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wolf 10-21-2006 09:30 PM

Quotes and Stuff
 
I know there is another thread that addresses this somewhere around here, but I can't find it right now.

Anyway, sometimes, you see a short statement that just really interests you, amuses you, makes you think, etc.

This is the one that I found yesterday:

"I wish my lawn was a 15 year old Goth chick, because then it would cut itself."

Phase 10-21-2006 09:33 PM

I've heard something similar to that,

"I wish my lawn was emo, so it could cut itself."

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 11:42 AM

A bottom of the Cellar quote:

"I've discussed it with my husband, and we'll take the million."
- Marilu Henner, to Sting, on the Tonight Show 5/14/93


Does anyone know what that is referring to?

glatt 04-19-2012 11:49 AM

Gotta be a reference to Indecent Proposal, that movie where Demi Moore and Woody Harelson get $1M for Demi to spend the night with Robert Redford.

Marilu wants to hop into bed with Sting.

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 11:52 AM

Oh yeah. That makes sense. :) thanks!

jimhelm 04-19-2012 12:02 PM

Marilu Henner would hop into bed with anyone for free.

huge whore. trust me. i had her.

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 12:06 PM

I'd've hopped into bed with Sting for free, back in 1993.

jimhelm 04-19-2012 12:19 PM

you'd do it tomorrow

SteveDallas 04-19-2012 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phase (Post 277234)
I've heard something similar to that,

"I wish my lawn was emo, so it could cut itself."

Mitchell & Webb had one where the kid cut "looser" into his arm.. he felt he was worthless, could never be good enough to satisfy his parents, etc.

Since he misspelled it, his mom & dad re-cut with the correct spelling.

jimhelm 04-19-2012 12:44 PM

fail kid fails at failing

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 12:56 PM

*snickersnort*

jimhelm 04-19-2012 01:21 PM

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
- - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 01:35 PM

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
--Mae West

Gravdigr 04-19-2012 01:44 PM

Reporter to Mean Joe Green (might have been Ed Too Tall Jones): Which do you prefer, grass, or, AstroTurf?

Whichever guy it was, to the reporter: I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

Gravdigr 04-19-2012 01:45 PM

John Wayne, responding to the question "Is your hair real?":

It's real. It's not mine, but it's real.

infinite monkey 04-19-2012 01:56 PM

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

--Dick Cavett

DanaC 04-19-2012 05:21 PM

'...history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.'

Havelock Vetinari, Jingo by Terry Pratchett

jimhelm 04-21-2012 12:23 PM

FROM TFLN:

Quote:

All I need right now is some mouthwash, dignity, and security camera footage...

Gravdigr 04-22-2012 10:11 AM

Quote:

Metaphors needn't be explained to educated people.
~Ted Nugent

Gravdigr 04-22-2012 10:31 AM

Quote:

At Crazytown, we find a bear's butt plug, and decide to hunt it the next day.
~Andrew McKean, from "The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Dore Lake"/Outdoor Life, April 2012

Gravdigr 04-24-2012 06:11 PM

Quote:

Unacceptable things should not be accepted.
~Flint

infinite monkey 04-26-2012 08:13 AM

Quote:

Flint's crazy.
~Brianna

:D

Sundae 04-26-2012 09:59 AM

David Baddiel on the Recession:
Quote:

The trouble with the phrase "double dip" is I quite like the sound of it, due to association with the words "lucky" and "sherbet".

Gravdigr 05-02-2012 02:29 PM

Quote:

Damn, dude. Just damn.
~Clodfobble

Cyber Wolf 05-03-2012 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanaC (Post 807389)
'...history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.'

Havelock Vetinari, Jingo by Terry Pratchett

:thumb:

Quote:

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Also from Jingo by Terry Pratchett, one of my favorite books in that series.

DanaC 05-03-2012 02:40 PM

i'm almost done in my quest to reread all the discworld books in order of their various storylines.

I am now fully on board with the notion that he is a Dickens for the modern age. Rarely have I read novels with so many deep truths.

Gravdigr 05-04-2012 10:07 AM

Quote:

I'm not totally certain I will get to the moon colony.
~Newt Gingrich

glatt 05-04-2012 10:18 AM

:lol2:

jimhelm 05-04-2012 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blue's Signature
If you spot a tornado, always remember to point at it, yell "tornado!", and run like hell.


Gravdigr 05-15-2012 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 773538)
Forepostage, cuz, it's like not tomorrow, so, whut I drank last night, I ain't drank last night. Yet. Ya folluh? Aw, fukkit, don't read this til tomorrow, cuz, then, this'll be last night, and it'll be later, so, I won't be early. Are ya gettin any o' this?

Vodka Jello shots is what I'm sayin.

