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What's your favourite quote?

  • 06-03-2010 9:33pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭


    My personal favourite is "It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. — Rami Belson”


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    ''The things you own, end up owning you'' - Tyler Durden


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    "Do not walk behind me,for i may not lead.
    Do not walk in front of me,for i may not follow,
    Do not walk beside me either
    Just leave me the hell alone".

    "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it".


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,203 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Samuel L Jackson. Hero.

    Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cos he is just so hot in the U.K. right now?

    Jackson: He’s pretty hot in the U.S. too.

    Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.

    Jackson: Isn’t he from Ireland?

    Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cos Ireland is beside us.

    Jackson: You see that’s your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Zipp101


    "Today is the tomorrow that you dreamed about yesterday"


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,239 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    "In science, fact can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." - Stephen Jay Gould

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    €200 for a oz of weed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭Elenxor


    ' To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise,get up early or be respectable.'


    Oscar Wilde


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    If you haven't anything good to say about someone, keep your mouth shut.

    I can learn to resist,
    anything but temptation...


    and my sig below....( both Neil Peart)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    "I am sick and tired of these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking plane!"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    If there's one thing I hate it's losing.

    If there's two things I hate it's losing, and getting cancer.

    Kenny Powers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭kev9100


    Where would we be without Mr. Samuel L Jackson? In the ****, thats where.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    My sig :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,248 ✭✭✭Slow Show


    Not my favourite, but high up:

    ''There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.'' - David Burns


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    On the back of Banksy's 'Wall and Piece':

    "Theres no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover"
    Metropolitan Police Spokesperson


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    'Out of life's school of war what does not destroy me makes me stronger'

    - Friedrich Nietzche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889.



    "It is not those who can inflict the most, but those who can suffer the most who will ultimately triumph."

    - Traolach Mac Suibhne/Terence MacSwiney (1879 - 1920), during his 74-day hunger strike, which ended with his death on 25 October 1920.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    The great question that has never been answered and which I have not get been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a women want?'

    Sigmund Freud.


  • Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    "I want to be a Horologist"
    John-Joe.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Samuel L Jackson. Hero.

    Thornton: What was it like working with Colin (Farrell), cos he is just so hot in the U.K. right now?

    Jackson: He’s pretty hot in the U.S. too.

    Thornton: Yeah, but he is one of our own.

    Jackson: Isn’t he from Ireland?

    Thornton: Yeah, but we can claim him cos Ireland is beside us.

    Jackson: You see that’s your problem right there. You British keep claiming people that don’t belong to you. We had that problem here in America too, it was called slavery.


    hehe. Legend. Legend. Legend.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 670 ✭✭✭Tail Wagger


    Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
    Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

    "History will be kind to me,for I intend to write it"

    Winston Churchill.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Michaelrsh


    “A vindictive, blood-thirsty, ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, pseudo-masochistic, capriciously, malevolent bully!” – Richard Dawkins’ description of God

    I also like this one:

    "Don't you love the French language? I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. 'Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère'. It's like wiping your ass with silk, I love it." - The Merovingian, Matrix Reloaded.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 524 ✭✭✭gagiteebo


    'D'ya have any biscuits?'

    'I do'

    'Yeah. Get them'

    Buzz - Hardy Bucks

    Hardly inspiring or intellectual but that scene always makes me laugh :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭fikay


    'He's got a big chest and's good looking for a knacker....and he's better endowed than you, it's big and it goes all the way up my gowl'
    -Athlone Scum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOoEIfADfs

    Wisdom.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 218 ✭✭2manyconditions


    Zipp101 wrote: »
    "Today is the tomorrow that you dreamed about yesterday"

    Who said that?

    Mine is 'you don't get something for nothing' depressing but true:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭Vinta81


    "Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭earcandi


    "This too shall pass" (argued source, but Shakespear used it)

    "I've stolen yer money, ye ****" The Viper - The hardy bucks. Legend. :)

    "It's not what you know, it's who you know" - Too true.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭trapsagenius


    Think it was Churchill who said-
    "A fanatic is someone who won't change his mind and won't change the subject".

