*The Quotes Thread*

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"Last week a cop stopped me in my car. He asked me if I had a police record. I said, no, but I have the new Dr Dre cd and told him to get with the times. Cops have no sense of humor."
 
Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in their vats, no rules, no schools, no gloom, no evil influence of the moon, no trouble from matter or antimatter -- for they had a machine, a dream of a machine, with springs and gears and perfect in every respect. And they lived with it, and on it, and under it, and inside it, for it was all they had -- first they saved up all their atoms, then they put them all together, and if one didn't fit, why they chipped at it a bit, and everything was just fine ... -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"
 
Another cool movie quote.

Samuel L. Jackson has the best quotes.

"AK-47; when you absolutely positively got to kill every mother [expletive] in the room, accept no substitutes."

Booyakasha!
 
Graham Hill...

"The chief qualities of a racing driver are concentration, determination and anticipation. A 1929 Austin without brakes develops all three - anticipation rather more than the first two, perhaps."

One of the many racing quotes I have collected.
 
Another from Gilles Villeneuve after he destroyed the qualifying field by 11 seconds in a monsoon at Watkins Glen...

"Every winter, you would reckon on three or four big spills - and I'm talking about being thrown on to the ice at 100 mph. Those things [snowmobiles] used to slide a lot, which taught me a great deal about control. And the visibility was terrible! Unless you were leading, you could see nothing, with all the snow blowing about. Good for the reactions - and it stopped me having any worries about racing in the rain."
 
Bernd Rosemeyer gave this in an interview during the German Land Speed record attempts on the autobahn during the 1920s...

"... at about 240 mph the joints in the concrete road surface are felt like blows, setting up a corresponding resonance through the car, but this disappears at a greater speed. Passing under bridges the driver receives a terrific blow to the chest, because the car is pushing air aside, which is trapped by the bridge. When you go under a bridge, for a split second the engine noise completely disappears and then returns like a thunderclap when you are through.”

Of the same record attempts, Rudolph Carracciola said this...

"The road seemed like a narrow white band, the bridges like tiny black holes ahead. It was a matter of threading the car through them..."
 
"Do you smeellllll-oo what the Smoke is bakin'?!" - The rock impersonator from Jerry Springer

Now that was funny :)
 
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