Your Favorite Quote(s)

HQ · 02-08-2003, 05:14 PM

In light of the new contest, and because I love insipirational and motivational quotes, I am going to see if I can get lots of responses of all your favorite quotes. Please post some. They do not have to all be inspirational of course. I'll start:

"Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right." - Henry Ford

Reverendpoon · 02-08-2003, 05:29 PM

You have spent your life writing the introduction. It's time for Chapter one.
Do not take life too seriously, it is not permenent.

HQ · 02-08-2003, 05:32 PM

Who said that?

CumSensei · 02-09-2003, 09:28 AM

"Do not forget that the foots you might step on today might be connected with the ass you have to kiss tomorrow"

I love this one

HQ · 02-09-2003, 02:33 PM

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

HQ · 02-09-2003, 02:41 PM

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

Reverendpoon · 02-10-2003, 07:56 AM

"Life is like a roller coaster. They both have their ups and downs and sometimes make you sick. However, unlike a roller coaster you only get one turn on the ride of life so enjoy it while you can."---Reverendpoon

BuggyG · 02-10-2003, 10:32 AM

well here's one that I like

"Don't give into peer pressure until your friends tell you too!!"

no idea who said it but read it somewhere and stuck with me.

ARiA · 02-10-2003, 10:33 AM

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin

and I'm not gonna

BuggyG · 02-10-2003, 10:34 AM

another one that's stuck with me is

"SAVE THE WHALES!!!! We might need something at later!"

again no idea who said it, but I still like it

BuggyG · 02-10-2003, 10:38 AM

and last one for now. THIS one I know who said it. Originally Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (one of the GREATEST movies of all time. well for me personally). But I liked the way Homer says it in the episode he finds the over-turned sugar truck. And sounds good when he uses the spanish accent

"First you get the sugar
Then you get the power
THEN you get the WOMENNNNNNN!!!!!"

well that's it for now. Gonna try to rememebr some otehr ones if I can

Juge · 02-10-2003, 12:07 PM

"Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts." - Albert Einstein

HQ · 02-10-2003, 12:09 PM

"The only source of knowledge is experience." - Albert Einstein

HQ · 02-10-2003, 12:27 PM

Here's a trivia question:

"I am not an atomic playboy"

What's the history behind this quote? There are two different answers to this question, BTW.

_ED · 02-10-2003, 12:34 PM

"It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."
- Albert Einstein (talking about clothing)

_ED · 02-10-2003, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by HQ
Here's a trivia question:

"I am not an atomic playboy"

What's the history behind this quote? There are two different answers to this question, BTW.

"I am not an atomic playboy" is a line in one of Future Crew's demos

also a quote from Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander of Joint Task Force I at Operations Crossroads, Bikini Atoll (1946)

HQ · 02-10-2003, 12:41 PM

Holy shit. I didn't think anyone would get that that fast!

_ED · 02-10-2003, 02:33 PM

hahaha..
12 minutes

HQ · 02-10-2003, 02:37 PM

The full quote:

"The bomb will not start a chain-reaction in the water converting it all to gas and letting the ships on all the oceans drop down to the bottom. It will not blow out the bottom of the sea and let all the water run down the hole. It will not destroy gravity. I am not an atomic playboy, as one of my critics labeled me, exploding these bombs to satisfy my personal whim." - Vice Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Commander Joint Task Force One, Operation Crossroads

The half story:

People thought the atomic bomb potentially could destory the entire solar system by creating a blackhole. The above quote quotes similar catastrophes only to a less devestating degree.

HQ · 02-10-2003, 02:38 PM

I think.

_ED · 02-11-2003, 12:18 PM

here's a good quote i just found

Quote:

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

William Clayton

_ED · 02-11-2003, 12:27 PM

this one's good too..

Quote:

War cannot be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...''

---Nikola Tesla(1919)

HQ · 02-11-2003, 12:30 PM

Awesome quote ED.

Juge · 02-11-2003, 04:17 PM

"If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about" - Lermontov

Panky · 02-11-2003, 11:42 PM

"I'm so horny, the crack of dawn isn't even safe."

Panky
ICQ:51140074

Panky · 02-11-2003, 11:42 PM

The mind, once expanded, never returns to it's original shape."

Panky
ICQ:51140074

HQ · 02-12-2003, 10:29 AM

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. It is astonishing how many have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work...." - Thomas Edison

HQ · 02-12-2003, 01:35 PM

"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the place where it leads." --Erica Jong

_ED · 02-13-2003, 02:14 AM

To move the world, we must first move ourselves.
-Socrates

HQ · 02-13-2003, 08:34 PM

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -- Chinese Proverb