Favorite quotes?

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing

 

I almost died.
Good one.


"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades." - Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
- Theodore Roosevelt

 

If you had no courage to attempt anything, why live?

 

lottery .. an additional tax for people who are bad at maths

- i dont know -

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

- Albert Einstein -

 

"I am to drunk to taste this chicken."- the great cornel sanders

 

"No one lives life a virgin because life fucks us all over."

- Unknown

 

winners never quit and quitters never win

 

Were here to fuck shit up!

-My football team

 

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding."

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on...I will be sitting on it

 

"Don't piss on my leg and call it rain" - some old guy at a meeting with their congressman in Calif.

"Don't blow sunshine up my butt" - Rep. Allen West

 

"This is the worst part...The calm before the battle."

"Great, thanks to the internet I'm now bored with sex!"

^^^ Best ever

 

"As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: "I can be there.""
Arnold Schwarzenegger

"You can dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, because dreamers always chase but never get it."
No Regrets by Aesop Rock

 

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

 

"Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard." - I forget who said this.

 

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
-Mohandas Gandhi

 

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss

Mindless vandalism can take a bit of thought

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Fame is a by-product of doing something else. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

 

True friends stab you in the front

 

Kurt Vonnegut, my favorite author, has some pretty awesome quotes.
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind"
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!"
"So it goes."
What one of his characters wanted on his epitaph: "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." (getting this tattooed on the right side of my torso next year)


If you haven't read either Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse Five, or Cat's Cradle, do it. Nao.