# Famous Quotes...From an Alternate Universe **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 9, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394 "2017-10-09T16:39:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/1 "2017-10-09T16:39:00Z")
This is where you post things famous people might have said…but never got around to actually saying. Try to make it as much in the style of the person you are “quoting” as is possible. “Everything I know I learned from observing others, and taking drugs, and observing others taking drugs.” -Hunter Thompson ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/2 "2017-10-09T17:02:26Z")
“Now I am become Death; The destroyer of Worlds … and Vodka Martinis.” - R.Oppenheimer “Nobody really understands Quantum Mechanics … or women.” - R. Feinman “This green smoothie tastes funny.” - Socrates “Out! Out damned spot!” - B. Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/3 "2017-10-09T17:06:13Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > “Now I am become Death; The destroyer of Worlds … and Vodka Martinis.” - R.Oppenheimer > > “Nobody really understands Quantum Mechanics … or women.” - R. Feinman > > “This green smoothie tastes funny.” - Socrates > > “Out! Out damned spot!” - B. Clinton Do you really think any of these could be mistaken for a real quote from these people? I’m not really asking for parody here-just “quotes” that people might believe are real if they didn’t know any better. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/4 "2017-10-09T17:12:12Z")
“it is bad taste to name a public work after a living man.” -FDR, private conversation at the Hoover (Boulder) Dam ceremony. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/5 "2017-10-09T17:12:16Z")
I always invite the missionaries in for a drink. ~Dorothy Parker ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/6 "2017-10-09T17:15:45Z")
Okay, I took liberties with the last two. The first two, I must defend. R.O. did enjoy a tipple or four at parties (I read his biography). R.F. did his share of womanizing and (in)famously tried his hand at being a pick-up artist. But I suppose you’d have to have read just enough about both, but not too much, to fit within your OP criteria. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/7 "2017-10-09T17:34:56Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I always invite the missionaries in for a drink. ~Dorothy Parker Outstanding! “Peafowl are a reflection of the soul.” -Flannery O’Connor ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/8 "2017-10-09T18:19:52Z")
“I don’t care _what_ I said, that ain’t what I said!” -Yogi Berra ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/9 "2017-10-09T20:40:59Z")
“That cherry tree was like that when I got here.” - George Washington ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/10 "2017-10-09T21:04:33Z")
“I am certainly not as popular as Jesus or religion, as a thing, I am not just saying it” John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/11 "2017-10-09T21:18:04Z")
“People of Korea, I have returned!”-General Douglas MacArthur. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/12 "2017-10-09T21:47:33Z")
From Minneapolis on the Mississippi to New Orleans on the Mississippi, an iron curtain has descended on the Eastern Conference of the NBA. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/13 "2017-10-09T22:56:37Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > From Minneapolis on the Mississippi to New Orleans on the Mississippi, an iron curtain has descended on the Eastern Conference of the NBA. Supposed quote from…? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/14 "2017-10-09T23:09:06Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Supposed quote from…? From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Irroooonnnn Curtain has descended on Europe. Churchill in a speech in Missouri iirc ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/15 "2017-10-10T00:01:46Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Irroooonnnn Curtain has descended on Europe. > > Churchill in a speech in Missouri iirc And Churchill would have said this because…? Please see post #3-I’m look for quotes that people might believe could have actually come from famous people, but didn’t. For example, see posts 5 and 6. I wouldn’t find it unusual if those quotes were real, because they seem like something those people would have said. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/16 "2017-10-10T00:31:58Z")
Follow your dreams, you can reach your goals, I’m living proof -Hitler ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/17 "2017-10-10T00:49:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And Churchill would have said this because…? Please see post #3-I’m look for quotes that people might believe could have actually come from famous people, but didn’t. For example, see posts 5 and 6. I wouldn’t find it unusual if those quotes were real, because they seem like something those people would have said. “And what am I, chopped liver?” -Golda Meir ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/18 "2017-10-10T01:06:43Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > “Nobody really understands Quantum Mechanics … or women.” - R. Feinman [sic] Yeah, **Czarcasm** , I can imagine that Feynman really might have said that, based on my reading of _Surely You’re Joking…_ . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/19 "2017-10-10T01:51:42Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Yeah, **Czarcasm** , I can imagine that Feynman really might have said that, based on my reading of _Surely You’re Joking…_ . I could see that one, but definitely not the Socrates or Clinton quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394/20 "2017-10-10T02:57:31Z")
“You can shoot the man having the idea, but never the idea itself”. Gandhi “Your gate is, indeed, stout. But I have an axe.” Harald Hardrada “I’d like my rifle back now.” Hugh Glass “Well, I wouldn’t do it again”. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca “It looked much like the rest of it. It was our presence which gave it meaning” Amundsen “A rich man has many friends, but remains rich by being friend to few” Shakespeare. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-quotes-from-an-alternate-universe/798394.md?page=2)