Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[AlexBell]

'To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for [political] affairs; and a man, living for truth, and in a spirit of love, "pure in the last recesses of the mind," who should propose to seek truth through political action, and exercise love in the use of political influence, and refine his purity by disinfecting the political atmosphere of its corruptions, would hear it reported on every hand that he had a demon.'

Harriet Martineau, in Society in America, 1837

[covingtoncat73]

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Great quote about love

But sometimes it is not so cerebral:

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

[AlexBell]

'A publican in New England gave me the history of an editor of a newspaper, who began his professional course by making an avowed distinction between telling lies in conversation and in a newspaper, where every body looks for them.'

Harriet Martineau, Society in America, 1837

[poohbear_nc]

"For me poetry is the use of language to communicate more than the words seem to say, in a way that involves the reader or listener so that when the words have been read or heard, the reader or listener feels like a co-creator of that passage."

Definition of poetry, Miller Williams (A&E Interview)

[BenG]

“Each piece of the set was on a winch and pulley, bag-dropped, counterbalanced by nests of fifty-pound bags of sand. The setup was called a "Fairbanks," for the reason that when a stagehand so wanted, he could stand upon a knot on the rope, untie as few or as many bags of sand as he wanted, and ride nearly to the rafters like Zorro as the scenery lowered.

There was no particular reason to ride that way, but because Carter allowed it, the team of men did so all night long, trading places at the top, jumping onto the ropes and riding back down later. With the mighty Egyptian set descending in its many pieces, the audience was deprived of a behind-the-scenes tableau of beauty: Carter's team swiftly riding ropes up to the catwalk and down to the stage again, simply because they could.”

― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

[covingtoncat73]

Originally Posted by BenG

― Glen David Gold, Carter Beats the Devil

I loved that book!

[doubleshuffle]

"I saw the two padded figures take their first steps in that airless world, bouncing like toys over the landscape, driving a golf cart through the dust, planting a flag in the eye of what had once been the goddess of love and lunacy. Radiant Diana, I thought, image of all that is dark within us. Then the president spoke. In a solemn, deadpan voice, he declared this to be the greatest event since the creation of man. The old-timers at the bar laughed when they heard this, and I believe I managed to crack a smile or two myself. But for all the absurdity of that remark, there was one thing no one could challenge: since the day he was expelled from Paradise, Adam had never been this far from home."

Paul Auster, Moon Palace

[covingtoncat73]

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

[GlennD]

"If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it."
-'Weird Al' Yankovic

[BenG]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I loved that book!

It's available as an ebook now.

[BenG]

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired...

― Jonathan Swift, Letter to a Young Clergyman (January 9, 1720)

[covingtoncat73]

"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man." -Martin Heidegger

[covingtoncat73]

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." ~Harper Lee (R.I.P.)

[covingtoncat73]

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird