Quote of the Day

[honeykid]

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. - Oscar Wilde

[Ðèstîñy]

"Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced."
Barbara Tuchman

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Benjamin Franklin

"Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions."
Dag Hammarskjold

[Swedish Chef]

"Aaron Burr? Fool couldn't shoot fish in a barrel. That English d-bag couldn't hit the broadest side of my ass with a cannon. I'm on the ten dollar bill, mother ****er, you think I'm scared of Aaron Burr? I'm Alexander Hamilton. Alexander ****ing Hamilton. Now hand me my gun." - Alexander Hamilton

[Harry Lime]

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

- Albert Camus

[KasperKristensen]

"And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for."

- Robbin Williams as John Keating, Dead Poets Society

[mark f]

"I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up."

"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

- Groucho Marx

[Caitlyn]

Silence, they say, is the voice of complicity.
But silence is impossible.
Silence screams.
Silence is a message,
just as doing nothing is an act.
Let who you are ring out & resonate
in every word & every deed.
Yes, become who you are.
There's no sidestepping your own being
or your own responsibility.
What you do is who you are.
You are your own comeuppance.
You become your own message.
You are the message.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

~ Leonard Peltier ~

[mikeython1]

"I dream for a living." - Steven Spielberg

"Always do what you are afraid to do." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[honeykid]

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. - Alfred North Whitehead

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. - Douglas Adams

[Harry Lime]

"It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."

- Franz Kafka

[mark f]

"I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing."

"Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistakes, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see."

"All I am hoping for is to be able to work. I think my best work is still ahead of me. I think all that I have been through in the last several years has only made me a better, more-interesting actor."

"I always knew I'd accomplish something very special, like robbing a bank perhaps."

- Mickey Rourke

[Caitlyn]

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. ~ John Allston

[mark f]

"I live cinema. I chose the cinema when I was very young, 16 years old, and from then on my memories virtually coincide with the history of the cinema. I'm not a director with a personal style [mafo-HA!], I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through cinema; everything that I've had in the way of education has been through the cinema; insofar as I'm interested in images, in books, in music, it's all due to the cinema."

"I got my first assignment as a director in 1927. I was slim, arrogant, intelligent, foolish, shy, cocksure, dreamy and irritating. Today [in 1987], I'm no longer slim."

"Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn't."

"[Disney] was one of the great innovators of film. One of the things I liked was when talkies came in, a lot of the timing of silent films went out of the window, and nobody made those marvelous slapstick comedies anymore because there were only verbal jokes. But Disney kept on making those wonderful cartoons for at least another ten years so he kept the whole idea of film comedy and narrative through image alive. People don't realize that they owe an enormous lot to him."

- The One and Only Michael Powell

[Tacitus]

"What's all this fuss about America getting a black President? Zimbabwe has had one for years, and he's been sh*t." - From a letter in Viz.

If you don't know Viz, this is satire at its broadest. I think that's all bases covered. ;)

[KasperKristensen]

"Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace."

- Norman Reedus as Murphy McManus, The Boondock Saints.

[Caitlyn]

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O'Rourke

[Silas]

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

[Harry Lime]

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

- Carl Jung

[mark f]

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

- Benjamin Franklin

[Caitlyn]

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories. ~ Billy Graham

[mikeython1]

"It's a mistake to confuse pity with love." -Stanley Kubrick

"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to" - Jerry Seinfeld

[KasperKristensen]

"Love? Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many- splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love!"

- Ewan McGregor as Christian, Moulin Rouge

[honeykid]

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. - Dick Gregory

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings

[mark f]

"If I played Hamlet, they'd call it a horror film."

[On the wig he wore in Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell], "It made me look like Helen Hayes."

"Strangely enough, I don't like horror pictures at all. I love to make them because they give pleasure to people, but my favourite types of films are much more subtle than horror. I like to watch films like The Bridge on the River Kawi, The Apartment or lovely musicals."

- Peter Cushing

[Caitlyn]

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~ Charlie Brown

[KasperKristensen]

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

- The King of Horror... That would be Stephen

[mikeython1]

“You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.” -Frank Sinatra

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." -C.S. Lewis

[Silas]

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.


Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146

[mark f]

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went."

"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

- John Updike (R.I.P.)

[Caitlyn]

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate. ~ William Arthur Ward

[mikeython1]

"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.” -Russell Crowe

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open." -Sir James Dewar

[KasperKristensen]

"An old man dies and goes to heaven and God shows the man his life as footprints in the sand. When times were easy, there were two sets of footprints beside each other. But when times were hard, only two feet marked the sand.
"When times were easy you walked by me. How come you left me alone when my life was miserable?", the old man asks.
"I never left you. When your life was painless I walked by you. But when times were hard - I carried you"

- A kindergarten teacher, whose name I have sadly forgotten.

