Oooo. The quote in your signature is quite nice, Summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by SummerSolstice
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Oooo. The quote in your signature is quite nice, Summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by SummerSolstice
Isn't it, though? If you have even a passing interest in fairy tales or children's lit, or just have a bit of sentimentality and innocence in you that hasn't been seared away by modern cynicism, you should read that book. It's really pretty short, despite its ponderous size (thanks to large print, deep margins, and glorious full-page pencil illustrations every now and then).
The full title is The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread. The whole book has the very same lovely, personal, cozy tone of the quote, which precedes the story on a little page by itself. The narrator frequently makes asides to the audience, whom she addresses as "Dear Reader," and the balance of focus and pacing she achieves is so ideal for a story of this kind that I personally believe it could never, ever be improved upon. I checked it out from the library, read it through three times (not counting the parts I read again just because I liked them so much) over the couple of weeks I carried it around in my backpack before I regretfully returned it. I'm going to ask for my own copy for Christmas.
(Can you tell I liked this book? :lol: )
Is not a uniform suffering preferable to one which , by its ups and downs, is liable at certain moments to encourage the view that perhaps after all it is not eternal?
Becket
It will come to those who wait - Tolstoy
"In return to all these concessions, I desire of the philosophers to grant me that there is in some (I believe in many) human breasts a kind and benevolent disposition which is gratified by contributing to the happiness of others. That in this graification alone, as in friendship, in parental and filial affection, and indeed in general philanthropy, there is a great and exquisite delight. That if we will not call such disposition love, we have no name for it. That though the pleasures arising from such pure love may be hightened and sweetened by the assistance of amorous desires, yet the former can subsist alone, nor are they destroyed by the intervention of the latter."
-Fielding in Tom Jones
"Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't even be human"
-Phillip Pullman (who, I hope to nobody's surprise, writes stories for a living).
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
-Tolstoy
"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." ~ James Joyce, Ulysses
"I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish."
Curious Incident of Dog at Mid-night Time
"While there is tea, there is hope." Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the sky..."
-Jack Kerouac
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Originally Posted by bugmasta
You don't have to live forever; you just have to live. :)
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"As they say, every atom in our body was once part of the stars. Maybe I'm not leaving; maybe I'm coming home." - Vincent Anton Freeman (from the movie GATTACA)
"Those who never attempted the absurd has never achieved the impossible." - Benjamin Franklin
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." - Forrest Gump (a favorite movie)
From the T.V. series Smallville:
Clark: "Be safe, Lex. Good luck."
Lex Luthor: I don't believe in luck Clark. It's our wits and fortitude that keep us safe."
"You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." - Roahl Dahl[/COLOR]
"When all you have is God, you have all you need." - from the book The Daily Bread
"Failure is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford
"Don't plan to repent on the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30." - from the Book The Daily Bread
"When you turn green with envy, you are ripe for trouble." - The Daily Bread
"There is no best. Only better." - Toyota Company slogan
"You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine." - Jason Mraz (from the song "The Remedy")
"Think BIG. If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big." - Donald Trump (no surprise there)
ONLY THOSE WHO WILL RISK GOING TOO FAR CAN POSSIBLY FIND OUT HOW FAR THEY CAN GO."
Oh, I loved the movie. It was emotionally affecting, a really good movie.Quote:
"I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is." - Forrest Gump (a favorite movie)
The loathsome mask has fallen,
the man remains
sceptreless, free, tribeless, and nationless,
exempt from awe, worship, degree
the king
over himself
P.B.Shelley
"Conquer yourself, rather than the world"
Descartes
Yeah and Tom Hanks plays unnormal roles very effectively! I love the way he puts his soul to each character.
For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
I don't care what anyone says. Samuel Beckett is an incredibly optimistic and hopeful writer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eagleheart
"I can't go on, I'll go on." (The Unnameable)
Anyhow, my favorite quote is the first paragraph of the Proteus section of Ulysses...let's see if I can remember
"Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust : coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane But he adds : in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."
Needed a little help from the text... it's been a while.
Inspiration comes only to those who need it
Innovation comes only to those who seek it
-Mordecai, the Prophet of Sirius
this is actually from a book i am writing, but the quote was inspired by my inspiring friend Jessi, who i love and respect more than anyone...
Oh, woops, there already a quote for today. you can use this for tomorrow ^_^
This is a line from the movie "The third Man". Kind of evil but still...
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
Only Orson Welles coul pull this one off. Not my favorite quote but the best line from the movie.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern."
—from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell written between 1790 and 1793, which inspired the title of Aldous Huxley’s essay “The Doors of Perception” (1954) and Jim Morrison to name his band The Doors.
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"I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames. The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace, or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell." From Frankenstein by Shelley.
I have already decided that this will be read at my cremation. Some people I talk to think it is depressing, however I find it rather uplifting.
Knowledge is Power-Sir Francis Bacon
I have it on a big sign in my locker :)
"Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna någon slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill ha kontakt till vad pris som helst.", Hjalmar Söderberg, Doktor Glas, 1905
Or for those who don't read Swedish:
"One wants to be loved, in the lack thereof admired, in the lack thereof feared, in the lack thereof abhored and despised. One wants to instil some kind of feeling in people. The soul dreads the emptiness and wants contact at any cost." Hjalmar Soederberg, Doctor Glas, 1905
(sabo's transl.)
What else is there to know about people?
"time is an illision lunchtime doubly so" hg2g by DNA
Truth to tell, while there are a great many clever and insightful quotes out there, the James quote in my signature is probably my favorite. I remember feeling at first like I'd been almost tricked by the simplicity of the thing. That it was said by one whom I admire so much makes it that much more special to me.
We tried not to age, but time had its rage.
-Pete Townshend
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
-- John Donne, Meditation XVII
"Return with speed, time passeth swift away
Our life is short, and we may die today"
Christopher Marlowe, Tmaburlaine the Great Part 1
Spoken by Brad Pitts character in the movie Se7en:
"When a person is insane, as you clearly are, do you know that you're insane? Do you just stop and go: "Wow, its amazing how ****ing crazy I really am"?"
While it might not be the most mature or interlectual quote around, I just adore it!
My favorite quote would be by Albert Einstein: "Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere...":banana:
"I won't think about that now, I'll think about that tomorrow!" -- Scarlett O Hara, Gone With the Wind.
Hey, a girl after my own heart *-)
This is from Kant's Introduction to Prolegomena.
Funny, huh?Quote:
To appeal to common sense when insight and science fail, and no sooner--this is one of the subtile discoveries of modern times, by means of which the most superficial ranter can safely enter the lists with the most thorough thinker and hold his own.
Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais.
("A book is a friend who never deceives us.")
Montaigne, I think.
Well, the quotes in my profile are favourite quotes, but more there are more ( naturally, I collect quotes).
'' I have learned beauty from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world''- Frederick Karr
'' Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again''-Willa Cather
'' It does not matter so much what happens. It is what one does when it happens that really counts.''-Laura Ingalls Wilder
'' Castles in the air. So easy to build, and so easy to live in too. '' Ibsen
As well, '' In my end is my begining''- motto of Mary, Queen of Scots
'' When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that flows between them''- not sure who said that, will look it up ( I'm doing this from memory!).
'' I have made my own world, and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.'' - Louise Nevelson
I have found that the quotes from my profile have disapeared, so here they are again.
'' The more things change, the more they stay the same''-Alphose Karr
'' For us, the best time is always yesterday''-Tatyana Tolstaya
'' She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes''- Frank Deford
'' The best days are the first to flee''- Virgil
'' It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.- Zelda Fitzgerald, Save me the Waltz.
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
(William Hazlitt)
Wow! That's awful! :thumbs_up I like it very much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sylph
Welcome to the forums, Sylph! :D