PROJECT FOR CALLAHANIANS: Favorite Quotes...
Faith Harvey
she has been reading and taking notes.
"This place has been getting a little dreary lately. I guess that
everyone has the summertime blues. But I have an idea...."
Faith looks around and then sees exactly what she needs...she walks over
to the computer on the side of the bar and plops the monitor on the bar.
Then, she sets up the word processor on the screen and turns around.
"What I have just set up is what could be considered our own little
version of the wall behind the bar...except this will be easier to
transcribe. I would like each person to please put in their favorite
quote and keep the same tagline as above. That way I can capture them
and put them in a text file and set this up to send to the different
people with Callahanian archives. This is just something that we could
keep up over time and have a quote bank for all to add to. I just
thought it might be kinda neat to do as a project...and it will
definitely get me in here more to dump out the disk <giggle>"
"So whadaya say...is it a good idea?????"
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=============================Faith Harvey===============================
"Love...mhmmm-mmm...love is strange." Mickey & Sylvia "Love is Strange"
Current Favorite Music: "The Achy Breaky Song" by Wierd Al Yankovic
Rob Blake
> I would like each person to please put in their favorite quote and
> keep the same tagline as above.
"Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who
strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe, which
strives to produce bigger idiots."
-- Software Engineer
"So far ... the Universe is winning."
-- Applications Programmer
Rob
"There is quite evidently more to Texas than its intellectual, commercial,
and scientific developments. No state commands such fierce, proud loyalty.
Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas."
Queen Elizabeth II -- Austin, Texas -- May 20, 1991
Rob Blake
Membership in The Doughnut Club requires electing no officers, paying no
dues, and no monthly meetings. It simply requires embracing the philosophy
that: "Life should be like a doughnut: Tasty, easy to grasp, sweet, and
for a little dough."
The recommended methodology is:
D - Do everything the best you can.
O - Open your mind and your heart.
U - You--Take responsibility. Manage yourself. Control yourself.
G - Giving. Two things happen: You help the other person and you
help yourself.
H - Have a plan.
N - _Never_ hate. Hatred erodes the mind, the body, and the soul.
Give it up!
U - Use positive visualization and affirmation, e.g. "I like Myself!"
T - Treat others like you want them to treat you. (Perhaps you might
treat someone to a doughnut.)
The membership pledge of The Doughnut Club is:
"As you travel through life
Whatever be your goal
Keep your eye on the doughnut
And not upon the hole."
[[ credit: Ernie Alexander of KMDL radio, Lafayette, Louisiana ]]
Speaker-to-Minerals
= The membership pledge of The Doughnut Club is:
=
= "As you travel through life
= Whatever be your goal
= Keep your eye on the doughnut
= And not upon the hole."
=
= [[ credit: Ernie Alexander of KMDL radio, Lafayette, Louisiana ]]
But you didn't credit the author of the song. I don't remember who he is, but
you can find the attribution on the copyright page of _Sometimes a Great
Notion_, by Ken Kesey (sp?).
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I try very hard to say exactly what I mean. I'd appreciate it if you'd bear
that in mind and not try to "interpret" my posts to fit your own preconceived
notions if I'm posting in a serious thread. Remember: If you throw a strawman
into a heated debate, flames are likely to be the result.
Ariane
>
> Membership in The Doughnut Club requires electing no officers, paying no
> dues, and no monthly meetings. It simply requires embracing the philosophy
> that: "Life should be like a doughnut: Tasty, easy to grasp, sweet, and
> for a little dough."
Hmmmm.... I don't think I'll push the analogy, I don't think life should be
fattening or have a hole in the middle... :)
> The recommended methodology is:
>
> D - Do everything the best you can.
Seems wise, if personally impossible.
> O - Open your mind and your heart.
This I really try to do, especially the latter.
> U - You--Take responsibility. Manage yourself. Control yourself.
If only I could...
> G - Giving. Two things happen: You help the other person and you
> help yourself.
It really is a joy, but it took me a while to really realise it.
> H - Have a plan.
I have a cunning plan....
I generally have a plan, it currently involves vineyards, beer making
and beagles, but I never follow them.
> N - _Never_ hate. Hatred erodes the mind, the body, and the soul.
> Give it up!
This one I don't agree with. Hate can be an infinitely useful thing.
> U - Use positive visualization and affirmation, e.g. "I like Myself!"
This I don't need, ego's well and truly overdeveloped as it is.
> T - Treat others like you want them to treat you. (Perhaps you might
> treat someone to a doughnut.)
We did this bit just a little while ago, but without being pedantic, yes,
it's a philosophy that works on the whole. Not always easy, but it works.
> The membership pledge of The Doughnut Club is:
>
> "As you travel through life
> Whatever be your goal
> Keep your eye on the doughnut
> And not upon the hole."
> [[ credit: Ernie Alexander of KMDL radio, Lafayette, Louisiana ]]
This is seriously cute...
Hmmm, so I wonder whether this means I am a member or not. What do you
think Rob? Will it help if I put in a plug for Texan BBQ? :)
Shonias
--
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Walk by my side, and follow my dreams,
And bear with my pride, as strong as it seems.
Will you be there tomorrow?
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a...@vaxk.bton.ac.uk
raising one furry arm to attract the attention of the "Quote-Keeper"
Seeing that he has her undivided attention (TEE HEE) he speaks....."I don't
know if anyone here has seen any of David Lynchs excellent Twin Peaks but
there is a quote by "MIKE" that runs:-
Through the darkness of future passed
The magician longs to see
One chance out between two worlds
Fire Walk With Me"
- Greftel
Dan Howell
"In an infinite universe, anything is possible. Strange but true."
Dan Howell.
Slash Maraud
<Where's my car?
How come when we get in Slash's car someone always says "Ow?"
Say what you will about the sheep, it is not a creature of the air.>
--
MARAUD OUT>
Data error reading drive a: (a)bort (r)etry (K)ILLKILLKILLKILLKILL
Did anyone else see the naked woman on Arsenio the night of the 24th?
Well, there's two different kinds -- Steve Schleicher, on anything.
Andrew D. Tinkham
the WWW, please, ok?
Anyhow, I have two really favorite quotes right now... (my favorite quotes have
been known to change about as frequently as I've been known to change Nicknames
during the IRC Round Tables :)
Anyhow, they're the one by Depree (in my .sig), and the entire song "Not The
Blues" by Roy Atkinson. I won't quote the entire song here (unless y'all would
rather that I did), but my favorite verse is the same one that I had in the .sig
that I had the one with the Depree quote in it:
"Now I have been in love a time or two; And my heart told me, 'Here's the one
that's true'; But time went by and seasons had to turn -; I guess someday that
I will finally learn"
--Roy Atkinson, "Not The Blues"
On a completely unrelated note, I hope to be getting the book lists (weird books
(from last March/April), Favorite books (recent stuff), and most influential
books (again recent stuff)) up on the Web sometime in the next week. I have to
finish getting the lists together and then make a few links (both on the Web and
in my account...). They'll be available off the callahans page I have set up
(URL http://caligari.dartmouth.edu/~tinkha/callahans.html). Also in the next
week or so hopefully, the headline generator will be accessible off that page
as well, as my boss gave me permission to do the sevrer upgrades that are needed
before I can run scripts like that. I'll post again when things are all setup
with all the details for this....
--
Andy Tinkham <tin...@rpi.edu><tin...@ns.dartmouth.edu><atin...@nyx.cs.du.edu>
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say
thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor.
That sums up the progress of an artful leader." -Depree, _Leadership is an Art_
Rob Blake
>> The membership pledge of The Doughnut Club is:
>>
>> "As you travel through life
>> Whatever be your goal
>> Keep your eye on the doughnut
>> And not upon the hole."
>> [[ credit: Ernie Alexander of KMDL radio, Lafayette, Louisiana ]]
>This is seriously cute...
>Hmmm, so I wonder whether this means I am a member or not. What do you
>think Rob? Will it help if I put in a plug for Texan BBQ? :)
>Shonias
Shonias, darlin' ... you'll always be a member, plug or no plug.
[[ ... big warm hug ... ]]
Speaker-to-Minerals
=Greftel the Hobbit ponders for a few moments before clapping his hands and
=raising one furry arm to attract the attention of the "Quote-Keeper"
=
=Seeing that he has her undivided attention (TEE HEE) he speaks....."I don't
=know if anyone here has seen any of David Lynchs excellent Twin Peaks but
=there is a quote by "MIKE" that runs:-
=
=Through the darkness of future passed
=The magician longs to see
=One chance out between two worlds
=Fire Walk With Me"
Mark Twain: For practice God created an idiot. Then he created a school board.
Speaker-to-Minerals
=Ok...in that case;
=
= "In an infinite universe, anything is possible. Strange but true."
Not even true. The closest true statement is:
"In an infinite universe, anything possible is certain to happen."
John Palmer
>> N - _Never_ hate. Hatred erodes the mind, the body, and the soul.
>> Give it up!
>This one I don't agree with. Hate can be an infinitely useful thing.
Hmmm. It may vary based on your definition of hate. I try not to hate,
but I have nothing against a long memory and sustained anger. The difference
is if I am angry at my representative in congress, I might not contribute to
his campaign, and MIGHT work for his opponent. If I HATE him, I *WILL* work
for his opponents, just to take him down. . . the difference being, in the
first case, I might still see him as the "lesser of two evils" but in the
second, my hate has made him the ultimate evil, no matter what.
John
"Personal def: if it's rational, it's anger, no matter how intense. If it
ain't, it's hate, no matter how slight."
--
"These opinions are mine and only mine; PCS wouldn't want 'em and can't have
'em."
John Palmer jpa...@procomp.COM
Columbus, OH ...!uunet!procomp!jpalmer
George Pope
} Through the darkness of future passed
} The magician longs to see
} One chance out between two worlds
} Fire Walk With Me"
Argent's head snaps around as he hears the familiar words - almost.
"Uh, Greftel, I think that is 'One chants out between two worlds.'"
"I am less certain that it should be 'future past.'"
--
po...@panofsky.desy.de
This is mine; that's mine ... I'm claiming all this as mine ...
except that bit. I don't want that bit. But all the rest of this
is mine! Hey, this has been a good day! I've eaten five times, I've
slept six times, and I've made a lot of things mine! Tomorrow I'm
going to see if I can't have sex with something!
-- Cat from Red Dwarf
Ariane
>
> Hmmm. It may vary based on your definition of hate. I try not to hate,
>but I have nothing against a long memory and sustained anger. The difference
>is if I am angry at my representative in congress, I might not contribute to
>his campaign, and MIGHT work for his opponent. If I HATE him, I *WILL* work
>for his opponents, just to take him down. . . the difference being, in the
>first case, I might still see him as the "lesser of two evils" but in the
>second, my hate has made him the ultimate evil, no matter what.
Mmmmm, you could be right.... Maybe...
>"Personal def: if it's rational, it's anger, no matter how intense. If it
>ain't, it's hate, no matter how slight."
Nice definition, I must admit I hadn't really thought much about a def.
I still think a total irrational hatred towards someone can sometimes
be useful. Probably not long term.
So by (dubious) analogy, does that mean that "if its rational its affection
and if its irrational its love"? Seems like a more functional definition
than any I've been using before actually.
Shonias
--
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We are magic in the night,
We are shadow we are light,
We are forever you and I...
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Steve Harter
I'll stay, but this place seems very nice so far, tho a little on the
noisy side. I'll have a raki, my good man, with a glass of water on the
side, if you please."
I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
-- T.S. Eliot
John Vinson
Return noone evil for evil;
Strengthen the fainthearted, support the weak;
Love and serve the Lord,
*REJOICING* in the power of the Holy Spirit."
Please feel free to adapt to the faith of your choice.
John
Wysard of Information (and a preacher's kid)
Joe McMahon
"As cinema, I've seen film exposed directly to sunlight that was better art...."