[Caitlyn]

"An old man dies and goes to heaven and God shows the man his life as footprints in the sand. When times were easy, there were two sets of footprints beside each other. But when times were hard, only two feet marked the sand.
"When times were easy you walked by me. How come you left me alone when my life was miserable?", the old man asks.
"I never left you. When your life was painless I walked by you. But when times were hard - I carried you"

- A kindergarten teacher, whose name I have sadly forgotten.


Sounds like a version of The Footprints poem... and as I recall, the authorship was in dispute at one time...

[Iroquois]

"The trick is not how much pain you feel -but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."
-- Erica Jong

[honeykid]

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith Sitwell

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

[mark f]

"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."

"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."

"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."

"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker."

- Woody Allen

[KasperKristensen]

Sounds like a version of The Footprints poem... and as I recall, the authorship was in dispute at one time...
I didn't think that my kindergarten teacher made it up. The story just stuck with me.

[Caitlyn]

I didn't think that my kindergarten teacher made it up. The story just stuck with me.

Oh, I didn't mean anything by what I posted... 'twas just an observation... :)
I looked around a bit to see if they had ever decided who wrote it but it looks like it's still between three people... probably one of those things no one will ever know for sure.

[KasperKristensen]

Oh, I didn't mean anything by what I posted... 'twas just an observation... :)
I looked around a bit to see if they had ever decided who wrote it but it looks like it's still between three people... probably one of those things no one will ever know for sure.

Ah well. The "author" will also be the kindergarten teacher in my head :)

[Caitlyn]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit.
There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

*

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

*

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.

*

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.

*

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

*

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

*

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.


http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t177/carpunder/wcfields.jpg

~ W.C. Fields ~
(William Claude Dukenfield)
born: 29 January 1880

[mikeython1]

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" - Bob Dylan

"Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides

[Harry Lime]

"Johnny's in the basement mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement thinking about the government"

[Caitlyn]

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand, at some stage,
that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures
for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

*

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man,
and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation,
I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth
I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace.

*

Where there is love there is life.

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Mahatma Gandhi
died 30 January 1948

[mark f]

"Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn."

"I'm happy with very little on this earth, but I do like to have a lot in my glass."

"The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman."

- Gerard Depardieu

[KasperKristensen]

"When being afraid of going blind - and realizing that it is just tears."

- unknown

[mikeython1]

“I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's a-s but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.” -Chris Farley

"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Frank Lloyd Wright

[eMilee]

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson


#800 posts!!!

[7thson]

There you go again, making molehills out of mountains. You know, sometimes a mountain-molehill thingy can be miscontrued and misspelt also too.


My brother ~ Michael in a letter to me from long ago. :)

I miss him.

[eMilee]

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

[Harry Lime]

"And if a friend should do you wrong, then say: 'I forgive you what you did to me; but that you did it to yourself - how could I forgive that!'"

- Zarathustra (I'm sorry Freddy, I know you said it was to be taken as a whole and not be quoted, but...you know)

[mikeython1]

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer." -Arnold Schwarzenegger

"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." - Revelation 6:8

[mark f]

"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."

"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt."

"In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel."

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."

- Ben Hecht

[Harry Lime]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x39eRJA1aVU

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

[mark f]

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vince Lombardi

[Slug]

The Arizona Cardinals are going to win the Super Bowl.
SLUG

[Caitlyn]

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

~ Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) ~ Star Trek: Generations

[mikeython1]

"We're going to win on Sunday. I guarantee it." -Joe Namath (Super Bowl III)

“If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt

[mark f]

"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."

"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

- Tennessee Williams

[mikeython1]

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath" -Sir Micael Caine

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." -Al Capone

[Caitlyn]

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
~ Will Rogers

[KasperKristensen]

"So I was walking to the physiotherapist the other day. I have a temporary problem with a muscle in my thigh which makes it dificult and painful to walk. At the corner of the street, by the entrance sat an old, middle-eastern man with only one leg beggin for money. And a silent voice in the back of my head said: 'get over yourself you idiot'."

- Kasper Kristensen

[Harry Lime]

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

- Alexander Pope

[Caitlyn]

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can.
~ Mary Frances Berry ~

[mark f]

"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."

"Instant gratification is not soon enough."

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice, especially the ones who are related to you."

"People say that when you have children, everything changes, but maybe things are awakened that were already there."

- Meryl Streep

[mikeython1]

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.” -Kathrine Hepburn

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." -General Douglas MacArthur

[Slug]

When it comes to Mexican food, the hotter the better!
Slug

http://www.richmondmexicanfood.com/images/richmond_mexican_food_2.jpg

[Mrs. Darcy]

"For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate."

~ President Barack Obama

[The Shrew]

"once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy"

~Dan Gable

[mark f]

"I don't believe in being fashionable. Try to be and you're usually out of date before you start."

- Jack Clayton (director of two of my fave films, The Innocents and Room at the Top; Holds really likes The Pumpkin Eater too)

[mikeython1]

"Blame is for God and small children." -Dustin Hoffman

"Facts are the enemy of truth." -Don Quixote

[Harry Lime]

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

- Miguel de Cervantes

[Caitlyn]

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
~Julien Green

[NewGoblin]

"My Spidey-Sense is tingling! If you know what I mean!"

-Eddie Brock Jr./Venom

[Harry Lime]

"Shamefully
A power wrests away the heart from us,
For the Heavenly Ones each demand a sacrifice;
But if it should be withheld,
Never has that led to good."

- Friedrich Holderlin

* does anyone know what poem of his this is from, I had it written down but without further resource other than the author. I'm thinking Hyperion.

Maybe Honeykid - you know Blake, do you know Holderlin too?

[mark f]

"A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

- Thomas Jefferson

[Caitlyn]

Some people would say my paintings show a future world
and maybe they do, but I paint from reality.
I put several things and ideas together,
and perhaps, when I have finished,
it could show the future.


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H R Giger
born 5 February 1940

[mikeython1]

"The love you take is equal to the love you make.”

"Life goes on within you and without you”

The Beatles

[KasperKristensen]

"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know."

- Steven Spielberg

[Silas]

Despite the rising cost of living it still remains a popular choice

[Harry Lime]

"Well I stand up next to a mountain and I chop it down with the edge of my hand."

- Jimi Hendrix

[Lusty Argonian]

"Too many kids."

--My mother in response to the Nadya Suleman story.

[mark f]

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."

"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

"Government is like a baby; an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

- Ronald Reagan

[Caitlyn]

Looks like we had the same idea Mark... :) I had mine picked out before I checked in here and started to change them after I saw your post... but then noticed they were different quotes... so... posted them anyway.

******


Above all, we must realize that no arsenal,
or no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

*

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected,
and handed on for them to do the same.

*

I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

*

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else.
They're just braver five minutes longer.

*

I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph.
And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

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Ronald Reagan
Born 6 February 1911

[Justin]

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."

-Ronald Reagan

[mikeython1]

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

-Ronald Reagan

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[KasperKristensen]

"The worst thing about the world is that every individual has a set of ideas and one has to take every single set of ideas into consideration. I'm growing tired of humanity!"

- My best friend, 10 minutes ago

[honeykid]

Inspired by the Reagan quotes above, I decided to post my favourite three.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

The Bush-esque

Facts are stupid things.

Lastly, personal favourite

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

[Harry Lime]

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."

- Karl Marx

[mark f]

"I have no regrets, real regrets, about any darn thing. I think second-guessing one's self and your life is the most futile thing in the world."

"I certainly wasn't the idol of millions. I just happened to get good parts, and so I wasn't worried because I could see these character parts stretching on into the, you know, dim days of the future."

- James Whitmore, R.I.P. http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t203/bejmaf/whitmore.jpg

[Caitlyn]

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face.
Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

*

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed.
There ain't much credit in that.

*

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.


~ Charles Dickens ~
born 7 February 1812

[Godoggo]

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. ~William Faulkner

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/williamfau151717.html)

[mark f]

"My name is Harvey Milk, and I'm here to recruit you."

"Hope will never be silent."

"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

[KasperKristensen]

Subjektivitet er at aflæse et solur med en lommelygte
~ subjectivity is to read a sundial with a flashlight

Neutralitet er at holde med de sejrende
~Neutrality is to side with the victors

- Piet Hein, Danish poet

[Caitlyn]

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~ Matsuo Basho

[mikeython1]

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else” -Marvin Gaye

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Paul Erdos

[mark f]

"I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt."

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

- Groucho Marx

[Caitlyn]

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you.
Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

*

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways,
and they're still beautiful.

*

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

*

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.

*

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple
in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

~ Alice Walker ~
born 9 February 1944

[mikeython1]

“Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.” -Steve Martin

"Write drunk; edit sober." -Ernest Hemingway

[mark f]

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

- Albert Einstein

[Caitlyn]

We must not be forced to explore the universe
in search of a new home because we have made
the Earth inhospitable, even uninhabitable.
For if we do not solve the environmental and related social problems
that beset us on Earth - pollution, toxic contamination,
resource depletion, prejudice, poverty, hunger
- those problems will surely accompany us to other worlds.

~ Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz ~
Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996

[birdygyrl]

How true.

[mikeython1]

"May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.” -Johnny Depp

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay

[Iroquois]

"I firmly believe in the philosophy of a ruling class, especially since I rule."

- Randal Graves

[Caitlyn]

Something will have gone out of us as a people
if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed;
if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into
comic books and plastic cigarette cases;
if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction;
if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams
and push our paved roads through the last of the silence,
so that never again will Americans be free in their own country
from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.

