bare breasts and perfect tans. They are giggling, diving, and splashing around]
Sam: Look at them! They're beautiful! Aren't they the most lovely, sensuous, inviting women you've ever seen?
Fred: Let's get outta here.
Sam: What are you, nuts? Look at them!
Fred: They're dangerous!
Sam: They don't look dangerous.
[a brunette tosses a ball to a blonde. It's all very innocent-seeming]
Sam: They look... lonely.
[Fred looks at him incredulously]
Fred: [whispering] We have to get out of here.
Sam: Yeah? Well, I'm gonna go introduce myself. Yoohoo! Ladies! Ladies!
[a moment later, the Amazons are armed with bows and arrows. Sam falls dead with an astonished look on his face. Fred turns to run, and in a parody of all the clichés, trips and falls - as the Amazons pursue him]

***

[At the end of a class about gender relations, Bunny rushes up to Dr. Hunt, who is erasing the blackboard]
Bunny: Dr. Hunt, I just love your class!
Margo Hunt: Well, thank you, Bunny. You can call me Margo.
Bunny: [in a rush of enthusiasm] I like it so much, I've been thinking about changing my major from Home Economics to Feminist Studies, but I wasn't sure if you had any feminist cooking classes.
Margo Hunt: I don't think we do, no. Interesting thought, though.

Just because you fear death doesn't mean you love life.

To desire the means is to desire the ends.

This is my first thread in General!!!! :D

Anywho, we've all heard some good quotes over the years. Which are you most fond of? Come forth, ladies and gentlemen, and list the quotes you've heard! Come one, come all!

(Please say who said the quotes too!)I'll be back on this. Some great ones, to be sure.

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-Thomas Jefferson

Frankie Boyle on Margaret Thatcher...

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t76/Cesc_Iker_Torres/Musicians/comedians/Frankie%20Boyle/1466049739_l.jpg

"Three million pounds for her state funeral? For that money you could buy every person in Scotland a shovel, and we could all dig a hole so big we could hand over the bitch to Satan himself..."


made me clap at the TV tonight ;)

"What is fear? You will all have it, especially those of you who go into combat arms. So let me tell you what fear is...its an acronym.

False
Emotions
Appearing
Real

Whenever you get scared, you remember that, and you'll pull through."

-Sergeant First Class Rogers.

(he was my platoon sergeant for Red Phase of RSP)

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.-Thomas Jefferson.

Chairman Mao quotes!

"In order to build a great socialist society, it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to join in productive activity. Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."

"Our purpose is to ensure that literature and art fit well into the whole revolutionary machine as a component part, that they operate as powerful weapon for uniting and educating the people and for attacking and destroying the enemy, and that they help the people fight the enemy with one heart and one mind."

"You have many good qualities and have rendered great service, but you must always remember not to become conceited. You are respected by all, and quite rightly, but this leads easily to conceit, If you become conceited, if you are not modest and cease to exert yourselves, and you do not respect others, do not respect the cadres and the masses, then you will cease to be heroes and models. There have been such people in the past, and I hope you will not follow their example."

"The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression."

"My wife has threatened divorce if I ever use the phrase "bowling ball grip" in her presnce again"

"Tommorrow we get to report to the base in Full Service Dress to hear Canned Speech #44 about how we are all bags of fuck and such a disappointment from visiting Senator Reid. A guy who couldn't lead a charge to a whore house on payday during the nickel-a-blow-job fundraiser to sponsor breast implants for local strippers."

"When a belt is in the gun,
Don't ride the bolt, it is not fun.

Don't ride it soft, don't ride it hard
'Cause if you do, you are a 'tard!"

"If you get into a confrontation with more than four, you have managed to piss off organized crime members and they have put a hit out on you and your family. You should have realized this and been carrying a lot more than a pistol at that point."

"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

"It's wonderful to be back in Oregon. Over the last 15 months, we've travelled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go, even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

"I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience today, our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."

- Barack Obama, 2008 Democratic Presidential Candidate (presumptive)

Morituri nolumus mori - Rincewind (from discworld series)
--Translated --
We who are about to die don't want to

A very good one that someone quoted at me recently was this:

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
E.E. Cummings

"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still" - old proverb

"Any problem created by a tank, can be solved by a tank." ~ Peter Griffin.

"A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?" ~ Ronald Reagan

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement." ~ Ronald Reagan

"How can a president not be an actor?" ~ Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." ~ Ronald Reagan

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." ~ Ronald Reagan

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans." ~ Ronald Reagan

"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." ~ John Lennon

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." ~ John Lennon

QUOTE=Neo-Ixania;13842495]This is my first thread in General!!!! :D

Anywho, we've all heard some good quotes over the years. Which are you most fond of? Come forth, ladies and gentlemen, and list the quotes you've heard! Come one, come all!

(Please say who said the quotes too!)[/QUOTE]

One night I was posting drunk on the forums and admitted it. A dude posted back, hey dude friends dont let friends post drunk.

lol.

Cant remember who posted it. I would have to search through thousands of posts and nations, perhaps not find it.

My brother, about 20 minutes ago: "They're not Christians, they're pope fans."

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-Leeroy Jenkins

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-Leeroy Jenkins

"Yeah but I have chicken!"

Not a WoW fan but I saw that on you tube.

"Only damage to my frontal love will fix this problem." - My Brother

This is my first thread in General!!!! :D

Anywho, we've all heard some good quotes over the years. Which are you most fond of? Come forth, ladies and gentlemen, and list the quotes you've heard! Come one, come all!

(Please say who said the quotes too!)

I can't remember who said it, but whoever it was thank you :D
"If you don't shut up I'm going to headbutt you with one of those awesome spiky German helmets."

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Churchill

Bumped. Good quotes, gentleman and ladies. :)

Max Mosley doesn't do Nazi themed orgy’s, but if he did, they'd be the best Nazi themed orgy’s in the world.

"A genius must spend some time drunk to be able to interact with his fools" -Ernest Hemingway

Or something like that, I forget the exact words.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.-- Douglas Adams

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.-- Bertrand Russell

Most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so. -- Bertrand Russell

Religion has actually convinced people … that there's an invisible man … living in the sky … who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do! And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry, forever and ever, 'til the end of time! … But he loves you! … He loves you. He loves you and he needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, but somehow – just can't handle money! -- George Carlin

Saladin:: Will you yield the city?
Balian:: Before I lose it, I will burn it to the ground. Your holy places - ours. Every last thing in Jerusalem that drives men mad.
Saladin:: I wonder if it would not be better if you did.
-- Kingdom of Heaven

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.-- Carl Sagan


And, a rather longer one, but a really great one:

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness -- not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another.

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men (cries out for universal brotherhood) for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world -- millions of despairing men, women and little children -- victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say -- do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed -- the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people.

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes -- men who despise you -- enslave you -- who regiment your lives -- tell you what to do -- what to think and what to feel! Who drill you -- diet you -- treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men -- machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your heart.

Don't hate! Only the unloved hate -- the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the 17th Chapter of St. Luke it is written: "the Kingdom of God is within man" -- not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power -- the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!
Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah. The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world, a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed and brutality.

Look up, Hannah. The soul of man has been given wings, and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow -- into the light of hope, into the future, the glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up.
-- Charlie Chaplin, in The Great Dictator

My friend An, the bartender, explaining why she didn't mind helping our friend H to vomit on Saturday night. "She was so polite and grateful about it. You really couldn't be mad. She was like a cute little vomitting kitten.

''I reject your reality and substitute my own''-Adam Savage

My little sister: "Sister Regina called me a useless bag of protoplasm. . . . But I think she meant it as a compliment!!"

Girl playing Halo with her boyfriend, said in a baby-talk voice: "Let's go on a killing spree, schmuckums!"

Bumboat: If tis were a boobacracy, Dubsy would be president!

