Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenG

Résumé

Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.


Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
First printed in New York World, (16 August 1925)

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by BenG

Résumé

Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.


Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
First printed in New York World, (16 August 1925)

Wonderful quote, Ben. I thought of posting that one myself. Dorothy Parker said many remarkably quotable things.

[WT Sharpe]

.....You don't retire in this business. You just notice the phone has not rung for 10 years.
..........— Warren Mitchell (1926 - ), British actor. In Guardian December 30, 2000. Quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd edition (1991), ed. Elizabeth Knowles.

[BenG]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Wonderful quote, Ben. I thought of posting that one myself. Dorothy Parker said many remarkably quotable things.

Have you seen the movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle? It's about Parker and the Algonquin Round Table with Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker.

[WT Sharpe]

No, but it sounds interesting. When did it come out?

[BenG]

Sometime in the early 90s.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....You don't retire in this business. You just notice the phone has not rung for 10 years.
..........— Warren Mitchell (1926 - ), British actor. In Guardian December 30, 2000. Quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd edition (1991), ed. Elizabeth Knowles.

[WT Sharpe]

.....What is dead in Karl Marx is his communist utopia of a classless and stateless society as well as his utopian and potentially dangerous idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat. . . .
.....What is not dead in Karl Marx is his critical insights into alienation and reification phenomena, ideology, the economic dimension of social classes, capitalism. There is no way to avoid recognizing that Marx was pretty successful in his critical but not in his constructivist approach, and that radical conclusions ought to be drawn from that. For instance, I do not buy his rejection of a market economy.
..........— Svetozar Stojanovic professor of philosophy and social theory (University of Belgrade & University of Kansas, Lawrence), author. "The Survival of Humanism Is the Basic Humanist Value: An Interview with Svetozar Stojanovic" by Paul Kurtz, Free Inquiry (Summer 1996).

[BenG]

From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
--Cornish prayer

[maianhvk]

(I know this is kind of off-topic)

Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

(Jenna, to her child, from the 2007 film The Waitress.)

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

(I know this is kind of off-topic)

Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

(Jenna, to her child, from the 2007 film The Waitress.)

Not at all off-topic. This is the quotations thread, and that's a nice one!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

(I know this is kind of off-topic)

Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.

(Jenna, to her child, from the 2007 film The Waitress.)

Shakespeare has probably contributed more quotes [at least for the English language] then any other author in history. So many that often he is quoted with out attribution or even ignorance of the source. Only the Bible can rival him as a source, and that had numerous anonymous authors. So I recently read the entire play Henry VI, and often it is worth quoting just for the beauty of the language. Though over the last 24 hours, at least here in Wisconsin north woods, summer and even spring is looking far off.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

And in a similar vein . . .

This is not really a quote, it's a song from the 1980 film Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (English translation taken from subtitles):

What's happening in the world?
It's just winter.
Just winter, you think?
I do I make my way as best I can.
Into your homes where you're all tucked in bed.
What will follow after this?
January.
January, you think?
Yes, I do.
I've been reading this little white book since I was young
This old-fashioned primer with pictures of snow and blizzards.
What'll be the outcome?
April will dawn.
April? You're sure?
Yes, I'm sure.
I definitely heard with my own ears
The sound of a reed pipe out in the meadow.
What's your conclusion?
We must go on living and make summer dresses from light cotton.
You think we'll get a chance to put them on?
Just make them that's what I say.
We must be prepared for no matter how strong the blizzards
Their bondage is bound to come to an end.

Dialog u novogodney yolki
("A dialogue by a New-Year tree")
Written by Sergei Nikitin and Yuri Levitansky

[Angst]

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

-- Carl Jung

[WT Sharpe]

.....Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
..........— Anthony Powell (1905 – 2000), English novelist. Temporary Kings (1973).