Quote-A-Thon

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Once a day, one per person?

"Suppose you were an idiot .. And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."

--Mark Twain

[Ghoulish Delight]

OH man, no fair taking Mr. Clemens right off the bat. I could spend days relating good quotes from him.

Anyway...

"I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration." --Timothy Leary

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think" - Dorothy Parker

[Gemini Cricket]

"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is." ~ Lenny Bruce

[libraryvixen]

A man's library is a sort of harem. ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Claire]

No fair taking Mrs. Parker!! I had one of hers all lined up. :p

Hhhhhmmmm, how about Cheryl Tiegs, Sears catalog model:

"The thing about writing is that there's not much money in it."

:rolleyes:

[€uroMeinke]

The urge to destroy is a creative urge. --Mikhail Bakunin

[Not Afraid]

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. http://www.quotationspage.net/icon_blank.gif
Oscar Wilde (whose quotes could keep me occupied for a week)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once for all." ~Jack Kerouac, On the road

[FEJ]

...Can God make a stone so heavy he can't lift it? Stephen Hawking

[€uroMeinke]

...Can God make a stone so heavy he can't lift it? Stephen Hawking

I thought that was George Carlin?

[Ghoulish Delight]

I thought that was George Carlin?Hehe, that's a good bit.

[FEJ]

I thought that was George Carlin?

Hey may have said it as well, but I got it out of "The Illustrated 'A Brief History of Time'" by Hawkings

[Flubber]

"You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." - John Wooden

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

"What'cha doin' latter?" Michael Jackson to a 12 year old Bornieo...

[Ponine]

And it's not that I want to have you. All I want is to deserve you. ~ Written by Christopher Hampton , from Dangerous Liasons

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live" - Oscar Wilde

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. http://www.quotationspage.net/icon_blank.gif
Oscar Wilde (whose quotes could keep me occupied for a week)

And now I feel less guilty about all that irresponsible book and cd buying I've been doing recently. Hurrah!

[blueerica]

Well, even though CP used a quote from one of my favorite books, here's my favorite quote from that book. Although there are so many juicy tidbits from thems pages...

"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"" - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

One of my favorite little poetry books is [i]Book of Blues[i] by Kerouac.

The Town and the City is quite nice as well, and really gives a nice preface to what happens... a base you could say... to On the Road... Anyhow... Back to your regularly scheduled quoting...

[€uroMeinke]

Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. - Henry Miller

[FEJ]

guurrghh....rrrr...huh uh grrggg...-my godson Casey

[MickeyD]

Do you ever not have coffee, Heather? -a coworker

[Gemini Cricket]

"If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
~ Maya Angelou

[Ghoulish Delight]

"They should make a movie that's like, you know, realistic, where it's like, you know, the teacher sucks, and nobody learns anything, then in the end it's like you just be all stupid."
-Butthead

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"
--W. Hazlitt

[blueerica]

"So often when we say “I love you” we say it with a huge “I” and a small “you.”" -- Antony, Russian Orthodox Archbishop of England

[Gemini Cricket]

"Slam It To The Left
If You're Havin' A Good Time
Shake It To The Right
If You Know That You Feel Fine
Chicas To The Front
Huh Huh
Hi Ci Ja Hold Tight!"

~ The Spice Girls

[Kevy Baby]

If you don't change your direction, you'll end up where you're headed.
Unknown

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
-Tom Robbins

[Kevy Baby]

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot





yeah I know I'm breaking the rules, but my visits here are so infrequent lately, I figured it averages out

[Claire]

I see - she's the original good time that was had by all.

Bette Davis

[FEJ]

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. Richard Bach

[CoasterMatt]

"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
Jack Valenti, MPAA

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

"I'm sorry. I don't do impressions. My training is in psychiatry. "
--Dr. Franklin Stone AKA John Vernon.