"What is fear? You will all have it, especially those of you who go into combat arms. So let me tell you what fear is...its an acronym.

False
Emotions
Appearing
Real

Whenever you get scared, you remember that, and you'll pull through."

-Sergeant First Class Rogers.

(he was my platoon sergeant for Red Phase of RSP)

2 other acronyms- Face Everything And Recover, & Fuck Everything And Run.


"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin

"I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a lovely letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"The beatings will continue until the morale improves!" - idk

''I reject your reality and substitute my own''-Adam Savage

Actually that quote is older than you think (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyThink). It actually comes from a 1985 film called The Dungeonmaster.

2 other acronyms- Face Everything And Recover, & Fuck Everything And Run.

Only 2?

F.E.A.R.

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Find everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason
Forgive everybody and remember

For each a road
For everyman a religion
Face everybody and rule
For everything and rumble
Forget everything and remember
For everything a reason

You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)

Final eternity arouses reactions
Freeing excellence affects reality
Fallen empires are ruling
Find earth and reef

Fantastic expectations
Amazing revelations
Final execution and resurrection
Free expression as revolution
Finding everything and realizing

You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)

(Fantastic expectations
Amazing revelations
Finding everything and realizing
For everything a reason)

F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
F.E.A.R. (You got the fear)
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear
You got the fear

This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and sees old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian."
Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars,
And say, "These wounds I had on Crispian's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words,
Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd,
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks,
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

* King Henry, scene iii

If it's read aloud, it's by far the most kick-ass speech ever.

Actually that quote is older than you think (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OlderThanTheyThink). It actually comes from a 1985 film called The Dungeonmaster.

how i could have known that?i wasn't even born then!

how i could have known that?i wasn't even born then!

Nor was I. ;)

how i could have known that?i wasn't even born then!

Nor was I. ;)

Youngin's

*shakes head*

Oh wait, neither was I :p

Only 2?

Hadn't seen this before, thanks!:wink:

"If we took YOUR brain, & shoved it up a gnat's ass, it would rattle around like a BB in a boxcar" - Overheard, I forget where.

Hadn't seen this before, thanks!:wink:

It's a song by Ian Brown.

"I hate broccoli, and yet, in a certain sense, I am broccoli."

"You know, though today was the worst day of my life, I learned many things. First, the world looks a lot different when you're six inches tall and covered with feathers. Second, two heads are definitely not better than one. And finally, you can lay eggs and still feel like a man."

"when you spend two months riding around on a really big man, you start to learn a few things about yourself. You learn that it is a really great thing to stay on Earth and live in a place that has no arms or legs of its own. And most importantly, Arthur, you learn how to close your eyes and tell yourself that this just isn't happening to me. "

"Ah savory cheese puffs, made inedible by time and fate"

Just caught the vid on YouTube, not bad; a little mellower than I normally listen to, but nice.

Just caught the vid on YouTube, not bad; a little mellower than I normally listen to, but nice.

Aye, it's no Illegal Attacks. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfBH1IJkWo&feature=related)

Quadrupal negatives for the win.

"It's contact for contracts"

Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other, and cultivate the principles of union and friendship. I am just as ready to die defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination.

- Joseph Smith

a good recent quote? hmmmm....


"Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine" - Guy Ritchie

"You can get more with a gun and a kind word, then with just a kind word"

"I drank WHAT?!" - Socrates :tongue:

Slogans are for people who cant think in full sentences.

"My spoon is too big!" - random stick figure

"Some say democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried." - Winston Churchill

"Never bring a sword to a gun fight" - no idea who

"Your lack of pants is disturbing" - forgot who, one of my friends... :D

"Illegal immigrants who come into this country illegally, are breaking the law" - Guess who

"Never bring a sword to a gun fight" - no idea who



Indiana Jones????

Indiana Jones????

Really? :eek: I completely forgot, I still don't remember!

"The British Constitution is based on of precedent, custom, and what you can get away with."

~~~Guest columnist for the Times.