Memorable Quotes

[the1much]

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
- Jessica Alba
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor

 

[safewalrus]

Don't even mention that ***** Astor to me! Cow!! (no that's an insult to the cow)

 

[the1much]

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
- Charles Mackay
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
- Emile Chartier
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
- Herb Caen

 

[the1much]

Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.
- Rita Mae Brown
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
- Jimmy Buffett
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin

 

[the1much]

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
- George Burns
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost

 

[the1much]

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
- Garry Trudeau

 

[the1much]

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields

 

[masalai]

This diatribe from Message: 'So you're thinking of writing a comment...' - ThePCSpy.com http://www.thepcspy.com/members/mythreads

<blockquote>Nice article!
i'm not a native speaker, but it's not to difficult to write correctly.
(oh yeah, there is something i never understood, its about the &quot;ly&quot;, like in beautiful/beautifully, correct/correctly..)</blockquote>

GP,

You're right; writing correctly is not difficult. Unfortunately, writing correctly seems to be one of those things in life that take just a little bit of effort and is therefore avoided by far too many people.

&quot;Ly&quot; is usually the ending used in the adverbial form of a word, as opposed to the adjectival form. &quot;Beautiful&quot; and &quot;correct&quot; are adjectives; &quot;beautifully&quot; and &quot;correctly&quot; are adverbs. She is a beautiful woman (Adjective <em>beautiful</em> modifies the noun <em>woman</em>). She paints beautifully (Adverb <em>beautifully</em> modifies the verb <em>paints</em>). That is the correct answer (Adjective <em>correct</em> modifies the noun <em>answer</em>. He answered the problem correctly (Adverb <em>correctly</em> modifies the verb <em>answered</em>).

 

[the1much]

i failed english grammer,,,,,so,,,,,,,,,,,,,huh?
hehehe

 

[masalai]

So did I and I was hoping someone could explain?

 

[the1much]

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
- George Best
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

[the1much]

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
- Richard Lewis
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
- Don Marquis
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers

 

[the1much]

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
- Evan Esar
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
- Oscar Wilde
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
- Robert R. Coveyou

 

[mr curious]

"Where there's muck there's brass" - A Yorkshire man

 

[the1much]

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
- Ellen DeGeneres
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin