Quote of the Day

[Caitlyn]

The Irish: be they kings, or poets, or farmers, they're a people of great worth. They keep company with the angels, and bring a bit of heaven here to earth. ~ Anonymous

[Caitlyn]

May You Always Have...
enough luck to make you smile,
enough trials to keep you strong,
enough of all life's treasures
to keep you truly happy.

Irish Blessing


Happy St. Paddy's Day!

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[mark f]

"For a director there are commercial rules that it is necessary to obey. In our profession, an artistic failure is nothing; a commercial failure is a sentence. The secret is to make films that please the public and also allow the director to reveal his personality."

"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."

"I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk."

- John Ford

[mikeython1]

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go

~Irish Blessing

[mark f]

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."

"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."

"He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery."

- Dorothy Parker

[Caitlyn]

I'm pretty sure I've posted this one before but I hope you'll forgive the repeat...

Honor is something that no man can give you and no man can take away. ~ Robert Roy McGregor (Liam Neeson ~ Rob Roy)

[mikeython1]

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. -Stanley Kubrick

[Sedai]

Whenever you turn over to the government a financial, social, medical, military, or commercial matter, it's automatically transformed into a political issue — to be decided by those with the most political influence. And that will never be you or I.- Harry Browne

[mark f]

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family... in another city."

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."

- George Burns

[Caitlyn]

When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing. ~ Jimmy Carter

[Harry Lime]

"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."

- John Lennon

[Justin]

“It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”

- Bill Hicks

[Harry Lime]

“It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”

- Bill Hicks


Exactly.

[7thson]

The last thing I ever said that got quoted was that day back in '88 when I said, "The last thing I ever said that got quoted was that day back in '88 when I said,"

[Caitlyn]

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. ~ Stanley Kubrick

[mark f]

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

- Will Rogers

[mikeython1]

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. -Alfred Hitchcock

[mark f]

"My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never."

"When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!"

- Jack Benny

[Justin]

“I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.”

- Charlie Kaufman

[Caitlyn]

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

With Beethoven I said I wanted a role where I didn't have to do anything stupid with my hair. My agent said, "Read it again.

People are naive about chemical dependence, about how destructive, powerful and overwhelming it is.

Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play -- unless they're clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic -- is bulls---ting you.

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Gary Oldman
born 21 March 1958


Happy Birthday!

[mikeython1]

“I learned from my mom and dad, who didn't have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.”

“It was flat-out scary, baby.”

-Dick Vitale

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[mark f]

"Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you."

"Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one." (She earned $1000 a week while filming Gone With the Wind.)

- Hattie McDaniel

[Justin]

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”

- Albert Camus

[mikeython1]

“No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.” -Doug Horton

[Caitlyn]

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress. ~ Peter Stone

[n3wt]

Happy mothers day to all the mum's ~ n3wt

[Justin]

"My dream is to create a completely ‘Spinoza-ist’ film, built upon ethical categories: rage, joy, pride … and essentially each of these categories would be a pure block of sensations, passing from one to the other with enormous suddenness. So the film would be a constant vibration of emotions and affects, and all that would reunite us, reinscribe us into the material in which we’re formed: the perceptual material of our first years, our first moments, our childhood. Before speech."

- Phillippe Grandrieux

[Caitlyn]

Happy mothers day to all the mum's ~ n3wt


Is it Mother's day there? It's not until May 10th (I think) in the U.S.

[n3wt]

Yeah its mothers day in the UK.

[mark f]

"Who doesn't have sympathy for the underdog? Of course, I do. We create institutions, governments and schools to help us live, but every institution has a tendency, after a while, to behave not as if they should be serving you, but that you should be serving them. That's when the individual gets in conflict because we are paying these institutions with our taxes, we are paying them to serve us and help us live, and not to tell us how to live and dominate us. I wouldn't say it's the underdog but it's always the conflict within the individual and the institutions. Instead of underdogs, let's talk about dogs. If you corner a dog, he's ready to bite you. That's the reality. Otherwise he's a loveable, wonderful creature. If you corner him, he can behave abominably. And so does a human being. When an individual is cornered by society or an institution, well, he can behave abominably and I can't really hide it or glorify it. Neither. It's just a fact of life."

