Quote of the Week
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Quote of the Lifetime
In spite of all the danger, there comes a time when the animal inside says “let me be free.” And you must roll the dice and throw yourself into the unknown and see what happens because that—that is truly living. - Dwain Weston
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
Here are a few of my favorites. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. -Leonardo da Vinci
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. -Edgar Allan Poe
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. -Will Rogers
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? -Doctor Who
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. -John F. Kennedy
Re: [SkiD_PL8] Quote of the Week
Allmost forgot one of the best ones... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Lifetime
Tom, if you don't mind, I'd like to quote Dwain from Bourbon Street before our jump: "Well mate, sometimes you've just got to put a bullet in the chamber, give it a spin, and pull the fuckin' trigga."
Re: [MarkM] Quote of the Week
Received this recently: Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting - "fcuk me what a ride!"
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
When I got to work today I found out one of my friends on the emergency response team here at work died in an accident yesterday. The other team member that told me, finished telling me about the accident and said "Well Matt, none of us are going to get out of here alive." I don't know if he made this quote up or if its just the first time I have heard it but I figured it would be a nice addition here.
Re: [pringles] Quote of the Week
sorry to hear about your co-worker..I believe that quote comes from the lizard king...Jim Morrison
Re: [Rambo] Quote of the Week
My favorite: "You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there."
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill - Gildor Inglorion of the House of Finrod
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
"You're getting it right from the horse's mouth."
Mr. Ed.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"As long as there is a lack of the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, no matter what external facilities or conditions you have, they will never give you the feeling of joy and happiness you are seeking." -Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Re: [Dougiefresh] Quote of the Week
Seven days without a BASE jump makes one weak. -Mark Hewitt (BASE 46)
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"BASE Jumping isn't worth dying for, but it is worth risking dying for" Anonymous Climber...
Re: [ZegeunerLeben] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
>>4 a day...just like vitamins!
-I can't remember
Why that would be T.M. -- the troll that lives under the potato bridge. One has to rise and shine awfully early to find him.
Rumor has it that other trolls are emerging from the woodworks and are beginning to join him in force.
Bryan
Re: [bps] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Rumor has it that other trolls are emerging from the woodworks and are beginning to join him in force.
Who you callin' a troll?
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"Yes, tonight I'm drunk but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly". Or, something like that. Think it was Winston Churchill.
// Percy
Re: [907] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
”Verden har mange mangler, der mangelen på nytenkning er den største”
Mikael Gorbatsjov
by the way it says:
the world has alot of loss,its the loss of thinking in new stuff that is the biggest loss.
Re: [Faber] Quote of the Week
We know you didn't tanslate that yourself cuz you spelled the whole thing correctly. Skijnflijcka
Re: [SwePercy] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
"Yes, tonight I'm drunk but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly".
Or, something like that. Think it was Winston Churchill.
// Percy
A great quote from churchill to Lady Astor...here is another one.....
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
An Aussie, BASE Chic. Has the, Balls equivalent of five American men.
The balls equivalent, Ray?
What exactly is the equivalent? Does this mean she can fit 5 men in her orifice? I Guess so. It kinda makes sense.
I have the tits equivalent of Brad Pitt.
Re: [434] Quote of the Week
.......and you wonder why we are single.... (said on top of a 220ft A at 11pm on a saturday night)
Re: [BASE813] Quote of the Week
What do BASE jumpers use for birth control? Ans: their personalities!
Re: [BASE813] Quote of the Week
what could posibly go wrong... said by BASE813,i know it sure has been said before,but at the time he said it were the perfect time
Re: [Faber] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
what could posibly go wrong...
Heh. That's my BASE motto... especially when I or someone else is about to try something new and/or scary.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
A couple of years ago at Bridge day ESPN came up to a group of us and asked for an interview. One jumper agreed. Then he said "oh wait is the camera on yet?" The espn ancor said "not yet why?" His reply was "let me finish this cigarette. My Mom doesn't know I smoke." How funny is that. Base jumping is acceptable but smoking isn't.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
So I'm in Moab with the Portland crew and we're in this coffee shop where Ray is waiting for his mocha to be finished. I walk over to a magazine rack and start reading an interesting article in Climbing. I'm about halfway through the article and Ray gets his mocha. He's really itching to do one more jump before the sun sets but I'm really interested in finishing the article since I don't want to buy the magazine.
