One of my favorite quotes is Lilo, from Lilo & Stitch:

"Star Wars Galaxies is coming out soon" hehe

Shameless plugs, I just can't manage to get them out of my mouth.

I don't really think it does, but it gets the quote thread moving, but on the real--I'll give you one of my favorite quotes.

Our intrepid hero's SIDEKICK is creeping along through some tropical island jungle, trailing the bad guys. Our sidekick unfortunately did not score well on his "How To Shadow People" final; he's barely a couple feet behind the bad dudes. (OK, so they're deaf as logs in not realizing he's there, but oh well....)

Anyway, sidekick steps on a HUGE branch that just happens to be laying there; there is this electric crack, the bad dudes whirl, they are literally nose to nose, the bad dudes whip out their guns, scowling and threatening and such... and our intrepid sidekick puts a cheesy smile on his face and says,

"Hehro... I am rohst."

(No fooling, that's a direct quote, phonetics and all! I'm still cringing....)

"Give me the booze you pumpkin pie haircutted little freak!"

From THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

Interesting point: The guy who said this was Josef Stalin, who was responsible for murdering a large portion of the Russian population due to his paranoia. Oh, and his bad strategy in sending wave after wave of peasant troops against German tanks.

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Originally posted by TheKnot:

Oh, and his bad strategy in sending wave after wave of peasant troops against German tanks.

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*Wanders off muttering to herself of universal expansion rates and the Hubble Parameter... which ought to be the Hubble Variable, but hey, that's me....

By the way, did you know it is around 70-75?

*head explodes*

Yes, universal expansion rates. The universe is expanding all around us, in all directions. We know this because galaxies are retreating from us in ALL directions (with the small exception of some in our own Local Group, which are coming toward us).

The Hubble Parameter is the relationship between how far away a galaxy is and how fast it is retreating. Interestingly enough, the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is retreating. The Hubble parameter is simply the slope of the line produced in graphing velocity/distance of galaxies, and averages 70-75.

What this says is that any galaxy is retreating at a velocity 70-75 times faster than its distance from us. Example: if it is 500 mega-parsecs away, it is retreating at a rate of 35 to 37 thousand kilometers/sec. That's approximately one-tenth of the distance from the earth to the moon.

What's a parsec? 3.26 lightyears. What's a lightyear? The distance light travels in a year at the rate of 300,000 km/sec. So 300,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 is the distance in kilometers one lightyear represents. Multiply by 3.26 to get the distance a parsec is. Then that by 500 million....

Hehe... it's a mighty fur piece down the road, isn't it? Probably more than you ever wanted to know....

Don't think of the universe as expanding "into" something. If we were inhabiting a galaxy at the farthest reaches in which we can "see" it (ie: one of those out there around 800 Mpcs from us) instead of our own, that doesn't mean that all the other galaxies would be coming toward us.

All the other galaxies would be retreating in all directions from that galaxy too... heheh. It's a temporal thing.

-They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

If you haven't seen Dead Poet's Society, I suggest you watch. It's one of the greatest movies of all time, IMHO.

*edit: I just found a few more...*

-We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

-Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

-Keating: Why do we need language?
Neil: To communicate...
Keating: Nooo!! To woo women!

"Even the small can change the course of the World" Galadriel FOTR

Kinda makes the point for good early education doesn't it... Our Kids are our future.