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Famous Quotes - July 2006

Walt Disney - Mickey Mouse

July 31st 2006 00:42
“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.” - Walt Disney

The Walt Disney Company was co-founded by Walt, with his brother Roy, in 1923. Disney has had some great films and I think that teaming up with Pixar in recent years was a great idea. How funny is Finding Nemo!?
Not to mention Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and the others. But I just love the classic Disney cartoons, especially the Silly Symphonies. (Do you remember The Cookie Carnival? Wasn’t it just scrumptious?!) And who would forget Steamboat Willie, the first Disney animated film with sound.


With this quote, I’m guessing that when Walt Disney says “it was all started by a mouse” he is referring to the beginnings of success for The Walt Disney Company. Some cartoons preceded the ubiquitous mouse, such as Alices’ Wonderland and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (who looked like Mickey but with longer ears).

According to Wikipedia, Walt Disney was actually cremated in 1966 following a cardiac arrest, conflicting with the common misconception that he was cryogenically frozen.
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Gandhi - An Eye For an Eye

July 27th 2006 23:55
“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - M.K. Gandhi
Gandhi.

“An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” relates to “lex talionis”- the law of retaliation. This quote comes from Exodus, part of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. It is interesting that Gandhi said this quote, knowing he was the leader of India of which the religion is Hindu.

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Aristotle's Views on Monogamy

July 27th 2006 05:12
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own." – Aristotle
"You're definitely mine..."

Well I’m sure in Aristotle’s time (~300 BC) there was no way of knowing the father of your child if you were a promiscuous woman around 9 months before your baby was born. But nowadays with paternity tests, shotguns, (up until 1974, the law in Texas stated the killing of the lover of one’s husband or wife as ‘justifiable homicide’ so long as it happened at the scene of discovery!) and, in my opinion, probably more monogamy; this quote probably doesn’t hold as strongly as it once did.
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Liar Liar Lawyers

July 26th 2006 05:40
"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth." - Patrick Murray.

This quote reminds me of the film Liar Liar, starring Jim Carrey. (Which in my opinion was probably his last actually funny – not stupid – movie. I never saw Fun With Dick & Jane but the preview looked really lame.)
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Alfred Hitchcock & The Bladder

July 25th 2006 06:05
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock.

I agree Alfred! And this guy would know about movies. A master of the suspense thriller, Alfred Hitchcock – who died in 1980 – produced and directed many movies including silent films (his first being No. 13/Mrs Peabody in 1922).
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Why Does Toast Always Land Butter-Side Down?

July 21st 2006 02:11
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" - Steven Wright

Steven Wright is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Burlington, Massachusetts. He is known for his slow, deadpan, monotone delivery of ironic, witty, deeply philosophical and sometimes confusing jokes and one-liners.
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Tax & HECS

July 20th 2006 01:36
"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons." - Douglas Adams.

What a great idea! Now that the tax season has begun I’m sure there are many of us who would love to declare themselves dead for tax purposes. Ok, I know Tax allows the government to make payments to poor people like us uni students in the form of Youth Allowance. But here’s an intriguing question, what’s the point of Youth Allowance if we actually have to pay tax on it? Uni students on this ‘government hand-out’ (which is rarely available unless you’ve earned $17,000 after high school,
probably qualifying when you’ve finished uni!) are encouraged to be employed part time during their studies but by doing this are getting into a higher tax bracket and essentially paying more tax. So what’s the point of that??
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Air Pollution in Developing Countries

July 19th 2006 02:58
"In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air." - Jonathan Raban.

This British travel writer, Jonathan Raban, hits the nail on the head with this quote. Just look at developing countries such as Mexico City, one of the most polluted cities on earth.
Air pollution prevails in the developed world...
But in this case the city’s air pollution may have natural causes; Wikipedia believes that the mountains and volcanoes surrounding it tend to trap polluted air in the city. But I believe this quote holds true for most cities due to the intense amount of petrol fumes rather than natural causes.
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Professor Frink and Computers

July 18th 2006 01:48
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely.
Mwa-hey! Professor Frink


This quote reminds me of what Professor Frink once said on The Simpsons. There was an episode set in the 1970s that featured mega-nerd Frink predicting that in the future computers will become so many times faster, larger and expensive that ‘only the four richest kings of Europe could afford them’. That line always made me laugh! Well they did get a lot faster over the years but with smaller components, and much cheaper too. Like this quote suggests, if cars went the same way as the development of computers, Rolls-Royces would be affordable and efficient but dangerous at the same time due to a yearly explosion!
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Scabbing Petrol off Your Parents