~ Wallace Stegner,
letter to David E. Pesonen of the Wildland Research Center,
3 December 1960 ~

[mark f]

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

"I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being."

"Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's."

"I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful and how nurturing it can be."

- Sidney Poitier

[mikeython1]

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality,”
-Jackie Chan

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy

[mark f]

Two centuries (ten score years) ago, Abe Lincoln was born...

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

- Abraham Lincoln

[mikeython1]

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.” -Elvis Presley

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." -Benjamin Franklin

[Used Future]

Just had to post this after reading it earlier today.

I don't mind sequels at all. I watch the bulk of them. It's the remakes that I usually, but not always hate. It's just that with so many remakes going on, sometimes the younger people don't want to give the original a chance. That, or they seem to hate them regardless, because of the new, special effects, etc . . . - Destiny

couldn't have put it better myself.

Please don't rep this post, you can see Destiny's original comments here:cool: (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=500737&postcount=62)

[Caitlyn]

Just had to post this after reading it earlier today.

I don't mind sequels at all. I watch the bulk of them. It's the remakes that I usually, but not always hate. It's just that with so many remakes going on, sometimes the younger people don't want to give the original a chance. That, or they seem to hate them regardless, because of the new, special effects, etc . . . - Destiny

couldn't have put it better myself.

Please don't rep this post, you can see Destiny's original comments here:cool: (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showpost.php?p=500737&postcount=62)


Well... I repped you anyway for bringing her post to my attention... which also got repped... as it deserved... :)

[Caitlyn]

Our children may save us
if they are taught to care properly for the planet;
but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves
from where we first emerged.
Then we'll have to view the universe above
from a cold, dark place.
No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap,
broken pay phones,
drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television.
Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

~ Jimmy Buffet ~
Mother Earth News, March-April 1990

[Karl Childers]

Life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. --unknown

Liberalism enforces misery. --me

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. --Oscar Wilde

An expert is a man from another town. --Mark Twain

Keep your hands out of my pockets and stop telling me what to do. --my friend Dave

Some ideas are so absurd only an intellectual could believe them. --George Orwell

Socialism is great for insects. --me

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.-- Charles Bukowski

[n3wt]

Ignore the annoying little elves who steal your sock's as they feed off your tears. - n3wt

[mark f]

"Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot."

"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."

"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."

There are only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend."

"I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman."

"Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world."

- Jack Nicholson

[Caitlyn]

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create,
so that he can add to what he's been given.
But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer.
Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct,
the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

~ Anton Chekhov (1897) ~

[n3wt]

If the cup is empty, demand that your lil'sis makes more. - n3wt

[mikeython1]

"You can only hold your stomach in for so many years." -Burt Reynolds

"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." -- General George S. Patton

[honeykid]

Your life begins when you're born, but when you start living it is up to you. - honeykid

[mark f]

"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker."

"I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points."

"I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."

"You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the U.S. Open Golf Tournament."

- Sean Connery

[Caitlyn]

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day.
When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short,
chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

~ Anonymous ~

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo231/BabyCrazedPhotos/cupid.gif

Happy Valentines Day!

[mikeython1]

"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." -St. Augustine

"Love is the greatest refreshment in life." -Pablo Picasso

http://www.zoodu.com/userpics/unique-glitter-valentines/sexy8.gif

[Harry Lime]

"Cash rules everything around me..."

- The Wu Tang Clan

[mark f]

"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."

"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."

"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."

"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."

"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."

- Oliver Stone

[Caitlyn]

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving,
you lose that courage to be,
that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all.
And so today I still have a dream.

*

The quality, not the longevity,
of one's life is what is important.

*

Life's most persistent and urgent question is,
'What are you doing for others?'

*

The time is always right to do what is right.

~Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
born 15 January 1929

[KasperKristensen]

An Arugment

I've oft been told by learned friars,
That wishing and the crime are one,
And Heaven punishes desires
As much as if the deed were done.

If wishing damns us, you and I
Are damned to all our heart's content;
Come, then, at least we may enjoy
Some pleasure for our punishement!

- Thomas Moore

[KasperKristensen]

"If magic was real, every magician would be facing murder/kidnapping charges."

- Just a random thougt.

[mikeython1]

“In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?” -Liam Neeson

"Hell is paved with good samaritans." -William M. Holden

[mark f]

"I saw a book in India titled Guide to Film Schools in America, and it shell-shocked me. It changed my life because I thought you went to college to study something that your father loved and you hated. I told my father I wanted to study film, and he said there was no way he was gonna let me do that. I made my way to Los Angeles, and made a film that won a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design. My father thought I was headed for Harvard. I called him and said, 'I want to study film,' and he said, 'You don't exist anymore'."

