Favorite quotes and/or sayings

[Pearlcougar]

Hope this hasn't been done before…alright!Have you ever heard someone say something amazing or life-changing that you live by or tell everyone you know?Ever read a completely shocking or unexpected part of a story?Heard a good piece of advice?An awe-inspiring verse in a song?Or just heard something so gloriously funny or random/strange that you had to tell everyone?Chances are,you have.

So I'd like to hear what you've got. Post here maybe something you were told that changed your life,a favorite saying from a book,or just something so gut-wrenching-ly funny that it's almost sadistic.Put your quote/sayings,source of quote/saying,any thoughts or comments you have on it.

As with all threads,remember your limits here.Don't post anything offensive or inappropriate that will get you in trouble or banned.Just remember you won't have to deal with me,you'll have the mods to deal with.:happy:

So let's get started!I know there are a ton of moments that are quote-worthy from One Piece,so I'll start of with one of my favorites-
"Food is a gift from God. Spices are a gift from the devil. Looks like it was too spicy for you." -Sanji after defeating Jyabura
---here you can find more epic One piece quotes- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/One_Piece

And here's a couple from some fanfics I read recently

! "Was he at the bar?" asked Sanji, forgetting all about fighting with Zolo and sitting down on the table, "Was your family there?"
! "Dude…" said Zolo, looking up, "Your ass is right next to my toast."-Bleach99's fanfic (http://quizilla.teennick.com/stories/242079/one-piece-the-ocean-of-love-eleven)
! "He doesn't like it when anyone in the crew is hurt or sad." said Nami, "And he won't tolerate anyone who makes them like that."
! "Ah…" you say, "He's not gonna... kill him... is he?"
! "Oh no, just beat his balls into his brain, then dump him on the dock." said Zolo, "Don't worry about it."
! "Oh my..." you say, wincing as Ace was tossed onto the dock and you pulled out of the harbor, away from the town.
. -Bleach99's fanfic (http://quizilla.teennick.com/stories/845310/one-piece-the-ocean-of-love-eighteen)
-just a slight understatement,that's all…

So now,let's begin!!

[IrishLuigi]

One is concerned as to the OP's seemingly unorthodox obsession with quotes from fan-fiction.

My fave quote ATM would be;

"When life gives you wheelchairs, make lemonade."

[Don Quichotte De Flamingo]

"If you dont get lost, theres a chance you may never be found."

[kmohyudin]

"If you don't fing work like you are fing supposed to, and instead waste your fing time on this fing site, I will fing fire your fing ass before you even fing realize you've been fed!!"

-My boss :sad:, 13 minutes ago…

I should probably work now

[Fire-Fist]

Human Knowledge Belongs To World And Mankind

[Mugiwara_no_Ice]

It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.

[Sea]

People, as a whole, are stupid.

[igoLman]

Reality is almost always wrong

[wolfwood]

@IrishLuigi:

My fave quote ATM would be;

"When life gives you wheelchairs, make lemonade."

"When life gives you lemons, find a kid with a papercut."

"Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state.

Being in love shows a person who he should be."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will you the truth."

[Don Quichotte De Flamingo]

" A lie stays a lie ,even when everybody believes in it.
The truth stays the truth, even when nobody believes in it. "

[Pearlcougar]

"Beauty is in the imperfections, forgive me for sounding cliche." and the spin-off,"In my eyes,perfection is a flaw.If they're everything that you want,where's the originality and spontaneity that makes life the exciting adventure it's meant to be?"-well,that's my version of it at least
-which simply reminds me of "expect the unexpected."

And once again One Piece strikes a familiar tune with "The hero never dies."

Oh,just remembered:"Live the life you love and love the life you live."-(bob marley) my class used this as our saying when we graduated.It was a bit cliche' and cheesy at the same time

[kmohyudin]

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile way - and barefoot.

[IrishLuigi]

"NEVER add milk, nor sugar, while the teabag is still in the tea."

[Pearlcougar]

@IrishLuigi:

"NEVER add milk, nor sugar, while the teabag is still in the tea."

