Here are some of my favorite quotes and sayings that I've heard over the years. I'll try to credit them if I can, but I regret that I can't remember who said EVERYTHING I've ever heard...

"I'm pumped! Let's let the healing begin...!" -Good Will Hunting

"Mama always says, sometimes it be's dat way..." -Dave Broussard

"Damn, I got tucked!" -Dave Broussard

"This world is filled with people who love to talk even though they have nothing to say..." -Rik Thibodeau

"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well...sometimes the bar eats you..."  -The Big Lebowski

"Ah...yeah...did you get that memo?" -1LT Kevin Kuss

"They told me it couldn't be done...but I put mistletoe under my belt and did it anyway!" -Unknown

"Illigetemi Non Carburundum" -Latin for "Don't let the bastards grind you down".

"Unexpected travel plans are like dancing lessons from God." -Kurt Vonnegut

"I ain't got time to bleed!" -Jesse Ventura

"If you are not criticized, you might not be doing much" -Donald Rumsfeld

"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time." -Shimon Peres

"She blew my nose and then she blew my mind..." -Mick Jagger, from "HonkyTonk Woman"

"Time is a train, it makes the future the past...leaves you standing at the station, your face pressed up against the glass..." -U2, from "Zoo Station"

"At a theater near you!!" -A young Rik Thibodeau, after being asked by Dad where the movie he wanted to see was playing.

"Damn Baby, why you gotta waste my flave?!" -Kenny in Can't Hardly Wait

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." -Rita Mae Brown

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have" -Anne Tyler

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want" -Ben Stein

"God answers all the prayers. Sometimes He answers 'yes', sometimes He answers 'no', and sometimes the answer is 'you gotta be kidding'." -Jimmy Carter

"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the - if he - if 'is' means is and never has been, that is not - that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement." -Bill Clinton

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"Wait for it..." -Unknown

"The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe." -Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -Washington, DC mayor Marion Barry

"We're just a real heckle and jeckle team..." -New England Patriots linebacker Chris Slade, addressing his team's up and down play. Presumably, he meant to say "Jeckyl and Hyde" team.

"Smoking kills. And if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." -Brooke Shields

"It's fitting that we pay tribute to Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin that he built with his own two hands." -Pennsylvania Rep. Dan Flood

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." -Shaquille O'Neill, after being asked if he had visited the Parthenon during a trip to Greece.

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