The Official Quote Thread
 

Got any quotes you absolutely love? I think each week I'm going to choose quote themes.

This week, it can be quotes about getting through hard times, beating the odds.

If you don't want to follow a theme that's fine, but it will make the thread more lively if it's not exhausted too quickly.

It can be from anything, book, movie, friend, family, celebrity, etc...

My quote:

"Sadness is a season, it will pass." - Power of One

I've got tons of them but here is one that keeps to the theme you have picked out this week.
“If we're ever gonna see a rainbow we have to stand a little rain (from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Stand A Little Rain” lyrics by Don Schlitz, Donny Lowery)

"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein

"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."
- William S Burroughs

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
-Oscar Wilde in the Picture of Dorian Gray

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. -Dr. Suess

" I think people should mate for life, like pidgeons or Catholics"-Woody Allen

I'll post a sonnet! :D I'm going above and beyond! I'm a big poetryface

"If this be love, to draw a weary breath,
To paint on floods till the shore cry to th'air;
With downward looks still reading on the earth.
These sad memorials of my love's despair;
If this be love, to war against my soul,
Lie down to wail, rise up to sigh and grieve,
The never-resting stone of care to roll,
Still to complain my griefs, whilst none relieve;
If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart,
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow at my heart;
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love, and draw this weary breath."

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

"If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would consist of an endless succession of 'what-ho's" - PG Wodehouse

Basically, I love quotations and this thread :love:.

On life, sadness and all that mother jazz, this one seems to suit my mood at present -

"To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle" - Einstein

"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."--Abraham Maslow

Oh I love this.

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” - Dr. Seuss.

"You'd better keep it in check or you'll end up a wreck and you'll never wake up" - Brian Molko of Placebo, the lyrics to "Narcoleptic".

ADDIE. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.
[From The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman]

(Then later in the play)

ALEXANDRA. All in one day: Addie said there were people who ate the earth and other people who stood around and watched them do it. And just now, Uncle Ben said the same thing. Really, he said the same thing. Well, tell him for me, Mama, I'm not going to stand around and watch you do it. Tell him I'll be fighting as hard as he'll be fighting...some place where people don't just stand around and watch.

"It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites—opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties".
"Where there is no polarity—where energies flow smoothly in one direction—there will be much doing but no music". (Eric Hoffer)

I thought that this ^ was a good explanation concerning the Neal Peart vs Keith Moon thread.

Ah yes, I'll post one as well:

Gloomy Sunday with a hundred white flowers
I was waiting for you my dearest with a prayer
A Sunday morning, chasing after my dreams
The carriage of my sorrow returned to me without you
It is since then that my Sundays have been forever sad
Tears my only drink, the sorrow my bread...

Gloomy Sunday

This last Sunday, my darling please come to me
There'll be a priest, a coffin, a catafalque and a winding-sheet
There'll be flowers for you, flowers and a coffin
Under the blossoming trees it will be my last journey
My eyes will be open, so that I could see you for a last time
Don't be afraid of my eyes, I'm blessing you even in my death...

The last Sunday

^

Awww that is beautiful. These quotes are amazing guys, beyond what I expected!

"Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you."

Charles Bukowski

"When first I ended, then I first began,
The more I travelled, further from my rest,
Where most I lost, there most of all I wan,
Pinèd with hunger rising from a feast.
Methinks I fly, yet want I legs to go,
Wise in conceit, in act a very sot,
Ravished with joy amid a hell of woe ;
What most I seem, that surest am I not.
I build my hopes a world above the sky,
Yet with the mole I creep into the earth,
In plenty I am starved with penury,
And yet I surfeit in the greatest dearth ;
I have, I want, despair and yet desire,
Burned in a sea of ice and drowned amidst a fire."

Michael Drayton

"Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist."
-George Carlin

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
--Anton Chekhov

"If thou but show thy face again when darkness doth at midnight reign, the darkness flies, and light is hurled round about the silent world."

Thomas Carew (1594-1640)

"No lie is strong enough to kill the roots that work below; from your rich dust and slaughtered will a tree with tongues will grow."

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
--Eugene J. McCarthy

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire

Man with hands in pants is always ****y
quoted by character on crank yankers

So true;

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Leonardo da Vinci

This quote pretty much sums up my political views.

roughly:
"Those who will sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither" - Ben Franklin

Guys like Ben Franklin is why America is far better than England. :D

Never knock England. It is a bit of a craphole these days but it has character and backbone in abundance.

"Never knock England. It is a bit of a craphole these days but it has character and backbone in abundance."--Jackhammer

:laughing:






...I won't be using that one.

Fixed.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful quotes people, this week the theme is:

Your favourite inspirational quotes

Mine:

"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge. Dante Alighieri

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

David Lee Roth

"Don't worry guys, I'm sober enough to drive."--Vince Neil

Razzle

R.I.P.

:(

Was that aimed at the fans of Van Halen?

BOOM BOOM

In simplicity there is truth- River Phoenix

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" (Plato)

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" (George Best)

"Japanese music is a Chinese torture" (Woody Allen)

Bestie :bowdown:

And speaking of Woody Allen...

""I think people should mate for life.. like pigeons or Catholics."

"Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I really love."

- Woody Allen.

Georgie Best was great, inside and outside the field. Regarding Woody Allen, the best quotes are those from his films.

"The brain is my second favorite organ" (Sleeper)


Apart from that, there are many witty quotes about religion.

"Thank God I'm an atheist" (Luis Buñuel)

"God will forgive me; that’s his job" (Heinrich Heine)

"Children have imaginary friends; adults have God" (Richard Dawkins)

New neighbor: have you seen Drag Me To Hell? I have it on dvd you can come over, and we can watch it
Bobby: I'm trying to avoid it..

Supernatural

I love Bobby :P

Your favorite quote?
 

Hi all members,
I want to know about your taste, kindly share your favorite quote with all members.
Thanks in advance for sharing.:beer: