*The Quotes Thread*

[risingson77]

"No highs? No lows? Must be Bose."

-old Hi-Fi industry saying

 

[Magic069]

a drunk man once said, "have a seat in my lap, we'll talk about the first thing that pops up"

 

[savoysix]

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science" Charles Darwin from The Descent of Man (1871)

 

[savoysix]

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have" Albert Einstein

 

[savoysix]

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth" Otto von Bismark

 

[savoysix]

"We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling" Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

 

[savoysix]

"Now I don't know Karate... But I know KUH RAY ZEE." James Brown, the Godfather of Soul

 

[TAFJonathan]

"The best way to keep your word is to not give it."

-A cynic

 

[polyphony 001]

"we are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
Oscar Wilde

 

[polyphony 001]

"We must learn to live together as brothers or we will die together as fools"
MLK

 

[polyphony 001]

"Hate is baggage, Life is too short to be pissed off all the time"
American History X

 

[polyphony 001]

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
A Lincoln (abbridged in American History X)

 

[polyphony 001]

"I have a dream"
(you should know this one)

 

[polyphony 001]

"If you have built castles in the air, your work needs not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
H David Thereau

 

[polyphony 001]

...and especially relevant at this time:

"A man may die, nations may fall, but an idea lives on"
JFK

 

[polyphony 001]

"Never in the field of human conflict, have so many owed so much to so few."
Winston Churchill

 

[polyphony 001]

and another from the big guy which may be relevant to our struggles these days...

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender" (Which frankly translates into; **** you Hitler)
Winston Churchill

 

[Pisa]

The only difference between me and a madman is that I ain't mad

- Salvador Dali

 

[polyphony 001]

"don't think, feeeeeeeeeeeeeeel"
Bruce Lee

 

[polyphony 001]

"never argue with a fool - they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
Can't remember who

 

[polyphony 001]

When Ayrton Senna criticised other drivers for weaving across his line when he was trying to overtake the interviewer countered by saying that Senna also weaved to defend his line. To which the great man replied

"Yes, but I am Senna.."

 

[polyphony 001]

"TIMMEY!!!"
Timmy

 

[polyphony 001]

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"
Bill Intern-under-the-desk Clinton

 

[Magic069]

"the pumkins name is Stanley" Tatiana age 4...

she is a friends daughter, and i asked her to name my avatar... without a second thought, that is what she said...

 

[polyphony 001]

"Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"
William Shakespeare

 

[polyphony 001]

"IMagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein

 

[polyphony 001]

"respect my authoritaahhh"
Officer E Cartman

 

[Magic069]

Originally posted by polyphony 001
"respect my authoritaahhh"
Officer E Cartman

love it

 

[Concept]

School Sucks!!!!!!!!


By: me (at school right now.)

 

[savoysix]

We Don't Need No Ed-joo-kay-shun

--Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall pt2