Quote-A-Thon - Page 16

mousepod · 02-16-2005, 02:40 PM

"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 · 02-16-2005, 03:04 PM

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

Motorboat Cruiser · 02-16-2005, 03:06 PM

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 · 02-16-2005, 08:33 PM

Riches are for spending.

- Francis Bacon

Kevy Baby · 02-16-2005, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

A valentine message:

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

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

Beauty is only skin deep.

Ugly goes clear to the bone.

wendybeth · 02-16-2005, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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

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

Motorboat Cruiser · 02-17-2005, 09:26 AM

Thanks, Wendybeth. I love them both as well.

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

MerryPrankster · 02-17-2005, 10:38 AM

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

mousepod · 02-17-2005, 10:41 AM

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

Dennis Potter

Ghoulish Delight · 02-17-2005, 10:56 AM

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

-Thomas Edison

02-16-2005, 02:40 PM	#151
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	"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)
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02-16-2005, 03:04 PM	#152
Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	OMG, I had no clue Einstein said such amazing things! Makes me want to read a biography. So cool! __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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02-16-2005, 03:06 PM	#153
Motorboat Cruiser Cruiser of Motorboats Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,665	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
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02-16-2005, 08:33 PM	#154
€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	Riches are for spending. - Francis Bacon __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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02-17-2005, 09:26 AM	#157
Motorboat Cruiser Cruiser of Motorboats Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 3,665	Thanks, Wendybeth. I love them both as well. "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." Robert Fripp
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02-17-2005, 10:38 AM	#158
MerryPrankster Swanky Panky! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hell's Kitchen Posts: 541	"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." -- Buddha __________________ My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. ~~ William Allen White
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02-17-2005, 10:41 AM	#159
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in." Dennis Potter __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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02-17-2005, 10:56 AM	#160
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -Thomas Edison __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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