The Cool Quote Thread

[Freak93]

"You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you spent hanging out with your friends. So stay up late, go out on Tuesday when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does."
--Tom Petty on College Life

"I'm frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it's not meant for me. Personally, I'm way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I'm much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you're dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that."
--Tom Petty on Rap

[Sportsbuck]

"You win with people."
"You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward."
"Anything easy ain't worth a damn!"
"Discipline is 95 percent anticipation."
"Paralyze resistance with persistence."
"So many times I've found people smarter than I was ... But you know what they couldn't do? They couldn't outwork me. They couldn't outwork me!"
"One thing you cannot afford ever to do is to feel sorry for yourself."
"Without winners, there wouldn't even be any god damned civilization."
"Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people who didn't bother to play."

- Woody Hayes

[Freak93]

"Initiating the conversation is half the battle."
-- Big Daddy

[JackTheRipper]

"Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet, gentlemen."
-- Winston Wolf, "Pulp Fiction"

"Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning."
-- Tommy DeVito, "Goodfellas"

"I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world!"
-- Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, "Full Metal Jacket"

"See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody. "
-- Frank Lucas, "American Gangster"

[Sportsbuck]

freak93 said:

"Initiating the conversation is half the battle."
-- Big Daddy

Truer words have never been spoken.