:drunk:

~Gravdigr, Nov. 16, 2011

Gravdigr 05-20-2012 06:53 PM

Quote:

The internet was made of cats, [Al] Gore was just the pussy that started it.
~xoxoxoBruce

infinite monkey 05-21-2012 08:03 AM

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
--Stephen King

Gravdigr 05-21-2012 04:44 PM

Quote:

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist.
~Keyser Söze

Gravdigr 05-28-2012 09:59 AM

From one of the greatest philosophical minds of our lifetime:

Dave Chappelle.

Quote:

Chivalry died when women started readin' the shit in all them magazines. They got too much advice about men from other women. And they don't know what the fuck they're talkin' about. I see them in the grocery store, says on the cover "100 Ways to Please Your Man" by some lady. Come on, man. Ain't no 100 ways. That list is four things long. Just suck his dick, play with his balls,fix him a sandwich, and don't talk so much and he'll be happy!

DanaC 05-28-2012 10:43 AM

From Michael Wood's latest tv series, looking at the history of Britain from the ordinary person's perspective,

"Remember there were black people in Britain before there were English"

Gravdigr 05-30-2012 04:18 PM

Quote:

"She saw what little good there was in me, and there was little," ... "I'm awful glad she cared about me, and I'm awful glad she married me."
~Arthel 'Doc' Watson 1923-2012

Gravdigr 06-09-2012 04:12 PM

1 Attachment(s)
I think I might love this man:

Attachment 39014

Gravdigr 06-15-2012 08:33 AM

~Associated Press

wolf 06-15-2012 11:47 AM

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory. It is, then, only a speeding up, an intensifying, of the ordinary human existence. It is not different from your life-style, it is only faster. It all takes place in days or weeks or months instead of years. "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.

Philip K. Dick
Author's Note
A Scanner Darkly

I have had this quote pinned up on my desk since the mid-1980's, long before I worked at the nuthouse.

ZenGum 06-15-2012 08:28 PM

Interesting and I think true, but it all hinges on the phrase "drug misuse".

The misuse of drugs is bad for you? Well, of course it is, that is what misuse means.

Gravdigr 06-18-2012 04:34 PM

Using a pound of dope for a doorstop, now, that's misuse.

BigV 06-18-2012 09:20 PM

??

why? how much dope does it take to stop a door anyhow?

classicman 06-18-2012 09:58 PM

Only one nice bud if positioned properly.

Gravdigr 06-20-2012 04:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV (Post 815847)
??

why? how much dope does it take to stop a door anyhow?

[BritAccent]It's depending on the door, now, innit?[/BritAccent]

Gravdigr 06-20-2012 04:09 PM

1 Attachment(s)
'The Bosom'?

Attachment 39159

from a 1967 issue of "The Tattler"

DanaC 06-20-2012 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 816004)
[BritAccent]It's depending on the door, now, innit?[/BritAccent]

Not bad. Not bad at all.

John Sellers 06-20-2012 04:31 PM

Quote:

What was, was, and what is is is, and this what is... is what's happening right now.
Paul Teutul Sr.

DanaC 06-20-2012 04:56 PM

Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Kvothe's father (from The Name of the Wind)

John Sellers 06-20-2012 05:10 PM

Quote:

They say time is the fire in which we burn.
Dr. Tolian Soran - Star Trek: Generations

BigV 06-20-2012 09:08 PM

Quote:

"Well, I have learned one thing through the years; it's best not to joust with a woman verbally. Women have a better grasp of the languange than men. There are no synonyms in a woman's vocabulary. Every word has its own shade of meaning. 'I didn't say I was mad; I said I was upset. Maybe you should listen.'"
- Jeff Stilson
thank you cellar cookie jar.

classicman 06-20-2012 11:10 PM

Quote:

in a woman's vocabulary. Every word has its own shade of meaning.
Wow - so very true.

DanaC 06-21-2012 05:16 AM

And yet...also so true of men. In a person's vocabulary, every word has its own shade of meaning.

BigV 06-21-2012 07:28 PM

Yes, dear.

classicman 06-21-2012 07:39 PM

Yes, dear!

BigV 06-21-2012 07:51 PM

same thing.




to us guys.

John Sellers 06-21-2012 09:57 PM

Quote:

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

DanaC 06-22-2012 05:23 AM

Ha! I like that.

DanaC 06-22-2012 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV (Post 816247)
same thing.




to us guys.

Har har :p


I remember my Dad could imbue the word 'love' (as in, 'pass me that love', or 'listen love...') with an array of meanings with a slight difference in tone.

ZenGum 06-22-2012 06:31 AM

"You bastard" can be anything from a friendly greeting to a declaration of war, depending on tone and context.

DanaC 06-22-2012 06:57 AM

Yeah. Similar here. Bastard can be a term of abuse or a friendly term.


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