Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.

From John Betjeman's Slough

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Outta my head now! I've had that running through my head for the past few days!

That poem was running through your head for days before I posted it? That's spooky!

Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something!

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

And whilst I'm on Betjeman, from his Dilton Marsh Halt;

And when all the horrible roads are finally done for,
And there's no more petrol left in the world to burn,
Here to the Halt from Salisbury and from Bristol
Steam trains will return.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Before I posted it? That's spooky! Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something!

Before you posted it - it lodged itself when I was in the kitchen at about 1:30 am earlier in the week... No idea what the universe might be trying to tell me

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

And whilst I'm on Betjeman, from his Dilton Marsh Halt;

And when all the horrible roads are finally done for,
And there's no more petrol left in the world to burn,
Here to the Halt from Salisbury and from Bristol
Steam trains will return.

And maybe...
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[WT Sharpe]

.....All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
..........— Louis [Daniel] Armstrong [AKA "Satchmo"] (1901-1971), American jazz trumpeter and singer. Quoted in New York Times July 7, 1971.

[FlorenceArt]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
..........— Louis [Daniel] Armstrong [AKA "Satchmo"] (1901-1971), American jazz trumpeter and singer. Quoted in New York Times July 7, 1971.

But what about birds?

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

That poem was running through your head for days before I posted it? That's spooky!

Maybe the universe is trying to tell you something!

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Before you posted it - it lodged itself when I was in the kitchen at about 1:30 am earlier in the week... No idea what the universe might be trying to tell me

TWINS!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

But what about birds?

...and whales?

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

...and whales?

Yes, so right. Wales - they have many a fine voice in the valleys ....


wait ... what !




oh !



wHales .....

[Jcas]

Hell hath no fury like that of a woman's corn.

Taken from Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey.

[Falcao]

Nothing to see here, please move on.

[WT Sharpe]

.....And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
..........— John Milton (1608-1674), English poet. Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (London: Cambridge University Press, 1907).

.....A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his Pastor says so, or the Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
..........— Ibid.

[yakuzaboss]

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by yakuzaboss

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Musta been an optomist.