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Post by alex d'onofrio on Sept 22, 2006 18:33:12 GMT -5
haha that's funny!
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Post by NicoleMarie on Sept 23, 2006 19:24:22 GMT -5
From Oprah Winfrey:
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
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Post by janetcatbird on Sept 24, 2006 20:23:04 GMT -5
Because I, Claudius is just plain awesome: - "They say a snake bit her once--and died." (Tiberius)
- "She wouldn't interest me if you hung her naked from the ceiling above my bed." (Tiberius he may be a jerk, but they did give him some good lines.)
- "Most women marry fools but usually it takes them a while to find out." (Livia)
- "They say you were the most beautiful woman in the world." (one of the skanky granddaughters)
"There was one other, but she was in Egypt. Besides, she didn't last as long as I have." (Livia)
- "You're all scum, and you know it." (Livia, who would clean Lady MacBeth's clock without batting an eye.)
--Catbird
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Post by Techguy on Sept 24, 2006 20:53:06 GMT -5
"She wouldn't interest me if you hung her naked from the ceiling above my bed." (Tiberius he may be a jerk, but they did give him some good lines.) Isn't that also what Goren really said at the conclusion of "A Person of Interest"?
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Leticia
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Post by Leticia on Oct 6, 2006 19:52:17 GMT -5
Oooh! Quotes.
I tried to edit. Some are more like excerpts, and you may have heard many before, but I'm pretty sure no one has put them up.
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot"
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." -Lily Tomlin
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics made no mention of God.
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - William Shakespeare 'The Merchant of Venice'
"Life isn't fair highness, anyone who says anything different is selling something." - The Princess Bride
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world." - Raymond Chandler.
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried when you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller but for the want of an understanding ear" -Stephen King
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Post by Cassie on Oct 7, 2006 9:30:54 GMT -5
"you can't have a rainbow until you've had some rain"
unknown
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Post by sarahlee on Oct 8, 2006 12:37:33 GMT -5
I love this thread, I've come to starting my day by reading it. Thanks for the wisdom and the wit.
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Post by madger on Oct 12, 2006 13:20:24 GMT -5
From Douglas Adams:
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
• If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
• It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
• Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
• Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
• One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.
• It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
I miss him.
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Post by Cassie on Nov 3, 2006 23:00:20 GMT -5
Prosperity may be a greater test of character then poverty
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Post by janetcatbird on Nov 9, 2006 10:47:19 GMT -5
"This is a revolution, damn it, we're going to have to offend somebody!"
"I have such a desire to knock heads together!"
---John Adams in the movie/musical 1776
(Catbird)
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 1, 2006 17:15:45 GMT -5
From my December calendar:
"As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others." -Stephen Covey
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Post by lilee1 on Dec 4, 2006 13:48:07 GMT -5
1) "No matter how hard you try, you can't steer a dog dish". -SNOOPY-
2) "The only advice [Grandpa] ever gave me, that I remember, was never to murder anybody because that could lead to setting fires and telling fibs... and [that would likely make me] be rude to the teacher and even late to school." - Peg Bracken- "A Window Over the Sink"
...I have no idea where I found this, but I've had it written in a notebook for years. Just found it while unpacking and am glad to finally have somewhere to share it!
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 4, 2006 14:59:24 GMT -5
;D That Snoopy is certainly one smart dog. Nice to have you back again, Lil'E.
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Post by NikkiGreen on Dec 13, 2006 19:38:27 GMT -5
"Everybody's a teacher if you listen." --Doris Roberts
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Post by Cassie on Dec 19, 2006 21:27:55 GMT -5
"If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." - Rabbi Harold Kushner
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