Famous Quotes

[WalterX]

"It can't possibly rain for forty days and forty nights."
---Noah

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us."
-- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.


"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

"It's OK honey," "I've known this bear for years"
--The Grizzly Man


"You really shouldn't need a fire extinguisher." "It's a gas vapor - if for some reason it does ignite - it flashes fast, then goes out."
--Rich Motts

[phantom_jeepster]

I enjoyed those. It is interesting to be able to look back and wonder what was or wasn't going through someone's mind when they said those qoutes.

[WalterX]

I received an e-mail the other day with a bunch of those and couldn't resist adding RRich's statement.
If any of you have missed The Grizzly Man movie, you should check it out. I am surprised he lasted as long as he did.

[MontanaJeep]

I have always liked Mark Twains quotes.
Like: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

[Trickpatrick]

My favorite

This part is exactly the same but, completly different.

[Truckzilla]

How about one closer to home. 'I'm rebuilding my Jeepster. It will easily be done in just a couple of months"