R.I.P. :cheers:

[CoasterMatt]

"They look like beatniks. Uh, should I unpack my bongos? -I intend to unpack mine!" - Danni Wheeler and Amy Adams from Psycho Beach Party

[Gemini Cricket]

"If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove."
~ Timothy Leary :cool:

[dsnylndmom]

'Like i always say, if you don't have anything good to say, come and sit by me.' ~~~Olympia Dukakis~~~Steel Magnolias

[FEJ]

No man can reveal to you aught but that which lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge-Kahlil Gibran/The Prophet

[€uroMeinke]

Le superflu, chose très nécessaire.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Voltaire

[wendybeth]

You're only has good as your last haircut.
Fran Lebowitz (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/fran_lebowitz.html)

[blueerica]

I want to quote one of my all time favorite songs... Especially for a day like today.. a day for me that is rainy and gloomy, but apparently not for the rest of Southern California.


Lou Reed
Perfect Day

Just a perfect day,
Drink Sangria in the park,
And then later, when it gets dark,
We go home.
Just a perfect day,
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later, a movie, too,
And then home.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

Just a perfect day,
Problems all left alone,
Weekenders on our own.
It's such fun.
Just a perfect day,
You made me forget myself.
I thought I was someone else,
Someone good.

Oh it's such a perfect day,
I'm glad I spent it with you.
Oh such a perfect day,
You just keep me hanging on,
You just keep me hanging on.

You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow,
You're going to reap just what you sow...

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[CoasterMatt]

"SPOOOOOON!!!!" - The Tick

[blueerica]

"SPOOOOOON!!!!" - The Tick

Wow, is this coincidence, or what?!

That was my quote of the NIGHT!

[Claire]

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. :rolleyes: (so true!)

Peter De Vries

[BarTopDancer]

"I'm really afraid KFC is going to run out of chicken!!!!!!!!!!" ~ my bestest friend who is a total goofball sometimes :D

[Kevy Baby]

Female character: "Do you mind if I smoke while you're eating?"
Male character: "No, go right ahead."




Can you name the movie?

[FEJ]

Female character: "Do you mind if I smoke while you're eating?"
Male character: "No, go right ahead."




Can you name the movie?


shouldnt that be in a "name that qoute" thread in the games forum?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken

[blueerica]

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt

:rolleyes:

[LSPoorEeyorick]

"Wit is a lean creature with sharp inquiring nose, whereas humor has a kindly eye and a comfortable girth. Wit, if it be necessary, uses malice to score a point—like a cat it is quick to jump—but humor keeps the peace in an easy chair. Wit has a better voice in a solo, but humor comes into the chorus best. Wit is as sharp as a stroke of lightning, whereas humor is diffuse like sunlight. Wit keeps the season’s fashions and is precise in the phrases and judgments of the day, but humor is concerned with homely eternal things. Wit wears silk, but humor in homely-spun endures the wind. Wit sets a snare, whereas humor goes off whistling without a victim in its mind. Wit is sharper company at the table, but humor serves better in mischance and in the rain. When it tumbles wit is sour, but humor goes uncomplaining without its dinner. Humor laughs at another’s jest and holds its sides, while wit sits wrapped in study for a lively answer."

-Charles Brooks

[Claire]

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Gore Vidal

[Flubber]

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.

~Lao Tzu

[Ghoulish Delight]

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base metal; she will not even bite it to see if it is good; all she notices is the size of it, not the quality.

-Mark Twain

[wendybeth]

Lol, GD!

(But totally untrue for me. If Eric ever compliments me, I know he's up to something and I get very suspicious).

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

-Abraham Lincoln

[Gemini Cricket]

"Gliddy glup gloopy; Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo...
Sabba sibby sabba; Nooby aba naba
Le le lo lo...
Tooby ooby wala; Nooby aba naba
Early morning singing song"

~ Ragni & Rado

[Scrooge McSam]

So if my memo stated "Please use the UNIX password in the dialog box", which password do you think you should have used?

by Scrooge McSam

[Ghoulish Delight]

So if my memo stated "Please use the UNIX password in the dialog box", which password do you think you should have used?

by Scrooge McSamWhoa, slow down there. You're getting a little too technical for me.

[Scrooge McSam]

Whoa, slow down there. You're getting a little too technical for me.

We may have employment opportunities for you.

[wendybeth]

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a
career.
-Gloria Steinem-

[Kevy Baby]

NON! - Marcel Marceau in Silent Movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0075222).

