I love words, and love quotes...just curious if anyone's got something particularly insightful. I keep a doc with a bunch of quotes -- the most beautiful, meaningful phrases and sentences I've come across. Here's one I recently found while reading poetry:
some like it shot
and some like it hung
and some like it in the two
nine months young
-- e.e. cummings
I also have a text file on My Documents folder with a bunch of quotes, which I use on my personal message on MSN.
I wanted to put some of them, but I can't make up my mind and I don't want to copy-paste them all here. I'll try to select a bunch of them later ::)
While I wait...another one:
Tell me not how great your project is, the civil liberation of the world, its conversion into a Christian church, the establishment of public education, cleaner diet, a new division of labor and of land, laws of love for laws of property; -- I say to you plainly there is no end to which your practical faculty can aim, so sacred or so large, that, if pursued for itself, will not at last become carrion and an offence to the nostril. The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. Your end should be one inapprehensible to the senses: then will it be a god always approached, -- never touched; always giving health. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no greater thinker, imo.
"ONE THING'S SURE AND NOTHING'S SURER
THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET--CHILDREN.
IN THE MEANTIME,
IN BETWEEN TIME----"
-GREAT GATSBY
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by" (...)
(Robert Frost)
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
"We must eliminate all doubt, I think."
-I forgot :-\
Here's my favorite Frost:
So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be.
-- Robert Frost
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."
-- Winston Churchill (attributed)
'Most people work hard and spend their health trying to achieve wealth. Then they retire and spend their wealth trying to get back their health.'
-Kevin Gianni
www.liveawesome.com
I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Guevara, eh...Sartre has a nice interpretation of armed uprising:
...this irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts,
nor even the effects of resentment: it is man recreating himself. --Jean-Paul Sartre
"That's MAMA Luigi to you, Mario!" - Luigi, Super Mario Bros.
LOL
All truth passes through three stages
• First it is ridiculed
• Then it is violently opposed
• Finally, it as accepted as self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhouer
"My fellow astronauts..." -Dan Quayle
I can't make up my mind. --133MHz
i am getting <insertpirategamehere> in my shipment from taiwan -JC
AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Famicom Freak ;D
Quote from: FamicomFreak on November 21, 2008, 06:49:14 pm
AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-Famicom Freak ;D
LOL I almost just posted the exact same thing. :D
GIVE ME MARIO 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -Famicom Freak :D
LOL! good one!
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so. --Artemus Ward
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. --Bertrand Russell (or maybe someone else)
I've been reading Paradise Lost and came across this:
The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven.
-- John Milton
Also, there's this, which I think is a well-recognized line:
Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. -- John Milton
Satan's not in a guitar pick, he's inside all of us. In here in your hearts. He's what makes us not want to go to work, or exercise, or tell the truth. He's what makes us want to party and have sex with each other all night long. He's that little voice in your mind that says "Fuck you" to the people you hate.
-Open Mic Host
Reality is inside the skull. -- George Orwell
"Often, quotes not actually written or spoken by Mark Twain are attributed to him, because it lends those quotes an undeserved respect. Not this one, though. He must have said this one. I mean, look, it has his name after it and everything."
~ Mark Twain
Did I use this one already? ???
Just read this one. Funny and sad at the same time:
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are dumber than that." -- George Carlin
Yeah, but here's Carlin's best:
"I think we're already 'circling the drain' as a species, and I'd love to see the circles get a little faster and a little shorter."
Another great George Carlin quote:
"We have to declare war on everything. We have the war on crime, the war on poverty, the war on litter, the war on cancer, the war on drugs.
But did you ever notice, we got no war on homelessness? You know why? There's no money in that problem! No money to be made off of the homeless. If you could find a solution to homelessness where the corporate swine and the politicians could steal a couple of million dollars each, you'd see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty goddamned quick, I'll guarantee you that!"
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.
During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. from dependence back into bondage."
- Alexander Tyler (1787) - unverified
I have that same quote saved on my PC.
Some words, when strung together carefully enough, have great depth, where the philosophical exploration and reality is endless:
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
-- Walt Whitman
"Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way."
-Robert Rosen
-The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.
-That's the thing about childhood, you can never go back to it. It was golden and horrible at the same time.
-Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, But it's very funny -- did you ever try buying them without money? -- Ogden Nash
-A real friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away. A real friend is someone you can use over and over again.
-The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-I think your vote is like your pussy: It's perfectly legal to give it away for free, but the moment you try to earn some cash...
-Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it.
-Remember, God could only create the world in 6 days because he didn't have an established user base.
-Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?
-Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull
-QOTD: "If he learns from his mistakes, pretty soon he'll know everything."
-What we need is either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
-When nothing can possibly go wrong, it will.
-Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. -- Hannah More
-"When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. -- Rinzai, ninth century Zen master"
-"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather... not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."
-The secret of happiness is total disregard of everybody.
-A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
-Roses are red; Violets are blue. I'm schizophrenic, And so am I.
-A waist is a terrible thing to mind. -- Ziggy
I am gonorrhea -Carl Allen
Very moving.
Quote from: 133MHz on December 24, 2008, 02:14:58 pm
-The secret of happiness is total disregard of everybody.
Here's a kinder alternative:
The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to sit quietly in his room. -- Blaise Pascal
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. -- Oscar Wilde
Oscar pretty much sums it up. :P
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
- Juvenal (1st/2nd Century CE), Satire VI
translates to:
"Who Watches the Watchmen?"
also are there swears allowed because there are some pretty funny Carlin quotes that i'd like to post but if there's no swearing i'll save it...
Aww yee man, George Carlin is awesome. He died...
Quote from: zombiepowder on January 06, 2009, 07:39:54 pm
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
WAAAAAAAAAA!!! We had to translate that in Latin class!
yea... that's what inspired "Watchmen"
also i remembered a Carlin quote that has no swears:
"Are vegetarians permitted to eat animal crackers?"
a few more:
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
- Narrator, Fight Club
"My name's Leonard Washington. Where I'm from? A little town called None-a-Ya Goddamn Business."
- Leonard Washington (Dave Chappelle), The World Championship of Dice- Chappelle's Show
"I'm forced to suffer leaders with names like Bush and Dick. And, up until recently 'Colon.'"
-Kurt Vonnegut
Carlin should be OK to post. :)
awesome :)
"There are lots of little phrases that don't make sense, in our language. For example 'take a shit...' 'Take a shit?' You don't take a shit you 'LEAVE a shit.' That's the whole idea, to leave it.
'I left a shit'
'Fine thankyou Jeff. Where'd you leave it?'
'In the ice box.'
'I'm gonna take a shit.'
'Don't take one of mine. I only have 2 left and the weekend is comming up. Why don't you go home and take one of your own shits? That guy is always moochin off me. He must think I'm made of shit er somethin. All that shit don't grow on trees you know.'" - George Carlin
Nice one. :) Love the "Stuff" routine myself, and love the Watchmen reference!
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. - Fred Allen
"PEDOFORK" - Christian Weston Chandler
I desire my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
-- Ezra Pound
"Leave the gun, take the cannolis."
- Clemenza, The Godfather
He eats punches like M&M's. -- some boxing commentator last night, and then the M&M eater got knocked out. ;D
Maybe he's allergic to m&ms ;D
Bump
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
-George Carlin
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this. - Old man in cave :P
知人不言 言人不知
Find out what that means. ;)
That's in your sig :o
It must be something full of wisdom or hilariousness :P
Let's see...according to GT...
"不知不言people who say"
Nice ::)
Google shouldn't help you much as it's classical Chinese. :P
Oh, I tried translating it from Japanese :P
Here's Chinese on GT
"Statement made by people not knowing I do not know"
Nope ::)
Totally different.
In a gist it means something like "people who know, don't talk (知人不言) people who talk, don't know (言人不知)"
--> Stupid people talk too much. Wise men don't talk very much.
Well..
I think my post count explains a lot :-[
Quote from: manuel on February 11, 2009, 11:33:53 pm
Google shouldn't help you much as it's classical Chinese. :P
So you speak Chinese as well? Damn, how many languages do you speak?
I don't speak much Chinese, but I can read and understand (easy) stuff. I also know a bit of classical Chinese and Japanese, which I find easier than nowaday's Chinese.
