Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

Glad to see an the great quotes here guys, keep it up.

[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Glad to see an the great quotes here guys, keep it up.

Nice to have you back to your ol' American Gothic, man with a pitchfork self

[astrangerhere]

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
-Flannery O'Conner in Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

[TenaciousBadger]

"Holding a grudge is like letting someone live rent free in your mind."

-anon. apparently, plucked from the ether

[orlok]

"Yield to temptation...it may not pass your way again!"
— Robert A. Heinlein

[astrangerhere]

It is true that I believe in fairy-tales— in the sense that I marvel so much at what does exist that I am the readier to admit what might.

-journalist and author GK Chesterton in Outline of Sanity

[BenG]

"Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?"
— Connie Willis, Bellwether

[TenaciousBadger]

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

–Emily Dickinson

[WT Sharpe]

.....In all my life, did I never meet with a being of a more placid and gentle nature, and it is this amiable turn of his character, that has given more consequence and force to his skepticism, than all the arguments of his sophistry.
..........— Laurence Sterne (1713 –1768), Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman. Said after disputing with Hume at dinner at the British embassy in Paris. As quoted in Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds and John Eidinow (2006, page 65).

[poohbear_nc]

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- Booker T. Washington

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

- Booker T. Washington

Excellent!

Related link. 100 Most beautiful words in the English language

I would have included melodious Actually English; late Middle English < Medieval Latin melōdiōsus

Say versus Bungalow from Hindi

[Angst]

I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan

[dreams]

"The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another -- it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time."

"Look, you: When you're twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five or even fifty-five, you can still feel good about your chances to take on the world. When you are sixty-five and your body is looking down the road at imminent physical ruin, these mysterious 'medical, surgical and therapeutic regimens and procedures' begin to sound interesting. Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age.

[....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with."

quoted from Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
I'm loving this book so far.

[TenaciousBadger]

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

---Jean Giono

@dreams: nice wry quotes!

[orlok]

Originally Posted by dreams

"The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another -- it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time."

"Look, you: When you're twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five or even fifty-five, you can still feel good about your chances to take on the world. When you are sixty-five and your body is looking down the road at imminent physical ruin, these mysterious 'medical, surgical and therapeutic regimens and procedures' begin to sound interesting. Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age.

[....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with."

quoted from Old Man's War by John Scalzi.
I'm loving this book so far.

Gee. Now I feel a whole lot better about my day...