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Shayne Parkinson · 03-31-2013, 09:35 PM

Quotes from famous people about other famous people. One point for the person or said (or wrote) it, and one point for the person it was said (or written) about.

Some of these are a good deal harder than others. Clues will be forthcoming as necessary.

1. [Name] — the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

2. Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
- Napoleon on George Washington. Bookpossum, 2 points

3. We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin — a little fellow trying to do the best he could.
- Walt Disney on Charlie Chaplin. pdurrant, 2 points

4. Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain on Jane Austen. Poohbear, 2 points

5. It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

6. My Princess of Parallelograms
- Byron on Annabella Milbanke (his future wife). Fat Abe, 2 points

7. He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may.
- [Name] on Charles Dickens. Bookpossum, 1 point

8. Lady writer on the TV

9. The man who tunnelled into the very material of God
- Einstein on Rutherford. Kumabjorn, 1 point; Bilbo, 1 point

10. She is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous... in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her.
- Henry James on George Eliot. Poohbear, 2 points

Scores so far:
Poohbear 4 points
Bookpossum 3 points
Fat Abe, pdurrant 2 points
Bilbo, Kumabjorn 1 point

03-31-2013, 09:35 PM	#11432
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	Quotes from famous people about other famous people. One point for the person or said (or wrote) it, and one point for the person it was said (or written) about. Some of these are a good deal harder than others. Clues will be forthcoming as necessary. 1. [Name] — the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God. 2. Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. - Napoleon on George Washington. Bookpossum, 2 points 3. We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin — a little fellow trying to do the best he could. - Walt Disney on Charlie Chaplin. pdurrant, 2 points 4. Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. - Mark Twain on Jane Austen. Poohbear, 2 points 5. It is fun to be in the same decade with you. 6. My Princess of Parallelograms - Byron on Annabella Milbanke (his future wife). Fat Abe, 2 points 7. He had a large loving mind and the strongest sympathy with the poorer classes. He felt sure a better feeling, and much greater union of classes, would take place in time. And I pray earnestly it may. - [Name] on Charles Dickens. Bookpossum, 1 point 8. Lady writer on the TV 9. The man who tunnelled into the very material of God - Einstein on Rutherford. Kumabjorn, 1 point; Bilbo, 1 point 10. She is magnificently ugly — deliciously hideous... in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end as I ended, in falling in love with her. - Henry James on George Eliot. Poohbear, 2 points Scores so far: Poohbear 4 points Bookpossum 3 points Fat Abe, pdurrant 2 points Bilbo, Kumabjorn 1 point Last edited by Shayne Parkinson; 04-01-2013 at 03:07 PM.