Post Your Favourite Quotes....

[Jaimoe]

I know it's scripted, but I've used part of this dialogue since I first heard it when it first aired back in 1978.

From WKRP:

Les: No parachutes yet. Can't be skydivers... I can't tell just yet what they are, but - Oh my God, Johnny, they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!

Johnny: Les? Are you there? Les isn't there. (composing himself) Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les, and for those of you who just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven.

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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

- Al Gore

Vint Cerf says so too... Gore took the initiative to promote the technology heavily and was really the only politician who realised how important it could be. I doubt we'd be using this medium right now without Gore.

Thanks for all the porn, Al.

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[Lazlo]

gotta love that one marco hahha

"piss on my ass bitch!!!"

thats by a boardie on here, lets see who knows who it is, lazlo dont you go spoilin it, cuz i know you know,, shit how could you not know that one, its right up your alley haha

now for a serious one, " if the whole world lived by tooth for a tooh, eye for an eye, the world would be one-eyed and toothless"

something along those lines anyways, you get the idea

I was the first person he said it to. And I still have one of the phone messages.

[Gr8FuL]

"I allowed the winds of the world to blow through my very soul, admitted the perils and foreboding's into my heart, I was pampered by my goddesses, betrayed by primitives, I loved to live, lived to love, life was my gamble, luck was my artform." George Jung

My signature....George is one hell of a smart Man..Too bad he got caught..Hope he lives long enough to go free

[PalacePrincess]

"You WILL bow down before me and crawl on your filthy knees to the altar that is Ween."

~Henry Rollins

[Jaimoe]

I heard this live on Howard Stern's radio show a number of years ago:

" I loved the Dead when I was growing up. I used to sneak into their shows. " - Henry Rollins

[paisley]

"you bring the wine, i'll bring the slip."

guigsy... to Booche... in spring

Edited May 5, 2005 by Guest

[Velvet]

Confucious say, stop quoting me.

[Paan]

"Beer... now there's a temporary solution."

[Calamity Jane]

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".

never knew the source, but I like any excuse for "fury" -- feels good when you're really pissed off, so I take "scorned" in a liberal sense.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Deb - you're an English teacher - this is Shakespeare, innit?

[Super Freak]

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

[hamilton]

Deb - you're an English teacher - this is Shakespeare, innit?

No, it's from a play by a contemporary of ol' Willy, The Mourning Bride by William Congreve.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.

OK, I'll take another stab - HST?

[Paan]

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

Elvis Presley

[Del]

Dr, - yeah, from Fear and Loathing...

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

More from my favourite mystic:

"If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill baby seals, whales, dolphins, and man either for gain, for "sport," for food, or for knowledge. Then nature is frightened of you, withdrawing its beauty. You may take long walks in the woods or camp in lovely places but you are a killer and so lose their friendship."

Krishnamurti

And while I'm at it,

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

and,

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Woody Allen

[Canned Beets]

"handcuffs are definitely a propos for this stupid little bitch - 5 or 20 years old. restraint is a-ok by me.."

- Canned Beats

[Booche]

H'uh?

Booche

[guigsy]

"Nick Nolte in... Clean!"

- a preview i saw tonite. i was the only one who broke out laughing and said "no fuckin way."

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Elsewhere.... H.L. Mencken is so eminently quotable (the guy coined the word "southpaw", after all, and covered the Scopes trial in 1925).

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money."

"Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers."

"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

"It is one of the Christian delusions that Christianity brought charity into the world. It did not such thing. There were plenty of agencies for taking care of the poor and helpless long before Christianity was heard of, and even before Judaism. Both Christianity and Judaism have converted charity into a sort of pious racket."

"The truth that survives is the lie that it is pleasantest to believe."

"Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell."

"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."

"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone."

[shainhouse]

'To be nobody by myself, in a world which is doing its best, night-and-day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.' -E.E. Cummings (1958)

[SevenSeasJim]

"I fell asleep with a Semi and awoke with a Woody"

- Paan

[Steve from Cleveland]

"It is not the [one] who has too little who is poor, but the [one] who craves more."

~Seneca

That's one of my all-time favourites.

Also saw this somewhere, and I like to use it as a well-wish, toast, etc...

"May the most that you wish for be the least that you get.

May the best times you've had be the worst you will ever see."

[bokonon]

Deb - you're an English teacher - this is Shakespeare, innit?

i think it's taming of the shrew.