Thesis quotes: What you got?

judas101 · 29-04-2008 01:00AM #1

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 · 29-04-2008 01:00AM

What's the thesis title?

orestes · 29-04-2008 01:03AM

Do we get the credit for the quote?

El Weirdo · 29-04-2008 01:04AM

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

judas101 · 29-04-2008 01:07AM

Yes you'll get credited.

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

aidan_walsh · 29-04-2008 01:09AM

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 · 29-04-2008 01:12AM

or a quip about sanitary towels?

El Weirdo · 29-04-2008 01:18AM

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 · 29-04-2008 01:29AM

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

(bonus points for anyone who gets the reference)

ferdi · 29-04-2008 01:30AM

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 · 29-04-2008 01:33AM

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 · 29-04-2008 01:37AM

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

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

javaboy · 29-04-2008 01:39AM

Aerodynamics gives me wiiiings

Tar.Aldarion · 29-04-2008 01:49AM

“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

29-04-2008 02:36AM

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

ModeSkeletor · 29-04-2008 02:50AM

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 · 29-04-2008 03:16AM

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 · 29-04-2008 08:49AM

"Red Bull gives you wings!"

Adam · 29-04-2008 08:54AM

"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 · 29-04-2008 08:58AM

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 · 29-04-2008 09:18AM

javaboy wrote: »

Aerodynamics gives me wiiiings

Sherifu wrote: »

"Red Bull gives you wings!"

Blatant plagiarism Sherifu :mad:

Peteee · 29-04-2008 09:35AM

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

Its what I used for mine

Sherifu · 29-04-2008 09:53AM

javaboy wrote: »

Blatant plagiarism Sherifu :mad:

I can live with it. :pac:

Unpossible · 29-04-2008 09:57AM

Like all jobs/industries aerodynamics has its ups and downs

luckat · 29-04-2008 10:00AM

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

judas101 · 29-04-2008 12:06PM

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 · 29-04-2008 12:10PM

Air travel - the legal way to get high

ScumLord · 29-04-2008 12:18PM

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 · 29-04-2008 12:19PM

And what did he get...

JIZZLORD · 29-04-2008 12:23PM

my friends brother dedicated his masters to optimus prime

ScumLord · 29-04-2008 12:23PM

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

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