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Oscillator
Yeah, but do the people who say that throw nukes at enemies while they say it?
Anyway,
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
-Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Yeah, but do the people who say that throw nukes at enemies while they say it?
Anyway,
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
-Adam Savage, Mythbusters
Ziggy Stardust
Absolutely Sane
The king of bad comparisons, Mr. Jeremy Clarkson:
“The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite”
“The air conditioning in a Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”
“Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what… BEING STABBED?”
“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.’”
On the Lotus Elise: “This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”
“Sure it’s quiet, for a diesel. But that’s like being well-behaved… for a murderer.”
“Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar… in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.”
On the Porsche Cayenne: “Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis.”
"Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear, I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would. One day, it would pull your head off."
"It's really as useful, as a snooze button on a smoke alarm. (Regarding the adjustable suspension in the Bentley Continental GT)"
Oh what the hell, here's his website
http://www.jeremyclarkson.co.uk/jc-top-gear-quotes/
“The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite”
“The air conditioning in a Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”
“Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what… BEING STABBED?”
“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.’”
On the Lotus Elise: “This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”
“Sure it’s quiet, for a diesel. But that’s like being well-behaved… for a murderer.”
“Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar… in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.”
On the Porsche Cayenne: “Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis.”
"Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear, I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would. One day, it would pull your head off."
"It's really as useful, as a snooze button on a smoke alarm. (Regarding the adjustable suspension in the Bentley Continental GT)"
Oh what the hell, here's his website
http://www.jeremyclarkson.co.uk/jc-top-gear-quotes/
Kozmos
Jew Detective
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
"From the delicate strands,
between minds we weave our mesh:
a blanket to warm the soul."
-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Collected Poems"
It really is of importance, not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it. Among the works of man...the first importance surely is man himself. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him. - Voltaire
Looking at American history backwards, its about white people taking away black peoples rights until they get fed up with it and move to Africa - SymphonicStorm
I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
-Arthur C. Clark
"Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside."
-Arthur C. Clark
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
-Aristotle
"When a man talks dirty to a woman it's sexual harassment but when a woman talks dirty to a man it's $4.95 a minute." -Armor Wolf
One time when I was ten, my sixteen year old cousin let me play with her boobs. I didn't know it was wrong.~Alex Shelley
-Aristotle
"From the delicate strands,
between minds we weave our mesh:
a blanket to warm the soul."
-- Lady Deirdre Skye, "The Collected Poems"
It really is of importance, not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it. Among the works of man...the first importance surely is man himself. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent Him. - Voltaire
Looking at American history backwards, its about white people taking away black peoples rights until they get fed up with it and move to Africa - SymphonicStorm
I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein. - George W. Bush
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
-Arthur C. Clark
"Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside."
-Arthur C. Clark
"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
-Aristotle
"When a man talks dirty to a woman it's sexual harassment but when a woman talks dirty to a man it's $4.95 a minute." -Armor Wolf
One time when I was ten, my sixteen year old cousin let me play with her boobs. I didn't know it was wrong.~Alex Shelley
"Oderint dvm metvant." (Let them hate so long as they fear me.)
-Lucius Accius
"Polemos panton men pater esti." (War is the father of all things.)
-Herakleitos of Ephesos
"Pvlvis et vmbra svmvs." (We are dust and shadows.)
-Q. Horatius Flaccus
"Wicked men, are you sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander?" (Don't have the original Greek.
)
-Antigenes, shouted to his opponents at the Battle of Gabiene
"I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
-Ulysses S. Grant
"I am now sending back to Bell Plaines [sic] all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions, and Ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line if it takesme all summer."
-Ulysses S. Grant, May 11, 1864, dispatch to Washington from Spotsylvania Court House
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
-Vince Lombardi
"Die Politik ist die Kunst des Möglichen." (Politics is the art of possibilities.)
-Otto von Bismarck
"Was aus Liebe gethan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse." (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hekastos allotrioi barbaros esti." (Everyone is a barbarian to someone.)
-Popularized by the EB Team
-Lucius Accius
"Polemos panton men pater esti." (War is the father of all things.)
-Herakleitos of Ephesos
"Pvlvis et vmbra svmvs." (We are dust and shadows.)
-Q. Horatius Flaccus
"Wicked men, are you sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander?" (Don't have the original Greek.
)-Antigenes, shouted to his opponents at the Battle of Gabiene
"I don't underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail."
-Ulysses S. Grant
"I am now sending back to Bell Plaines [sic] all my wagons for a fresh supply of provisions, and Ammunition, and propose to fight it out on this line if it takes
-Ulysses S. Grant, May 11, 1864, dispatch to Washington from Spotsylvania Court House
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
-Vince Lombardi
"Die Politik ist die Kunst des Möglichen." (Politics is the art of possibilities.)
-Otto von Bismarck
"Was aus Liebe gethan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse." (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Hekastos allotrioi barbaros esti." (Everyone is a barbarian to someone.)
-Popularized by the EB Team
Just three from me:
"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I f, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"
Bill Hicks
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
"Life - the ultimate RPG."
an old friend
"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I f, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"
Bill Hicks
"I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse."
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
"Life - the ultimate RPG."
an old friend
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan (Cosmos)
wilbill
That Old Time Religion
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
both from Dorothy Parker
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
both from Dorothy Parker
The Duke of Wellington, in reply to something along the lines of 'the French horse came up well at Waterloo"
Yes, and they went down very well too.
My former boss:
Aye, it's a godforsaken hell-hole, but it's OUR HELL-HOLE!
Yes, and they went down very well too.
My former boss:
Aye, it's a godforsaken hell-hole, but it's OUR HELL-HOLE!
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
"Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect." - Leon Trotsky
"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts, your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the rubbish-can of history!" - Leon Trotsky, to Martov and his Menshevik followers, after the October Revolution
"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts, your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the rubbish-can of history!" - Leon Trotsky, to Martov and his Menshevik followers, after the October Revolution
Supr49er
2011 Thunderfall Cup
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
jessiecat
Divine Monarch
"Philosophers have long attempted to describe the nature of the world. Our task however, is to change it." (enscribed on the tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetary, London)
"It is impolite to interrup a man when he is making a mistake." (Napoleon, Waterloo 1815)
On the gravestone of Spike Milligan, "I told you I wasn't well!"
"It is impolite to interrup a man when he is making a mistake." (Napoleon, Waterloo 1815)
On the gravestone of Spike Milligan, "I told you I wasn't well!"
I think it's 'I told you I was ill'. Still epic.
On a lawyer in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer.
And that is Strange.
On a lawyer in England:
Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest lawyer.
And that is Strange.
Fr8monkey
Deity
"Reality is the playground for the unimaginitive" - bumper sticker.
"The lottery is a tax on people who dont understand basic math." - My old math teacher.
"The lottery is a tax on people who dont understand basic math." - My old math teacher.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
" We aren't trying to change your mind - we're only trying to show everyone else that you're an idiot." - paraphrasing of Elta
"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis
-C.S. Lewis
"No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. ... No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got,
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces it so, that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free."
-Prospero, Epilogue to The Tempest, by Wm. Shakespeare
"...We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
-Prospero, The Tempest (IV, i, 158-60)
The original translation that Dachs gave was correct. Note also that Romans didn't speak of single persons using plurals that time (except sometimes in poetry to make it match the form).
This reminds me of the factoid in the Finnish periodical Pahkasika: If all Finnish engineers were put standing one metre from each other on the Helsinki-Tampere freeway, that would be a good thing.
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