Q2 Quotes Database
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Updates
3/5/2009 - Quotes removed
2 quotes have been removed from the database.
7/8/2007 - Internal optimisation
The codebase has been optimised to speed up site access, and to make scripted access to this site simpler.
13/7/2007 - Some irrelevant quotes removed
20-30 quotes that relate to programming and operating systems have been removed because they probably aren't relevant to most people.
6/7/2007 - Minor correction
A minor correction has been made to the quotes database.
29/6/2007 - Theme bug fixed
A minor bug in the One theme has been fixed.
21/6/2007 - 1000 new quotes
1000+ new quotes have been added to the Q2 Quotes Database.
18/6/2007 - 900 new quotes, tweaks to site
900+ new quotes have been added to the Q2 Quotes Database. The site design and backend have been tweaked too.
11/6/2007 - Search box added
A search box has been added to each page if you're using the Simple or Bash.org themes. If you're using the Original or Lo-Fi theme then there's a Search link at the top of each page. The search results page has had a new coat of paint too.
7/6/2007 - Theme bugfix
Another bug in the theme code has been fixed. That'll teach me to test fully ;). Everything should be just fine and dandy now!
5/6/2007 - New theme, theme bugfix
The default theme has been changed from Original to Simple'n Clean, but there was a bug in the theme code that sometimes showed the new theme only on the home page, and showing the old theme on the other pages. This has been fixed. Also, there is a fresh new theme called One! Just select "One" from the drop-down above to select the new theme.
30/5/2007 - Formatting error fixed
Spaces at the beginning and end of quotes have been removed. E.g. " blah, blah, blah " -> "blah, blah, blah". The quotes in the full text have been randomly sorted again too. Also, the random quotes generater will not add a newline to the ends of quotes anymore.
The Q2 database is a collection of over 11000 funny/proverbial quotes. More...
Here's some randomly chosen quotes from the collection:
“If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.” -- Pablo Picasso - when asked how he knew which paintings were his.
[Matt & Aaron wait in the food court for Nate to work at the fry place] Matt & Aaron: Nate, can you hook us up with some fries and drinks? Nate, fry man: You two again? Don't you guys have lives?
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. -- Thomas Wolfe
People usually get what's coming to them ... unless it's been mailed.
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like you passport photo.” -- Al Gore
All is fear in love and war.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
If you have to name it, you're not using it enough. -- Jeremy Garber
Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. -- Robin Williams
Cheese on Tuesdays... Every day is Cheese Day! -- Midge
“Oh man.... I can feel it coming.... oh no!... VIOLENT REGURGITATION!!” -- Kate (about Hanson's MMMBOP)
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker
Lauryn: So are we going to the zoo? Crystal: Yup probably. Lauryn: I heard they have cool animals there.
You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse! -- Calvin
Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. “Confound those who have said our remarks before us.” -- Aelius Donatus
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. -- Mark Twain
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone
“Sadeq, what are you doing in that dress?” -- Missy, after spotting Sadeq's sister, who looks alarmingly like Sadeq.
Your fortune stateth: Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- James Joseph Sylvester
When in doubt, do what the President does -- guess.
God favors no group. Only religions do that. -- Bumper Sticker
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. -- Anonymous
“I'm moral, but I'm not stupid.” -- my friend, Sarah Mulhern, when I commented that I couldn't believe she would take advantage of having accidentally seen questions for the upcoming test.
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