OK, OK I know this topic has been used to death but let me explain myself. I'm a senior in high school and one thing we have to do is fill out a survey for the yearbook. One part of the survey asks what quote we want to use. So I'm asking everyone who reads this to please help me find a great quote I can be remembered in the yearbook by. Also the quote can't have swears in it. Thank you all so much!
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I the unwilling, led by the unknowning, am doing the impossible for the ungrateful. I have done so much with so little for so long, I can now do anything with nothing.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.
You know when you put a stick in water and it looks bent? That's why I never take baths.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
I just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.
You know when you put a stick in water and it looks bent? That's why I never take baths.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards.
"It is not the critic who counts,not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;who strives valiantly,who errs,who comes up short again and again,because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;who does actually strive to do the deeds;who knows the great enthusiasms,the great devotions;who spends himself in a worthy cause;who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,and who at the worst,if he fails,at least fails while daring greatly,so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
I've heard it attributed to JFK, but I'm pretty sure it was Teddy Roosevelt who said it first.
I've heard it attributed to JFK, but I'm pretty sure it was Teddy Roosevelt who said it first.
I like the Family Guy riff on Shawshank
"Rehabilitated?
It's just a stupid made up word
so boys like you can sit behind a desk,
wear a fancy suit, and feel important.
You're a jerk! And I had sex with your mother last night!
And I swear to God, you let me out of here,
first thing I'm gonna do is kill again!"
"Rehabilitated?
It's just a stupid made up word
so boys like you can sit behind a desk,
wear a fancy suit, and feel important.
You're a jerk! And I had sex with your mother last night!
And I swear to God, you let me out of here,
first thing I'm gonna do is kill again!"
"You've got to go on and be crazy, craziness is like heaven"
Hendrix
Incidentally that was my senior year quote
Hendrix
Incidentally that was my senior year quote
"Our government has kept us in a state of perpetual fear,kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor,with the cry of Grave National Emergency.Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exhorbitant funds demanded."
General Douglas MacArthur August 1957
"Don't Try"---Charles Bukowski's gravestone
General Douglas MacArthur August 1957
"Don't Try"---Charles Bukowski's gravestone
StercusCaput:
Another from Voltaire---
"It is dangerous to be right when the Government is wrong"
Edit to say: Damn! I didn't think I'd double post.
Another from Voltaire---
"It is dangerous to be right when the Government is wrong"
Edit to say: Damn! I didn't think I'd double post.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but only when it has been sharpened to a point, dipped in poison, and thrown from ten feet.
I think that's from Jon Stewart, but I'm not sure.
I think that's from Jon Stewart, but I'm not sure.
Smitty of the Tolchocks:
I like the cut of your jib.
Your quotes and Richard Pryor avatar earn much respect sir.
Another: Wit is educated insolence - Aristotle
I like the cut of your jib.
Your quotes and Richard Pryor avatar earn much respect sir.
Another: Wit is educated insolence - Aristotle
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once in the sky, like the splendour of the mighty one. I am become Death, the Destroyer of World."
Oppenheimer, quoting a Hindu holy book of which it's name I can't remember.
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You'll understand how it works up it dies in the process."
E.B.White, I think.
Edit: got another:
"Suicide is man's way of telling God 'You can't fire me, I quit!'"
Bill Maher
Oppenheimer, quoting a Hindu holy book of which it's name I can't remember.
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You'll understand how it works up it dies in the process."
E.B.White, I think.
Edit: got another:
"Suicide is man's way of telling God 'You can't fire me, I quit!'"
Bill Maher