Quote of the Day

[Lucifer Prometheus]

"People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it"

-Isaac Asimov

[7thson]

"And posts in the Quote of the Day thread. A day of reckoning is coming there, methinks. ;)"

~ Yoda...the MOFO Yoda.

[mark f]

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney

[Silas]

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher strates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

[mark f]

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."

"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

- Stanley Kubrick

(Paging meat... , meatwadsprite... )

[Lucifer Prometheus]

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."

-Jonathan Swift

[Justin]

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

-Niels Bohr

[mark f]

"I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out."

"We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price."

- Joel Coen

"We haven't had to defend anything to anybody."

- Ethan Coen

[Caitlyn]

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. ~ Robin Williams

[Silas]

"Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!"


I know what you're saying, Bart. When I was young, I wanted an electric football machine more than anything else in the world, and my parents bought it for me, and it was the happiest day of my life. Well, goodnight."

Homer Simpson

[Justin]

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."

-Immanuel Kant

[mark f]

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent."

"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."

- Socrates

[Justin]

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness”

-Joseph Conrad
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinheid362999.html)

[Silas]

"They have the Internet on computers, now?"

Homer Simpson

[honeykid]

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. - Aristotle

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. - Bob Dylan

You have to believe in luck, otherwise how do you explain the success of people you don't like?

[mark f]

"Writing is where the real center of my integrity lies. I never write for money. I only act for money, but not invariably of course. I would never write certain sentences that I say in films, or even that I write in films, because I often fix up my lines."

"What I try to achieve in acting - flamboyance - would be self-indulgence if I tried it as a writer."

"I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?"

- Robert Shaw

[Justin]

"Some measure of reality must always be sacrificed in the effort of achieving it."

-Andre Bazin

"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost"

- Henry James

[mark f]

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

- Malcolm X

[Justin]

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

-Michel Foucault

[mark f]

"I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."

"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"

- Dustin Hoffman

[Swan]

"I will not be threatened by a walking meat loaf!"

- David Kessler

[mark f]

"I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try to hold onto it because it is so precious to us, and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives."

"I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behavior."

"John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London."

"That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere."

"I would like to make it known, on this program, loud and clear, that I would absolutely embrace with all five of my arms being a Bond villain."

- Ben Kingsley

[Silas]

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

[Godoggo]

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing" ~Oscar Wilde

[mark f]

"I got to write most of everything I said. Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy. That's all I cared about too, was getting it right. The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part. Kubrick's films have life - they just never die."

- R. Lee Ermey

The below is a glitch, so click on the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alGicPxDU_o

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[Caitlyn]

I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star.
Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!"
Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...
and they'll never see anything like it ever again...
and they won't be able to forget me- ever.

*

I like any reaction I can get with my music.
Just anything to get people to think.
I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk,
stoned people to actually wake up and think,
you're doing something.

*

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

*

Love cannot save you from your own fate.


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/nicolepink/jim.jpg

Jim Morrison
Born 8 Dec 1943

[mark f]

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."

"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."

- Vincent Van Gogh

http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/afbeeldingen-nieuw/foto-album/nederland-in-beelden/detailfoto-s/091.jpg

[honeykid]

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw. - Havelock Ellis

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference. - Teena Booth

[mark f]

"I don't take stuff seriously. I saw Hellraiser III the other day at Cannes; it's OK, it's a good film, I didn't hate it or anything. I thought it was quite good, but it was all just so serious. Some guy walking 'round with pins sticking out of his face. I just can't sit there and think 'this is really scary'. If I made a Hellraiser film, I'd like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face. I immediately start thinking of funny things and gags - that's just the way I am. I doubt I could ever control myself sufficiently to make a serious horror film."

"To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the Lord of the Rings films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."

"No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong (1933). I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was nine years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age."

- Peter Jackson

[mark f]

"Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let`s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometers. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion."

- Werner Herzog

[honeykid]

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henry Youngman

Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde

Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems. - Homer Simpson

[7thson]

A creature will do anything to be warm. A dog will burrow under covers, a cat will sleep curled up on top of your head, a spider will find a way into your attic, and a man will divorce your ass and buy a space heater quicker than you can say, "take out the garbage'.

[undercoverlover]

'I always knew I didn't want a job' - Linda Smith

[Holden Pike]

http://www.powerlineblog.com/media/archives/seuss-big.jpg

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Theodore "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

[mark f]

I posted a Dr. Seuss quote earlier, but Holden, yours is way more super duper. :cool: Wow! 37 cents, back in the good old days of 2004. It's only gone up 13 1/2% in four years.