"Anybody in Europe who tries to compete directly with Hollywood will die because they'll just spend more money on it. But things like Hindi cinema have evolved from a different angle, and they've survived because of it. In the west, for example, you don't mix opera and film. If someone is 44 he won't play himself as a 12 or 14-year-old, but he will in a Hindi movie. If he's fat and ugly, people will still call him beautiful. In opera you'd accept that, but you don't accept it in cinema. In the middle of a really serious situation, a dog can have a flashback in a Hindi movie. It is still played seriously, but in the west you wouldn't."

- Tarsem

[Caitlyn]

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

~ Native American ~

[n3wt]

It takes a wise man to know he doesnt know everything. - Rube Sofer [Dead Like Me]

[mikeython1]

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.” -George Lucas

[Harry Lime]

"Yousa thinking yousa people ganna die?"

- Jar Jar Binks

[mark f]

"Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled."

"The easiest thing to do on earth is not write."

"You can never trust what you read."

"[In Hollywood] nobody knows anything."

- William Goldman

[Caitlyn]

There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go. ~ Anonymous

[KasperKristensen]

"When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connnected in the great Circle of Life."

-The Lion King
(Reminisce guys... Reminisce)

[mark f]

"There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor; as a writer also, as a person who's making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a choice. And it seems to me I don't really have to direct anyone or write down that somebody's getting drunk; all I have to do is say that there's a bottle there and put a bottle there and then they're going to get drunk. I don't want to tell them how they're going to get drunk, or what they would do, and I don't want to restrict them in being able to carry out a beat, to fulfill an action. You can't say somebody's drunk or in love."

- John Cassavetes

[Caitlyn]

Studio press agents make up anything they want to,
and reporters go along with it.
One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war,
and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery.
If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

*

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something—
live outside of yourself and put together an idea,
an idea that you want to explore and then complete...
Awaken your creative sensitivities!

*

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most,
and since I only go to see the best,
it follows that I very rarely see my own.

*

The only two things you can truly depend upon
are gravity and greed.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/seremot2/Nov%202006/capt-3.jpg

Jack Palance
born 18 February 1919

[mikeython1]

"I don't step on toes, I step on necks!” - Chuck Norris


"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain

[n3wt]

We lead our lives, and when they end, sometimes we leave a little of ourselves behind. Sometimes we leave money, a painting, sometimes we leave a kind word. And sometimes, we leave an empty space. - George [Dead Like Me]

You know, when you are young like you are, Millie, it's easy. Man, woman, bottom, top... sex is a big buffet and you are just a fat man with a fork. But, as you get older, it's harder to get a fork. - Dolores Herbig [Dead Like Me]

"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen

[mark f]

"My friend James Cameron and I made three films together, True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period."

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

[7thson]

"Powered by: vBulletin, Copyright
©2000 - 2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd., Copyright © Movie Forums

Page generated in 0.15809 seconds with 14 queries" ~ the mofo website at the bottom.

:rolleyes:

[n3wt]

When you awake from a slumber, your eyes are still full of sleep, stroll to the kettle and all will become clearer - n3wt

[Caitlyn]

If every household in the U.S. replaced just one roll of 180-sheet virgin-fiber paper towels with 100% recycled paper towels,
it could save: 1.4 million trees, 3.7 million cubic feet of landfill space, 526 million gallons of water, and prevent 89,400 pounds of pollution. ~ The Rainforest Alliance

[mikeython1]

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out” -Martin Scorsese

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -Paul Dirac

[KasperKristensen]

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may - 'Cause one day you'll be tied to a freakin' sofa!.. Sorry..

- Partly Kasper

[KasperKristensen]

I just F'ed up an epic poem didn't I? :D

[Caitlyn]

I just F'ed up an epic poem didn't I? :D

Just a tad... ;)


To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

by: Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

[Harry Lime]

The quote at the start of the book I'm now reading: Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.

"While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free."

- Eugene Victor Debs

[mark f]

"I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself."

"The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle."

"I ought not to be regarded as a once happy man who has been bitten in the jugular and compelled to assume the misanthropy of a vampire."

"I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker - in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business." 2001 was a blockbuster.]

- Stanley Kubrick

[oogadeeboogadee]

"Two wrongs may not make a right, but two lefts make a u-turn."

[Caitlyn]

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with one another.
Wisdom is staying alive, survival.
You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug.
Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

*

I don't know what a best director is, except that (it is) someone
who stands in the same space with the best actors, ...
I feel that they do the work and I get to watch.
And nothing is better than that.

*

What I'm looking for is occurrence, truthful human behavior.
We've got a kind of road map,
and we're making it up as we travel along.

*

This (MASH) didn't get released by Fox, it escaped.