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

-- Byron (And probably Kevy) :p

[Gemini Cricket]

"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them."
~ Dave Barry

[Kevy Baby]

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a
career.
-Gloria Steinem-Gloria is talking to the wrong men

[Morrigoon]

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"Democracy means freedom of sexual choice between any two consenting adults; Utopia means freedom of choice between three or more consenting adults."

~ Johnny Carson

[tracilicious]

"To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,

In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,

Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!"


-- W. S. Gilbert

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day [Fourth of July] than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so."
-Mark Twain

[scaeagles]

"Consensus is the absence of leadership."

Lady Margaret Thatcher

[Prudence]

"I am the law! When I speak, that is the law. When I present my backside, it is etiquette to smile and to apply the lips respectfully. It is more than etiquette, it is a national privilege guaranteed by the Constitution." Madwoman of Chaillot, Jean Giraudoux

[SacTown Chronic]

"Exceptional my ass." - Pat Healy

[Motorboat Cruiser]

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Who's the quote from?

[Motorboat Cruiser]

There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.

Is this a Morrigoon quote? ;)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. - Woody Allen

[€uroMeinke]

"why tell the truth when it is to your advantage to lie" - Wittgenstein

[blueerica]

"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over." -- Ernest Hemingway

[Claire]

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

B.F. Skinner

[Tref]

background: To get her 2 year old son, Sawyer, into her car, my ex-wife has to pretend she sees something interesting inside. (And yes, this is less a "quote" per se as it is a bit of dialogue. But as bits of dialogue go -- it is a gem. And it is also my favorite new thing to say.)

Lulu -- (looking into car) Oh my gosh, what is this?

Sawyer -- (dashing over to see) What, Mama, cookie?




Hehe

[Gemini Cricket]

Who's the quote from?
I think it's Dave Barry. I could be wrong...
:confused:

[MerryPrankster]

"The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctated by orgies." -- Aldous Huxley

[MerryPrankster]

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- The Dalai Lama

[blueerica]

"the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here
what might be left to say in time come after death,"

-- Allen Ginsberg, Howl, Part I

[Claire]

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell

[Gemini Cricket]

"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

~ Michael Eisner

[CoasterMatt]

"If Wales wins, I'll cut my balls off" - Geoff Huish, a Welsh rugby fan who did just that...

article here (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/24by7panews/tm_objectid=15165311%26method=full%26siteid=50143% 26headline=welsh%2drugby%2dfan%2dcuts%2doff%2dtest icles%2dafter%2dwin-name_page.html)

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

"If life worth living? That depends on the liver."
-- Anon :cheers:

[mistyisjafo]

"You do wear it on your head!! I just love finding new places to wear diamonds" - Marilyn Monroe as Loralie, Gentlemen prefer Blondes

[mistyisjafo]

"Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end came round to the same place again" - Stephen King, The Stand

[sleepyjeff]

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place."

---Washington Irving

[Scrooge McSam]

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."
(Robert Cardinal Bellarmine / 1542-1621 / at the trial of Galileo in 1615)

[blueerica]

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

To love is to be vulnerable"

-- C.S. Lewis

[MerryPrankster]

"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?" -- Jane Austen

[Kevy Baby]

It may be true that I am not as good as I once was,
But I am as good once as I ever was
-unknown

[blueerica]

I know I already have one for today, but I was reminded tonight of one of my all time favorite novels...

"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the
boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is
where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young
falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman."

-- Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

[SacTown Chronic]

"I would rather wrap myself in the constitution and burn the flag than wrap myself in the flag and burn the constitution." - Unknown

[Morrigoon]

Who's the quote from?

To be honest, I don't know. I got it in an email.

[Claire]

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise.

~Jack Lemmon as C.C. Baxter in The Apartment

[Gemini Cricket]

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way."

~ Pablo Neruda

[SacTown Chronic]

She offered me her honor
So I honored her offer
And all night
I was honor and offer

-Bud Guess

[Ghoulish Delight]

"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."

-John Adams

Okay, I'm going to cheat and post a couple more by Adams because I love them...

"It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do."

"The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."

[MerryPrankster]

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." -- George Bernard Shaw

[mousepod]

"Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."

Arthur Miller 1915-2005 (from The Ride Down Mount Morgan)

[MerryPrankster]

^^^ Awesome quote! ^^^

I think I know that guy.

