Favourite Quotes

[momofthegoons]

 

[MinnBobber]

Being from Minnesota, and hating how spoiled and vastly overpaid many pro athletes are, a former MN Timberwolf quote:

After playing well for 3 years in the NBA, the Timberwolves offer Lattrell Sprewell a 3 year $21 million contract extension. Sprewell, famously responded with “I have a family to feed”. He went on to have a terrible final season of his contract and never played in the NBA again

Turned down 21 million dollar offer.....

 

[DDave]

 

[srama21]

If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[grokit]

"Concerning matter, we have all been wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter."

~ Albert Einstein
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[Havelock Vetenari]

As a great fan of Douglas Adams and all his writings, i couldn't let this slide...
The actual quote is out of The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul and should read :

(Dirk gently.)
"... A few turnings later and I was thoroughly lost. There is a school of thought which says that you should consult a map on these occasions, but to such people I merely say, 'Ha! What if you have no map to consult? What if you have a map but it's of the Dordogne?' My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it is going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be. So what do you say to that?"

"Piffle."

"A robust response. I salute you."

From the same book, about Dirk's Zen method of navigation and preceding the above :

"This was largely because of his "Zen" method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it.
The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both."

 

[DDave]

Listen closely to the songs I play...
As the lyrics speak the words I fail to say....

 

[Crohnie]

"I tried my damnedest to get over that rainbow, but I couldn't. SO WHAT? Lots of people can't."




Judy Garland

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[Philreal187]

They vote for us to go to war instantly,
But none of their kids serving the infantry.


-Immortal Technique

 

[DDave]

The best way to predict the future....
Is to create it.

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[5Niner]

"How is asking you to reduce your pot consumption in order for you to sound intelligible, insulting? I don't get it." -unknown

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Buzzbomb Almighty]

My life wouldn't make a good novel, the characters aren't sufficiently believable. Ashleigh Brilliant

 

[kellya86]

What's done, is done.

So think twice before doing it....

What I say to my kids...

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[farscaper]

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

andy warhol

 

[Nooky72]

 

[srama21]

From HBO's The Wire

Defense Lawyer: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You're stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off--
Omar: Just like you, man.
Defense Lawyer: --the culture of drugs... Excuse me, what?
Omar: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game, though, right?


From the first scene of the show:

(opening lines; McNulty is investigating a recent killing)
McNulty: So your boy's name is what?
Man On Stoop: Snot.
McNulty: You call the guy Snot?
Man On Stoop: Snot Boogie.
McNulty': He like the name?
Man On Stoop: What?
McNulty: Snot Boogie. (man shrugs) This kid, whose moma went to the trouble of christening him Omar Isaiah Betts. You know, he forgets his jacket, so his nose starts running, and some asshole, instead of getting him a Kleenex, he calls him Snot. So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair.
Man On Stoop: Life just be that way, I guess.
McNulty: So, who shot Snot?
Man On Stoop: I ain't goin' to no court. (shakes his head) Motherfucker ain't have to put no cap in him, though.
McNulty: Definitely not.
Man On Stoop: I mean, he could've whopped his ass like we always whoop his ass.
McNulty: I agree with you.
Man On Stoop: He goin' kill Snot, Snot been doin' the same shit I don't know how long. Kill a man over some bullshit. I'm sayin', every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin' bones, you know? I mean all them boys, we roll til late.
McNulty: Alley crap game, right?
Man On Stoop: Like every time, Snot, he'd fade a few shooters, play it out til the pot's deep. Snatch and run.
McNulty: What, every time?
Man On Stoop: Couldn't help hisself.
McNulty: Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your boys are shooting craps, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot Boogie... he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and run away? You let him do that?
Man On Stoop: We'd catch him and beat his ass but ain't nobody ever go past that.
McNulty: I gotta ask ya: if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?
Man On Stoop: What?
McNulty: If Snot Boogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
Man On Stoop: Got to. This America, man.

 

[DDave]

 

[farscaper]

some times apples fall farther from the shade of the tree, because they need to grow where there is enough light.

made it up.

 

[Havelock Vetenari]

RIP Lemmy!

 

[Nooky72]