What's your favorite quotation?
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Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumkins "The sights you see when you haven't got a gun" - usually directed at particularly unattractive women in very short skirts and too much make-up.
"What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood" - meaning you are what your family makes you.
Both attributable to my great granny, a rosy-cheeked, eighty a day smoker who loved tripe and gin and still made it 89 before she popped her clogs.
And she always wore a diamond brooch on her pinny - class.
"What's bred in the bone comes out in the blood" - meaning you are what your family makes you.
Both attributable to my great granny, a rosy-cheeked, eighty a day smoker who loved tripe and gin and still made it 89 before she popped her clogs.
And she always wore a diamond brooch on her pinny - class.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz
"They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning." Billie Holliday
"Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive." Robert M. Pirsig / Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"I've been in more laps than a napkin."
"A hard man is good to find." Mae West
"God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams , commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this." Peter Sellers
"They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning." Billie Holliday
"Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive." Robert M. Pirsig / Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"I've been in more laps than a napkin."
"A hard man is good to find." Mae West
"God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams , commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this." Peter Sellers
k like you're on camera!Alan Greenspan (chairman of the US federal reserve)
in response to a debate on the economy with a US senator.
"I know you beleive you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise what you heard is not what I meant".
This tends to stop conversations dead, so I have taught this to my 10 year old nephew as a way of getting him out of trouble.
in response to a debate on the economy with a US senator.
"I know you beleive you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise what you heard is not what I meant".
This tends to stop conversations dead, so I have taught this to my 10 year old nephew as a way of getting him out of trouble.
mybrainhurts said:
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
Abraham Lincoln
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
"By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like.
I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like."
Lord Salisbury
"When People fear the Government, it's tyranny. When the government fears the people, it's liberty."
Benjamin Franklin
Should be branded onto the foreheads of all Scamera partners and operatives.......
"It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses"
Elwood Blues
"Hit It!"
Jake Blues
Elwood Blues
"Hit It!"
Jake Blues
"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation." A book I have but can't remember the name of
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them. Unreasonable men expect the world to adapt to them. Therefore, all progress is made by unreasonable men." Unknown
"Let's salute the crazy ones, the rebels, the ones who see things differently. We can disagree with them, the only thing we can't do is ignore them, because the ones who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do." Unknown
"The great follow not where others have led but where others fear to tread." Me
"A compromise is merely defeat you're obliged to smile about." Unknown
"Second place if the first loser." Unknown
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them. Unreasonable men expect the world to adapt to them. Therefore, all progress is made by unreasonable men." Unknown
"Let's salute the crazy ones, the rebels, the ones who see things differently. We can disagree with them, the only thing we can't do is ignore them, because the ones who are crazy enough to believe they can change the world are the ones who do." Unknown
"The great follow not where others have led but where others fear to tread." Me
"A compromise is merely defeat you're obliged to smile about." Unknown
"Second place if the first loser." Unknown
"They say Jesus loves me. And I can just about deal with that. I've had stranger relationships, the one with my father for example.
But this God character. Him I have a *real* problem with. I just feel he should keep his eyes on the road more often"
Michael Marshall Smith - "Spares"
Great book. Buy it now.
But this God character. Him I have a *real* problem with. I just feel he should keep his eyes on the road more often"
Michael Marshall Smith - "Spares"
Great book. Buy it now.
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