I'm quoting, here (no spam)

wing · Post by **wing** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:48 pm

lol this one happened on tuesday night, we had about 30 people on a bus, somewhere around 11:00pm, and most people were asleep. complete silence, and then "ITS A CAT!!!!!!!!!!!"

Sean The Owner · Post by **Sean The Owner** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:54 pm

by: this guy who sits infront of me in my math class..."how does 2 and 1 make 3? 2X1=2 2/1=2 2-1=1 2+1...OHH!!!" haha and he wasnt trying to be stupid or anything...he just didnt get it...

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:21 pm

Guys, no offense, but by quotes, I mean famous quotes, not quoting somebody else saying something unusually dumb, or very ordinary. Quotes that make you think. That kinda stuff.

"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart." -Fred Allen

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:18 am

I can. You will.

The entire review for Depeche Mode's "I just cant get enough" in Rolling Stone Magazine.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

And a comment on current affairs...

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein yet again.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:48 am

A quote from Call of Duty:

Today, I crossed the Elbe river in Germany and shook hands with an American soldier. Although I could not understand anything he said, I felt this man was my brother. And I think he felt the same. -Alexei Ivanovich Voronin

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:53 pm

Since I'm on a political rant-age, perhaps someone can help me find the origin of this one:

"The main difference between the United States and the Soviet Union is that the Soviet citizens knew they were being oppressed"

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:33 am

One from the venerable US military, well before his time. Wonder what he would think if he lived today?

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

Smedley D. Butler, (1881-1940) Major Gen U.S. Marines

Chimaera182 · Post by **Chimaera182** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:52 pm

"The Germans want a war of annihilation. We will give them a war of annihilation." -Stalin

penguin_king · Post by **penguin_king** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:22 am

"this here is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, i know what you're thinkin'. did he fire 6 shots, or only 5? to be honest i've forgotten myself in all this excitement. so you gotta ask yourself one question. do you feel lucky punk? well, do ya?"

you all know who said that

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:07 am

"When we say War is over if you want it, we mean that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace." -John Lennon

Faberge · Post by **Faberge** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 3:28 am

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

[INDENT]Woody Allen[/INDENT]

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

[INDENT]Richard Diran[/INDENT]

Cuchulain82 · Post by **Cuchulain82** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 2:25 pm

I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage.

-Mike Tyson

(Tyson quotes never get old)

Silur · Post by **Silur** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:44 pm

I found this one quite witty. It came up in reference to a discussion about using "the right statistics" - ie the kind that supports *your* idea. The other kind is, of course, questionable in origin and unreliable in content...

He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.

by Andrew Lang

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:28 am

This is a stirring quote from Braveheart:

"Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!" -William Wallace (Mel Gibson)

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 8:50 am

"Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace." -Charles Sumner

I knew Sumner was a fearless anti-slavery advocate, but I never knew he felt this way about war. Lincoln always said he was the most human of the congressional abolitionists, even if he couldn't stand the lot of 'em.

Tricky · Post by **Tricky** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:23 pm

"Jovality is a game of children." - Bubba

I wonder who can guess the movie.

fable · Post by **fable** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 12:29 pm

No offense meant, but let's not make this a movie game thread.

It's about famous quotes, notable, important ones, by real people. No spam, nothing else. Thanks.

And to continue with a quote:

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." -Dorothy Parker

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:38 am

A couple of quotes from the greatest British politician, IMO--Aneurin Bevan:

"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."

"The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away."

Faberge · Post by **Faberge** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:12 am

It is strange how people dictate the present without looking at the past.

[INDENT] - Don’t know, read it in some magazine. Probably a woman’s magazine, only magazines you can see around if you don’t count the morning’s paper, which I read when the news are about two days old, and preferably in the evening after ten o’clock news.
[/INDENT]
And here are some of my favourite Samuel Becket Quotes:

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Vladimir: That passed the time.
Estragon: It would have passed in any case.
Vladimir: Yes, but not so rapidly.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:35 pm

A quote from the article, "Can Ethics be Taught," in the October 1990 edition of Reader's Digest:

"You get a good adult by habituating a good child to doing the right thing. Praise for truth-telling and sanctions for lying will, in time, make him 'naturally' honest." -Aristotle