Here come the quotes!

Part 1: Kind of serious quotes

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." "The fundamental difference between the liberal and the illiberal outlook is that the former regards all questions as open to discussion and all opinions as open to a greater or lesser measure of doubt, while the latter holds in advance that certain opinions are absolutely unquestionable, and that no argument against them must be allowed be heard.

What is curious about this position is the belief that if impartial investigation were permitted it would lead men to the wrong conclusion, and that ignorance is, therfore, the only safeguard against terror.

This point of view cannot be accepted by any man who wishes reason rather than prejudice to govern human action."

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

-- Carl Sagan

    Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.  But one creature said at last, "I trust that the current knows where it is going.  I shall let go, and let it take me where it will.  Clinging, I shall die of boredom."
    The other creatures laughed and said, "Fool!  Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!"
    But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.  Yet, in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
    And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, "See a miracle!  A creature like ourselves, yet he flies!  See the Messiah, come to save us all!"  And the one carried in the current said, "I am no more Messiah than you.  The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go.  Our true work is this voyage, this adventure."
    But they cried the more, "Saviour!" all the while clinging to the rocks, making legends of a Saviour.

Part 2: Not so serious quotes

"Well of course not, don't be ridiculous!" "Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem." "First one to hang up is the coolest! *click*" "To my phony sister Jenny, I bequeath... a boot to the head."
THUMP. "Ow!"
"And another one for her wimpy husband Hank."
THUMP. "Ow!" "Sherlock Holmes once said that once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. I, however, don't like to eliminate the impossible." "Now you see that Evil will always triumph, because Good is Dumb." "Don Diego!"
"Garcia! I am astonished that you would enter my house without my permission!"
"I might say the same about you and my wife!" "Have I ever been wrong? ...I mean when it's important!" "NNNNNNNNOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

My teacher said I had to go see the school counselor.  I said "Why do I have to go see the school counselor?" So he shows me the petition...

Part 3: Rock music quotes

"All my life they said I was going down,
But I'm still standing, stronger, proud,
And today, I know, there's so much more I can be.
I think I finally understand...
Here I stand at the crossroad's edge,
Afraid to reach out for eternity.
One step when I look down, I see someone else, not me.
I keep looking back, looking back and I'll see someone else...
Me?" "Sex, drugs, and rock & roll... get rid of the drugs and you have more time for the other two." "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." "When we are young
Wandering the face of the earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we're only immortal
For a limited time..." "As a way of saying thanks they offered to transport me back to any point in history that I would care to go. So I made them send me back to last Thursday night so I could pay my phone bill on time."

 

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