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' I hate quotes'-
Ralph Waldo Emersen

"An apple a day holds the dwarfs at bay! ...if you can hit them."
Crazy quote infecting my social surroundings.

Woman: You sir, are drunk
Winston Churchill: And you are ugly, but i'll be sober in the morning.

"I'm so freaking sick of everyone right now."-Me!

Terry Hoitz: No, I don't like you. I think you're a fake cop. The sound of your piss hitting the urinal, it sounds feminine. If you were in the wild, I would attack you, even if you weren't in my food chain. I would go out of my way to attack you. If I were a lion and you were a tuna, I would swim out in the middle of the ocean and freaking eat you and then I'd bang your tuna girlfriend.

Allen Gamble: OK, first off: a lion, swimming in the ocean. Lions don't like water. If you placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring.

Terry Hoitz: How you gonna do that?

Allen Gamble: We will construct a series of breathing apparatus with kelp. We will be able to trap certain amounts of oxygen. It's not gonna be days at a time. An hour? Hour forty-five? No problem. That will give us enough time to figure out where you live, go back to the sea, get some more oxygen, and stalk you. You just lost at your own game. You're outgunned and out-manned.
[pause]

Allen Gamble: Did that go the way you thought it was gonna go? Nope.

-Dialog between Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg from 'The Other Guys'

"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer

..."China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
- Charles De Gaulle, former French President


"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
- David Acfield


"Weather forecast: precipitation in the morning, rain in the afternoon."
- Detroit Daily News


"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe."
- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia.


"I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
- Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."
- Former Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without
-Albert Einstein

Here's one of my favorites:
“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?” - Marilyn Manson

"Look, I'm not exaggerating when I say the success of your mission hinges on how you use that cardboard box. But in the end, a cardboard box is only made of paper. Handle it with care or it won't be of much use to you. Don't think of it as just another box. Treat it with love... Don't be rough. Okay?" - Solid Snake

"Only those who are prepared to fire should be fired at".

"The world will not change through naive talks."

-Lelouch Vi Britannia (Code Geass anime)

"I had no shoes, and felt sorry for myself until I met a man with no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better."

-George Carlin

"I never said most of the things I said."

-Yogi Berra

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

I write books about paper airplanes, so some aviation quotes:

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, and you weren't nauseated by the food.

A helicopter is just ten thousand pieces circling around an oil leak.

It pays to be lucky.

If God meant for us to fly...he would have given us more money.

Aircraft Identification: If it's ugly, it's British. If it's weird, it's French. If it's ugly and weird, it's Russian.

To most people, the sky is the limit. To those who love aviation, the sky is home.