Ray tells me, "Dude, put that down. You'll have plenty of time to read in the hospital."
Re: [DexterBase] Quote of the Week
Ray tells me, "Dude, put that down. You'll have plenty of time to read in the hospital."
Re: [eb66to77] Quote of the Week
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
Re: [volleyballguy73] Quote of the Week
The beginning of some BASE video I saw recently... as well as I can remember it: "Think of it this way: If you jump, you're probably gonna survive. It's just air, you'll fall right through it."
Re: [MB38] Quote of the Week
Cornered on the 64th floor by a police helicopter and flashlights coming up the stairs we thought all was lost. Then a booming amplified voice pointed the way for us. "Don't jump cause we'll catch ya!"
They caught none of us . . .
NickD
BASE 194
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
A couple from my buddy, Hawkeye 'If you're goin' in, look at the parking lot and smile! Some whuffo'll be takin' your picture....'
and,
'I may not be able to say I was Linda's first, but I know for damn sure I was her last!'
Re: [NickDG] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Cornered on the 64th floor by a police helicopter and flashlights coming up the stairs we thought all was lost. Then a booming amplified voice pointed the way for us.
"Don't jump cause we'll catch ya!"
They caught none of us . . .
NickD
BASE 194
Now there's a story I wish I could hear.
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Lifetime
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; rather, it is because we dare that they are not difficult." - Jan Davis
Re: [Faber] Quote of the Week
I thing this one is close to an answer; |
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On a long enough timeline everyone’s survival rate drops to zero – Fight Club
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Re: [bps] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
>>4 a day...just like vitamins!
"HEY. These cookies don't taste anything like Girl Scouts!"
Re: [tfelber] Quote of the Week
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. Thomas E. Lawrence
"It is better to live one day as a tiger, than one thousand years as a sheep".
Old tibetan proverb, repeated by Alison Hargreves just before her fatal attempt to become the first woman to solo K2.
Greeny
Re: [greeny] Quote of the Week
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton
Greeny
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
Ok, here's one of my favorite pieces of Seussian Wisdom (Yes the late Dr. Seuss!)
~From the Troubles I Had In Getting To Solla Sellew
>Then I started back home
To the Valley of Vung.
I know I'll have troubles.
I'll maybe, get stung.
I'll always have troubles.
I'll, maybe get bit
By the green-headed quail
On the place where I sit.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready, you see.
Now my troubles are going
To have troubles with me!
~J
Quote of the Week
One of my favorites! "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back." - Marcus Aurelius
Re: [NeilQ] Quote of the Week
I do not know the author, but the way I heard the above misquoted quote was as the following: " Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intentions of arriving in a well preserved and attractive body, but RATHER to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand, strawberries in the other . . . body thoroughly used up, totally worn-out and screaming . . . 'Wooohoooo! What a ride!!!' "
tryin' to live up to it . . .
wdc
Re: [DrThrill] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Re: [NeilQ] Quote of the Week
Man, it's weird how these revivals of year old threads can make you think.
edit to add: Blue Skies, Neil.
Re: [DrThrill] Quote of the Week
WHOA! You know, today I was sorting out my "mess draw" trying to find my tax return, and came across the card given out at his funeral that quoted that statement, It was weird when one moment rushing to find my tax return to send off to my accountant, and then suddenly coming across that - I took a step back when I found it........but then I also remembered the quote about death and taxes.....
surreal
Re: [DrThrill] Quote of the Week
"Its the magic of risking everything for a dream nobody sees but you" - Morgan Freeman was reading this forum and watching "Million Dollar Baby" and this line just stood out. Thought I'd share
Re: [321seeya] Quote of the Week
This is an old one, but I know Dennis M. nailed it when he said, "Risking it all, for nothing . . ." NickD
BASE 194
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"Its All About the love, isn't DJ?, Its all about the love" psilly Nic at exit point, 2001
"I've got big balls" - nic
"you moss tosser, you soft cock just jump mate" - Dwain
"don't throw up on my rig" - ray durring fjc
blue sky, C'ya
Re: [NickDG] Quote of the Week
Here's a couple: "Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life"
-Charles Darwin
"A good scare is worth more than good advice"
-Bantu Proverb
Re: [rpersi] Quote of the Week
You only call me insane, because you do not hear the music,
To which I dance. [Old]
Greeny
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
All are from Mohandas Ghandi. I like the first one the most.
Re: [elias123] Quote of the Week
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Re: [dploi] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Think less. Jump more.
"Do I repeat myself, very well, then I repeat myself." Walt Whitman.
Re: [freeflynick] Quote of the Week
Oral sex makes your whole day Anal sex makes your hole weak
In the long run, we are all dead
It's better to lose a minute in life, then life in a minute (the non-base jumper version)
Ronald Overdijk
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
It seems that the pursuit is more essential than the goal. The relentless drive of humankind to seek out the novel, to explore the limits of mind, muscles, and senses, to take great risks in spite of fear, to release the animal brain from the constraints of the social brain, may be the source of both his creativeness and his destructiveness. Perhaps he painted his caves for ritualistic or magical functions, but maybe he also wanted something to look at besides the dull cave walls. (M. Zuckerman, 1974:80)
Re: [wilmshurst] Quote of the Week
Do not follow, because I may not lead. Do not lead, because I may not follow.
Do not walk beside me...........
.......... In fact just FuKc off and leave me, alone!
Greeny
Re: [volleyballguy73] Quote of the Week
I can't believe this thread got dragged up. OK how but this one While standing on the edge of a Cliff. A few of us were getting ready to Exit.
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" Your standing on your Bridal. IDIOT. "
- Slim
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Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
at the top of eagles nest at midnight in June 2000 when Lasse (excuse my misspelling)said..."this is dangerous"
Re: [Faber] Quote of the Week
As the tides of life come upon you And the waves upset your boat
Don't waste your tears on what might have been...
Just lay on your back and float!
~Ed Norton : From the "The Honeymooners"
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"Ever seen one of these?"
"Yeah?"
"Okay...well, ever seen one do THIS!?"
Re: [airtwardo] Quote of the Week
"never follow" -audi moto.
"bail out rigs are like condoms, you only need one when you are messing around"
-aerobatic pilots
"I want my mom"
-anonymous, at Exit of our first big wall N.P. jump.
Re: [cornishe] Quote of the Week
" Your standing on your Bridal. IDIOT. " - Slim
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That visual is just way to funny.
i'm in class and i almost got kicked out cause i'm laughing. i hate college.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
“If you have time to panic, you have time to be doing something productive” - Josh Whipple
Re: [321seeya] Quote of the Week
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "...holy shit...what a ride!"
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." -- Henry David Thoreau "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours." --Henry David Thoreau
Stay safe and stay inspired.
Re: [pringles] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
When I got to work today I found out one of my friends on the emergency response team here at work died in an accident yesterday. The other team member that told me, finished telling me about the accident and said "Well Matt, none of us are going to get out of here alive." I don't know if he made this quote up or if its just the first time I have heard it but I figured it would be a nice addition here.
"No one can live your life except you, No one can live my life except me. You are responsible, I am responsible. But what is our life? What is our death?
We usually think of our life as fifty, sixty years, maybe the most around one hundred years. I once read that there are about thirty three hundred people who are more than one hundred years olf, the oldest being 112 years. (What are people doing living such long lives?). Dogen Zenji said that living a long life without awareness is almost a crime. On the contrary, he emphasized that that even if you live one day with a clear understanding of what life is , the value of that one day is equal to many, many years of living without awareness"
- Taizan Maezumi
Re: [TomDancs] Quote of the Week
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
all mimsy were the borogoves
and the mome raths outgrabe.
(first verse of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll)
Re: [Martini] Quote of the Week
That seems like the wording of "A Clockwork Orange," the book. Here's a quote I liked from some guy named Chris Stokely:
"Money is like oxygen - without enough you die, and beyond a certain point it doesn't really add that much more to your quality of life."
And one from Steve Morrell:
"Put on your gear and die like a man!"
Now we are mixed company, the following saying is weakened:
"Put on your gear and die like a ... person!"
Re: [NickDG] Quote of the Week
> "Don't jump cause we'll catch ya!" - They caught none of us . . . You know you are one of my heroes, Nick, don't you?
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
I balanced all, brought all to mind The years to come seem a waste of breath
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death
W.B. Yates
Quotes to Live by
You could get hit by a bus tomorrow, how pissed off will you be if you haven't done anything at least remotely cool in the last 24 hours?
Re: [plummy] Quotes to Live by
BASE is a spiritual experience: on every edge I realize I'm only seconds from the possibility of meeting my Maker. I never got that in church! "Goddess, if it be Thy will, keep me safe on this jump; and if that's NOT your will, well, I'll see you soon! 3-2-1-c'ya!"
Peace,
Karen
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
this is a text i sent to heather, a pilot freind of mine on a night when our entire group of pilots, jumpers, and aircraft were assembled at the same airport. "Heather, we have an 8 place Jump plane, An aerobatic chase plane, A helicopter, 2 Ultralights, 4 Wingsuits, 5 Skydiving rigs, 4 Base rigs, 12 cameras, an abandond airport and the rest of this beautiful full moon night. What would you like to do?"
Heather was just learning to Skydive, previously she had been our designated jump pilot, (it sucks she and scoot started jumping, now we have to alternate
) needless to say, we had a great night. On one load, All craft and rigs were airborn individualy at the same time (except the ultralights)
I really wish CCDs could work better in low light.
Re: [Calvin19] Quote of the Week
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution,
to give me the needed, professional help
to protect me from the enemy
myself
~Mike Muir
Re: [cornishe] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
I am still old, broke, in debt, homeless, unemployed and crippled but my chutes are packed and my reserve is in date so I figure that I am way ahead of the game.
Bob Sinclair.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
The following (*found on the swooping and canopy control forum as somebody's signature) almost made me piss in my pants... a winter poem:
It's fucking cold!
the end.
J.
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Lifetime
"Here's to lying, cheating, stealing and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to cheat, cheat death. If you're going to steal, steal a heart. If you're going to drink, drink with me."
Re: [volleyballguy73] Quote of the Lifetime
In reply to:
"Here's to lying, cheating, stealing and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to cheat, cheat death. If you're going to steal, steal a heart. If you're going to drink, drink with me."
it looks like someonelse got suckered into 'Hitch'
Re: [nicrussell] Quote of the Lifetime
That's not from Hitch. My ex-wife heard it on Bachelor a couple seasons ago and it stuck in my head.
Re: [cornishe] Quote of the Week
A very short extract from one of Ginsberg's works applies to us all, I reckon: "...angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo..."
Re: [grue] Quote of the Week
tequila, liquid geometry of passion; tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair
with the ascending souls of dying virgins;
tequila, firebug in the house of good taste;
O tequila, savage water of sorcery,
what confusion and mischief your sly,
rebellious drops do generate!
- Tom Robbins
Re: [460] Quote of the Week
"i read somewhere that symmetry dosent matter" ...-hecker, while packing
Re: [avenfoto] Quote of the Week
while packing a newbies BASE rig, look confused at one point in the packjob and say "was that always, or never?!!" as you're folding. or on a reserve packjob.
Re: [460] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
while packing a newbies BASE rig, look confused at one point in the packjob and say "was that always, or never?!!" as you're folding.
I've got a friend who likes to use "oh, well, it's just a bridge..." for this.
I've also heard him use "oh, well, it's just a building..."
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
I've got a friend who likes to use "oh, well, it's just a bridge..." for this.
I've also heard him use "oh, well, it's just a building..."
"Good enough" is industry standard
bsbd!
Yuri.
Re: [outrager] Quote of the Week
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Chocolate in one hand - martini in the other,
body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming WOO HOO - What a Ride!"
-Michelle
Re: [] Quote of the Week
"If you don't have diarrhea in your pants at least three times a week, you gotta hang out with me more often." - Abbie Check the biggest collection of BASE nuggets on the wiki.
Re: [avenfoto] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
"i read somewhere that symmetry dosent matter" ...-hecker, while packing
...haha... yeah, actualy the full quote was "I read somewhere on dropzone.com..."
that was a good day...
Re: [yexotay] Quote of the Week
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'Wow! What a Ride!'"- Hunter S. Thompson -Comitted suicide
I hate misquotes.
* <below>Source: Rolling Stone, June 1994
Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.
Re: [eb66to77] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Why bother with newspapers, if this is all they offer? Agnew was right. The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits - a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.
damn you.
Re: [GeordieSkydiver] Quote of the Week
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I am still old, broke, in debt, homeless, unemployed and crippled but my chutes are packed and my reserve is in date so I figure that I am way ahead of the game.
Bob Sinclair.
