Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Mobileread is the best web site on the Internet .....

Said by Geoff and agreed to by all!

An article in Smithsonian Magazine jogged my memory about this:

This is from the film Contempt ( Le mépris) by Jean-Luc Godard.

Jerry Prokosch (played by actor Jack Palance): "Whenever I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook."

This was obviously inspired by a line from a play by Nazi Hanns Johst:

"When I hear the word culture..., I release the safety on my Browning!"

Returning to the film Contempt:

Paul Javal (played by Micheal Piccoli): I'll tell you the story of Ramakrishna and his disciple. Ramakrishna was a Hindu wise man. And he had a disciple who had absolutely no faith in his teachings. So the disciple went off all by himself. Fifteen years later, he came back and said, "I have found the Way!" He told Ramakrishna, "Come, and I will show you." Then he took Ramakrishna to a river. And the disciple went back and forth across the river, walking on water. "See?" he told Ramakrishna. "I can cross the river without getting wet! I have found the Way!" Then Ramakrishna said to him, "You're a complete ass. With one rupee and a boat, I've been doing the same thing for years!"

[BenG]

I asked Barbi [Benton] out the first night we met.
“But I’ve never been out with anyone over twenty-four,” she said.
“That’s okay,” I replied. “Neither have I.”

— Hugh Hefner, Hef's Little Black Book

[WT Sharpe]

JUDGE: You are extremely offensive, young man.
SMITH: As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it.
..........— F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead (1872 – 1930), British lawyer and Conservative politician. Quoted in F.E.: The Life of F.E. Smith First Earl of Birkenhead (1933) by Frederick Second Earl of Birkenhead (1959 edition), Chapter 9.

[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

JUDGE: You are extremely offensive, young man.
SMITH: As a matter of fact, we both are, and the only difference between us is that I am trying to be, and you can't help it.
..........— F.E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead (1872 – 1930), British lawyer and Conservative politician. Quoted in F.E.: The Life of F.E. Smith First Earl of Birkenhead (1933) by Frederick Second Earl of Birkenhead (1959 edition), Chapter 9.

[WT Sharpe]

.....There is no constructive solution to the world's problems except eventually a world government capable of establishing law over the entire surface of the earth.
..........— Harold Clayton Urey (1893 - 1981), American physical chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 1950).

[GeoffC]

So true - and even then there's no guarantee .

[gmw]

But would that be a solution, or just turning all the little country sized problems into a single planet sized problem?

[FlorenceArt]

We'd just have a thousand civil wars or independence wars instead of a thousand wars between countries.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

We'd just have a thousand civil wars or independence wars instead of a thousand wars between countries.

Go back to one champion versus another champion ....

[WT Sharpe]

.....A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
..........— Adlai Stevenson (1900 – 1965), American politician, Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. From a speech delivered in Detroit, October 7, 1952.

[WT Sharpe]

.....An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having; and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
..........— Mark Van Doren (1894 - 1973), American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, writer, critic, scholar and professor of English. Man's Right to Knowledge (1954).

[TenaciousBadger]

In connection to the above quote, one from Victor Hugo:

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

... whether it's been examined or not, I would add.

[TenaciousBadger]

In connection to the abysmal Tuesday weather I'm having:

It rained and rained and rained
The average fall was well maintained
And when the tracks were simple bogs,
it started raining cats & dogs

After a drought of half an hour
We had a most refreshing shower,
And then most curious thing of all,
A gentle rain began to fall!

Next day but one was fairly dry
Save for one deluge from the sky
Which wetted the party to the skin
And then, at last, the rain set in.

--apparently anonymous

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by TenaciousBadger

In connection to the abysmal Tuesday weather I'm having:



--apparently anonymous