Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[issybird]

In the Senate, however, the Democrats were scathing in their attacks on Hoover, accusing him of "playing politics with human misery."

--A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, Jane Ziegelman

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

[bfisher]

This line has been sticking in my mind all morning:
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone"
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by bfisher

This line has been sticking in my mind all morning:
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone"
Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

It's Trumps Fault!

[kennyc]

Joni has some wonderful lines. I love her song about Beethoven - Judgment of the Moon and Stars! It's got some great lines and poetry in it!

"No tongue in the bell
and the fishwives yell
but they might as well be mute"

[bfisher]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Joni has some wonderful lines. I love her song about Beethoven - Judgment of the Moon and Stars! It's got some great lines and poetry in it!

"No tongue in the bell
and the fishwives yell
but they might as well be mute"

I haven't heard that one - must give it a listen.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Joni has some wonderful lines. I love her song about Beethoven - Judgment of the Moon and Stars! It's got some great lines and poetry in it!

"No tongue in the bell
and the fishwives yell
but they might as well be mute"

What does it mean?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by badgoodDeb

What does it mean?

Beethoven went deaf

[AlexBell]

'Not at all; I don't believe in the human soul. I never have. I believe that people are like portmanteaux -- packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle...'

Katherine Mansfield, in Je ne parle pas Français

[Larla]

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

[Nyssa]

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.”

― Henry Peter Brougham; quoted in Teachers, Schools, and Society: A Brief Introduction to Education

[covingtoncat73]

"How odd a custom!—a Night-bell at every door. Yes, of course!—a night-bell!—the Dead are Physicians of Souls: they may be summoned only by night,—"~Lafcadio Hearn, Chita:a memory of Last Island

[covingtoncat73]

"This is why magic is worse even than quantum physics. Because, while both spit in the eye of common sense, I’ve never yet had a Higgs bosun turn up and try to have a conversation with me." ~Ben Aaronovitch, Whispers Underground

[kennyc]

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

[covingtoncat73]

"Betrayed and wronged in everything,
I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,
And seek some spot unpeopled and apart
Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart." Molière (born this day, January 15, 1622), The Misanthrope

[covingtoncat73]

"But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. (My Lord) [laughter] (No, no) We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. (Sure enough) And so we’ve come to cash this check (Yes), a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom (Yes) and the security of justice. (Yes Lord) [enthusiastic applause]"

~Martin Luther King Jr., from the I Had a Dream Speech