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Quotes

I came across a great quote and, since it's been a year and a half since the last quote thread, I'm starting a new one:

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage (the avant-garde US composer)
 
You're going to make a quotes thread with no stipulations of any kind on limit or content?
Kinda daring with me around here isn't it? lol! :)


"I love philosophy! If I wasn't so practical I'd be a philosopher. What do philosophers do anyway?"
-College girl overheard in the Philosophy Dept. of B&N


"Vee ah nye-liss Lebowskee! Vee beleeves in nuh-sink!"
-German Nihilists in The Big Lebowski


"The most surreal of all artistic actions is to run through a crowd with a pistol, firing randomly."
-Andre Breton, the Surrealist Manifesto


""God" spelled backwards is "Dog", "Bob" spelled backwards is still "Bob". Logically who would you follow?"
-Rev. Ian Stang, Church of the Subgenius


"It is all simulacra and simulation. Reality has been assassinated "
-Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime


"Ride the wild neuro-somatic circuit!"
-Dr. Timothy Leary, Cyber Punks and Cyber Freedom


"Don't try to teach a pig to sing, it'll just waste your time and annoy the pig."
-An old Irish Proverb


"My only crime is that I signed the wrong name."
-Elmyr, painter of many original pieces signed "Picasso"


"Why be at the head of life's parade when the viewing stand is full of corpses?"
-Anton Szandor LaVey, Satan Speaks


"We're just trying to find out what the hell is really going on here."
-David Bohm, on the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics


"Are you the programmer or are you the programs?"
-Dr. John Lilly, Meta-programming the Human Bio Computer

"You are all hereby declared "popes" and are equally as infallible as that guy in the Vatican with the big funny hat. Feel free to pontificate on anything!"
-Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, 3rd original Pope of Discordia

"Think about how stupid the average person is and then realize half of them are even stupider than that."
-The secret of supreme power, as revealed to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs by L. Ron Hubbard aboard a stalled elevator in Las Vegas 1959.
 
This is one of my all time favorites, because it is so true:

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-Dwight Eisenhower

xvart.
 
"Hindsight is 20-20. The rest is legally blind"- Reader's Digest, Quotable Quotes

"Don't shoot until you see the Whites". That's the 'whites of their eyes'. "Oh we didn't wait that long". - Fred Sanford
 
"This morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."
-Groucho Marx
 
lmao, elephant in my pajamas xD

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Hendrix

"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile."
-??
 
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--- e e cummings

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

--- Thomas Szasz

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
--- Thomas A. Edison

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
--- Groucho Marx

I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me....Failure always made me try harder next time.
--- Michael Jordan

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices.
--- Dumbledor

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rest all that was not life... And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
---Henry David Thoreau (Dead Poet's Society)
 
awww, my quote doesnt pass the filter.....
 
I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy — because we’re experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that’s what’s going on now. - Kurt Vonnegut

I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy. - Kurt Vonnegut

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. - Kurt Vonnegut

A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It's also a source of hope. It means we don't have to continue this way if we don't like it. - Kurt Vonnegut
 
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"Out, out, vile jelly!" -Shakespeare

"He has no neck." -Steve Martin
 
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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. --Dean Martin
 
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"Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances." -

"Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns." -

-- Thomas Sowell

"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?"

-- Joseph Stalin

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years."

-- Winston Churchill
 
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"The answer will always be no if you never ask." -(A theatre actor I met at a conference)

"Never take advice from somebody else." - Somebody Else

"The best nation in the world is a donation!" -(Some break dancers in Hollywood)

"The worst nation in the world is discrimination!" - Myself

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -Moulin Rouge

"I'm not racist! I'm just specific." - Myself

"You're so hot, you cause global warming!" -Myself

"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." -August Samie

"You know your in love when you cant fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
-Dr. Seuss

""If I had to choose between breathing and loving you, I'd use my last breath to say I love you."
 
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.


"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

-- Winston Churchill
 
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"insanity is a sane response to an insane world" -- my English teacher, explaining E.A. Poe's viewpoint

"Excellence is more fun than a picnic" -- my band director

"Play it right, you little s***" -- my band director

and I'll throw in a pickup line: "I would dearly love to be one of your tears. I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips." -- Spanish
 
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