Favorite quotes

[UKMikey]

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

 

[Pupik]

"spandex is a privilege, not a right"
- zachary_amaryllis

 

[Pete05]

"spandex is a privilege, not a right"
- zachary_amaryllis

This ^

Obviously, some people just don't use mirrors, have lost touch with reality, or for some reason, think we want to know.

 

[ScottPuss20]

My favourite Acceleracers quotes:

"I'm gonna pass you"

"I've got trouble"

"I've got more trouble"

"He crashed because he made a mistake"

"I don't know!"

"Are you kidding me?"

"I'm going for the record! Fastest time ever"

"What's wrong with a little music?"

"Spinebuster's my car!"

"If you ever do that again, you better not miss"

"Nolo can't forget his brother and Kurt won't forgive his"

"You can't even find half your car"

"I learn how in prison!"

 

[Thematic]

“When a child is rejected by the village, he will burn the village down just to feel the warmth .”
– African proverb

 

[g-man7]

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-- Eddie Izzard

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[UKMikey]

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey, @TexRex, you've got a fan!

I'm not sure whether @g-man7 intended to post this as a counterargument to Izzard's quote, because it seems like the two quotes agree with each other.

 

[UKMikey]

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge' .

 

[UKMikey]

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

Note: I like this quote not because Catch-22 is supposed to be the greatest book ever (although it's very good), but rather as a witty riposte from an artist who's tired of being constantly told "your old stuff was better".

 

[Liquid]

 

[UKMikey]

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

 

[Liquid]

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're misinformed.

 

[Michael88]

If you are going through hell, keep walking.

 

[UKMikey]

 

[Liquid]

I hope it wasn't originally said by an absolute weapon because I quite like this.

 

[Liquid]

I still struggle to understand why, in a nation with more guns than people, you manage to execute more school kids than you do billionaires.

 

[UKMikey]

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

This technique is as old as the hills; it was practiced in almost every Greek city, and the moderns have only enlarged its scale.

 

[GDETrust]

Life is not meant to be a journey to the grave in a well preserved body. I want to skid into my grave sideways with a beer in one hand and a taco in the other screaming "Holy hell, what a rush"

 

[VBdoughboy]

"An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough"

 

[UKMikey]

"A quote without attribution is no more than just a random aphorism" -- me

 

[UKMikey]

What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

 

[CMGMS]

''Hands on work, eyes on fun''

quotation : Turkish People

 

[UKMikey]

Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy. They do not attack people because they want to, but because of their size and strength, mankind has no other choice but to defend himself. After several stories such as this, people end up having a kind of affection for the monsters. They end up caring about them.

 

[CommanderBond]

"Vodka martini - shaken, not stirred"

.... and also

"Hey - where the white women at ???"

 

[MIE1992]

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."

-Orson Welles

 

[UKMikey]

 

[VBdoughboy]

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.​

Thomas Sowell​

 

[UKMikey]

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

 

[UKMikey]

The tyrant is a child of pride who drinks from his sickening cup, recklessness and vanity, until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope.

 

[Sharpie]

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.

Mikhail Tal