Quotes Worth Quoting
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"Work is the curse of the drinking class." - Oscar Wilde
And vice versa… My life motto...
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"Nothing succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde
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"It is what it is"
"I don't need no make-up, I got real scars, I got hair on my chest, I look good without a shirt" Tom Waits
This pops into my head quite often…
"Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not." Cormac McCarthy"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" Richard Feynman
"Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too" Bob Dylan
Here's one to live by:
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan -
"I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke) -
@monday:
"I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)as an addict, I can tell you that it's nothing worth admiring.
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so your boss didn't say feck??
great quote, see it has had a small impact on you, hehehehehe
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From one of my bosses at my last job, he was the company controller so he had to go after people who
owed us money…" To say the check is in the mail is like being a little bit pregnant, either you are or you're not. " - Ray Broedel
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Anonymous
Great idea Giles for starting this thread!! I love it. I have so many
Ok, some of my favorites:"Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way" Captain Benjamin L. Willard Apocalypse now
"No man can work harder than a mule, but a mule cannot drink wine" My father, roughly translated from Portuguese
"A free man blames no one when he fails" Anonymous
"Real recognize real" Jadakiss
"Get in where you fit in" Too Short
"I think because he wants to be, i think in life, what you want is what you are supposed to get" Barack Obama's half brother in Kenya
"You're the architect, you tell me!" My boss …..... ugh
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Onairda - I like your father quote
Favorite quotes from Julia Childs:
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
"If you're afraid of butter, use cream."
"Life itself is the proper binge."
"Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
"How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?"
"The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit. "
"Everything in moderation… including moderation."
"Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!"
"The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."
"We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively."
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" It's not what you do, it's how you look while you're doing it. " - David Lee Roth