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

-Carson McCullers

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

Henry David Thoreau

[MerryPrankster]

I'm cheating because it's Saturday. :p And because I love so many of the Tallulah Bankhead quotes:

"The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

"If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience."

"It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time."

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

[blueerica]

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." -- Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[blueerica]

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."

I keep reading this as "I'm as pure as the driven sushi." HAHAHAHA

[Ghoulish Delight]

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[blueerica]

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, that specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them."

-Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Oh! That's a good one! I wish I had thought of quoting that book!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Oh! That's a good one! I wish I had thought of quoting that book!My favorite book of all time.

[€uroMeinke]

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

- Woody Allen

[FEJ]

boogity boogity boogity-darrell waltrip

[Not Afraid]

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - R.W. Emerson


"I stopped writing for the Daily because I didn’t like sticking to the facts. I much preferred making things up. The rest, you know, is history.” Authur Miller

[sleepyjeff]

"If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot "





---Charles Dickens

[Claire]

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

~Bette Davis

[Kevy Baby]

"Guilty feet have got no rhythm" - Wham

[blueerica]

"tomorrow is our permanent address"

-- e. e. cummings

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[MerryPrankster]

"The average dog is nicer person than the average person." -- Andrew A. Rooney

[SacTown Chronic]

How you know where I'm at
when you haven't been where I been,
understand where I'm coming from? ~ Cypress Hill

[mousepod]

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it"

Anthony Burgess 1984

[sleepyjeff]

"We comprehend our own exsistence by inward feeling or reflection, and that of other spirits by reason."


---George Berkeley

[Claire]

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Stephen Wright

[wendybeth]

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

Gustave Flaubert

[Ghoulish Delight]

"It doesn't do any good, for they can never see what they are in too much of a hurry to look for."

-from The Phantom Tollbooth

[€uroMeinke]

It's been far too long that I've gone without posting a quote form my favorite philosopher so:

Glaubt es mir!—das Geheimniß, um die größte Fruchtbarkeit und den größten Genuß vom Dasein einzuernten, heißt: gefährlich leben!


Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Not Afraid]

Oh, I thought you were going to pull out this Nietzsche quote:

"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip"

[€uroMeinke]

Oh, I thought you were going to pull out this Nietzsche quote:

"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip"

Heh heh - there are many more...
(but I welcome those who share my appreciation ;) )

[MerryPrankster]

A love quote for Valentine's Day:

"Love is bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love." -- Leo Buscaglia

[mousepod]

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness."

Woody Allen (Love and Death)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip"Helllll yeah! You come see me without a Dole Whip in your hands and I'd be like, wtf? Get me a Dole Whip, biatch! *cracks whip* :evil:

[Claire]

MerryPrankster read my mind with that Leo B. quote! :eek: I had planned on that one!! :snap: Snaps!

My other Valentine quote:

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

[Ghoulish Delight]

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

-Mark Twain

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

A valentine message:

"When the candles are out all women are fair"
--Plutarch

AKA "Beauty is only a light-switch away." :evil:

[wendybeth]

Didn't he write "dinner with Tremalchio", or something like that? I've always loved that story.

Anyway, :snap: for Plutarch, the old gossip!

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Do songs count?

Don't let the world bring you down
Not everyone here is that ****ed up and cold
Remember why you came
and while you're alive
experience the warmth
before you grow old

~Incubus

[MerryPrankster]

"The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows." -- Frank Zappa

[€uroMeinke]

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

[Claire]

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow








(Interesting tidbit....Darrow defended the men who killed my great-grandfather.....and they got off. :rolleyes: Damn that man was good.)

[blueerica]

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

—Jack Kerouac

[Gemini Cricket]

"How come how come he can he can tell-a tell-a you're-a you're-a
Always always number number one without a doubt
When-a when-a he is he is always always squirmin' squirmin'
Like a little snake under-a e-ver-y-a rock
You've been you've been workin' workin' on the on the love
And he's been only only playing undercover all the while
Take a take another 'nother look into his eyes
And you will on-ly see a rep-tile"

~ Paula Abdul

[sleepyjeff]

"The State of war is a state of enmity and destrucion; and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty, but a sedate, settled design upon another man's life, puts him in a state of war with him against whom he has declared such an intention, and so has exposed his life to the other's power to be taken away by him, or anyone that joins with him in his defense and espouses his quarrel; it being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction."


