mcbigski Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett Edited to Add: Always a favorite of mine, but just after posting it, I see that CelticBrennus has it sigged in a slightly different form. Still a great line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett To continue with the Pratchett theme: "The time to start running is at the 'e' in 'hey you!' - Rincewind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelticBrennus Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "I like my women the way I like my coffee. Stuffed in a sack and tied to the back of a mule" Nostalgia is more fun when the past doesn't suck. Dont forget that for every woman out there that you want to sleep with there probably is at least one guy who's been there, done that, and thinks she's a raving bitch. Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power was a process known to the ancients . It's called "rain" "I wanna hold your hand" -- The Beatles. "I wanna fuck you like an animal" -- Nine Inch Nails. 30 years of rock 'n roll evolution. By the time a man reads women like books he's too old to collect a library. If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. If you can buy it at the mall, it ain't "counterculture!" "Those aren't rolls of fat, they're my McDominal muscles!" War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Little Head, met big Head, and from now on he will be calling the shots around here. Now, now, dont drop and pout like that, its for you own good, otherwise life would achieve new levels of complete suckitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Maid Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." and continuing on this vein: "I want Domingo Montoya back, you son of a bitch." Probably one of my all-time favorite quotes in ASoIaF: "Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms…or the memory of a brother’s smile? We are only human, and the gods have fasioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy... A craven be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in a man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tears of Lys Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done." George Carlin Pardon me for quoting your quote, but I love George Carlin and this one is so quintessentially him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Pardon me for quoting your quote, but I love George Carlin and this one is so quintessentially him. Somehow I missed that one. One of my favorites. I put it in my High School Yearbook Some more good Carlin quotes... "I don’t have pet peeves — I have major psychotic fucking hatreds!" "Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy." "Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money." "Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.” "Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself." "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." "I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bormon Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Some of my favorite movie quotes come from the movie Lone Gone Cecil "Stud" Cantrell (played by William Peterson): Kid... let me tell you one of lifes great truths. All girls *fuck*. Jamie Weeks: Yeah, but this one's real religious... Cecil "Stud" Cantrell: When I said all girls, I meant *all girls*. and this gem: Cecil "Stud" Cantrell: When God made Man, He made him outta string. He had a little left, so He left that little thing. When God made Woman, He made her outta lace. He didn't have enough, so He left that little space. Thank you, God! (Can't you just see Grissom saying that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qray Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Drunk I am. Car keys I have lost. [falls down] Down I have fallen. Ass I've bruised, fear I." -a friend talking in Yoda-speak while drunk during a memorable pub crawl. Jumping onto Qray's bandwagon, I'll begin with a paraphrase of Churchill: "Democracy is the worst possible form of government - except for all those other ones." It's hard to go wrong with a Churchill quote. "Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon." -Winston Churchill "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Winston Churchill "We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." -Winston Churchill Bessie Braddock: "Sir, you are drunk." Churchill: "Madam, you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober." Nancy Astor: "Sir, if you were my husband, I would give you poison." Churchill: "If I were your husband I would take it.†Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 It must suck to be a speechwriter and hear all your awesome work being attributed to the politicans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince of the North Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." and continuing on this vein: "I want Domingo Montoya back, you son of a bitch." Probably one of my all-time favorite quotes in ASoIaF: "Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman’s love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms…or the memory of a brother’s smile? We are only human, and the gods have fasioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy... A craven be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in a man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose." Wolfmaid, Which ASoIaF character said what you posted above about honor and duty? I don't remember but I think Martin laid out, perhaps, the central theme of the series right there! As far as favorite quotes go, one of my all-time favorites is my first sig (it just says so much about human psychology) and my second sig has already been mentioned a few times. And, yes, Churchill is the greatest for quotes! I especially love this one: (paraphrasing) "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Oop North Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Wolfmaid, Which ASoIaF character said what you posted above about honor and duty? I don't remember but I think Martin laid out, perhaps, the central theme of the series right there! It sounds like Master Aemon when he was talking to Jon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanteGabriel Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 It was Maester Aemon talking to Jon, and it was one of my favorite moments in the entire series. I think that's right before Aemon reveals his last name. Just a great scene. Great choice, Wolf Maid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suffix Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 On the military side of things i got a few favorites that are true in my opinion. Only the dead have seen the end of war - Plautus It is well that war is so terrible or we would grow to fond of it - Robert E. Lee Let him who desires peace prepare for war - Vegetius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Wolf Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Asimov Quotes: "Old age is your own age plus 10." (I hope I can keep this idea into my 70s) "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we will solve them." "There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." Feynman Quotes: "Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing in "mere." I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination- stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light....It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined! Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter as if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?" "It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it was in a great part of its long history and as it is in a great majority of places. When this objective view is finally attained, and the mystery and majesty of matter are fully appreciated, to then turn the objective eye back on man viewed as matter, to view life as part of this universal mystery of greatest depth, is to sense an experience which is very rare, and very exciting. It usually ends in laughter and a delight in the futility of trying to understand what this atom in the universe is, this thing - atoms with curiosity - that looks at itself and wonders why it wonders. Well, these scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate." Pratchett: "Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote. " Rabbi Hillel: "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the comentary; go and study it." "I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. " Thomas Paine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sToNED_CAT Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Speaking about Asimov, we cannot forget Salvor Hardin's "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". "Dammit - I think I'm becoming a god." of all roman emperors only Vespasian was able to joke even on his deathbed (emperors were deified after death). "Bigamy is having one spouse too many. Marriage is the same." - Mark Twain I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed ? - Gandhi 'Love' is- making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds. - HK-47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Wolf Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Speaking about Asimov, we cannot forget Salvor Hardin's "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". I actually preffer his: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what is right." But both are good choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady crackhead Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 "Must you breathe? Cause i need heaven." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wolf Maid Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 PotN, As the others have said, that's from Maester Aemon, in AGoT. I just love that scene. It was Maester Aemon talking to Jon, and it was one of my favorite moments in the entire series. I think that's right before Aemon reveals his last name. Just a great scene. Great choice, Wolf Maid. Yep. I think that's the part. Jon was pretty much thinking of joining Robb's army then, IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balefont Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 "I don't do arithmetic, I just do equations." - my dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ruby Ford Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.- Ernesto Che Guevara Words that do not match deeds are unimportant. - Ernesto Che Guevara Self-improvement is masturbation- Tyler Durden and a few more i cant think of right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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