….thinks about going and trying it
-decided against it;being that i'm not a tea person anyways...

Contributing again:How could I forget one of the most epic quotes of all time?!

"DOOM!" -Oda's manga on uncountable number of occasions

[IrishLuigi]

@Pearlcougar:

"DOOM!" -Oda's manga on uncountable number of occasions

Looks like we need to educate you.

The word is actually "DO~N!"

Which remind me of;

"If you're going to do it, do it with a DON!"

[Pearlcougar]

@IrishLuigi:

Looks like we need to educate you.

The word is actually "DO~N!"

Which remind me of;

"If you're going to do it, do it with a DON!"

Yea well both actually!Because i have to read the american manga translation…so yeah,more "DOOM!",less "DO~N!" there.:happy:

[Morgan]

"Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness."

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

[Akumu]

“Religion is the opiate of the people.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes.”

[Cream-of-Chicken]

"Through my love of words and my love of ideas and metaphors, I can convince you of the most unlikely of things. That's what a magician does."

"Replace the fear of the unknown with curiosity."

[Truth]

"Eat it all, wear it out. Make it do or do without." saying from the Great Depression, according to my grandma.

"Voting is like playing pin the tail on the donkey. Even when you win all you get is an ass." made that one up myself a few years back.

[Black Leg]

"Opinions are like assholes, everyone has them and they all stink" -off the one piece podcast i think

"A talented person is someone who is naturally good at something, a genius is a talented person who works their butt off night and day to improve"

[Wagomu]

"Without deviation from the norm, 'progress' is not possible."

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Both from Frank Zappa. Words I live by!

[Mokenda_mint]

"Ladies and gentlemen take my advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice" Sidney (MAS*H)

"I may be an idiot, but I'm not stupid"

""When is it that a man truly dies? Is it when he is stricken with a deadly disease? NO. Is it when he drinks soup made of poison mushroom. NO. When he is shot through the heart with a bullet? NO. …... it's when he is forgotten." - Dr. Hiluluk (this is the most important quote to me. It helped me through my Daddy's death :C)

[Cream-of-Chicken]

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this is normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
–Douglas Adams

[Morgan]

"nothing dared, nothing won" -classy, yes?

"You're different. I am different -he's the most different of us all. But that is what makes us so fantastic, right?" Mrs Fox from 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'

"Lock-ness is like empty-ness, it is there but hard to prove"

[Cream-of-Chicken]

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

[Mugiwara_no_Ice]

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

[Aioria]

"If music be the food of love, play on" - Shakespeare -

[Cyan D. Funk]

"There is no hell, only France" - Frank Zappa

"Is the dream a lie that don't come true or is it something worse?" - Bruce Springsteen

"It was when you made the 'super' more important than the 'man' that you lost sight, Clark" - Norman McCay (DC's Kingdom Come)

"The story of life is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again" - Jimi Hendrix

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — 'No, you move'" - Captain America

[GJardim]

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

"When you trade breads you keep only one. When you trade ideas you keep both."

"People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black."
The last one is from Henry Ford, the second is from a famous brazilian writer that I can't remember his name…:ninja:

"There's no bad work, the bad is to work." - Don Ramón

[CCC]

"Everything is futile but we must do it anyway."
-Mohandas Gandhi

[Animesoccer]

"If you are going to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they will kill you." that might have been improvised but I love Oscar Wild.

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and it kills the frog"

I think that was White

[Cyan D. Funk]

@CCC:

"Everything is futile but we must do it anyway."
-Mohandas Gandhi

"I do not like your Christians, but I like your Christ" - Mohandas Gandhi

At least I think it went that way.

[Airflow]

"The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

• Adolf Hitler

I have millions of these.

[Morgan]

Speaking of V for vendetta in another thread, these must be here;

Evey Hammond: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey Hammond: Oh. Right.

Evey Hammond: so Are you like a crazy person?
V: I am quite sure they will say so. But to whom, might I ask, am I speaking with?
Evey Hammond: I'm Evey.
V: Evey? E-V. Of course you are.
Evey Hammond: What does that mean?
V: It means that I, like God, do not play with dice and I don't believe in coincidences.

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

Evey Hammond: Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot… But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man... A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget.

[Squaztina]

"Early to rise, early to bed makes one healthy but socially dead." (Yakko Warner)

Bit long, but I love them:

"Baldrick, believe me, eternity in the company of Beelzebub and all his hellish instruments of death will be a picnic compared to five minutes with me and this pencil if we can't replace this dictionary." (Blackadder) "A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn. " (Blackadder)

"They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head." (Blackadder)

[wolfwood]

@Squaztina:

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his friends, his principles, the glistening ear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn. " (Blackadder)

That and Atkinson's explanation of the world war are the best parts of Blackadder.

[Pochipochi]

Humans were drinking alcohol five thousand years ago. And they're still drinking it now! Alcohol has survived as humanity's friend and can I truly abandon a friend..?

[X-Drake]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Practice-makes-a-man-perfectbut-Nobodys-perfect-then-why-practice/368555328878?ref=ts

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-world-would-be-better-off-if-humans-became-extinct/116646341703933?ref=mf#!/pages/The-world-would-be-better-off-if-humans-became-extinct/116646341703933?v=wall&ref=mf

plz join if ye likes 'em!

[Captain Leaf]

"People don’t do what they believe in, they just do what’s most convenient, then they repent."

[Mugiwara_no_Ice]

Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your — your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.

[misshu]

from irish stories i read as a kid: "what they say about you is true", about the perception of human nature versus action.

the movie "the incredible shrinking man", too rickety for me, but this: "…so close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. but suddenly, i knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. the unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle..."

but maybe i only like it because i'm wee.

[Hannyabal]

Personal
-I hate when i sing in my room and people line up to buy tickets
-Spread The Peace!

Not mine
-A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
-I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)
-Everybody has a different definition of the good side. (Will Wright)

[Nami]

My signature

Life isn't about waiting for the Storm to pass. It's about learning to dance it the Rain.

[killerbee1000]

"I once was dancing with a woman who told me she had a yeast infection. So I asked her to bake me a loaf of bread."- George Carlin

[Smudger]

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty - Winston Churchill.

Winston Churchill is the king of witty quotation.

[Darkstorm]

Actually FE Smith is better. Churchill would go quiet when FE spoke out against him because he didn't want to get a verbal uppercut.

Judge: Are you trying to show contempt for this court, Mr Smith? Smith: No, My Lord. I am attempting to conceal it. Judge: Have you ever heard of a saying by Bacon — the great Bacon — that youth and discretion are ill-wedded companions**?** Smith: Yes, I have. And have you ever heard of a saying of Bacon — the great Bacon — that a much-talking judge is like an ill-tuned cymbal? Judge: You are extremely offensive, young man! Smith: As a matter of fact we both are; but I am trying to be, and you can't help it.

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Smith (to witness So, you were as drunk as a judge?
Judge (interjecting You mean as drunk as a lord?
Smith: Yes, My Lord.

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Judge: Mr Smith, you must not direct the jury. What do you suppose I am on the bench for?
Smith: It is not for me, your honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence.

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Master of the Rolls: Really, Mr Smith, do give this Court credit for some little intelligence.
Smith: That is the mistake I made in the Court below, My Lord.

[Outerspec]

"If nice guys finish last then I guess I'll live longer than you."

-Me

[Flux]

“ End all this Hate. Forgiveness is Love. Love is All. ” - [Godric, True Blood]

" Some will Win, Some will Lose, and Some were Born to Sing the Blues " - [Journey]

" It's not what you say that defines you, it's what you do." [- Batman]

"' We are responsible for each other, and I tell you, soon a time will come, when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in fire and blood and anguish. Good night " [Inspector Goole, An Inspector Calls]

Thinking of more of my deep favourite ones at the minute.

[Smudger]

Darkstorm

True enough, but Churchill still holds a profound edge to his quotes.
(more profound than witty in truth)

Isn't oscar wild meant to be a goldmine of quotations?