Favourite quotes
Discussion
"Rule number 1. Never lose money
Rule number 2. Never forget rule number one."
Warren Buffett.... Multi billionaire investor
"Football's not a matter of life or death. it's much more important than that."
Bill Shankly.
"If a player has a problem with me, my door is always open. We sit down for twenty minutes, talk things through and then decide I was right."
Brian Clough.
Rule number 2. Never forget rule number one."
Warren Buffett.... Multi billionaire investor
"Football's not a matter of life or death. it's much more important than that."
Bill Shankly.
"If a player has a problem with me, my door is always open. We sit down for twenty minutes, talk things through and then decide I was right."
Brian Clough.
Einion Yrth said:
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard P. Feynman
And what a great man for quotes he was Richard P. Feynman
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
A few from some good books I'v read recently.
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
- John Steinbeck, Winter of our Discontent
“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms”
- John Steinbeck, Winter of our Discontent
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
But the Gospels actually taught this:
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"Remembering’s dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. “The Past Tense,” I suppose you’d call it. Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss… the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit… you can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.”
- Alan Moore, The Killing Joke
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
- John Steinbeck, Winter of our Discontent
“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms”
- John Steinbeck, Winter of our Discontent
“There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.
But the Gospels actually taught this:
Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"Remembering’s dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place. “The Past Tense,” I suppose you’d call it. Memory’s so treacherous. One moment you’re lost in a carnival of delights, with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon of puberty, all that sentimental candy-floss… the next, it leads you somewhere you don’t want to go. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you’d hoped were forgotten. Memories can be vile, repulsive little brutes. Like children I suppose. But can we live without them? Memories are what our reason is based upon. If we can’t face them, we deny reason itself! Although, why not? We aren’t contractually tied down to rationality! There is no sanity clause! So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit… you can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away… forever.”
- Alan Moore, The Killing Joke
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
A few more Robert A Heinlein:
- "They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday."
- "Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again."
- "Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy."
- "I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else." - Richard Nixon, June 28, 1989
- "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." - Bill Vaughn
- "And I'm not homophobic, right? Come round, see my CD collection. There's Queen, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys. They're all bummers" - Gareth Keenan
Some favorite film quotes
I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore... or with anyone, really. I mean, they'll all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll have made themselves a part of something, and they can talk about what they do. And what am I going to say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?" - Martin Blank
You can't fight in here! This is the War Room! - President
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me! -Julius Caesar
BANANA!- Bob
I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore... or with anyone, really. I mean, they'll all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll have made themselves a part of something, and they can talk about what they do. And what am I going to say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?" - Martin Blank
You can't fight in here! This is the War Room! - President
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me! -Julius Caesar
BANANA!- Bob
bodhi said:
It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum.....and the only problem is, I'm all out of gum.
Duke Nukem, circa 1996.
Originally from here (with Roddy Piper):Duke Nukem, circa 1996.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKdHuyQpHY
I prefer Duke Nukem guys delivery.
What a terrible / great film that was.
I like the "truisms" of artist Jenny Holzer.
You may have seen some of them on the famous BMW art car (eg "Protect me from what i want")
https://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
You may have seen some of them on the famous BMW art car (eg "Protect me from what i want")
https://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html
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