Besides that I had Latin for 5 years in school and learned Italian a bit. This helps me to also understand French and Spanish to a very very basic degree (and only in written form). As I'm German I can also comprehend Dutch a little bit.
There's an interesing thread:
What languages do you speak? (http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=688.0)
Make sure to post what you've got there.
Doh, I posted in that but forgot about it.
This will happen more and more when you grow older. Get used to it. :P
So I've heard, I'm 21 so it goes downhill from here right?
Pretty much, yeah.
"'Normal' is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for--in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
-Ellen DeGeneres
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I can see no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli'ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holla boys, holla boys, let the bells ring.
Holla boys, holla boys, God save the King!
"MAH BOI, THIS PEACE IS WHAT ALL TRUE WARRIORS STRIVE FOR"
Dumb, dumber, dumbest, Irish
XD
"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, Floor!"
-George Carlin
;D
"Life Is What Happens While You Are Busy Making Other Plans"....
John Lennon.
"Be wary of the man who proclaims to know the unknown."
-Me
Haha, nice. That reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld's quote from a few years back:
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
"Better is not always better."
Me
"Absorb what is useful, discard the rest."
-Bruce Lee
"Nothing is good or bad, only thinking makes it so."
- William Shakespeare.
"Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty" -Kevin Bacon on relationships.
"I only regret that i only have but one life to loose for my country."
-Nathan Hale
this guy had a lotta balls to say this to the british before getting hung instead of saying im sorry please dont kill me.
Quote from: Rcoehrs on March 26, 2009, 09:40:40 am
"Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty" -Kevin Bacon on relationships.
I used that on my wife. She loved it. Thanks for digging it out!
The resistance to any new idea is proportional to the square of it's importance.
-Bertrand Russell
maria - my poor sweet maria - my darling beloved maria - she has vanished. she said she was going for food. said she heard demetri martin was injured in the road outside of comedy central and ripe for the taking. i watched as she approached him from a window upstairs. but as she approached him, jon stewart came hurtling down from the heavens like the world's tiniest batman. he snared her in a giant freakin net. demetri had been faking. they carried her away, laughing cruel jewish laughs - laughs i hadn't heard since bear stearns collapsed - and i screamed her name as they ducked down a manhole and she disappeared forever. and the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of my beautiful maria and me and the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes of her forever staring at me.
www.somethingawful.com
"Lois... Don't be alarmed, but I think I might be Jesus."
Peter Griffin, Family Guy
"I shall not walk so that a child may live!" -Master Shake
Why would I put dirt in my own fruit pie? My own fruit pie?
-Bobby Hill
King of the Hill is great.
"Thanks for making me dress up like a girl, Dad."
-Bobby Hill, King of the Hill
"Your Clam is Handy."
- Friend of mine,
during english class,
in response to me stating that his hands were clammy...
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
~Bruce Lee
"Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music."
--John Cage
"Look, that beam came from space. You don't own space, so stop acting like you do!" -Master Shake
This guy has the greatest:
"Highlander was a documentary and the events happened, in real time..."
"That room is dead to me. Let's burn down the kitchen and use the living room as a kitchen from now on. Look, here's our stove." [sets the recliner on fire]
Oh, yeah. I haven't watched that show in a while.
"Did you get new shoes?"
"No, but I need to."
"Ooh, let's go shopping! We'll make a day of it!"
Now,
let's go play together...
Together under the
clearest of blue skies...
"If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you."
www.chucknorrisfacts.com
These are no real quotes, but I always end up laughing on those Chuck Norris sites. ;D
Sites? There are more?
Most of the other sites just steal from the 1 main site, though.
Lemme see them anyway.
I don't think he was implying he had any of them. Really, all it takes is a simple Google search.
dork is right.
Just put "Chuck Norris facts" in any search engine and you'll get tons of results.
Does anyone remember the Anti-Norris? I remember seeing it on Uncyclopedia. Apparently there was a large enough group of people who really didn't like Chuck Norris all to well & compiled a list of hypothetical ways to kill him. :o
That section has been long gone now, (http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/mad0038.gif) probably from pompous Chuck Norris fans.
Some were truly awesome, I remember one:
Find a genie. Wish for unlimited wishes & use them all to buy guns. Give them to a cowboy to shoot Chuck Norris with.
Chuck Norris would catch the bullets with his teeth and throw them back at the cowboy, thus killing the cowboy and his family.
Or they'd bounce off him and do nothing, and then he'd roundhouse kick them.
He'd probably do that after he gets bored with what I wrote. :P
Now, back to topic. We'll make this into a Chuck Norris thread otherwise... ::)
Oh please, no Chuck Norris thread! Hmm I guess I have something to post in the annoying thread.
...Annoying thread? Where did it go!?
He's talking about the "Something that annoys you" thread.
Oh. 'Cause I remember a spam thread...
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"
-Henry Kissenger
No wonder people hate us.
Quote from: ericj on May 01, 2009, 08:10:45 am
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you have a citation for this one? Emerson is my favorite philosopher and I've never read that -- or don't remember reading it.
Quote from: ericj on May 01, 2009, 08:10:45 am
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't know that either, but it sure is one nice line. It has much truth to it.
Found this on wikiquote:
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."
from Social Aims
The quote that ericj posted sounds like a simplified version of it.
edit: 1600 posts, woo
"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
-Abraham Maslow
"I take it you like Spaghetti-O's?"
- Elijah Wood, Flipper (1996)
"That son of a bitch took my pants!"
-Some homeless guy, Terminator 1
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
This sounds so damn nice.
consider waiting as a moment of peace
har the cat :P
From a member of another forum I visit. If you've read 1984, this will kind of amuse you.
QuoteWar is Peace
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." - George W. Bush
Freedom is Slavery
"Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." - Rudy Giuliani
Ignorance is Strength
"The truth is a useless commodity that will hang around your neck like an albatross all the way to the homeless shelter." - Jeb Bush
"Bionic Commando is as close as it gets to the real thing; with vivid colors, fast action gameplay, and realistic graphics."
--First issue of Nintendo Power
I never understood why, even from the start, there was an effort to push video games toward artistic realism, as if a video game couldn't be at their best unless they imitated real life in action and imagery.
Well, shading in sprites was as close as they could get to 3D and realism in the 80s. People are always going on about how reslistic today's games are. Just you wait until the day we play games Tron-style comes.
And speaking of games;
"'Takes me back'!? But [Cosmic Gate] just came out in the arcades!"
-Young Arino, Retro Game Challenge
"Most people need a colonic between the ears."
- Dr. John Christopher
Politicians are like babies' diapers: they need to be changed regularly and for the same reasons. -- Unknown (seen in somebody's Slashdot sig)
- Did I breathe and give you the impression that I was done speaking?
- Have you confused this with your opportunity to continue to talk?
- Nada sin mojarse la ropa.
Judge Marilyn Milian
Quote from: ericj on May 27, 2009, 05:33:53 pm
- Did I breathe and give you the impression that I was done speaking?
- Have you confused this with your opportunity to continue to talk?
- Nada sin mojarse la ropa.
Judge Marilyn Milian
She's awesome.
Master Shake (to Meatwad): Look at him and tell me there's a God.
Meatwad: He made me in his own image.
Master Shake: Oh, that's right, I forgot - God's a big ball of meat.
Quote from: 133MHz on May 26, 2009, 08:30:31 pm
Politicians are like babies' diapers: they need to be changed regularly and for the same reasons. -- Unknown (seen in somebody's Slashdot sig)
Post of the day.
Some vegetarian quotes, for all you omnivores out there ;) :
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
- Pythagoras
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”
- Thomas Edison
“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- Albert Einstein
“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
"You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car."
- Harvey Diamond
But hamburgers are so good! And last night I ate the exotic Orxy (http://www.africansplendours.com/graphics/new/orxy.jpg)!
For as long as men eat animals, they will not eat each other. -- JC
"If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real."
-Anthony Robbins
Quote from: Blue Protoman on May 27, 2009, 06:58:35 pm
Quote from: 133MHz on May 26, 2009, 08:30:31 pm
Politicians are like babies' diapers: they need to be changed regularly and for the same reasons. -- Unknown (seen in somebody's Slashdot sig)
Post of the day.
That was yesterday.
Post of May 26th, then.
7:20pm David
Lol, james has 4 parents.
7:20pm Aaron
haha nice
7:20pm David
Aaron King
Phi Tran
Denny Duc Bui
David Tamburello
7:20pm Aaron
hes my son
7:20pm David
Or so he says.
Wow, we are all gay, then.
7:21pm Aaron
right
i like how all those people are guys xP
not me
7:21pm David
Or I'm a mormon man.
And the other 3 of you are my transsexual wives.
7:21pm Aaron
right
7:21pm David
XD Yes.
7:22pm Aaron
or vice versa O_o
7:22pm David
:0
"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not"
Kurt Cobain.
Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad
guy when Bush's daddy
made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business
with him and a bad guy
when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden"
diversion.
Found on Richard Stallman's website
Fuck, fuck, fuck. Motha, motha fuck, motha motha fuck fuck...- Jason Mewes.
Also,
Women can vote?- Next Door Neighbor.
"I cannot teach anybody anything,I can only make them think"
Socrates
"Three kids and no money..ohhh, why can't I have no kids and three money?" --Homer Simpson
"The absence of evidence is not the same as the evidence of absence."
-Unknown
"vi, vi, vi: Editor of the beast."
-Richard Stallman, as "Saint IGNUcius".
XD I'm a nerd, yes.
"Talk to Me!" - Terry Tibbs
"I should have done the honest thing and murdered the emus..."
Hank Hill
"Gooood afternoon madame, i am george. I am calling from your bank. It appears that you have won 18,000,000 ugandan dollars. Simply provide me with your bank account details and sort code, and we will wire you the monies as soon as possible!" george agdgdgwngo
"Oh Man i accidently shot marvin in the face"
-John Travolta, Pulp Fiction
"Mmmm This is a Tasty burger"
-Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Time to bring this thread back from a shallow-water suffocation:
Machinemade "civilization" isolates every human being from experience (that is,from himself) by teaching mankind to mistake a mere gadgety interpretation (e.g.the weatherman's prediction) of experience for experience itself (e.g.weather). --e.e. cummings in Eimi
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on June 10, 2009, 02:15:58 pm
Quote from: Blue Protoman on May 27, 2009, 06:58:35 pm
Quote from: 133MHz on May 26, 2009, 08:30:31 pm
Politicians are like babies' diapers: they need to be changed regularly and for the same reasons. -- Unknown (seen in somebody's Slashdot sig)
Post of the day.
That was yesterday.
I remember that quote from the end of Man of the Year.
On Skype with nintendodork:
Me: Okay, Earthwormjim55 doesn't deserve a Famicom.
Nintendodork: He doesn't deserve LUNGS.
Whats so bad about earthwormjim55?
Nintendodork can explain.
But I won't, because I don't think the mods would appreciate it. :D
"This is where the law stops - and I start. Sucker!"
...a movie
"PM sent ;) "
-Everybody on famicom world
QuoteI HAVE REALLY FUCKING HATED THIS YEAR ONE THING GOOD HAPPENS TO ME AND NOW EVERY THING ELES GO TO SHITE AND FUCK THIS I AMA GETING TIRED OF PPL I AM GETING TIRED OF LIFE IS SOME COULD KILL ME IT WOULD BE THE SLOSHEN FOR EVER PROPBEL IN LIFE!!!PACK IT IN GO HOME CALL IT QWITES
A kid on facebook.
Quote from: famiac on September 23, 2009, 04:26:07 pm
"PM sent ;) "
-Everybody on famicom world
I never said that. :-\
Awwwwww...... it's ok i was talking in general
Oops - my bad. I Forgot there was a Street Fighter I. -:P
"You Deserve A Break Today" - David Warhol
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less." - Vaclav Havel
What cause underlies the assertion -- we have too many distractions to care? At the same time, have we ever really known much about the meaning of our lives? The meaning is usually concocted by this or that media mogul, philosopher, prophet or scientist.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
"A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage. Remember those words..."
-- Hero's Shade
'Free Will Is a Privilage, Not a Right"
- Onslaught, Marvel Vs. Capcom
"Thank you Mario but the Princess is in another castle."
-Toad
Quote from: Marlon on May 08, 2010, 04:35:41 pm
"Thank you Mario but the Princess is in another castle."
