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Postby Qray » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:13 pm

"There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out."
-JMS (J. Michael Straczynski) commenting on the type of people that constantly sniped him that B5 would never make it five years.
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Postby Qray » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:40 pm

" Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation...if we are to be saved at all."
-Isaac Asimov

"Science fiction is an existential metaphor that allows us to tell stories about the human condition. Isaac Asimov once said: 'Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
-The closing statement of Stargate SG-1's 200th episode. As delivered by Grell the Robot from the "Wormhole X-Treme!" spoof featured on the show.
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Postby Qray » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:42 am

Tin Man: "I know what you're doing. I've led men into battle myself.
DG: "So how am I doing?"
Tin Man: "Well...there's usually less hugging."
-Tin Man
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Postby Neurolanis » Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:00 am

ST: Generations:

Geordi: I've never seen a solar probe with this kind of configuration, have you Data?

Data: No Geordi, I have not. (to his tricorder) Have you? (uses tricorder as a hand puppet) "No I have not. It is most unusual." Mister Tricorder!
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Postby Neurolanis » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:06 pm

Rodney Dangerfield: I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Anonymous: Half of the people in the world are below average.

Mark Twain: To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I've done it a thousand times.

Oscar Wilde: Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Anoymous: Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.

George Bush: I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
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Postby The Master » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:31 pm

Jeff Foxworthy: Women don't want to hear your opinion, they want to hear their own opinion in a deeper voice.

(reminder ladies...I'm not the one that said it! :jocolor: )
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Postby aldan » Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:33 pm

Anonymous: The truth hurts.
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and to appear stupid than
to open it and remove all doubt."
---Mark Twain
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Postby Qray » Tue May 20, 2008 8:09 pm

"If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money."
-Paraphrased Ralph Bellamy.
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Postby Boikat » Tue May 20, 2008 8:33 pm

"What? Me worry?"

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Alfred E. Newman

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"I reject your reality, and substitute my own!" Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Postby Ranryu » Thu May 22, 2008 2:31 pm

"When in doubt, Light the fuse and run."
-My eldest cousin Ryan
When in Doubt Reload and Repeat.

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Postby Llew » Mon May 26, 2008 4:06 pm

Not a quote par-say, but still funny.

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“I Speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to My Horse” - Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, 1500–58
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Postby Qray » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:03 am

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'."
-Chris Rock
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