OT - quotes

[Cyrien]

"Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!"

Captain James Lawrence after being mortally wounded.

"Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead!"

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (actually they were mines, but the jargon of the time.)

[Baron Munchausen]

Hey, I collect quotes. Got some honking big text files full of them. Here are some samples:

Politicians:

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin Franklin

"You don't have to explain what you never said." -- Calvin Coolidge

"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong." -- Morris Udall

"The jawbone of an *** is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Samson's time." -- Richard Nixon

"Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy." -- Richard Nixon

Scientists:

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." -- Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than intelligence." -- Albert Einstein

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan

Writers and comedians:

"Biography lends to death a new terror." -- Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple." -- Oscar Wilde

"The report of my death was an exaggeration." -- Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." -- Mark Twain

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?" -- Steven Wright

"What's another word for Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright

"On the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, and so on... conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than Man for precisely the same reasons." -- Douglas Adams

"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

Celebrities:

"I don't like to share my personal life... it wouldn't be personal if I shared it." -- George Clooney

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." -- Madonna

"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it." -- Mae West

Movie and TV quotes:

"Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim." -- Captain Kirk, Star Trek

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are. -- Repo Man

"When someone asks if you're a god, say YES!" -- Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson) in Ghostbusters

"Everyone interesting is somehow mad." -- Dr. Who

And some anonymous goodies:

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ...

Heisenberg might have been here.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.

Women and cats do as they please. Men and dogs will just have to live with it.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

You go YAHWEH and I'll go mine. -- Bumper sticker

-- Yeesh... I'll be cutting & pasting all night if I don't just arbitrarily stop.

[Spoo]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

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Assume you have a 1kg squirrel
E=mc^2
E=1kg(3x10^8m/s)^2=9x10^16J
which, if I'm not mistaken, is equivilent to roughly a 50 megaton nuclear bomb.
Fear the squirrel.

[tesco samoa]

Man this topic was written for someone else ( who I will not mention )

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

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Inter arma silent leges

[Coal]

'I am what I am.' Popeye

'If at first you don't succede, hit what you're working on with a hammer.' Me and several others.

'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you over estimate their chances.' Grand Moff Tarkin.

Wish I could remember more, but it's late and I'm tired.

Edit- It's spelled Grand, not Gramd.
2nd Edit- Read Hotfoot's post. And Im a Star Wars junkie. Thanks.
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'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?'
Grand Moff Tarkin, just before the Death Star blew.

We are Dyslexia of Borg, futility is resistant, your *** will be laminated.

[This message has been edited by Maverick (edited 04 October 2001).]

[Puke]

"One more such victory and we are lost"
-Phyrrhus, on beating the Romans at the Battle of the Asculum

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness. "
-Seneca, Moral Essays

"Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is. "
-Catullus, c 87-54BC, Odes; Puke, right now.

"The mind is its own place, and in its self can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven."
-John Milton, Paradise Lost

I'd quote Orgasmatron by Motorhead, or at least link to the lyrics, but I think Tesco Samoa would have my head if I started in on songs too

[Hotfoot]

quote:

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Originally posted by Maverick:
'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you over estimate these rebels.' Grand Moff Tarkin.Edit- It's spelled Grand, not Gramd.

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Nitpick edit: "Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you over estimate their chances."

Sorry, having that sound file on my hard drive, I couldn't help but offer that information.

-Hotfoot
"You may fire when ready."

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