Favorite Quote?

[Sage]

As some of you may have figured out by now, I love quotes (look at my sig!). What is your favorite quote of all time?

(Note: please no quotes that have no "author" or stuff that you made up off the top of your head)

 

[1X83Z]

How about, "When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose" from Bob Dylan?

 

[1X83Z]

One I use all the time is, "The faster you drive, the less you can feel" from Chris Isaak.

 

[Duke]

Nice avatar, 'cycler. Macs rule!

I've got a whole bunch of favorites. I'll stick with the car related ones for now b/c I'm really tired.

"If you are not using the accelerator with great vigor, you should be using the brakes with great vigor." -Henry Watts

"When I can leave two black strips all the way down the straights - that's when I'll have enough power." -Mark Donahue

"Oversteer is when the passenger is scared. Understeer is when the driver is scared." -unknown rally driver

"Big hand's on 120; little hand's on E..." -They Might Be Giants

 

[Sage]

Originally posted by neon_duke
Nice avatar, 'cycler. Macs rule!

Most certainly. I'm incompatible with PCs. :smilewink

Originally posted by neon_duke
I've got a whole bunch of favorites. I'll stick with the car related ones for now b/c I'm really tired.

"If you are not using the accelerator with great vigor, you should be using the brakes with great vigor." -Henry Watts

"When I can leave two black strips all the way down the straights - that's when I'll have enough power." -Mark Donahue

"Oversteer is when the passenger is scared. Understeer is when the driver is scared." -unknown rally driver

"Big hand's on 120; little hand's on E..." -They Might Be Giants

:thumbsup: lol (I like the over/understeer one )

 

[troy]

"BAH!"- a smart man named troy

 

[Puffy]

"i wanna get to know you better"-that one dude from korn, i saw it on MTV

 

[Sage]

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -Anonymous

 

[sliderulz]

Just check out my sig. It's from Fast and the Furious.

 

[1X83Z]

Okay I got my hands on some quotes (I dug these up; I don't want to see this thread die):

"There's no such thing as too much candy? Ask your liver." -- My 8th grade science teacher.

"Turn whatever you have in that you have but you haven't turned in" -- My 8th grade science teacher.

"In an army that hasn't eaten for three months, it is damn near treason...to be fat." -- Some movie, can't remember which.

"When does the plane go down...I'm gonna ride it 'till it hits the ground...and go out with a fight" -- Ryan Adams

"You can always say it was me." -- Hannibal Lecter

"Second-best is what you get 'till you learn to bend the rules." -- John Mellencamp

"I don't know and I don't care" -- Juan Pablo Montoya on why Shumacher hates him.

"It's invitation only...you can come if you want to." -- Some idiot, assumably.

"A bird may love a fish, sir, but where would they live?" -- "Ever After." (Drew Barrymore)

"Growin' up leads to growin' old and then to dying...and dying, to me, don't sound like all that much fun!" -- John Mellencamp

"Ask anyone, it's called clubbing -- or at least, that's what we call it." -- A friend.

"Welcome to America, proudly fed on a diet of fast food and cheap guns." -- Grand Theft Auto 3.

"If I ever lose my faith in you, there'll be nothing left for me to lose." -- Sting.

"Welcome to America...lock your doors." -- Grand Theft Auto 3.

"I don't love you because you're neat. I love you in SPITE of that." -- Matthew Perry, 'Friends.'

"If you add those two together, you get zero. You get zero. If you add those two together, you should get zero, right?" -- My 8th-grade science teacher.

"There are the do-ers and then there are the people who take the credit. It's better to bein the first category, there's a lot less competiton." -- former Michigan Senator.

"I'd put a big rubber stopper in your mouth and a hole right in the middle...maybe." -- A friend.

 

[1X83Z]

More:

"If you make a decent car at a decent price, you can sell it to people. If you make any car at a decent price, you can sell it to Americans." -- Me.

"I'm going to tell him what he's going to die of, and what animals are going to eat him in his grave." -- A friend.

"That's just the way it is...some things never change." -- Bruce Hornsby.

"It's called credibility, you stupid fool. You build it up, then I'll care. Right now, none of you have any." -- Me at a recent staff meeting.

"We broke up ... and we never got a chance to go out." -- Me ('Full House' used to same quote in the next week's show...those stealers).

"Every little thing she does is magic...everything she does just turns me on." -- The Police (Sting and, not 911).

"Nothing matters and what if it did?" -- George Green, quoted by John Mellencamp.

"Why does Hawaii have an interstate highway?" -- Someone smart...

"We're sick and tired of bein' politically correct...I see throught it now, I didn't at first: The hypocrites made it worse and worse." -- John Mellencamp.

"It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up...getting wet." -- The Police.

"New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from." --Can't remember.

"If you spit on the subway in New York, you get find, but you can throw up for nothing." -- Can't remember.

"Something, something, something, something, something, something, something in Mil-waukee..." -- An idiot friend trying to remember song lyrics. (The song, by the way, was actually "Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morn-ing...).

"Why do we spend so much time growing up only to seperate?" -- Pablo Nerada.

"You won't know what you want 'till you're 45, and when you've got it, you'll be too old to use it!" -- '10 things I hate about you.'

 

[1X83Z]

"A computer lets you make more mistakes than any invention in history. With the possible exception of handguns and tequila." -- Mark Ratcliffe.

"Pass it around and start squeezing it." -- My 8th grade science teacher.

"The problem is that we don't have enough power to power the power plants." -- George W. Bush.

