BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Aug 14 - 05:00 AM

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but doesn't get you anywhere.Van Wilder Party Liason 

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 20 Aug 14 - 04:27 AM

""Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play."" Willie Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Aug 14 - 04:21 AM

"The secret of a happy life is not to do what you like but to like what you do" On a toilet wall South Bank Jazz Club, Grimsby c.1966

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 20 Aug 14 - 03:31 AM

"A hotel that doesn't serve baked beans as part of full English breakfast needs taking off the list of Whitby places to stay on the festival literature."

Musket.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 06:15 PM

Don't test the water with both feet - Another Nigerian proverb.

Are proverb quotes, though, pedantically speaking? You aren't citing a source, you are repeating something that, I think, cannot *be* attributed to any one person, or they WOULD be quotes, and not proverbs?

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 05:00 PM

Woody Allen: "I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens."

≈M≈

More meaningful to me with every day that passes...

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 12:39 PM

"If music be the food of love, that'd better an oboe you are waving at me."

You could go on forever.

Oh shit, nearly forgot..

CRACKERJACK!

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 09:15 AM

"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial
for months or years. A competent attorney
can delay one even longer."
-- Evelle J. Younger

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 09:00 AM

If music be the food of love, get your fish and chips off my piano." [Peter Glaze, Crackerjack]

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 08:18 AM

"Cat's motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it"

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 08:16 AM

""When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby""
Nigerian Proverb quotes

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 08:14 AM

""A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.""
― Louis Sachar, Holes

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 08:07 AM

another quote from Capstick....

'Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.......they say every man carries his cross around with him....'

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Musket
Date: 19 Aug 14 - 03:22 AM

"If music be the food of love, why don't rabbits sing like buggery?"

Possibly either Mike Harding or Tony Capstick.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Aug 14 - 11:44 PM

Boo hiss, I only got that after I had typed the rest of this post.

Back to the thread: Bones claiming to be a doctor, not a(n)...

Also, I've heard that they say you shouldn't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes, and then, who cares, he's a mile away and you have his shoes!

J2B: But why all the secrecy? People are smart, they can handle it.
K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals. And you know it.

Or are quotes from TV/movies literary because they are written in the script? In which case we still have much Robin Williams (man, I can't get my head around there won't be any more), and Bill Murray's wonderful "Yes, it's true. This man has no dick." in Ghostbusters, which wasn't scripted.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Aug 14 - 07:35 PM

Bones to Captain Kirk in the 23rd century, looking at an ancient 20th century photo of a bunch of nubile young women working out:

"It's gym life, but not as we know it..."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 18 Aug 14 - 07:19 PM

I used to be sad because I had no shoes.

and then I met a man who had no feet.

And I said, Hey? Can I have your shoes?

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Aug 14 - 10:54 AM

We need more of these, Kirk. Many more - said by the alien in a Star Trek Original Series episode, used whenever you have a few of something you just realized you liked.

Och, I was savin' ye - Scotty, said whenever you are about to finish something you thought you were going to have more of.

Me poor wee bairns! Pronounced "bearings" - another Scotty line, said whenever there is engine trouble. The pronunciation dates back to someone who was a strong Trek fan not knowing the word Bairn because he had always misheard this one line, in a way that made more sense.

Many other lines from Old Trek would not count as literature.

Also, which came first, the banjo quote above or the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers' Freewheelin Franklin saying Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope? Also not literature.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 12:26 PM

""God, God, why did you put so many assholes in the world at the same time?" Quote from The Great Santini

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 11:47 AM

"It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?"

"The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."

"Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat."

