Favourite quotes thread

[9seconds]

"We certainly do have women, in particular, who come forward because they're pissed off about their boyfriend shagging their mate." - Anti-rape advocate, Louise Nicholas

"It does put a stigma on other victims."

[Dead Kid]

"The effects could well be called unprecedented, magnificent, beautiful, stupendous, and terrifying. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray, and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined..." - Thomas Farrell

[Dead Kid]

"Auckland is like Wellington exploded by a giant grenade." - Mike Chunn

[Max]

"What's happening in science is the most interesting thing in the world, and if you don't agree with me just fuck off, because I'm not interested in talking to you." - Alun Anderson, New Scientist editor

[Drax]

[Dead Kid]

Henry is so damn annoying to listen to. I fucking went to the fucking kitchen and got some fucking bread out of the fucking fridge then I fucking put some fucking peanut butter on the fucking bread and fucking put it in my fucking mouth. FUUCK!!

[dave-brown]

"....and I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the fashion at the time"

[Dead Kid]

Grinds my gears when people interfere with my monologues about animal reproduction just to have something to say.

[Max]

Iggy Pop was bailed out by his manager Ray Manzarek after being picked up on a drunk and disorderly charge while wearing a dress. Manzarek asked him "Why are you wearing a woman's dress?". Iggy replied, "I beg to differ, this is a man's dress."

[mmmm....good crack]

"these quotes are shit" - me 2016

[PertHJ]

[Dead Kid]

"Like it or lump it." - lunch chef at my Dad's school

[Subcide]

"When I was 24 I could have 6 wanks in one day and not be tired. Now I'm 44 I can only have 3 and be completely fucked" - Me, right now 14 Oct 2016

[9seconds]

"Of course you're a loser: you keep getting your ass kicked and people keep calling you names. If you weren't a loser, people wouldn't do that."

"We toss out the ol "sticks and stones" rhyme until some poor kid kills themselves because the harassment never ends, then we sort of shrug and say something must be done. Where are the schools? Where are the parents? "

- Felix Clay

[Max]

Interviewer: Have you ever prayed, Mr Hitchens?
Christopher Hitchens: Once, for a hard-on.

[TimShadbolt]

“To leave the comfort zone we now inhabit we have to learn a new way of seeing, or an old way we have forgotten to use” — Darryl Reanney

"What is indisputably true in the modern quantum mechanical perspective is that you cannot take consciousness out of it. It is through consciousness that we know the universe. It is because of consciousness that an electron has a particular structure as opposed to a wave structure. Consciousness is central to this quantum mechanical perspective of reality. To simply excise consciousness in the interest of so-called objectivity is in a deep sense non-scientific. The people who cling to this paradigm are failing the very science they call on for their endorsement." — Darryl Reanney

"Awareness of self, and awareness of mortality go hand in hand." — Darryl Reanney

"Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace." — Farley Mowat

"Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down." — Jacques Monod

[9seconds]

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." ~Lyndon B Johnson

[TimShadbolt]

Haha fuck yeah LBJ. As I understand it the only other president apart from Trump to get in with no prior political experience, and he went down as being one of the BEST. I don't think Donald J Trump is going to live up to that legacy somehow...

[9seconds]

it doesnt look likely, at this stage hes just making a complete balls up of it like he does of everything, fortunately the president of the united states has very little actual power to change laws and even make decisions, the senate might be republican, but they dont like trump either.

just a little concerned about his status as commander in chief in light of his dodgy as fuck alliance with putin, who is HARD on the internet propaganda, i have had several crazies and not a few naive twerps tell me how great putin is

[Dead Kid]

"Reading an extended piece in present tense often makes me feel as if I'm being hit repeatedly over the head with a teaspoon." - Emma L. Darwin

[dave-brown]

" you know it's a good country when the homeless.csn afford a prostitute" - my foreman ( a well travelled polish punk)

[Drax]

'That son of a bitch just stole my pants!' - homeless bloke in The Terminator

[Drax]

"Probably one of the most frustrating episodes of my life, having Yello in my head and being unable to express it."
- My girlfriend. She couldn't remember the name of the group and was trying to describe them to someone at work so they knew who she was talking about.

[dave-brown]

After comparing our very bogan/white trash holidays my mate rhi said " The best thing about bogan is the older u get the better u get at being bogan .old punks are losers old hippies have aids. But noone can ever figure out how old bogans are cause being bogan is timeless"
Hahahah godbless

[Max]

Tom Robinson on selling his gear:

"(Two scruffily dressed rastas) were looking at the stuff in my garage and TRB was written on one of the flight cases. One of them says, 'Yeah, Tom Robinson, what happened to him? He was really good, man!' So I said, 'Well actually, I am Tom Robinson.' And the guy said: 'Hey, you ought to keep at it, you know. People who keep at it always come back in the end.' So I said 'Sure, look at Eddy Grant.' And he replied, 'I am Eddy Grant.' "

[Dead Kid]

"The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively — because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?" - Frank Zappa

[Dead Kid]

"I whole-heartedly agree that every rap-rock band out there is rubbish, but I accept no responsibility for those morons. Whenever I hear these bands say that Faith No More made them what they are, I just shrug it off because if I were to stare too much into the mirror I would have committed suicide long ago. Maybe I should blame Anthony Kiedis, that'd be more fun." - Mike Patton

[Max]

"People who boast about their IQs are losers." - Stephen Hawking

[9seconds]

“We might have just been kids back in the day, but we were kids who grew up in Los Angeles and realized something, The man behind the glass, the man pulling the strings? He doesn’t care about race. He cares about [socio-economic] class, and class knows no color. We need to realize that today: Don’t fight each other, fight the top. Fight those in power.”
David Spacone