Quotes that I like and stuff
Some of these quotes I agree with. Some I just like how they were said.
Some are just fun....
Note: These are in no particular order whatsoever.
- "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether
the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of
liberty or democracy?"
--Gandhi
- "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must
more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite
direction."
--Einstein
- "Importance is not an intrinsic quality of the universe."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
--Gandhi
- "I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust,
and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the
conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the
highest respect for the law."
--Martin Luther King
- "Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.
Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself.....
The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find,
the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine
will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
- "...to this Garden we were given, and always took for granted/ Well, it's like my
daddy told me: you just bloom where you're planted/ Now you long to be delivered
from this world of pain and strife/ That's a sorry substitution for a spiritual life."
--Don Henley, "They're Not Here, They're Not Coming"
- "An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
--Don Marquis
- "All your followers are blind/ Too much heaven on their minds."
--Jesus Christ Superstar
- "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
--Lord Acton
- Sally: I'd like the chef salad please with oil and vinegar on the side, and the apple pie a la mode.
Waitress: Chef and apple a la mode.
Sally: But I'd like the pie heated, and I don't want the ice cream on top. I want it on the side,
and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it. If not, then no ice cream, just whipped
cream, but only if it's real. If it's out of the can, then nothing.
Waitress: Not even the pie?
Sally: No, just the pie, but then not heated.
--When Harry Met Sally
- "We are like sheep without a shepherd/ We don't know how to be alone/
So we wander round this desert/ Wind up following the wrong gods home."
--The Eagles, "Learn To Be Still"
- "Are you nervous?"
"No."
"Good....my nervousness exists on several levels....."
-"The American President"
- "You call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye."
--The Eagles, "The Last Resort"
- "What religion are you?"
"You know, the one with all the well-meaning rules that don't work out in real life. Uh... Christianity."
--"The Simpsons"
- "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct
themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil
government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
--George Washington
- "Till we find a bridge across forever/ Till this grand illusion brings us home..."
--Glenn Frey, "Part of Me, Part of You"
- "Yeah..even now he sulks like Achilles in his tent.
Achilles?...It's the Iliad?...It's Homer?... Read a book!"
-- Handyism, One Ton's puppet trying to explain something
- "Hah...hah..hah...your Tick won't come! He's sulking in his tent like a guy from Chile..."
"You're making us look like jerks!...I told you, read a BOOK!"
-- Handyism
- "He wasn't looking for a notch on his bedpost/ A love to push and
pull and burst at the seams."
--Howard Jones, "Everlasting Love"
- "In the future, in case you're wondering, 'Crime. Boy, I don't know,' was when I
decided to kick your ass."
--The West Wing
- "No one could see/ Hanging within the balance/
Helpless me/ I only want help to hear me..."
--Amy Grant
- "The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since
only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason
that we...are God's debris."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
--Einstein
- "When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the
cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant
and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
--George Washington
- "One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be
defended against the heaviest odds."
--Gandhi
- "To alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
--Homer Simpson
- "Do we have some sort of condensed, Reader's Digest index of--well, all human knowledge?"
"We usually just use Margaret."
--"The West Wing"
- "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the
hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
--Gandhi
- "Every generation of humans believed it had all the answer it needed, except for a few mysteries they
assumed would be solved at any moment. And the all believed their ancestors were simple and deluded.
What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality?"
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "I poured it on and I poured it out/ I tried to show you just how much I care/
I'm tired of words and I'm too hoarse to shout/ But you've been cold to me
so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears."
--Meat Loaf
- "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "Cause I am just a man, who never understood I never had a thing to prove."
--Chicago, "Will You Still Love Me"
- "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
-Gandhi
- "It's right here, Ray....it's looking at me."
--Ghostbusters
- "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"
--John F. Kennedy
- "The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to the truth."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "The effect? I'll *tell* you what the effect is: it's pissing me off!!!"
--Ghostbusters
- "Oh, Jesus Tap-dancing Christ!"
--South Park
- "It was long ago and far away/ The world was younger than today/
And dreams were all they gave for free/ To ugly duckling girls like me."