(Mike Czaplinski)
--- Joe M.
austin ziegler
He scribbles something and says <<If you haven't seen the movie, go see it.
It's one hell of a powerful story. You know how in most movies people
chatter when they leave the theater? Even when it's a powerful drama? With
this one, people don't. Period.>>
Curious people go up to the wall and read:
"Mother is the name of god on the lips and hearts of all the children of the
world." - _The Crow_, J. O'Barr
-f
Nick Varacalli
>Fantome's quote is recent.
>
>world." - _The Crow_, J. O'Barr
Tangential Question...
Does anyone else who has seen the movie think that the second cop
(there were basically two cops, the good, black(african American?) cop
who was friends with the little girl (I'm horrible with names)...
The second cop, the caucasian, who announces the first cop's suspension...
who shall hereby be referred to as the asshole cop)
IMHO, the asshole cop was in the pay of the gangs in the story... Just
puts too much heat on the good cop at the wrong times...
Anyone else feel that way...
NV
P.S. The soundtrack is also quite good
Richard Blumberg
(John Palmer) wrote:
> Ariane <a...@physics.su.OZ.AU> writes:
> >> N - _Never_ hate. Hatred erodes the mind, the body, and the soul.
> >> Give it up!
>
> >This one I don't agree with. Hate can be an infinitely useful thing.
>
> Hmmm. It may vary based on your definition of hate. I try not to hate,
> but I have nothing against a long memory and sustained anger.
From the rafters, a lurker (old coot, bald, paunchy, a bit myopic) is
finally prompted to speak up, as he remembers Gulley Jimson, sorely
provoked by the police, explaining to Nosy...
"I forgive 'em, Nosy. And tomorrow I shall forget 'em. To forgive is
wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new
world every heart beat."
Richard
--
The opinions expressed are those of my employer.
John Palmer
>In article <1994Jun10.1...@onetouch.COM>, jpa...@onetouch.COM
>(John Palmer) wrote:
>> Hmmm. It may vary based on your definition of hate. I try not to hate,
>> but I have nothing against a long memory and sustained anger.
>"I forgive 'em, Nosy. And tomorrow I shall forget 'em. To forgive is
>wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new
>world every heart beat."
Grin. . . true, I *DO* try to keep them out of my mind so they don't keep
dragging me down, but I am *VERY* careful in future dealings. Plus, depending
on what they did, I may strike back to undo it at some time.
John
"Voting against a bloodthirsty governor this fall. . ."
Kelly
Well, time to go; Unknown beckons.
But have never felt so small. Awfully big world waiting out there.
For me.
"Candidia Smith-Foster", _Emergence_, David R. Palmer
--
1/3 Tigger, 1/3 Kender, 1/3 Gomez Addams, All ME!
Carpe Somnium
ceal...@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/ceallach
Alan Kors
Liberty_: "He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his
plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like
one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his
faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to
foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to
decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his
deliberate decisions....It is possible that he might be guided in some
good path, and kept out of harm's way, without any of these things. But
what will be his comparative worth as a human being? It really is of
importance, not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are
that do it." Cheers, ACK
John Vinson
>Return noone evil for evil;
>Strengthen the fainthearted, support the weak;
>Love and serve the Lord,
>*REJOICING* in the power of the Holy Spirit."
an *important* line missing from my first quote.
John the Wysard
Aaron V. Humphrey
fortunes file and find all the ones I inserted myself...though sometimes I
can't remember which are which anymore.
"Here's one of my all-time favourites, though:
At sea in a thunderstorm,
On the very night that Christ was born
A sailor heard from overhead
A mighty voice cry "Pan is dead!
So follow Christ as best you can;
Pan is dead--long live Pan!"
--The Waterboys, "The Return of Pan"
"And here's one I got from a guy on alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst...
The Accordian Metaphor For Life:
It goes in and out, but both directions produce music.
--Pierre Malraison
"And then, of course, there's all the Steven Wright ones, like:
You can't have everything; where would you put it?
