User:The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome/quotes
General[edit]
It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
— Rear Admiral "Amazing Grace" Hopper, USN
I lead because you choose to follow, not because I know where I'm going.
A day without laughter is a wasted day.
Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.
If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
— Paul Kantner, co-founder of Jefferson Airplane
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
— Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, USN
Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
— Twelfth Night, or What You Will, ACT 5, SC. 1
Nuts!
Some people make things happen, others watch things happen, while the rest wonder WTF has happened.
— Anon.
You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
Wikipedia is for people who want to know stuff and share the stuff they know with people who know stuff that they don't.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
We tried to stop her by hitting her fists and feet with our faces, but …
We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it.
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Mister Hunter. I've made a decision. I'm Captain of this boat. NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!
— Captain Frank Ramsey, USN, Crimson Tide
Believe me, woman, if I could walk on water, I'd carry you out into the middle of a lake and hold your head under water until the bubbles stopped!
Off throne … he's off throne! That can't be good.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
Humpty Dumpty hired an attorney and settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money and ownership of the wall.— Dot
Pinky and the Brain[edit]
Pinky: OK, Brain, but how will I recognize Moses?
Brain: He's a tall man with a long, white beard and a staff.
Pinky: Is it a large staff, or just a publicist and a Girl Friday?
- …
Pinky: Gee, Brain, are we going to push the corner of the envelope?
Brain: No, Pinky, but we may get as far as the sticky stuff near the edge.
- …
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so, Brain, but if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, then why does he keep doing it?
SciFi quotes[edit]
Babylon 5[edit]
Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry
- …
I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!
- …
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would like to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. (He wiggles his fingers like a small child.) Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?
Space: Above and Beyond[edit]
Priest: Colonel! Colonel McQueen! Do you need to make peace with your maker?
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. What do I need to make peace with him for?
Priest: In times of war we must all make peace with our maker.
Lt. Col. "T. C." McQueen: Well, I don't think our maker wants to hear from me right now, because He knows I'm going to go out in this plane, and I'm going to remove one of His creations from His universe. And when I get back, I'm going to drink a bottle of scotch as if it was Chiggy Von Richtofen's blood and celebrate his death.
Priest: (visibly shaken) Amen.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[edit]
There is a theory that states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable.
There is another which states that this has already happened.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Outside the box is where I live, sir!
Fear leads to anger ... anger leads to hate ... hate leads to suffering.
— Yoda
If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skin into their clothes … and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I am all out of bubble gum.
— John Nada , They Live
It is a good day to die!
— Worf
Humans are so backward that they still call their home planet, "Dirt."
— (I still have to research this one)
from Apocalypse Now (1979)[edit]
[Kilgore calls for his personal surfboard to be dropped at the LZ]
Signalman: What about Charlie?
Kilgore: Charlie don't surf!
- …
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.
[kneels]
Kilgore: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
[Kilgore unhappily walks off]
from The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)[edit]
Mitch Henessey: What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?
- …
Mitch: The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.
- …
Nathan: Alice, please. Your dog, Alice. It and my appetite are mutually exclusive.
Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog?
Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention. I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge is either gone for good, or there to stay. Wouldn't you agree?
- …
Mitch: How did you find us?
Nathan: There may be many reasons not to kill you, but among them is not that you'll be missed by NASA. I found the address in your coat. Here. Between the address of a topless bar, and the picture of what looks like a man's penis.
Mitch: That's a duck, not a dick.
The Five Stages of Acquisition[edit]
The only value of a collectible is what you can get somebody else to pay for it.
— 101st Rule of Acquisition
In addition to the 285 Rules, Ferengi recognize five Stages of Acquisition:
- Infatuation : An unreasoning love or attraction. — "I want it."
- Justification : Moral excuse used to explain. — "I must have it!"
- Appropriation : To take to one's self in exclusion of others. — "IT'S MINE AT LAST!"
- Obsession : A compulsive or irrational preoccupation. — "Precious!"
- Resale : The action of selling something previously bought. — "Make me an offer for it."
This teaches us that all Good Things must inevitably come to an end … no matter how much you want something, or what it costs you to posses it, there will come a day that you are willing to part with it … for a profit, of course … so, enjoy the Fourth Stage while it lasts. ;-)
Your goals should be to make your Obsession (ownership) stage last longer than the first three stages combined, or to get at least twice what you paid for it … and always remember:
NRFB! : Never Remove From Box!
Happy Editing! — 72.75.110.142 (talk) 00:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)