Favorite Famous Quotes
12-23-2009, 06:11 PM
#11
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Join Date: 02-09-2009
Location: Downtown Saint Petersburg, Florida
Posts: 3,169
"Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth."
— Shel Silverstein
— Shel Silverstein
12-23-2009, 08:32 PM
#14
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Join Date: 06-26-2008
Location: N.W. Burbs Chicago
Posts: 4,152
"I think it is better to risk my life
and to be a "has been"
than to never have been at all.
Even though crippled and busted in half,
it has been better to take a chance
to win a victory
or suffer a defeat
than to live like others do
who will never know
a victory or defeat
because they have had not the guts
to try either."
Evel Knievel
and to be a "has been"
than to never have been at all.
Even though crippled and busted in half,
it has been better to take a chance
to win a victory
or suffer a defeat
than to live like others do
who will never know
a victory or defeat
because they have had not the guts
to try either."
Evel Knievel
12-23-2009, 09:44 PM
#15
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Join Date: 08-20-2006
Location: Hillsdale, Michigan
Posts: 21,640
One of my favs:
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Originally Posted by Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Last edited by HillsdaleHHR; 12-23-2009 at 10:37 PM.
12-26-2009, 04:24 PM
#16
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Thread Starter
Join Date: 06-09-2009
Location: Clinton, Mass
Posts: 2,950
Hunter S. Thompson
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon . . ."
"No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough"
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."
"My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that . . . and there I'd be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk . . . honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It'd be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt."
Last thing he wrote
"Football seasons over. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bi+chy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
RIP - blew his brains out at 67 years of age
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine and a whole multicolored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers . . . Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon . . ."
"No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough"
"I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes."
"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others- the living- are those who pushed their luck as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."
"My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that . . . and there I'd be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk . . . honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It'd be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt."
Last thing he wrote
"Football seasons over. No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bi+chy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt."
RIP - blew his brains out at 67 years of age
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!'"
12-26-2009, 08:03 PM
#18
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Join Date: 06-09-2009
Location: Clinton, Mass
Posts: 2,950
"Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheeze freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze."
Fox
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheeze freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze."
Fox
12-27-2009, 11:10 AM
#19
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Join Date: 11-15-2007
Location: Yorkville, IL
Posts: 282
WE are the makers of music, and WE are the dreamers of dreams.
-Willy Wonka to Veruca Salt when she expressed indignant disbelief in the existence of Snozzberries.
(the origination of this quote is the poet Arthur Shaughnessy)
-Willy Wonka to Veruca Salt when she expressed indignant disbelief in the existence of Snozzberries.
(the origination of this quote is the poet Arthur Shaughnessy)