- Milos Forman

[n3wt]

If at first you dont succeed try and try again ~ n3wt

This is the moral of todays story as we are trying again for dla.

[Caitlyn]

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. ~ Abraham Lincoln

[Iroquois]

If at first you dont succeed try and try again ~ n3wt

This is the moral of todays story as we are trying again for dla.

If at first you don't succeed, failure may just be your style.

[Caitlyn]

If at first you dont succeed try and try again ~ n3wt

This is the moral of todays story as we are trying again for dla.


Very good words to live by... but someone said them a long time before you did...


'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try again.

~ Thomas H. Palmer
(1782 - 1861)

... and you really need to give the original authors credit... :)

[Golgot]

"There's not much you can do to keep Charles Manson out of the suburbs"
~On dealing with polar bears, 'an animal so wily that it stalks prey by sliding on its belly behind a moving block of ice'

''Every time I walk back to camp, I drag my boots over my landing strip. Do that for 20 years, and you have a nice place to land a plane.''

"But I've learned it's just a matter of putting yourself in the next situation, putting yourself in a position where a favorable outcome is not only likely, but absolutely necessary.''
~On getting to and from the perilously isolated Cooper Island


From George Divoky's Planet - One man's 27-yr bird study on a far-flung Arctic island, which has become as important a tool for measuring the region as satellite data etc - {Beware, long, but edifying ;)} (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/magazine/george-divoky-s-planet.html)

[NB The bit about Innuit's having no word for 'robin' is probably wrong]

[mikeython1]

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -Thomas E. Lawrence

[mikeython1]

Every great film should seem new every time you see it. -Roger Ebert

[Justin]

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

[mark f]

"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."

- Robert McCloskey

[Caitlyn]

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions. ~ Thomas Jefferson

[mark f]

"I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee--with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's."

- David Lynch

[Justin]

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

- Flannery O'Connor

[linespalsy]

"The Person at his side was a woman. He looked at her. She was a nurse.
Dogmatic and critical, he spoke to me about women in general. He was rather bitter. He said that there was one type of woman, and even one certain woman, destined to satisfy each man's physical needs, and he added something to the effect that it was better not to find her, because if he did a man sensed that she was a decisive element in his life and he treated her with fear or clumsiness, preparing the way for a future of anxiety and monotonous frustration. The other women in the world would present no noticeable differences or dangers for a respectable sort of man, he said."

Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Celestial Plot.

[Caitlyn]

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

[Silas]

Are those my feet?

Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted

[mikeython1]

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians. -Francis Ford Coppola

[mark f]

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."

- Oscar Wilde

[Justin]

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”

- Philip K. Dick

[linespalsy]

"I love drugs. Do you?"
"No, incest and murder are more my thing."

Jack Chick, The Only Hope.

[mikeython1]

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -Muhammad Ali

[mark f]

"The other day, I was going through the airport security and I was searched by a male security guard. I'm very often referred to as 'Sir' in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can't imagine I'd be a woman if I look like this."

"I'm basically interested in identity, and I still find fascinating the question, 'How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?'"

"There is something insane about a lack of doubt. Doubt, to me anyway, is what makes you human, and without doubt even the righteous lose their grip, not only on reality but also on their humanity."

- Tilda Swinton

[Caitlyn]

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~ Edward Abbey

[mikeython1]

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it. -Wim Wenders

[eMilee]

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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[n3wt]

Rydw yn hoffi coffi achos myn wych ~ n3wt


"I like coffee because it is great" It is Welsh :laugh:

[mark f]

"What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!"

"Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure; it's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it."

"With "The Simpsons" you can go back to work with a keen heart."

- Joe Strummer

[mikeython1]

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. -Mary Schmich

[Caitlyn]

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. ~ Jay Leno

[Justin]

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know.”

- Blaise Pascal

[mark f]

"Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one."

"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."

"He that won't be counseled can't be helped."

"Honesty is the best policy."

- Benjamin Franklin

[Justin]

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.”

