Quotes

[speedracer 36]

Hey im just wondering what everyone's favorite quotes are.
I would like to hear some of them.

[Medley]

"Quotation confesses inferiority."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Uncollected Writings: Essays, Addresses ,Poems, Reviews And Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Joe U.

[GB1]

I have a lot of them stashed away in a text file, many of which I found on PR.

Some creative ones..


"I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person" - Helmut Newton, photographer

"Anyone that has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.." Albert Einstein

"Admit when something isn't working, then try something new" - Unknown

"I am enormously self-critical, which means that most of my own compositions are thrown in the wastepaper basket."
"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection."
"I must be allowed to be as I am." - Agnetha (ABBA)

[DGK*CRONE]

"I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees." - Emiliano Zapata.

[SmartWombat]

A mind, like a parachute, works best when open

[Grandpaw]

I like the Quote or saying, "The harder I work , the luckier I get".

[mwfanelli2]

"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting." ~ Doctor Who

[JETA]

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Oprah

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” Kahlil Gribran

[Canuck935]

"I like toidals" -zombie kid

[Frog]

Jeta, that is one of my most remembered lines from The Prophet.

[gotrocks]

I would not say it's my favorite, But I seem to repeat it often.

"Thirty seconds is a l o n g t i m e....... if you are sitting on a hot stove."

[Frog]

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results

[DGK*CRONE]

"I like toidals" -zombie kid

"I'm here with my friend, the zombie..."

one of the funniest video ever on you tube.

[Skyman]

I have a few but these are the best three (until I read better ones)

movie quote:
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." (Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride

Latin Quote:
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur. go google it if you must know.

Sums me up:
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
- Robert McCloskey.
-- A lot of my work revolves around meaning and intepretation, so I actually use it as a test to see if my work is going to make sense to my audience.

[Frog]

"They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king"

Bob Dylan....Infidels...Sweetheart Like You

[JordanRHughes]

A few favs:

"Never rub another man's rhubarb!"
"My god is the everlasting sky. You're god, lives underneath him."
"I am Jack's raging bile duct."

new york cheap hotel

[Frog]

"The most beautiful experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He for whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein

[draymorton]

"**** happens." - Unknown

"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us." - David Mamet

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'cheque enclosed.'" - Dorothy Parker

[GB1]

Einstein's Theory of Reality:

R = S*** Happens

[straightarm]

Rules are for the guidance of wise men (and women) and the blind observence of fools. Attributed to Douglas Bader

A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others. (Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor, 1815 - 1898)

[KyRain]

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." Albert Einstein.

[Frog]

"This is My DREAM; I choose the path" ..........Alice

[draymorton]

"F*** you guys!" - Julius Caesar to the Senate

[Medley]

I seldom laugh out loud reading the morning paper, but this gem was in our "short takes" (letters to the editor) today:

"I don't know, maybe it's my age, but Lady Gaga reminds me a lot of Phyllis Diller" - Ken Johnson.

- Joe U.

[Frog]

Thanks for that share, Medeley. It made me laugh out loud too., Probably because its true.