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Great Quotes ...I love using quotations. I discovered them when I did essays in school. And was sold completely.
Have you got any faves? Because I'm a reader I have hundreds.
Here's one of my top ones ...
"I will show you fear in a handful of dust!" from TS Eliot's The Wasteland.
If you haven't read it, you might find it online.
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RadgeJougal
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Are you trying to shore up your ruins?
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Blackadder
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Your ridiculous little opinion has been noted.
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Blackadder
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Voltaire
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Blackadder
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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ... English professor, Ohio University
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mairead
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Remember man as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you must be
Prepare ye then, to follow me.
Epitaph on a tombstone.
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Blackadder
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Here lies the body of Les More
No less ... No more!
Epitaph on a different tombstone.
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mairead
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When we have not that which we love,
We must love that which we have.
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Blackadder
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"Let no-one without knowledge of geometry enter".
Motto over the entrance to Plato's Academy (quoted in Elias' commentary on Aristotle's Categories).
Well ... that was me buggered then!!!
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mairead
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me too BA.
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Blackadder
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"I know one thing, that I know nothing".
(Socrates, paraphrased from Plato's Apology)
Would that politicians were as honest!
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Blackadder
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If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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Borderschat
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Peter Reed Frae Peterhead is Deed
Volvo fer sale !!
Hecktor Brockelbank
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Reluctant Hero
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"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown in to the sea"
Eric Cantona
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mairead
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For as long as one hundred of us remains alive. Declaration of Arbroath
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Blackadder
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"I'll be fingering through Richard the Third 'til he comes."
Tom from 'Gimme, Gimme, Gimme'. (1999)
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Jimbo
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
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Reluctant Hero
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We are a small nation but we have a big future  - Alex Salmond
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Blackadder
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"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P Dowd (Harvey)
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Jimbo
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
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Blackadder
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"A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master."
Darth Vader (Star Wars 1977)
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macnumpty
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"I'm not asking you to do anything you wouldn't do in your own kitchen! Now Niles, quick, kill five eels!"
Frasier Crane (Frasier, Series 2)
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Jimbo
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Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
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azzuri
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"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." - P. J. O'Rourke
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Reluctant Hero
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"It's a wonderful day for the club and all our supporters" - Roy McGregor, Chairman of Ross County, Second Division Champions  
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macnumpty
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"I'm playing the right notes... but not necessarily in the right order!"
Eric Morecambe
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Blackadder
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"He's never gonna sell any ice cream goin' at that speed!"
Eric Morecambe on hearing a siren in the street blaring past at 100mph.
(Although I gotta admit, the sketch with Andrew Preview is utterly utterly pure genius!)
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Blackadder
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"I have the heart of a small boy……and I keep it in a jar on my desk."
(This quote is most often attributed to Robert Bloch, author of Psycho.)
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azzuri
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"The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks. They spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does." - Shane MacGowan
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Blackadder
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"Ironic, isn't it? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you."
Who said that??
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macnumpty
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Sideshow Bob, I believe.
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Blackadder
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Sorry Macnumpts .... you couldn't be any wronger!
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azzuri
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| macnumpty wrote: | | Sideshow Bob, I believe. |
On the right track though.....Monty Burns.
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azzuri
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"So I thought, Why Not?!" - James McFadden, Paris, 12 September 2007
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Jimbo
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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley
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Blackadder
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"Run you fools!"
Gandalf, in the Caves of Moria just before falling from the Bridge of Khazad-dûm (Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring)
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Jimbo
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. - Bob Hope
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Blackadder
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"You have reached ritual sacrifice. For goats, press one, or say "goats."
Voice on a phoneline (Angel) (TV series)
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azzuri
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"I would hate to die with a heart attack and have a good liver, kidneys and brains. When I die, I want everything to be knackered." - Hamish Imlach
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Blackadder
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"As we know, there are known knowns, there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns, that is to say we know there are some things we do not know, but there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know, we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld —Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
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Jimbo
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I've brought you to the ring, now dance as best you can. - William Wallace
(to his troops at the battle of Falkirk).
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Blackadder
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"You know, like a pair of pants with some cack in it? That's you, that is."
Professor F. J. Lewis, Emeritus Professor of History at All Souls' College, Oxford.
(Newman & Baddiel - History Today - The Austerity Years)
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macnumpty
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"Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite, would you like a toasted teacake?"
- Talkie Toaster in Red Dwarf IV
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Zeitgeist Incarnate
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"My mother taught me to never kiss a fool"
The Simpsons - Simpson and Delilah
"Is this the tide in my affairs,
the day I write a little history,
or just an interviewer's wares?
We'll flood the screens with triviality."
Tim Rice - "Chess"
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...but thank you for phoning BT Helpline".
Frankie Boyle
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Blackadder
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"I have so many people working for me I feel totally superfluid."
Leader of a technical group back in the late 70s.
(okay, it's not a great quote ... but at least it's equal to someone who can't spell the word zeitgeist properly)
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Zeitgeist Incarnate
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Sorry. Do you know how I could get it fixed? I feel really stupid now.
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Blackadder
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Sorry mate ... not a scoobie.
You could ask admin to help. PM any one of them, they're a decent bunch here if you take them the right way. I use the scruff of the neck, but I'd not advocate that for you.
btw ... it's always best to check up unfamiliar and foreign words on the net before using them. I do it all the time because I don't want to look as stupid as Baldrick ... well, no-one does actually!
Cheers ... and welcome!
See Carol ... I can be nice. Though I admit it's a struggle! 
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azzuri
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....fixed!
Welcome to the forums zeitgeist.
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azzuri
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ooh, better add a quote;
"Studying the union is bad for your unionism" - Michael Fry
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Blackadder
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Oh you don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
You don't get me I'm part of the union
Till the day I die, till the day I die!
The Strawbs (1973) ... fortunately they were singing about a different kind of Union.
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azzuri
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"You're so money and you don't even know it!" - Vince Vaughan (from the film 'Swingers')
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"Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you this will mean much less breeding, for me, much much more." ... Comic Book Guy (The Simpsons)
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azzuri
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"Better to spend 1 day as a Tiger than 100 as a Sheep." - Old Celtic Proverb
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macnumpty
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"You're not a Cylon. I know that because I'm a Cylon, and I haven't seen you at any of the meetings" - A sarcastic - or is he? - Brother Cavil in Battlestar Galactica.
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mairead
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Live for today, tomoorow may never come. Don't know who said that though.
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Blackadder
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Mairead ... the sentiment has been around a long time in various wordings since 85 ce.
For instance ... It is not wise, believe me to say, "I shall live." Too late is tomorrow's life: live thou today (None est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere "vivam"; sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie))~Martial, Epigrams, bk. I, epig. 15. (85c.e.)
And for today ...
"Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well" ... Peter Ustinov
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azzuri
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"I'd like to infect Bono with AIDS and send him to Africa, where he could earn a living searching through rubbish tips for mismatched shoes." - My mate Tony.
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Blackadder
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From Porridge .... (Episode: New Faces, Old Hands)
The doctor wants Fletcher to give a sample of urine, so he points to a glass vessel on a table some distance away ...
Doctor: "Can you fill that up for me?"
Fletcher: "What, from here?"
CLASS!!!
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Jimbo
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain
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Blackadder
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Alea iacta est.
(The die has been cast)
(Caesar)
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Jimbo
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I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - Shakespeare
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Blackadder
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Nathan: You're straight, you don't know anything
Donna: I'm black. And I'm a girl. Try that for a week.
Queer As Folk (TV Series)
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Jimbo
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You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin
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Blackadder
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"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough." ... Mark Twain
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Blackadder
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"To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
Who said that? (Careful now .... it IS a trick question! So Carol won't get it!  )
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macnumpty
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It's either Captain Ahab or Khan. Possibly both. 
"I wasn't cut out do be a bureaucrat anyway! I'm only anal 78.29% of the time!"
Who said that?
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Blackadder
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Correctamundo, Macnumpters!
Often wrongly attributed to Shakespeare, it was Herman Melville who wrote "Moby Dick", putting these very quotable words into the mouth of Captain Ahab in his war against the Great White Whale ... we know as Carol!
The writers of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (the best of the movies) stole the quote for the brilliant death scene of Khan Noonien Singh as he tries to kill Kirk and crew in the Mutara Nebula. He says the line as he stabs at the button that explodes the Genesis device. Without a doubt, Ricardo Montalban's best ever performance in any movie or TV he ever did or will do again. He shoulda got an Oscar for that!
| Quote: | | "I wasn't cut out do be a bureaucrat anyway! I'm only anal 78.29% of the time!" |
It could be you, Macnumpty, but you're anal 99.9% of the time!
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macnumpty
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Now, BA, that's not strictly true...
Besides, the answer was Hermes Conrad, in Futurama.
Also Monty Burns uses "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee" at some point... when he's switching the power to Springfield off, I think.
One more thing... STII was not the best of the movies, it was the second best. First Contact was absolutely by far and away the best!
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Blackadder
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Don't watch Futurama ... cos I don't got SkyOne. 
That's correct ... the old git said "Goodbye Springfield. From Hell’s heart I stab at thee."
I have to correct you though. First Contact (even tough it was a bit of a crossover) was the first of the TNG movies and yes it was the best of that bunch. But the first six were all TOS ... and STII was the best of that lot.
