Favorite Quotes

[Pyrotex]

If after twenty minutes at the poker table, you still don't know who the sucker is -- it's probably you. :)

 

anony mouse

[Buffy]

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

 

Bully! :doh:

Buffy

[Turtle]

The sharper the edge, the quicker it dulls.

- Beatrix Terranna Goodone -

[Turtle]

A false alarm trumps no alarm.

- Beatrix Terranna Goodwon -

[DougF]

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994

 

 

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963

[Turtle]

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. -Unattested :hihi:

[Boerseun]

"Don't touch that!"

- Every mother on Earth, in their respective tongues, repeatedly.

[Turtle]

The newest thing you have learned took you your whole life. - Roger Thelonious George

[Turtle]

As a general rule, don't exaggerate anything by more than 1/3. ~Beatrix Teranna Goodwon

[Buffy]

"I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."

 

-- Franny Glass in J.D. Salinger's "Franny and Zooey"

[Michaelangelica]

"I am an Alzheimer's agnostic.

I don't remember whether I don't believe in any thing or not"

 

Eric Idle "The Greedy Bastard Diary"

[DougF]

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

[Turtle]

It is better, of course, to make bad music, than to make no music at all.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Queso]

"Music is my math teacher" - a fat drunk gnome

[Michaelangelica]

When the Nazis came for the communists,

I remained silent;

I was not a communist.

 

When they locked up the social democrats,

I remained silent;

I was not a social democrat.

 

When they came for the trade unionists,

I did not speak out;

I was not a trade unionist.

 

When they came for the Jews,

I remained silent;

I wasn't a Jew.

 

When they came for me,

there was no one left to speak out.

 

Wiki Variations:-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

[Michaelangelica]

Definition of an expert

"An expert, in any field, is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."

Buffy

 

BTW

Can you buy the scripts of Buffy TVS? There would be some great quotes in there

[Buffy]

Definition of an expert

"An expert, in any field, is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared."

Buffy

That quote had Buffy's Asterisk ( :phones: ) on it, so I take no credit for it but left it as an exercise for the reader to find its source. In this case its by one of my heroes, P.J. Plaugher, co-author with Brian Kernighan of "Elements of Programming Style" one of the best programming books ever written.

Can you buy the scripts of Buffy TVS? There would be some great quotes in there

No, but the DVDs are closed captioned! :evil:

 

Anyone who's not having fun yet... follow me, :evil: (well, actually, Buffy)

Buffy