Thesis quotes: What you got?

judas101

Right so I'm putting finishing touches to my thesis.

All that's left to do is put a funny quote at the very start of it.

Some people go the serious route and have some ****ty meaningful statement but i'm looking for something witty.

i dont want to use a well known author or comic, what i want is for YOU to think up a quote and you will be immortalised in my thesis

What you got?

javaboy

What's the thesis title?

orestes

Do we get the credit for the quote?

El Weirdo

Yeah. What's it about? Otherwise you can use the catch-all "YORE MA"...

judas101

Yes you'll get credited.

The thesis is on aerodynamics. I modified wings, tested them and improved their efficiency *yawn*

aidan_walsh

judas101 wrote: »

Yes you'll get credited.

The thesis is on aerodynamics. I modified wings, tested them and improved their efficiency *yawn*

I suppose a quip about your theory taking off would be too obvious?

echosound

or a quip about sanitary towels?

El Weirdo

echosound wrote: »

or a quip about sanitary towels?

lol... Jam napkins ftw:D

Edit- changed sticks to napkins... Jam sticks don't have wings...

thelordofcheese

"Do not offend the chair leg of truth, it is wise and terrible"


(bonus points for anyone who gets the reference)

ferdi

That's not flying, that's just falling with style.

— Woody, from the 1996 movie 'Toy Story'.


http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html

Alicat

ferdi wrote: »

That's not flying, that's just falling with style.

— Woody, from the 1996 movie 'Toy Story'.


http://www.skygod.com/quotes/flyingjokes.html

Haha, Ferdi, I love it

Buzz Buzz

'Girls who glide need guys who make them thump.'

Jimmy 'The Saint' Tosnia - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead(1995)

javaboy

Aerodynamics gives me wiiiings

Tar.Aldarion

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”
Bill Watterson

Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.
Woody Guthrie

Black Swan

"If you believe (this thesis) to be real, it will be real in its consequences." I.W. Thomas. Parenthetical substitution for "something."

ModeSkeletor

Did some supervisor or something tell you to do this? I just submitted my thesis a few weeks ago and didn't add any funny quotes, come to think of it nobody in my entire class did as far as I know.

AlmightyCushion

Just litter your thesis with really obscure quotes from the old testament. Don't back up any of your findings with evidence, just say that's the way God made it. Then as you hand it up tell him that the lord speaks to you and has told you to kill in the past (follow it up with a twitch or two if you're feeling adventurous). He'll think you're a homicidal nut job and will ace you out of fear.

Sherifu

"Red Bull gives you wings!"

Adam

"I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?

I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride

A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming

A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
That now I'm in a whole new world with you
Now I'm in a whole new world with you

Unbelievable sights
Indescribable feeling
Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling
Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world
Don't you dare close your eyes
A hundred thousand things to see
Hold your breath - it gets better
I'm like a shooting star
I've come so far
I can't go back to where I used to be

A whole new world
Every turn a surprise
With new horizons to pursue
Every moment red-letter
I'll chase them anywhere
There's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you

A whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A wondrous place
For you and me"

Tbh.

Unpossible

Try a quote from when air travel was first being developed where the person quoted makes a claim that it will never work/be viable/ take off

javaboy

javaboy wrote: »

Aerodynamics gives me wiiiings

Sherifu wrote: »

"Red Bull gives you wings!"

Blatant plagiarism Sherifu :mad:

Peteee

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a bannana" - Grouch Marx

Its what I used for mine

Sherifu

javaboy wrote: »

Blatant plagiarism Sherifu :mad:

I can live with it. :pac:

Unpossible

Like all jobs/industries aerodynamics has its ups and downs

luckat

A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind

judas101

Some good ones so far! Thanks folks.

Not too concerned about it's relevance to the actual project, just want it to be funny.

@ModeSkeletor: You dont have to do it but its a common feature of thesis'.

javaboy

Air travel - the legal way to get high

ScumLord

Or you could go the cocky route like a lad in my school who put "A1 easy" at the top of his mock history test.

