Favourite quotes

[Ian H]

Don't think you are coming under my umbrella.

 

[Shortfall]

"Very slowly then all at once".

Supposedly used by Ernest Hemingway to describe the process of going bankrupt. Could be prescient looking at the current state of the UK's finances.

 

[Rusty Nails]

"Very slowly then all at once".

Supposedly used by Ernest Hemingway to describe the process of going bankrupt. Could be prescient looking at the current state of the UK's finances.

I thought it might have been your version of having sex.

 

[Shortfall]

I thought it might have been your version of having sex.

Just the all at once bit!

 

[Rusty Nails]

Just the all at once bit!

Wham, bang, thank you ma’am!

Another quote from somewhere.

 

[Psamathe]

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
(from Dune)

 

[briantrumpet]

"Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts" (John Dryden)

 

[Ian H]

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted

 

[Bazzer]

The Great Hyperlobic Omnicognate Neutron Wrangler can talk all four legs off an Arcturan Mega Donkey, but only I can persuade it to go for a walk afterwards.

 

[Ianonabike]

Don't think you are coming under my umbrella.

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Roger Miller

"Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts" (John Dryden)

"If facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - not Einstein

Wham, bang, thank you ma’am!

I hate to be a pedant, but it's wham bam. Consonance counts.