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Post by HY on Jun 21, 2008 10:35:01 GMT -6
I think I'm thinking of the right book...the answer to every question in the universe according to it is 42...I think. The kids blabbered about it this year. I'll have to google that to check... It's not the answer to every question, it's the answer to: "The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"
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Post by Cheza on Jun 22, 2008 2:44:36 GMT -6
Ahhh...well, what do you expect when 16-year-olds are trying to relay a book they haven't read in a year...and umm...for shame...I've yet to read. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 8:57:05 GMT -6
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I haven't read the book yet, just saw the movie.
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 8:57:12 GMT -6
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 8:57:27 GMT -6
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." ~Isaac Asimov
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 8:57:49 GMT -6
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
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Post by Nancyd021410 on Jun 23, 2008 9:00:49 GMT -6
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Yeah,...I like this one
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 9:11:14 GMT -6
And, in honor of George Carlin. These are just short quotes I found - I would love to put some of his longer routines here - but they would take pages.
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
If black boxes survive air crashes, why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
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Post by MyXtC on Jun 23, 2008 9:28:48 GMT -6
I was sad to hear about George Carlin. Thanks for posting those few Carlin quotes, Lyn.
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Post by Cheza on Jun 23, 2008 20:29:17 GMT -6
RIP George...I was sad to hear of his passing as well.
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Post by HY on Jun 23, 2008 20:49:05 GMT -6
A few more from the master.
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?
Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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Post by Cheza on Jun 23, 2008 23:16:17 GMT -6
LOVE THESE! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by HY on Jun 24, 2008 9:28:24 GMT -6
I've been having fun looking up Carlin quotes over the last couple of days. A few more.
I don’t own any stocks or bonds. All my money is tied up in debt.
There are caregivers and there are caretakers, and yet the two words are not opposites. Why is this?
You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.
I have an impersonal trainer. We meet at the gym, we don’t talk, he works out alone, and I go home.
People on a diet should have a salad dressing called "250 Islands."
If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
Joan Rivers turned into one of the people she used to make fun of.
I know a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary.
And this last one is sort of prophetic.
One thing nice about being dead is that you immediately become eligible to appear on stamps and money.
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Post by dustyblue25 on Jun 25, 2008 0:51:37 GMT -6
Thanks for the George Carlin quotes HY!
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Post by HY on Jul 16, 2008 14:01:01 GMT -6
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
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