Interesting Quotes

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So, I've been collecting quotes from around the web and saving them in folder on my computer, usually in the format of those cheesy pics with a portrait of the author next to the quote or a mountainous scenery in the background. They don't at all pertain to film - although i do sometimes grab one here or there - and they mostly revolve around philosophical thought, government (i won't make it political), or thoughts on the absurdities of life.

Anyways, i have a collection of them and I'm hoping some others will post theirs so i can steal them. Also, if you wouldn't mind posting in the same format that would be appreciated; i save them this way bc it's honestly the easiest way to catalog them.

Here's a few with no particular message:
https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99692
https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99693

And, fans of Buce Lee will know this one:
https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99694

[Stirchley]

So, I've been collecting quotes from around the web and saving them in folder on my computer, usually in the format of those cheesy pics with a portrait of the author next to the quote or a mountainous scenery in the background. They don't at all pertain to film - although i do sometimes grab one here or there - and they mostly revolve around philosophical thought, government (i won't make it political), or thoughts on the absurdities of life.

Anyways, i have a collection of them and I'm hoping some others will post theirs so i can steal them. Also, if you wouldn't mind posting in the same format that would be appreciated; i save them this way bc it's honestly the easiest way to catalog them.

Here's a few with no particular message:

https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99687
https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99689

And, fans of Buce Lee will know this one:

https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=99686

Photos not coming through for me.

[Citizen Rules]

My favorite quote of the day:

'Photos not coming through for me'....Stirchley




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[Citizen Rules]

I like this thread!
Some Star Trek Voyager Janeway coffee quotes:


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Photos not coming through for me.


Jeez what a way to start. I think i fixed it?

[Stirchley]

Jeez what a way to start. I think i fixed it?

Seems ok. I got photos.

[Nausicaä]

https://spiritualcleansing.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Were-all-going-to-die-all-of-us-what-a-circus-That-alone-should-make-us-1024x645.jpg

[Nausicaä]

Just finished a book on veganism and there was a quote used in one chapter on animals and sentience by Albert Einstein that I particularly liked although apparently he didn't say it, I still like it though:


https://www.azquotes.com/vangogh-image-quotes/36/92/Quotation-Albert-Einstein-Everybody-is-a-genius-But-if-you-judge-a-fish-36-92-74.jpg

[Citizen Rules]

Can't deny Spock's logic.


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[Citizen Rules]

That last one isn't actually a Spock quote. Who said it? I know.

[gbgoodies]

Can't deny Spock's logic.
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That last one isn't actually a Spock quote. Who said it? I know.


It's a combination of Mirror Spock and Captain Kirk in the TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror", (one of the greatest episodes ever made).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deq6_p47g54

[GulfportDoc]

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."

-- Moses Hadas


"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I
approved of it."

-- Mark Twain


"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

-- Stephen Bishop

[Galactic Traveler]

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill

[Galactic Traveler]

"I don't count all my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting because they're the only ones that count. - Muhammad Ali

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This ones tough



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[gbgoodies]

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[Citizen Rules]

A quote that I use from time to time:
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[hownos]

“It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.” ~ Mark Twain

[Takoma11]

Here are two I keep at work:

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and (sorry, this one doesn't come with an inspirational image)

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”--Toni Morrison

and

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[MovieGal]

"Holding on to those negative feelings never makes things better".

[nyctc7]

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[hownos]

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

Donald Rumsfeld

[Mesmerized]

“Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.”

- St. Mother Teresa

[Stirchley]

Churchill was asked after the successful Battle of Britain if this were the end. He replied It’s not the end, but it’s the beginning of the end. Brilliant.

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A powerful quote within a powerful quote

https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=103058

[nyctc7]

Churchill was asked after the successful Battle of Britain if this were the end. He replied It’s not the end, but it’s the beginning of the end. Brilliant.

I'm sure you know the quote but just mistyped. It's the "end of the beginning."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-rKQYB9ns

[nyctc7]

https://professorbuzzkill.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Copy-of-c8040ac9113e866c55878b33530b4b42.jpg

There is no evidence Freud actually said this. Still, pretty funny.

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

Two of my favorite movie quotes come from the original Flight of the Phoenix (1965):

"Mr. Towns, you behave as if stupidity were a virtue. Why is that?"

"That's precisely what is wrong - he has remembered everything and learned nothing!"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/The_Flight_of_the_Phoenix_-_1965_-_Poster.png

(Terrible poster there. And skip the retread done years later.)