[mark f]

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."

"I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."

"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."

- Clint Eastwood

[Justin]

"Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let`s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about five thousand kilometers. While walking, write. Write about your experiences and give me your notebooks. I would be able to tell who had really walked the distance and who had not. While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking and what it truly involves than you ever would sitting in a classroom. During your voyage you will learn more about what your future holds than in five years at film school. Your experiences would be the very opposite of academic knowledge, for academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion."

- Werner Herzog

Herzog could not possibly be any cooler.

[Vertical Gunn]

We are all monsters inside, whether we show it or not.

[mark f]

"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."

"I understand your new play is full of single entendres."

"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."

- George S. Kaufman

[mark f]

"We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

- Ernest Shackleton

[Caitlyn]

Whenever the white man treats an Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike -- brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land, and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands from the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race are waiting and praying. I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. ~ Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-keht/ Chief Joseph (April 1879)

[mark f]

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."

"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

- Bruce Lee

[Caitlyn]

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man
he would have made me so in the first place.

*

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being,
and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors,
the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

*

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people
I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths,
and I do not wish to be that mean.

*

Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red?
Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived?
Because I would die for my people and my country?

*

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb83/Crazy_Coyote_photos/thSittingBull.jpg

Tatanka Iyotanka/Chief Sitting Bull
Killed 15 Dec 1890

[mark f]

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams."

"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Caitlyn]

Search for yourself, by yourself.
Do not allow others to make your path for you.
It is your road, and yours alone.
Others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (#3) ~

[mikeython1]

"When your right nobody remembers, when you are wrong nobody forgets."

"Money isnt everything, it is the only thing."

"F-ck me once shame on you! F-ck me twice shame on me!"

-Stanley Thon

[Silas]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/fatherted460.jpg



Dougal: I'm no good at judging the size of crowds Ted, but I'd say there's about seventeen million of them out there

Dougal: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
Ted: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
Dougal: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.

Dougal: I've got Eurosong fever, Ted.
Ted: Yeah?
Dougal: Oh god, yeah. I love the Eurosong competition. I just can't wait. What time is it now?
Father Ted: Half past one.
Dougal: Half one?! And the competition is on in...
Father Ted: May.

[Justin]

"As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present."
- Marcus Aurelius

[mark f]

"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."

"Those who have experienced the most have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."

- Thor Heyerdahl

[Silas]

Ted: Did you bring the travel scrabble Dougal?

Dougal: I brought the normal scrabble and the travel scrabble, Ted.
The travel scrabble for when we were travelling, and the normal scrabble
for when we
arrived!

Ted: Good man!

Dougal: Ah,no,wait a minute....now that I think of it I didn't bring
either of them! God , I'm an awful eejit!


DOUGAL- Ahh, lets see,
I'll have the Hindu Curry, Steak and Chips, and a glass of Coke thanks.
POLICEMAN- Do you know where you are? Your in a police station.
DOUGAL- Oh right. Well, in that case, I'll just have the Satay Chicken.

[mikeython1]

"You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose but you cant pick your friends nose" - Some Funny Idiot

[Caitlyn]

Treat the guests in your home with much consideration.
Serve them the best food,
give them the best bed and treat them with
respect and honor.

*

Do not take what is not yours whether from a person,
a community,the wilderness or from a culture.
It was not earned nor given.
It is not yours.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (#4 & 5)

[Slug]

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Henry Ford (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henryford106263.html)

[Justin]

“Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

[mark f]

"Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed."

"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."

"I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen; see, this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments."

"Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?"

- David Letterman

[Iroquois]

"I guess there are never enough books." - John Steinbeck

Was inspired to include that after seeing my latest photo...

[Caitlyn]

Respect all things that are placed upon this earth -
whether it be people or plant.

*

Honor other people's thoughts, wishes and words.
Never interrupt another or mock or rudely mimic them.
Allow each person the right to personal expression.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (#6 & 7)

[Silas]

“Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.”

Who else but Homer Jay

[mikeython1]

"Life's a garden, dig it! -Joe Dirt

[Caitlyn]

Never speak of others in a bad way.
The negative energy that you
put out into the universe will multiply
when it returns to you.

*

Bad thoughts cause illness of the mind, body and spirit.
Practice optimism.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (#8 & 9)

[Iroquois]

I meant to post these all on the 16th but forgot about it. I hope the "quotee" can forgive me (if he can forgive, that is...)

