What's your favourite quote?

JimmyMcGill

curioser wrote: »

"Die dog or sh1te the licence!".

"The man who made time made plenty of it".

Anon.

"I never knew a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."
Brendan Behan

Always wondered why noted experts in their own fields could spurt random absurdities about other professionals. Stick to your own or explain yourself.

cantdecide

Surreptitious wrote: »

Does that mean you need the grains and the apple trees first? As in creating the Earth?

IMO it means the universe is inconceivably old, complex and elegant and there is a cosmic wonderment in everything we get be briefly be a part of and enjoy.

Noveight

"The sun does arise and make happy the skies"

The first two lines of the Echoing Green by William Blake. I've always found that sunshine on my face makes me very, very happy indeed so this quote has always stuck with me.

Irish Guitarist

"Put your carpet, I will read your soul like a book".

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cantdecide wrote: »

IMO it means the universe is inconceivably old, complex and elegant and there is a cosmic wonderment in everything we get be briefly be a part of and enjoy.

I think it means you need a universe to exist so you can exist along with the apples and other ingredients to make the apple tart.

gammygils

"In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - It was the worst 20 minutes of my life"


- George Best

jonon9

'Let there be rock'

Bon Scott.

Son0vagun

A few from Frank Zappa.

“The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.“

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”

"Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough" - Probably someone on 4chan.

Nalz

PeterParker957 wrote: »

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Not massively inspiring I'll Grant you but my fave!

You got your fave wrong then...

It's "you're going to need a bigger boat".

A common quote that's misquoted.

Nalz

PeterParker957 wrote: »

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

Not massively inspiring I'll Grant you but my fave!

You got your fave wrong then...

It's "you're going to need a bigger boat".

A common quote that's misquoted.

mfceiling

Eagles may soar but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

beans

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto"

-- Cormac McCarthy

cantdecide

You can't polish a turd, however, you can varnish it.

-Unknown

MagicIRL

"When you're going through hell, keep going" -Churchill

Always liked that. Helped me out when I was going through some tough times.

Hammer89

Noveight wrote: »

"The sun does arise and make happy the skies"

The first two lines of the Echoing Green by William Blake. I've always found that sunshine on my face makes me very, very happy indeed so this quote has always stuck with me.

Think that might be Yoda. The words are in the wrong order they are.

Ferm001

"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius" - Arnaud Amalric (1209) & Marge Simpson (Season 5 / 20)

RichardoKhan

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure"
-Marianne Williamson

Question Everything...........
Why?

- Anonymous

Here we go

All ways liked the one in men in black
A person is smart people are dumb panicky dangerous animals

beans

“If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”

sbsquarepants

Homer Simpson: "It takes two to lie Marge, 1 to tell the lie and the other to believe it"

begbysback

“If God exists and one day I go up there and he will ask: ‘Do you want to come in? What have you done in your life?’ And the only answer I will have is: ‘I tried to win football games.’ He will say: ‘Is that all you have done?’ And the only answer I will have is: ‘It’s not as easy as it looks.’”

Arsene Wenger

joe stodge

"I SHALL RETURN".

terminator 2

begbysback

“Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn’t even know he’s locked up.”

DFW

theoneeyedman

Tiercel Dave wrote: »

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

Thanks

7 Seconds...

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain

Rubberlegs

"If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all" as told to Thumper the rabbit in Bambi by his parents

RiderOnTheStorm

Tigger wrote:

.... This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.....

It makes me very happy that T Pratchett's character (Sam Vimes) has real world influence and will be remembered forever.

.....long live The Guarding Dark

mariaalice

'I told you I was ill' Spick Milliagan which he had put on his gravestone.

Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans