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My all time favorite Bob Dylan lyric.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment, I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Not really a quote of any significance to life.
"Badges?  We don't need no stinkin' badges."

Became a Shooting Star when I got my 1st guitar.
Back in '66, I was 13 and that was my fix.
Still shooting for stardom after all this time.
If I never make it, I'll still be fine.


:guitar

Quote from: L07 Shooting Star on August 25, 2016, 01:54:01 AM
My all time favorite Bob Dylan lyric.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment, I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Not really a quote of any significance to life.

Positively! Best put down song ever?

I've always loved this verse from Every Grain of Sand

I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there's someone there, other times it's only me
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand     

Let's face it, we could do a whole thread of Dylan quotes...

The whole song, Neighborhood Bully from the Infidels album is one good quote after another

And it's more true today than it was when Dylan released it in 1983:


Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man
His enemies say he's on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He's the neighborhood bully

The neighborhood bully just lives to survive
He's criticized and condemned for being alive
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He's the neighborhood bully

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He's wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He's always on trial for just being born
He's the neighborhood bully

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He's the neighborhood bully

Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He's the neighborhood bully

He got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He's the neighborhood bully

Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He's the neighborhood bully

Every empire that's enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one's command
He's the neighborhood bully

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He's the neighborhood bully

What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed
He's the neighborhood bully

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully

Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music

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Larrivee owner since 1992

"Everything is funny as long as it's happening to someone else."
Will Rogers

Quote from: L07 Shooting Star on August 25, 2016, 01:54:01 AM
My all time favorite Bob Dylan lyric.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment, I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

Not really a quote of any significance to life.

I prefer

"The pumps don't work
cause the vandals
took the handles."

"Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one sh%t at a time"

Quote from: ducktrapper on August 25, 2016, 10:16:09 AM
Positively! Best put down song ever? ............................

Exactly.
"Badges?  We don't need no stinkin' badges."

Became a Shooting Star when I got my 1st guitar.
Back in '66, I was 13 and that was my fix.
Still shooting for stardom after all this time.
If I never make it, I'll still be fine.


:guitar

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C. Clarke

I use this a lot in describing IT projects to FAA management...

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Quote from: teh on August 21, 2016, 10:01:07 AM
Here are two:

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you are a thousand miles from the cornfield."


"A people that values its privileges over its principals soon loses both.

Dwight Eisenhower
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What would our schools do without all of their principals.

"The paradox of our time.

We have bigger houses but smaller families.

We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgements;
more experts but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but we have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbor.

We build more computers
to hold more information,
to produce more copies than ever,
but we have less communication.

We have become long on quantity
but short on quality.

These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion;
tall man, but short character;
steep profits, but shallow relationships.

It is time when there is much in the window
but nothing in the room."

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"It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they take things literally."

(Sorry, don't know who came up with this one!)

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Larrivee owner since 1992

Quote from: Mikeymac on December 11, 2016, 03:41:18 PM
"It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they take things literally."

(Sorry, don't know who came up with this one!)



Time for an Oxford comma?

Ed

When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
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"Some cause happiness
wherever they go.
Other's whenever they go."
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Larrivee owner since 1992

"Most people want to be delivered from temptation...but would like it to keep in touch."  -Robert Orben    :roll
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"  ... 
Mae West

When you're necking with your honey,
and your nose gets runny,
Don't think it's funny,
'cause it's not.
"Badges?  We don't need no stinkin' badges."

Became a Shooting Star when I got my 1st guitar.
Back in '66, I was 13 and that was my fix.
Still shooting for stardom after all this time.
If I never make it, I'll still be fine.


:guitar

Quote from: L07 Shooting Star on December 15, 2016, 01:54:56 AM
When you're necking with your honey,
and your nose gets runny,
Don't think it's funny,
'cause it's not.

ooooo

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
Andres Segovia

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