OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

"If I owned this place and Hell, I'd rent this place out and live in Hell"

Originally Posted by enorbet That is out of context and misleading. The full text is - I've heard you say many times That you're better than no one and no one is better than you. If you really believe that you know there is nothing to win and nothing to lose. From fixtures and forces and friends your sorrow does stem That hype you and type you making you feel That you gotta be just like them It's from To Ramona. I love that song, and much of his writing from that era.

Probably a case of:

Still a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

--"The Boxer" - Paul Simon

Originally Posted by chrism01 @odiseo77: I think you mean Never argue with an idiot, they just drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience

Yes, that's indeed the quote I was thinking of.

Originally Posted by brianL Probably a case of: --"The Boxer" - Paul Simon

That's a good one. I also like -

"You don't have to lie to me
Just give me some tenderness
Beneath your honesty"
--- Paul Simon

Here's tae us, wha's like us, damn few and they're a' deid!

A Scot's toast

Originally Posted by Soadyheid Here's tae us, wha's like us, damn few and they're a' deid! - A Scot's toast

Then please allow me to hoist a glass and steal that and toast to Frankie Miller, a tough old Golden-Throated Scot if there ever was one.

Caledonia's been everything I've ever had.

(From Caledonia, sung by Frankie Miller)

It'd bring a tear tae a gless ee'

Another nicely done quote from Hollywood:

"I don't lie. I don't lie. My name is ... . I'm a journalist. I used to be, till I saw the light. That trying to speak the truth is a waste of time because nobody wants the truth. People don't want the truth. God forbid it would all go down in flames. It's the lies that keep the construct going. Don't you see? Spread by the vested interests in the government, and the private sector, and the churches, and the stock exchanges, all fabricating and spinning and telling stories that keep 300 million consumers happy and stupid and spending. Why are you looking at me like I'm crazy? Just stop. I'm not the deluded ones. You are." (c)The Event

If a problem has no solution, why bother?, and if it does, why bother?


Another one I love is Invictus

Originally Posted by Habitual "If I owned this place and Hell, I'd rent this place out and live in Hell"

Was that our ol' buddy J. Golden Kimball?

And while I'm here...

Every jumble pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.

-- They Might Be Giants, Where your eyes don't go.

A lie can run half way round the world before the truth has got its pants on.

--Winston Churchill

But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

--Paul Graham

Oh be wise, what can I say more?

--Jacob

Originally Posted by Pastychomper Was that our ol' buddy J. Golden Kimball?

Nope. From my all-time favorite movie, The Chronicles of Riddick by "Toombs".

and from another 'ok' movie, Pitch Black...

Johns: Battlefield doctors decide who lives and dies. It's called 'triage'. Riddick: They kept calling it 'murder' when I did it.

Originally Posted by Habitual Nope. From my all-time favorite movie, The Chronicles of Riddick by "Toombs". and from another 'ok' movie, Pitch Black...

Does that order of preference have anything to do with Hot and Evil Thandie Newton vs/ boring Girl-Next-Door Radha Mitchell?

Originally Posted by enorbet Does that order of preference have anything to do with Hot and Evil Thandie Newton vs/ boring Girl-Next-Door Radha Mitchell?

Maybe.

Thandie was smokin' hot in TCoR
Radha had "balls" in PB, tough cookie, but not "hot".

Now, where's "Helga Svelgen"?

Let's try to stay on topic

Ever since I read the following quote from this post,
my life changed - I started feeling less guilty about
my past.

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment. -- Mark Twain

This is the best one.

Benjamin Franklin — 'We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.