And your banal anality is most likely 99.99999999999%, isn't it?
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macnumpty
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Awwww... well it pops up on Channel 4 occasionally. I would recommend it, when you find it on!
And ST:FC stands out as the best of the ten for me. Though the other TNG films were pretty ropey. ST:G was just a vehicle for the crossover, ST:I would have been better as an episode during Season 7 when they were running out of ideas and ST:N was a good idea wasted.
What's your take on this prequel they're woking on anyway?
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Blackadder
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All of the Next Gen movies were like double episodes. The trouble with Nemesis was that it was a mess ... both the science and the plot were awful ... and the acting ropey. I was not a happy bunny when I saw it!
Frankly I don't see the need for prequels. ST:E was a mistake. The casting of Bakula was wrong on so many levels. He'll always be Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap. Yes, some fan-questions got answered in that series ... but it was not well produced or written.
I withhold judgement on the movie prequel at the moment. Sylar as young Spock is interesting casting. But generally, I'm not in favour. We should have gone ahead another 100 years into the future with a new Star Trek series ...
Anyway ... who said, "I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, Godless, evil stuff! ... And I want in!"
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macnumpty
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That was Homer, to Lenny and Carl, on his attempt to join the Stonecutters. Luckily for him, Abe is a member. He's also an elk, a mason, a Communist and the President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance "for some reason".
And Re: Enterprise, I have only three words: Just. Plain. Wrong.
And to be honest everytime I look at Spock in the prequel I'm going to think of him opening someone's skull with the power of his mind. 
Personally, I'd have liked them to do something DS9-related. Maybe a mini-series. That'd be a good way of keeping the franchise going and it's how the new BSG got off the ground...
Anyway, who said, "I'm gonna do stuff to you you won't remember till you're forty!"
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azzuri
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I'm going to throw a 'serious' grenade into the mix....
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." - Dante Alighieri
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Blackadder
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I detest the new BSG. All those English nanes for a start are just. plain. wrong. Plus I wanted REAL Cylons and the Egyptian style Vipers and Helmets! Aaarrgghh!!!
DS9 was actually a really great series because it had it all ... a beginning, a middle and an end. Unlike B5 which disappeared up its own orifice in season 5.
Not a scooby about the quote. Sounds like something Steve Martin or Will Ferrell would say ... and I can't stand either of them! 
"I've had a wonderful evening ... but this wasn't it." Groucho Marx
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macnumpty
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It was Peter Griffin in Family Guy.
Anyway, I do enjoy the re-imagined BSG. Though possibly because I didn't grow up with the original.
"One more drink and I'll be under the host" - Dorothy Parker
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Blackadder
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Macnumpters ... NOBODY grew up with the original. We got the reruns on cable. Or that's our story and we're sticking to it!!!
"Tom, I ain't a pussy-person. When people look at me, they don't think 'cat', they think 'dog'." - Linda La Hughes (Gimme Gimme Gimme)
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Blackadder
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“By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!" ... uttered by whom??
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azzuri
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"A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for" - Albert Einstein
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Blackadder
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Take note Azbat ....
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.
Voltaire
And I, of course, am in the position Voltaire takes, while you are at the other.
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kathyv
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DAD!
Junior!
DAD!
Junior!
Are quotes from 2 people in 'conversation' acceptable?
Then, who said them?
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Blackadder
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Sean Connery as the elder of the Jones boys in "Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail".
btw ... I dreamt I wrote "Lord of the Rings" ... but I was only Tolkien in my sleep!
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kathyv
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Sean and Harrison. . .
What about, "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever."
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Blackadder
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Chief Joseph - Thunder Traveling to the Loftier Mountain Heights in 1877 ...
The full speech is ... "Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
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kathyv
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Did you google it?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. -?-
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Blackadder
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Of course I googled it. I'm a person, not a fecking encyclopaedia!
I hated Jane bloody Austen. Pride and Prejudice was a chickbook ... and I was a kid conned into reading it by it being called a "Classic".
And remember .... Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research.
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Blackadder
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
Kevin Bacon
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kathyv
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane, again! Just for you BA! Another chick book, Mansfielsd Park
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Blackadder
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner
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kathyv
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Rinty
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"ever noticed that people who believe in the biblical creation look really un-evolved?"
Bill Hicks
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Blackadder
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
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kathyv
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Blackadder
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Love is blind ... marriage is the eye-opener.
Pauline Thomason
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kathyv
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Blackadder
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones
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kathyv
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen
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Blackadder
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Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
Anna Magnani
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kathyv
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Blackadder
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When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster.
Isaac Asimov
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kathyv
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
~Oscar Wilde
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