    Its so, so true.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 192 ✭✭Mr Yellow


    Trainspotting : Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

    In Bruges:
    Overweight man: Been to the top of the tower?
    Ray:Yeah... yeah, it's rubbish.
    Overweight man: It is? The guide book says it's a must see.
    Ray: Well you lot ain't going up there.
    Overweight man: Pardon me? Why?
    Ray: I mean, it's all winding stairs. I'm not being funny.
    Overweight man: What exactly are you trying to say?
    Ray: What exactly am I trying to say? You's a bunch of ****in' elephants. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
    — Samuel Johnson


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 292 ✭✭Jordan Berbatov


    "Work is the curse of the drinking class"

    And anything else by my man Oscar


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."
    - Yoda

    (see that's advice you can take to the bank!)

    He also had another one that went something like....

    "Judge me by my size, do you?"

    (fortunately however I've never had need to invoke that one)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 224 ✭✭Cheeble


    "Life is everchanging"

    Probably from multiple sources, but particularly Buddhism for Sheep by Chris Riddell:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buddhism-Sheep-Chris-Riddell/dp/0091807549

    Cheeble-eers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,456 ✭✭✭Jev/N


    When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

    (Albert Einstein)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Eric Cantona..
    "An artist, in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970, and the poetry of the young Rimbaud."

    Banksy..
    "When I was five years old, my Mom told me happiness was the key to life. When I went to school they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
    I wrote down "happy".
    They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life."

    Both are pure legends among men.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


    We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”

    Bill Hicks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭merengueca


    Billy Franks :
    I only had to be cut once to know how to bleed
    I know why we tend to love most those who know
    How to leave and Take my hand and let me tell you
    All but my love will soon be gone
    And the exit wound will be quick and clean
    So the sacred art of leaving passes on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭TimTim


    "It is better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." - John Milton

    Or I have another quote but I've never been able to find out where it came from.

    "The secret war is never over, only the enemy changes."


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
    — Samuel Johnson

    Speaking of Johnson, this one is classic:

    "He, I know not why, shewed upon all occasions an aversion to go to Ireland, where I proposed to him that we should make a tour.
    JOHNSON. "It is the last place where I should wish to travel."
    BOSWELL. "Should you not like to see Dublin, Sir?"
    JOHNSON. "No, Sir; Dublin is only a worse capital."
    BOSWELL. "Is not the Giant's-Causeway worth seeing?"
    JOHNSON. "Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.""

    I can't see the Northern Ireland Tourist Board using it anytime soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭akkadian


    kev9100 wrote: »
    My personal favourite is "It’s better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you’re stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. — Rami Belson”

    Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
    --Oscar Wilde


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,370 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    "A pint of plain's your only man" - Briain ó Nualáin/Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    1. It's important to have a woman, who helps at home, who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

    2. It's important to have a woman, who can make you laugh.

    3. It's important to have a woman, who you can trust and who doesn't lie to you.

    4. It's important to have a woman, who is good in bed and who likes to be with you.

    5. It's very, very important that these four women do not know each other

    Tiger Woods


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭daca88


    ronnie3585 wrote: »
    If there's one thing I hate it's losing.

    If there's two things I hate it's losing, and getting cancer.

    Kenny Powers

    Kenny Powers FTW!!

    "I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know"
    Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf

    or

    "I dont want to live, I want to love first, and live incidentally"
    havent a clue who said that one, i just like it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Withnail and I

    "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!"

    "Don't threaten me with a dead fish"

    Bill Shankly

    "Some people think that football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    "I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't like eating fish, and I know thats very popular out there in Africa.” -Britney Spears.


    Them crazy Africans and their fish!:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Soul Cake Duck


    "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice.

    "There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist."

    "It's still magic even if you know how it's done"

    All Terry Pratchett!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,454 ✭✭✭mink_man


    "regan is here, thaaank you, only way is to da pub, where da **** else!?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    May God bless and keep you always
    May your wishes all come true
    May you always do for others
    And let others do for you
    May you build a ladder to the stars
    And climb on every rung
    May you stay forever young

    Bob Dylan - Forever Young


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 6,485 Mod ✭✭✭✭silvervixen84


    What is life if full of care
    We have no time to stand and stare
    A poor life this, if full of care
    We have no time to stand and stare

    William Henry Davis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,838 ✭✭✭theboss80


    "Its better to deserve awards and yet never recieve them than to recieve awards and yet never deserve them."

    Cant remember who said that originally, or theres another great basketball coaches quote that goes.

    "We have a great team of outside shooters, its just a problem the game is played indoors."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,064 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    "The fearless are merely fearless. Those who act in spite of their fear are truely brave".


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