Favorite quote from ANY source?

[Strong Atheist]

In Bone (a graphic novel) the main character asks his cousin what is going on. The cousin snaps a salute :patriot: and replies "Situation normal, Captain! Spiraling out of control!" I like that.

[Ohio Joe]

1. Joe Haldeman

If your not pissing someone off, your doing something wrong.

[DS1]

6. Yuck

Rumsfeld uses a version of that. It's the sign of a poor manager.

[Ohio Joe]

15. hmmm

I guess I have interpreted it differently then you have. I've never really thought of it in terms of management. Haldeman used it in an interview (when.... many years ago, early 80's sometime, I forget) in the context of people that put him down for his writing of The Forever War. He felt that by his writing he had touched nerves that needed to be touched and started discussion that needed to be had. I was unaware of Rumsfeld using anything like it but can easily imagine him having a totally different take on it.

[DS1]

24. In the case of writing, it makes a lot of sense

In the case of writing military plans for invasions, pissing off the Generals who have actually done it before just for the sake of pissing someone off so you can think you're doing something right - no sense at all.

[azmouse]

2. Get busy living or get busy dying!

from The Shawshank Redemption

[bertha katzenengel]

4. That's damn right.

One of my fave movies ever.

[IA_Seth]

3. Da Vinci

I can't remember it word for word, and I don't have my Da Vinci works at work with me, but when speaking of men he says something along the lines that unintelligent or uncouth men should be given a bag in which to feed and excrete, as that is all they are - food bags that consume and excrete..something about men being beasts.

There is something in the quote that gets me every time...rather rude and all, but something that I actually identify with. I hate it, but I have always had a SEVERE disdain for ingorant people.

Anyone know the quote I am trying to convey here??

[DS1]

7. Something about the single role of the majority is to fill latrines

I know which one you're talking about :-)

[Richardo]

5. Mark Twain, literary critic:

"I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

- Letter to Joseph Twichell, 9/13/1898

[Benfea]

19. Twain was a quote MACHINE

Will Rogers and Charles Barkley are fun and all, but you just can't compare them to the master.

[anarch]

8. Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke."

But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.

- Jack Handy

[Squatch]

9. Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stupid.

[SteppingRazor]

10. Gotta quote my avatar, I guess. There's so many good ones...

But this is from 2003's Kingdom of Fear:

"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world -- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you.
 
Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever.
 
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush?
 
They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us -- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them."

[anarch]

11. I almost posted exactly this quote n/t

[Benfea]

20. Nice! -nt

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. Samuel Beckett:

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

[bif]

13. No matter how cynical you get, ya just can't keep up.

[IA_Seth]

14. Ok, another...very fitting for us!

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Mr Warhol

[Benfea]

23. I like that one

I have to admit, I never cared much for his art, and I never would have expected such a sentiment from a man who treated corporate logos as ready-made art.

[IA_Seth]

26. Yeah, not a fan myself...just like the quote. n/t

[insanity]

16. Ferris Bueller

"Life moves pretty fast, you might just miss something if you don't take the time to look."

[hobo_baggins]

17. Helen Keller

MNAMAMANAAAA MAaaaaa Naaaaa

[insanity]

22. Did Helen Keller's dog run away because she called him that?

[Benfea]

18. I have to choose just ONE? *groan*

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest to fool."
— Richard Feynman

[Strong Atheist]

27. Nah. Go wild and pick some more ... nt.

[Benfea]

33. Yay!

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." — H. L. Mencken

"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" — Douglas Adams

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." — Douglas Adams

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." — George Bernard Shaw

"Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock." — Frank Herbert

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." — Frank Herbert

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." — Mark Twain

"One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions." — rear adm. Grace "Amazing Gracie" Hopper

"A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." — Robert A. Heinlein

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." — George Washington Carver

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." — Will Rogers

"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." — Blair Houghton

"My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character." — Charles Barkley

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." — archbishop Dom Helder Camara

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." — Stephen Roberts

[Strong Atheist]

41. Some good ones there. Feel better? nt.

[Benfea]

45. Much -NT

[EstimatedProphet]

21. The Martian Ambassador from Mars Attacks!

Kak QagKag Gak KAk Gaqak

[Burma Jones]

25. We are such stuff as dreams are made on

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.


The Tempest

[Thirtieschild]

28. We have met the enemy and he is us - Pogo

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. 'No generalization is worth a damn

— including this one."

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[Ptah]

30. Will Rogers

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

31. tori amos

she's been everybody else's girl maybe some day she'll be her own.

[Liberalynn]

32. Bumper Sticker

one of my professors had in a display case outside our class:

"If men got pregnant abortion would be a sacrament."

[Richardo]

35. Whatever. I've never understood that one.

But I am a man and a Catholic, and I AM offended by it, so I suppose it's doing its job.

Way to raise the level of discourse. :thumbsup:

[Liberalynn]

36. You're entitled to your opinion

just as I am entitled to mine.

And for your information I was raised Catholic too. It's funny how often the judge not less ye be judged gets forgotten. One of the main reasons I am an ex Catholic.


This is a Church who doesn't even believe women are entitled to serve as Priests, they discriminate against people for what they are born, and then they preach to the rest of us how "evil" we are. That isn't even mentioning some of the scandels they've been involved in either.

Dicourse, don't make me laugh!The only opinions you want to read are your own.

Sorry usually I am more tolerant but not today. x( I'm pissed off by people judging me and telling me how I should think, and how I should live, and how I should be. I usually try to be non controversial and respect others opinions and beliefs but there are times like this when mine aren't respected in return that I get ticked off to the point where I can't keep silent.

I apologize to other Catholics who do see other's views and who do tolerate other's opinions. I know you are there. I promise you this is not a blanket generalization.

I do not hold you responsible for the bias and failures of the "institutionalized" rules only made by men but that all are "expected to live by", of the church, just those members who think we should live according to their personal beliefs and wills alone. The one's who appoint themselves Judge, Jury and God. Its kind of the same reason I'm not Republican anymore.

Any way this is JMHO, and I am not asking anyone to share it. But the question was what was one of "my favorite quotes."

Everyone is offended by something, for instance I am offended by those who find it necessary to be snarky and rude when someone offers a different view of the world.

Sorry to the rest of the board for ranting and going off.

[IA_Seth]

37. Can I get an Amen?! n/t

[lizziegrace]

34. It's been a helluva day at sea sir!

From Overboard.

:)

[Strong Atheist]

42. Ah! I read Overboard, but only in collected cartoons,

because it does not run in any of the local papers ...

[KFC]

38. Buggery on the high seas!

Cheech and Chong

[Whoa_Nelly]

39. Will Rogers

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
(used to be my sig line)

And a couple of other Rogers gems:

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

And

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.


Amen to that, Will Rogers!

[suzbaby]

40. George Carlin

“The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, ‘You know, I want to set fire to those people over there, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.’”

[Strong Atheist]

43. Ah. Funny! nt.

[BlueIris]

44. From the only journalism professor I liked:

Information is nothing without context.

No, I don't know whom it is more appropriate to source that quote to.

[Strong Atheist]

46. Irony ... nt.

[hunter]

47. Mae West: His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork