The Beatles just wanted to hold your hand, they didn't want to <airquotes> fuck. <airquotes>
--My sister

"Sometimes you must step on the gas... and sometimes you must step on the brake. Now is the time to step on the gas."
- Ekin Cheng

"Whatever you're not doing, go don't do it somewhere else."
-Incompetent police officer.

"Christ! I was frozen today!"
-Christopher Lloyd

"HELLO EVERYNYAN! HOW ARE YOU TODAY? FINE THANK YOU! I WISH I WERE A BIRD."
-Chiyo Chan's Dad

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut."
-Stephen King.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of Evil is for Good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke

Both from http://www.studioshinnyo.com/quotes.html

"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
-Attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Bomby von Bombsville wrote:"HELLO EVERYNYAN! HOW ARE YOU TODAY? FINE THANK YOU! I WISH I WERE A BIRD."
-Chiyo Chan's Dad

quote of the year, of all years

I could have sworn we had a thread like this before.

One of my favorite quotes is one given to the class by our teacher that went a little something like, "ask for forgiveness, not permission."

Oh, and: "I reject your reality and substitute my own." --Adam Savage from Mythbusters

I've accumulated a quote list of sorts over the years. At the moment, this would have to be my favourite:

"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."
~ Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, The Shawshank Redemption

Probably the best Batman quote of all time was in the Dark Knight Returns Part 2(the 2nd half of an animated movie based off of the best batman comic of all time) when he was talking to Superman.

Sachi wrote:"ask for forgiveness, not permission."

This quote does not apply to sex.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Blinded by the light wrote:"Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun…
But mama…that’s where the fun is."

Yeah, The Boss said it first, but Mann said it better.

Monty Python's The Life of Brian wrote:Brian - “You’re all different.”
Crowd - “Yes! We are all different!”
Man - “I’m not.”

Sachi wrote:"ask for forgiveness, not permission."

That is a brilliant saying. I live my life by this philosophy.

An extended version I read went along the lines:
“If something is a good idea, do it. It’s easier to apologise than to get permission.”

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment." - A colleague at the lab

"I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. Completely."
―Henry Rollins, The Iron

Two extremely generic ones that none the less I believe deeply:

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Not actually Mark Twain

"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin

God helps those who help themselves

Reward and Punishment is the lowest form of education

Cash Flow rules everything around me cream get tha money dolla dolla bill yooo

chazthesilencer wrote:That is a brilliant saying. I live my life by this philosophy.

That is the Python way.

Mr. Tines wrote:That is the Python way.

As opposed to the Java way.

A bunch of little nuggets I'm familiar with:

-The last thing a young girl needs is a hands-on father.

-Live every day as if it's your last and eventually it will be. You'll be fully prepared.

-Using technology to clean up the mess made by technology doesn't seem too intelligent.

-I'm starting to get more compassionate. I gotta watch that.

-Be careful whom you befriend. They will eventually ask you for something.

-People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

-The future ain't what it used to be.

-If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead.

-They say that rather than cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. They don't mention anything about cursing a lack of candles.

-Here's how money can buy happiness: Money gives you options, options give you breathing room, breathing room gives you control and control can offer you a measure of happiness. Maybe.

-If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?

-If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer? You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

-I'm not a person who thinks he can have it all. But I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile, I should be able to have more than my fair share.

-Suppose you tried to f*** a woman who had ten personalities, and nine of them said okay, but one of them resisted and tried to fight you off. Would that still be a rape?

-I'd like to know the suicide rate among people who call in to radio psychologists and actually follow the advice they get.

-I have no regrets in life. Although I am kind of sorry I never got to beat a man to death while wearing a tuxedo.

-When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

-I finally figured out what e-mail is for. It's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to.

-Whenever I hear that someone lives in a gated community, I think of places like Auschwitz.

-Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.

-I’ve never been quarantined. But the more I look around, the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

If you give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day. If you turn a man into a fish, you can feed his entire family. ~Christopher Moore

Ten out of ten people are ignorant in some manner, but only one will be wise enough to admit it. ~Anonymous

Lawful people don't need rules, and criminals won't follow them anyway. ~I'm not sure

All of history is a massive plagarization. ~Matthew Cutler

If you have no idea what you're doing, do it loudly. ~Lauren Kosty

Nuclear Lunchbox wrote:If you give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day. If you turn a man into a fish, you can feed his entire family. ~Christopher Moore

My mother is fond of a certain permutation of that one.

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and he'll try to put you out of business."