random quotes

"My plan to promote Dog River is working. An American tourist came here accidentally." - Mayor Fitzy Fitzergerald, mayor of Dog River on the show Corner Gas.
 
"I think animal testing is a terrible idea. Oh yes, they get all nervous and give silly answers." --a vox pop on A Bit Of Fry And Laurie.

"Is God an Englishman? Well, that's a tricky one. Theologians are pretty much undecided, but I think it's universally accepted that He isn't Welsh." --another.
 
"I would prefer not to." --Bartleby the Scrivener

It was also my very first sig when I joined here. :)



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QUOTATION, n.
The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

--Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
 
Muhammad Ali: Last night I hit the light in the bedroom and was in the bed before the room went dark.


Muhammad Ali: Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
 
Emma: You're going to the doctor.
Oscar: Over my dead body!
Emma: That'd speed things up.
 
Karen: How stupid are you? You can't just fire your gun off willy-nilly!
Davis: It wasn't willy-nilly, it was at crows
 
"You're about as useful as a poopy-flavored lolly pop!"---Patches O' Hoolihan from Dodgeball
 
Brent: Want me to fill it up?
Man: Sure. You know I've never driven across Saskatchewan before.
Brent: Well, you still haven't really. About halfway to go yet.
Man: Sure is flat.
Brent: How do you mean?
Man: You know, flat. Nothing to see.
Brent: What do you mean, like topographically? Hey Hank, this guy says Saskatchewan is flat.
Hank: How do you mean?
Brent: Topographically I guess. He says there's nothin' to see.
Hank: There's lots to see. There's nothin' to block your view.
Brent: There's lots to see. Nothin' to block your view. Like the mountains back there. They're uh... Well, what the hell? I could've sworn there was a big mountain range back there. Juttin' up into the sky all purple and majestic. I must be thinkin' of a postcard I saw or somethin'. Hey, it is kinda flat, thanks for pointin' that out.
Man: You guys always this sarcastic?
Brent: There's nothin' else to do.
 
"Celebacy is a hands on Job" - Ghost: Enter The Matrix
 
Babbler: When you have a castle in the sky, no shift in the ground can bother you."

In response to "are you afraid of getting old?"
Quasar1011: No. I'm more afraid of waking up with a moose in my bed.
 
Hank: Hey, Davis just gave me a parking ticket.
Wanda: Yeah, he gave me on too, and I'm parked in the parking lot.
Hank: Yeah, well I wasn't even parked. I was stopped at a stop sign, he came running out from behind a bush.
 
Jimmy Carr: When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in Mexico last summer, I was listening to Michael Bolton.

Jimmy Carr: My Girlfriend asked me if I'd been having sex behind her back. Yes! Who did you think it was? Check next time.
 
Man pulls into a gas station
Brent: Morning, want me to fill it up?
Marvin: Do you work here?
Brent: It'd be a pretty weird hobby.
 
"Keeping us up here eats away at families. Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families, that's what this says!"
Jack Kingston, on the new 5-day-a-week congress schedule​

"An invisible assailant OR did I just interview the wrong person? You, the VIEWER, decide!!"
Mike the T.V.​

"I like Mr. Gorbachev - we can do business together."
Margaret Thatcher​

"The more time passes, the more I am sorry about it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog."
Oleg Gazenko, on Laika and Sputnik 2​
 
Ricky Gervais: “Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!”

Ricky Gervais: "I suppose I grew up wishing I was an American Jew for the comedy and the one-liners. Or actress who does a Holocaust movie because, as she explains, it's a surefire way to finally win an Oscar."
 
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