Posts tagged “quotations”

Inigo: Let me explain… No, there is too much. Let me sum up: Buttercup is marrying Humperdinck in little less than half an hour. So all we have to do is get in, break up the wedding, steal the princess, make our escape… after I kill Count Rugen.
Westley: That doesn’t leave much for dilly-dally.
Fezzik: You just wiggled your finger! That’s wonderful!
Westley: I’ve always been a quick healer. What are our liabilities?
Inigo: There is but one working castle gate, and it is guarded by sixty men.
Westley: And our assets?
Inigo: Your brains, Fezzik’s strength, my steel.
Westley: That’s it? Impossible. If I had a month to plan maybe I could come up with something. But this…
Fezzik: You just shook your head! That doesn’t make you happy?
Westley: My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy? Hmm?? I mean if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
from The Princess Bride

Bryan J Busch Quote Contest

Hot, Hot, Hot Getcherbuttrightouttatown! Thank you. Thank you very much. No, really. I love the applause, but … oh. No, you’re too kind. Yes. Thank you. It is a wonderful joy to have finally won The Quote Contest at re-run. Go on, now. You’ll have to start playing now, you realize? <grin>

“Christ you know it ain’t easy! You know how hard it can be.
The way things are going, you’re gonna crucify me.”
John Lennon

Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

nil dictum quod non dictum

nil dictum quod non dictum prius!

Bumper Sticker Philosophy

I tried to contain myself, but I escaped.

Kramer

<Kramer>I don’t even work here!</Kramer>

Bluishorange

” … there are things i thought i knew, but it turns out i hardly know anything at all.” – bluishorange Yeah. I hear ya.

I wish I could shrink down to the size of an ant. And maybe there would be thousands of other people shrunken down to ant-size, and we would get together and dig tunnels down into the ground and live there But don’t ever call us ‘ants,’ because we hate that.
from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, ‘No speaka English.’
from Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey

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bartender.live

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Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.