Great quotes...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m never alone
I’m alone all the time.
Bush- Glycerine
but if you’ve got enough naivite,
and you’ve got conviction,
then the answer is perfect for you
Bad Religion-The Answer

Mumbling truth, truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold… You push it, stretch it, it will never be enough, you kick at it, beat it, it will never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.
Todd - "Dead Poet’s Society

plus the quotes in my sig…

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“The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.” -Tom Waits

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“It was 8 O’clock in the morning, a time when the drinkers of the world were either trying to forget who they were, or remember where they lived” - Terry Pratchett

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:smiley: “My cat’s breath smells like cat food”
Ralph Wiggum

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“I like my coffee black, LIKE MY MEN” -A little girl (who looked about 10ish) from Airplane

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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon - Jerry Olson

Meddle not in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger…
-Lord of the Rings
-J.R.R. Tolken

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,

That myth is more potent than history.

I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts

That hope always triumphs over experience

That laughter is the only cure for grief,

And I believe that love is stronger than death."

  (Robert Fulghum - Storyteller's Creed)

“What I look forward to is constant immaturity, followed by death.”

– Dave Barry

I think about this one in my life as a scientist,

“I have no doubt that you could augment an earwig to the point where it understood nuclear physics, but it doesn’t change the fact it would be a stupid thing to do!”

-- Doctor Who, Patrick Troughton

“Impossible? Huh, that means it will take 53 seconds.”

-- Doctor Who, Tom Baker

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

– Mark Twain

“When someone asks if you’re a god, say YES!”

– Ghostbusters

“Never deprive a person of hope. It may be all they have.”

– Unknown

“Are you listening or waiting for your turn to talk?”

– Motto of Contact, a crisis phone line

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“All good things are yours if you
Fear less, hope more
Eat less, chew more
Whine less, breathe more
Talk less, say more
Hate less, Love more”
-Sweedish Proverb

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I actually have a webpage of my favorite quotes:
http://www.memes.com/~tlweiner/manyq.htm

But here are some excerpts:

“Rats are gifted with charm, imagination, and generosity.” -U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, TD 8.31:Z7/ENG./CHINESE

“They can’t break you if you don’t have a spine.” -Scott Adams (Wally, of course)

“Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” -Umberto Eco

“‘She believes things’ he said, ‘that a mud turtle would blush to believe.’” -H. Allen Smith

“A lying man produces more plausible excuses.” -Dave Gordon

“The best thing I can say about my generation is that at least it isn’t burdening its children with a tough act to follow.” -Andrew Ward

“Whatever this stuff was, it sure is sauerkraut by now.” -Peter and Lou Berryman

“Here I was, swimming in paperwork with my hands tied, and out on the street were jerks on parade: unassuming, pleasant, perfectly normal people except that they had an extra bone in their head and less moral sense than God gave badgers.” -Garrison Keiller, “The Current Crisis in Remorse”

“You can’t fix stupid.” -saying of the St. Louis Fire Department

“So many people know the answers before they know the questions.” -Judge Thomas Burke, “the man who built Seattle.”

"Any man can learn to learn from the wise, once he can find them, but learn to learn from a fool and the whole world’s your faculty. -John Ciardi

“To our friends, the good guys. And to our enemies, the bad guys. And to the hope that someday we’ll be able to tell which are which.” -Keith Laumer (slightly edited)"

“If the bad guys don’t get you, baby, then the good guys will.” -Buffe Saint-Marie

“Truth is very scarce in official documents. It is not expected by the public, and it would be utterly thrown away upon Congress.” -J. Ross Browne, U.S. Treasury official, 1858

“You can’t win the human race.” -Mike Marker

“State troopers will go on driving Fury IIs until some car company puts out a car called Kill.” -Donald E. Westlake

“Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn’t have to put them in prisons?” -Fran Lebowitz

“Life really does go on whether you’re enjoying it or not.” -Kendall Morse

“I don’t have time to read nonfiction.” -W.P. Kinsella

“A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.” -Henry Fielding

“If singing the blues is some kind of gift, next time I’d rather have a toaster.” -Bob Snider, “Ordinary Day”

“It must just be some local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise alone at night through shark-infested waters.” -William Goldman

“It is the nature of emergencies to be inconvenient.” -Terri Weiner

“I didn’t go immediately, of course, as I hadn’t made up enough reasons.” -Don Berry

“It’s extremely unlucky to be superstitious, for no other reason than it is always unlucky to be colossally stupid.” -Stephen Fry

“Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest of materials.” -Gerald White Johnson

“If you will only consent to being saved by an angel, you may have a long time to wait.” -Marc Edmunson

“Every time I ask someone for the moon, it gets larger and farther away.” -James Thurber, Many Moons

“Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.” -Ani DiFranco

“Computers are useless, they can only give you answers.” -Pablo Picasso

“All these clocks and no time.” -Jeanette Winterson

“First things first, but not necessarily in that order.” -The Doctor (British version)

“Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attraction as that from which they draw their gains.” -Thomas Jefferson

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within.” -Leonard Cohen

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” -Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In A Boat

“I’m perfectly capable of wasting my own time – I no longer allow others to do it for me.” -Mitchell Fox

And one from Oscar Wilde I don’t have in my file, so I may have the wording wrong:

“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”

Plus my sigfie, natch.

Folkie

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is
dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

–Thomas Edison

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Since Heinlein’s been done already, here’s on of my other favorites:

“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self-Reliance”

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Love? Do I love? I walk
Within the brilliance of another’s thought,
As in a glory. I was dark before,
As Venus’ chapel in the black of night:
But there was something holy in the darkness,
Softer and not so thick as other where;
And as rich moonlight may be to the blind,
Unconsciously consoling.

–Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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“Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common busy afire with God, but only he who sees takes off his shoes” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And see my sig line

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some favourites…

“The secret to a long life is knowing when it’s time to go” - Michelle Shocked, Secret to a Long Life

“Time is a great deadener. People forget, get bored, grow old, go away.” - Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.” - The English Patient

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When you’re feeling ugly, beauty’s only a lightswitch away.

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“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
Earl Weaver, manager emeritus, Baltimore Orioles

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“In order to defeat your enemy, you must first understand your enemy”

— Sun Tzu

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Ok, thought of 1 more

“Does it hurt when you do that? Don’t do that.”

– My mom

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from some bumperstickers:

Jesus protect me from Your followers.

Getting even is a moral imperative.
And from a science fiction author (I think it was Niven):

Sure I’m prejudiced; none of my close friends are idiots.