          - Dizzy Dean, former great pitcher, 'interesting' broadcaster

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 10:07 AM

"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur.'" (Dubya, allegedly, confided to Blair after a meeting with Chirac)

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 09:57 AM

""Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.""
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST,Owl Glass
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 09:14 AM

"An optimist is a pessimist with no imagination."
   Anon

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:38 AM

""He grabbed her hand and held it tightly, and she thought, "he loves me!" And he thought, "wow this sidewalk is icy!""
Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:31 AM

""I always help my wife out with housework such as washing the dishes. She washes them, and I let them dry."" Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:29 AM

""The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi"". Bill Gullickson

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:13 AM

Store sign: Entire store on sale, everything $1 or more.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:12 AM

""The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with ONLY a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ""Erma Bombeck

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 08:02 AM

Olympic diving commentator on Tom Daley in 2012: "So far, the other divers are out-degree-of-difficultying him..."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 04:32 AM

I learned as part of the 18C Social History Special Paper component of Higher Schools [predecessor of A-level], the sign displayed outside 18C gin shops at ther time of Hogarth's Gin Lane --

Drunk for a penny
Dead drunk for twopence
Straw for nothing

And I remember one misunderstanding classmate saying innocently, "Did they drink through straws way back then?"

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 17 Aug 14 - 02:53 AM

"It was a once-in-a-lifetime-experience. I'm ready to go up again."

(Young lad interviewed on local news after his first ride in a light aeroplane)

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 16 Aug 14 - 09:39 PM

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

--Abraham Lincoln

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Aug 14 - 09:30 AM

Marion Barry quotes:

""If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.""

""The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.""

""I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.""

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 08:21 PM

" If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."
            Henny Youngman
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"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."
            Billy Connolly

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AND!
" I never said most of the things I said."
          Yogi Berra

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 08:09 PM

"I'm the only guy at this school that more people don't like than don't know."
             - a friend of mine ...almost 60 years ago

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 08:04 PM

speaking of Einstein:

" It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein
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"Strive for simplicity, but learn to mistrust it."
               Alfred North Whitehead

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"Good is better'n evil, 'cause it's nicer."
             Mammy Yokum

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" If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
       Richard P. Feynman

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 07:50 PM

Artur Schnabel, the great pianist, to Einstein, who was trying to play a Mozart piece on his fiddle but mistiming his entry: "Albert! Can't you count?"

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 07:37 PM

""They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown.""
Carl Sagan

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 07:31 PM

""As she lay there dozing next to me, one voice inside my head kept saying, "Relax... you are not the first doctor to sleep with one of his patients, " but another kept reminding me, "Howard, you are a veterinarian."Dick Wilson 

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Don Firth
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 07:14 PM

Movie ratings explained:

"In a G-rated movie, the good guy gets the girl.
In an R-rated movie, the bad guy gets the girl.
In an X-rated movie, everybody gets the girl!"
                                                    --Kirk Douglas

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Airymouse
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 11:13 AM

"A fool and his father's money are soon parted"
"Man created God in his own image"
"There are two things in life you cannot afford: a Lear jet and a divorce."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Lighter
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 10:37 AM

Spinoza: "If a stone flung by a human hand could think, it would certainly imagine that it flew because it wished to fly."

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 09:31 AM

Stop doing that or you'll go craz...never mind, no one could tell.
                               --Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 09:24 AM

"One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk
about other people."
            -- Anonymous

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: LadyJean
Date: 15 Aug 14 - 01:20 AM

Banjo will get you through times with no money, but money will not get you through times with no banjo.
                                 John Hartford

St. Theresa of Avilla, supposedly, suffered a mishap and asked God why, since she was doing his work, he allowed it to happen. God, supposedly told her, "This is how I treat my friends." The saint, supposedly responded, "No wonder you have so few of them."

"And the rhythym method does not woik!"

Dr. Lila Boyarski, professor of Biology at Transylvania University

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 03:07 PM

Dominic Behan on AL Lloyd's Australian songs.....you can see how transportation might have had its good points

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 02:59 PM

Derek Brimstone about another folksinger.....that guy could empty a room faster than a trapeze artist with diarhoea!

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 02:32 PM

"God didn't create the universe. It was some other supreme being using his name."

..... heard in several places.

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 12:17 PM

""I'm not God, but I am something similar."" 
Roberto Duran

""The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.""
 George Foreman

Subject: RE: BS: Non-Literary Quotable Quotes
From: Gda Music
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 10:54 AM

Is life worth living?
It all depends on the liver!

Brought up at an AA meeting.

GJ