I have an enormous collection of seashells; I keep it scattered on
beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.
They say you never know what you have until it's gone; I wanted to find
out what I had, so I got rid of everything I owned.
"And then there's They Might Be Giants:
You made my day, now you have to sleep in it.
--TMBG, "Stand On Your Own Head"
Every jumbled pile of person's got a thinking part that wonders what the
part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.
--TMBG, "Where Your Eyes Don't Go"
"Well, that's probably enough for now...I'll see if I can come up with some
more later. Oh, and there's the one in my .sig, of course..."
--
--Alfvaen(Editor of Communique)
Current Album--Henry Lee Summer:I've Got Everything
Current Book--Keith Roberts:Molly Zero
"It's a one-time thing. It just happens a lot." --Suzanne Vega
Claire Black
: Faith writes:
: > I would like each person to please put in their favorite quote and
: > keep the same tagline as above.
: "Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who
: strive to produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe, which
: strives to produce bigger idiots."
: -- Software Engineer
: "So far ... the Universe is winning."
: -- Applications Programmer
Claire_Bear laughs....
"this is my favourite quote (at least for this week)":
"...thirteenth apostle
knocking at my door
telling me I can't
play with you no more
I guess the wages of sin
couldn't buy my meals
I'm screaming out your name
how does that feel..."
from _Sun_ _Going_ _Down_
by The Tea Party (off the Splendor Solis album).
Andrew D. Tinkham
Richard! Allow me to buy you a drink!" He folds $2 up into paper airplanes, and
sends them sailing through the Place over to Mike who catches them, and smoothes
them out, with a bit of a glare at Tink, who gives him a slightly apologetic
grin, and then adds one more quote to the two he already contributed...
This one is from a song called "What a Good Boy" I think it's by the Bare Naked
Ladies, but I'm not sure (Andy makes a mental note to have his friend Todd give
him the artists for the mix Todd made for him...). Anyhow, here's the quote:
"I go to school, I write exams
If I pass, if I fail, if I drop out,
Does anyone give a damn?
And if they do, they'll soon forget
'Cause it won't take much for me
To show my life ain't over yet"
That song and that Roy Atkinson song I mentioned before, are my two absolute favorite songs right now...
Heather Flanagan
OHohohoh, I have one which my boyfriend introduced me to! (yes you can
all hear it) It is from the original Saturday night live:
"Studies show that if a baby squirrel is forced to smoke 700 canabis
joints in one day, he tends to become disoriented and takes the laws of
self-preservation less seriously, choosing to play with his nuts rather
than store them."
TOAST: *tigger bounces up to the chalk line and says* "To the originals!
Be they shows, books, or beings!"
**CRASH**
Now where did I leave that drink? *boing, boing, boing*
--
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"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."-Heinlein
Heather Flanagan fl...@ruby.ils.unc.edu
Ceredwyn Bensley
>Ragged Claw scuttles up to the bar and says, "Hmmm. Not sure how long
>I'll stay, but this place seems very nice so far, tho a little on the
>noisy side. I'll have a raki, my good man, with a glass of water on the
>side, if you please."
And the fan of T.S.Eliot sees a short, small woman in silver and blue
platemail armour with a winevelvet cloak smile "Greetings, Ragged
Claw...I am the Devious Paladin, of late a little lost and lonely.
My guess is that by now you will already have your drinks paid up
till next year, so can I offer you a hug?"
> I should have been a pair of ragged claws
> Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
> -- T.S. Eliot
"The Wasteland?" Devious struggles "Lovesongs?"
- The Devious Paladin ....IS BACK!
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Dan Howell
Ford says it just after he and Arthur wind up on "Golgafrincham".
Dan Howell. I used it as a .sigline for months...
Steve Harter
: har...@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Harter) writes:
: >Ragged Claw scuttles up to the bar and says, "Hmmm. Not sure how long
: >I'll stay, but this place seems very nice so far, tho a little on the
: >noisy side. I'll have a raki, my good man, with a glass of water on the
: >side, if you please."
: And the fan of T.S.Eliot sees a short, small woman in silver and blue
: platemail armour with a winevelvet cloak smile "Greetings, Ragged
: Claw...I am the Devious Paladin, of late a little lost and lonely.
: My guess is that by now you will already have your drinks paid up
: till next year, so can I offer you a hug?"
: > I should have been a pair of ragged claws
: > Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
: > -- T.S. Eliot
Ragged Claw thinks that any fan of T.S. Eliot is a potential friend. But
he isn't very huggable, he thinks. So he says, "You may squeeze my claw,
if you please. And I will, very gently, squeeze back."
They squeezed, one to the other. And then Ragged Claw reached into his
sidepack and withdrew a lovely ripe peach. And he offered it to the
Devious Paladin.
"This for your loneliness," he said.
Ragged Claw
Nick Varacalli
about a total of ~ 2000) so it's really hard to choose.
One quote I noticed recently in someone's .sig, that is my fave of
the week is
Def'n
Recursion : Somewhat like recursion, only a little simpler...
NV
Randolph Fritz
cannot find it. It has no translation either in Totzil or
Tzeltal, and nobody remembers whether word exists in Tjolabal or
Chol." --Zapatista press release
Randolph Fritz
It is with the power of Imagination that all magic has its true
beginning and its culmination. There is not one Marvel, one
Prodigy, one Wondrous Thing wrought by magic, whether it should be
through the Science of Wizardry or the Witch's Craft, that does not
owe its existence to the Imagination. For though the Wizard draws
his power from an Applied Will, and the Warlock draws in a manner
quite different on the old Earth Magics, yet neither could Achieve
anything without a lively and vivid Imagination to shape the power
and give it form. --From _The Three Parts of Wisdom_, attributed to
Teleri ni Pendaren
--Chapterhead of _The Castle of the Silver Wheel_, Teresa Edgerton
Linda Elizabeth Ten Eyck
A man said, 'Think as I think,
Or you are abominably wicked.
You are a toad.'
And after I had thought of it, I said,
'I will, then, be a toad.'
He has some other great ones, but I can't remember them offhand."
michael doyle
Stef Jones
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
-- Firecat
rational/scientific/philosophical/mystical/magical/kitty
st...@netcom.com
Alan Flesch
(I probably won't remember this correctly...)
A man said to the Universe
"Sir, I exist!"
Said the universe
"That does not create in me
any feeling of obligation."
Quest'r
Alan Flesch
>> I should have been a pair of ragged claws
>> Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
>> -- T.S. Eliot
>"The Wasteland?" Devious struggles "Lovesongs?"
"Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Quest'r
"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends...
Not with a bang, but a wimper."
-ts eliot "The Hollow Men."
Marc C Allain
--
Marc C. Allain M...@CHRISTA.UNH.EDU
Prophet Marcus of the First Church of Mad Scientist
Katherine Bryant
to contribute.
"Well, there's this one, from They Might Be Giants' 'Where Your Eyes Don't
Go':
'Every jumbled pile of person has a thinkin' part that wonders what the part
that isn't thinkin' isn't thinkin' of...'
"And then there's this remark by Dennis Sciama (a cosmologist):
'The steady-state theory has a sweep and beauty that the architect of the
universe seems unaccountably to have overlooked. The universe in fact is
a botched job, but I suppose we shall have to make the best of it.'
"And finally, from Galileo's Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina:
'But I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed
us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and
by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.' "
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"What's hard is simple. What's natural comes hard." --- Stephen Sondheim
Valentine...........................................kbryant@husc.harvard.edu
Joe McMahon
Marc C Allain <m...@christa.unh.edu> wrote:
> My favorite quote is, "I hate quotes." Anyone remember who said it?
Ralph Waldo Emerson. The complete quote is "I hate quotes. Tell me what you
know." A very Emersonian quote.
--- Joe M.
Alan Flesch
"I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is
usually outside."
--W.C. Fields
Speaker-to-Minerals
=Quest'r finds another quote in his book.
