General / Off-Topic Your Favourite Quotes

[Batterby76]

Confucious he say "man who sleeps with itchy ring, wakes with stinky finger"

 

[Manticore]

From Fight Club:

......... and................

 

[Sir.Tj]

"Not my fault" anon.......

 

[Alec Turner]

I used to collect favourite quotes for my facebook profile. I can't vouch for the 100% authenticity of these but I like them nevertheless ...

"If you've lost your faith in love and music
Oh the end won't be long
Because if it's gone for you then I too may lose it
And that would be wrong"
- The Libertines

"Find what you love and let it kill you"
- Charles Bukowski

"Bob Dylan started off as a bad performer, and then spent 10,000 hours practising. But he did not become a better performer. He became Bob Dylan."
- Adam Gopnik

"They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants - not here. At Aperture we do all our science from scratch; no hand holding."
- Cave Johnson, Aperture Science

"A man has to be alert all the time if he expects to keep on breathing. If not, some German son-of-a-b***h will sneak up behind him and beat him to death with a sock full of s**t."
- George S. Patton

"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale...We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people."
- Robert Falcon Scott

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly"
- Winston Churchill

"I said I chopped him up LIKE cocaine, not WITH cocaine"
- Keith Richards (re: his dad's ashes)

"Something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh"
- The Cure

"Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like ****ing SHAFT!"
- Tim (Spaced)

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams"
- Willy Wonka (originally Arthur O'Shaughnessy)

"We'll buy this place and install a ****ing jukebox and liven all you stiffs up a bit"
- Withnail

"If you just talk I find yer mouth comes out with stuff"
- Karl Pilkington

"Torture the data and it will confess to anything"
- Ben Goldacre

"If you're going through hell ... keep going"
- Winston Churchill

 

[KellyR]

Do not fear the unknown; embrace it! For only by embracing the unknown can it be transformed into the understood. - Kelly Rayburn (me).

 

[Jenner]

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan

 

[C64Fan]

“Don’t eat a pink bear if your left ear feels like you have played chess all afternoon with your neighbour after buying a car with your knees tied on your back and your elbows in the kitchen.” -Me

 

[Frank]

My favourite quotes come from Science Fiction writers


“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...” - Asimov


“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Clarke

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Clarke


“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.” - Adams


“If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.”
―

 

[Robin of Spiritwood]

"Guilty, your honor."
- Michael J Flynn

 

[Patrick_68000]

One of my favorite quotes is : "It's the fault of T.j"

However, I do not know the author

 

[Chris Simon]

One of my favorite quotes is : "It's the fault of T.j"

However, I do not know the author

When the quote is so good that it becomes a national treasure.

And also: LEAVE T.j ALONE!

 

[jasonbarron]

"There is no such thing as 'friendly' fire"--anonymous commander

 

[Jenner]

When the quote is so good that it becomes a national treasure.

And also: LEAVE T.j ALONE!

He needs to stop being at fault then!

 

[Stigbob]

"Outside of a dog a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

 

[Winterwalker]

 

[RooksBailey]

For iconoclasts everywhere:

"You have to push as hard as the age that pushes against you." - Flannery O'Connor

 

[Manticore]

“Et in Arcadia Ego …”

Et in Arcadia ego (also known as Les bergers d'Arcadie or The Arcadian Shepherds) is a 1637–38 painting by the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). It depicts a pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb. It is held in the Louvre, Paris.

Poussin painted two versions of the subject under the same title; his earlier version, painted in 1627, is held at Chatsworth House. An earlier treatment of the theme was painted by Guercino circa 1618–22, also titled Et in Arcadia ego.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego

 

[KellyR]

“Don’t eat a pink bear if your left ear feels like you have played chess all afternoon with your neighbour after buying a car with your knees tied on your back and your elbows in the kitchen.” -Me

Gently and carefully set down the bottle and glass. You have killed more brain cells than you can afford to lose.

 

[C64Fan]

Gently and carefully set down the bottle and glass. You have killed more brain cells than you can afford to lose.

You are probably correct on that one [yesnod].

 

[Manticore]

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

― John Lydgate