Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[BenG]

Oscar Wilde: Do you mind if I smoke?
Sarah Bernhardt: I don't care if you burn!

(This has also been attributed to Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx, and Jackie Gleason/Art Carney. It's a good line, they probably all used it.)

[WT Sharpe]

.....Not every damned-fool notion has equal merit.
..........— John Wolfe, UU minister (Tulsa). Quoted in Stephen Wynn, "The Chalice Off-Center," World, The Journal of the Unitarian Universalist Association (November/December 1996).

[BenG]

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

--Sometimes attributed to Dr Seuss with no citation of the source

[orlok]

"Yesterday, I got so old" - Rob Smith (From In Between Days by The Cure)

[FlorenceArt]

"I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard."

John Cage (1912-1992), Musician.

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by orlok

"Yesterday, I got so old" - Rob Smith (From In Between Days by The Cure)

"And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
And I will never, ever, ever, ever
Grow so old again."

From "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison

[orlok]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

"And I will walk and talk
In gardens all wet with rain
And I will never, ever, ever, ever
Grow so old again."

From "Sweet Thing" by Van Morrison

Great song.

[BenG]

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
--physicist Lawrence Krauss

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by BenG

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
--physicist Lawrence Krauss

Ooooh. I love that quote.

"The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face."

AUTHOR: William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

[TenaciousBadger]

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[BenG]

...the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
--W.S Gilbert, The Mikado
(from KoKo's list of people we wouldn't miss)

[astrangerhere]

"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting." Aldous Huxley

[TenaciousBadger]

INVITATION

If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . .
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire,
For we have some flax golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!

--Shel Silverstein

[WT Sharpe]

.....A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
..........— Henry (Brooks) Adams (1838-1918), American historian. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), page 300.

[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
..........— Henry (Brooks) Adams (1838-1918), American historian. The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), page 300.

Perhaps he cannot, his students/disciples/learners, however, might be of a different opinion.