Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
……....— Thomas Beecham (1879-1961), British conductor.

[James_Wilde]

I like the quote that someone in here has as a signature. Something like:

Albert Einstein: Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe.

[kennyc]

That is a great one James!

[BenG]

"There are 6 admonishments in the Bible concerning homosexual activity and our enemies are always throwing them up to us usually in a vicious way and very much out of context. What they don't want us to remember is that there are 362 admonishments in the Bible concerning heterosexual activity. I don't mean to imply by this that God doesn't love straight people, only that they seem to require a great deal more supervision."

from Butch Fatale, Lynn Lavner

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by BenG

"There are 6 admonishments in the Bible concerning homosexual activity and our enemies are always throwing them up to us usually in a vicious way and very much out of context. What they don't want us to remember is that there are 362 admonishments in the Bible concerning heterosexual activity. I don't mean to imply by this that God doesn't love straight people, only that they seem to require a great deal more supervision."

from Butch Fatale, Lynn Lavner

Great quote! Consider it stolen!

[WT Sharpe]

.....Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
..........— Clive Bell (1881-1964), English art critic. Civilization: An Essay (1928—there were 22 editions published between 1928 and 1970 in English and Polish).

[Falcao]

"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."
-- Alexander H. Stephens, The Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

“You must keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
Attributed to NASA engineer James Oberg amongst others (including Oppenheimer)

[kennyc]

Good one Am!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

"comment is free, but facts are sacred"
Charles Prestwich Scott (26 October 1846 – 1 January 1932) British journalist, publisher and politician; and editor then owner of the Manchester Guardian newspaper (now The Guardian)

[BenG]

Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again.
So take a deep breath;
Pick yourself up;
Dust yourself off;
Start all over again.

- Ginger Rogers to Fred Astaire in "Swingtime".

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by BenG

Will you remember the famous men
Who had to fall to rise again.
So take a deep breath;
Pick yourself up;
Dust yourself off;
Start all over again.

- Ginger Rogers to Fred Astaire in "Swingtime".

Here's a slightly longer version:



Surprisingly, Mr. Astaire somehow managed to learn a few steps before the film ended:

[Gwen Morse]

One of my favorite authors (is it possible to have only one "favorite"?), Sharon Shinn:

"When you are told what to wear, what to eat, what to think, what to do on a daily basis - when there is no leeway at any juncture of any day for a person to make an individual decision - is that harder, I wonder, than to make those decisions every day, a hundred times a day, going by your own morality and your own judgment and balancing your desires against your sense of justice?" _Wrapt in Crystal_

Anyone who has camped, REALLY camped, will recognize the sentiment behind this one of Ms Shinn's:

"If she had to pick one pleasure from the canon of human sensuality, it would be the act of getting herself completely, luxuriously clean. She would forgo food, she would forgo love, she would forgo the feeling of silk against her bare skin, all for the satisfying satin of shampoo rinsing away past her fingers." _Heart of Gold_

[BenG]

[WT Sharpe]

.....Woman was God’s second mistake.
..........— Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher. The Antichrist (1888), Aphorism 48.