On this page you will find general quotes, some stupid, some inspirational, and some that just make you go hmmm...
"The
internet is a great way to get on the net."
- Bob Dole, Republican presidential candidate
"If it
weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight."
- George Gobel
"Most
cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver."
- Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman
"68,000
people must die per day for the world pop to stabilse so if you can do your
part.."
Karl Stewart, from his page that i hosted a while back...
I haven't
committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed
to pay his taxes.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876
"We don't
like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
- Decca Records Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money."- Everett Dirksen, Congressman
"It is
white."
- George W. Bush, when asked what the White house was like by a student in
East London
"Drill
for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for
oil in 1859.
"If only
faces could talk..."
- Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, during the Super Bowl
"Friends
help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."
Wise men talk
because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
-- Plato
When you reach
the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. -- Thomas Jefferson
"An eye
for an eye makes the whole world blind". --Gandhi
"I'm
an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house".
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
"I think
that the film Clueless was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that
it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if
it's true lightness."
- Alicia Silverstone, Actress - Oh My GOD... BLONDE
Money can't
buy happiness... But it sure makes misery easier to live with..."
"Never eat more than you can lift." — Miss Piggy
"A Microsoft
Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food
Specialist is to fine cuisine."... - hahaha better not be true however..