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Where did you find a quote from Bob Sinclair? I knew Bob back in the 60's when he was the "highest paid skydiver in the world". I remember getting his and Jim Arender's (D-17) autograph in my log book one night at the Rumbleseat in Elsinore. Is he still kicking around?
Re: [MikePelkey] Quote of the Week
Bob still around... There are threads about him in the history and trivia forum....
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
Promote the sport through education and professionalism, not self-promotion. Do not attempt to glorify yourself at the expense of the sport's image or the accessibility to an object. Adam Filipino, September 15, 1999, Ethics in a Self-Regulating Group
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Week
Do You Feel Lucky, well do ya Punk......Dirty Harry Dyin ain't much of a livin boy!........Outlaw Josey Whales
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"If yer scared......go to church!" One towerhand to the Greenhorn at about the 800' level in 70+mph winds.
Re: [JohnDoe] Quote of the Week
"Well, I'm glad I did it, but don't ever invite me again." -base516
aka
BASERIGGER
Re: [TomAiello] Quote of the Week
Here's a few: "Go Fast. Take Chances."
--Mike S.
"Ride It Like You Stole It!"
--unknown
"To Alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!"
--Homer Simpson
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
--Mario Andretti
"Live and learn, or die and teach by example!"
--The Monkey
And finally, one I saw in someone's .sig on this forum (so sorry if the attribution is wrong):
"It should be fine...I think I'll be able to see the wall before I hit it."
--SBCMac
Re: [jaitken] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Interestingly enough, Jesus rejected the temptation to BASE jump. Therefore, BASE jumpers are Satan's followers.
Re: [jaitken] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
"Go Fast. Take Chances."
--Mike S.
a DZO i know has been saying "drive fast. take chances." for years. i now use that as I close up my bar to all the drunk people stumbling out (i do my job well in that respect.)
Re: [nicrussell] Quote of the Week
Not BASE related.....but a good observation on life....
In reply to:
i was just thinking about those Islamic-extremist terrorists....
..if their religion would just allow them to have bacon or sausage & a few beers every once in awhile, don't you think it would make them a lot less likely to wanna blow themselves up all the time? like maybe life would be more worth living??
hmmm....something to think about.....
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"If you treat someone like a slave, pritty soon they are gonna f**k your daughter" John Doyle to my boss when the boss told
him what he would be earning if he took the job.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"I may not be the best skier on the mountain, but i'm not the smartest either." - Damon Gold skiing extreme 5
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
My wife made me join a bridge club. I'm jumping off next Tuesday! -- Rodney Dangerfield.
Re: [460] Quote of the Week
"This landing in do or die! I do you die!" By Japp last weekend in ref. to a jump we were looking at... :)
Re: [TomDancs] Quote of the Week
"This landing is do or die! I do, you die!" ...you mean. Thanks for stopping by Tom, next time I'll drink less, jump more!
Re: [JaapSuter] Quote of the Week
Jaap,
In reply to:
next time I'll drink less, jump more!
Best of luck ;-) It's bad if the other Vancouver starts losing his sense of priorities...
-=Raistlin
Re: [SkyDaemon] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
Best of luck ;-) It's bad if the other Vancouver starts losing his sense of priorities...
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, that's a totally serious ROFLOL. Granted, I'm totally fucking hammered right now. But that's just fucking funny coming from the guy with the biggest liquor collection this side of the ocean. You're a goddamn Russian, Raistlin and I love you for it. Stay alive, cya soon!
Re: [JaapSuter] Quote of the Week
"His nickname is Rickochet, I dont wanna be near that shit" Someone said that when Rick started climbing an A to get away from mosquitoes.
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
Me to a yahoo at i exitpoint (actually heard a version of it in Norway years ago): He: Well, have a good one!
Me: Well, I hope you get a lineover and die!
He: What?!
Me: I mean how likely is it that two guy’s will have a lineover and die at the same jump? So are you going or not?
I did apologize afterwards, but the facial expression was priceless …
PerFlare
Re: [PerFlare] Quote of the Week
Seen on a picture in SDC of Carl Boenish jumping El Cap with a personal note to Roger Nelson: Roger,
Happy are those
who dream dreams
And are willing to pay the price
to see them come true
Carl Boenish
‘78
Re: [cornishe] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
"Dude, don't piss there! I might have to PLF."
