Your Favorite Quotes!

[RJDiogenes]

"Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss."

- The Who

[Sean]

"Whatever it is, I'm against it. From morning until night, I protest it. I'm against it."
-sung by Grocho Marx in Horsefeathers

And since it is around time for the new administration in the US, another classic song of his
"The last guy nearly ruined this place. He didn't know what to do with it. If you think this countries bad of now,
just wait till I get through with it."
-Sung by Grocho Marx in Duck Soup

And the responses from the current administration:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?"

-George W. Bush, leader of the free world.

[mudshark]

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain (Note to the Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, 1901)

[Sean]

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! ~ Randy Pausch

[Sean]

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer- Victor Borge

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.- Victor Borge

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people- Victor Borge

[mudshark]

"I had an uncle who once tried to cross an Idaho potato with a sponge. It tasted terrible... but it sure held a lot of gravy."
-- Victor Borge.

"Hey, it's your language. I'm just trying to use it."
-- Victor Borge

[RJDiogenes]

Heh. Love the fire one.

[Sean]

Me too. I think it'll be going in my signature...

[RJDiogenes]

"Media overload bombarding you with action;
it's getting near impossible to cause distraction.

-- "Words," Missing Persons

[RJDiogenes]

"We are stardust
We are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon"

-- "Woodstock," Crosby, Stills and Nash

[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