Classic Quotes

slipss

Ok so anyone seen or heard any quotes that they just ****ing loved post them here please.

Orion

This is why I avoid After Hours

Slutmonkey57b

Did that guy get back to you?

Theeeeeeeesee Nuts!

*stands up and points to crotch*

slipss

A few of my favourites.

"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who *smiles all the time*.
-Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

"tryanny and oppression are a small price to pay, to live in the land of the free"
-C. Montgomery Burns

" What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-Mahatma Ghandi

"Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week."
-Will Rogers

"it's better to burn out, than fade away"
-Jimmy Hendrix?

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
-Joseph Stalin

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one."
-Adolph Hitler

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare

"You know what? Fukk you! How bout that?"
-Slipss

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs."
-Lily Tomlin

"I regret nothing, what a sick ****ing joke, I regret everything"
-Mark Brandon Reid

Dooom

You can't quote from yourself! That's not allowed.

Ceiling cat FTW.

KTRIC

"I'm a f*ckin sex god" - KTRIC

bounty_hunter

slipss wrote:

"it's better to burn out, than fade away"
-Jimmy Hendrix?

Just for your own benefit, that was Kurt Cobain

arbeitsscheuer

bounty_hunter wrote:

Just for your own benefit, that was Kurt Cobain

Incorrect again, that was in fact Neil Young:p

bounty_hunter

SebtheBum wrote:

Incorrect again, that was in fact Neil Young:p

Well now we're just splitting hairs
**** knows who said it first, it's not exactly highly original (and for the record several people have famously said it), but Kurt Cobain is more famous for saying it than anyone else, so it's most likely slipss heard his version of it.

Slutmonkey57b

I thought it was the skeleton from the Maxell VHS tape ads in the 80's.

Dizzyblabla

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

I thought it was the skeleton from the Maxell VHS tape ads in the 80's.

ha ha! I remember that ad! oh god, now I just feel old... nice one slutmonkey...

monkeyfudge

"Zookeeper! Zookeeper! Those two monkeys are killing each other!"

biko

"That's not a moon, it's a..."

IvaBigWun

"I like cake"

Father Jack

Sam Vimes

the quotes in my sig. slipss knows what i'm talking about (for two of them anyway)

1. the great philosopher homer
2. terry pratchett
3. terry pratchett

arbeitsscheuer

bounty_hunter wrote:

Well now we're just splitting hairs
**** knows who said it first, it's not exactly highly original (and for the record several people have famously said it), but Kurt Cobain is more famous for saying it than anyone else, so it's most likely slipss heard his version of it.

Erm, no mate. Neil Young did say it first. My My, Hey Hey. Look it up. And yes, at the time it was original. Because that was its origin.:rolleyes:

How is it when somebody else has their facts wrong it's ok for you to correct someone but then when someone corrects you suddenly it's "splitting hairs"?:v:

bounty_hunter

SebtheBum wrote:

Erm, no mate. Neil Young did say it first. My My, Hey Hey. Look it up. And yes, at the time it was original. Because that was its origin.:rolleyes:

How is it when somebody else has their facts wrong it's ok for you to correct someone but then when someone corrects you suddenly it's "splitting hairs"?:v:

Christ, relax mate. I was taking the piss with the splitting hair things, hence the "look at me, I'm taking the piss" emoticon.

I'm not denying the fact that Neil Young said it first, I honestly have no idea who said it first (as I've already stated). All I meant was that since (at this point in time, before you argue with me again) it's no longer an original quote, slipss probably heard it in relation to Kurt Cobain, since he said it more famously than Neil Young, or anyone else for that matter. Infact Cobain might have been quoting Neil Young for all I know.

slipss

Actually I did hear it first from Jimmy Hendrix, he said it in an interview with a philosophy student from cambridge, theres an old black and white video of the interview that I've never been able to track down, maybe I dreamt it. But seeing as you seem pretty sure I'll except that it was Jimmy quoting Neil Young. I heard Kurt say it on more than one occasion, but I'm pretty sure that he laughed and said "Hendrix gave me that one" after saying it, maybe another dream though.

slipss

In a more recent format I said it in Circuit Court No.8, it did not go down well at all!, but I saw the judge smile, so maybe he was a Young/Hendrix/Nirvana fan. either way I'm still here and posting on this sad but addictive website so I must have done something right.

slipss

Commander Vimes wrote:

the quotes in my sig. slipss knows what i'm talking about (for two of them anyway)

1. the great philosopher homer
2. terry pratchett
3. terry pratchett

Ahh good old Terry, what a ****ing legend he is, I would have put about 20 more of his sayings into my "favourites" but how could I post just 20 and anyways Albert has it all tied up, its all poluitics

bounty_hunter

slipss wrote:

Actually I did hear it first from Jimmy Hendrix, he said it in an interview with a philosophy student from cambridge, theres an old black and white video of the interview that I've never been able to track down, maybe I dreamt it. But seeing as you seem pretty sure I'll except that it was Jimmy quoting Neil Young. I heard Kurt say it on more than one occasion, but I'm pretty sure that he laughed and said "Hendrix gave me that one" after saying it, maybe another dream though.

I wasn't meaning to correct you or dispute where you say you heard it from by the way, it's just that you had a question mark after the name so I assumed that meant you weren't sure and were looking for a second opinion Apologies if I misinterpreted that.

slipss

bounty_hunter wrote:

I wasn't meaning to correct you or dispute where you say you heard it from by the way, it's just that you had a question mark after the name so I assumed that meant you weren't sure and were looking for a second opinion Apologies if I misinterpreted that.

