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Darnit696
13th June 2006, 08:36 AM
Copied unashamedly from somewhere else

"I once went 13 YEARS without drinking. Then I hit high school and it
was all kinda downhill from there."
- Modern Drunkard Magazine, Staff Member

"Whoever said that the human body is a beautiful thing has clearly
never spent an afternoon by the swimming pool at the Merton Hotel in
Jersey."
- Richard Herring

"The lordship of a manor confers no title. Oh, you could call yourself
a lord, but everyone else would call you a prick."
- Terry Pratchett

"Just imagine we are meeting the aliens for the first time. Most
people would just shoot them to see how many points they are worth."
- Simon Cozens

A computer programmer is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell", sees
the "Go to", rather than the destination, as harmful."
- Unknown

"If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, there's going to be
one big-ass fight over where to set the thermostat."
- Jim Rosenberg

"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group
for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
- Drew Carey

"Don’t use one of those little Handi-Vac things to empty an ashtray.
Because the inrush of air could potentially reignite any fading
embers. And, uh, a big jet of flame might shoot out of the thing,
surprising you and making you scream like a ten-year-old girl. And you
might knock over your beer."
- Patrick Hughes

"Should you ever decide to use bamboo sticks and stretchy, decorative
string that’s designed to wrap presents to make a bow and arrow, and
should you decide to wad up a bunch of duct tape on the end of your
arrow and soak it with WD-40 so it’ll, you know, burn better, I would
recommend not shooting the flaming arrow onto the roof of a house, or
into the lap of your friend’s cousin. Even by accident."
- Patrick Hughes, speaking from personal experience

"If you accidentally rear-end another car while driving, Florida law
dictates that you must stop and confer with the affected party. Turns
out just waving to let folks know you’re alright while driving away is
a little something the state troopers like to call “leaving the scene
of an accident.”"
- Patrick Hughes, speaking from personal experience

Darnit696
13th June 2006, 08:53 AM
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; give him a
freshly-charged Electric Eel and chances are he won't bother you for
anything ever again"
- Unknown

"....most SF writers are small blokes; they spent a lot of time
grubbing around on the floor for old SF mags, not stretching up to the
top shelf for pornography...As an aside, Douglas Adams is quite tall."
- Terry Pratchett

> I guess it depends if the universe ends up being open or closed.
Either way, I wish they'd hurry up and release the API.
- Josh Brandt, showing extreme geekyness

Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence; many epic tales
are pretty much epic crap — just ask my critics, who will moan about
entire Canadian forests massacred in order to print my drivel."
- Stephen King, from _On Writing_

> How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to
> Hitler?
Of course he's "comparable" to Hitler: It is possible to compare Bush
to Hitler: Bush is immensely less charismatic, competent or
intelligent than Hitler.
Brought to you by the British campaign to eliminate idiotic American
misuse of the word "comparable".
- Unknown

"Why is there no CSI:Kentucky? Because there are no dental records and
all the DNA is the same."
- Elf M. Sternberg

"Arguing on the internet is like being in the special olympics, even
if you win you're still retarded."
- Unknown

"I said as much to Peter Jackson when I was in Auckland last month.
I explained what a valuable property DW could be, the scope of the
series, my willingness to accept a smallish advance from the right
producer/director...
...and then his butler opened the door and told me to stop shouting
through the letter box."
- Terry Pratchett, on making movies of his Discworld series

> Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
> stupidity.
Personally, I'd rather be undone by a grand, nefarious Evil Plot than
by banal bumbling stupidity.....
- Ritu Ko

"No one with a feeling for literature and poetry can read the typical
best-selling business or self-help book with a straight face, because
their six rules or nine plans or 12 formulas are so manifestly
idiotic, and couched in prose of such insulting simplicity. If I were
a boss, I would fire any employer reading such a book, on the grounds
that he was not smart enough to be working for me. If I were the
employee of a company that hired one of those motivational gurus, I
would quit on the grounds that management had been taken over by pod
people."
- Roger Ebert


"It's not that I've anything against Unix, mind. It's just that life's
too short."
- Kat Feete

"... dating is like defusing bombs. You can't expect it to work every
time. Just collect the bits and move on."
- James Nicoll

""Zatoichi" is one of the weirdest films I've ever seen. It's like a
Samurai movie done by Bollywood, where everyone was taking powerful
hallucinogens."
- Amanda Lowery

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and
neither do we."
- George W. Bush

"Just in case any hippies end up here by accident, I’d like to say a
few things about your sham alternative-medicine hokum: Herbs don’t
cure shit. Herbs go in quiche, yes. They are not medicine. Sure,
cavemen used herbs to try and cure shit, but that was before we had
science and stuff. Your commie, repellant herbs and garnishes might’ve
been in common medicinal use for 2000 years or whatever, but the
average lifespan for people living during those 2000 years was, like,
15."
- Patrick Hughes

rainy
13th June 2006, 09:59 AM
Love the quotes from PTerry :banana:

Bass
13th June 2006, 02:30 PM
:rofl: Excellent !! Some really good ones there :D

doobiwan
13th June 2006, 03:49 PM
I needed that :)

stoke
25th January 2008, 08:09 AM
Franks Darnit.

Sminty
26th January 2008, 04:49 AM
Don't tase me bro!

Sminty
26th January 2008, 04:50 AM
pTerry is the most phenomenal author in ever! I challenge anybody here to be a greater fan ;)

For those of you who haven't heard of his recent diagnosis (and his indominitable reaction to it)....well you really aren't a fan are you?