Finding Solace in Favourite Quotes: Escaping Despair with Words of Wisdom

[DaveC426913]

On the Marquesas Islands it was called long-pig.

Also: the other other white meat.

 

[GeorginaS]

Um, hey, are you going to eat that?

- Jeffrey Dahmer to Lorena Bobbit

I can't believe you said/wrote that.

 

[Borek]

I had to check Dehmer on wikipedia. Bobbit case was heard about even here.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel was rejected by eight publishers before finally being accepted. Only 1000 copies were printed on the first run with 500 copies destined for libraries. Each of those copies is now worth upwards of $50,000.

- Biography; The Harry Potter Kids

 

[Santa1]

You spend way too much time at the computer.

- Everyone around me.

 

[ideasrule]

"A hundred failures would not matter, when a single success could change the destiny of the world" -- Arthur C. Clarke

This nicely captures the spirit of scientific research.

 

[Redbelly98]

Here are a couple of fake quotes:

I'm not a knowledgeable person, but I play one on TV.

-- Alex Trabek

That's too bad. And how did I do?

-- Dan Quayle, election night 1992

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Imagine Jesus on Twitter

Today we will read the Tweet according to Luke.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Economic forecasting makes weather forecasting look like physics

- Ben Bernanke

 

[baywax]

There are no experts on China.

Dr. Romie F. Littrell

 

[Ivan Seeking]

A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom

- Dan Rather

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The best [most effective] way to reduce your carbon footprint is to not reproduce

- the latest study released by the EPA [~today]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Journalist Cokie Roberts, on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, commenting on the people who are intentionally disrupting town hall meetings with lies and false accusations about health care reform:

Roberts: We need more nuns.

Stephanopoulos: Why nuns?

Roberts: No one raised by nuns would act like that.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Shhhhhhhhhh. Don't tell Obama what comes after "trillions"

- a buddy

 

[jobyts]

Ted Kennedy's last words - "I killed Mary Jo."

someone's comment on cnn news.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/04/book-ted-kennedys-last-words/#comments

 

[Astronuc]

A week before he was killed during a commando raid that freed his colleague, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, from Taliban captors, the Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi wrote a post for the Times’s “At War” blog. His conclusion:

Being a journalist is not enough; it will not solve the problems of Afghanistan. I want to work for the education of the country, because the majority of people are illiterate. That is the main problem facing many Afghans. I am really committed to come back and work for my country.

Ref: http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/sultan_munadi_rip.php

https://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=2341757

 

[drizzle]

speaking of learning a new language,

an inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

- David Hare

I like it

 

[baywax]

"History doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes".

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

 

[Astronuc]

I believe every educated person should study physics. Why? Because it is interesting – the natural world is a remarkable and fascinating place; because it is liberating – the universe is not arbitrary, but rational and comprehensible; and because physics is unequivocally the most powerful and profound system of thought ever devised. Perhaps, after all, I do agree with my parents. My purpose is to teach students how to think, by exposing them to the most brilliant and successful example of human thought: physics.

David Griffiths in Illuminating physics for students, PhysicWorld, Sept 2, 2009
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/40214

 

[CFDFEAGURU]

"You'd think I could predict the future" - my father.

and

"It ain't wrong but this will make it right" - not sure.

and from Point Break

"This the guy? Yeah. Ohh so this is where you tell me how locals rule and yuppie insects like me shouldn't be surfing the break and all that. Nope. That would be a waste of time. Were just going to f*** you up. Ohh."


Thanks
Matt

 

[baywax]

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools,
but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”
Mark Twain

 

[Borek]

"Well educated person should know everything about something, and something about everything."

Sławomir Kalembka, Polish historian (died today)

 

[check_itjess]

hi newbie here...

"when there is great love there are always miracles" i just got this from a song hits...i know don't know who wrote this but i liked this quote...this one is one of my favorite quote.

_______________
http://www.checkitout.co.uk/"

 

[rootX]

Wow, youtube has an infinite supply of retards.

a youtube video comment

 

[DanP]

Your favorite motto and "words to live by"

Do you have any motto or words to live by ? What are your favorites ? Drop a few of them in this thread !

Ill start with three of them.

1. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 )

2. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

3. "The only easy day was yesterday"
Attributed to US Navy Seals.

The first two are expressions of my beliefs that humans should constantly step outside their comfort zone.

The last one, I find it very reassuring and comforting , in a twisted and perverted way.

 

[brewnog]

If in doubt,
Mek it stout,
Out o' stuff tha knows about.

 

[Relay]

If I could, I would. Since I can't, I won't. That's logic!
-don't remember where I read it

Oh would some power the gifty give us.
To see ourselves as others see us.
It would from many a blunder free us.
-author unknown

"Flying is easy. All you do is throw yourself at the ground and miss."
-Hitchickers Guide to the Galaxy

 

[mollymae]

"If I seem insensitive to what you're going through, Captain, understand – it's the way I am." - Spock

 

[rootX]

Great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people.

 

[Jasongreat]

As soon as you feel secure, you are no longer safe.

Benjiman Franklin