=
="I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is
=usually outside."
=--W.C. Fields
Referring to the Clinton's being questioned about Whitewater by the
special prosecutor:
We missed a great opportunity here. As long as they had them
under oath, we should've asked if they knw anything about health
care, foreign policy, or the economy.
-Jay Leno
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I try very hard to say exactly what I mean. I'd appreciate it if you'd
bear that in mind and not try to "interpret" my posts to fit your own
preconceived notions if I'm posting in a serious thread. Remember: If you
throw a strawman into a heated debate, flames are likely to be the result.
Aaron V. Humphrey
> My favorite quote is, "I hate quotes." Anyone remember who said it?
"I believe it was Emerson, but ICOCBW... The full quote is:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
"Taking just the first part is, despite being mildly ironic, a bit silly to
me. It needs the full context, IMHO, to move from something silly into
something a bit more meaningful."
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--Alfvaen(Editor of Communique)
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Current Book--Patricia C. Wrede:Snow White And Rose Red
"Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile." --They Might Be Giants
The Golden Gryphon
Here's one from Albert Einstein. It seems that he was at a party and
this girl was trying to pick him up. She asked him for his phone
number and he walked over to a telephone book and looked up Einstein,
Albert and gave her the number. She said something like, "Don't you
know your own phone number? I thought you were supposed to be some
super genius." To which he replied,
"I never memorize anything that is easily referenced."
TGG
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The Golden Gryphon gry...@openage.COM
Of all the things in my life I miss on a daily basis, I think my wife,
my mind, and my freedom are the top three.
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Scott Kitchen
>"What I have just set up is what could be considered our own little
>version of the wall behind the bar...except this will be easier to
>transcribe. I would like each person to please put in their favorite
>quote and keep the same tagline as above. That way I can capture them
>and put them in a text file and set this up to send to the different
>people with Callahanian archives. This is just something that we could
>keep up over time and have a quote bank for all to add to. I just
>thought it might be kinda neat to do as a project...and it will
>definitely get me in here more to dump out the disk <giggle>"
>"So whadaya say...is it a good idea?????"
I think it's a great idea. Let me add my own little carbuncle of knowledge:
There are no personal problems that can't be solved through a suitable
application of high explosives. -- Anonymous
I should also let it be know that I've got nearly 50 quotation books
hanging around my apartment. If you're looking for sources, I'm
probably your man.
Scott
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A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real
money! -- Everett Dirkson
Eugenia Horne
[Request for quotes...]
My all time favourite mess-with-their-minds, quote:
"I have just been looking at the Queen without any clothes."
- Prince Albert to Queen Victoria
It's a REAL quote. Albert actually said it.
I posted the whole story a while back, so I'm not explaining
the circumstances at the moment.
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"We have found what others seek in vain, during all their lives:
the soul of another that is able to understand one, that will
suffer with one, be glad with one..." - Prince Albert (1839)
Ceredwyn Bensley
>clb...@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Ceredwyn Bensley) writes:
>>"The Wasteland?" Devious struggles "Lovesongs?"
>"Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock."
>"This is the way the world ends
>This is the way the world ends
>This is the way the world ends...
>Not with a bang, but a wimper."
>-ts eliot "The Hollow Men."
Devious shivers.
Don't read that poem whilst depressed. I mean it. One of the worst
things I ever did...
-- The Devious Paladin
Alan Flesch
>fle...@phakt.usc.edu (Alan Flesch) writes:
"I have _The Complete Poems of T.S. Eliot._ After my life left me, I
read the whole thing. Then went back and read 'The Hollow Men',
'Sweeney Among the Nightengales' (my favorite poem by Eliot) and
all of 'Four Quartets' over again."
It was a rather bad day for me.
I'm all better now! :)
('Course, I _still_ like 'Sweeney Among the Nightengales.')
Quest'r (aj)
And Sang within the bloody wood
When Agamemnon cried aloud
And let their liquid sifting fall
To stain the stiff, dishonored shroud.
-ts eliot. "Sweeney among the Nightengales"