# The coolest quote you know. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857 "2002-04-04T20:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrAndrewV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@MrAndrewV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAndrewV)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/1 "2002-04-04T20:54:32Z")
Whats the coolest quotation you know? I personally like: “There’s more to living than only surviving, Maybe I’m not there but I’m still trying.” -The Offspring. So hit me with your favs but remember: it only counts if you can tell us who said it. ---
**Author:** ![WavyDavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3da27b/32.png) [@WavyDavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WavyDavy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/2 "2002-04-04T21:02:01Z")
‘Round up the usual suspects’ - Claude Reins in Casablanca. ---
**Author:** ![Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yo\_La\_Tengo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yo_La_Tengo)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/3 "2002-04-04T21:52:26Z")
Got one: “What would you do with just one more hour? Live that hour out everyday like it was your last. You’ll live much better that way.” - From “Date with Destiny” by Pennywise ---
**Author:** ![RaCha\_ar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@RaCha\_ar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaCha_ar)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/4 "2002-04-04T21:56:01Z")
When it’s all said and done It’s real and it’s been fun But was it all real fun? -Green Day This was my senior quote in my high school yearbook. _I_ like it, even if it is Green Day. ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/5 "2002-04-04T22:07:52Z")
I heard this many years ago in an old NOVA program. I was very struck by the sentiment: Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. - _Henry Beston_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/6 "2002-04-04T22:39:33Z")
“Culture, born of society, eventually kills society.” - Andre Gide, _The Immoralist_ ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/7 "2002-04-04T22:43:41Z")
A man doesn’t automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it - Jack Handey Only because I believe it. -or- Blow ye winds, Like the trumpet blows; But without that noise - Jack Handey This one is best used when people are looking at you to make a profound statement. The quickly move away. ---
**Author:** ![MrAndrewV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@MrAndrewV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAndrewV)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/8 "2002-04-04T23:00:54Z")
“If there is one sound that follows the march of human civilisation it is the scream” -David Gemmell ---
**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/9 "2002-04-04T23:13:15Z")
“I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, “I drank what?”” -Chris Knight (Played by Val Kilmer in the classic “Real Genius” ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/10 "2002-04-05T00:09:02Z")
“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke ---
**Author:** ![MemoryLeak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6f9a4e/32.png) [@MemoryLeak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryLeak)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/11 "2002-04-05T00:18:26Z")
“You do your own thing in your own time. You should be proud.” -Wyatt (Peter Fonda) in _Easy Rider_ ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/12 "2002-04-05T00:24:12Z")
“Only Dead Fish Go With the Flow” Not sure who said it… ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/13 "2002-04-05T01:17:17Z")
You can’t run with the big dogs if you pee like a puppy. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/14 "2002-04-05T01:29:37Z")
"What we have here is `Failure to Communicate’ " Warden in Cool Hand Luke ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/15 "2002-04-05T03:00:23Z")
"My friends, "I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, here is how I feel about whiskey. "If when you say whiskey you mean the devil’s brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it. "But; "If when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman’s step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life’s great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it. “This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.” - Rep. Noah S. ‘Soggy’ Sweat Jr. 1952 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/16 "2002-04-05T03:28:42Z")
The woods are lovely, Dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. -----By Robert Frost, but used in the film **Telefon**. That quote was used to trigger deeply buried instructions for terrorist acts, implanted years before in “sleeper” agents. Great film. Charles Bronson… I also adore the entire poem, which is entitled, " Stopping By Woods On Snowy Eve " Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/17 "2002-04-05T05:43:27Z")
> [@](#): > > Fear… 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, _The Name of the Rose_ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/18 "2002-04-05T05:46:41Z")
> [@](#): > > …Jill insisted that, as skeptical scientists, we shouldn’t reject claims on a priori grounds, antecedent to inquiry, because usually if you investigate them at length the column turns out to be a lot funnier. [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.html) ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/19 "2002-04-05T05:57:20Z")
“Time wounds all heels!” Dorothy parker Hell, _anything_ by Dorothy Parker! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coolest-quote-you-know/101857/20 "2002-04-05T06:18:50Z")
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