The Quotes Thread

[Sam I Am]

Post famous quotes or just interesting quotes. If you can list who said it and where it's from.

The reason for starting this is because many quotes are quite powerful in their affect. Even if it's only laughter that it evokes.

I will start with a recent one.

Originally Posted by Stephen Hawking

If intelligent alien life forms do exist out in the vastness of the space, they might not be the friendly cosmic neighbors the people of Earth are looking for, such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach.

[theebs]

"a gun rack, a gun rack....I dont even own A gun let alone many guns to neccesitate an entire rack...What am I going to do with a gun rack?"

[Chief]

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."

-- Lou Gehrig

[Chief]

"I never smile if I can help it. Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life."

-- Dwight K. Schrute

[Maikeru-sama]

"A Man that will go along with 5 killings is taking his leaving a little slow" - Gus McCrae

[bbgun]

"Who farted?" -- Eleanor Roosevelt

[Hostile]

"A man who does not read good books has no advantage over a man who cannot read." --Mark Twain

[ZeroClub]

"Trying is the first step toward failure" -- Homer Simpson

[Yeagermeister]

Mmmmmm beer

Mmmmmm donuts



Just when I thought I was out.....They PULL me back in



I like big butts and I can not lie



The two yuts



***** ****** *********** **** ****** *************

[bbgun]

"It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" -- Abraham Lincoln

[ConcordCowboy]

"There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" -- Fletcher

[Sam I Am]

Originally Posted by Chief

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth."

-- Lou Gehrig

+1. That man was the epitome of class.

Originally Posted by ZeroClub

"Trying is the first step toward failure" -- Homer Simpson

Speaking of Homer.

Originally Posted by Homer Simpson

I am so smart. S-R-M-T... S-M-R-T...

[AmarilloCowboyFan]

One of my favs

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.
— Gilda Radner



I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams

None shall pass!
— The Black Knight

[Sam I Am]

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. --James Neil Hollingworth AKA Ambrose Redmoon

[ZeroClub]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw