What's your favorite quote?

“My far-and-away all time favorite is

"It's only pain."
-Ghandi

what's yours?”

“"does this mean a b-j is out of the question??

some movie. guy talking to a girl who is very angry with him”

“"come here wendy . . I don't want to hurt you . . .I just want to KILLL YOU!!"


"here's Johnny!!"

""honey, i'm home"

The Shinning”

“As a statistics instructor, one of my favorite quotes is:

"In God we trust...All others bring data"”

“Thanks Phil, now I have a new 2nd favorite quote.”

“Here are a couple more I like rather well:

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
-Vincent Van Gogh


"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Walter Bagehot”

“Small minds discuss people.
Average minds dicuss events.
Great minds discuss ideas!

-Sign behind the bar at the Flame in downtown Missoula”

“Man is born to die, his works are short-lived. Buildings crumble, monuments decay, wealth vanishes. But Katahdin in all its glory forever shall remain the mountain of the people of Maine.

- Percival Baxter

Even though I'm not doing Katahdin, I've got BSP on the brain lately - just too psyched about my trip next week...”

“"Is there more to life than just working?
Yes, there's the complaining about work,
the nightly periods of unconsiousness and
sweet, sweet death."

Dilbert (9/7/01)”

“WHY DON'T YOU ALL SHUT UP ABOUT BACKPACKING!

I am sick of this never ending debate over gear. my gear is better then yours, my gear has this, my gear has that. Take you gear and shove it up you stupid redneck backpacking asses, and go to hell while you're at it, YOU STUPID FREAKIN DICK MUNCHING CRACK BABIES!!!!!

-Tarp Rat
5:58:45 PM
5/30/01”

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker”

“Yes!

-Marv Albert”

“A cartoon on my cubicle wall:

"When you're getting paid by the hour, speed is someone else's problem.”

“"You can pick your friends, and you can pick you nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

quoted from some unknown bugger.”

“I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
-Unknown

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
-Lefty Gomez

"I did not have sexual relations with that....woman."
-Bill Clinton
(add names below)
-________
-________
-________
-________”

“"I am William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my countrymen, here in defiance and tyranny! You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are! But what will you do without freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight, and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile. And then, dying in your bed, many years from now, would you be willing, to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our FREEDOM!

"I, the fiery life of divine essence, am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon, and stars."
--Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds."
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."
--Wendell Berry

"The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step."
--Sri Auribindo

"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."
--St. Augustine, 354-430”

“"The obligation of the artist is not to solve problem but to state the problem correctly." Anton Chekov

"Thank you for not being an a$$hole." Ken Mikolowski, poet/printer”

“The best thing you can spend on your children, is time.

Wish I said it first.”

“...solve THE problem... (oops)”

“It's better to say nothing, and be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

It's not about the mistakes we have made, it's about what we have learned from them.”

“ "Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?"

Joseph Heller, 1923-1999



 ?God does not throw dice.?

Albert Einstein



 ?The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.?

George Bernard Shaw



 " The unexamined life is not worth living ! "

Socrates (470-399 B.C.)


 "Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are a humble cottage
with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and
butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door;
and if God wants to make my happiness complete, He will grant me the joy
of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees."

Heinrich Heine


 By accepting mediocrity we destroy the pursuit of excellence.

Ayn Rand


 "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other."

Voltaire


 "?any man?s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

John Donne


 ?The Pillsbury doughboy is way too happy considering he has no dick.?

Adam Sandler”

“I try to take one day at a a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
- Jennifer Unlimited


Gravity - It's not just a good idea, it's the Law!

- NASA briefing slide”

“"...do or do not, there is no try"

-Yoda”

“Not ready to pick my absolute favorite but near the top is: "All generalizations are false."”

“I love a good paradox.”

“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed

-Ayn Rand

Measure your age in friends, not years.

-???”

“"There is no "I" in Construction!"
~What I tell my shop students

"I'm 'all that' AND a bag of Sakrete"
~Something else I tell the students

"The leaves lie thick on the paths of my memory"
~Unknown (to me)

"In the end, all is okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end"
~Jamie's fave”

“I`d rather wipe my ass on a piece of broken glass than to ever do that again!

My Dad!”

“I drank what?
-Socrates.”

“arclite here's one you might like.

"Perhaps the insane are the only sane people in a world gone insane" - forgotten, got it from high school Physch. text book.”

“Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

sign on the computer tech door at work”

“"Ordinary f***ing people, I hate 'em!"
- Harry Dean Stanton, from the movie "Repo Man"”

“Yay, Repo Man!”

“"We ARE the people our mothers warned us about!"...

unknown”

“"'Tis easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission..."

Sign on the bulkhead Rear Admiral (Ret) (Amazing) Grace Kelley”

“"Temptation resisted is the true measure of character"

Wm D. Newton

This includes the temptation to knock the s...t out of someone who desparately needs it.”

“Phil, just got done taking a DOE class..”

“I don't like to quote famous people, just people I know..

'You're totally in charge, I leave everything totally up to you'

-my sometimes boyfriend”

“Life is tough, its tougher if you're stupid.”

“no famous person ever had any influence on my life..just my mother


(hey, did I just make up my own?)”

“"stick it up" uh, I mean "stickem up".”

“"I'm beginning to think twice about this."

-my friend when things started to get hairy above treeline


"Think twice, walk once."

-my reply”

“"Heer kittykittykitty"”

“"if you can't be a good example

be a terrible reminder"”

“"Keep yer bullsh!t detector in good workin' order."

Forest Gump


"...there is some sh!t i will not eat."

e.e. cummings


"You cannot make someone else's choices. You should not let someone else make yours."

Colin Powell”

“Unless it's a direct order, Colin?”

“Aero: It was Martin Mull who made the line about the lobotomy. I love that line too.”

“You're ass is grass and I'm the "LAWNMOWER"”

“Wow, there are so many to choose from. The following three are from anonymous authors.

?We, the willing.
Led by the unknowing.
Are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
We have done so much for so long,
with so little
We are now qualified
to do anything
with nothing.?

?When the student is ready, the teacher will appear?

?When God made the dog, he said "this animal will be a companion to man." When He made the cat, God said, "this animal will keep man humble."”

“what if life was fair and all the bad things that happened to you were because you deserved them.”