Best quotes thread

[Bomber Bears]

Possibly a shit thread, but what are some of the better quotes or lines you have seen.

Inspired by this, written in NME about the Brokencyde album

even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment

 

[Power King]

Subscribed for potential.

BF poster Dyertribe should have a shrine dedicated to him for quotes. Everything that man posts is quote-worthy material. He just has a way with words, a way which no superlative befits.

Here's my contribution which leaves a lot to be desired:

Women are a lot like carpet. If you lay them right the first time, you can walk all over them later.

Quoted for the truth more than for the lulz.

 

[Bomber Bears]

British football manager Gordon Strachen has some gold

Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
Strachan: No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless."

Reporter: Is that your best start to a season?
Strachan: Well I've still got a job so it's far better than the Coventry one, that's for sure.

Reporter: Are you getting where you want to be with this team?
Strachan: We're not doing bad. What do you expect us to be like? We were eighth in the league last year, in the cup final and we got into Europe. I don't know where you expect me to get to. Do you expect us to win the Champions League?

Reporter: Gordon, you must be delighted with that result?
Strachan: You're spot on! You can read me like a book.

Strachan: I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Agustin Delgado.

Reporter: This might sound like a daft question, but you'll be happy to get your first win under your belt, won't you?
Strachan: You're right. It is a daft question. I'm not even going to bother answering that one. It is a daft question, you're spot on there.

Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
Strachan: No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.

Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
Strachan: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.

Reporter: Where will Marion Pahars fit into the team line-up?
Strachan: Not telling you! It's a secret.

Reporter: You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon?
Strachan: I don't take stupid comments lightly either.

Reporter: So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today?
Strachan: What areas? Mainly that big green one out there...

On Wayne Rooney : It's an incredible rise to stardom, at 17 you’re more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.

Reporter - Can we have a quick word Gordon?
Strachan - Velocity

 

[Coledinho]

A nice random quote

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Just change the word bus with what room your in and its a good one to use IMO

 

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[Wahooti Fandango]

A nice random quote

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Just change the word bus with what room your in and its a good one to use IMO

"Me and her GOT IT ON."

"No, you didn't."

 

[Echo Bravo]

'Let them hate, so long as they fear.'

-GrizzlyM

 

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Clones are people two! -unknown

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I'm going to beat you like a redheaded stepchild.

 

[Caesar]

I've always thought that Stendhal's definition of beauty as "the promise of happiness" is one of the best quotes going around.

My other favourite is Galileo's oft-quoted description of wine as "sunlight held together by water".

 

[Bomber Bears]

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music" - Marcus Brigstocke

 

[THFC_70]

Gordon Strachan owns this thread.

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[TheStinger]

Exegi monumentum aere perennius
regalique situ pyramidum altius,
quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens
possit diruere aut innumerabilis
annorum series et fuga temporum.
Non omnis moriar multaque pars mei
uitabit Libitinam; usque ego postera
crescam laude recens, dum Capitolium
scandet cum tacita uirgine pontifex.
Dicar, qua uiolens obstrepit Aufidus
et qua pauper aquae Daunus agrestium
regnauit populorum, ex humili potens
princeps Aeolium carmen ad Italos
deduxisse modos. Sume superbiam
quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
lauro cinge uolens, Melpomene, comam.

I've raised a monument no king shall claim
Nor bronze outlast nor pyramid exceed,
Which neither puny North wind nor toothed rain
Nor the innumerable years' stampede
Nor flying time can tatter to the earth.
Not all of me will die. A part is strong
Enough to flout Queen Death into rebirth
Of people's praise long afterward. As long
As priest and virgin pace the Capitol,
I shall be spoken of where Aufidus spins
Wroth waves against the land, where Daunus ruled
Parched farmlands: I, a humble-blooded prince,
Who brought Greek melody to Latin song.
O Muse! Take pride in what I am today.
My genius is yours, and we have won.
Grin down and crown me with the Delphic bay.

Horace's Ode 3.30
The final piece of his gift to the world.

 

[Vecto]

most things are easier said than done. Except for speaking, which is more or less the same.

 

[strengthwithin]

"The face says alot about someone, especially their mouth"

 

[HSSB]

'The problem with quotes on the Internet is you never know whether they're really from who they say they're from' - George Washington.

Pretty sure Lincoln said that

 

[Leper]

Quote: "Buyer enquiry range $1.3M to $1.4M".

Translation: "Reserve is $1.75M."

 

[hagansbull]

" You can't turn grass into lawn overnight" Kevin Bartlett (when coaching Richmond)

 

[beez]

"The only thing to fear is fear itself"

FDR

 

[THRILLHO]

Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather

 

[THRILLHO]

Ain't no Vietcong ever called me nigger

One of my favourites. Succinctly summarises why conscription to fight in Vietnam was bullshit.

 

[pezz]

Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war, and now there ain't no going back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight.

Slim Charles

 

[pezz]

Hunter S thompson also deserves reps in this thread

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.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

And my favourite passage of all. Nopt a quote but well worth a mention, The wave speech out of Fear and loathing

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run ...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant ...

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket ...booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) ... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that ...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda .... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning ....

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ....

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark —that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

<3

 

[Bomber Bears]

All-time football manager quote

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[ClarkeM]

Have quite a good set of quotes in a bank collection so I'll let out just a few here...


"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything." - Confucious

"If we keep doing what we are doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting." - Stephen Covey

"The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is..." - Sinclair Lewis

"A groundless rumour often covers a lot of ground" - Anonymous

"A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water" - Sidney Goff

"Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional" - Max Lucado

"He who knows little quickly tells it" - Italian proverb