Great Quotes

IvaBigWun · 29-05-2008 05:35PM

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing

Oliver Wendell Holmes

GirlInterrupted · 03-06-2008 01:44PM

I dunno who said this but it's one of my favourites -

'Kinky is using a feather - Perverted is using the whole chicken!'

dazberry · 03-06-2008 02:39PM

Some of my favs...

"Yeah. See, we plan ahead, that way we don't do anything right now. Earl explained it to me" - Tremors

"Young fool...only now, at the end, do you understand." ... "Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the dark side. You have paid the price for your lack of vision." - ROTJ

"Alright sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the core. A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet, every paycheck a fortune, every formation a parade" - Aliens

"How do I get out of this chicken-sh1t outfit" - Aliens

"Alright, now you heard the man and you know the drill! Assholes and elbows!" - Aliens

and a few Steven Wright classics:

"I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone."

"I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. "

"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. "

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. "

"When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction."

"For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out."

"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."

D.

Aurora Borealis · 03-06-2008 03:07PM

Spike Milligans last words...
"I told them I was ill"

Nearly fell down laughing when I heard that..

Steve_o · 03-06-2008 03:11PM

"I spent most of my money on booze and women, the rest I squandered" - George Best

MissHoneyBun · 03-06-2008 03:13PM

"If at first you don't achieve..
-then sky-divings not for you!"

Blazer · 03-06-2008 03:27PM

Oriel wrote: »

“There are two great teams in the city, Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”

Someone said "football is more important than life and death to you" and I said "Listen, it's more important than that."

Bill Shankly.

Couldn't resist

"Liverpool aren't the best team in the Champion's league..hell they aren't even the best team in Liverpool" " Eamon Dunphy

Everton finished above them that year..

IvaBigWun · 05-06-2008 04:08PM

Aurora Borealis wrote: »

Spike Milligans last words...
"I told them I was ill"

Nearly fell down laughing when I heard that..

it was actually his epitaph

Maximilian · 05-06-2008 04:17PM

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IvaBigWun · 05-06-2008 04:30PM

Maximilian wrote: »

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I love that one

WooPeeA · 06-06-2008 12:39AM

I was thinking about what could I consider as my favorite quote. Finally I found one.

The future doesn't belong to faint-hearted, it belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan

Gavin "shels" · 06-06-2008 12:55AM

Dermot Keely (Shelbourne manager), all from 2007.

Newstalk 106 (Sun, Feb 25)
"If they don't like my style, I don't care. I'm 53 now, I'm too old to care about stuff like that."

The Sun (Tues, Feb 27th)
"The fact that the directors at Shels threatened to resign en masse when it was suggested that Roddy be brought in as manager says it all. Things were bad at Shels but they were not that desperate."

The Sun (Tues, Feb 27th)
"It's been a while since Roddy worked but if he wants to drop his CV in to Tolka Park then I am sure I could find him some plastering work."

Shelbourne FC Website (Sat, March 3rd)
"Having said that, I'm very ambitious, I'm very aggressive, I've always been a winner, but I don't have any illusions. I'm not Jesus Christ"

The Sun (Thu, August 2nd)
"What really concerns me ... is Staunton’s blatant disregard for the league. Stan was attended Bray v Wolves, Bohemians v Wolves and Bohs v Sunderland in recent weeks but managed to miss all Champions League, Uefa Cup and Intertoto Cup games involving Irish sides.

So, instead of watching the League of Ireland’s top stars in competitive games, Stan opted to take in meaningless pre-season friendlies."

IvaBigWun · 24-06-2008 03:17PM

"Knowledge is power"

Sir Francis Bacon

boogle · 24-06-2008 03:41PM

"Oh no! He's drank a whole bottle of Dreamy Sleepy Nighty Snoozy Snooze!

24-06-2008 04:15PM

"The simple process of focusing on things which are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

-Edward De Bono: Father of Lateral Thinking

GirlInterrupted · 24-06-2008 04:33PM

When being stretchered from his suite at the Savoy Hotel in London, on his final trip to hospital, the great actor Richard Harris passed the dining room doors - he called to the diners ''It was the food!'':)

Pen1987 · 24-06-2008 07:33PM

"life is not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. Men only call her a bitch because she wont let them get that 'pussy'. Maybe she doesnt feel they share any similar interests, or maybe hes just an asshole who cant sweet-talk the princess." - Aesop Rock

I'll add to this later, gots millions written down somewhere.

truecrippler · 24-06-2008 09:11PM

"He who dares, wins"

Del Boy (Only Fools and Horses)

hunter164 · 24-06-2008 09:16PM

"This time next year Rodney we'll be millionaires"

Del Boy

Kovik · 24-06-2008 09:18PM

Life can only be understood backwards; it must be lived forwards.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Both by Kierkegaard.

