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I caught myself saying this one today :P
Spelling is for noobs, unfortunally they don't know how to spell either....
One I use - especially at work is....
"You can't polish a turd but you can paint it gold"
I use this alot: "hard tellin', not knowin'". Excellent answer to any question. While the asker is thinking about that reply, you have time to walk away. My wife no longer accepts that answer, though.
As for it being a quote, I don't know it's origin. Picked it up from an old boss of mine, "JP" aka "Johnny Rotten".
"It always turns out how it ends up"
"Life is measured in belly laughs."
"Pay it forward."
I have two:
One from Kurt Vonnegut. In the introduction to Mother Night he writes, 'This is the only novel I have written in which I knew the moral before I finished it - You are what you pretend to be - So, be careful what you pretend to be."
The second cannot be invoked unless you know Sartre & Camus and have left forty well behind. It is from my favorite existential, R. Crumb's Mr. Natural, who when asked, "What do it all mean, Mr Natural?", responds from the depth of his psyche. "It don't mean shit."
...slugthog
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"It is not necessary to hope in order to persevere."
o Wm of Orange
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"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
"... TV!!!! TV TV TV TV TV TV TV TV TV TV TV *slurp*....! Television tastes funny......... Im on a commercial. MY COMMERCIAL!! I LIKE MY COMMERCIAL!!"
EDIT: I use this 1 to calm me down.
Who says I can't be 12 and faster than all of you?
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"There is a difference between knowing the path, and walking the path" Morpheus
"Some people think Great God will come down from the sky,
Take away everything and make everybody feel high.
But if you know what Life is worth, you will look for Yours on Earth.
So now that you see the Light, Stand Up for your Right! Ja!"
-Bob Marley
Now what we got here is a failure to communicate.
—Cool Hand Luke
The other quote I live by is:
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to be on my toes.
—Leslie Nielson
OK, one more:
He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the crap that gets carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, but especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it.
—Rufus,
Dogma
Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to be on my toes.
Invite a retard to a picnic and you'd better expect to get drool in the potato salad.
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I got some serenity quotes, here, so I will just say them in bulk:
"There's no place that I can be since I found serenity"
"Mercy is the mark of a great man...
::STAB::
Guess I'm just a good man..."
"Pardon my rudeness, I cannot abide useless people"
"I aim to misbehave"
YAY SERENITY!
Pardon my rudeness, I cannot abide useless people.
What goes around comes around.
EDIT:
Oh and my mom's and sis's quote, which they call the family motto:
"Shut up Joey!"
Heh, oh and my middle names Joseph, and it does irratate the hell outta me when I'm called that.
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^ shouldn't have told that last part....
One I got from my high school metalshop teacher:
"Why is there never time to do it right, but always time to do it over?"
Usually said with a tone of great irritation, too.
It doesn't matter what you believe, what matters is what is right.
-Ryan Dobson
Pray to GOD for him to reveal himself to you.
How about?...
"you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake"
"you are the same decaying organic matter as everything else"
"save the world; kill yourself"
Or mebbe...
"bikes + punkrock = freedom"
"carsRcoffins"
Just a few taken at random from 'the sketchbook'.
This was my "Senior Quote" for our school's yearbook :)
"I reject your reality and substitute my own! " ~ Adam Savage Mythbusters
"There is no spoon." - Spoon Boy
"You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind." - Morpheus
"Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the f***." "What the f***" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." - Miles
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"Anything is possible if you believe." ;)
Or
"What would Jesus do?"
^^ because I'm right I'm happy.
Pray to GOD for him to reveal himself to you.
"Stupid is as stupid does"
-My wife
"Please take your homework out, we've got alot to talk about. This is not the time to scream or shout, or let your real feelings out."
-NEVA's Former Gemometry Teacher
"Get out of my life!"
-My wife. XD
Heh... Hey NEVA, thanks for the line. I'll start using it next year in class. XD
How about "If you're word's no good, then you're no good." (Dear ol' dad)
"I could be dead like Ed." -Me
^Refers to beloved cousin Ed who died in December. It reminds me to appreciate life when I start to cop a negative attitude.
@Squidders
I don't know how many times the turd-polishing one has come up when my band was in the studio mixing & we got tired of listening to ourselves XD
“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” Johnny Cash
"Be mindful of the future, but not at the expense of the present." -??
"You can either play, or watch from the stands. But I can guarantee you no player has ever wished he was watching from the stands." - Old baseball coach
"Some people do, the rest just talk about it." - Father
"Don't put that stick there." -Mother
"Don't tell my husband about us." - 44's wife
"Don't tell my wife about us." - 44
"Search for the real you." - Therapist
"when man found a mirror, he began to lose his soul"
-I cant remember
"time is a companion, who goes with us on our journey and reminds us to cherish the moments of our lives, because they will never come again"
-patrick stewart
"beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
-im too lazy to google it
"when there is crime in society, there is no justice"
-plato
"its been a great year, how time does fly. To you and your family, I hope you all die"
-dice
"as soon as a trace of love is in sight, the morning sun will vanquish the horrible night"
-bolo (I stole the last part from castlevania 2 but I was drunk and it got me laid)
B
"Don't give up, Don't ever give up." Jimmy Valvano.
"We didn't lose! We just ran out of time!" -Vince Lombardi ;)
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
"If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure." -Dan Quayle
Anything with -Oscar Wilde on <insert subject here> at the end of a sentence makes anything sound like a famous quote. :P
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Here's an Oscar Wilde quote that applies to some people on this board... ;)
"The only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about" - Oscar Wilde
I have 3
1. Never atribute malice to anything that can be explained by pure stupidity. -Me
2. There never be two Republicans in the presidential seat (President and VP) because two rights make a left.- Me
3. Get back here! (Do they actually expect hinm to drop what he's doing and say "O.K.")
"If God can be for us, who can be against us?"
-Paul 8:32
- "Aim for the moon even if you miss you will land among the stars."
LOL! This one always cracks me up.
HEAR! HEAR!
- “One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.”
E. M. Forster, writer
- “Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path to joy.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
- “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth … not going all the way, and not starting.”
Prince Gautama Siddharta, spiritual leader
- "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Mahfouz, Naguib
- "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
- Helen Keller
- "Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"
Mother Teresa
- "The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."
William Jennings Bryan
When you have a descion to make or a situation to deal with
- "Just f*cking do it."
Simple, but genious.
No more this time!
So long!
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
If life gives you lemons, toss 'em right back and add some lemons of your own.
Change your nutrition, change your life.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Potatoes, pototoes, tomatoes, tomotoes, the only difference is the second one was said by a british guy who was to lazy to say tomatoes, and not tomotoes
-Unknown
Heres another
" You cant strike out until you swing!"
-The Great Banbino ( George "Babe" Ruth )
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
-You're sitting in it now.
Gary Larson
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Sure this has been done before. (or something similair)
When you have a descion to make or a situation to deal with, Do you have some quotes or saying that you go by or help you? The ones I find myself repeating most often are "all men die, few really live", yes, from Braveheart. The other is a take off of, do onto others as you would have done onto you, or "what comes around, goes around- Round and round". A song from Ratt actually.
Yours?