What is your favorite quote?

[Q9]

Quote:
Ever had one fly by your head?

Nooooo, and I don't plan to.

I stand corrected in my ignorance.

FYI - I've never had a bullet fly by my head (yet

), but if you watch certain videos, you can hear the bullet whistle before you hear the BANG.

 

[eenie114]

Quote:
Nooooo, and I don't plan to.

I stand corrected in my ignorance.

FYI - I've never had a bullet fly by my head (yet

), but if you watch certain videos, you can hear the bullet whistle before you hear the BANG.

Ohhhhhh, okay!

I was wondering about that but kind of afraid to ask.

Another Ice Age quote: "Because you're small and insignificant and because I'll pummel you if you don't."

 

[chickened]

"An armed society is a very polite society". The author will come to me I just cannot think of who said this. Robert A. Heinlein

 

[Chick Magnet Chris]

A ship in the harbor is safe. . .but that's not what ships are built for.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the world isn't out to get you.

And from my grandma: "Don't until you're married. Then pretend you like it."

 

[Ladynblkus Hen]

this is my favorite quote:
there are people that make things happen and people that watch things happen, and others that wonder what happened! also there are people willing to work and people willing to let them!

 

[crazybarnlady]

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. - Malachy McCourt

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. -Oscar Wilde

Do not mess with the forces of nature... for you are small, insignificant and biodegradeable.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me! -Dr. Seuss

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I have some favorite lyrics from a singer named Josh Ritter. He is simply amazing with words!

From the song "Another New World":

As the frost turned her moorings to nine-tail,
And the wind lashed her sides in the cold.
I burned her to keep me alive every night,
In the lover's embrace of her hold.

Another fromt he same song:

I won't call it rescue that brought me back here,
To the old world to drink and decline.
And to pretend that the search for another new world,
Was well worth the burning of mine.

You said fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought,
And all night long you drove me wild with your equations.

Wolves in the timber at night.
I heard their songs when I looked in the mirror,
In the howls and the moons round my eyes.

Pretend the dove from above is a dragon, and your feet are on fire.

A few others I like:

"For some people, it is better worth their while to seem to be wise, than to be wise without seeming to be." ~Aristotle

"We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it."
~Douglas Adams

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."
~Douglas Adams

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet - or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." ~Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park

 

[chickenstricken]

Quote:
2nd half........... "Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. "

Another good one, "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."

 

[AquaEyes]

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~Robert Frost -- The Road Not Taken


"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
~Stephen Roberts


"Dogs live male and female together. Snakes live male and female together. We are human beings -- we should know better."
~Albin, in La Cage Aux Folles (stage musical)


"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof."
~Christopher Hitchens


"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot"
~Mark Twain


"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
~Aldous Huxley


"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
~Stephen Hawking


"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."
~Source unknown


"Never settle for less than what you want just to get it now."
~Me


"The more I learn about people, the more [or less...depends on what's going on at the moment] I want to be one."
~Me

 

[cottagechick]

Quote:
I realized that I didn't know what the motto of my adopted state of Oregon...which I now know is "She flies with her own wings." Since I work in Eugene...I am kind of surprised it is not "She flies with good weed." Any whoo...I can't think of a reason at 12:30 am that couldn't qualify as the stupidest state motto. I may have to move back to Arizona - "God Enriches." Or to New Hampshire or South Carolina to have a good state motto. Can any one explain to my befuddled brain why that ISN'T a really stupid state motto?