your favorite quote

[BigSkyBart]

"page 4!" : Me

[Sloth]

"Everything has a hairy side" - a grad student I worked for

[rhoptowit]

i forgot were i saw this but its....."god protect me from your followers"

[BeltwayBandit]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"

[surfjeepzx]

My Dad to me as I was growing up and learning the hard way,

"the older I get, the smarter you get".

[ACBlinky]

This was the final quote from a documentary about the ocean I once watched - can't remember the name of the show, but I remember the quote - this was in reference to the sea:

"If you drink it, you die. If you fall into it, you die. And if you work all your life on it... you die."

I also love the quote in my signature, from Isak Dinesen:

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the ocean."

I think I like quotes about the ocean, now that I think about it...

[Kahuna Tuna]

Love all of the Churchill quotes, he had some real gems.

Here's my favorite Winston quote, I share this one with my students all the time.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Some other great ones:

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."

[UH_OH_5_OH]

To my children when they ask AGAIN for something they've already been told NO about:


Would you ask again if I said YES ?

Then don't ask twice when I say NO !


--ME

[UH_OH_5_OH]

DON'T PANIC !! from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy !

[UH_OH_5_OH]

Don't know where he heard it but my Army medic partner told me this:





ALL BLEEDING STOPS......EVENTUALLY !

[Kahuna Tuna]

"Would you ask again if I said YES ?

Then don't ask twice when I say NO !"

Thats a keeper right there. I'm gonna use that one Monday morning in class. Where do I send the check.

[maxxII]

Someone here on RC had a great sig line..."I glue live animals to rocks."

Nick

[Altpers0na]

its taken a couple days for me to remember it, but i did it..

the truth from any source is still the truth.. arab proverb..

[jvdb]

sorry these are all unaccredited. I use them in my MotD file (this is only a small part of it)

As a matter of fact, I do own the road.
I is a college student.
I love cats they taste like chicken.
I still have the body of an 18 year old but it's in my trunk and it's starting to smell.
It sucks to be a man in a lesbians body.
Guns don't kill people. Kids who play videogames kill people!
People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.
If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say -- talk in your sleep.
Vegetarian: Indian word for Lousy Hunter
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
always be able to kill your students.
ninjutsu is the sum of things in the universe.
anything can be used as a weapon.
Johnny was a chemist's son, But Johnny is no more. What Johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
filled with more bugs than a rain forest
VisualBasic, like just about every other language, has its place. -- And it's called hell.
"The perfect race car crosses the finish line in first place and then falls to pieces." -Ferdinand Porsche
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Dance like nobody's looking.
Racing is life, everything that happens before and after is just waiting
No matter how far a jackass travels, it won't come back a horse.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
No one's listening until you're wrong.
If you lend someone 20 dollars and never see them again it was probably worth it.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
man who walk through airport door sideways is goin to bangkok
The darkest hour is just before dawn. So if you're gonna steal your neighbors milk this is the best time to do it.
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are up to.
Some people are kinda like Slinkys: not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when you watch them tumble down the stairs
Never knock on Death's door, ring the doorbell and run away.... he hates that
When life gives you lemons cut them in half and squirt them in someone's eyes.
Entropy has us outnumbered
The difference between man and animals is that we don't use our tongue to clean our genitals.
If all the cars in the world were lined up bumper to bumper, some fool would still try to overtake
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Light travels faster than sound, this is why some people appear bright until you here them speak
War is not about who is right, it is about who is left!
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
Keyboard not found. Press F1 to RESUME.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
Behind every damsel is a fire breathing dragon
There is a light at the end of every tunnel....just pray it's not a train!
life isnt a garden ........ so stop being a hoe.
Never hire a colorblind electrician.
Don't think of yourself as an ugly person, just a beautiful monkey.
A person needs only two tools. WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and shouldn't, use the tape.
It is a huge, very tall motor. Kind of the problem with straight 6's. You could always sort of lay it on it's side a-la BMW.
"This is UNIX, I know this!". Where on this planet is there a 10 year old girl who knows and can understand UNIX?!?
There might not be anything fishy going on at all, but that's no reason to stop making perfectly good conspiracy theories.
do not look behind you becos death is there and you do not want to see death he is ugly and we call him the govenor.
Have you tried forcing an unexpected reboot?
And you don't want to end up in the middle of invalid memory.
Oh, look, it seems to have left on his own volition.
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.
You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in.
I like rainbows... but I'm not gay. How did one group of people get to claim refracted light? Greedy gays.
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
Half the people you know are below average.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
It takes 42 muscles to frown. -- But only 18 to reach out and slap whoever it was that made you mad.

