Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Quote Dump #21

"A broken heart is a monument to love that will never die." 
- William Somerset Maugham

"Between subtle shading and the absence of light lies the nuance of illusion." 
- Kryptos

"I'm late for a jean-folding seminar. Let's locomote!" 
- Bluelighter


Monday, September 27, 2010

Quote Dump #20

From the Hitchhiker's series:

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. " 

"Ah, " said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. "

"He expanded his chest to make it totally clear that here was the sort of man you only dared to cross if you had a team of Sherpas with you. "


"He dropped his voice still lower. In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear its throat. " 

"The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit. "

"It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. "

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. " 


Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Quote Dump #19

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."
- Chinese proverb

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
- Margaret Fuller

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Quote Dump #18

"Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. I make sure that I have enough time between tournaments to go home in order to do other things. I like hiking and skiing, and I play football in a club." 

- Magnus Carlson (youngest world chess champion in history, at 17 years of age)



Monday, August 16, 2010

Quote Dump #17


"Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Quote Dump #16

"Blender: Do you ever pick a subject at random [out of the encyclopedia] and learn all about it?
Lil Wayne: No. I’m a millionaire.
Blender: What’s that mean? Millionaires still have things they can learn!
Lil Wayne: Are you a millionaire? No. So don’t tell me what millionaires do. "

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Quote Dump #15

"With so many jaded slackers in one place, somewhere a Burger King is running itself.."

"My ex-girlfriend wrote a book called STOP DATING LOSERS."

"Your avatar is a shoe, man."

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Quote Dump #14

"No, the last thing they will be expecting would be for us to turn into ice-skating mongooses and dance the Belero..." - Rimmer (Red Dwarf)

"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn't try it on." - Billy Connolly

"Madness is unusual in an individual but the norm in groups" - Nietzsche


Monday, June 21, 2010

Quote Dump #13


"If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito."

"A ship in the harbour is safe, but that's not what ships are for."

"Pain is temporary. Pride is forever."   

Friday, June 11, 2010

Quote Dump #12


"No matter how intellectually stimulating your topic of conversation might be, no one will take you seriously if you're not wearing pants."

"Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. So that way, when you criticize them you're a mile away and have their shoes!"

"Be bad while you're young and you can spend the rest of your life improving."

Saturday, June 05, 2010

Quote Dump #11

"If you loan someone $20, and you never see that person again, it was probably worth it."

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration and that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... Here's Tom with the weather!" - Bill Hicks

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Quote Dump #10


"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

"The great minds of our society are those who make us use our own."
- Bill Hicks

"Never work so hard making a living that you forget to make a life."
- lostNfound

Friday, May 21, 2010

Quote Dump #9


"Operator, get me the number for 911" - Homer Simpson

"... Are you suggesting Coconuts migrate?" - Monty Python

Lady Astor: "Sir! If you were my husband, I would put arsenic in your coffee."
Sir Winston Churchill: "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it!"


Saturday, April 17, 2010

Quote Dump #8


"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Monday, April 05, 2010

Quote Dump #5


"A lady informed me that I was drunk, to which I replied, lady I may be drunk today but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly." - Winston Churchill

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Quote Dump #2

"Yeah, apparently a teacher in Britain was arrested. On him they found a pencil, eraser, ruler, protractor and compass. They said he was part of the Al Gebra network, and that he had weapons of math instruction!"