Your Favorite Quotes!

[RJDiogenes]

“When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have”

-- Stephen Hawking

He's very sick.

[RJDiogenes]

“I don't want to die at 40.”

-- John Lennon

[RJDiogenes]

"Puns are the highest form of literature."

- Alfred Hitchcock

[Gary]

Religion and sex are power plays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin
Selling God
The numbers look the same on the credit card

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime, Spreading the Disease


"Tell the General, "Shit happens, pay up".

Benjamin Harvey, from the movie Captain Ron

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Good ones. This Thread has been idle too long.


"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

- Thomas Paine

[Gary]

Somewhat of a quote

[Lupine]

^

[mudshark]

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the senior prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.”

Frank Zappa - liner notes for song "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" on Freak Out! (1966)

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Zappa rocked, in more ways than one. I don't agree with him 100% (I don't agree with anyone 100%), but I really wish that we lived in a world where people would educate themselves and not follow like sheep.

I love that poster. It reminded me of this little gem from the current season of Futurama:

[Gary]

I always liked this one from the Tech Specs of the Transformer's Autobot Metroplex:
Vigilance is the foundation upon which victories are built.

[RJDiogenes]

Reminds me of one of my favorites: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." Attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but probably apocryphal; profoundly true, nonetheless.

[Gary]

I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.

Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

[mudshark]

^ From the same source:

What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

Jim: [consoling Bart]

[Lupine]

This thread has been long dormant but I came across this line in a review of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States written by Sam Wineburg several years ago I think is quite profound.

"A history of unalloyed certainties is dangerous because it
invites a slide into intellectual fascism. History as truth, issued
from the left or from the right, abhors shades of gray. It seeks to
stamp out the democratic insight that people of good will can see
the same thing and come to different conclusions. It imputes the
basest of motives to those who view the world from a different
perch. It detests equivocation and extinguishes
perhaps, maybe, might, and the most execrable of them all,
on the other hand. For the truth has no hands.
Such a history atrophies our tolerance for complexity. It makes
us allergic to exceptions to the rule. Worst of all, it depletes the
moral courage we need to revise our beliefs in the face of new
evidence. It ensures, ultimately, that tomorrow we will think
exactly as we thought yesterday—and the day before, and the day
before that."

[RJDiogenes]

Indeed, that describes our current state of extremism well. There can be no discussion or growth when those who disagree are evil incarnate.

We should be making better use of this thread.