Favourite Quote(s) and Why?

Porscha! · 03-05-2009, 02:54 PM

Someone just sent me some quotes in an email and I have a new favourite, who else has a favourite quote and why??

Mine - "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination": Oscar Wilde

Why - I have a great imagination (if I may say so myself

) certainly an ideas person, too much of an ideas person really and couldn't live within my means if I won the euro lotto! So, erm, it shall I say reflects my personality!

booforty · 03-05-2009, 02:55 PM

Carlos has come out with some classics over the years!

willhollin · 03-05-2009, 03:05 PM

"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the f*** do you think you're talkin' to?"

Because I am insecure.

beemerbird · 03-05-2009, 03:09 PM

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

Speedtrap · 03-05-2009, 03:12 PM

You having a laugh?

Snooky · 03-05-2009, 03:16 PM

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." Brian O'Driscoll (Irish Rugby Captain, 2009)

Why? Cos he was dared to get the phrase into the press conference before the 6 Nations mach v England by his team mates

ed335d · 03-05-2009, 03:22 PM

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered."

George Best

Speedtrap · 03-05-2009, 03:24 PM

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense"
- Winston Churchill

jjbirch · 03-05-2009, 03:29 PM

lifes like a box of chocolats you never know you what your going to get,
at the moment its cash lol

E902717 · 03-05-2009, 03:36 PM

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Sir Winston Churchill

E902717 · 03-05-2009, 03:38 PM

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Sir Winston Churchill

beemerbird · 03-05-2009, 03:48 PM

Helen love: "Life's a shit sandwich........the more bread you've got, the less shit you eat". One of many of my late fathers'.

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ed335d · 03-05-2009, 03:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beemerbird

Helen love: "Life's a shit sandwich........the more bread you've got, the less shit you eat". One of many of my late fathers'.

I guess that came with a Yorkshire accent? That is superb.

SiKkBaSs · 03-05-2009, 04:00 PM

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

eazydoezit · 03-05-2009, 04:03 PM

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis

beemerbird · 03-05-2009, 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ed335d

I guess that came with a Yorkshire accent? That is superb.

I suppose he did sound like a Northerner, but not that broad lol.

It's the West and South Yorks. lot that are broad 'tha knows.

Porscha! · 03-05-2009, 05:51 PM

Some really good ones

Helen - one of my friends is from Sheffield and I think she is very broad Yorkshire, "goin' t'cafe t'get a cuppa coffee"! I've read James Herriot and seen Heartbeat

North Yorkshire, they just seem to sound Newcastle to me but I'm seriously rubbish with accents, I don't understand Southerners, Northerners sometimes I can't even understand others from Derbyshire (some of them sound like Yorkshire accent I think!)

E92Fan · 03-05-2009, 05:54 PM

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)

"Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne!" (Winston Churchill, WWI)

Do, or do not. There's no 'try'.

When a thought crosses your mind, does it like what it sees?

Forgive your enemies, but do not forget their names

RCUK · 03-05-2009, 07:43 PM

Fictional
Homer 'you guys have been holding me back too long, im going to clown college'

Actual
Bob Marley 'Free yourself from mental slavery, non but ourselves can free our minds'

RockIt · 03-06-2009, 02:47 AM

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
S.A. Sachs

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
Artur Schnabel

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.
Groucho Marx

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett

- Paul - · 03-06-2009, 03:49 AM

"The grass is always greener on the other side until you get there and find some f***er has astroturfed it."

An old colleague.

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