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Quotations - II

U.SivaKumar_2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:01:24 GMT

Hi all ,

I want very good english quotations. Please don't use slang language as my dumb head wont understand them.

Points limited to 4.

"Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
-- Robert Bresson"

regards,
U.SivaKumar

Re: Quotations - II

Massimo Bianchi — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:08:51 GMT

"Huston, we got a problem."
Apollo 13 - Mission to the Moon.

BTW i usually use this quotation when one of my produtive server is down... and i haven't yet understood why.

Massimo

Re: Quotations - II

Michael Tully — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:11:06 GMT

I don't do english quotations, but I do limericks. I did this once before but I forget where, so apologies for anyone who has seen this before.

"There was a man from Horsham
who took out his ba**s to wash them
His mother said Jack if you don't them back
I'll step on the bastards and squash them"

enjoy ;^)

Re: Quotations - II

Ian Dennison_1 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:11:15 GMT

"Some people say that when the true nature of the Universe is understood, it will be instantly replaced by something infinitely incomprehensible. There are others that insist that this has already happened".

Douglas Adams, 'The Restaurant at the end of the Universe'

Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: Quotations - II

Kevin Lamb_2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:15:58 GMT

"I have a cunning plan"
Baldrick, Blackadder

Kev

Re: Quotations - II

Kevin Lamb_2 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:24:09 GMT

Hi,

Try the links below

http://www.ability.org.uk/quotat.html

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/postgrad/gurkan/quoteeng.htm

Enjoy
Kev
"I'd rather be flying"

Re: Quotations - II

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:24:31 GMT

hi,
i like this one:

...
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
...
I have a dream today.
...

Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963
See full text at:
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/new/MLK/MLK.html

and hear it at:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/multimedia/dream_excerpt.htm

regards
Yogeeraj

Re: Quotations - II

Massimo Bianchi — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:29:18 GMT

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"The important thing is never to stop questioning."

Albert Einstein

Re: Quotations - II

Mike Fisher_5 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:36:04 GMT

Dorothy Parker
Algonquin Round Table:

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to

Re: Quotations - II

Mike Fisher_5 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:53:09 GMT

WAR - Through the eys of an honourable man...
General Omar N Bradley

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living

Re: Quotations - II

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:07:12 GMT

Hi Siva,

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Robert-Jan.

Re: Quotations - II

Umapathy S — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:10:32 GMT

Siva,
I always like Einstein's quotes.

This is the one I treasure

1. The significant problems we face can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

2. Where there is love there is no question

3. When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity. (This is really nice to understand the relativity).

As also (I forgot the authors name).
4. Buying books would be great if we buy also the time to read them.

And my favourite from Swami Vivekanda
5. Arise, Awake and stop not till your goal is reached. (It is my quote in forums).

cheers
Umapathy

Re: Quotations - II

Mike Fisher_5 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 08:14:39 GMT

"Live Free or Die"
General John Stark & Harry, New Hampshire USA

Re: Quotations - II

Pete Randall — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:11:09 GMT

Mike,

Harry's not from New Hampshire, he's from (near) Rochester, New York. That is the New Hampshire state motto, though, so that's why everyone assumes that Harry lives there.

Pete

Re: Quotations - II

Pete Randall — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:22:25 GMT

U.

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."

Mark (Samuel Langhorn Clemens) Twain

Pete

Re: Quotations - II

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:37:26 GMT

???I have nothing to declare except my genius???

Oscar Wild at New York customs

Paula

Re: Quotations - II

Mike Fisher_5 — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:40:56 GMT

Samuel Johnson

1] ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that
"he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney".

2] "Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

3] Definition of "oats":
"A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland appears to support the people."
Johnson: A Dictionary Of The English Language

Re: Quotations - II

John Meissner — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:47:31 GMT

I love quotes....

Do not go gently into that good night - Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
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I did the thing I feared the most, excuse me while I cheer, for I stand a stronger soul, and all I've lost is fear.
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Because we see, many of life's simplicities are confused with color.
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Work like you don't need money. Love like you've never been hurt. And dance the way you do when no one is looking.
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Think like a man of action, Act like a man of thought

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I could go on and on.... but I don't want to take any other quotes away from other people that may post....

Re: Quotations - II

Steve Steel — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 10:38:30 GMT

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

"To go forward, you must backup." ??? Cardinal rule of computing.
"If it wasn't backed-up, then it wasn't important." ??? The sysadmin's moto.
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." ??? Linus T.

Steve Steel

Re: Quotations - II

John Poff — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:01:22 GMT

From my programming days, I used to say,

"The goal of every programmer is to improve the program to the point that it doesn't run any more."

JP