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"Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
-- Westley (The Princess Bride)

Vizzini: Inconceivable.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

(The Princess Bride)

Being called a poetess brings out the terroristress in me.
-- Audre Lorde

"Before you find your handsome prince, you've got to kiss a lot of frogs."

"Do you kids want to be like the real UN, or do you want to squabble and waste time?"
-- Principal Skinner

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Dread Pirate Roberts: "You guessed wrong."
Vizzini: "You only THINK I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched glasses while your back was turned! Ha ha! You fool! You fell for one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha -" (Vizzini drops dead.)

(Princess Bride)

Inigo Montoya: That Vizzini, he can fuss.
Fezzik: Fuss, fuss... I think he like to scream at us.
Inigo: Probably he means no harm.
Fezzik: He's really very short on charm.
Inigo: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Fezzik: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Vizzini: Enough of that!
Inigo: Fezzik, are there rocks ahead?
Fezzik: If there are, we all be dead!
Vizzini: No more rhymes now, I mean it!
Fezzik: Anybody want a peanut?
Vizzini: DYEEAAHHHHHH!!

(The Princess Bride)

"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

C++, the language in which only friends can access your private members.

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

"Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant."

The principle difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
-- Charles Brower

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates

Bozone, n: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
-- Earl Wilson

Q: What do you call a principal female opera singer whose high C is lower than those of other principal female opera singers?
A: A deep C diva.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-- Samuel Butler

The Pet Principle:
No matter which side of the door your dog or cat is on, it is the wrong side.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
-- Lily Tomlin

"In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other"
(Contact)

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
-- Honore de Balzac ("The Physiology of Marriage," 1829)

Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
-- Dimitri Mitropoulos