"Adventure is the result of poor planning." -- sign on a wall at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
Hey folks, imma embark on reading all the quotes in this thread as I'm quite fond of the stuff. Would anyone find it annoying if I "liked" heaps of them, as I think this could happen for at least 10-15% of 'em, judging by the first couple of pages, and it's counter-productive if folks get annoyed upon receiving multiple alerts? Perhaps I can "like" a couple from each member, that way no one's alert box gets flooded. PS: appreciate the "likes" I've received. It let's me know I'm welcomed, and it also means you folks are sociable and friendly. Granted, not everyone gets along with everyone, we all have personal preferences, so I don't expect to be everyone's cup of tea. As an introvert hermit achetype, I don't require lots of social stimulus, nor do I seek external validation, though I do enjoy the interactions I do have. Anyways.... "To a quick question, give a slow answer." - Italian Proverb "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe." - Abraham Lincoln "Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation." - Cherrie Moraga "No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking." - John Pierpont Morgan "Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen." - John Muir "Live your life and forget your age." - Norman Vincent Peale "Talent hits a target no one else can hit, Genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer "He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao Tzu "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious." - Alfred North Whitehead "I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so." - Francis Voltaire "The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough." - Denise Shekerjian
Only in math problems can you buy 60 cantaloupes and nobody asks what the hell is wrong with you. -Unknown-
Funnies. "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Why, I've fallen down the rabbit hole and into a land of madness!" - Sheldon Cooper - TBBT "If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers." - Doug Larson "People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny harmless phrases like, 'Be realistic' " - Dylan Moran "Remember, god can see you masterbating...but don't stop, he's almost there." - Sarah Silverman "Schrodinger's douchebag: A guy who says offensive things and decides whether he was joking based upon the reaction of people around him," - Sally Strange "Oh, I don't like hyperthetic situations, it's like lying to your brain." - Kenneth Parcell - 30Rock "Eat the same thing for breakfast every day of your life, and nobody bats an eye. Eat the same thing for dinner three times in a row, and everybody loses their minds." - Unknown "How to start an argument online. 1: Express an opinion. 2: Wait." - Unknown "If a man says he will fix it, he will. There's no need to remind him every six months about it." - Unknown "I'm trying to see things from your point of view, but I can't get my head that far up my ass." - Unknown "Sometimes I use words I don't understand so I can sound more photosynthesis." - Unknown "When you are dead, you don't know that you are dead. It is difficult only for others. It's the same when you're stupid." - Unknown "You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic." - Unknown "Okay, if you're going to question the importance of an actor's signature on a plastic helmet from a movie based on a comic book, then all of our lives have no meaning!" - Stewart - TBBT
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love " ~ Theodore Seuss Geisel.
"What do we do with the Japanese people when the military leaders they followed are gone? They can still make trouble, or they can make sense. We have decided to make sure they make sense." -Theodore Seuss Geisel He hadn't really got the whole rhyming thing down yet....
While we are on the subject of Japan.... You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. -Yamamoto I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.-Yamamoto after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
That can't be right - the marines spend their service sat out in the weeds smelling like they've been dead for a week, burning leeches off their dicks, the airforce spend their service in air conditioned rooms with hot and cold running hookers... stands to reason that this is one competition that marines can't win
Italian, someone had told Cynthia, was a language intended to be shouted. Erick Berry, Cynthia Steps Out
I was reminded of three of them this morning: "Good judgment is the product of experience. Experience is the product of bad judgment." --old aviation proverb "A superior pilot is one whose superior judgment prevents you from ever seeing his superior skills." -- a related aviation proverb. "Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don't." -- Pete Seeger
It tickles me to know that the past 4 posters' avatars have been of animals, either real or stuffed, and I'm going to ruin that by having a filthy hooman as my avatar. To keep with the trend of the thread: “I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.” - Neil Gaiman
At DLI, the running joke was that each Marine got issued an Air Force girl along with his linen and field jacket. I hope that there are more options now: SNM ISSUED ONE (1) USAF ___BOY / ___GIRL (REPLACEMENTS AS AVAILABILITY PERMITS) (MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS ISSUE ONLY PERMITTED AFTER ACADEMIC PROBATION IS COMPLETED)
Sable, the cat in the avatar, died many years ago. But his ghost still visits from time to time; I see him out of the corner of my eye, before he dissolves into the background like all black cats like to do.
"....one great big festering neon distraction, I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied, learn to swim." Maynard James Keenan, Tool
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. – Alex Haley
