Favorite Quotes

[jeriddian]

"How can you tell?"

~ Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), upon hearing that Herbert Hoover had died.

The lady really was the star of the Algonquin round table for sure.

:P I think she said that after the death of Calvin Coolidge, not Hoover.

Ooops...........Yeah, it was Coolidge. I was actually thinking it was Coolidge when I wrote that and my brain went into misfire and put down Hoover. My bad.....

[Cody MacArthur Fett]

GM: The ship leaves the hangar and rapidly accelerates into space, towards the Trade Federation blockade.
Qui-Gon: We'll easily be able to blast our way through in this baby!
Panaka: Actually, the ship has no weapons.
Obi-Wan: Don't any ships in this universe have weapons?
Panaka: Sure, the blockade ships have plenty.

~~ Darths & Droids "Episode 45: Vessel Vassal"

[campy]

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

~ Anaïs Nin (1903–1977), Cuban--French author

[lunchmeat]

"Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone."


Rudyard Kipling

[Dr. Dave]

First, the profound :

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned."

William Congreve (1670-1729), The Mourning Bride, Act 3, Sc. 8

Second, the silly :P :

"On with the opera, let joy be unconfined, let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor."

Groucho Marx, A Night at the Opera

Finally, truth :

"When angry, count to ten. When very angry count to ten, then curse."

Mark Twain

[lunchmeat]

"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. "

W C Fields

[Fireand'chutes77]

"Merry Christmas, everyone."
~Jeriddian

[campy]

"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."

~ Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (1890—1977), American comedian

[TransWarpDrive]

"That's the first movie I've seen where the leading man's bust is bigger than the leading lady's."

~ Groucho Marx, after a screening of Samson and Delilah, starring a very muscular Victor Mature as Samson

[stringcheese]

"What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals; and not to measure your life by what you’ve attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, and rationality. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others."

-Kevin Spacey