"We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your ****ing love-list? **** your children, if that's the way you think then **** you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the **** up."

"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural? You know what I mean? It's nature. How do you make nature against the ****ing law?"

"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free."

"The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey - don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride...” But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus - murdered; Martin Luther King - murdered; Malcolm X - murdered; Gandhi - murdered; John Lennon - murdered; Reagan... wounded. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace."

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ycxoYtFg1qOnbM:http://justgetthere.us/blog/uploads/billhicks.jpg

William Melvin "Bill" Hicks

Born December 16th, 1961

There are plenty more where that came from, but I reckon if you really care you can find them all yourself. The "ride" monologue is one of the best speeches I've ever heard.

[mark f]

"People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning."

"I dream for a living."

- Steven Spielberg

[mikeython1]

"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege"

"You can't be late until you show up"

[Justin]

“From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.”
-Bill Watterson

[Vertical Gunn]

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

[mark f]

"I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda liked the idea of just being happy with me."

"The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth."

"Well, I think we're the greatest rock 'n' roll band in the world."

- Joey Ramone (R.I.P.)

[FILMFREAK087]

"With shards of shattered beasts cast before me, I cautiously tread with sorrow."

[Caitlyn]

Nature is not FOR us, it is a PART of us.
They are part of your worldly family.

*

Children are the seeds of our future.
Plant love in their hearts and water them with wisdom and life's lessons.
When they are grown, give them space to grow.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (#10 & 11)

[mikeython1]

"Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to sit down and shut up." -Clever Quotes Haven

"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car."

I dont know if that is exactly a quote but it is funny!!

[Caitlyn]

Avoid hurting the hearts of others.
The poison of your pain will return to you.

*

Be truthful at all times. Honesty is the test of
ones will within this universe.

*

Keep yourself balanced.
Your Mental self, Spiritual self, Emotional self, and Physical self -
all need to be strong, pure and healthy.
Work out the body to strengthen the mind.
Grow rich in spirit to cure emotional ails.


~ Native American Code of Ethics (#11, 12, & 13)

[mark f]

"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

- Abraham Lincoln

[7thson]

The last thing I want to do is: the first thing my enemy expects me to do.
~ unk.

[mark f]

"There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important."

"I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing - all those archetypes are there to play with."

- John Boorman

[Silas]

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. ~Charles Dickens

[Caitlyn]

Make conscious decisions as to who you will be
and how you will react.
Be responsible for your own actions.

*

Respect the privacy and personal space of others.
Do not touch the personal property of others -
especially sacred and religious objects.
This is forbidden.

~ Native American Code of Ethics (14 & 15)

[mikeython1]

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Quotes Haven

I know this one everbody knows but I am a firm believer of "What goes around,comes around."- A million diffrent people!

Here is a picture that applys to this quote
http://www.citizenu.org/uploaded_images/BlagojevichRod030319-726563.jpg

[honeykid]

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. -Czech Proverb

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich

[mark f]

"[meatwadsprite,] I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself."

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."

"I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was."

- Stanley Kubrick

[Iroquois]

Consider this my Christmas quote...

"No family. No girlfriend. No friends. No love. No hope. No point. AND SANTA CLAUS IS DEAD! I KILLED HIM! *grabs crotch* I KILLED HIM WITH THIS!! AND I LEFT HIS STINKING CORPSE IN AN UNDERGROUND CAVERN WHERE IT IS RAPED BY HUNDREDS OF TOXIC-EFFLUENT-CRAZED GILA MONSTERS EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY!"

- Spider Jerusalem

[Caitlyn]

Be true to yourself first.
You cannot nurture and help others if
you cannot nurture and help yourself first.

*

Respect others religious beliefs.
Do not force your belief on others.

*

Share your good fortune with others.
Participate in charity.


~ Native American Code of Ethics (#16, 17, & 18)

[Mrs. Darcy]

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

~ Gary Busey

[mikeython1]

"I intend to live forever, or die trying." -Quote Haven

"If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two, and KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN." -Quote Haven

[honeykid]

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be. - Randy K. Milholland

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. - Tommy Cooper

[mark f]

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

"God bless us, every one."

- Charles Dickens

[mikeython1]

"Merry Christmas to All" -Me

[Caitlyn]

Native American Ten Commandments

Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect.

Remain close to the Great Spirit.

Show great respect for your fellow beings.

Work together for the benefit of all Mankind.

Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.

Do what you know to be right.

Look after the well-being of Mind and Body.

Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater Good.