*

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

*

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.


http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e315/tomthedog2/tn_RobertAltman.jpg

Robert Altman
born 20 February 1925

[Harry Lime]

"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."

- Francois Truffaut

[mikeython1]

"If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being” -Gene Hackman

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." -Thomas Henry Huxley

[Harry Lime]

"No bullet can stop us now, we neither beg nor we won't bow;
Neither can be bought nor sold.
We all defend the right; Jah - Jah children must unite:
Your life is worth much more than gold."

- Bob Marley

(ya, I know it's two today, this one's important.)

[Caitlyn]

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.

~ Monty Python's Life of Brian ~

[mark f]

"Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can."

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."

"When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said 'Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen - with my head in the oven'".

[Re: Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)] "Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary."

- Anne Bancroft

[mikeython1]

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.”

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!”

“I get by with a little help from my friends”

-John Lennon

[mark f]

"Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town" - Steve Martin

"The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry." - Frank Capra

"When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back, and the pawn shop has been out of business for awhile." - Woody Allen

"Good news, they found Nemo. The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries." - Billy Crystal

[Caitlyn]

The marvel of all history
is the patience with which
men and women submit
to burdens
unnecessarily
laid upon them
by their
governments.


*

The basis of our political system
is the right of the people
to make and to alter
their constitutions
of government.

*

The time is near at hand
which must determine
whether Americans
are to be free men
or slaves.

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George Washington
born 22 February 1732

[mikeython1]

"You commie homo-loving sons of guns. I did not expect this, and I want it to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often, but I am touched by the appreciation." -Sean Penn

"This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here, his peers within an industry he so loved." -Kim Ledger

[mark f]

"I can't reconcile my gross habits with my net income."

"The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down."

"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living."

"Women won't let me stay single, and I won't let myself stay married."

- Errol Flynn

[KasperKristensen]

"If Harvey had not been taken from us I think what he would have wanted me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there, who has been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government or by their families, is that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value. And no matter what anyone tells you God does love you, and that, very soon, I promise you that you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

- Dustin Lance Black at the Oscars, 2009.

[mark f]

"Television and its use of computers can make everything talk, so there's no need for the art of ventriloquism anymore. I don't think young kids today would even understand it."

"Ventriloquism is closely related to magic. It's all about misdirection."

"TTFN." (as Tigger)

- Paul Winchell

[Caitlyn]

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

*

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it,
but I talk it best through an interpreter.

*

First, God created idiots.
That was just for practice.
Then He created school boards.

*

Go to Heaven for the climate,
Hell for the company.


~ Mark Twain ~

[mikeython1]

Caitlyn you love you some Mark Twain quotes don't you. I do to. :)

[zedlen]

'if you gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later you're gonna get eaten' Nick Cave

[mikeython1]

“It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding”

"The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.”

-Elton John

[mark f]

"He who laughs most, learns best."

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."

"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

- John Cleese

[Caitlyn]

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ The Great Gatsby

[n3wt]

Touch my crisp's and Ill bite you ~ Me :laugh:

http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/Wotsits-FH.jpg

These are worth jail time for knawing someone's arm off :rotfl:

[n3wt]

Have you tried simply turning off the tv, sitting down with your children and hitting them? ~ Bender

[KasperKristensen]

"A fox, is with every single fibre of it's body a fox. It is as God intended it. Me on the other hand..."

- Kasper Kristensen inspired by Karen Blixen.

[Iroquois]

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To hear what it's all about, perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once?

"Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration — that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

William Melvin Hicks
Born on December 16th, 1961.
Died on February 26th, 1994.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Bill_Hicks_image.jpg/200px-Bill_Hicks_image.jpg

[Caitlyn]

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

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Johnny Cash
Born February 26, 1932

[mark f]

"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."

"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself."

"I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman."

"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."

"There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers."

- Tim Robbins

[mikeython1]

"Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.”

“The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, "You know what? Let's just grab lunch."

- Bill Maher

[n3wt]

It was brown and it had raisins And we flushed for those reasons. ~ Sarah Silverman

[7thson]

The teeth marks on that old pencil are "stress" - do not sharpen it untill you understand the pain. ~ ?

[Harry Lime]

I started with the quote at the start of the book, now here's the last lines from Hocus Pocus:

"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."

- Kurt Vonnegut

[mark f]

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person, or he became me."

"I think that making love is the best form of exercise."

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

"I improve on misquotation."

- Cary Grant

[Golgot]

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”
~African proverb

(Found in this (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4121b1fa-ee5a-11dd-b791-0000779fd2ac.html) very foody interview about the effect of aid on African economies and governments)

[Caitlyn]

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture,
I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

*

I adore wearing gems,
but not because they are mine.
You can't possess radiance,
you can only admire it.

*

Some of my best leading men
have been
dogs and horses.

*

You find out who your real friends are
when you're involved in a scandal.

