Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

-- William Faulkner

I think he's confusing the aim of artists with the aim of occult practitioners who cast spells on paintings in haunted houses! THE PAINTING IS ALIVE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I think he's confusing the aim of artists with the aim of occult practitioners who cast spells on paintings in haunted houses! THE PAINTING IS ALIVE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Well maybe, he is the master of Southern Gothic....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Well maybe, he is the master of Southern Gothic....

[alyxie]

Some prices are just too high, no matter how you may want the prize, the one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

[kennyc]

Wonderful quote Alyxie! Thanks!

[WT Sharpe]

Seconded. Thanks, alyxie!

[WT Sharpe]

.....The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
..........— Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German-American political philosopher. Quoted in The New Yorker, 12 September 1970.

[WT Sharpe]

.....There’s no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
..........— H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1990-1956), American editor, critic, lexicographer. Remark to Charles Angoff, who verified to George Seldes that this is the correct version. Quoted in The Great Thoughts (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin) by George Seldes.

[kennyc]

Hmmmm.....wonder what he meant by that???

[gmw]

Being Christmas day (here) I thought something on a lighter note was in order, from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.Milne:

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?".
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?".
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting to-day?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded throughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by gmw

Being Christmas day (here) I thought something on a lighter note was in order, from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A.Milne:

Oddly enough, I started reading that book today, since it's free for my iPad!

Thanks for that quote. A wonderful book that's even fun even for grumpy old men like me!

[WT Sharpe]

.....Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they are never at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
..........— H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken (1990-1956), American editor, critic, lexicographer. Contribution, N.Y. World (September 12, 1926).

[WT Sharpe]

.....Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
..........— Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), Russian-born biochemist and science fiction writer. "How Easy to See the Future," Natural History, April 1975.

[gmw]

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

-- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by gmw

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

-- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Nice one!