Be truthful and honest at all times.

Take full responsibility for your actions.




Note: I may have posted these when we first started this thread and if so, sorry for the repeat... :)

[honeykid]

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. - Euripides

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. - Helen Keller

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

Joy is not in things; it is in us. - Richard Wagner

[mark f]

"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."

"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."

"I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?"

- Ernst Lubitsch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18knuUgwZhE

[Caitlyn]

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...

~Norman Wesley Brooks

[mikeython1]

"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark." -Dick Gregory

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." -Shirley Temple

http://www.popdarts.com/Comments/Special_Graphic_Glitters/Sexy_Christmas_Comments/images/sexy_christmas_13.gif

[Vertical Gunn]

Oregano is the spice of life.

[mark f]

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"

- O. Henry

[Justin]

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

-Henry Miller

[honeykid]

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. - Ellen Goodman

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets. - Heather Armstrong

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. - Sam Levenson

[Caitlyn]

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?

*

The poor do not need our sympathy and our pity.
The poor need our love and compassion.

*

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.

*

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean,
I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

~ Mother Teresa

[mikeython1]

“Where there is love there is life.” -Gandhi

"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk." -Quote Haven

[mark f]

"I like making films about characters I'd like to have dinner with."

"I wouldn't take the advice of a lot of so-called critics on how to shoot a close-up of a teapot."

"Always cast against the part and it won't be boring."

- David Lean

[honeykid]

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

All from the great, Groucho Marx.

[susan]

christmas quote a little late, but better late than never

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem
and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars
shines in the midnight sky.

Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness,
all thought of formal creeds.
Let it be remembered as a story that has happened
again and again,
to men [and women] of many different races,
that has been expressed through many religions,
that has been called by many different names.

Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood.

~New York Times, 25 December 1937

[mark f]

[On making coming attractions for Roger Corman films] "We did all kinds of things in trailers to help sell films. We had a famous exploding helicopter shot from one of those Filipino productions that we'd cut in every time a trailer was too dull because that was always exciting."

- Joe Dante (Gremlins)

[Silas]

God Ted do you remeber that Italian who was so good at fashion they had to kill him.

Father Dougal in "Father Ted"

[mikeython1]

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green." -Will Smith

[Harry Lime]

'I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.'
- to keep with honeykid's Groucho quotes.

'Put all your eggs in one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET!'
- Mark Twain

[Justin]

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

[honeykid]

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

[mikeython1]

"Cheer up. The worst is yet to come." -Mark Twain

" I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it." - Clint Eastwood (from Pink Cadillac)

[mark f]

"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived."

"Honk! Honk!"

- Harpo Marx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4A4qH07ys

[Caitlyn]

I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream . . . . the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.

~ Hehaka Sapa/Black Elk (remembering the 12/29/1890 massacre at Wounded Knee )

[honeykid]

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

[Justin]

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre

[mark f]

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find?
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind.
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood.
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good.

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me?
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me.
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

You seem so far away though you are standing near.
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.
I really tried to make it out.
I wish I understood.
What happened to our love, it used to be so good?

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me?
S. O. S.
And the love you gave me, nothing else can save me.
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

- ABBA

[mikeython1]

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis

"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star." -Natalie Portman

[Justin]

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre

[Caitlyn]

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature,
but don't lend it to your neighbors.

*

If history were taught in the form of stories,
it would never be forgotten.

*

Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful,"
and sitting in the shade.

*

If you don't get what you want,
it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it,
or that you tried to bargain over the price.

~ Rudyard Kipling ~
Born 30 Dec 1865

[honeykid]

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

All from the mind of Friedrich Nietzsche.

[mark f]

"She defaced my fly, and I've never been the same since."

"They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show, and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV."

- Mike Judge

[mikeython1]

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. " ~John Selden

"Happy New Years to all you Mofo's" -Me

http://www.hottestgraphic.com/upload/NewYear/Sexy_New_Year4.gif

[Harry Lime]

"...man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose...'

[mark f]

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

- Oscar Wilde

[Caitlyn]

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

[Harry Lime]

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

[honeykid]

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. - Farrah Gray

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Anon

[mikeython1]

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" -Seneca

“I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second." - Helen Fieldings

[mark f]

"Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee."

"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."

- David Frost

[Caitlyn]

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home
are of more importance to the soul
than their simplicity might suggest.

~ Thomas Moore ~

*

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.

~ Elbert Hubbard ~

[mikeython1]

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy


“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.” - Conan O'Brien

[Silas]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.


Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

[Harry Lime]

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything will appear to man as it is, infinite."

[Caitlyn]

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything will appear to man as it is, infinite."


Love the quote... but would also like to know who said it... :)

[honeykid]

It's from a William Blake poem, but I can't remember off hand whether it's from "Songs Of Innocence" or "Songs Of Experience."

[honeykid]

As I've been reminded of Blake, I'll post a few more.

Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

*According to Wiki "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything will appear to man as it is, infinite." is actually from Blake's Marriage Of Heaven And Hell. Sorry, it's a long time since I read Blake.*

[Harry Lime]

Excellent Blake quotes honeykid, especially the second one, I'd give you a thumbs up but for some reason it won't let me on this site.

[Caitlyn]

I sorta kinda knew it was Blake... but was trying to give a wee bit of a hint that the author should be credited... ;) :D

[mark f]

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed."

"Blame is for God and small children."

- Dustin Hoffman

[Harry Lime]

Hoffman should ask me about boredom, maybe he'd understand it a little more.

Caitlyn, I'm not giving credit for these quotes as of late because I am doing a little bit of fishing. As for Blake not getting his credit, I don't think he really cares as he has been dead for some time.

[Caitlyn]

Caitlyn, I'm not giving credit for these quotes as of late because I am doing a little bit of fishing. As for Blake not getting his credit, I don't think he really cares as he has been dead for some time.


It took a great many words to explain the absence of two...

[Caitlyn]

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must use it, as it is given only once. Once wasted you cannot get it back. ~ Anonymous

[Silas]

Is maith an scáthán súil charad.
A friend's eye is a good mirror

[Harry Lime]

Okay, for Caitlyn I will include who wrote the quote in my post. The one back a bit that had to do with the universe and human stupidity that alot of people seemed to like thanks to their positive rep points, was from Albert Einstein.

And as for this following quote one needs to only look at the avatar above.
"Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs."

[Silas]

An té a phósfas an t-airgead, pósfaidh sé óinseach. Imeoidh an t-airgead, fanfaidh an t-óinseach.

He who marries money, marries a fool. The money will go but the fool will remain.

[honeykid]

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

All from the great Benjamin Franklin

[Caitlyn]

After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

~ Cato the Elder (234-149 BC)

[mark f]

"I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around."

"The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."

- Fred Astaire

[mikeython1]

"I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it." -Johnny Depp

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." -Buddha

[Harry Lime]

"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good." - Mephistopheles

[honeykid]

Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. - George Saunders, last words

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor

[mark f]

"Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart?" (He married Shirley Temple when he was 24 and she was 17.)

"I don't resent being identified with B science fiction movies at all. Why should I? Even though they were not considered top of the line, for those people that like sci-fi, I guess they were fun. My whole feeling about working as an actor is, if I give anybody any enjoyment, I'm doing my job, and that's what counts." :up:

- John Agar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewzZzqBt2f0&feature=related

R.I.P.

[Caitlyn]

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 (born 5 Jan 1932)

[n3wt]

"If it feels good, do it if you can be bothered" ~ N3wt

[mikeython1]

"I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him." - Harrison Ford

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein

[n3wt]

Dont eat to much at a party as the toilets are in use more than at home. ~ N3wt

[Silas]

“In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.”

Mary Robinson

[honeykid]

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. - Carl Sagan

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic - John F. Kennedy

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. - Otto von Bismarck

[mark f]

"I didn't want to create a world of heroes and villains. I wanted to create a world of infinite complexity and confusion. I just wanted to see characters try to live an authentic life in a world that's increasingly inauthentic."

- Alan Ball

[Justin]

“If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country”

-Mel Brooks



"And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others"

-Sir Thomas More

[Caitlyn]

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

*

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat
is the laughter of wisdom,
if you listen.

*

I am an idealist.
I don't know where I'm going
but I'm on my way.

*

Sometime they'll give a war
and nobody will come.


Carl Sandburg
born 6 Jan 1878

[mikeython1]

“Know thyself.” -Plato

"I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them." -Sean Connery

[Silas]

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
Clarence Darrow

[Caitlyn]

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ~ Josh Jenkins

[Silas]

“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom”

Clarence Darrow

[mikeython1]

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to...the police and your girlfriend." - Jack Nicholson

"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do." -Barack Obama

[mark f]

"My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

[Harry Lime]

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
-Charles de Gaulle

[honeykid]

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. - Lynn Johnston

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. - Paul Valery

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone. - Gertrude Stein

[Caitlyn]

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. ~ Ayn Rand

[Silas]

“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”

Sir William Gladstone

English Jurist 1723-1780

[mark f]

"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it? It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."

"I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic."

"I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! 'Cause when I heard the police car, I knew they weren't coming after me!"

"I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour."

- Richard Pryor

[mikeython1]

"I'm not against half-naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be..." -Benny Hill

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. " -Nelson Mandela

[honeykid]

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

All from the mouth, rather than the pen, of Edith Wharton.

[7thson]

"The last thing I want to hear when I am on my death bed is: Pink Floyd. ~ unk

[mark f]

"I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth."

"The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise."

"No "mise en scène" has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a "mise en scène" turns into a sign, a cliché, a concept (however original it may be), then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false."

- Andrei Tarkovsky

[Caitlyn]

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~ Daniel Berrigan

[mikeython1]

"The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.” - Alice Cooper :furiousdevil:


"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan

[honeykid]

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.

All from the, more than slightly odd, Emo Phillips.

[7thson]

I have two things I want to tell you, and this is one of them.

[mark f]

"I like films to have something inside. I don't mean a message; I mean something from the soul."

"If you don't like my movies, don't watch them."

"In Italy, the censor is very old, and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyze you."

"When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe."

- Dario Argento

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1210/795772456_ab46d5c858_o.jpg

[mack]

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
- - - Woody Allen

[Caitlyn]

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

~ George Washington Carver (estimated birth date - 10 Jan 1864)

[mikeython1]

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein

"Those who live in the past are cowards and losers" - Mike Ditka Aka Da Coach
http://michaelwhitney.net/images/18.jpg

[mark f]

"Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long."

"When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."

- Jean Harlow

[Caitlyn]

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ~ Michel de Montaigne

[mikeython1]

“When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.” -Robert De Niro

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." -Oscar Wilde

[Slug]

If it stinks, don't eat it.
SLUG

[Slug]

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God's true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

~ George Washington Carver (estimated birth date - 10 Jan 1864)
What an interesting concept.
I wonder if it's true?
It sounds possible.
Gives us hope too.
Thanks, Caitlyn.

[mark f]

Accepting his Golden Globe: "I'm not from these parts. I'm from a little place called England. We used to run the world before you lot."

"I don't know if this is true but I hope it is; I've heard it from a few reports. When we went up to get our awards, apparently Clint Eastwood turned to someone that he was with and went, "Who the f**k are they?"

- Ricky Gervais

[Silas]

“Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.”

Thurgood Marshall 1908-1993

[Caitlyn]

No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing
because he could do only a little.

*

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.

*

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

*

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

*

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises,
for never intending to go beyond promise,
it costs nothing.

*

I venture to say no war can be long carried on
against the will of the people.


~ Edmund Burke ~
born 12 Jan 1729

[Lennon]

"Even in the face of Armageddon, never compromise" ~ Rorschach, Watchmen

[mikeython1]

"Comeback is a good word, man." -Mickey Rourke

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out." -George Bernard Shaw

[Justin]

“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.”
-Michael Crichton

[KasperKristensen]

I judge movies by the amounts of goose bumps they cause me.
- Kasper Kristensen

[mark f]

"I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. At this time of the year you think about awards, and if you want to win one, you think you should make serious films, but my instinct is to make vivacious films."

"I learned that what I'm better at is making stuff lower down the radar. Actually, ideally not on the radar at all."

"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

"I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them."

- Danny Boyle

[Silas]

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.




The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty, and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury. It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago...I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to so alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers. But no doubt I shall be defeated--every effort I make to save the country "misses fire."



Mark Twain

[mikeython1]

“I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.” -George Clooney

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them." -Dalai Lama

[Caitlyn]

Most of our citizenry believes that hunger only affects people who are lazy or people who are just looking for a handout, people who don't' want to work, but, sadly, that is not true. Over one-third of our hungry people are innocent children who are members of households that simply cannot provide enough food or proper nutrition. And to think of the elderly suffering from malnutrition is just too hard for most of us. Unlike Third World nations, in our country the problem is not having too little – it is about not caring enough! ~ Erin Brockovich


If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved. ~ Bono

[mikeython1]

Most of our citizenry believes that hunger only affects people who are lazy or people who are just looking for a handout, people who don't' want to work, but, sadly, that is not true. Over one-third of our hungry people are innocent children who are members of households that simply cannot provide enough food or proper nutrition. And to think of the elderly suffering from malnutrition is just too hard for most of us. Unlike Third World nations, in our country the problem is not having too little – it is about not caring enough! ~ Erin Brockovich

I just watched this movie for the first time last week. I thought it was going to be a total chick flick but ended up liking it!

[Caitlyn]

I just watched this movie for the first time last week. I thought it was going to be a total chick flick but ended up liking it!

Erin Brockovich is a very good movie and probably the only Julia Roberts movie I actually like... I believe the real Erin is still going strong as an environmental activist...

[Bersicker]

I know a thing or two about a thing or two
- Me

[martian leader]

IO don't really want to post any quotes until I know this thread. OK is this thread about random movie quotes or something else? I'm lost here. :yup:

[Ðèstîñy]

I believe the real Erin Brockovich is still going strong as an environmental activist...

Yep! (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/31/erin-brockovich-plans-visit-roane-spill-site/)

[martian leader]

Ok I am just going to post a random movie quote. Maybe I'll put two in not sure. Anyway here we go. Don't worry these are just movie quotes, nothing more. :yup:



Wanda: "The only time I want to feel somebody tossing and turning in bed is when I'm helping them."



Lance: Thought you went to bed hours ago?
Wanda: Hmm I couldn’t sleep. Every little sheep that jumped over the fence, landed under a horny ram.

[Ðèstîñy]

IO don't really want to post any quotes until I know this thread. OK is this thread about random movie quotes or something else? I'm lost here. :yup:

Just read through the thread some. You'll see quotes from movies, famous people, and even Mofos, at times. More times than not, they are from famous people.

[martian leader]

Just read through the thread some. You'll see quotes from movies, famous people, and even Mofos, at times. More times than not, they are from famous people.


Thank you. I just put up two quotes from a movie just for now. ok?

:yup:

[mark f]

"I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew."

"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."

"If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance."

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at its best, is to redefine the words we use every day, such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

- Sir Ben Kingsley

[n3wt]

"Coffee is my morning lover, my afternoon beutie and my midnight baby" ~ n3wt

Just a ramdom post I thought of while sat here drinking my morning coffee lol

[Caitlyn]

Our environment is like a patchwork quilt.
Each "patch" is dependent on those around it.
If one part unravels, it affects the rest.

~ W.C.L. Hemeon ~

[mikeython1]

"Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded." -Mike Myers

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." -Theodore Roosevelt

[Godoggo]

"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage."~William S. Burroughs
(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamsb385863.html)

[honeykid]

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. - Mo Udall

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph Inge

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen

[mark f]

"Harvey Milk believed that if all gay people were out of the closet, everyone would realize that they actually knew or were related to someone who was gay or lesbian. It's harder to hate someone you already know and love."

"My father taught me many things. I can't remember what exactly; the devotion sort of clouds the details."

"I think that when you are 16 and 17 years old, you're making the most important connections with the world that you will probably ever make in your life. If you ask a 70-year-old what his favorite song is, it'll be a song he heard when he was 16."

"Somewhere along the line, an artist has to figure out how not to think only about himself."

- Gus Van Sant

[Silas]

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well

Robert H. Jackson

Opening Statement of The Nuremberg Trials

[Caitlyn]

An individual has not started living
until he can rise above the narrow confines
of his individualistic concerns to
the broader concerns of all humanity.

*

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.

*

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

*

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'

*

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.

Martin Luther King Jr.
born 15 Jan 1929

[mikeython1]

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.” -Anthony Hopkins

[Harry Lime]

"Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: through its own torment it increases its own knowledge..."

-Zarathustra

[mark f]

"My father used to say to me, 'Show 'em what you can do, and don't worry about what you're gonna get. Say you'll work for free and make yourself invaluable.'"

"I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."

" I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. I like the feeling of coming home after every day and feeling like you've done something and you've progressed somewhere. To go in and do one shot after lunch and another one maybe at six o'clock and then go home is not my idea of something to do."

"At the studios, everybody's into sequels or remakes or adaptations of old TV shows. I don't know if it's because of the corporate environment or they're just out of ideas. Pretty soon, they're going to be wanting to do one of "Rawhide".

- Clint Eastwood

[Caitlyn]

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. ~ Dian Fossey born 16 Jan 1932

[mikeython1]

"I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx." -Al Pacino

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." -Mother Teresa

[Harry Lime]

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

[honeykid]

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. - W. Somerset Maugham

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

I don't have an accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. - James Carr

*That last quote is one of my favourites in recent years*

[mark f]

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."