[matt72582]

"Every time the Russians threw an American in prison, WE thew an American in prison to show the Russians they couldn't get away with it"
-Mort Sahl
(during Hollywood Blacklist - 1953)

[MovieGal]

I found this today, it's so true.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

- Seneca the Younger

[Stirchley]

I'm sure you know the quote but just mistyped. It's the "end of the beginning."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK-rKQYB9ns

Lordy, note to self: look up quotes before posting them. :eek:

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I think maintaining a good mustache probably helps


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[jackkyy]

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky
(A powerful reflection on self-worth and relationships.)

[MovieGal]

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[hownos]

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

FDR

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

Just watched Fly Me to the Moon. Was reminded of a favorite quote by John Kennedy, from his September 12, 1962 speech at Rice University. (A snippet appears in the occasional real footage from that era.)

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard ...

I've pulled a "because it is hard" paraphrase several times in business meetings over the years ...

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

And one of my favorite bits of wisdom and sarcasm, attributed to Oscar Wilde:

"It may be a sin to think ill of others, but it is rarely a mistake."

Of course, seeing it attributed to Wilde makes one wonder, since so much he didn't say is attributed to him. We prompts a repeat of what Yogi Berra might, or might not, have said: "I never said half the things I said."

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

Last one for tonight. Lots of too-often-repeated "difference between an optimist and pessimist" quotes. When someone trucks out the old bit about the pessimist being an optimist with experience, or some other tired thing, I'm usually able to trump them with this from James Branch Cabell (who I really don't know anything about):

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true.

[I_Wear_Pants]

Here's a good one:
You can go the rest of your life without eating.

[hownos]

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Mark Twain

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I cant exactly confirm he said this but it does make sense, right?


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[John W Constantine]

A movie so stupid...David Lynch understood it.

- RLM

[Tugg]

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow in my footsteps he must give up all right to himself, take up his cross and follow me. For the man who wants to save his life will lose it; but the man who loses his life for my sake will find it. For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world at the price of his own soul? What could a man offer to buy back his soul once he had lost it?"

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[hownos]

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How much free speech is there in Russia?

[Citizen Rules]

How much free speech is there in Russia?Meaning what? Wait...don't answer. I know you're itching to be political and we can't go there.

[hownos]

Meaning what? Wait...don't answer. I know you're itching to be political and we can't go there.

It's pretty obvious and not a lot of discussion is necessary.

[Citizen Rules]

It's pretty obvious and not a lot of discussion is necessary.You're kind of being a troll here by eluding to some political topic you'd like to talk about. A quote about the importance of online privacy has nothing to do with your comments which are out of place on this thread.

[hownos]

You're kind of being a troll here by eluding to some political topic you'd like to talk about. A quote about the importance of online privacy has nothing to do with your comments which are out of place on this thread.

I didn't comment on the online privacy part of the quote. I don't need lectures on free speech from some guy living in Putin's Russia. I don't troll.

[Citizen Rules]

I didn't comment on the online privacy part of the quote. I don't need lectures on free speech from some guy living in Putin's Russia. I don't troll.You really need to contain your political soapboxing, save it for that other movie board you post on, here we don't do that.

[hownos]

You really need to contain your political soapboxing, save it for that other movie board you post on, here we don't do that.

I'm Canadian. We don't soapbox. It was meant as a harmless observation.

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[nyctc7]

There's an old Polish proverb that says...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykuGCT2uixk

[hownos]

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Ceasar Augustus

[nyctc7]

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Ceasar Augustus

This reminds me of
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”
― Conan O'Brien

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This reminds me of
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”
― Conan O'Brien


Very happy for this man, i look up to him a lot.


https://www.npr.org/2025/01/16/nx-s1-5261026/conan-obrien-mark-twain-prize

[hownos]

This reminds me of
“Eventually, all our graves go unattended.”
― Conan O'Brien

both were profound thinkers.

[Captain Steel]

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays."

- Prof. Harold Hill

[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

A few from the supremely quotable Samuel Clemens:

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

[nyctc7]

Some more Yogi-isms
“It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
“It’s deja vu all over again.”
"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."
"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.”
“We were overwhelming underdogs.”
"Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours."

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I normally don't watch these because the celebrities are usually pompous and ignore how lucky they are... This one is the exact opposite, and i absolutely agree with the message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF7NqeZuO3E

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[TheManBehindTheCurtain]

"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.”

— H. L. Mencken