"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers,
1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary
Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone
With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --
Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca
Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than- air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy." -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving
Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marecha
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". -- Pierre Pachet,
Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". -- Sir John Eric Ericksen,
British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
2007-07-23 11:42:09 · 21 answers · asked by Smurf 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
piscesburd: A little bit, sorry
2007-07-23 11:46:15 · update #1
leaperpup: I am on Polls and Surveys, There is no point just fun
2007-07-23 11:48:56 · update #2
Nick: Take a chill pill
2007-07-23 11:49:48 · update #3
This is a fantastic "question"
Love,
Snag
2007-07-23 11:44:59 · answer #1 · answered by snaggle_smurf 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let’s suppose that we really can predict the future with certainty. Our first reaction might be one of excitement and joy. Those winning lottery numbers are out there somewhere, ready for the taking. But let’s think again. This means the future already exists, and our existence is a bit like being in a(n already made) movie. What we perceive as now is simply the frame currently being projected on the screen. But tomorrow, the day after, next week, next year and so on, until the end of the universe, are already in the can. Nothing we say, or think, or feel, or do really matters a jot. We are powerless puppets enslaved within an inflexible and inescapable destiny.
2016-05-21 04:48:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of people have taken stabs at predicting the future. some are right others are wrong. I wish more people had listened to those of us that were saying that the Iraq war was going to be a disaster.
Nothing magic about it. The small number of Americans that were actually paying attention before 9-11 knew Bush was the wrong man for the job.
2007-07-23 11:49:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
And the Frenchman who drove at 60mph and said man should never ever travel faster than this!
Good point, the world is full of ar******s and we should be wary of who we listen to
2007-07-23 12:08:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you right just like i thought i that Ohio State was going to win the national champ,
2007-07-23 11:46:43 · answer #5 · answered by paulcondo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that stuff great! Talk about open mouth: insert foot!
2007-07-23 11:47:28 · answer #6 · answered by Haaaaay! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smurfy hun-do you know how late it is?please dont expect me to understand that-;-) !!xx
2007-07-23 11:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by SUZANNE R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
So, what's your point? Don't read horoscopes, they don't work anyway. Seers and mediums are no better than what you can reason out for yourself. Trust God, not someone who thinks they can foretell the future.
2007-07-23 11:47:01 · answer #8 · answered by Sunny 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Well. Thank you, Nostradamus and friends.
2007-07-23 12:06:32 · answer #9 · answered by Wildamberhoney 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have you swallowed an encyclopedia?
2007-07-23 11:44:57 · answer #10 · answered by Little Miss Pineapple 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