The quotes thread

[sunwaiter]

"weaseling out of things is what makes us different from the animals. except the weasel."

Homer

 

[marval]

Here's looking at you, kid.
Rick in Casablanca

 

[Mat]

"Trying is the first step towards failure"

Homer Simpson

 

[marval]

"What's up Doc?"
Bugs Bunny

 

[Corno Dolce]

Gen. Eisenhower: Where are you from, Corporal?
Corporal: I'm from Kansas, Sir!
Eisenhower: What did you do there?
Corporal: I'm a farmer, Sir!
Eisenhower: So am I. What did you grow?
Corporal: Wheat, Sir!
Eisenhower: Really? How many bushels to an acre?
Corporal: About 35 bushels, Sir!
Eisenhower: WOW! After the war is over I'll be coming to you looking for a job.

 

[marval]

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart

 

[Corno Dolce]

*Peacetime heroism only fosters pessimistic risk-taking.*

-Anonymous-

 

[marval]

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

 

[sunwaiter]

Get hip to yourself, good god, my brother, and get it from the street. if you don't work, you can't eat"

James Brown.

 

[marval]

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg

 

[sunwaiter]

wonderful one Margaret

 

[marval]

Thank you sunwaiter

 

[sunwaiter]

"you've never been a thirteen year old girl"

Cecilia, "the virgin suicides"

 

[marval]

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Sigmund Freud

 

[sunwaiter]

ah! this feeling, Mister, that i have for nature! The grass is so beautiful, that onewould like to be a bullock to chew it, and then again be a man, to eat the bullock that has chewed this grass.

Georg Büchner - Leonce und Lena

 

[marval]

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
Arthur Helps

 

[Contratrombone64]

I'm honored (sic.) to appear in front of all these extremely talented people---and the Hilton sisters...Isn't it ironic that two sluts would be named aftera cheap hotel?
---comedian Jeffrey Ross emceeing an event

 

[marval]

HaHa CT, thats a good one.


My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.
Les Dawson

 

[Contratrombone64]

Does this answer your question, Turwethiel?

 

[Tûrwethiel]

Thank you, CT64. You make trawling easy!

I'm 20 pages into a book I haven't read before and it's ringing bells on many levels. Let's see how many people this one will flush out!

" ... everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye.