Quotes

When you are walking on the street, watching television or engaged in any other mundane activity, you sometimes hear very normal people say very memorable things. This is a compilation of a few of the interesting – and often nonsensical – quotes I stumbled upon. None of them are of famous philosophers, but, if you look closely, you might find a little bit of philosophy in each one of them:

  • “The simple things can be hard too” (Interviewed football player)
  • “Where should you be worried about? The worst that can happen is that you’d die” (My former football trainer)
  • “Prepare for the worst, and hope for the best” (Unknown)
  • “I can think myself to death” (Unknown)
  • “Hey guy, got some money for me?” (Blind tramp on the street)
  • “Give me a cigarette and a cup of coffee, and I’m ready to go” (Unknown)
  • “Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow” (Unknown)
  • “No-one is the boss…so everyone is” (Guy on TV)
  • “Ooh, If I would have only been eighteen….” (Old man on the street)
  • “The only thing they’ve got in common is that they don’t have anything in common” (Seth Godin)
  • “John recently got addicted to smoking” “Really?! Congratulations!” (Guys on TV)
  • “I want to lick her toes” (Woman on TV; instead of “I want to kiss her feet”)
  • “If you haven’t felt sadness, you can never feel joy” (Woman on TV)
  • Seller: “You wanna buy smokes? Show me your ID-card please.”
    Guy: “Really? I’ve got a beard, and you are asking me for my ID-card?”
    Seller: “My mother had a beard when she was 14. Please show me your ID-card.”
  • “You can’t eat of a beautiful plate” (Woman on TV)
  • “You are free to do what we want you to do!” (Bill Hicks)
  • “What are you reading for?” (Bill Hicks)
  • “Non-smokers die every day” (Bill Hicks)
  • “The environment is everything that isn’t me. So you must be very selfish not to give a shit about the environment” (Friend of mine)
  • “Just because I rock, doesn’t mean I’m from stone” (Jim Carrey character)
  • “Well….. I don’t know how to be me anyhow” (Paul Teutul senior)
  • “Nobody lives alone on this world” (Teacher of mine)
  • “The reading has started even before you grabbed the book from the library (Teacher of mine on prejudice)
  • “You are not buying a bike, you are renting one” (Room-mate on the fact that bikes always get stolen)
  • “Time goes hard” (Woman on the street)
  • “Tomorrow is another day in the dream-factory” (Hank Moody)
  • “A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts” (William Strunk)
  • “We need to forgive ourselves, because no one is able to do it for us” (Hank Moody)
  • “Men can do everything better than women, except for giving birth” (Guy on the street)
  • “Do I make mistakes?! Even when I breathe I make a mistake! But tomorrow we just shoot for another perfect day” (Hank Moody)
  • “We can eat it now, or wait for it to rot away” (My dad)
  • “We are lucky, and the ones who have been more fortunate than us have it pretty good as well” (My grandfather)
  • “The seed of doubt has been planted” (Hank Moody’s attorney)
  • “I said it, I meant it, I am here to represent it” (Hank Moody)
  • “I don’t know anything about anything” (Charlie Runkle)
  • “My gut feeling is very important to me; mainly because I can’t rely on my brains” (Guy on TV)
  • “We are just humans” (Rafael van der Vaart on being famous)
  • “Hey, how are you?” “Well, could be better” (Two women in the supermarket)
  • “Everyone can be cynical; dare to be an optimist” (Hank Moody’s girlfriend)
  • “If your friend jumps of a cliff, would you do it too?!” “Sure, to save him!” (Two guys on TV)
  • “The world is too small to fulfil my ambitions” (A friend of mine)
  • “Can’t that guy just walk normal, like all of us” (A friend of mine on a guy in a wheelchair)