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quotes anyone?
- Thread starter twally
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twally
Smash Apprentice
"the greater a man's talents, the greater his ability to lead astray."
--alduous huxley--brave new world
--alduous huxley--brave new world
"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers."
--African proverb
--African proverb
De_Le_Chozo
Smash Apprentice
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan.
The proper study of Mankind is Man."
-Alexander Pope
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
-Rami Belson
The proper study of Mankind is Man."
-Alexander Pope
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
-Rami Belson
Zero Beat
Cognitive Scientist
Here's one of my favorites :
"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
"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
twally
Smash Apprentice
this is an interesting quote...
"i wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of any panda that wouldn't screw to save its own species."
--chuck palahniuk--fight club
"i wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of any panda that wouldn't screw to save its own species."
--chuck palahniuk--fight club
SSBMasterFox
Smash Ace
"I believe that fish and the human race can coexist peacefully" -George Bush
He really said that.
He really said that.
demoncaterpie
Smash Champion
"So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here."
-Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, 1975
It may be a song, but it's also one of my favorite quotes, since its meaning and symbolism makes it more than just a mere song.
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here."
-Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd, 1975
It may be a song, but it's also one of my favorite quotes, since its meaning and symbolism makes it more than just a mere song.
twally
Smash Apprentice
*a moment of silence*
i love this song, and i too believe the symbolism and meaning are amazing. it is poetry at its finest!
now for another quote from a book i am reading by paulo coelho the alchemist
"to realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation."
demoncaterpie
Smash Champion
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
-Rush, Freewill
-Rush, Freewill
Kragen
Smash Ace
Most of these are originally in Dutch, I'll try to translate them
"The best disguise of a devil is an angel"
Anton Quintana
"Maybe it's true
that you can defeat dragons,
but that doesn't necessarilly mean
that dragons exist."
Anton Quintana
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
Furthermore, I think that Carthagho must be destroyed
Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius maior (Cato Maior)
"The best disguise of a devil is an angel"
Anton Quintana
"Maybe it's true
that you can defeat dragons,
but that doesn't necessarilly mean
that dragons exist."
Anton Quintana
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
Furthermore, I think that Carthagho must be destroyed
Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius maior (Cato Maior)
super_sonic
Smash Journeyman
"Mmmmmmhhh.... Beer......" ~Homer Simpson
But if were talking serious quotes I have a few.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general & politician (1769 - 1821)
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda (Just replace darkside with self depression or madness)
But if were talking serious quotes I have a few.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
French general & politician (1769 - 1821)
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Yoda (Just replace darkside with self depression or madness)
Vanilla
Smash Apprentice
- Joined
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"What is the reason? Soon the why and the reason are gone and all that matters is the feeling. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it; but it is of course a lie. Beneath our poised appearance we are completely out of control. " - The Merovingian (from Matrix: Reloaded)
"You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect. " - The Merovingian (from Matrix: Reloaded)
"Before you can control anything else, you must first be in complete control of yourself...." - Annonymous
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X
"Go big or go home." - Tonya on Battle of the Sexes II.
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes." - T.E. Lawrence
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless..." - Stephen King
"You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect. " - The Merovingian (from Matrix: Reloaded)
"Before you can control anything else, you must first be in complete control of yourself...." - Annonymous
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." - Malcolm X
"Go big or go home." - Tonya on Battle of the Sexes II.
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes." - T.E. Lawrence
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless..." - Stephen King
demoncaterpie
Smash Champion
"Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out."
-Chirstopher Walken, Catch Me if you Can
It's kind of a funny quote, but I like it
-Chirstopher Walken, Catch Me if you Can
It's kind of a funny quote, but I like it
wow, that;s a fantastic quote!Vanilla said:
twally
Smash Apprentice
that really is an awesome quote. thanks vanilla!
"the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
j.d. salinger the catcher in the rye
"the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
j.d. salinger the catcher in the rye
Kroin
Smash Rookie
"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer of reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling."
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
Both by William Blake.
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
Both by William Blake.
Sizzle
I paint controllers
"May God have mercy on my enemies for I will not." - General Patton (Works for SSBM ^_^)
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." - Anonymous
"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." - Anonymous
"Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war." - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Vanilla
Smash Apprentice
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"Go big or go home." - Tonya on Battle of the Sexes II.
I guess I should justify this quote a little more. I mean, you were all probably a little surprised I'd quote that as compared to some of the other quotes on that list, but the truth is, that's kind of my life motto. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it big and I'm going to go all out. Otherwise, what's the point of doing it?
PS: I guess I should note that doesn't apply to some things. Things I'm forced to do I tend to just get done. Things I want to do, like Smash, I go all out on.
I guess I should justify this quote a little more. I mean, you were all probably a little surprised I'd quote that as compared to some of the other quotes on that list, but the truth is, that's kind of my life motto. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it big and I'm going to go all out. Otherwise, what's the point of doing it?
PS: I guess I should note that doesn't apply to some things. Things I'm forced to do I tend to just get done. Things I want to do, like Smash, I go all out on.