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HAHAHA nice one!
So....
I'll never forget when I heard this one:
"I love farting and shitting. It's almost as fun as fucking and eating!" ---my boyfriend Nick (the brilliant linguist)
Re: [Mikki_ZH] Quote of the Week
"Dream as you would live forever - live as you would die tomorrow" (James Dean) ...hope the translation from German to English works,
Bernhard
Re: [freedom1] Quote of the Week
On a first jump at the Perrine....."dont worry, Whats the worst that could happen?"
Re: [grasshopper] Quote of the Week
On yet another first jump at the perrine: "If you die it'll all be Brett's fault..."
Re: [eb66to77] Quote of the Week
the bleeding ass would belong to Bruce kramer. and it wasn't bleeding from his landing. he has large and I do mean large Hemmroids. have a go way low day
Re: [cornishe] Quote of the Week
IF U WANT TO RUN WITH THE BIG DOG'S SOMETIMES U HAVE TO EAT DOG SHIT!!!!! Thats an origanal for me
Re: [magot] Quote of the Week
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that... it's called 'everybody' and they meet at the bar." -Drew Carey
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
The choice to censure & mold all discussion into an individuals personal acceptable format & taste is not a growing and expanding BASE website it is a Comic Book that has a Dictator over the buttons -ray losli but u will never know why we do what we do.becase u are the tosser of my salad. -magot
Re: [avenfoto] Quote of the Week
I like If u don't BASE jump then why are u posting on the BASE zone.
Re: [psychokiwi_base] Quote of the Week
And there is that Belgian jumper Kristof who jumped his brandnew Dainese body armor from the ITW and crashlanded on the the very steep slope between the rocks and boulders (in fact, it looked more like a cliffstrike than a landing). He walked away unharmed and said : “Waw ! With this suit you can land everywhere !”
Re: [magot] Quote of the Week
“You can blow your launch, you can flail like your at an ethic funeral, you can even cover your eyes and scream like a baby, but I’ve got your bag, man, and everything’s gonna be cool.” -nickdg
Re: [avenfoto] Quote of the Week
“We were allowed to destroy cars because they told us that they were used as suicide bombs. It was cool, but we didn’t like the fact that they were driving nicer cars than us, so we’d blow them up. It was a lot of fun.” ~soldier in war
Re: [magot] Quote of the Week
Heard in the twin lately: ‘sometimes basejumping is about eating ice-cream’ – some of Tom A’s philosophy on base
‘that was a well executed water-fucking-landing’ – part of Tom D’s soliloquy to his camcorder after landing in the Snake river
‘it only feels like it’s never going to open for about a second or so’ – to a FJC student about to do his 1st slider up jump from the Perrine
‘I would’ve kissed the ground if I hadn’t puked all over it.’ – same FJC student after the slider up jump (on which he had a pretty scary PC hesitation)
Re: [ScottyInAus] Quote of the Week
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do"
- Mark Twain
Re: [grundleson] Quote of the Week
If your gonna jump off that why wear the rig? It's only gonna make you heavier when you hit. (my dad)
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
People had been working for so many years to make the world a safe, organized place. Nobody realized how boring it would become. With the whole world property-lined and speed-limited and zoned and taxed and regulated, with everyone tested and registered and addressed and recorded. Nobody had left much room for adventure, except maybe the kind you could buy. On a roller coaster. At a movie. Still, it would always be that kind of faux excitement. You know the dinosaurs aren't going to eat the kids. The test audiences have outvoted any chance of even a major faux disaster. And because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Innovation. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace.
Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
From Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Re: [gweeks] Quote of the Week
In reply to:
. . . Number 100 is walking around among us right now. Please, if you see this person, pull them aside and tell them to slow down . . .
NickD
BASE 194
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"One of my goals, has always been to pick-up a hitch-hiker". (Quote from random basejumper I happened to be in a car with.)
Quote of the Week
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities." Albert Einstein
Re: [RayLosli] Quote of the Week
"I have a bad feeling about this." -Han Solo
"Here's to the girls we love. Here's to the girls that love us, but the girls we love, don't love us, so fcuk the girls, here's to us!"
-unknown
Re: [gauleyguide] Quote of the Week
"Why are they all touching their heads?"- Emily Hecker (my lil sister, watching me and the boys practice touching their PCs and BASE jump at the 05 GoFast games)