*

I am a very committed wife.
And I should be committed too -
for being married so many times.

*

When people say, 'She's got everything',
I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

*

It is strange that the years teach us patience;
that the shorter our time,
the greater our capacity for waiting.

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Elizabeth Taylor
born 27 February 1932

[mikeython1]

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”

“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner”

-Marlon Brando

[DaDip]

"If Harvey had not been taken from us I think what he would have wanted me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there, who has been told that they are less than by their churches, by the government or by their families, is that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value. And no matter what anyone tells you God does love you, and that, very soon, I promise you that you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.

- Dustin Lance Black at the Oscars, 2009.

Very great quote! his acceptance speach was a powerful statement!

[mark f]

"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."

"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."

"There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself."

"When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home."

- Robert De Niro

[Caitlyn]

Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life. ~ Thomas Alva Edison

[mikeython1]

“It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.”

“Vanity is my favourite sin.”

“I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.”

-Al Pacino

[Harry Lime]

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come."

"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."

- Victor Hugo

[mark f]

"I'd like to be wise. You have to go through a lot to get there, but I'm willing to go through a lot."

"Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."

"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!"

"I love acting, but it's much more fun taking the kids to the zoo."

- Nicole Kidman

[Caitlyn]

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization that everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. ~ Ralph Waldo Ellison (born 1 March 1914)

[KasperKristensen]

"It's rare that you come across a movie you have to watch again, right this instance!"

- From the cover of 'Unbreakable'.

[mark f]

"I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor."

"Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human."

"They still haven't caught the guy that killed John F. Kennedy. I'll get killed for saying this, but I'm pretty sure those guys are still in power, in some form. The entire government of the United States was co-opted."

"I don't think my opinion means jack ***** because I'm an actor. Why do actors think their opinions mean more because you act? You just caught a break as an actor. There are hundreds, thousands of actors who are just as good as I am, and probably better. Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?"

- Bruce Willis

[n3wt]

Sheep says "Baa",
Cow says "Moo" ~ Just a random thought from n3wt ;)

[mikeython1]

“One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!” -Jack Palance

[Caitlyn]

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

*

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

*

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

*

And now, you know the rest of the story.

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Paul Harvey, Sr.
died 28 February 2009

R.I.P.

[Justin]

“I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.”
- Douglas Adams

[mark f]

"I don't understand why these Americans have to suffer so much to identify with their characters. Me, I just get up there and act. It's great fun. There's no suffering in it."

"In front of a camera, I feel solid, satisfied. Away from it I am empty, confused."

"They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!"

"I am not a sex addict."

- Marcello Mastroianni

[Justin]

“Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.”
- Bill Hicks

[Caitlyn]

When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.

~ Uncheedah ~ Grandmother of Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)

[zedlen]

"I love Mickey Mouse more then any woman I've ever known"

Walt Disney
(http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/330.html)

(http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Walt_Disney/)

[Justin]

“Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.”
- Clint Eastwood

[mikeython1]

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." -Eda J. Le Shan


My sister just gave birth to a baby boy today. His name is Ryan Francis Duffy

[mark f]

"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."

"Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken."

"I never said most of the things I said."

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."

- Yogi Berra

[mikeython1]

“You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above”

“Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,
And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything.”

“When it comes to luck, you make your own.”

-Bruce Springsteen

[Used Future]

This is my thousandth post and I'm still learning - Me

[Justin]

"Faithfulness to form, literary or otherwise, is illusory: what matters is the equivalence in meaning of the forms."

- André Bazin

[nebbit]

This is my thousandth post and I'm still learning - Me
http://bestsmileys.com/signs1/19.gif

[Caitlyn]

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~ Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907

[Caitlyn]

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! ~ Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

[eMilee]

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/carlsandbu131198.html)

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mohandasga150710.html)


Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/carlsandbu121791.html)

[mark f]

"Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits."

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."

"I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many."

"There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them."

- Casey Stengel

[Harry Lime]

"Universal Suffrage is counter-revolution."

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism."

- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

[Justin]

"Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

- André Bazin

[mark f]

[Describing one of his Gone with the Wind costumes]: "I look like that sissy doorman at the Beverly Wilshire, a fine thing at my age."

- Leslie Howard

[n3wt]

Coffee is not my cup of tea.
Coffee has two varitys, wet and warm.
I dont have a problem with caffine, I have a problem without caffine.
Retirement is just one long coffee break.
If you are to open minded your brains will fall out.
Im not as dumb as you look.
Never kick a man unless he is down.
A day without sunshine is like night.
Do not disturb im disturbed enough all ready.

I was very bored :laugh:

[Justin]

"Too fair to worship, too divine to love."

- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

[mark f]

"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."

"I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act."

"I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life."

"They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it."

- Willie Mays (the greatest non-pitching baseball player I've ever seen)

[eMilee]

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/andregide105039.html)

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/oscarwilde105029.html)

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ritamaebro105028.html)

[mark f]

"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it."

"I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years."

"I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body."

"There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do."

- Sandy Koufax (the greatest pitcher I've ever seen)

[Caitlyn]

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

[mark f]

"I'm not out here to win a beauty contest." - Kirk Gibson

This is probably the greatest "non-personal" moment of mine I've ever experienced (although it couldn't get more personal), and I'm so happy that Vin Scully announced it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHFiYyatM7s

[mikeython1]

Wow Mark. You getting a little excited for baseball. Love them baseball quotes. :)

[mikeython1]

“It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!”

“The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.”

“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.”

-Ernie Banks

Mark you inspired me.

[mark f]

"I have a face like the behind of an elephant."

"They can't censor the gleam in my eye."

"Method actors give you a photograph. Real actors give you an oil painting."

[On his student and friend Robert Mitchum] "All the tough talk is blind. He's a literate, gracious, kind man and he speaks beautifully when he wants to. Bob would make the best Macbeth of any actor living."

- Charles Laughton

[mikeython1]

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

[mark f]

"I've been close to Bette Davis for 38 years, and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."

"I'm not really Henry Fonda. Nobody could have that much integrity."

- Henry Fonda

[zedlen]

But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

-Vince Lombardi.

[Caitlyn]

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on. ~ James Cagney

[Justin]

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion”

- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

[mikeython1]

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson

[Justin]

"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction."

- Allen Ginsberg

[spudracer]

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood." - Ralph Nichols

[mark f]

"When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath."

"I have two methods. If I have a screenplay, I follow it. If I don't, I improvise. Nobody else improvises - not the cameraman or the actors. Just me."

"I like dogs, mankind I don't care for too much. You're supposed to like mankind because you're part of it, but I prefer dogs. They are honest and they don't lie."

"The problem is, I have seen all the other films. All the serious films ever made I have seen, more or less. They are so good... and I am so bad. Very early in my so-called career, I knew I would never make a masterpiece. So I decided to make lots of decent films."

"When I write, I am sober. I can direct drunk. I can't edit or write drunk."

- Aki Kaurismäki

[mikeython1]

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

[eMilee]

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mothertere107846.html)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/r/ralphwaldo107033.html)

[mark f]

"Where I come from, if there's a buck to be made, you don't ask questions, you go ahead and make it."

"Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell."

"I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women."

"Learn your lines ... plant your feet ... look the other actor in the eye ... say the words ... mean them."

- James Cagney

[Caitlyn]

Like its politicians and its war,
society has the teenagers it deserves.

The more elaborate our means of communication,
the less we communicate.

Living in an age of advertisement,
we are perpetually disillusioned.
The perfect life is spread before us every day,
but it changes and withers at a touch.

To different minds,
the same world is a hell,
and a heaven.

Joseph Priestly
born 13 March 1733

[mikeython1]

"Wherever you go and whatever you do, May the luck of the Irish be there with you" -Irish Blessing http://www.mda.org/images/shamrock.jpg

[mark f]

"I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up."

"I've made a career of playing sons of bitches."

"Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down."

"If the good guy gets the girl, it's rated PG; If the bad guy gets the girl, it's rated R; and if everybody gets the girl, it's rated X."

- Kirk Douglas

[Justin]

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”

- James Joyce

[Tacitus]

Frankly it’s been a rather depressing week, I can’t decide which 1980s celebrities I want back less: Michael Jackson or the IRA. At least Michael Jackson’s fans want him to come back. In Northern Ireland even the former supporters do not want any comeback. Especially since it’s not even the IRA, it’s a number of tribute bands.

The Now Show, Radio 4.

[mikeython1]

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

[B-card]

maybe someone posted it over the years or not


"We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money."

Don Simpson

[Silas]

I've never said it before because I'm too nice, but your son has the cold, dead eyes of a killer. Bernard, Black Books

[mark f]

[On John Cassavetes] "We had a great deal of freedom when John acted. We traveled a lot and it was fun. But with directing... really. I think people don't have all their marbles who prefer directing to acting because you write for three months, you cut for maybe six months. He's the most terrifying perfectionist about what he wants. As an artist, I love him. As a husband, I hate him."

- Gena Rowlands

[Caitlyn]

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. ~ Pope John Paul II

[mikeython1]

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Justin]

"I discovered that I became liberated from certain constraints: the traditional story with a beginning, middle and end, self-explanatory transitions, and the dramatic climax... I became aware that I was able to concentrate exclusively on the human soul and its emotions... my goal is to film states of the soul, atmospheres, and moments of reflection..."

- Hou Hsiao-hsien

[mark f]

"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys."

- Chief Dan George

[mikeython1]

"Action is the foundational key to all success." -Pablo Picasso