Favorite Quote?

 
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill 1940
 
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
Winston Churchill 1940
 
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour".
Winston Churchill 1940
 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill 1940
 
There is nothing wrong with defeat
Nelson Mandela's chiropodist - 2011
 
 
 

''Can I use your toilet mate? Just a pee, mind, nothin' fancy..''

P. Jenkins - sign fitter

"Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact." Homer Simpson.

But as a code to live by I like Hanlon's Razor. It helps keep the blood pressure down

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

mike_mccue


That would be helpful for me to remember.

I have a lot of resistance to the idea that people can be stupid... so I tend to err in the other direction when I react to friction caused by misunderstandings.

no.  most people are just stupid.

"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgment." - Zefram Cochrane 2073

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream."  Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy

I actually heard this for the first time on the original Willy Wonka - as quoted by Gene Wilder and I did not realize he was quoting O'Shaughnessy at the time but loved that quote.

"Bapu is as Bapu does."

A spiritual axiom from the akashic records.

(or is it?)

Beagle

mike_mccue


That would be helpful for me to remember.

I have a lot of resistance to the idea that people can be stupid... so I tend to err in the other direction when I react to friction caused by misunderstandings.

no.  Bapu are just a stupid face.

Fauxtualized.

SteveStrummerUK


 
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill 1940
 
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
Winston Churchill 1940
 
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour".
Winston Churchill 1940
 
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill 1940 
  
  
  
 

My favourite quote is a Churchill one too:
 
"The greatest aspect of fame is that if you bore guests at a party, they blame themselves."

To loosely quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,

"The music business is a shallow plastic trench filled with pimps and whores where good men die like dogs."

My hero.

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
    ~James A. Garfield

One morning, I got up and shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas--I'll never know. Captain Spaulding, aka Grouch Marx.

Zappa:

''It's pretty easy to hate me, for whatever you choose to hate me for.. because I'm virtually unrepentant, I just don't care. My insensitivity is pretty evenly spread around"

"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read."

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

"A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an ****."

"The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's ****in'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's ****ty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like."

"I don't like any one of you any more than the other, I hate you all equally."

I'm sure it's been said many times, but I first heard it from my Business & Finance teacher in High School.