Fun and Funny Quotes
Heard in the kingdom of Valerie Bean

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In no particular order:

Valerie: I don't have anything to do.
Dan: OMG! Russia invaded Georgia! I hope Dragon*Con is still on!
Valerie: I think it's a different Georgia. I don't much feel like invading anything today. I'm glad Russia has found something to do.

A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Valerie - alive, occupying space, and exerting gravitational force.

WARNING: Excessive speed may cause health problems, such as increased mass.

Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up.

A toy cat is a mouse. A toy mouse is a Hydrogen atom. - Scott, on why there are toy dogs, but not toy cats

Time's fun when you're having flies.
    -Kermit the Frog

The difference between "involvement" and "commitment" is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved'; the pig was 'commited'!

One of the symptoms of approaching a nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
    -Bertrand Russell

We are not retreating- we are advancing in another direction.
    -General Douglas MacArthur

Worry is as useful as a handle on a snowball.
    -unknown

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
    -Thomas Edison

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and  been widely regarded as a bad move.
    -Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers'

Laugh it up, fuzzball.
    -Han Solo, Star Wars

I have a boyfriend who malfunctions.
    -Captain Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

Statistics show that every two minutes another statistic is created.

What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over,

5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions

When people run around in circles, we say they are crazy. When planets do it, we say they are orbiting.

Efficiency is doing the job right. Effectiveness is doing the right job right.

Management is the delicate art of keeping those who hate you away from those who are undecided.

I love sleep. My life has a tendancy to fall apart when I'm awake.
   -Ernest Hemmingway

Theory is when you know how it works but it still doesn't. Practice is when it works, but you don't know why. In my department, theory and practice are joined-- nothing works and no one knows why.

A bar walks into a man-- oops, wrong reference frame...

Where, oh where has my sanity gone?
Where, oh where could it be?
   -Amy Mikles

Your education is what's left over after you've forgotten all the facts.
   -Mark Twain

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the more you have, the longer you live.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

(Of the British): Ruling the waves and waiving the rules.

Too weak to fight, too poor to bribe.

War, he said bitterly to the sky, was a makeshift created because ordinary processes could not furnish deaths enough.
   -S. Crane, Red Badge of Courage

It's nice to have friends, but it's even nicer to have rich friends.

It's amazing what you can see when the sun shines in just the right way.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit.
  -Ronald Reagan

Silence is golden. If you don't talk about it, you can't fight about it.

Cosmologists are usually wrong, but seldom in doubt.