Quote or phrase of the day

[Champ]

Forgive her, she's northern

 

Jenny Jones on her Mum's reaction to her bronze medal

[Champ]

"All these riders are reaching down and grabbing between their legs" - BBC snowboarding commentator.

They've definitely 'dropped' a few good lines, not specifically euphemisms - blown apart like a Lego man

[Trumo]

That's one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.

 

- Dave Grohl.

[Dr Nowt]

"I have divided politicians into two categories, the signposts and the weathercocks.  The signpost says this is the way to go and you don't have to follow them, but if you come back in ten years the signpost is still there.  The weathercock hasn't got an opinion til they've looked at the polls, talked to the focus groups, discussed it with the spin doctors.  I have no time for weathercocks, I'm a signpost man."

 

Tony Benn, signpost.

[Rotpeter]

There is no I in collective.

[Kevin D]

"The boy became a man, and the man became a legend."

 

Red Smith about Leonard vs Duran.

[Kevin D]

“An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie about it.. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it."

 

David Sheff.

[Kevin D]

"What’s his accomplishment? That he’s no longer an obnoxious drunk?"

 

Ronald Reagan Jr on George Bush.

[Kevin D]

“I’ve got a story that I’d love to do, which I’ve been working on for eight or nine years, which is the history of the CIA, which would basically be America’s foreign policy footprint.” But it’s 70 years of period-piece filming, it’s all over the world, there’s a lot of CGI. Scene I, Act I is Berlin after the war, in total wreckage. And HBO goes, ‘Listen, it was all fun when we were giving him $20 million and he was making The Wire and no one was watching, but do you take us for fools?’ "

 

David Simon.

[Spy Bee]

"The terrorists showed what frightens them most: a girl with a book." - Ban Ki-moon

[Kevin D]

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

 

Jean Renoir.

[Kevin D]

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

 

Mark Twain.

[Kevin D]

"If somebody could just put me out in a pasture somewhere, in a beautiful part of Spain and say, 'Your job is just - we'll pay you a dollar a year and you could have some cheap red wine and just think of weird things for Mr. Burns to say and do, I would take that job."

 

Conan O'Brien.

[Rotpeter]

Foul smells their idol, the cold monster, ... break their windows and leap to freedom.

[Tony Moanero]

Cunt chops.

[Kevin D]

Ralph Waldo Emerson rightly noted that for those responsible, the act of murder "is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or frighten him from his ordinary notices of trifles." And while West Baltimore is a universe or two from Emerson's nineteenth century Massachusetts hamlet, the observation is still useful. Murder often doesn't unsettle a man. In Baltimore, it usually doesn't even ruin his day.

 

David Simon.

[Kevin D]

"[FDR] is the first man in the White House to understand that my boss is a son of a bitch."

 

- Unknown Factory worker

[Kevin D]

 " ...the second Roosevelt gave us the ideal of the shimmering, glimmering presidency and with it the notion that complex problems could yield to charisma. This sets the country up for almost perpetual disappointment."

 

George Will.

 

I wonder where you could apply that.

[Rotpeter]

On the ideas of freud: let the credulous and vulgar believe their woes can be cured by the daily application of old greek myths to their private parts.

[Kevin D]

Edgar: “I was defending our country.”

Jimmy: “Oh, please. You weren't defending anything except for the business interests of evil men.”

Edgar: “Jimmy, our country is the business interests of evil men.”

[Kevin D]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

 

Upton Sinclair.

[Rotpeter]

My quote of the month, probably the year actually, is:

Fight not with monsters, lest a monster ye become.

This ironically is the Nietzsche quote exactly one line prior to the Nietzsche quote Varoufakis keeps (mis-)using, (gaze into the abyss and the abyss gazes back) and a startlingly accurate prediction of what would happen if Syriza decided to take on the austerity monster.

 

One line from greatness.  Tragic.

[Kevin D]

"There is a single item in our advantage, but it is an important one. McClellan has brought superior forces to Sharpsburg, but he has also brought himself."

[Paulie Dangerously]

Someone on her said "holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to drop dead"

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Someone on her said "holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to drop dead"

 

They sound very wise. Also sounds like they have a big penis too.