July 17th 2006 00:55
"A thoughtful kid is one who leaves enough gas in the tank for you to get to the filling station." -Unknown

Oh I can relate to this one! Don’t tell him, but when I know my Dad is going to use my car I don’t put petrol in it, even if it’s really empty; because the emptier the tank is, the more likely he’ll put some fuel in! It’s also a good idea to really emphasise how much you’ve been driving your little sister around, and whinge about ‘how expensive petrol is at the moment’, majorly affecting your already very depressing financial situation.
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Margaret Mitchell - Bad TV

July 15th 2006 06:23
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as I lived.” - Margaret Mitchell

What instantly comes to my mind when I read this quote is when TV shows go bad. For example, Absolutely Fabulous and Kath & Kim were both hilarious shows but just became less funny over the seasons. I think it’s a much better idea to just stop making episodes (as I’m pretty sure they both have) instead of making mindless drivel. Same thing goes for movies, like Miss Congeniality. The first movie, I thought, was great. But Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous was just hopeless; no plot, no sense, and worst of all - not funny.
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The Chaser and Mariah Carey

July 13th 2006 07:56
"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Maria Carey.

Oooohhhh this is a juicy one! Let’s all just hope that Mariah is not serious here (although if she wasn’t it would be a very heartless joke). I think it’d be better if this American singer was just being an ignorant bimbo when she gave this quote. This quote makes me doubt, even more, the intelligence Americans have for their world around them. Since America is very patriotic and narrow-minded there never seems to be room to learn anything about anywhere else in the world.
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Pizza Arriving Before the Police

July 12th 2006 07:35
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."
Jeff Marder.
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Children - Sit Down and Shut-Up

July 11th 2006 08:13
“Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching
them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 years
telling them to sit down and shut-up.” – Anonymous
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Cartoon Violence

July 10th 2006 07:29
“Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car”- Anonymous

This quote sounds very Family Guy, i.e. very random. That’s why it’s funny! No matter how hard The Simpsons tries it’ll never be able to get back to the top spot as far as American comedic cartoons go. Being random is what Family Guy is all about and it’s what makes the burst-out-loud laughter that is shared by millions of its devotees.
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Robin Williams and Gay Burgulars

July 7th 2006 06:37
“We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.” – Robin Williams

Hahahaha! This is a hilarious quote by one of my favourite comedians. Robin Williams still makes me laugh in Mrs Doubtfire even though I’ve seen it heaps of times! But here’s a question to come out of this quote: are all gay men interior-decoratingly gifted?
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Golf Anger

July 6th 2006 01:10
“In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf.” - Anonymous

Who thinks golf is an annoying game?? I do! If you’re good at it, if you’ve got some skill it’s definitely more satisfying. But if you only ever play the odd game once a month, prepare to be very much frustrated.
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George Burns and Preservatives

July 5th 2006 05:28
"Personally I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get." - George Burns

Good point Mr Burns, except that preservatives are really bad for you! Nowadays foods are pumped with preservatives to maintain freshness and to keep it from spoiling or oxidising. I try to stay away from preservatives, but this is very hard! Preservatives are found in basically all packaged food, unless you buy organic.
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The Pain of Pick-Up Lines

July 4th 2006 01:01
“Do you have a Band-Aid? Because I just scraped my knee falling for you.”

Wikipedia says that pick-up lines are intended to be a “short and easy way of picking up”, and are “intended to display wit and arousal” but the result is often “rejection and humiliation” for the user. I wholeheartedly agree.
Even if a guy used a pick-up line as a joke I’d consider it just sad and lame. They’re usually very crude, such as “If I could be anything, I'd love to be your bathwater” and “If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?” or very lame like “If you were a laser, you'd be set on ‘stunning’”.
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Lucille Ball - How to Stay Young

July 3rd 2006 06:51
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” - Lucille Ball

I LOVE Lucy! Isn’t she great!? I think Ms Ball's advice is quite wise. I don’t know about living honestly, but I’ve heard that the French stay so thin because they eat slowly and really appreciate their food. You have to take your time - if you have the time! When I was working for an accounting firm (don’t worry, I came to my senses and escaped while I was still young!) and going to uni at night, most of my breakfasts were scoffed down and coffees skulled while I was rushing to get ready in the mornings. Not a good idea in longevity terms according to Lucy.
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