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* too much for words: unbelievable quotations*

  • "Todos somos langostas....desinfladas." -Matt
  • "Even the most insignificant impression leaves an unalterable trace, which is indefinitely capable of revival."
    -Delboeuf, as quoted by Freud
  • joey: It's a moo point anyway.
    rachel: A moo point?
    joey: Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion; just doesn't matter. It's moo.
    -friends
  • "Mom, can i borrow your sewing machine? Mine doesn't exist."-dilbert
  • "Love is friendship on fire." -Sex & Mrs. X
  • "That takes some balls." -taildaters, as one of the daters posed nude on camera in an art studio
  • "I may have mentioned this before, but when I die, I want to go to Telemundo." -JSP, sixsixfive.com
  • "Learn everything; you will see afterwards that nothing is superfluous." -Hugh of St. Victor
  • "The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason." -Bertrand Russell
  • "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." -Samuel Smiles
  • dave: "Hey, look at the natives."
    gary: "Natives? They're called people. This isn't 1800."
    -Amazing Race 2
  • "You live your life through lyrics." -Stevo, SLC Punk!
  • Frat boy commandment III:
    "Thou shalt not leave me hangin' when I am giving high fives" -Misfit Trojan A
  • GOLD fish. Needs good home - is irritable but enjoys TV. $2.
    -"Headlines", The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
  • "You can't get addicted to something you're bad at because then you're
    just an idiot." -Mark Maron, Comedy Central Presents...
  • "The club 'Risky Business' provides equal opportunity nakedness." -E! Wild on Party Central
  • "A paleontologist who works out. You're like Indiana Jones."-Friends
  • "Home is where you hang your @" -sirilyan.com
  • "He takes naked pictures of us, then he eats chicken, then he looks at
    them!" -FRIENDS
  • "Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right." - Donald Norman
  • "No one ought to be constrained to believe." -St. Augustine
  • "Life's a risk, Lins." -Steven Carter from get real
  • "I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble." -Erma Bombeck, if life is a bowl of cherries, what am i doing in the pits?
  • "I woke up at 3 in the morning with a vector nightmare." -Mr. Fox
  • "It's the greatest thing since sliced water." -Monday night calculus
  • "There is no principle of the Constitution more important than the principle of free thought - not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom of thought for those we hate." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in 1929
  • "Vamos a la bibliotec!" -Steve Scott
  • I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you can see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
  • There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
  • "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Einstein."
  • "I worked in a health food store once and a guy came in and asked me, 'if I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?'". -Steven Wright
  • "A person with a watch knows what time it is. Someone with two watches is never sure." -Segal's Law
  • "Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand." -unknown
  • "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
  • "When I count there are only you and I together
    But when I look ahead up the white road

    There is always another one walking beside you"

    -The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
  • "He was destined to learn his own wisdom apart from others or to learn the wisdom of others himself wandering among the snares of the world."
    -Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
  • "That's what I like about God - not beauty or truth, but irony." -some quantum mechanics video
  • "To live, to err, to triumph, to recreate life out of life!" -Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man
  • "Enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain." -The Tao of Pooh
  • "And life, a little bald and gray,
    Languid, fastidious, and bland,

    Waits, hat and gloves in hand,

    Punctilious of tie and suit,

    (Somewhat impatient of delay)

    On the doorstep of the Absolute."

    -From "Spleen", T.S. Eliot
  • "The height of a man's success is gauged by his self mastery, the depths of his failure by self abandonment. He who cannot establish himself will have no dominion over others." -Leonardo Da Vinci
  • "Well, dear, life is a casting off." -Death of A Salesman
  • "Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." -Mark Twain
  • "When you're really hungry, people aren't people anymore. They become obstacles to food." -Mr. Jacobson, chemistry teacher
  • "The horse is dead, I don't think it'll mind." -Mr. Holtkamp, philosophy teacher
  • "For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin else that what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on." -Dracula
  • "How fickle is woman." -Gone With The Wind
  • "Scantron would not exist for Socrates." -Mr. Nadeau, history teacher
  • "Intelligence is a prerequisite." -Vanessa Lauzon
  • "I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are just details." -Einstein
  • "Hell is other people." -Sartre
  • "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Einstein
  • "All human understanding is interpretation." -Passions of the Western Mind
  • "Anybody want a banana?" -Ms. Egan, history teacher
  • "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci
  • "While I thought I was learning how to live I have been learning how to die." -Leonardo da Vinci
  • "Obstacles can not crush me; every obstacle yields to firm resolve." -Leonardo da Vinci
  • "All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." -Leonardo da Vinci
  • "Art lives from constraint and dies from freedom"-Leonardo da Vinci
  • "As a day well spent, makes for a sound sleep, so a life well spent brings a happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci
  • "Dialogue is a wonderful thing. We each have a common search but we make an individual contribution." -Mr. Rhodes, english teacher
  • "No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking." -Voltaire
  • "Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
  • "Self-delusion is the key to happiness" -Voltaire
  • "Two things in life are certain. 1. There is a god. 2. You are not him." -Voltaire
  • "Witty sayings don't prove anything." -Voltaire
  • "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." -Voltaire
  • "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance." -Voltaire
  • "Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses." -Voltaire
  • "No matter how high the throne, there sits but an ass" -Voltaire
  • "Everything must end; meanwhile we must amuse ourselves." -Voltaire
  • "Life is hard," someone said to Voltaire. "Compared to what?" Voltaire answered.
  • "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." -Voltaire
  • "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong" -Voltaire.
  • "Optimism is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell." -Voltaire
  • "Imagination is more important than Knowledge." -Einstein
  • That's life....WHAT'S LIFE?...A magazine....HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?....It costs fifty cents....BUT I'VE ONLY GOT A NICKEL!!!.....Whoaaaaa, That's Life!
  • "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -Albert Einstein
  • "You shouldn't fear the dead its the living you should be worried about" - Alfred Hitchcock
  • "What we call human nature in actuality is human habit." -Jewel
  • If you don't know where to go in life, any road will take you there.
  • "In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything but two minus one equals nothing." -Mignon McLaughlin
  • "We're all a little bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.." -The Breakfast Club
  • "Expecting everyone to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the enraged dog not to bite you because you're a vegetarian" -unknown
  • "The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire." -unknown
  • "Nobody can be uncheered by a balloon."
    -Winnie the Pooh

     

Created 10.15.97