Quotes???

[ncretter]

"I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend"

-Faramir from Lord of the Rings

 

"The good man is not exalted by this world's goods nor is he overwhelmed by this world's ills. The bad man is punished by misfortune of this kind just because he is corrupted by good fortune"

St. Augustine, The City of God

 

"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."

G. K. Chesterton

[RobE]

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[BDII]

The spec B has golden mufflers that sound like angels weeping

-Heightsgtltd

[fizxman]

"The smarter you get, the funnier I am."

-- me (annual first day of physics class lecture)

 

"Assholes are like Easter Eggs, they come in every color you can imagine, and no matter how carefully hidden they are, they eventually start to stink up the place just to get noticed."

-- my dad

 

"Hotdogs are actually vegetables."

-- Albert Einstein, said to his vegetarian sister Maya who enjoyed a good sausage once in awhile.

 

 

"Anyone who believes that there is a conflict between science and religion doesn't understand either subject."

Prof. Eugene Allen Grim

 

"Science tells us how; religion tells us who."

Prof. Grim

[BDII]

Thank you very much. Thank you.That's -- That's the lowest I've ever seen Dick Vitale since the owner of the Detroit Pistons called him in and told him he should go into broadcasting.I can't tell you what an honor it is to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. But, as it was said on the tape, and I also don't have one of those things going with the cue cards, so I'm going to speak longer than anybody else has spoken tonight. That's the way it goes. Time is very precious to me. I don't know how much I have left, and I have some things that I would like to say. Hopefully, at the end, I'll have something that will be important to other people too.But, I can't help it. Now, I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me. As Dick said, I'm a very emotional, passionate man. I can't help it. That's being the son of Rocco and Angelina Valvano. It comes with the territory. We hug, we kiss, we love. And when people say to me how do you get through life or each day, it's the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.And so, I can't help -- I rode on the plane up today with Mike Krzyzewski, my good friend and a wonderful coach. People don't realize he's ten times a better person than he is a coach, and we know he's a great coach. He's meant a lot to me in these last five or six months with my battle. But when I look at Mike, I think, we competed against each other as players. I coached against him for fifteen years, and I always have to think about what's important in life to me are these three things. Where you started; where you are; and where you're gonna be. Those are the three things that I try and do every day. And you know when I think about getting up and giving a speech, I can't help it -- I have to remember the first speech I ever gave. I was coaching at Rutgers University, that was my first job -- oh, that's wonderful [reaction to applause] -- and I was the freshman coach. That's when freshmen played on freshman teams. And I was so fired up about my first job. I see Lou Holtz, Coach Holtz here. What was it like, the very first job you had, right? The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That's a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk. So my idol as a coach was Vince Lombardi, and I read this book called Commitment To Excellence by Vince Lombardi. And in the book, Lombardi talked about the fist time he spoke before his Green Bay Packer team in the locker room --* they were perennial losers. And I'm reading this and Lombardi said he was thinking should it be a long talk? A short talk? But he wanted it to be emotional, so it would be brief. And here's what he did. Normally you get in the locker room, I don't know, twenty-five minutes, a half hour before the team takes the field; you do your little X's and 0's, and then you give the great Knute Rockne talk. We all do. Speech number eight-four. You pull them right out, you get ready, get your squad ready. Well, this is the first one I ever gave. And I read this thing -- Lombardi, what he said was he didn't go in. He waited. His team was wondering: Where is he? Where is this great coach? He's not there. Ten minutes -- he's still not there. Three minutes before they could take the field Lombardi comes in, bangs the door open, and I think you all remember what great presence he had, alright, great presence. He walked in and he just walked back and forth, like this, just walked, staring at the players. And he said, "All eyes on me." And I'm reading this in this book. I'm getting this picture of Lombardi before his first game and he said "Gentlemen, we will be successful this year, if you can focus on three things, and three things only: Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers." And he...like that...And they knocked the walls down and the rest was history. I said, that's beautiful. I'm going to do that. Your family, your religion, and Rutgers basketball.That's it. I had it. Listen, I'm twenty-one years old. The kids I'm coaching are nineteen, alright? And I'm going to be the greatest coach in the world, the next Lombardi. And...I'm practicing outside of the locker room and the managers tell me "you got to go in." "Not yet, not yet"... family, religion, Rutgers Basketball. All eyes on me. I got it, I got it. Then finally he said, "three minutes," and I said "fine." True story. I go to knock the doors open just like Lombardi. Boom! They didn't open. I almost broke my arm. I was like...Now I was down, the players were looking. Help the coach out, help him out. And now I did like Lombardi, I walked back and forth, and I was going like that with my arm getting the feeling back in it. Finally I said, "Gentlemen, all eyes on me." These kids wanted to play, they're nineteen. "Let's go," I said. "Gentlemen, we'll be successful this year if you can focus on three things, and three things only: Your family, your religion, and the Green Bay Packers," I told them. I did that. I remember that. I remember...where I came from.It's so important to know where you are. And I know where I am right now. How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.I talked about my family, my family's so important. People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too. And...that screen is flashing up there thirty seconds like I care about that screen right now, huh? I got tumors all over my body. I'm worried about some guy in the back going thirty seconds, huh? You got a lot, hey va fa napoli, buddy. You got a lot.I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and [as] Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm" -- to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. Alright, Arthur Ashe Foundation is a wonderful thing, and AIDS, the amount of money pouring in for AIDS is not enough, but it is significant. But if I told you it's ten times the amount that goes in for cancer research. I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. I want to bring it back on the front table. We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.And ESPN has been so kind to support me in this endeavor and allow me to announce tonight, that with ESPN's support, which means what? Their money and their dollars and they're helping me -- we are starting the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. And its motto is "Don't give up, don't ever give up." And that's what I'm going to try to do every minute that I have left. I will thank God for the day and the moment I have. And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too. But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. I can't thank ESPN enough for allowing this to happen. And I'm going to work as hard as I can...for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.I thank you and God bless you all.-Jimmy V

[CSTMIZR]

"He's not Spider Pig anymore..........now he's Harry Plopper"

 

-Homer Simpson

 

 

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[Abandonhope16]

I love that one. I saw the commercial for the first time the other day.

Before that, I was all about the: "Spider pig, spider pig; does whatever a spider pig does"

Only one week left

[BDII]

You can't take it with you....

 

-The guy camping next to me at JAMBO.

[BDII]

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

 

Unknown

[NSFW]

Pray not for tasks equal to your ability, but for ability equal to your tasks.

 

- Bishop Philip Brooks, in the late 1800s

 

(approximately)

[robinlsb]

It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditious of the city, and the discords of families.

- Pythagoras

[BDII]

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

 

Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)

[bosco]

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let

him

>keep her.

>Sacha Guitry

>

>By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you

get a

>bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

>Socrates

>

>Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving

them.

>Dumas

>

>The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is,

"What

>does a woman want?

>Sigmund Freud

>

>I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

>Anonymous

>

>"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go

to a

>restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music

and

>dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."

>Henny Youngman

>

>"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."

>Sa m Kini son

>

>"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than

electronic

>banking. It's called marriage."

>James Holt McGavran

>

>"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the

>second one didn't."

>Patrick Murray

>

>Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming

>1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,

>2. Whenever you're right, shut up.

>Nash

>

>The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget

it

>once...

>Anonymous

>

>You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

>Henny Youngman

>

>My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

>Rodney Dangerfield

>

>A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

>

>Milton Berle

>

>Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.

>Anonymous

>

>A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day

>he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can

 

>have mine."

>Anonymous

>

>After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just

 

>can't face each other, but still they stay together.

>Hemant Joshi

>

>First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second Guy "You're lucky,

>mine's still alive."

 

bosco

[RobE]

^^^ cliff notes?

[bosco]

^^^ cliff notes?

 

real life. bosco

[RobE]

Thanks.

 

Bosco

[BDII]

Greatness comes not when things always go good for you, but the greatness comes when you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valleys can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

 

Richard Milhous Nixon

In the Arena (1990)

[BDII]

No matter what, there are always going to be those people out there that are going to try & make your life hell. Just brush it off & act like nothing bothers you. Those who matter dont mind & those who mind dont matter.

 

Danielle (A friend of mine, wise in her 21 years on this earth)

[RobE]

Danielle (A friend of mine, wise in her 21 years on this earth)

pics?

[BDII]

yes and no you can't see them

[RaGe]

thats messed up man. who are you to deny me a good time?

[BDII]

Good things come to those who wait

 

-Unknown

[lvethesnow]

its better to lose a lover than love a loser-Luke Duke(dukes of hazard new version)

[absolutsnwbrdr]

"No matter how beautiful she is, somebody somewhere is sick of her shit."

[absolutsnwbrdr]

"No brains, no headache!"