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"I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set - and they're both working".

-Willie Pep. (Boxer)

I'm gonna play because maybe someone knows who said it.
It wasn't General Schwarzkopf! I have looked and looked for the reference, and for all I know it might have been a junior officer in my unit but I have some wires that are permanently crossed.
So to paraphrase a quote during Desert Storm.
"Iraq may have the fourth largest Army in the World, but as of now, they have the second largest Army in Iraq.

“Wherever you go, there you are”

" No You’re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.”

"There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong."

H. L. Mencken

I have now spent fifty-five years in resolving; having, from the earliest time almost that I can remember, been forming schemes of a
better life. I have done nothing. The need of doing, therefore, is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O GOD, grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions, for JESUS CHRIST'S sake. Amen.

-- Dr. Johnson's prayer, in Boswell's _Life_

You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

-- Ray Bradbury

Speaking of Ray Bradbury...

"...E-books smell like burned fuel.”

"Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar."

Elwood P. Dowd - Harvey

"I have a soft spot for people who casually wander back and forth across the line of crackpottery like they have dual citizenship on the two sides of it" - Venkatesh Rao

"It's a hundred and six miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, its dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." -- Elwood Blues

There's 4 or 5 really good ones in a lot of movies. Clint Eastwood has some great ones. Fight Club, O Brother Where Art Thou, Saving Arizona, Sling Blade etc.



The Schofield Kid: It don't seem real. How he ain't gonna never breathe again, ever. How he's dead. And the other one, too. All on account of pulling a trigger.

William Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.

The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.

William Munny: We all have it coming, Kid.

“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”

― H. L. Mencken

I’ve been going to this high school for 7 1/2 years. I’m no dummy. Charles DeMar-Better off Dead

mkgearhead wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:34 pm I’ve been going to this high school for 7 1/2 years. I’m no dummy. Charles DeMar-Better off Dead

That whole damn movie is one big quotable.

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

rrobbone wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:13 pm

mkgearhead wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:34 pm I’ve been going to this high school for 7 1/2 years. I’m no dummy. Charles DeMar-Better off Dead

That whole damn movie is one big quotable.

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

"Shame, folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:06 pm

rrobbone wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:13 pm

mkgearhead wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:34 pm I’ve been going to this high school for 7 1/2 years. I’m no dummy. Charles DeMar-Better off Dead

That whole damn movie is one big quotable.

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

"Shame, folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

"Dying when you're not really sick is really sick, ya know? Really!"

I could quote that whole movie, I think. Along with most of John Hughes' work.

If hard work was good for you,the rich would leave none for the poor.

Democracy is the idea that the common man knows what kind of government he wants and deserves to get it good and hard.

rrobbone wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:30 pm

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Tue Oct 27, 2020 4:06 pm

rrobbone wrote: ↑Mon Oct 26, 2020 10:13 pm

That whole damn movie is one big quotable.

"Gee, I'm real sorry your mom blew up, Ricky."

"Shame, folks throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that."

"Dying when you're not really sick is really sick, ya know? Really!"

I could quote that whole movie, I think. Along with most of John Hughes' work.

That movie lit the fire under my love for Van Halen. Can't hate it. Like Fraunch dressing, or Fraunch toast.

It's nice to know that H.L. Mencken is lurking incognito and quoting himself at this forum

"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music... I get most joy in life out of my violin." -Albert Einstein

“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” - Frank Zappa

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination,
a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and lends to all that is good and just and beautiful.” - Plato

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” - Frank Zappa

“Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance” – Carl Sandburg

“The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.” - Carl Jung.

“The greatest of all faculties is the ability of imagination to formulate conceptually. Artists have kept the integrity of childhood alive until humanity reaches the bridge between arts and sciences.” - Buckminster Fuller

“We have art so that we shall not die of reality” - Nietszche

In referring to the Actor's Studio teaching method acting. "Oh, you mean the scratch your ass and mumble school of acting." --- Humphrey Bogart

Only users lose drugs.

" If you correct your mind, your life will fall into place." " What, Me worry?"