Naos

And what did he get...

JIZZLORD

my friends brother dedicated his masters to optimus prime

ScumLord

A C, out of spite mostly I'd say.

Annatar

"Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name."

Annatar

this woulda been a great one....

"All characters and events portrayed in this work are fictional and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental "

Sangre

putting an unrelated funny quote at the start of your thesis will look retarded. will probably get the corrector looking for a hidden meaning, getting confused and then take his frustration out on you.

ferdis would be very funny though.

"The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

— Louis Bleriot"

"“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

Douglas Adams "

chickenhawk

Put a warning on it.
'If these wings fail you will not be hurt. Although the crash afterwards may kill you'

Annatar

ahhh fu**'em if they cant take a joke!

Macha

My soul is in the sky.
William Shakespeare, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Act V. Scene I.

or

There is no flying without wings.
French proverb
(Contrary to Westlife's claims)

Popinjay

thelordofcheese wrote: »

"Do not offend the chair leg of truth, it is wise and terrible"


(bonus points for anyone who gets the reference)

Well Mr. Jerusalem, I see your crippling brain-sickness wasn't quite as severe as you led us to beleive. Gotta love the chair leg of truth .

oblivious

I used

“There is no science without fancy and no art without fact” – Vladimir Nabokov

for my PhD (science) thesis

I am just glad that any questions about Lolita was not brought up :eek:

Adam

Popinjay wrote: »

Well Mr. Jerusalem, I see your crippling brain-sickness wasn't quite as severe as you led us to beleive. Gotta love the chair leg of truth .

Do you deny the minty freshmaker?! Nub filled goodness.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

I used "statistics is human beings with the tears dried off"

in my PhD (finance)


How about something to make it easy for the examiner to grade your thesis with a boards-style poll:


"
Dear Examiner, please tick the most appropriate:

1) Good thesis
2) Poor thesis
3) Atari Jaguar
"

appleydappley

"Some day I'll fly away, leave all this to yesterday", but until then I guess I'll just write this thesis.
So, aerodynamics...

"Tonights epsiode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers features strong language, and scenes of a sexual nature"


-or-


"Judas101.....putting the 'rod' in Aerodynamics"


-or-


Aerodynamics = Physics, plane & simple.

Adam

Deleted User wrote: »

"Tonights epsiode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers features strong language, and scenes of a sexual nature"


-or-


"Judas101.....putting the 'rod' in Aerodynamics"


-or-


Aerodynamics = Physics, plane & simple.

Pick one of his tbh.

judas101

Deleted User wrote: »

"Tonights epsiode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers features strong language, and scenes of a sexual nature"


-or-


"Judas101.....putting the 'rod' in Aerodynamics"


-or-


Aerodynamics = Physics, plane & simple.

These are great!

Take note the rest of you!

Sarn

Annatar wrote: »

this woulda been a great one....

"All characters and events portrayed in this work are fictional and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental "

That's the missing first page of the bible.

"On a wing and a prayer" (like most PhDs)

"For the glory of Xenu!"

"Mayday Mayday!"

randylonghorn

"You are the wind beneath my wings!"

(if you want to fail! )

Dinter

[FONT=&quot]This one seems appropriate because of the subject of your thesis.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]“I think we can build a better plane.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot] — William Boeing in 1914. It became Boeing’s motto.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]This one seems appropriate because it’s inspirational enough for a Thesis.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” [/FONT][FONT=&quot]— Oscar Wilde[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]Or this one seems most appropriate because it is a thesis!![/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]“I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back”.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]— Howard Hughes about the dreadful Spruce Goose [/FONT]

Unpossible

"Should be all plane sailing from here"

"my wings are like a shield of steel" -batfink

"Criminals are a cowardly suspicious lot" -bruce wayne

"Its because of your yellow sun" -superman