Quote of the day
Aug. 24th, 2008 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
diandrahollmanwriterdot brought it to my attention that I forgot to change the journal default of "adults only content" on the quotes posts. Sorry about that. I'll try to remember from now on. However, I do have the memory of a 60 year old so if I slip again, just give me a holler.Backlog part 3:
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." ~Popular Mechanics, 1949
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." ~Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles in 1962
"Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." ~MGM exec about Fred Astaire's screen test
"Someday my ship will come in, and with my luck, I'll be at the airport." ~Unknown
"Men are always whining about how we're suffocating them...Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow." ~Unknown
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." ~Unknown
"I belive that Ronald Regan can make this country what it once was - an arctic region covered with ice." ~Steve Martin
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~Rich Cook
"Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?" ~Red Buttons
"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." ~Miss Alabama, 1994 (I think my IQ just dropped ten points)
"Gentlemen, listen to me slowly!" ~Samuel Goldwyn
"Now ride off in all directions." ~Michael Curtiz, directing Gary Cooper on a horse
"This is a perfect scenario. It is the first time in my life that I've seen a perfect scenario. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I want you to have a hundred copies made so I can distribute them to all the other writers so that everybody should see a really perfect script. And hurry, before I start rewriting it." ~Samuel Goldwyn
"I don't know. They were wearing a paper bag over their head." ~Yogi Berra when asked if the streaker he'd seen was male or female
"If there's a 50 percent chance we'll have a repeat American League pennant winner, you gotta remember there's also a 75 percent chance we won't." ~Yogi Berra
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics." ~Mark Twain
"Trust is the most valuable thing we have. Let's economize it!" ~Mark Twain (don't get me started...)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." ~Abraham Lincoln
Diandra
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." ~Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles in 1962
"Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little." ~MGM exec about Fred Astaire's screen test
"Someday my ship will come in, and with my luck, I'll be at the airport." ~Unknown
"Men are always whining about how we're suffocating them...Personally, I think if you can hear them whining, you're not pressing hard enough on the pillow." ~Unknown
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." ~Unknown
"I belive that Ronald Regan can make this country what it once was - an arctic region covered with ice." ~Steve Martin
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~Rich Cook
"Where else but in America can a poor black boy like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman?" ~Red Buttons
"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever." ~Miss Alabama, 1994 (I think my IQ just dropped ten points)
"Gentlemen, listen to me slowly!" ~Samuel Goldwyn
"Now ride off in all directions." ~Michael Curtiz, directing Gary Cooper on a horse
"This is a perfect scenario. It is the first time in my life that I've seen a perfect scenario. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. I want you to have a hundred copies made so I can distribute them to all the other writers so that everybody should see a really perfect script. And hurry, before I start rewriting it." ~Samuel Goldwyn
"I don't know. They were wearing a paper bag over their head." ~Yogi Berra when asked if the streaker he'd seen was male or female
"If there's a 50 percent chance we'll have a repeat American League pennant winner, you gotta remember there's also a 75 percent chance we won't." ~Yogi Berra
"There are three kinds of lies - lies, damned lies and statistics." ~Mark Twain
"Trust is the most valuable thing we have. Let's economize it!" ~Mark Twain (don't get me started...)
"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." ~Abraham Lincoln
Diandra