---John Locke

[SacTown Chronic]

"Benefit cuts is an interesting word." -- George W Bush (2/15/05)


You go, George! :snap:

[MerryPrankster]

I'm in a Jim Morrison kind of mood today. It's impossible for me to pick out just one. Sorry!

Jim Morrison --

"I was stoned. It seemed like a fun thing to do at the time."

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

[Tref]

Nice quote from the Self Realisation Fellowship in Hollywood,

"Try to realise you are a divine traveler. You are here for only a little while, then depart for a dissimiliar & fascinating world. Do not limit your thought to one brief life and one small earth. Remember the vastness of the Spirit that dwells within you."
Paramahansa Yogananda

[Ghoulish Delight]

Okay, these are all too wonderful to pick and choose, so I'm just going to bombard you (get it, bombard...oh, it helps if you know who these quotes are from) with some Einstein gems.

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

"If A equals success, then the formula is _ A = _ X + _ Y + _ Z. _ X is work. _ Y is play. _ Z is keep your mouth shut."

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

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

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world."

[mousepod]

"Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul (from Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. 1992)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

OMG, I had no clue Einstein said such amazing things! Makes me want to read a biography. So cool! :D

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Ok, I'll be a rule-breaker too and post more than one.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

[€uroMeinke]

Riches are for spending.

- Francis Bacon

[Kevy Baby]

A valentine message:

"When the candles are out all women are fair"
--Plutarch

AKA "Beauty is only a light-switch away." :evil:Beauty is only skin deep.

Ugly goes clear to the bone.

[wendybeth]

Ok, I'll be a rule-breaker too and post more than one.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Carl Sagan

Omg- you've quoted two of my favorite authors! I'd give you mojo, but I can't yet!!! You rock!:snap::cheers::snap::cheers:

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Thanks, Wendybeth. I love them both as well. :)

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."
Robert Fripp

[MerryPrankster]

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -- Buddha

[mousepod]

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

Dennis Potter

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

-Thomas Edison

[SacTown Chronic]

"There was a time when our music
Was something called the Bay Street beat
People would gather from all around
To get down on the Bay sound
You had to be a renegade those days
To take a man on the dance floor"


Renegades Of Funk ~ Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force

[sleepyjeff]

"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself."

---Herbert Hoover

[Not Afraid]

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"
Bertolt Brecht

[Gemini Cricket]

"I am what I am
I am my own special creation
So come take a look
Give me the hook or the ovation
It’s my world
That I want to have a little pride in
My world
And it’s not a place I have to hide in
Life’s not worth a damn
Till you can say
I am what I am

I am what I am
I don’t want praise I don’t want pity
I bang my own drum
Some think it’s noise I think it’s pretty
And so what if I love each sparkle and each bangle
Why not try to see things from a different angle
Your life is a sham
Till you can shout out
I am what I am

I am what I am
And what I am needs no excuses
I deal my own deck
Sometimes the aces sometimes the deuces
It’s one life and there’s no return and no deposit
One life so it’s time to open up your closet
Life’s not worth a damn till you can shout out
I am what I am!"

~ La Cage Aux Follies

[mhrc4]

"they call me, Tater Salad"


-Ron White :)

[Claire]

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

E.B. White

[mhrc4]

So my sister, shes covered in moles, we call her old Moley, now she went and got her a belly ring, and now we call her holey moley.


- Larry the cable guy

[mhrc4]

oops, double post - darn server threw an error

[dsnylndmom]

And it's been awhile
Since I've seen the way the candles light your face
And it's been awhile
But I can still remember just the way you taste
~~~~Staind

[dsnylndmom]

Until the end of time
I'll be there for you
You own my heart and mind
I truly adore You
If God one day stroke me blind
Your beauty I'd still see
Love is to weak to define
Just what you mean to me
~~~~Prince








*my favorite song

[Not Afraid]

Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you

Bryan Adams


And I ask myself WTF?

[sleepyjeff]

"I can’t look
At the road rising on highway one
Where the tears of the tangi go on and on
A pagan power
United now
Christmas has gone

But you can see
Along the hard shoulder where the shrines should be
Where a soul departed the flower of a memory
An empty stretch
Where bone and flesh
Met with machine"

---Shona Laing

[blueerica]

Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you

Bryan Adams


And I ask myself WTF?

I'll ask you for you...

You know, I had "Heaven" by Bryan Adams in my head the other day

Baby, you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven...

Except that it was the DJ Sammy version LOL

[Not Afraid]

I'll ask you for you...

You know, I had "Heaven" by Bryan Adams in my head the other day

Except that it was the DJ Sammy version LOL

At least you're respectable!

[€uroMeinke]

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

- Charles bukowski

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."

George Eliot

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'll ask you for you...

You know, I had "Heaven" by Bryan Adams in my head the other day

Baby, you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe
We're in heaven...

Except that it was the DJ Sammy version LOLI have that version, with a female vocal, yes? I loves me some cheesy trance. :p

[Gemini Cricket]

"So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity"

~ From 'Wicked'

[mhrc4]

"yeah, so I visited Los Angeles last month...

If you ever have that opportunity...



yeah pass on that one...."


-Ron White :)

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

"When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher."

-F. Chopin

[Ghoulish Delight]

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. "

-Plato

[Gemini Cricket]

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions. "

-Plato
What a great quote. Gotta love Plato.
:)

[MerryPrankster]

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." -- Salvador Dali

[sleepyjeff]

"The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."

---Andrew Carnegie

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Here's another Carl Sagan quote for ya, wendybeth. :)

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion."

Carl Sagan

[wendybeth]

Good ole Dr. Sagan...Thanks, MBC!

Here's one right back at ya:

"The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble." [Carl Sagan, A&E Biography interview]

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Ain't that the truth.

[sleepyjeff]

"It's an absolutely atrocious piece of science, but I quite despair of setting the public record straight"

---Nobel laureate Freeman Dyson regarding Carl Sagans Nuclear Winter hypotheses

[Kevy Baby]

"You cannot teach charades to a bi-polar mime"

Brian Phelps as "Dr. Phil"

[Gemini Cricket]

King of the Hill:

PEGGY: Bobby, honey, what happened to mixing capers with one of your fruit pies?
BOBBY: That was a big disappointment. I'd rather not talk about it.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha

[Kevy Baby]

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson

"Meow"
- Moglet

[blueerica]

"Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha

Wonderful quote!

[blueerica]

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

[MerryPrankster]

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." -- Christopher Morley

[sleepyjeff]

"While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile."

---Madeleine Albright

[Kevy Baby]

"You can't really dust for vomit."
- Nigel Tufnel

[Gemini Cricket]

"Sometimes you feel like a nut :D, sometimes you don't :(."

[blueerica]

"Sometimes you feel like a nut :D, sometimes you don't :(."


Alllmond Joys have nuts! Mounds don't!

[SacTown Chronic]

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." -- George W Bush May 1, 2003

[MickeyLumbo]

Female character: "Do you mind if I smoke while you're eating?"
Male character: "No, go right ahead."




Can you name the movie?

KB's Home Movies: Vol. 4:confused:



"Baseball is 90% physical. The other half is mental." Yoggi Barra

[Ghoulish Delight]

"Baseball is 90% physical. The other half is mental." Yoggi BarraOh, GREAT source of quotes, good call.

Here are two of his that could be applied to Disneyland these days...

"No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded."

"The future ain't what it used to be."

-Yogi Berra

[MickeyLumbo]

In a letter to "Dear Abby" a reader complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and he wanted to know what to do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.

her suggestion:

"You could move." ~ Abigail Van Buren

[Gemini Cricket]

"You cannot teach charades to a bi-polar mime"

Brian Phelps as "Dr. Phil"

A classic from my friend Emily:

Emily: "I know someone who's bi-polar."

Me: "Do you?"

Emily: (angrily) "NO!"


:D

[Motorboat Cruiser]

As long as we are doing baseball...

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

"There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them."

Casey Stengel

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Female character: "Do you mind if I smoke while you're eating?"
Male character: "No, go right ahead."




Can you name the movie?

"Deep Throat".

I mean, I don't know...

:D

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me a dollar!"

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"

Mahatma Gandhi

[blueerica]

"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiacthought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality." -- Salvador Dali

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Erica, that quote is terribly amusing!

