Any favorite quotes?

[Sawyer]

I need to make a 5 minute speech for my communications class on a quote that means a lot to me. The problem is, I can't find any.
I've found a bunch of quotes that I like, but we have to know who said it, and where and when it was said. I've been having a really hard time finding the last part.
I'm getting desperate because I'm giving the speech on the 23rd so I only have about a week to figure it out.

It's probably a long shot, but does anyone have a quote that they really like that I could use?
Anything would be appreciated! :)

[MeFryRice]

You know I'm a better student when I get some in the morning, I feel lighter on my feet

I changed cop to student for you. :P

[Sawyer]

Haha, thanks babe. Let me make a speech in front of my class about how morning sex makes me a better student.. :rolleyes:





Even thought it's true!

[amaff]

"Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car and oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car. Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you."

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intentions of arriving with a well preserved body but rather to come skidding in broadside, totally used up and proclaiming "Damn, what a ride."

"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague desire for something salty"

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

"Never run out of talent, ideas and real estate at the same time"

[Sawyer]

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intentions of arriving with a well preserved body but rather to come skidding in broadside, totally used up and proclaiming "Damn, what a ride."


Oh I really like this one. Any idea on who said it??

[amaff]

No clue. Does it matter?

For the record, i'm also a huge fan of that. Reminds me of the 72 yo (iirc) man that died @ Barber Motorsports park last year RACING MOTORCYCLES! That's how I want to go out.

[Sawyer]

I need to make a 5 minute speech for my communications class on a quote that means a lot to me. The problem is, I can't find any.
I've found a bunch of quotes that I like, but we have to know who said it, and where and when it was said. I've been having a really hard time finding the last part.
I'm getting desperate because I'm giving the speech on the 23rd so I only have about a week to figure it out.

It's probably a long shot, but does anyone have a quote that they really like that I could use?
Anything would be appreciated! :)


Yes.

[ben91]

I gave my speech about crackwhores. It was great. I got an A. My quote came from an HBO special.

[Sawyer]

Really? That's neat!
There is a kid in another one of my classes writing a persuasive paper on how all the "******bags" should be put in containment camps!

[amaff]

aww I fail at reading :'(

[metalman]

Being a history geek and much interested in individual liberty & freedom, I have always liked this quote....

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry

Another of my favorites has more to do with the misquote and how it amuses me, having read alot about the person in question, Ethan Allen..who had nothing to do with furniture BTW. lol...
My interest is also further stimulated by the fact that he may have married into my ancestry.

It is said that when demanding the surrender of Fort Ticonderoga during the Revolution that he shouted at the British commandant that he surrender the fort "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress".

Its much more likely given the brash abrasive nature of his personality that he shouted "God Damn you Redcoat muther****er, give it up before I cut your ****in head off and feed it to the buzzards!".....or some other threat filled with curses and foul language. :lol:

When I visited the Fort in question the history guide there indicated much the same when I asked about that. /end history geek rant.

[Doppelgänger]

Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you.
-Jeremy Clarkson

[metalman]

Let me make a speech in front of my class about how morning sex makes me a better student.. :rolleyes:


Well...its likely a better subject then "******bags"! :lol:

[MeFryRice]

I agree, you'll def have their attention! :D

[JennB]

I'm with Kurt. All of my favorite quotes are political and usually have to do with freedoms and rights. I'm a sucker for some Thomas Jefferson.

This one always comes to mind during election years

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill

[ToddN]

"Get your penny pinching, hyper-miling *** out of the left lane." Todd Neal, 2008

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Take anything by Churchill and run with it. The man was a quoting machine, simply superb.

[simontibbett]

"Racing is life, anything before or after is just waiting" Steve Mcqueen

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Chip: I can't hold my tongue. These kids are my grandchildren and you are raising them wrong. They are *terrible* boys!
Walker: Shut up, Chip, or I'll go ape-**** on your ***!
Texas Ranger: I'm gonna scissor-kick you in the back of the head!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Yeah!
Ricky Bobby: Yeah! Now turn up the heat!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Go on and get some, boys!
Ricky Bobby: Come on!
Walker: I'm ten years old, but I'll beat your ***!
Texas Ranger: Chip, I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!
Cal Naughton, Jr.: Like a spider monkey! Go on!
Ricky Bobby: Chip, you brought this on, man.
Walker: Greatest Generation my ***. Tom Brokaw's a punk!
Chip: What is wrong with you?
Texas Ranger: Chip, I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Ricky Bobby: Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said..."I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

[Doppelgänger]

If you really want to open a can of worms on pssible quotes...


"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."—Washington, D.C., G.W. Bush, May 12, 2008

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004

"It's your money. You paid for it." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"They misunderestimated me." —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

[thx712517]

My absolute favorite ever quote.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come."

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

[MeFryRice]

I've never been a personal fan of Shakespeare. I always dreaded having to read it in English.

[ben91]

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. – Theodore Roosevelt

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them. - John Wayne as John Bernard Books in The Shootist

Our Country won't go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any America because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race! - Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, killing is not murder, hesitation is not moral, and cowardice is the only sin. - page 306, "The Darkest Evening of the Year", Dean R. Koontz

We have four boxes used to guarantee our liberty: The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box. - Ambrose Bierce

[metalman]

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter" - Winston Churchill

"Get your penny pinching, hyper-miling *** out of the left lane." Todd Neal, 2008

:lol: I like both those. I had forgotten about the first one, that is actually quite true unfortunately.

[Roadster]

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. --Bertrand Russell