Best Quotes Ever

[Infinite_Maelstrom]

One of my favourite quotes:

"I didn't open the can of worms...
           ... I just pointed at it and laughed a little too loudly."

 - Someone's signature on the NSF forums

[DDE]

"I find that coming to an exam prepared is like playing with marked cards,"

- Nikolai Gumilev, poet, traveller, notorious duelist and future Death Hussar on why he was horribly failing an exam

[Mishalk1]

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams

[adsii1970]

"Your class requires a bit more work than I was anticipating. Is there someone else who teaches this class but at a History for Dummies level?"

- First year university student this morning before the lecture began.
World Civilization to 1500 - survey course

[antipro]

"That's not a knife. That's a knife."

Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee

Edited October 2, 2021 by antipro

[antipro]

"I like the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory."

Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore


"The horror. The horror."

Colonel Kurtz

Edited October 2, 2021 by antipro

[Hyperspace Industries]

"Good afternoon crew, we have arrived at our destination, please be prepared to fire all weapons at the designated target." -Scott Manley in elite dangerous.

Edited September 29, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries
Spelling fix

[antipro]

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

Douglas Noël Adams

 

 

"forty-two"

Deep Thought

Edited October 2, 2021 by antipro

[StrandedonEarth]

"I BRAKE FOR HALLUCINATIONS!" - Bumper Sticker

Oooh, look, butterflies! Must follow the flutterbyes.....

Edited October 1, 2021 by StrandedonEarth

[antipro]

ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE

Extraterrestrial Intelligence relayed by HAL 9000

Edited October 2, 2021 by antipro

[Hyperspace Industries]

"It was like a bunch of lizards watching the World Cup. Politely put, they weren’t sure what they were looking at." - A character in the second expanse book.

Edited October 6, 2021 by Hyperspace Industries
To be specific, the narrator.

[Admiral Fluffy]

The Worlds shortest horror story: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...” - Fredrick Brown

[StrandedonEarth]

30 minutes ago, Admiral Fluffy said:

The Worlds shortest horror story: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...” - Fredrick Brown

Hopefully, it's the last woman...

[adsii1970]

Bumper sticker I saw in Evansville, Indiana on the back of a minivan:

I want to die like grandpa, in his sleep.
Not like the terrified passengers in his car.

[StrandedonEarth]

14 minutes ago, adsii1970 said:

Bumper sticker I saw in Evansville, Indiana on the back of a minivan:

I want to die like grandpa, in his sleep.
Not like the terrified passengers in his car.

That's a kind of old one to me, although I heard it as "Not screaming like the other people in his car." I guess the best is to combine them, "Not screaming like the terrified passengers in his car."

[adsii1970]

1 minute ago, StrandedonEarth said:

That's a kind of old one to me, although I heard it as "Not screaming like the other people in his car." I guess the best is to combine them, "Not screaming like the terrified passengers in his car."

Hehehe, yeah I think you may have it right. But still funny.

[antipro]

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe,
attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion,
I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain.
Time to die.

Roy Batty

[benzman]

Ernest Hemmingway was once challenged to write a complete short story in only six words.  He wrote -  For sale. Baby shoes. Never used.

[steuben]

"I can grab the right end of a sword given three tries." 

"Those who don't study their technological history are forever doomed to reinvent it."

[Hyperspace Industries]

"Generally the BBC gets an equal amount of complaints from all sides, and then they reckon they've done their job about right." -Tom Scott

"To Pluto with the tent!" -Centurion Nefarius Purpus (in the Asterix comic: Asterix the legionary)

[antipro]

And when we shoot for the stars
What a giant step
Have we got what it takes
To carry the weight of this concept?
Or pass it by
Like a shot in the dark
Miss the mark with a sense of adventure

Tasmin Archer

[Hyperspace Industries]

Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong,      And then some things that couldn't go wrong also went wrong!" -A commenter on a Danny2462 video.

[benzman]

The cat is nature's masterpiece - Leonardo Da Vinci

[antipro]

15 hours ago, benzman said:

The cat is nature's masterpiece - Leonardo Da Vinci

Beautiful, I didn't find any "official source", anyway I think the correct quote was:

"Anche il più piccolo dei felini, il gatto, è un capolavoro. (Leonardo da Vinci)"

"Even the smallest of felines, the cat, is a masterpiece. (Leonardo da Vinci)"

     

Edited October 14, 2021 by antipro

[benzman]

10 hours ago, antipro said:

Beautiful, I didn't find any "official source", anyway I think the correct quote was:

"Anche il più piccolo dei felini, il gatto, è un capolavoro. (Leonardo da Vinci)"

"Even the smallest of felines, the cat, is a masterpiece. (Leonardo da Vinci)"


     

Thanks for that. I can't remember where I first came across that quote. I have a copy of that first graphic, the sepia one.  I had not seen the other two.