OT - Great quotes that have meaning to you...

[Mr.Diggler]

The threat of punishment keeps me in check or there would be bodies right and left.

 

 

I agree with that.

[underthebigw]

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"

-- The Usual Suspects

 

Actually, I thought this was CS Lewis, but I checked and it was originally Baudelaire (he said, with his nose in the air).

[underthebigw]

Hovercrafts. Where are the hovercrafts? They promised us hovercrafts.

 

--That '70's Show.

[underthebigw]

Here's another one paraphrased from a TV show. It seems too profound and too true to be original (from a short-run Joe Pantilione show about a bunch of cons recruited by the FBI to trick scumbags).

 

"In my experience, people that don't respect books, don't respect people."

 

I'd like to think it applies to comics, as well.

[maloney414]

"Like the man in the stall said to the guy waiting, give me time."

 

-Al Bundy "Married with Children

 

 

[richnerd]

"If you can't step back, take a look at the job you just did and say, Damn that looks good! the job isn't finished." My dad

 

[SolitaireOne]

"Son, the only stupid question is the one that you don't ask..."

 

-Mr. McCloy, my 6th grade Math teacher... R.I.P.

[Stronguy]

"I don't give a damn if it is an Amazing Fantasy #15 for $35. That ROM #9 over there has foxing on it so I'm not buying a damn thing from this filthy store. Now where's my portable chemical shower?" -- SilverAndBronze

[underthebigw]

Even I wouldn't say that.

 

By the way, I save the zip-lock treatment for true mold (you know, the fuzzy stuff, the blackish/greenish ooze, etc). Foxing I can handle. That is, as long as I don't truly have to handle it.

[Marvel 25th-migration]

"Any woman can make a fool out of some man, but it takes a special woman to make a man out of some fool"--no idea

 

"Its a long way to the top, if you wanna rock n roll"--Bon Scott

 

"Don't ever let me catch any of you guys in America"--Frank Drebin

 

 

[Arcade]

I remembered this thread from awhile back.

I finally came across the guy that uses this quote in his sig. from another forum I visit.

 

"The optimist claims the glass is half full; the pessimist claims it is half empty. An engineer observes that the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. "

[Old Fashion PB and J]

My father always told me . Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.

 

Great advice, and you learn something while not looking like an sshole.