AceMoney
Smash Apprentice
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing the world that he didn't exist," -Verbal Kint (The Usaual Suspects)
"Live out your dreams, or else they'll come back to haunt you as nightmares." Unknown
"Live out your dreams, or else they'll come back to haunt you as nightmares." Unknown
twally
Smash Apprentice
"nothing of me is original. i am the ocmbined efforts of everyone i've ever known."
chuck palahniuk
invisible monsters
chuck palahniuk
invisible monsters
smashman90
Smash Lord
"Man goes into cage, cage goes into water, shark's in the water, our shark." Quint(JAWS)
"Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies." Quint(JAWS)
Anything Quint said in that movie is quote worthy.
"Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies." Quint(JAWS)
Anything Quint said in that movie is quote worthy.
Paranoid_Android
Smash Lord
"No Fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
-Futurama (Professor)
"An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice, or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today."
-Jim Davis
"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
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
- Edvard Munch
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
-Simon and Garfunkel
-Futurama (Professor)
"An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice, or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today."
-Jim Davis
"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
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."
- Edvard Munch
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
-Simon and Garfunkel
That triggers something.
I once had that quote memorized. But that was more than ten years ago. Until just now, I had forgotten that I ever knew it. Or that I had ever owned a worn comic book with a bent cover and pages falling out from overuse.
Makes me think of a large orange cat. That ate lots of lasagna.
Sizzle
I paint controllers
Here is an interesting quote I heard recently:
"Your whole life is summed up by a dash in between the day you were born and the day you die."
"Your whole life is summed up by a dash in between the day you were born and the day you die."
De_Le_Chozo
Smash Apprentice
"Stop the world, I wanna get on!"
-Leopold Bloom (The Producers)
Paranoid_Android, I don't have to ask you if I can use the Jim Davis quote for one of my stories, right? I'm taking a creative liberty and putting the quote in Johnny Jackson's Rock Star Boot Camp, so. . . thanks. (I added to your rep for good measure)
-Leopold Bloom (The Producers)
Paranoid_Android, I don't have to ask you if I can use the Jim Davis quote for one of my stories, right? I'm taking a creative liberty and putting the quote in Johnny Jackson's Rock Star Boot Camp, so. . . thanks. (I added to your rep for good measure)
Paranoid_Android
Smash Lord
Of course not - It's not mine Thanks, though.
I have another Futurama one I found funny...
"That question was less stupid, although you asked it in a profoundly stupid way"
-Professor Farnsworth
Thanks, though.I have another Futurama one I found funny...
"That question was less stupid, although you asked it in a profoundly stupid way"
-Professor Farnsworth
Vicious Delicious
tetigit destruens
"Dead guys tend to leave an impression..." Bobby Pendragon
"No matter which direction you start, it's always against the wind coming back." Unknown
More later...
"No matter which direction you start, it's always against the wind coming back." Unknown
More later...
RainOfDarkness
Smash Journeyman
hope this isn't posted so far
"you can't get lucky all the time, but you can be smart everyday" -from that movie uhhhh o yeah 16 blocks.
"you can't get lucky all the time, but you can be smart everyday" -from that movie uhhhh o yeah 16 blocks.
Blood Falcon
Smash Journeyman
"All you have to do is not get hit"
--Isai
"Why is it that people insist on yelling at the drive thru. It's modern technology Im with my headset
Dane Cook
'Hi welcome to Burger King may I please take your order.' Driver
'WHOPPER!!' Dane Cook
'sir?'Driver
'WHOPPER NO ONION!!!'Dane Cook
'Excuse me, Chewbacca, I'm bleeding from the ears here.'"--Dane Cook
"Oh how fickle is woman..."- Rhett Butler, and to a greater extent Giusseppe Verdi, and to a greater extent Virgil.
I'm over a month late, but I thought I would point out that this was said by Baudelaire well before Usual Suspects
Pablo18
Smash Journeyman
"the gods envy us, because we are mortal, so that makes everything that much more beautiful because we know that we are doomed"- Brad Pitt(achillies) from "Troy".....its not the exact quote but it goes something like that......sorry bad memorie.
applejack
Smash Journeyman
I don't know if these have been said, sorry slow computer, I read first page and last page. And I forgot who said these, But they're on Call of Duty2 when you die, there are a lot of good ones there but here are the two I remember.
"All wars are Civil wars because all men are brothers."
"Is war an interlude(space between case you didn't know) of peace, or is peace an interlude of war?"
I find those thought provoking.
"All wars are Civil wars because all men are brothers."
"Is war an interlude(space between case you didn't know) of peace, or is peace an interlude of war?"
I find those thought provoking.
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Deleted member
Guest
"Don't quote me boy, cause I ain't said ****." - Easy E
.22%
Smash Apprentice
i got a lot of them:
corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior.
i love my chick.
and more but i can't say some of them.
corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior.
i love my chick.
and more but i can't say some of them.
twally
Smash Apprentice
"all life is just a progression towards and a recession from the one phrase 'i love you'"
--f scott fitzgerald--the offshore pirate
--f scott fitzgerald--the offshore pirate
Randall00
Propitious Plumber
Well, I don't know about groundbreaking philosophy, but...
"During the intervening time, the pizza sat in the backseat of a car being exposed to ultraviolet radiation, dust mites, car seat disease and who knows how many other as-yet-undiscovered weapons of gross. Nevertheless, there it sat."
-- extracted completely out of context from Et cetera
"During the intervening time, the pizza sat in the backseat of a car being exposed to ultraviolet radiation, dust mites, car seat disease and who knows how many other as-yet-undiscovered weapons of gross. Nevertheless, there it sat."
-- extracted completely out of context from Et cetera