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Re: Quotations - II

 
U.SivaKumar_2
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Quotations - II

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


Innovations are made when conventions are broken
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Massimo Bianchi
Honored Contributor

Re: Quotations - II

"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

Michael Tully
Honored Contributor

Re: Quotations - II

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 ;^)
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Ian Dennison_1
Honored Contributor

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"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
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Kevin Lamb_2
Frequent Advisor

Re: Quotations - II

"I have a cunning plan"
Baldrick, Blackadder

Kev
I'd Rather be Flying!!!
Kevin Lamb_2
Frequent Advisor

Re: Quotations - II

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"
I'd Rather be Flying!!!
Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Quotations - II

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
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave (clavin coolidge)
Massimo Bianchi
Honored Contributor

Re: Quotations - II

"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

Mike Fisher_5
Trusted Contributor

Re: Quotations - II

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
Don't get mad - get naked
Mike Fisher_5
Trusted Contributor

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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
Don't get mad - get naked