--Janis Ian, "At Seventeen"
- "The reason I don't drink is that I like to know when I'm having a good time."
--Lady Astor
- "And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back to where all those people
and their homes had been. But she *did* look back, and I love her for that,
because it was so human. She was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
--Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "What we need...what this situation absolutely requires, is that a really
futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
"We're just the guys to do it!"
--Animal House
- "And so, may evil beware and may good dress warmly and eat lots of fresh vegetables."
--The Tick
- "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
--George Washington
- "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,
above all liberties."
--John Milton
- "All wars are crimes." --"The West Wing"
- "It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the
minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal,
no redemption, no refuge but treason."
--Lord Acton
- "He came out of there like a bat out of...that place where the devil lives."
--James Jones, UF football radio analyst,
apparently unsure whether he could say
'hell' on the radio
- "It's amazing. You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death."
--When Harry Met Sally
- "You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace/ Hate your next-door
neighbor, but don't forget to say grace."
--'Eve of Destruction', Barry Maguire
- "And how many times must the cannonballs fly before they are forever
banned?"
--'Blowin' In The Wind', Bob Dylan
- "Thought I knew what love was/ What did I know?"
--'The Boys of Summer', Don Henley
- "Oh, MY!!!" --Mick Hubert, frequently
- "...and it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's
Eve...I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the
rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start
as soon as possible."
--When Harry Met Sally
- "Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence
before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to
society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "Religion has no place in public schools the way facts have no place in organized religion."
--"The Simpsons"
- "I hate you more! If hate were people, I'd be *China*!"
--City Slickers
- "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
--Gandhi
- "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence
of our friends." --Martin Luther King
- "The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "My father never liked war toys. He thought war was the domain of the
small penis."
--Toys
- "Well, Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer."
"Except to all of America's problems..."
-The Simpsons
- "We're on a mission from God."
--The Blues Brothers
- "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
--John F. Kennedy
- "Let's just say we'd like to avoid any...Imperial entanglements."
"Well, that's the real trick, isn't it?"
--Star Wars
- "They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man that we
elected king..."
--Don Henley, 'The End of the Innocence'
- "Words. Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and
pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find
us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't."
--Jed Bartlet, "The West Wing"
- "At some level of consciousness, everyone knows that the odds of picking the true religion--if
such a thing exists--are nil."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "I don't think either of you is familiar with our problem..."
"Uh, I believe I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore
this particular problem until it swims up and bites you on the ass!"
--Jaws
- "Not all those that wander are lost."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter
cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices
but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
--Einstein
- "Rue the day? Who talks like that?"
--Real Genius
- "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it
to be always kept alive."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
--Martin Luther King
- "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
--Einstein
- "There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by
a galaxy of human brains."
--Scott Adams, "God's Debris"
- "Morality's lease has run out, and science has been given the keys to
the apartment." --The Tick
- "I look so tired, 'cause I don't get much sleep/ I've got too many commitments
that are too hard to keep/ And I try to be rational, and I try to be wise/
But it all gets blown to pieces when I look in her eyes."
--Billy Joel, 'Temptation'
- "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
--Einstein
- "Where do these stairs go?"
"They go up." --Ghostbusters
- "An eye for eye makes the whole world blind."
--Gandhi
- "Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
--John F. Kennedy
- "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
--Einstein
-
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
--Martin Luther King
- "I thought you said your mind was clear."
"It WAS clear....I mean, except for stuff."
--The Tick
- "Try to imagine all life as we know it ceasing instantaneously and every
molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light..."
"Okay, that's *bad*."
--Ghostbusters
- "I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form
of tyranny over the mind of man."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "Grandpa, you've led an interesting life..."
"That's a lie and you know it!"
--The Simpsons
- "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free
is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
--Lord Acton
- "I wasn't born yesterday."
"It's true...I had lunch with her yesterday...if she'd been born, I'd have
noticed."
--Moonlighting
- "The truest test of civilization, culture, and dignity is character, not clothing."
--Gandhi
- "I need something in the foreground to give it some scale."
"Foreground, my ass!" --Jaws
- "See what happens, I offer you a little bit of candor, and you use it like
a weapon to bludgeon me. There's a word for people like you...what is it?
