Quotes

Everyone's heard some great quotes, usually from famous people, writers, thinkers, but also sometimes from friends, family or co-workers. Here's a place to put some quotes you may want to share for whatever reason, be they funny, insightful, or whatever.

Here are three I found today that inspired me to start this thread. Looking forward to seeing what else you guys have : D

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

<span style='font-size: 8pt'>"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
- Bill Gates, 1981

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943[/size]</span>

 

"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away"

[book] Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

Genius is one 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Rats love parchment even more than scholars do.
- Sean Connery (The Name of the Rose)

Somebody set up us the bomb.
- Mechanic (Zero Wing)

 

"Sometimes the questions are more interesting than the answers."
- My High School English teacher

"Neglect nothing that can make you great."
- Stendhal (French writer) to Delacroix (French painter)

 

"If we wake up in the morning, we'll know we're not dead."
- Randy Marsh

 

"The fastest way to get over a girl is to get on top of another."
- The original G-male and US WCG Champ

 

"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

"When the whipplewill, whipples in the wind, the wind will whipple back, oh nice and chubby baby!"
Clown on Animaniacs

 

After being told "God, your feet are cold." by his wife in bed, Brian Clough came out with this gem:

"I told you when I'm in bed, you can call me Brian."

 

"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
-Unknown

"Don't leave the one you love for the one you like"
-Unknown

"Don't hate the playa hate the game."
-Unknown

"Why settle for less when you have more?"
-Unknown

 

"If at first you don't succeed, maybe parachuting is not for you."

 

"Be good in each room of the house, not just the bedroom".

My mother who passed a few years back.

 

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent" Elanor Roosevelt.

"Some of my fondest memories are sitting on my front porch, smoking hemp, and seeing how far my eyes can see" T. Jefferson

"Physics is like sex, sure it may give practical results, but that's not why we do it" Feinstein (sp?)

"Experiments are what we do when we don't know what we are doing" Feinstein

"I have a dream..." MLK

"I'm not the run of the mill, cause from the mill I don't run." Krs One

"Algebra is the single most important time saving device invented by man" Unknown

"I never let school interfere with my education" Mark Twain

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher." Elbert Hubbard

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it" Napoleon.

I could go on forever...ahh high school debate team.

 

That's a good one /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

"There is no real excellence in this world which can be separated from right living." -David Starr Jordan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Reactive language: That's just the way I am. Proactive language: I can choose a different approach." Stephen R. Covey

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." Goethe

"The heart has it's reasons which reason knows not of." Pascal

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things... I am tempted to think... there are no little things." Bruce Barton

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Jesus Christ

 

"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge" - Spike Milligan

"obsessed is just a word the lazy use for the dedicated" - someones sig

 

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Tony thanks for reminding me this quote. My middle school teacher used to teach this quote and I kept it on my desk top all through school. I'm going to resurrect this quote on my new desk.

 

"Hello! You play to win the game. That's what's great about sports...you play to win the game!"

- Coach Herman Edwards (former New York Jets Head)

 

"When someone tries to impose their will on you, you impose your will back upon them and in doing so, whup their ass" Quinton Rampage Jackson

"Ever have your ass whupped by a black man before, it hurts!" Jackson

"Time for some black on black crime!" Jackson

"After seeing Wanderlei Silva, I believe in evolution." Jackson

"That's ok, all us black folk look the same." Jackson

"...and to any sponsors I forgot, its because you ain't paying me enough!" Jackson

"I bet Forrest Griffin is the type of person that when he wipes his ass, he misses spots" Jackson

 

Oooh! I wanna play!

"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!" -Dracula

Heres one from a BBC miniseries called "Jekyll" (excellent, btw)

Jekyll: "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Agent: "Me? No. I have people."
Jekyll: "You should try it sometime. Its like sex but there's a winner."

 

This one grabs meh fancy:

"Whoever said, No pain no gain was probably injured." - some site