Your Favorite Quotes

deepskycyan · Post by **deepskycyan** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 1:54 pm

'One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" was his response.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."'

- Alice in Wonderland

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:06 pm

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)

All general statements are false.
Unknown, The Ultimate Law

I quite like the last one. That is very spooky.

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 8:36 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote: All general statements are false.
Unknown, The Ultimate Law

I quite like the last one. That is very spooky.

While I 100% agree with that statement and why you like it , wouldn't that kinda make it a paradox ? I mean , "all general statements are false" is itself a general statement , so according to itself , it is false , but if it's false , then the "fact" that it's false , is false.....

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Apr 25, 2015 11:08 pm

I really try not to overthink that too much or else I fear my brain will explode.

Kyuunado · Post by **Kyuunado** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:38 am

Amazee Dayzee wrote:I really try not to overthink that too much or else I fear my brain will explode.

This. This certainly belongs in this thread.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:34 pm

A quote attributed to Henry James used in "The House By The Cemetery".

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 1:22 pm

That quote is very poignant and can actually be attributed to several infamous children. Very chilling.

~\Rook/~ · Post by **~\Rook/~** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 12:08 am

"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him." - USAF Ammo Troop.

"Nothing shocks me, I'm a scientist." - Indiana Jones.

"The only time you have too much fuel is when your on fire." - Anonymous.

And my personal favorite:

"To an Optimist, the glass is half full. To the Pessimist, the glass is half empty. To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big then it needs to be." - Anonymous.

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Mon May 11, 2015 1:44 pm

I was digging through my thesaurus for words like counsel and found committee, here was their examples of the word that made me think of my ferret counsel (committee) thing.

"Committee: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group can decide nothing can be done." - Fred Allen

"A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." - Richard Harkness

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Mon May 11, 2015 6:56 pm

“The nut doesn’t reveal the tree it contains.”
-Ancient Egyptian Proverb

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue May 12, 2015 9:45 pm

I actually really like the second quote Civilization! It seems funny!

GreatKitsune · Post by **GreatKitsune** » Wed May 13, 2015 1:39 pm

'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.' -Winston Churchill
'I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, then try to find someone whose life has given them vodka and have a party.' -Ron White

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed May 13, 2015 3:44 pm

Good God those quotes are hilarious. I never would have guessed Churchill would say something like that!

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Thu May 14, 2015 3:14 am

so I randomly came across these while searching for random games today (I have no idea how I ended up with these , but ya know

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As I lay on my deathbed , I want to be able to look back on my life and think "well that was fun , I think I'd like to do that again someday" -anonymous

"Do not worry , do not fear , because in the end it will all be alright , if it's not alright , it's not the end ."

"If plan A fail , there're still 25 letters left , stay cool"

"we were born to be real , not perfect"

and , something my friend said that I thought kinda funny , and on hindsight , kinda true

"the best way to postpone something is to say that you'll do it tomorrow , because that's one thing you will never get to ."

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:57 am

GreatKitsune wrote:'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.' -Winston Churchill

I think W.C. Fields said that once before...
Anyway, that reminded me of this bit from an episode of Columbo...
Lady - "Sir, in your condition, I would call the police."
Man - "Ma'am, in your condition, I would call a plastic surgeon!"

Post by **Serence Frostbite** » Thu May 14, 2015 5:59 am

Punchy wrote:
GreatKitsune wrote:'I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.' -Winston Churchill
I think W.C. Fields said that once before...
Anyway, that reminded me of this bit from an episode of Columbo...
Lady - "Sir, in your condition, I would call the police."
Man - "Ma'am, in your condition, I would call a plastic surgeon!"

wow that's awesome

, how come I never came across any of these shows ?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri May 15, 2015 3:15 pm

You just aren't looking hard enough.

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sun May 17, 2015 6:22 am

"Me entire life flashed before me eyes! It was quite boring..." - Babs, Chicken Run

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun May 17, 2015 2:45 pm

Then maybe you should do something about that.

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Mon May 18, 2015 10:11 am

Continued to look through my thesaurus for more words, found some more quotes, this time for the word agent.

"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" - Henry Watton

"A diplomat, is a person who can tell you to go to **** in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." - Caskie Stinnett

trekkie · Post by **trekkie** » Mon May 18, 2015 11:23 am

"Pessimism never won any battle." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

" You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership."- Dwight D. Eisenhower

" You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

" Failures, repeated falures are finger posts on the road to achievement. One falls forward towards success." C.S. Lewis

Punchy · Post by **Punchy** » Tue May 19, 2015 4:21 am

A scene from the documentary The Decline of Western Civilization
Claude Bessey (aka Kickboy Face)
*answers phone*
"Yes, Slash Magazine.
...
There was a riot at the Hong Kong last night? What happened?
...
Hold on... so the firemen got a report saying there were too many people inside...
Uhuh, and then what did they do?
...
Y-you mean people thought the firemen were part of a band? Why? Because they came out on the stage?
...
Oh, there were five of them! *laughs*
And, uh, and then when did everyone find out they were not part of a band, but they were the real thing?
...
Nobody ever found out? *laughs*"

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 1:44 am

Researching a classic Doctor Who (image of the Fendahl) and ran across this lovely.

CORBY:- There's a corpse out there in the wood!

Dr. FENDAHLMANN - Calm down, Adam. What sort of corpse?

CORBY - A dead one; what other sort is there?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:32 pm

Well duh its gonna be dead. He wants to know what species it is.

Welsh Halfwit · Post by **Welsh Halfwit** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 2:48 pm

Amazee Dayzee wrote:Well duh its gonna be dead. He wants to know what species it is.

Adam Corby is a master of Sarcasm in that story.

DOCTOR:- There are four thousand Million people here on your planet and, if I'm right, within a year, there will be just one left alive. Just one.

CORBY:- What are you, some sort of wandering Armageddon pedlar?

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Wed Jun 24, 2015 10:57 pm

I always tend to drift towards the sarcastic characters. I wish I could be like that.

VEB152 · Post by **VEB152** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:15 am

"As usual, I'm working with stuff that was deliberately designed not to burn. But no amount of careful design by NASA can get around a determined arsonist with a tank of pure oxygen" - "The Martian" by Andy Weir.

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jun 26, 2015 3:08 pm

Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
Simon Sinek

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.
Katy Perry

I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
LeBron James

It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host... It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.
Mike Rowe

Post by **Hlaoroo** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 12:45 pm

A bit of a nautical flavour tonight along with a quote about writing. These are all from a famous author called Joseph Conrad. I'm now feeling rather inspired to write myself.

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

"The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery. "

"The sea — this truth must be confessed — has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."

"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask."

kurowolfe · Post by **kurowolfe** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:32 pm

"A man, no matter how many friends he has in life, dies alone." - John Escott

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sat Jun 27, 2015 2:59 pm

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz

DigitalBrave3 · Post by **DigitalBrave3** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:08 pm

This. Yes it's outdated, I know!

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:22 pm

It may be outdated by a decade, but it is still fondly remembered by most.

Not by me. I only started watching in the middle of the Cell arc.

DigitalBrave3 · Post by **DigitalBrave3** » Tue Jun 30, 2015 9:27 pm

indeed.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 7:26 am

Mine would definitely be from GLaDOS in Portal 2:
"I know things look bleak, but that crazy man down there was right. Let's not take these lemons! We are going to march right back upstairs and MAKE him put me back in my body!"
"And he'll probably kill us, because he's incredibly powerful and I have no plan."
"Wow."
"I'm not going to lie to you, the odds are a million to one. And that's with some generous rounding."
"Still, though, let's get mad! If we're going to explode, let's at least explode with some dignity."

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 2:57 pm

Because exploding with dignity is the best way to explode.

Radio Blue Heart · Post by **Radio Blue Heart** » Fri Jul 03, 2015 5:14 pm

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
- Aristotle

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:58 pm

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” - Jonathan Kozol

“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.” - Thomas Jefferson

“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn’t worry about it too much.” - William Gaines

“Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” - Rabindranath Tagore

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” - Wayne Dyer

Czukay · Post by **Czukay** » Sun Jul 05, 2015 11:07 pm

"I personally believe that 90% of the world is awkward and confusing." -Myself

"Look for magic in the daily routine, it's all it takes to survive." -The Folk Implosion (This Song)

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." -H.P. Lovecraft

"I think I'm a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound." -Brian Wilson

"I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking." -Brian Wilson

Amazee Dayzee · Post by **Amazee Dayzee** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:44 pm

Czukay wrote:"I personally believe that 90% of the world is awkward and confusing." -Myself

I believe that 95% of the world is like that. Then another 3% is something I can't understand. The 1% is me understanding everything else and the other 1% is me just giving the **** up on it.

:3