Clare_Guy · 24-06-2008 09:20PM

"If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

JFK - Address at American University, Washington D.C. (10 June 1963)

Clare_Guy · 24-06-2008 09:22PM

"We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."

Aboriginal Australian Proverb

Pen1987 · 24-06-2008 09:51PM

"He who dares wins" David Stirling, founder of the SAS

"its the sign of a true man when he can respect the beauty of a woman fully yet not need to persue her sexually to feel complete in himself" - I came out with that when hungover in work one saturday when I was accused of being 'mad for' the manager because we got along well! I surprised even myself!

The rest are all lyrics...

"Life is just a lie with an F in it, only death is definite" - Sage Francis

(speaking on relationship break-ups) "When a boy writes off the world its done with sloppy misspelt words when a girl writes off the world its done incursive." - Sage Francis

(speaking on modern society) "its whistle-blowers versus the pistol-holders, case dismissed, they'll lock you up and throw away the key witness. Justice is the whim of a judge, check his chest-density, it leaves much room for error, the rests left to destiny. The West Memphis three lost paradise, left with death-penalties and suicidal tendancies... all we wanted was a ****ing pepsi. Its an institution, making you think you're crazy is a million-doller industry." - Sage Francis again.

"the way I feel about life? its a struggle at best, its nothing but real hard work and stress. Real life gets me down sometimes, hopeless and depressed. This is life is nothing but a downward spiral at best, but I love it all to death." - Sleep.

"theres a thin line between gossip and gospel" - Slug

and my all time favourite (long but inspirational) quote ever.

(by an albino) "depending on the day... depending on what I ate, I'm anywhere from twenty to thirty-five pounds overweight. I've got red eyes and one of them's lazy, and they both squint in the sunshine so I look crazy. I'm albino, I know I'm pink and pale and I'm hairy as hell everywhere but fingernails. I shave a cranium thats not quite shaved right, face-type? shiney, and I stay and write late at night. My wardrobe is jeans and faded shirts, a mixture of what I got free and what I wear to work. I'm not mean, I;ve got a neck full of razor-bumps. I'm not the classic profile of what the ladies want. You might think I'm depressed as can be... but when I look in the mirror I see sexy-ass-me. Now if that something you cant respect well then 'peace', my lifes better without you actually. I say to everyone now whos a little different, **** a magazine these are gods fingerprints. You can call me ugly but can take nothing from me. I am what I am, you aint gotta love me.

Hagar · 24-06-2008 09:56PM

"Put your left leg in" - Ho Ki Ko Kay

kryogen · 24-06-2008 10:07PM

couple just came to mind, mainly lyrical

"Some might say, they dont believe in heaven. Go and tell it to a man who lives in hell"

Noel Gallagher

"Life is what happens to you when your busy making other plans"

John Lennon

“I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you.”

Seve Ballesteros

Captain Slow IRL · 24-06-2008 11:00PM

"He who makes a beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man"

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" Both from HST

"If we're not dead in the morning, we'll know we're still alive" - Randy Marsh

"Stealing! How could you? Haven't you learned anything from that guy who gives sermons at church? Captain what's-his-name?" - Homer J.

aidan24326 · 24-06-2008 11:49PM

Aristotle wrote:

Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune

Carl Sagan wrote:

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot

Robert Ingersoll wrote:

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it

Robert Ingersoll wrote:

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure

Babs Keating-hurling manager wrote:

There's only six inches between a clap on the back and a kick up the arse!

.

Pen1987 · 25-06-2008 01:12PM

"I live for those who believe that faith is a surrender of reason, not a reason to surrender." - Aesop Rock.

GirlInterrupted · 25-06-2008 03:29PM

''Judge no man by the colour of his skin, but by the content of his character.''
Dr. Martin Luther King

Reporter ''Miss Munroe, did you pose for that picture with nothing on?''
Marilyn Munroe ''I had the radio on.....''.

''I'm a great housekeeper, whenever I get divorced, I keep the house''.
ZsaZsa Gabor

Daftendirekt · 25-06-2008 04:49PM

For how long will you continue to listen to those dark shouters,
caution and prudence?
Fall in! Fall in!

-Mary Oliver, Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches

And some Buddha quotes I like:

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

He is able who thinks he is able.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

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