Favorite Quotes..

[Beldarine]

Alright, we have a favorite movie lines thread.. So I decided to start a favorite quote thread.. This can be from a poem, movie, song, or just something that someone said.. Let's see, some of my favorites (besides the ones in my signature are)...

Mark Twain:
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry

Robert Frost:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Don McLean:
my hands were clinched in fists of rage, no angel born in hell could break that satan's spell and as the planes climbed high into the night to light the sacrificial right I saw satan laughing with delight, the day, the music, died

and the three men I admire most, the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, they caught the last train for the coast, the day, the music, died

I'm sure I'll think of some more later.. Anyone else?

[Severen Morkonis]

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Prolly my favs

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Lady Astor to Winston Churchill "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee!"

Winston Churchill: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

[Taylor Millard]

"Mister Gorbachev, tear down that wall!!" Ronald Reagan.

"Gentlemen, you may smoke." King Edward VII of England.

"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
Winston Churchill

"Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity."
Charles Dickens

"I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
Mark Twain

Rudyard Kipling, in the 'The Betrothed', "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke."

[Hayes Muirso]

All of my favourite quotes come from Oscar Wilde :)

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither."

"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain."

"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread."

Albert Einstein:

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

"Frankly, I'm bored with it all"

"A knife in the dark is worth a thousand swords at dawn"

"The Earth is a testing ground, you either pass or you fail, there are no retakes."

Can ya guess who said them?

[Brask]

Dark Lord, I refuse to guess because you are supposed to tell us!

*matches actions to words*
My current favourite is from Oscar Wilde:

"Some people bring happines where ever they go, other when ever they go."

I also like another of his:

"I can resist everything except temptation"

[Peter McCoy]

"Niagra Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks."

- Oscar Wilde

Here's some about the theatre, actors and acting:

Theatre director; a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
- James Agate, British theatre critic, Ego, 1935-48

"An actor's a guy wo, if you ain't talkin' about him, he ain't listenin'"
- Marlon Brando

"That's a lot to see buggers jump."
- Nigel Bruce, british writer, commenting on the cost of ballet tickets.

I love this next one!

"There are two kinds of directors in the theatre: those who think they are God and those who are certain of it."
- Rhetta Hughes, US actress.

"When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it."

- Stephen Leacock, English-born Canadian humourist.

"Acting is largely a matter of farting about in disguises."
- Peter O'Toole, British actor.

"Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist."
- Kenneth Tynan, British cynic.

"You can pick out the actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."
- Michael Wilding, British film actor and director.

"Usually, when a lot of men get together, it's called war."
- Mel Brooks, US film director.

"Of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife."
- Ladies Home Journal

Here's one from Cliva James about Terry Wogan:

"Wogan's is a bionic smile if I ever saw one. My guess is that the BBC built him in their own workshops, under liscense from General Dynamics. Unfortunately they had to skimp slightly on the brain. Hughes Electronics wouldn't come through with the advanced technology for anything else but cash on the nail, so the Beeb's engineers had to solder together their own version on a restricted budget."

This is a great one!!!

"Critics are eunuchs at a gang-bang"
- George Burns, US comedian.

Here's one of Napoleon Bonaparte's:

"England is a nation of shopkeepers."

Considering the number of immigrant Pakistani's, I'd agree with that one.

And finally, one from Joan Rivers, Us comedian:

"Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress."

[Anbira Hicchoru]

Another great Mark Twain quote:

"There are three kinds of lies. Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."

[Morgan Evanar]

"We knew the world could not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "I am became Death, the destroyers of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." - J. Robert Oppenheimer, at one of the first nuclear weapons tests.

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players (i.e., everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."--Terry Pratchett

"Yes, but you have to remember that stupidity is the great universal trump card. No matter how awful something is, stupidity can always make it popular."

"If I can do it, it's not art." --Red Green

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
--Bene Gesserit Coda

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
--From the death cell interview with Bronso of IX

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
--Scytale

I prefer the cynical view. You obviously are trained in all the lying tricks of statecraft, the double meanings and the power words. Language is nothing more than a weapon to you and, thus, you test my armor.
--Paul

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
--The Bashar Miles Teg

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."
- Steve Martin

"How long could we maintain, I wondered. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Would he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so - well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere. Because it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency, and they'll run us down like dogs..." - Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

"They say 'guns don't kill people, people kill people', but I have to say, I think the gun helps." -Eddie Izzard

"In the depths of winter, I realized that in me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"I knew that angels and devils are really the same. They are angels if you are on their side and devils if you're against them." - Ray Nelson, 'Time Travel for Pedestrians'


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"The day Deer Hunter became a hit, I remember we were all cheering, 'Yeah, games don't have to be good anymore!" - Tim Schafer

Zanthis(ALE) AFK, tornado

[Marcus Telcontar]

To put this in contxt, I musr reproduce the comment the person in questio was replying to

"They say video games affect people. Pacman was big when we were kids. Well, the last time I looked, we aint running around a room, munching mgic pills and listenign to boring repetitive techno music.

"Ever been to a Rave?" - anon Slashdot poster

[Zeke]

"...you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."--Rabbit

[Wei Wu Wei]

"Rabbit is Clever," Pooh said.
"Yes," said Piglet. "Rabbit is very Clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain"
There was a long silence.
"I suppose that's why he never understands anything," said Pooh.

I can't remember what Winnie the Pooh Book that was from, but I like it.

Compassion is when you see someone who needs help, and you help them. Mercy is when you give someone a second chance, even when they don't deserve it.
-Pa Grape, the Jonah Movie.

"It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is the strategy to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person."
-Yagyu Menenori The Book of Family Traditions on the Art of War.

[Beldarine]

Quick Note totally off topic: Wei.. I swear that it looks like your little picture thingy is flicking people off!!!! It's been bothering me for weeks now, and I just had to say something! :)

[Ro McCloud]

*if any of these are misquoted, you can beat me with a stick*

"Reality is wrong, dreams are for real."
Tupac

"May evil become lost on the way to your house."
George Carlin

"Those who believe in nothing will fall for anything"
Anon.

"You laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you're the same."
Anon.

"When you fall from the tree, leave your anger on the branch, along with your underpants."
Anon.

[Morgan Evanar]

Originally posted by Ro McCloud "You laugh at me because I am different, I laugh at you because you're the same."
Anon."You're different, just like everyone else."

[Alpha]

I like these things. :) http://www.angelfire.com/dragon/blackmagezekk/quotes/index.html.

I have too many to choose from. :)

[Hayes Muirso]

Terry Pratchett has some great quotes too, yup.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, "You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh."

Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.

Through werewolf eyes the world was different. For one thing, it was in black-and-white. At least, that small part of it which as a human [Angua had] thought of as "vision" was monochrome--but who cared that vision had to take a back seat when smell drove instead, laughing and sticking its arm out of the window and making rude gestures at all the other senses?

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

:) and now a personal favourite:

It's a popular fact that 90% of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only real purpose was, eg, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys, it is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, and turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, forced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "WOW" a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels.

[Cassidy Williams]

From the indespensible and incredible James Dean:

"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."

"Only the gentle are ever really strong."

"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.' And above all, you must be honest with yourself."

And from Jules de Gaultier:

"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

[Sanis Prent]

Terry Pratchett is the master of quotables...

(Waves copy of Jingo about frantically, I bought it today!)

[Admiral Lebron]

"Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!"

-David G. Farragut (Battle of Mobile Bay)

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

-John Paul Jones

"Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns."

-Anon.

"Going to war with France is like going deer hunting with an accordian."

-I forget.

[Sanis Prent]

Originally posted by Admiral Lebron
"Going to war with France is like going deer hunting with an accordian."

-I forget.

Donald Rumsfeld

[Admiral Lebron]

I thought it mighta been him. Thx.

[Peter McCoy]

Another Terry Pratchett quote, about when a student was searching the discworld equivalent of the internet on a computer. He searched for an answer to the question "why?". After a very long time the cimputer gave an answer.

Because.

My friend told me that one.

[Sanis Prent]

Arg I've got half a million Pratchett-isms in my head, but can't put them down in any coherent, much less verbatim fashion.

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

"What is proven was once only imagined."-William Blake

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."-Albert Einstein

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."-Gandhi

[Figrin D'an]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw

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

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

[Beldarine]

I forgot about that Voltaire quote, Figrin.. That makes me laugh every time I read it...

I also like these from Voltaire:

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

And one of my uber-favorites.. Some have attributed it to Mark Twain, but I'm not sure if he said this first or not...

Dance like noone's watching, sing like noone's listening and love like you've never been hurt before.

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Yes, Thanks to all ya pestering, just got into discworld. Great Quotes, but this is my all time favorite quote from another series of books called Wiz-Biz
(computer programmer transported to realm of magic)

"When Life gives you lemons, make Lemonaid. If like gives you Hemlock, do not make hemlockaid. Know the difference between Lemons and Hemlock."

Or,

“Sleep? Isn’t that a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine?”

And from Bumber Stickers I have seen:

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

I brake for no apparent reason.

Never knock on Death’s door. Ring the doorbell and run. (He hates that.)

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?

[Arya Ravenwing]

Bumper Sticker: If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk!!

[Wei Wu Wei]

"Love your neighbor as yourself."
--God

"Oh, about that whole 'Love your neighbor as yourself' thing? I meant it."
--God.

I saw that somewhere. I thought it was cool.

[Lady Vader]

"When I stop suddenly, smile as you go under me." -- License plate holder on a monsterous SUV, refering to tailgaters.

[Mu Satach]

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid" - Hedy Lamarr

[Lady Vader]

:lol!!!

Oh, so many people come to mind with that one!! :lol

[Kelt Simoson]

"Death is but a word, life but a prison"
- Cant remember

Lol

[Lion El' Jonson]

"The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the British and American forces were "immoral mercenaries" and "war criminals" for such behavior.
"I am not talking about the American people and the British people," he said. "I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children."

"They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah but they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut."

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."

"NO", snapped Mr al-Sahaf, "We have retaken the airport. There are NO
Americans there. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"

"They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this."

"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait."

...All of these were quoted directly from the Iraqi Information Minister, Mister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf..you know, the guy with no beard that calls the Coalition "Infidels" and "Mercenaries"...:lol