Favorite quotes

[Blue Protoman]

Oh.  'Cause I remember a spam thread...

[ericj]

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

[son_ov_hades]

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves" 

-Henry Kissenger

No wonder people hate us.

[JC]

"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.

[manuel]

"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.

[UglyJoe]

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

[ericj]

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

-Abraham Maslow

[LocalToast]

"I take it you like Spaghetti-O's?"

- Elijah Wood, Flipper (1996)

[Blue Protoman]

"That son of a bitch took my pants!"
-Some homeless guy, Terminator 1

[manuel]

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson


This sounds so damn nice.

[Har the cat]

consider waiting as a moment of peace

har the cat 

[Rogles]

From a member of another forum I visit. If you've read 1984, this will kind of amuse you.

War 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

[nintendodork]

"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

[JC]

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.

[Blue Protoman]

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