-Toad
that's hilarious i can't beleive i never thought of that ;D
"Tis better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6"
-Not sure, referenced by Les Stroud
"Pedantic, I?"
- Alexei Sayle
:D
"Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular."
-Don't remember
"You don't kill time, time kills you."
"Grammar is important. Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse & helping your uncle jack off a horse."
Quote from: ericj on October 12, 2010, 06:02:07 pm
"Grammar is important.
PRIVATE
NO TRESPASSING ALLOWED
PRIVATE?
NO. TRESPASSING ALLOWED
I remember this example from one of my elementary school books:
"Watch the elephant eat Martha."
"Watch the elephant eat, Martha."
"salad is not food. salad is what food eats.", "Dear icebergs, im sorry to hear about the whole global warming thing, but you know what they say, karmas a bitch. your friend- the titanic
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." - Stalin
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a
boot stamping on a human face--forever."
Thought this could use some 1984.
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past.
Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future.
Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now.
-Banter between three main characters from Jeph Jacques' webcomic "Questionable Content"
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
Quote from: ericj on November 15, 2010, 04:27:10 pm
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
Hahaha that's so funny.
Quote from: famiac on November 15, 2010, 04:51:01 pm
Quote from: ericj on November 15, 2010, 04:27:10 pm
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
Hahaha that's so funny.
Haha, yeah - we're so stupid! (http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/happy0195.gif)
Quote from: ericj on November 15, 2010, 04:27:10 pm
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
We call that
reliability ;)
Quote from: UglyJoe on November 15, 2010, 06:59:26 pm
We call that reliability ;)
Or, we call that
persistence. ;)
How dare you people question the american way!
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on November 15, 2010, 06:46:49 pm
Quote from: famiac on November 15, 2010, 04:51:01 pm
Quote from: ericj on November 15, 2010, 04:27:10 pm
"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
- Winston Churchill
Hahaha that's so funny.
Haha, yeah - we're so stupid! (http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/happy0195.gif)
Yeah, but no, most americans are, you of course, are obviously not as stupid as the average american. (unless im wrong xD) Anyway im not american but i can obviously tell between an american douchebag and a smart american. Stupid americans have no notion of the world around them, have no individualism, are practically slaves to their "go with the flow" idea of society, and they don't stand up for anything that doesn't or benefit them personally. They also deny some truths, exaggerate others and have no educated discussions and have no clue about politics. yes, such people exist. But there are people who have a clue and know about these things, most of the people on this forum know their stuff. (well, except marlon)
Anyway, there was my little rant. But overall america is good but just needs to get a clue. A lot of great things came from america. It needs a little less respect and praise from the people living in it, and a little more respect from the world outside of it.
There are stupid people in every country, in the US it seems we have more than most but that's just because we're the third most populous country in the world.
Quote from: famiac on November 15, 2010, 08:00:45 pm
most americans are [...] obviously not as stupid as the average american.
(http://www.websitegoodies.com/smilies/happy0195.gif)
He meant to say you weren't stupid. :P
No, read that again - it doesn't make sense.
How can most of a group of people be higher than the average of the same group of people?
Unless there are a smaller number of people who are completely on the bottom weighing the average down, I guess?
It was oddly phrased, but imagine if he wrote:
Quote from: famiac on November 15, 2010, 08:00:45 pm
Yeah, but no, most americans are, you of course, are obviously not as stupid as the average american. (unless im wrong xD)
Like this:
Most Americans are stupid, but obviously you aren't...unless I'm wrong. xD
Quote from: son_ov_hades on November 16, 2010, 08:53:46 am
There are stupid people in every country, in the US it seems we have more than most but that's just because we're the third most populous country in the world.
I agree with you completely. I just seem to notice more here.
"money....sex....money....sex....cat" edward cullen
If you can't admit when you're wrong, you can't tell the truth.
-unsure
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
-Hunter S. Thompson
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
"nothing is good or bad - it's just that thinking makes it so"
- William Shakespeare
ALSO!
"The internet - where men are men, women are men, and children are the FBI"
- unknown
"if you want to be heard, make some noise" -Malcom X
"My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!" -Bill Clinton