Quotation Marks
Motivational, inspirational, insightful, thoughtful, neat, interesting, or just damn funny - anything goes here as long as it's a quote or discussion based around one.
I may occasionally cherry-pick/borrow/steal/ quotes I stumble upon from other sources on the web if they seem notable. But I'll also do my best to post totally original quotes I randomly come across. Either way, a good quote ought to be shared, no matter who's found it or where it's come from!!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Warren Buffett
"It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked." - Warren Buffett
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
This selection was stolen from a scene in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998) in which the aforementioned quote is found scribbled in a school library book.
Great movie. And a great quote.
This selection was stolen from a scene in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998) in which the aforementioned quote is found scribbled in a school library book.
Great movie. And a great quote.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Arnold Toynbee
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor" - Arnold Toynbee
Monday, November 23, 2009
The Limits of Control (2009), film
"Sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected" - Mexican, Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control (2009)
Jump below to see a trailer for the film. And don't forget to watch it in HD!
Jump below to see a trailer for the film. And don't forget to watch it in HD!
Pablo Picasso
"If there were only one truth you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme" - Pablo Picasso
Monday, November 16, 2009
Barry Goldwater
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Barry Goldwater
Sunday, November 15, 2009
George Eliot
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." - George Eliot
Sir Francis Bacon
"As for the possibility, they are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea" - Sir Francis Bacon
Victor Hugo
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." - Victor Hugo
Niels Bohr
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr
Tennessee Williams
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really." - Tennessee Williams (American Playwright)
E. M. Forster
"Let yourself go. Pull out from the depth those thoughts that you do not understand and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them." - E. M. Forster (English Novelist)
John Andrew Holmes
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both." - John Andrew Holmes
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Charles Baudelaire, poetry
Excerpt of Charles Baudelaire's poem, "Be Drunken"
'It is the hour to be drunken
Be drunken if you would not be the
martyred slaves of Time.
Be drunken Continually, with wine, with
poetry or with virtue, as you please.'
- Charles Baudelaire (French Poet), "Be Drunken"
Complete poem, after the Jump:
'It is the hour to be drunken
Be drunken if you would not be the
martyred slaves of Time.
Be drunken Continually, with wine, with
poetry or with virtue, as you please.'
- Charles Baudelaire (French Poet), "Be Drunken"
Complete poem, after the Jump:
Umberto Eco
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Pär Lagerkvist
"One for whom the pebble has value must be surrounded by treasures wherever he goes." - Pär Lagerkvist
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Peter De Vries
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." - Peter De Vries
Hubert H. Humphrey
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." - Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert Pirsig
"There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good." - Robert Pirsig
Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), television
"I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!
But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!"
- Brother Cavil, Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!"
- Brother Cavil, Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Mark Twain
"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." - Mark Twain
Friday, October 30, 2009
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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