- Jean-Luc Godard

[mikeython1]

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing." -Mark Twain

[honeykid]

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. - Thomas Jefferson

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. - P.J. O'Rourke

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. - Anon

[mark f]

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."

"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."

-Mohandas Gandhi

[Caitlyn]

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ~ Kahlil Gibran

[mikeython1]

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
-Bill Cosby

[Caitlyn]

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important.
It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

*

You know ... acting is not very difficult, once you know how to do it, ...
And that's ... so beautiful, because you can say that about anything:
It's not difficult, once you know how.

*

I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids,
a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing,
but nobody offers me those kind of parts.

*

I don't need to be made to look evil. I can do that on my own.

*

I think I'm strange. I'm happy being strange.

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Christopher Walken
born 31 March 1943

Happy Birthday Chris!

[mikeython1]

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. - Mohandas Gandhi

[mark f]

"I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more. The difference between making Jaws 31 years ago and War of the Worlds is that today, anything I can imagine, I can realize on film. Then, when my mechanical shark was being repaired and I had to shoot something, I had to make the water scary. I relied on the audience's imagination, aided by where I put the camera. Today, it would be a digital shark. It would cost a hell of a lot more, but never break down. As a result, I probably would have used it four times as much, which would have made the film four times less scary. Jaws is scary because of what you don't see, not because of what you do. We need to bring the audience back into partnership with storytelling."

- Steven Spielberg

[Caitlyn]

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. ~ Charles Lamb

[zedlen]

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.
David Bowie

[mark f]

"For ten years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over. The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art."

"We decided to go ahead with [David O. Selznick] the way hedgehogs make love: verrry carefully!"

[After Peeping Tom] "When they got me on my own, [the critics] gleefully sawed off the limb and jumped up and down on the corpse."

"I am the teller of the tale, not the creator of the story."

- Michael Powell

[mikeython1]

"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away." -Bil Keane

[mark f]

"All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women."

"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."

"I like children - fried."

"I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."

- W. C. Fields

[Caitlyn]

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself
a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about
repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers
used in the struggle for independence.

~ Charles A. Beard ~

[mikeython1]

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -Michelangelo

[Caitlyn]

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;
but great minds rise above them.

~ Washington Irving ~
born 3 April 1783

[mark f]

"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."

"To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe."

- Ingmar Bergman

[mikeython1]

"You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same." -Mary Schmich

[Justin]

"I want the essence of my films to be not the words my people say or even the gestures they perform, but what these words and gestures provoke in them. What I tell them to do or say must bring to light something they had not realized they contained. The camera catches it; neither they nor I really know before it happens. The unknown is what I wish to capture."

- Robert Bresson

[mark f]

"Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up."

"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."

"I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one."

- Alfred Hitchcock

[mark f]

"I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music."

"Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress."

"I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk."

"I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people."

- P. J. Harvey

[Justin]

“You can play a shoestring if you're sincere”

- John Coltrane

[mikeython1]

"I have eyes like those of a dead pig." -Marlon Brando

[Justin]

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”

- John Lennon

[mikeython1]

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." -Rogers Hornsby

[Caitlyn]

I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love. ~ Julia Butterfly Hill

[mark f]

"I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road."

"Losing feels worse than winning feels good."

"Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination."

"You can almost taste the pressure now."

- Vin Scully http://socalsportshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vin-scully.jpg

[mark f]

"I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep."

"If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again."

- Stan Laurel

[Caitlyn]

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. ~ Lewis Thomas

[Golgot]

"But I can’t listen to music very often, it affects my nerves. I want to say sweet, silly things, and pat the little heads of people who, living in a filthy hell, can create such beauty. These days, one can’t pat anyone on the head nowadays, they might bite your hand off. Hence, those little heads must be beaten, beaten mercilessly, although ideally we are against doing any violence to people."
~Lenin, as quoted by Maxim Gorky in 'V.I. Lenin' (1924)

[mikeython1]

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." -Bill Vaughan

[Caitlyn]

The biggest trouble maker you'll ever have to deal with watches you from the mirror every morning. ~ Anonymous

[mikeython1]

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." -David Frost

[mark f]

"I always think that watching films is very like dreaming."

