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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: waterbuffalofarmer on November 21, 2015, 07:08:50 pm
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List your favourite lines, whether they be from plays or films or books! They must be memorable!
Here's mine.
''All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty, like what I have got''
Morcambe and wise
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"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Rhett Butler, "Gone with the Wind"
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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others! Groucho Marx
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever
Endimion-Keates
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Senior co-worker: "Do you know something that I don't?"
Me: "Bubbe, I probably know a lot you don't."
Quote from snatch - made Me laugh myself silly - my co-worker didn't join Me
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Mine is from my favourite film Sweet Home Alabama
You can't have roots and wings
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Never lose the child within!
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Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others! Groucho Marx
and a whole load of politicians :(
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'Beauty is fitness expressed' Unknown railway steam locomotive designer.
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“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Jeff Goldblum's character, Dr Ian Malcolm, in Jurassic Park sums up much that I feel about the progress of science
"your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should".
says it all for me
On a much less profound note the line I personally quote most, comes from the wonderfully coarse "Bridesmaids"
" I want to apologise, I'm not even confident which end that came out of "
take your pick !
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Just read this recently and it made me think:
Figuring out the vital few amidst the trivial many is the literacy of the 21st Century.
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I would just quote everything ever written by Terry Pratchett.
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when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Sherlock holmes
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"Facts are cheils that winna ding" - my Grandma,............. Or maybe someone before her! :excited: Rabbie methinks
Problem is I'm not really sure what 'ding' means :innocent:
facts are fellows that will not be overturned,
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"May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung........may you be forever young (Joan Baez)
(Well, she sang it, not quite sure who wrote it)
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The one and only Bob Dylan. I also like his line from way back"you don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows"
"With God on our side" is very relevant these days