No buddy you had it dead right, I had the question mark because I wasn't sure, thanks.

Setun

<it was Neil Young who said it, it was a lyric from a song that my friends always talkin about>

Right, so back to the quotes then:

Out in some random bog in Ireland in Finding Morris:
Narcissus: Where were you?
Laef Gunnisson: Just taking the bog for a walk.

Also:
Laef Gunnisson: You're like the great wall of china boy, you aint goin down...
...until you met me.

Pigman II

"A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course
That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed. "

- anonymous.

R0ot

A bunch of Oscar Wilde Quotes:

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

(And a great one for this thread)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

casanova_kid

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on"- Dean Martin

Bodhidharma

" you have asshole/ shyness confusion" - Larry David

hullaballoo

"Talk sense to a fool and he will call you foolish" - Euripides (484-406BC)
"Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur" - Pythia
"Lay-tex con-dome. Boy would I like to live in one of those!" - Abe Simpson

mickymg2003

"Fat people are hard to kidnap" - My yearbook Quote
"I'm afraid i over-shot my wod, i was hoping for a dry run but now i have a mess on my hands" - Tobias Fŭnke

Heyes

my signature

Tar.Aldarion

I am become death, the shatterer of worlds.

arbeitsscheuer

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I am become death, the shatterer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer, quoting a Hindu text (which btw I've never been able to pinpoint).

Great one. Tis one of my faves too.

Tar.Aldarion

SebtheBum wrote:

Robert Oppenheimer, quoting a Hindu text (which btw I've never been able to pinpoint).

Great one. Tis one of my faves too.

Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 32

I'm quite the fan 0_o

arbeitsscheuer

Cheers Tar!


Others of mine:
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being" - Kahlil Gibran

"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!" - Winston Churchill

Zapp Brannigan

"There´s only one real world,
Our earth is but a shadow" - In Flames

Search Wikiquote for Mitch Hedberg and just appreciate his genius, my sig is one of my favourites.

Shabadu

Commander Vimes wrote:

the quotes in my sig. slipss knows what i'm talking about (for two of them anyway)

1. the great philosopher homer
2. terry pratchett
3. terry pratchett

Homer wasn't a philosopher.

EDIT: Oh god- you're talking about Homer Simpson, aren't you?

*cries*

b0bsquish

I didn’t fall over…I just had taken the executive decision not to be standing at that time - Frank Turner

Setun

I love him like a brother, just not one of mine - woody allen

dogg_r_69

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
Ernest Hemmingway.

"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's a pretty good one."
Woody Allen.

"When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her."

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

matrim

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars


If democracy and self-rule are the fundamentals, then why should people give up these rights when they enter their workplace? In politics we fight like tigers for freedom, for the right to elect our leaders, for freedom of movement, choice of residence, choice of what work to pursue—control of our lives, in short. And then we wake up in the morning and go to work, and all those rights disappear. We no longer insist on them. And so for most of the day we return to feudalism. That is what capitalism is—a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives' labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Blue Mars

muckwarrior

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

I thought it was the skeleton from the Maxell VHS tape ads in the 80's.

The skeleton was for Scotch tapes, and it was "re-record, not fade away".

OT: "Makes much more sense to live in the present tense" - Eddie Vedder

Fast_Mover

And you rememeber this how muckers?...someone has no life me thinks!!:D

muckwarrior

Fast_Mover wrote:

And you rememeber this how muckers?...someone has no life me thinks!!:D

Well you wouldn't coz you were still in nappies at teh time And that skeleton was tellin the fυckin truth, we still have a couple of those scotch tapes at home!

Fast_Mover

muckwarrior wrote:

Well you wouldn't coz you were still in nappies at teh time we still have a couple of those scotch tapes at home!

or maybe someone's showing their age! what are ya now..thirty something isnt it?!:p

boneless

"And with regard to my factual reporting of the events of the war I have made it a principle not to write down the first story that came my way, and not even to be guided by my own general impressions; either I was present myself at the events which I have described or else I heard them from eye-witnesses whose reports I have checked with as much thoroughness as possible."

Thucydides (c 460-400 BC); The History of the Penolponnesian War.


"I just jazzed it up a little!"

Spike Milligan (1916-2004). Mussolini; His Part in my Downfall. (The fourth part of his trilogy of war memoirs).

hullaballoo

hullaballoo wrote:

"Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum viditur" - Pythia

Is that pythia off boards?She is quite the greek geek.

Sam Vimes

Shabadu wrote:

Homer wasn't a philosopher.

EDIT: Oh god- you're talking about Homer Simpson, aren't you?

*cries*

:v:

Katykaboom

My Dad: Aidan (my little brother) go to bed. you have school in the morning.

Aidan : 2 minutes, Im just defragging the computer

My Dad : ILL BLOODY DEFRAG YOU! GO TO BED.



Also:

Homer: I'm not a religous person, BUT SAVE ME SUPERMAN.

Sleepy

It's "I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman!" Katykaboom...

"For it is in the dew of simple things the heart finds it's morning and is refreshed." - Kahlil Gibran

And with respect to the Neil Young/Kurt Cobain thing, Cobain quoted that line of Young's in his suicide note. Young responded to this with the album 'Sleeps with Angels' which he dedicated to Cobain.

100gSoma

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

I thought it was the skeleton from the Maxell VHS tape ads in the 80's.

bloody good ad.... LOL.

mayordenis

a friend of mine tried to say "don't count your chickens till they've hatched" he ended up said "I wouldn't bet on those eggs" - so it's a classic quote where i am.