Thread: Quotes

Only difference between me and other actors is I’ve spent more time in jail.
— Robert Mitchum

"We live in a world where people die of preventable diseases every day because they don't have the things that you take as common sense. All I want is for people to have a fighting chance to have the same opportunity that you do."
~ Dr.Marc Lamont Hill to Bill O'Reilly.~

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
— Paul Theroux

"We have first-class jails and second-class schools."

~Dr. Marc Lamont Hill/Fox News contributor~

"Wealthy individuals and companies will no longer be able to hide their riches in Zurich bank accounts after Switzerland bowed to international pressure to end the era of “no questions asked” banking.
It will join Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Andorra, which also agreed this week to share limited information on their accounts on request from foreign governments, ending 300 years of obstinate banking secrecy."

~TimesOnLine~

Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
— Alfred Whitney Griswold

"BARACK OBAMA has modelled his early days on those of Franklin Roosevelt, the last president to take office during a serious economic crisis. But by one benchmark he is failing. At market close on March 11th, despite a rally this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 16% below its level on the Friday before Mr Obama took office. At this point in Roosevelt’s presidency, 54 days in, it was up 35%."

~The Economist ~

Not only do we not understand the universe, if someone explained it to us, we wouldn’t know what he was talking about.
— Isaac Asimov

"For you new listeners, especially you gentlemen, that was Hillary Clinton, and doesn't she remind you of both of your ex-wives? I mean, that will send you down to Archie Bunker's bar faster than anything in the country." -- Rush

"Throughout life people will disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."

~ Will Smith ~

"Mr. Obama inherited a terrible economic mess that will take years to correct."

~Talking Points ~

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.
— Albert Einstein

"Islamic banking bans interest because the Koran prohibits investors from making a guaranteed profit on capital. The rules also prohibit investments in pork, alcohol, gambling or areas subject to speculation.

Traditionally, Islamic banking has been based on trade, and profit and loss are typically shared. Customers - or shareholders - receive dividends when banks turn a profit, and suffer losses when banks do.
We have plans to make our products widely available in cities throughout the United States,"

~Islamic Retail Banking & Finance ~

"I hate dogs and children, but not necessarily in that order."


W.C. Fields- 193?

"What, me worry?"


Alfred E. Newman

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.
— Edmund Hillary

The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. --JFK, June 11, 1962.

"The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only fail-safe way to prevent the spread of HIV/Aids."

~ Pope Benedict XVI~

"President Bush wanted the war to establish himself as a genuine Commander-in-Chief; Vice President Dick Cheney wanted the war to create a more powerful presidency; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wanted the war to make his case for transforming the military into a smaller and more mobile force; National Security Advisor Condi Rice wanted the war because the old boy network favored it."
~Melvin.A.Goodman~

"Remember, this is an administration whose objectives require chaos. The more chaos, the more people will demand government to fix it -- whatever 'it' is -- and Obama and the Democrats will only be too happy to oblige." -- Rush

If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
— Thomas Jefferson

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. "
~Stephen King~

In turbulent times, it's good to know some things never change. After a week in which President Obama thanked himself for inviting him to the White House, compared AIG executives to suicide bombers, and did the first Presidential retard joke on national TV, I was impressed to find that Slate is bravely keeping up its Bushism Of The Day feature. -- Mark Steyn