Oh, yeah....*woman*"
--Dr. Jeffery Geiger, 'Chicago Hope'
- "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "There were 36 homicides last night. 480 sexual assaults. 3411 robberies. 3685 aggravated
assaults, all at gun point. And if anyone thinks those crimes could have been prevented if
the victims themselves had been carrying guns, I only remind you that the President of the
United States was shot last night while surrounded by the best trained armed guards in the
history of the world."
--C.J. Cregg, "The West Wing"
- "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints/ The sinners
are much more fun."
--Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young"
- "Go that way, really fast...if something gets in your way, turn."
--Better Off Dead
- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "Are you married or happy?"
--Moe Howard
- "One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that
in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the
reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat."
--Jimmy Carter
- "1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living
full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and
imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply
the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
--Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"
- "I hate Jello."
"Oh, c'mon, there's always room for Jello."
--Ghostbusters II
- "It *is* the rabbit!"
--Monty Python & the Holy Grail
- "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough."
--George Washington Carver
- "Flying a plane is like riding a bicycle...it's just a lot harder to put
baseball cards in the spokes."
--Airplane!
- "I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "The bitch set me up!" --Marion Barry
- "I submit that what took place on November 22, 1963, was a coup d'etat. It's
most immediate and tragic result was the reversal of President Kennedy's
commitment to withdraw from Viet Nam...."
--JFK
- "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."
-Janis Joplin
- "Right now, oil companies and old men are in control."
--Van Halen, from the video for 'Right Now'
- "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
- "Hi, my name is Arthur, and this is my diversion."
--The Tick
- "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Do you know why?"
"Because it's the only thing that ever has?"
--"The West Wing"
- "I'm gonna find myself a girl who can show me what laughter really means,
And we'll fill in the missing colors in each other's paint-by-number dreams."
--Jackson Browne, 'The Pretender'
- "Corso sucks! Corso sucks!"
--The crowd at the UF/FSU game, 1995
- "Arthur? I had a sidekick named Arthur...then he side-kicked me out of
the apartment." --The Tick
- "Excuse me while I whip this out."
--Blazing Saddles
- "The more photo-friendly of the two turkeys gets a Presidential pardon and a full
life at a children's petting zoo; the other one gets eaten."
"If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch."
--"The West Wing"
- "DOERING'S GOT A TOUCHDOWN! DOERING'S GOT A TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!"
--Mick Hubert, UF at Kentucky, 1993
- "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
--Einstein
- "Yeah, we just drove 700 miles with your food...and it occurred to us that
there wouldn't be world hunger if YOU PEOPLE WOULD LIVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!"
--Sam Kinison
- "I suggest a new strategy, Artoo: Let the Wookie win."
--Star Wars
- "I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change
another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words
that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "I hate Illinois Nazis." --The Blues Brothers
- "So you're saying that a man can be friends with a woman he finds
unattractive?"
"No, you pretty much want to nail them, too."
--When Harry Met Sally
- "This is not a boating accident."
--Jaws
- "*THIS* is CNN." --James Earl Jones
- "Your life is a do-over." --City Slickers
- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin
- "The opera ain't over till the last heterosexual falls asleep."
--Al Bundy
- "It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
--Einstein
- "There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the
long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
--John F. Kennedy
- "Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
--Thomas Jefferson
- "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."
--Lou Gehrig
- "...A time for peace, I swear it's not too late."
--The Byrds, 'Turn, Turn, Turn'
- "She's gone from suck to blow!"
--Spaceballs
- "Yes, it's true...this man has no dick."
--Ghostbusters
- "Oh, I forgot, you were sick the day they taught law in law school."
--A Few Good Men
- "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."
--George Washington
- "You ask me what I want/ You ask me what I need/ It's nothing you can buy/
My heart's not ruled by greed/ I don't love a diamond; diamonds you see
through/ I want you to hold me; I want you to be true."
--Bette Midler, 'Gift of Love'
- "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who we are."
--Jean-Luc Picard
- "If I gotta be damned, you know I wanna be damned dancing to the night with
you." --Meat Loaf
- "And we wonder, yes we wonder, how do you make sense of this/ When the hero
kills the maiden with his kiss..."
--David Crosby & Phil Collins, 'Hero'
- "Can't we all just get along?"
--Rodney King
- "Of course, you realize, *this* means war."
--Bugs Bunny
- "You want us young, innocent children to climb up dangerous scaffolding
and paint naked people in a church??? We'll do it!"
--Animaniacs
- "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
--Wargames
- "For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all
inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our
children's futures, and we are all mortal."
--John F. Kennedy
- "The scientist who places his mind in the service of brute force is the
longest-range murderer on earth."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
- "The theme of the Egg Hunt is 'learning is delightful and delicious' -- as, by the
way, am I."
--C.J. Cregg, "The West Wing"
- "Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even yesterday.
But once! Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our us-ness, that we
parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope! And you've got to
get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an interception!"
--The Tick
- "Keep your distance though, Chewie, but don't *look* like you're trying
to keep your distance."
"GROWR???"
"I don't know.....fly casual."
--Return of the Jedi
- "Sometimes I wonder, why are we so blind to fate/ Without compassion, there can
be no end to hate/ No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears/ Why
can't we learn from all we've been through, after two thousand years"
--Billy Joel, 'Two Thousand Years'
- "Not BUCK Murdock?"
"No, Buck MURdock!" --Airplane II
- "Ray, when someone asks if you're a god, you say 'YES'!"
--Ghostbusters
- "So I bid you pleasure, and I bid you cheer, from a heathen and a pagan on the side
of the rebel Jesus."
--Jackson Browne
- "There are BIG SIGNS. You CAN'T park there! They *should* get towed! I hope they get
towed to Queens, and the Tri-borough is closed, and there's a big craft show at Shea,
a flea market or a TRACTOR SHOW!"[Bartlett hangs up.]
"Well, that was probably his secretary."
-"The West Wing"
- "Every night I say a prayer, in the hopes that there's a heaven/ And every day
I'm more confused, as the saints turn into sinners."
--Styx, 'Show Me The Way'
- "Once I rose above the noise and confusion/ Just to get a glimpse beyond this
illusion/ I was soaring ever higher/ But I flew too high."
--Kansas, 'Carry On Wayward Son'
- "When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot
be too conservative." --Martin Luther King
- "He can't do that to our pledges."
"Only *we* can do that to our pledges."
--Animal House
- "The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."
--John F. Kennedy
- "The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is for war. The
authority of the state over its people resides in its war powers."
--JFK
- "I am not saying that people cannot enjoy the opera; I am saying that
these people are wrong."
--Dave Barry
- "Kill the lawyer!!!" --Hook
- "And I'm still scared to meet him, but I'll overcome that to erase the humiliation
that I have brought upon myself and my father."
"You're just in your own little Euripides play over there, aren't you?"
-"The West Wing"
- "You made a woman *meow*?" --When Harry Met Sally
- "Sometimes, Number One, you just have to bow to the absurd."
--Jean Luc Picard
- "Yeah, Billy, old boy, lemme try to explain women to you: First, after puberty,
their tear ducts switch to manual and connect to 150-quart holding tanks in
their hips. They shoot guilt rays at men through hidden transmitters,
possibly in the bosom...When they hug in public, they exchange messages with
secret code words like 'pesto' and 'pms', which has been decoded to mean
'Pummel Men with Snippiness'. This is triggered by the tides...All part of
a conspiracy to turn men into whimpering house eunuchs.......Unless you have
a better explanation."
--Opus, 'Outland'
- "Use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues brothers has
been approved."
--The Blues Brothers
- "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men."
--Martin Luther King
- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King
- "Masquerading as a man with a reason/ My charade is the event of the season/
And if I claim to be a wise man/ It surely means that I don't know."
--Kansas
- Mallory: "Don't play dumb with me."
Sam Seaborn: "No, honestly, I am dumb. Most of the time I'm playing smart."
--"The West Wing"
- "Over? Did you say 'Over'? *Nothing* is over until we decide it is! Was it
over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!"
"Germans?"
"Forget it...he's rolling."
--Animal House
- "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when
we created them."
--Einstein