[otolith]

"Oh Yes! Oh Yes!"

--Mrs. Otolith



She would just kill me if saw I posted that. Maybe I shouldn't have had that extra glass of wine tonight.

AND, I'm ashamed that none of the other man card holders thought of that first.

[otolith]

In all seriousness, I really do like the quote in my sig. Found it after going to Yosemite Park and doing some some research on John Muir.

[UH_OH_5_OH]

Originally posted by Kahuna Tuna
"Would you ask again if I said YES ?

Then don't ask twice when I say NO !"

Thats a keeper right there. I'm gonna use that one Monday morning in class. Where do I send the check.

Yup...that one is all my own ! I have more people tell me they love that one and will use it on their own curtain climbers !!!

The look on their faces the first time you use it will be priceless !

It's sorta like confusion........with this momentary glimmer of ;

HOLY CRAP....HE'S GOT A POINT THERE ! DANGIT !

REGROUP !

[Minuteman]

Originally posted by blown63chevy
A couple that I like.

"Just because it's always been done like that dosen't make it right." from a retired Master Chief Fire Controlman that I worked with. FCCM Thadus B. Wilson. USN RET.

"You better start livin or start diein". From the movie Shawshank Redemption.

And of coures this one seen on a few bumper stickers and bilboards.

"Home of the FREE, Thanks to the Brave"

YHGTBSH!!! I worked for Thad Wilson many moons ago at Mare Island. Great guy!

[Minuteman]

Originally posted by otolith
"Oh Yes! Oh Yes!"

--Mrs. Otolith



She would just kill me if saw I posted that. Maybe I shouldn't have had that extra glass of wine tonight.

AND, I'm ashamed that none of the other man card holders thought of that first.

Well, we did, but we didn't want to embarrass you by quoting your wife right in front of you...

[Leilani57]

Oh? You hate your job? Well, why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that, you know. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

...The Drew Carey Show


I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.

...Dan Quayle


The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

...Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst


It's hard to bull**** the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean?

...David Crosby

[Leilani57]

Originally posted by UH_OH_5_OH
DON'T PANIC !! from The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy !

one of my favorite authors that douglas adams. here are a couple more from the essential book for traveling the universe:

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible
exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot
of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

~Douglas Adams

[Boomstick]

I'm getting low on water and the only thing that I can do is drink my own pee.... and if I just peed on the ground, that's all those fluids wasted.

Bear Grylls,

made even funnier by the fact that he stayed in a hotel when he was supposed to be bushing it - dont get me wrong, I love Bear and could never do the thing he does, but of all things to ACTUALLY do........

[Boomstick]

Originally posted by otolith
"Oh Yes! Oh Yes!"

--Mrs. Otolith

.......AND, I'm ashamed that none of the other man card holders thought of that first.

I am throwing a yellow flag on this call (re Other Man Card Holders) and i am sighting this as my official reason.

Originally posted by otolith
.........Maybe I shouldn't have had that extra glass of wine

[Sk8r]

No battleplan survives encounter with the enemy.

[Leilani57]

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

...Steve Jobs

Steve is one of my favorite people. One of the most inspirational speeches I have ever heard (or read) is his Stanford University commencement address-- Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

http://news-service.stanford.edu/new...bs-061505.html