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What are your favorite quotes? Be it from a movie, a song or just somthing funny a friend said.
One of mine is from a movie The Shawshank Redemption: "Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying"
Favorite Quotes
- Carcharocles
- BCI Member
Two actually. One was from a book I read on writing: "Use what you know... if you don't know, find out."
The other, from Lovecraft (though it's been featured in a non-Lovecraft movie): "That which is dead may not eternal lie/ and with strange aeons, even death may die."
The other, from Lovecraft (though it's been featured in a non-Lovecraft movie): "That which is dead may not eternal lie/ and with strange aeons, even death may die."
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- 04 April 2011 - 12:28 PM
- Insanity Streak
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success - Bruce Feirstein
Everyone has his reasons. - Jean Renoir
De omnibus dubitandu - Karl Marx
Everyone has his reasons. - Jean Renoir
De omnibus dubitandu - Karl Marx
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- 04 April 2011 - 01:19 PM
- Moddy Auld
- Member
Pretty much anything Clint Eastwood has ever said in any of his movies. But here's an old favorite.
"I tried being civil once. I didn't like it."
"I tried being civil once. I didn't like it."
- #6
- 04 April 2011 - 03:25 PM
- ILB
- secretly a man
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My favourite has to be the " mark.
Oh, but I have quite a few favourite quotes. Most of them are things people said on their deathbeds. ^_^
Such as Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either those curtains go, or I do."
Also, Dominique Bouhours, who was a linguist specifically interested in grammar, said this: "I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct."
Otherwise, I feel quotes are best made, not spread.
Oh, but I have quite a few favourite quotes. Most of them are things people said on their deathbeds. ^_^
Such as Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either those curtains go, or I do."
Also, Dominique Bouhours, who was a linguist specifically interested in grammar, said this: "I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct."
Otherwise, I feel quotes are best made, not spread.
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- 04 April 2011 - 05:02 PM
- esalaka
- Banned
DangerIce, on 04 April 2011 - 06:43 PM, said:
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure
)
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure
)I don't think there's any proof that he said that, but I can't recall any proof of anyone else saying it either.
So whatever.
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- 04 April 2011 - 06:50 PM
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- #10
- 04 April 2011 - 07:26 PM
- ILB
- secretly a man
Member
Quote
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure )
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure
)It comes from a book by Kurt Tucholsky. It is a bit of a misquote, though: The original is correctly (albeit perhaps a bit too directly) translated as "The death of one human; that is a catastrophy. One hundred thousand dead; that is a statistic!"
Stalin never said it, though, as far as we know.
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- 04 April 2011 - 08:41 PM
- DangerIce
- BCI Member
ILB, on 04 April 2011 - 08:41 PM, said:
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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure )
~Joseph Stalin (But I've been told he didn't really said that, so not truly sure
)It comes from a book by Kurt Tucholsky. It is a bit of a misquote, though: The original is correctly (albeit perhaps a bit too directly) translated as "The death of one human; that is a catastrophy. One hundred thousand dead; that is a statistic!"
Stalin never said it, though, as far as we know.
Thank you ILB and your infinite wisdom
- #13
- 05 April 2011 - 01:04 AM
EINSTEIN!!
That man had all sorts of wisdom.
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." is one of my very favorites.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." is another good one.
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." is awesome as well.
I have one really good one that isn't from Einstein, I got it from a book by Orson Scott Card
"All the common people want is to be left alone, all the soldiers want is to get paid and not die. That is why the world can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people" -Averell Torrent[Character that says it in the book]
It is, in my mind, a truth that seems to have repeated itself throughout the pages of history innumerable times.
That man had all sorts of wisdom.
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." is one of my very favorites.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." is another good one.
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized." is awesome as well.
I have one really good one that isn't from Einstein, I got it from a book by Orson Scott Card
"All the common people want is to be left alone, all the soldiers want is to get paid and not die. That is why the world can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people" -Averell Torrent[Character that says it in the book]
It is, in my mind, a truth that seems to have repeated itself throughout the pages of history innumerable times.
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- 05 April 2011 - 02:08 AM
- CaptainBaconMan
- Member
"The banality of evil shares much with the banality of heroism. Neither attribute is the direct consequence of unique dispositional tendencies; there are no special inner attributes of either pathology or goodness residing within the human psyche or the human genome."
— Phillip Zimbardo
"The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths of exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature."
— Carl Sagan
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought"
— Buddha
— Phillip Zimbardo
"The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths of exquisite interrelationships of the awesome machinery of nature."
— Carl Sagan
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought"
— Buddha
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- 05 April 2011 - 02:37 AM
- (nameless)
- *heavy sigh*
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"There are no stupid questions, just stupid people"-I don't remember off of the top of my head.
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- 05 April 2011 - 02:44 AM
Another good Einstein one
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them"
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them"
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- 05 April 2011 - 03:04 AM
- Chris
- teabagging furfag
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during WWII winston churchill arrived to a war meeting drunk. when confronted by a secratary who said "Mr. churchill, you're drunk!" he replied,"yes madam, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly."
a great wit even while blind drunk. wow.
a great wit even while blind drunk. wow.
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- 05 April 2011 - 03:43 AM
- ILB
- secretly a man
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Ooh, yes, Winston said a lot of fun things. ^_^
I honestly like those far better than the drunk vs. ugly exchange. Then again, that is to be expected from me, I suppose.
Quote
Churchill: "[Astor's election to Parliament is] like being intruded upon in the bathroom.”
Astor: "You’re not handsome enough to have such fears.”
Astor: "You’re not handsome enough to have such fears.”
Quote
Churchill: “What disguise would you recommend I wear to your costume ball?”
Astor: “Why don’t you come sober, Prime Minister?”
Astor: “Why don’t you come sober, Prime Minister?”
Quote
Astor: “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea.”
Churchill: “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
Churchill: “Madam, if you were my wife, I’d drink it.”
I honestly like those far better than the drunk vs. ugly exchange. Then again, that is to be expected from me, I suppose.
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- 05 April 2011 - 11:01 AM
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Yoda
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- 05 April 2011 - 06:48 PM
- MiwAuturu
- BCI Member
- Ask me what I think about Snooths!
"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' "
-John Green
-John Green
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- 05 April 2011 - 07:19 PM
- SushiJaguar
- Internet Tough Guy<br>P.S. I roleplay as a medieval furry
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"I am the LAW!" Guess where from?
Also;
"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You STOLE Fizzy Lifting Drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which has to be washed, and sterilized! You broke the rules, so you get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir!"
Also;
"It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You STOLE Fizzy Lifting Drinks, you bumped into the ceiling which has to be washed, and sterilized! You broke the rules, so you get NOTHING! You LOSE! Good DAY sir!"
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- 05 April 2011 - 07:34 PM
- SapphCat88
- Member
Here are a couple of my favorite lines~
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage, Mythbusters
"Screw physics! I want a cookie!" -one of my RL buddies
"You are an android, I AM A MAN!!" -'Bearded Idiot' Superman (right as he punches an android's guts out), Superman at Earth's End
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage, Mythbusters
"Screw physics! I want a cookie!" -one of my RL buddies
"You are an android, I AM A MAN!!" -'Bearded Idiot' Superman (right as he punches an android's guts out), Superman at Earth's End
- #30
- 05 April 2011 - 08:58 PM
SapphCat88 said:
"I reject your reality and substitute my own." -Adam Savage, Mythbusters
The original quote actually comes from a 1985 sci-fi B movie called "The Dungeonmaster". Savage just lifted it for his own purposes.
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- 05 April 2011 - 09:16 PM
- Sovereign
- Special Ed
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"Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
- ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977)
"Bring the dog, I love animals. I'm a great cook."
- ALEX FORREST (Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction (1987)
"No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform."
- ED WOOD (Johnny Depp) in Ed Wood (1994)
"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
- FRENCH SOLDIER (John Cleese) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
"Look at that! Look how she moves! That's just like Jell-O on springs."
- JERRY (Jack Lemmon) in Some Like It Hot (1959)
- ALVY SINGER (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall (1977)
"Bring the dog, I love animals. I'm a great cook."
- ALEX FORREST (Glenn Close) in Fatal Attraction (1987)
"No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform."
- ED WOOD (Johnny Depp) in Ed Wood (1994)
"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
- FRENCH SOLDIER (John Cleese) in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
"Look at that! Look how she moves! That's just like Jell-O on springs."
- JERRY (Jack Lemmon) in Some Like It Hot (1959)
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- 05 April 2011 - 09:24 PM
"VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI", Translation: "By the power of Truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe"
Read it from V for Vendetta and love it
Read it from V for Vendetta and love it
- #36
- 07 April 2011 - 11:06 AM
- Chazfullmetal 2.0
- Member
prolly not entirely brilliant, but i have three favourite quotes:
Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb
and
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do - Epictetus
and
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true - Leon J. Suenes
Fall seven times, stand up eight - Japanese proverb
and
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do - Epictetus
and
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true - Leon J. Suenes
- #37
- 08 April 2011 - 05:35 PM
- RohanSpartan
- Special Ed
Banned 
Life is Cruel. Why should the afterlife be ANY DIFFERENT! Davy Jones
- #38
- 09 April 2011 - 02:05 AM
"Nichievo" ~ Russian translation of a Japanese word that describes the feeling of Japanese citizens after the bombing of Hiroshima.
In English is it basically the idea of: "It cannot not be helped, that is the way it is,that's the nature of things"
In English is it basically the idea of: "It cannot not be helped, that is the way it is,that's the nature of things"
- #39
- 09 April 2011 - 06:53 AM
- Daer21
- Member
"As long as your still breathing, all the rest is gravy"
"Slow, relaxed, and with good technique"
"If you have to die, die gracefully" -Larry Brown
All advice to live and die by. If you follow the first two, you do very little of the third.
"Slow, relaxed, and with good technique"
"If you have to die, die gracefully" -Larry Brown
All advice to live and die by. If you follow the first two, you do very little of the third.
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- 09 April 2011 - 10:44 AM
- 01-10010-1011
- Member
"Art is 1% Talent and 99% Hard Work" - deviantART
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."- Edison
"Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it's simply is, and has been, and always be there...A Clock without a Craft man" - Alan Moore
"Fear Builds Walls" - Roger Waters
"Be Yourself. Find your own way. Live your own Life." - My mom
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."- Edison
"Perhaps the world is not made, perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it's simply is, and has been, and always be there...A Clock without a Craft man" - Alan Moore
"Fear Builds Walls" - Roger Waters
"Be Yourself. Find your own way. Live your own Life." - My mom
- #41
- 09 April 2011 - 11:21 AM
- Meowth
- Please go easy on me. I don't like critique. Or my title.
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"gotta be a white girl ,not a racist but blacks folks dnt do dumb s*** like dat and 4 no reasons dat girl need 2 be put n jail 4 at least a month them puppies didnt do nothin 2 no one"
-Some Random Fag
"SHIMMY SHIMMY YA SHIMMY YAM SHIMMY YAY"
-snooths, in the IRC
-Some Random Fag
"SHIMMY SHIMMY YA SHIMMY YAM SHIMMY YAY"
-snooths, in the IRC
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- 10 April 2011 - 05:59 AM
