Primarily for entertainment value, but also for edumacation and enlightenmafying, I bring you the official GRM awesome quote thread. I'll start the festivities:
"Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?"
Allan Sheppard to Mission control, 5 May 1961, while sitting atop the notoriously unpredictable Redstone Rocket.
Enyar
Dork
2/6/14 6:18 p.m.
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
Never show 'em everything ya got... they'll expect ya to keep it up for the duration.
"Can we please stop hotlinking pics?"
-The Unintended Victim (circa 2010)
Cuda
Reader
2/6/14 6:38 p.m.
luck smells a lot like perspiration.
"sweat is what makes it rock and roll, otherwise it is just folk music with drums"
Mikel Jollet
The
HalfDork
2/6/14 6:51 p.m.
you can lead a gift horse to water but you cant look in his mouth.....archie bunker
bonus, edith, it was one of those sperm of the moment things
double bonus, oh archie are you going to give me oral pleasure and it's not even my birthday.......no lie i about fell outa my chair.
Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.
Jackie Stewart
and
I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
Jackie Stewart
"Never lick a gift horse in the mouth"
-Burrito Enthusiast
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein
I'm kind of partial to this one at the moment.
This post is my opinion (free advice). It is not intended to influence anyone's judgment nor do I advocate anyone do what I propose.
No clue who wrote it.
I like this one too and use it on another forum.
"Once you leave the pavement, it's like entering a parallel universe... a wormhole in both space and time... sometimes you won't believe you're still in the United States, or in this century," Dr. Rock. from The Mobius Trip
YOLO is carpe diem for dumb people.
Moparman76_69
"There are two types of people in the world; those that believe there are two types of people, and those who don't"
- Type Q
Trying is the first step to failure
Homer Simpson
Ransom
PowerDork
2/6/14 7:33 p.m.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
Spoolpigeon wrote:
YOLO is carpe diem for dumb people.
Moparman76_69
While I'm flattered, I'll admit that is paraphrased from a tweet by Jack Black.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
-R. P. Feynman
if you hadn't a wanted to work you shouldn't aughtha hired out
my grandfather
"It's easy, just turn on the money hose"
Our chief steward, over dinner, responding to a new driver asking something about how to make his car faster.
In the immortal words of Socrates:
"I drank what?"
"Procrastination is the key to flexibility."
~ Anon
Also, "Nice going fish berkeleyer" ~ GPS
"They said it couldn't be done, so I didn't do it" - Unknown
"If you loan a person $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it" - Unknown
"I just wanna race, Daddy" -Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
"Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life" ~ Terry Pratchett
Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.