you're favourite quotes.?

Question

What are your favourite quotes. Like "I was drowning and you threw me a life ring" Any inspirational quotes.

Answer 1

Some people can light up a room...........just by leaving it

Answer 2

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Imagination is more important than knowledge (the teachers should know that!! lolz... :) )
Albert Einstien, duh!!

Answer 3

You can't teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.

Here's to the Crazy Ones
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

-Apple Computer Ad, 1997


There are only 4 questions of value in life, Don Octavio:

What is sacred?
Of What is the spirit made?
What is worth Living for? and
What is worth Dying for?

The answer to each is the same: only Love!

Don Juan DeMarco to Don Octavio
in the film Don Juan DeMarco


When we walk to the edge
of all the light we have
and take the step into the
darkness of the unknown,
we must believe that
one of two things will happen....
There will be something
solid for us to stand on
or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton


and of course, my own personal quote:

"I forgot my roll and jimmies"--PAB
(comes from when my friends and i went to golden crowel-didn't spell that right-and i forgot my leftovers there! which was a roll, and jimmies(sprinkles)...PAB was what we called people....punk a ss bi tch....hehehe

Answer 4

There is a Stevie Smith poem "Drowning not waving" also a poem about "The elephant in the room" e.g. for a great silent secret which is difficult to talk about.
My favourite is "After my roof burnt down, I could see the stars more clearly!"

Answer 5

Martin Luther King Junior's "I have a dream" speech.

p.s. The monkey thing, is actually an infinite amount of monkeys and typewriters. I should know, i have been trying to 'chimp'ion their cause for ages!!

Answer 6

One of my favorites is: "If a man hasn't discovered something to die for, then he isn't fit to live."

Someone also told me that when you walk into someone's house, check your coat, hat, and EGO at the door!

But here's one i made up about four years ago. This is one i dedicated to my lady:

"If i like you, i'll do anything in the world for you. If i love you, i'll respect you twice as much in the morning!"

Answer 7

"One thing is true of all governments: the most reliable records are the tax records." V FOR VENDETTA (film)

"People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people." V FOR VENDETTA (film)

" A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having." V FOR VENDETTA (film)

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." Japanese (or is it Chinese?) Proverb

"Don’t push your luck too far,
Your wounds won’t leave a scar,
Right now is where you are,
In a broken dream." Python Lee Jackson, IN A BROKEN DREAM (song)

"A hero's strength lies in his heart." Michael Bolton, GO THE DISTANCE (song from Hercules, the cartoon)

(No smoking sign:) "Please do not smoke in my room; I enjoy sex more than you enjoy smoking and you don't see me screwing in your room."

Can't remember any more. ;)

Answer 8

'buzzards gotta eat same as worms' - Clint east wood in The outlaw Josie Wales.

'like gordon ramsay with a gun. he'll whip you up a treat then kick you in the knackers' - E4 trailer for Steven Segal film 'Under Siege'

both make me laugh every time i hear them.

Answer 9

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them.

Answer 10

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time.

TS Eliot

Answer 11

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.