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." - Sylvia Plath

[Gemini Cricket]

"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."

~ Lenny Bruce

[€uroMeinke]

An unexamined life is not worth living

- Socrates

[Gemini Cricket]

An unexamined life is not worth living

- Socrates
I find this creepy. I was just listening to a song that had this quote in it.

[€uroMeinke]

I find this creepy. I was just listening to a song that had this quote in it.

So what are you waiting for?

[Gemini Cricket]

So what are you waiting for?
You mean about examining my life? Heh. I do that too much. I need to stop the examination & judgement and just be.
:)

[Kevy Baby]

"Sex is a misdemeanor.
The more I miss, da meaner I get."

[€uroMeinke]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

- Sigmund Freud (on dreams)

[Ghoulish Delight]

"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."

-Kurt Vonnegut

[tracilicious]

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies.

- Emily Dickinson

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

Pablo Picasso

[Gemini Cricket]

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
~ Allen Ginsberg

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
~ Allen GinsbergGC, can't mojo you at the moment - awesome quote! :snap: :snap: :snap:

[sleepyjeff]

"The practical lower limit on speeds for intersteller travel is 30,000 kilometeres per second, 110 million kilometeres per hour, 10 per cent the speed of light. If you can't travel at least this fast, don't bother going."

Marshall T. Savage

[Not Afraid]

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ~ Anatole France

[blueerica]

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsiously give permission to other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-- Nelson Mandela

[MerryPrankster]

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[MickeyLumbo]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

- Sigmund Freud (on dreams)
\



"Close, but no cigar."

~Bill Clinton, when asked to compare Paula Jones to Monica Lewinski

[Motorboat Cruiser]

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

[Kevy Baby]

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I'm breaking my own rule and posting three:

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. - Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. - Blaise Pascal

[Ghoulish Delight]

"We're Americans. We're gonna do democracy."

-James Miller, Survivor Palau

[Gemini Cricket]

"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."

~ Susan Sontag

[Gemini Cricket]

'Cause when the loving starts, and the lights go down,
And there's not another living soul around,
Then you woo me until the sun comes up,
And you say that you love me.

~ Christine McVie

[Matterhorn Fan]

"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."
--Homer, Iliad

[blueerica]

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

--Lord Byron

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."

Amy Lowell

[Gemini Cricket]

"Been running so fast
Right from the starting line
No more connections
I don't need any more advice
One hand's just reaching out
And one's just hangin' on
It seems my weaknesses
Just keep going strong

Head over heels
Where should I go
Can't stop myself
Outta control
Head over heels
No time to think
Looks like
The whole world's out of sync..."

[mousepod]

Since the Oscars were last night:

"The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
George Burns

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yay, the Go-Go's. Saw them in concert in Vegas when they reunited. And got to see Belinda almost deck a taxi attendant afterwards :D

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

"Condoms are for cowards."

Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank, Strangers With Candy

[Gemini Cricket]

"Condoms are for cowards."

Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank, Strangers With Candy
I've got something to say.

I lol'ed. :D
Can't mojo you just yet, sorry EH1812.
:snap:

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

I've got something to say.

I lol'ed. :D
Can't mojo you just yet, sorry EH1812.
:snap:

It's up there as one of my favorite line deliveries on the show.

Have you checked out the cast list for the movie? Wowza. Even my beloved Bright from Everwood is going to be in it. Can't wait!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

"I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
~Johnny Depp

[Kevy Baby]

"You are a little pain in the butt aren't you."

KoH

[Matterhorn Fan]

"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

~ Alexander Pope

[MickeyD]

"Don't let the bastards get you down." ~My dad.....and thousands of people before him.

[CoasterMatt]

"Most movies are not very good; most pieces of art are not very good; most CEOs of companies are not very good. That's why, when they are very good, they're exemplary, and we go, 'Oh, my God!' They're lauded, because mediocrity is what's rampant. Excellence is rare." -Don Cheadle

[CoasterMatt]

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. Pessimists fear that it is true.
-Robert Oppenheimer

[mhrc4]

"You are a little pain in the butt aren't you."

KoH

hahahahhahhahahha

[Motorboat Cruiser]

"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."

Ralph Waldo Emerson