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The rules:
-You choose a rather well known person. This can be anyone. From Plato to Madonna. -You post one or two of the most famous quotes of this person. -The first person who manages to guess who you had in mind, gets the post the next set of quotes. -No posting before you have had confirmation that your answer is indeed the right one. Here is the first series of quotes: "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." Should be easy enough. Good luck [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] [ 02-23-2004, 10:16 AM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ] |
I'd have to say Oscar Wilde.
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I'd have to say you're right [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Ok then I get to go correct?
"Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again." To make this a tiny bit harder I want the name of the character saying this line. [img]smile.gif[/img] Shouldn't be too hard. |
Would that be King Lear, in the play of the same name?
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Damn, I knew all of them, just saw the thread too late. Nice idea, anyway, Dreamer!
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Okay, how about this one:
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. |
Hey, something else I know. 'Tis John Peel, who also said "I've obviously offended lots of people. Let's move on!"
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I'll give you that. John Peel put those words in the mouth of the Doctor, in Timewyrm: Genesis.
Your go! |
Hmm. A quote.
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." |
Heh.. good one. Don't know who it's from, though [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Peter Ustinov
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Congrats, Harleyquinn! Your turn.
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
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Will Rogers?
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Nope
Here's another quote by the same person: Why is it, "A penny for your thoughts," but, "you have to put your two cents in?" Somebody's making a penny. [ 02-28-2004, 08:57 AM: Message edited by: harleyquinn ] |
Steven Wright?
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Yup, you got it, InjaYew. Your turn
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"You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use."
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Too hard huh?
Here's another'n'... "But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?" |
That would be Sammy... Sammy Clemens.
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Yay!
[img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]smile.gif[/img] Yer turn. (Sorry it took so long to reply. I've been having connect\time out issues again.) |
Okay, try this:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." *edit* for those who missed it, Sammy Clemens is better known as Samuel Longhorne Clemens, or by his stage name, Mark Twain. */edit* [ 03-02-2004, 10:43 PM: Message edited by: Bungleau ] |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wow! That lasted a whopping... seven minutes. Okay, Seraph... your go.
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Well, I felt this was somewhat appropriate.
Who said "I never said most of the things I said." |
Got to be George W! Sounds exactly like something he'd say! :D
Hang on a minute! Just had a brain explosion! Could it be Donald"I take lessons from GW"Rumsfeld?? [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] [ 03-03-2004, 08:46 AM: Message edited by: Skippy1 ] |
Well my guess would be Yogi Berra. But I have to agree with Skippy as well. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]
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You should go with your guess Willow.
Other great Yogi-isms (That I considered) include: "I usually take a two hour nap from one to four" and "A nickel isn't worth a dime today." [ 03-03-2004, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Seraph ] |
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Yes it's your turn to go. I guess I should have specificly said that.
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I am become death; the shatterer of worlds. A 10 point bonus to anyone who can name the real origin, but I'm looking for the more famous man who said this. |
Just as a side note, Xzar in baldur's Gate says that...but since I cheated to get the answer on this one...I'll leave it to someone else...though that quote rocks!
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Hmmm... Willow, it sounds like the words of the Hindu god Siva (or Shiva) the Destroyer. I'm familiar with it from the Destroyer novel series, which I have read for nearly two decades now (sheesh!).
Somebody famous actually said that? I've only heard Remo Williams say it (or Siva inhabiting Remo's body)... |
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I would guess Oppenheimer... ?
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"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." |
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img]
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