Your Favorite Quotes

Get money. Get paid. -Mr. Chicity

The game's out there and it's play or get played. - Omar Little
 


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
 
haha, the wags tweets are real
I thought eli was messing with us

“I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.”

- Jack Handy
 
"A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist,
but an optimist has more fun – and neither can stop the march of events.”
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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift that is why they call it the present."
...- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Without imagination, knowledge is useless."
- Albert Einstein
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"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?"
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Business bad? Fuck you, pay me.
Oh you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me.
Place got hit by lightning huh? Fuck you. Pay me.
 
"I've seen the b..b..b..b..b..bastards. I'm trying to figure out what to do."

RAF Airman radioes to radar controller during the Battle of Britain (1941) having spotted the opposing bomber force. (Most of the time one squadron, or 12 planes, were sent against raiding forces of 50 or more German aircraft.)

Fighter by Len Deighton (History of Battle of Britain)
 
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt
 
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Alan Kay



"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

- Einstein



"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

- Mark Twain
 
"Nobody owes you shit, Nobody is ever going to give you shit."

"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got."
 
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C.S. Lewis.

And of course, this old classic:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde.