Things They Say - The Famous Quotes Thread

[Carl Pickens]

What the hell is that?
- Steve Martin

 

[The Sheriff]

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

 

[The Sheriff]

"If I had the power to turn back time, I would never use it. I'd think about it because then every moment that you go through means absolutely nothing, cause you can always go back and do it again and so it loses its flavor, it loses its beauty...when things are final, and you know moments won't ever come again... To be able to have the power to go back and experience those things. It's silly to me." - Kobe Bryant

 

[n_huffhines]

"I give [this watch] to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." - Faulkner

 

[feathersax]

"You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.” ― Yogi Berra

 

[CAVPUT]

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

If only that would fit under the avatar. I'd use that one.

 

[salutethehill]

"If we'd have started this lock-down back in January, we'd be past this virus, and Kobe would still be alive." - My son

 

[salutethehill]

"Once they're laughing, that's 50% of them being horizontal." - Michael Scott, referring to hot women

 

[95 Vol Alum]

"I give [this watch] to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." - Faulkner

 

[Tin Man]

That's life. That's football. - Tin Man

I first uttered this phrase in the early '70s. It has circled back to me many times since.

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing

 

[HollowaytoSeivers]

"If we'd have started this lock-down back in January, we'd be past this virus, and Kobe would still be alive." - My son

Can't fault his thinking. If our government had that kind of logic, our country would be in great shape.

 

[pismonque]

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

Swap two of those words with each other and you'd have a good slogan for VN.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

“These go to 11.” - Nigel Tufnel

"It looks like a mirac- It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" - Carl Spackler

 

[orangebloodgmc]

"You can observe a lot, just by watching."
-- Yogi Berra

 

[FrankenVol54]

"Politicians and diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason."
-- Anominuss...anomassss...anomanousss... not Mark Twain

 

[Marquis]

"A wet bird never flies at night"
My dad, now 85, and a big time VFL, when I was a kid, and he wanted to see me with a blank look on my face, trying to figure out "what does THAT mean"?

 

[GordonC]

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
--H. L. Mencken

Also Mencken: Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

 

[pismonque]

One quote I always found particularly apt for VN over the years is from Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, which takes place in Knoxville, making it even more fitting:


"Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering."

 

[feathersax]

"I've always been a fugitive from the Law of Averages."
_Delbert McClinton

 

[samanderson]

"Talking to a fool is like trying to put socks on an octopus." -James Agee

 

[goldenvol]

"Here I sit so broken hearted, tried to **** and only farted".

Bathroom stall penned by an anonymous bathroom poet.

 

[pismonque]

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

- Cormac again, Blood Meridian

 

[VFLEatinFresh]

"Here I sit so broken hearted, tried to **** and only farted".

Bathroom stall penned by an anonymous bathroom poet.

“Cheer up pal, don’t be so blue. I’ve come to **** enough for two.”
-Response written underneath it

 

[Smokey X]

I can do it fast
I can do it well
I can do it cheap

Pick any two

Red Adair