a new top 5
okay, everybody. maybe this isn't the best option for a 1st post after a 3-month hiatus, but when have i ever conformed to convention?
TOP 5 QUOTES OF ALL TIME
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1] What we have here, is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So, you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
-from "Cool Hand Luke"
I'll post more of mine after i sea some from you guys.
TOP 5 QUOTES OF ALL TIME
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1] What we have here, is failure to communicate. Some men, you just can't reach. So, you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
-from "Cool Hand Luke"
I'll post more of mine after i sea some from you guys.
posted by starbuck at 15:13
23 Comments:
well, it didn't say they have to be from movies...so here's one i'm particularly fond of:
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." ~Hanlon's Razor
hey, i like frø's quote. and of course, "cool hand luke" is a great movie and the quote is definitely deserving.
one of my favourites (because i have a list, already) is from "desperado":
'help to be the man i was and forgive me for what i am.'
another one (because i do have that list) is from "the way of the gun":
'we disn't come looking for absolution; but isn't that the way it is, every goddamn time'
2] "The truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks, not compared to our people matter."
Yeah, I didn't say movies on purpose. It's much too limiting.
indeed. but there are, of course, plenty of good movie quotes to be had. like:
"no there WAS nothing wrong with it...until i was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass-clown became famous and started winning Grammys." (about Michael Bolton)
and:
"Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit."
both from office space.
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My brain's a little on the fritz right now, but I do crack up every time I hear this exchange from Gross Pointe Blank.
Mr. Newberry: What have you been doing with your life?
Marty: Uh... professional killer.
Mr. Newberry: Oh! Good for you, it's a growth industry.
"i'm not arguing that with you!"
no one ever gets that one, scoupe! what's with people. it's clearly joe versus the volcano. also a favorite quote of mine.
two more:
"you have a small but distinct window of opportunity to do the right thing."
"it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."
is one or both of those john cusack?
"Life is what happens while you're making other plans."
-John Lennon
"Ya better not complain boy. Ya get in trouble with The Man."
-John Fogerty
"Haul the sheet in, as we ride on the wind that our forefathers harnessed before us. Hear the bells ring, as the tide-rigging sings. It's a son-of-a-gun of a chorus."
-Jimmy Buffet
"i think a plan is just a list of things never happen," - from my favourite movie. any guesses as to what it is?
they're both actually rupert everett in my best friend's wedding.
not sure about that one scoupe...since i haven't seen many of your favorites.
here are some of my favorites:
"Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die."
Carmen Boyle (Olympic Luge Gold Medal winner - 1996)
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain
another favorite of mine is often misquoted and takes on a somewhat different meaning. there are numerous variations to the fairly famous quote that goes something like this, “It doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. It’s how you play the game.” The quote has been attributed to many sources, including Aesop and the Bible, but is probably based on a similar quote from a sportswriter named Grantland Rice (1954). Mr. Rice’s actual quote was:
“For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.”
somewhat different in its original context, don't you think?
this is a long one, but a good one:
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
- Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
- Be kind anyway.
If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies.
- Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
- Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
- Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
- Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
- Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
-Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the end, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa
that reminds me of another quote by Mother Teresa:
"There are no great deeds, only small deeds with great love."
That actually it's an adaptation from St. Thèrese of Lisieux "My little way consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things with extraordinary love". Still, I like Mother Teresa's better. Simpler.
Some favourite movie quotes: "You know what's the difference between you and me? I make this look good." (Will Smith in Men in Black) And from Hudson Hawk, right after B. Willis finds out Andie McDowell is a nun: "A.M: But I do love you! B.W: Of course you love me! That's your JOB! You probably love the hitman over there! A.M: Well, yes, in a Catholic sort of stupid way".
and you can't talk quotes without slipping bill cosby in. here is one of my favorites. I may not have it exactly right, but this is close.
"my father established our relationship when i was 8 year's old. he said, "i brought you into this world, and i can take you back out. i'll make another one that looks just like you""
i seem t oremember you using that line a couple of times...
hey, eduardo, i heard something on the news @ a vote in vatican city over whether limbo is a real place. any idea what that's all about?
The International Theological Comission chose as one of the topics for its meeting reflecting upon the fate of non-baptized children. There has never been a definition on this subject, and although the Comission's documents don't have canonical weight, they are very influential.
The limbo is not an official part of the Catholic's Church doctrine on the hereafter, but a possible solution St. Thomas Aquinas (if I'm not mistaken - If I am, it is without a doubt a Scholastic theological development) came up with when he thought about the fate of non-baptized children. The limbo was a "theological construct", presented as a definitive situation that was neither heaven nor hell or purgatory for the children who had died without baptism.
However, like I said, this is not Church's Magisterium (official doctrine). The New Catechism of the Catholic Church said "As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,"[63] allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism." (CEC 1261).
I still think this text is very weak in its formulation. To entrust someone to the mercy of God is not to throw him/her into the void hoping God will catch him/her (and somehow this part of the Catechism conveys this perception). I understand the need of baptism for salvation, but I also think that the "way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism" is broader than the Catechism says.
this is one of my absolute favorites. i'm not positive, but i think it is a scoupe original - what say ye scoupe?
"in the end, all we have are results and excuses"
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