"I enjoy playing the audience like a piano."

After watching Dario Argento's Profondo rosso, "This young Italian guy is starting to worry me."

"Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal."

"I made a remark a long time ago. I said I was very pleased that television was now showing murder stories, because it's bringing murder back into its rightful setting - in the home."

- Alfred Hitchcock

[mikeython1]

"so as I say, just be yourself" -unknown

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." -Henry David Thoreau

[Harry Lime]

Another Thoreau quote for ya, seeing as I dig his way.

"Men have become the tools of their tools." (which I think is even more so today)

[Harry Lime]

"A truth is not hard to kill...a lie told well is immortal."

- Mark Twain

[Justin]

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."
-George Washington

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
-Gore Vidal

[Slug]

Nothing in life is perfect.
If you lick a bowl wearing a beard, it'g going to get matted.
Slug

[honeykid]

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. - English Proverb

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. - Unknown

[mark f]

"I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn."

"It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else."

"I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream...allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film."

- David Lynch

[Harry Lime]

"If there is no God, everything is permitted."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[honeykid]

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. - Tennessee Williams

At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[mark f]

"I have a dream... "

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk

[Caitlyn]

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery,
I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished.
I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South.
So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have
cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war,
and have suffered all that I have suffered
to have this object attained.

*

Do your duty in all things.
You cannot do more,
you should never wish
to do less.

*

I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.

*

Never do a wrong thing
to make a friend
or keep one.

*

The education of a man is
never completed
until he dies.

Robert E. Lee
born 19 Jan 1807

[KasperKristensen]

"Awards are like hemroids. Eventually, every a**hole gets one"
- (you tell me?)

[Harry Lime]

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

- Albert Einstein

[mikeython1]

"I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it." - Denzel Washington

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

[Silas]

"I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal."

Abraham Lincoln

[honeykid]

Last week, I posted a Jimmy Carr quote. I'm a big fan of his, so I thought I'd make a post just using his words.

"Cats have nine lives. Which makes them ideal for experimentation."

"I was born in Slough in the 1970's, if you want to know what Slough was like in the 1970's, go there now!"

"If we're all God's children, what's so special about Jesus?"

[mark f]

Significant Inauguration Quotes:

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

- Abraham Lincoln

"To few of us here today, this is a solemn and most momentous occasion; and yet, in the history of our nation, it is a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-four-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle."

- Ronald Reagan

"The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit."

- William Jefferson Clinton

[Caitlyn]

Let us remember as we chase our dreams into the stars that our first responsibility is to our Earth, to our children, to ourselves. Yes, let us dream, and let us pursue those dreams, but let us also preserve the fragile world we inhabit. ~ George H.W. Bush

[mikeython1]

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody." -Barack Obama

"The less you know, the more you believe." -Bono

[Justin]

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

[Silas]

"Im a lefty get used to it" - Barack Obama (2 minutes ago his first offical signing as president)

(i also am a lefty)

[honeykid]

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. - Laurence J. Peter

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. - Herb Caen

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes

[Caitlyn]

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.
In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

[mark f]

"For me, film-making combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film."

"With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this."

"Good Westerns are liked by everyone. Since humans are weak, they want to see good people and great heroes. Westerns have been done over and over again, and in the process a kind of grammar has evolved. I have learned much from this grammar of the Western."

- Akira Kurosawa

[mikeython1]

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out." -Martin Scorsese

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -Winston Churchill

[KasperKristensen]

”It may be because the horror writer always brings bad news: you’re going to die, he says; he’s telling you to never mind Oral Roberts and his ’something good is going to happen to you’, because something bad is also going to happen to you, and it may be cancer and it may be a stroke and it may be a car accident, but it’s going to happen”.

- Stephen King on the fear of the horror genre. (foreword to 'The Night Shift").

[Silas]

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

[mark f]

"I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning."

"Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either."

[On Bette Davis] "Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me."

- Humphrey Bogart

[KasperKristensen]

"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk".

- Stephen King

[Caitlyn]

One certainly has a soul;
but how it came to allow itself
to be enclosed in a body
is more than I can imagine.
I only know if once mine gets out,
I'll have a bit of a tussle before
I let it get in again
to that of any other.

*

Those who will not reason,
are bigots,
those who cannot,
are fools,
and those who dare not,
are slaves.

*

There is something pagan in me
that I cannot shake off.
In short, I deny nothing,
but doubt everything.

*

Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u159/wynn007/lb.jpg

Lord George Gordon Byron
born 22 Jan 1788