The Quotes Thread

[YosemiteSam]

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.

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

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I like big butts and I can not lie

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The two yuts

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

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[bbgun]

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

 

[Concord]

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

 

[YosemiteSam]

"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.

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

Speaking of Homer.

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

:laugh2:

 

[Khartun]

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

 

[YosemiteSam]

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

 

[Faerluna]

"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it." - Groucho Marx

Hope is passion for what is possible. -Soren Kierkegaard

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, "I speak Klingon — who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like." Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves. - Patton Oswalt

Saving one animal won't change the world, but surely the world will change for that one animal. - Lots of animal advocates, including me

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. - St. Francis of Assisi
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43244.Groucho_Marx

 

[Maikeru-sama]

" I know you don't wanna know, but Im scratchin' and clawin' to get it done for you Clarence, for you and me and the rest of the team and who comes through my door but a Baltimore City police lookin' to get up in my **** about everything!" - Senator R. Clayton Davis.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Anything worth being, is Bob Sacamano.

basically you could just quote anything I type.

 

[Jon88]

"I likeded the scrip clubs."

-Adam "Pacman" Jones

 

[Jon88]

As a general comment on baseball: "90% of the game is half mental."

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

"It ain't over till it's over." In July 1973, when Berra's Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs by 9½ games in the National League East; the Mets rallied to win the division title on the penultimate day of the season.

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which is accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

"It's déjà vu all over again". Berra explained that this quote originated when he witnessed Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hit back to back home runs in the Yankees' seasons in the early 1960s.

"You can observe a lot by watching."

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."

Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not
think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said!"

-Yogi Berra