"American people love psychiatry because they can go into a perfect stranger's well-furnished room and talk about nothing but themselves for fifty minutes." -- Me.

"I'm here, now what are your other two wishes?" -- Bumper sticker.

"You've killed me, now I'm going to kill you." -- Nathan Bedford Forrest.

"Oh yeah, life goes on...long after the thrill of livin' is gone." -- John Mellencamp.

"All trespassers will be shot, all survivors will be shot again." -- No trespassing sign.

"This is a place to bring your families, not MAKE them!" -- Me to a friend making out with his girlfriend at a theme park in high school.

"Believe me, I know. My dad's not a doctor." -- Me

"Don't confuse the problem with the issue, girl." -- John Mellencamp.

"This is America -- Speak Spanish!" -- A friend to a white couple on an elevator in Milwaukee.

"What the hell is 'aerospace software?'" -- Me at a staff meeting.

"You THINK you're thinking. But you're not." -- Me at a staff meeting.

"I believe you have my stapler...I'll set the building on fire." -- Milton (Office Space)

"In America, you can't even leave a hamburger in your car without it being stolen." -- Me.

"If you make a check out to our company, you're DONATING to our company. Don't do that, okay?" -- Me.

"Gremlins don't kill people, people kill people." -- Me on the 1975 AMC Gremlin.

 

[1X83Z]

Even more:

"Nice job, all you who are out there giving a damn!" -- Ryan Adams.

"The truth hurts. And I'm the truth." -- Joe Frazier.

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -- Frank Zappa.

"When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose." -- Bob Dylan.

"Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run." -- Bruce Springsteen.

"Maybe she's got a temper. She probably goes up to Lauden all the time and says, "If you don't give me your tongue right now, I'm going to eat you.""--A friend.

"Charm is just an excuse to date dumb people." -- Me.

"So I took it outisde, took a hammer to it, and made a few adjustments." -- Peter Krause.

"When you're at the bar at one in the morning, you're like, "Man, it's two."" -- A college professor of mine commenting on the daylight saving's time switch.

"Tom Petty -- Isn't he a race car driver?" -- A friend.

"I'm a teacher. Of course, that's a subjective term." -- A high-school teacher of mine.

"Driving out of Darlington County, my eyes seen the glory of the comin' of the Lord." -- Bruce Springsteen.

"Swearing like highwaymen." -- A book.

"That's not Jones Beach. I've been to Jones Beach. That's France." -- Bryan on Fox News Channel.

"It's one of those machines in which the machine will be better than 95% of the people who use it." -- BMW M5.

"If you drive down the coast of California, and just keep goin' and goin', you'll get to a place called Baja - more cactus than people more time than worries, and surrounded by the ocean and the sea." -- Chris Isaak.

MY PERSONAL FAVORITE OF ALL TIME QUOTES (3):

"They ran from their dusty allies to beg at the windows of a car costing more money than the population of the corrugated iron-and-cardboard slum they lived in would ever seen in their lifetimes." -- Paul Gregory, when he took a Jaguar XKR coupe to Marrakech, Morocco.

"The top came off with a shattering bang, like the Italian Mafia had planted a bomb to stop Vipers from challenging Ferraris." -- Road And Track, Viper road test in Italy.

"There will be no summer of love, there will be no sweet refrain. There will be no soft goodbye, no slow walk in the rain. There will be no whispered words, no vows that can't come true. There's only me....waiting here for you." -- Chris Isaak

 

[Sage]

lol... here's some more:

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
-J.W. Schopf

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
-Joey Adams

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
-Dan Quayle

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Living in a vacuum sucks.
-Adrienne E. Gusoff

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
-Laurence J. Peter (and Raymond Hull)

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
-Carlos A. Urbizo

You can observe a lot by just watching.
-Yogi Berra, Berra's Law

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
-Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-G. H. Hardy

 

[1X83Z]

 

[ebo#1]

How 'bout the one I have in my sig???

 

[ebo#1]

Wow, I really do kill threads...

 

[Ryan2]

not the exact words....but i like it

"You know that if u hand me a class-a camera, of course im gonna go nuts with it. So one day i went out and just started filming peoples faces. After a while, this one random guy comes up to me n goes 'u kno, thats very rude what your doing' well, i was in a goofy mood so i pulled the camera back out n started filming him again. He tried to punch me, but he ended up punching the camera. It wasnt my camera so i didnt care"
~Bam Margera

 

[Solid Fro]

"And when he gets to Heaven, To Saint Peter he will tell: One more soldier reporting, Sir -- I've served my time in Hell." - MOH

"God Created people because that dinosaur game sucked." - A very short lived XBOX commercial.

"And Mobius 1, an end to the war would be a nice birthday gift as well..." - Ace Combat 04

"Ours is not to reason why, just invert and multiply." - A wise man

 

[GilesGuthrie]

I've got loads of favourites - I have them come up randomly on the front page of my web site.

My favourite is the full version of my sig, and it goes like this:
"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.

They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.'

"How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

Abraham Lincoln

 

[Mad Medic]

Screw up just this much son and you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog-**** out of Hong Kong.- Top Gun.

Do some of that pilot ****, Mav.- Top Gun.

You know you're there, because your not someplace else. - Friend

 

[ebo#1]

Originally posted by Mad Medic
Screw up just this much son and you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog-**** out of Hong Kong.- Top Gun.

Do some of that pilot ****, Mav.- Top Gun.

I love that movie