What's Your Favorite Quote?

[Little Whiskey]

one of my fav. churchill quotes. actually a short dialoge between him and lady astor


"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink."--lady astor

"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."---W. Churchill

[billy_oliver880]

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. Dunno who said it though.

[GBRulz]

Nice one, Tank!! What's your source?

[Little Whiskey]

Nice one, Tank!! What's your source?

gbm, i think it was from that polar bear that lives in alaska, but uses Mt. Everest as its bathroom.

[AtlPackFan]

"Mongo not sure. Mongo just pawn in game of life" Alex Karras in Blazing Saddles.

[Joemailman]

"Nuts!" - General McAulife of the 101st Airborne when the Germans insisted he surrender in the Battle Of the Bulge in the encircled town of Bastogne.

[pacfan]

"Its chess, not checkers"

Denzel Washington in Training day

[CyclonePackFan]

Got a bunch:

"Extrordinary things can happen to ordinary people who are willing to work hard and never give up"
-Unknown

"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
-John F. Kennedy

"Rendezvous: two spacecraft meeting up in orbit. Want to have fun? Come over to my house. You stand in the back yard, I'll stand in the front, you throw a tennis ball over my roof and I'll try to hit it with a rock as it comes sailing over. That's what we're going to have to do."
-Chris Kraft, Former Director, Johnson Space Center

"Failure is not an option"
-Gene Krantz, Flight Director, Apollo 13

"Look at what's happened! We've reduced this series of partial differential equations into a single ordinary differential equation! Unfortunately, the equation is still third order and nonlinear, so it is still impossible to solve directly."
-John D. Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, when describing the derivation of the Blasius solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations.

"In this world a man can either be an anvil or a hammer"
-Unknown

"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither"
-Ben Franklin

Also: http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/DilbertQuotes.htm

Sorry I've been out of the loop for so long. Draft weekend was my last bit of freedom, I've been really busy with Finals Week, moving home for 4 days, and making the move down to Houston, and getting started with work.

[Little Whiskey]

Got a bunch:



"Look at what's happened! We've reduced this series of partial differential equations into a single ordinary differential equation! Unfortunately, the equation is still third order and nonlinear, so it is still impossible to solve directly."
-John D. Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, when describing the derivation of the Blasius solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations.

you know that is funny, cause me and Larry the Cable Guy, were just discussing this very same thing!!

[CyclonePackFan]

Got a bunch:



"Look at what's happened! We've reduced this series of partial differential equations into a single ordinary differential equation! Unfortunately, the equation is still third order and nonlinear, so it is still impossible to solve directly."
-John D. Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, when describing the derivation of the Blasius solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations.

you know that is funny, cause me and Larry the Cable Guy, were just discussing this very same thing!!

I mostly included it because I love how textbooks always get excited about the stupidest things, and feel the need to use exclamation marks. Also, because once I read that part (which followed six pages of derivation), I closed my book, sat in a corner, and cried. It's like tearing a door off the hinges and finding a brick wall behind it.

[K-town]

Well, I don't have a lot of quotes from famous, well-regarded historical figures. But I do watch a lot of movies and TV. So here's my top five favorite movie lines and quotes:

1) "To the tables everyone and stuff yourselves!" Burly Viking guy, The Adventures of Robin Hood

2) "I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' no babies, Miz Scarlett!" Prissy to Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind

3) "I want to shoot you so bad, my d*** is hard." Ice-T to Wesley Snipes, New Jack City

4)"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it's not over now. Nothing's over until WE say it's over!" John "Bluto" Blutarsky, Animal House

5) "I stick my neck out for noone" Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca

[Little Whiskey]

I mostly included it because I love how textbooks always get excited about the stupidest things, and feel the need to use exclamation marks. Also, because once I read that part (which followed six pages of derivation), I closed my book, sat in a corner, and cried. It's like tearing a door off the hinges and finding a brick wall behind it.

the thing is, if my wife would include her fav. quotes they would be from text books. the books she reads for pleasure are published by McGrawHill. As she reads she takes notes and quizes her self at the end of chapters. so when you included this quote i chuckled as i thought of her taking notes and telling me this was quote worthy.

[Homer Jay]

" You just hunker down and give it hell for 3 or 4 seconds."

John Jurkovic, when asked how to play nose tackle in the NFL.

[Guiness]

NEVER rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker, in Batman the Movie

Pacfan - you put my other favorite down - If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. I use that one around winny people at work all the time.

obGeekQuote: "640K ought to be enough for anybody." <-generally attributed to Bill Gates, but denied by him. Likely mostly Urban Legend.

[Little Whiskey]

"rubbin's racin" Dale Earnhardt

"let the rough side drag" darrel waltrip

"we were inverted" Maverick from Top Gun