(On his failed attempt at bringing The Lord of the Rings to the screen) "Everything I learned, the technical problems I had to resolve in planning for 'The Lord of the Rings,' I applied to Excalibur. That was my recompense."

"I learned more from Lee Marvin about filmmaking than from anyone. He has this incredible economy and brilliant camera technique. Most actors are completely spastic when it comes to moving properly, but Lee has the economy and quickness of a dancer."

- John Boorman

[Caitlyn]

If people would only realize that if one leads a life in cooperation with Nature and not against it,
then nobody in the world need die of starvation.
~ Sepp Holzer

[honeykid]

Anything too stupid to be said is sung. - Voltaire

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon

A paranoid is a person who knows a little of what is going on. - William S. Burroughs

[Harry Lime]

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."

- Albert Camus

[mark f]

"I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb."

"I'm Mickey Mouse. They don't know who's inside the suit."

"I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone."

"What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists! [People] burn from within... sometimes they'll be in a wooden chair and the chair won't burn, but there'll be nothing left of the person. Except sometimes his teeth. Or the heart. No one speaks about this, but it's for real."

- Keanu Reeves

[Daffodil]

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened!

-Dr. Seuss. That one makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :):D

[Caitlyn]

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~ Henry David Thoreau

[zedlen]

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

[mikeython1]

"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man." - Alfred Hitchcock

[mark f]

"Our dreams are our real life. My fantasies and obsessions are not only my reality, but the stuff of which my films are made."

"Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way."

"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."

- Federico Fellini

[Caitlyn]

Only when I saw the Earth from space,
in all its ineffable beauty and fragility,
did I realize that humankind's most urgent task
is to cherish and preserve it
for future generations.

~ Sigmund Jahn, German cosmonaut ~

[Caitlyn]

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~ Robert Redford

[mikeython1]

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its 5-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. " -Captain Kirk

"Live long and prosper" -Mr. Spock

"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" -Dr. McCoy

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[mark f]

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"

"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."

- Stephen Hawking

[These Filthy Hands]

"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there is that they do not try to contact us." -Calvin to Hobbes

[Lennon]

George Bailey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/): What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001656/): I'll take it. Then what?
George Bailey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000071/): Well, then you can swallow it, and it'll all dissolve, see... and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair... am I talking too much?

[mikeython1]

"Happy Easter MoFo" -Mikeython1

[mark f]

"And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened."

- Jesus

[zedlen]

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
Marc Bolan

[Caitlyn]

Our only choice, whatever our dogma, is to protect the Earth. This is our common progress or our common ruin. There is nothing in between. ~ Barbra Ward

[Daffodil]

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

-Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernières.

[mark f]

"There is nothing quite so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."

"Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders."

"I beg permission to mention by name only four people who have given me the most affection, appreciation, encouragement and constant collaboration. The first of the four is a film editor, the second is a scriptwriter, the third is the mother of my daughter Pat, and the fourth is as fine a cook as ever performed miracles in a domestic kitchen. And their names are Alma Reville."

- Alfred Hitchcock

[These Filthy Hands]

"It's not wine. It's vinegar seasoned with evil." -Big Business

[mikeython1]

"Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?" -Ted Nugent

[These Filthy Hands]

"You should dye eggs green and them hide them in the grass. You know, make the easter egg hunt a real challenge." -My father

[mark f]

"Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers."

"I've always regretted having such a serious career because I'm really more of an idiot."

"In Hollywood, if you are a man and speak your mind openly, you're considered a man in full. But, if you are a woman and do the same, you're nothing but an annoying bitch."

- Sigourney Weaver

[mikeython1]

"He that is jealous is not in love." Saint Augustine

[linespalsy]

--You didn't seem to be resisting back there.

--It's difficult to resist a man burning with lust. I waited for that initial burst of passion to subside before I slapped him.

Nagisa Oshima, Pleasures of the Flesh (1965).

[Caitlyn]

I gave my cat a bath the other day. . .
they love it.
He sat there, he enjoyed it,
if was fun for me.
The fur would stick to my tongue,
but other than that. . .

There is one thing I would break up over,
and that is if she caught me with another woman.
I won't stand for that.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh
without making them puke

A day without sunshine is like,
you know, night.

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa198/Scissorhands_8/SteveMartin.jpg

Steve Martin
born 14 April 1945

[The Spirit]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
-Mark Twain

[The Spirit]

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."



http://wpcontent.answers.com/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4e/Curlyhoward.jpg/180px-Curlyhoward.jpg
Jerome "Curly" Howard
October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952

[mark f]

"When I was nine I played the demon king in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster."

"My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies."

"The Monster was the best friend I ever had."

- Boris Karloff

[Sleezy]

For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complex than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

Henry Beston (1888-1968)

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/beston.jpg

[mikeython1]

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world." -Eugene V. Debs

[Caitlyn]

We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability. But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two. "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~ Erwin N. Griswold

[These Filthy Hands]

"If at first you don't succeed, than skydiving is not for you." -Unknown

[The Spirit]

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart."
--Helen Keller

[Dill-man]

"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 roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes "Aww!"" - Jack Kerouac

Not an inspirational quote or anything but one of the best sentances in American literature.

[mark f]

"Quote of the Day thread, Zedlen. Quote of the Day thread."

"Suspect, I have nothing else to say except go and watch it [Blade Runner] as soon as possible."

"Sure, why not."

- Iroquois

[Caitlyn]

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies. ~ Al Gore

[Sleezy]

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love; and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/chardin.jpg

[mikeython1]

"Just can't live that negative way...make way for the positive day!" -Bob Marley

[Golgot]

"I have usually begun a play in quite a simple manner; found a couple of characters in a particular context, thrown them together and listened to what they said, keeping my nose to the ground. The context has always been, for me, concrete and particular, and the characters concrete also. I've never started a play with any kind of abstract idea or theory."

"beware of the writer who puts forward his concern for you to embrace, who leaves you in no doubt of his worthiness, his usefulness, his altruism, who declares that his heart is in the right place, and ensures that it can be seen in full view, a pulsating mass where his characters ought to be."

"There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed. The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don’t hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smokescreen. When true silence falls, we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."

~Harold Pinter in an early spikey speech on playwriting & pauses (http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/dec/31/harold-pinter-early-essay-writing)

[Dill-man]

The classic Oscar Wilde:

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative"

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth"

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying"-Oscar Wilde



Also nothing like some good quotes to question the whole point of this thread:

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"

"Quotation is a servicible substitute for wit"

:cool:

http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/10/oscar_wilde.jpg

[Harry Lime]

"All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

[mikeython1]

"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life." -Marcus Aurelius

[Sleezy]

"If somebody ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!"

--Malcolm Reynolds

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/mal.jpg

[mark f]

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence, University education.”

“A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”

“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”

“Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.”

“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

- George Bernard Shaw

[Sleezy]

http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/10/oscar_wilde.jpg

I've always thought Clancy Brown resembled Oscar Wilde to an uncanny degree. Am I crazy?

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/clancybrown.jpg

Oh, and while I'm at it, here's a humorous Clancy Brown quote:

"All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well."

--Clancy Brown

[Silas]

I always thought Oscar Wilde looked like Stephen Fry


http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/10/oscar_wilde.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/katzk/celebs/stephen001.jpg


Probably not the best photo to resemble them.


It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
Stephen Fry

[Sleezy]

"If you befriend your enemy, have you not defeated them?"

Abraham Lincoln

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/lincoln2.jpg

[honeykid]

I always thought Oscar Wilde looked like Stephen Fry


http://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/10/oscar_wilde.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v13/katzk/celebs/stephen001.jpg


It was the role he was born to play. Good film too. Both he and Jude Law were great.

[mark f]

"I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host."

- Dorothy Parker

[Justin]

“If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.”

- Conan O'Brien

[Caitlyn]

If we were intended to talk more than we hear, we'd have two mouths and only one ear. ~ Anonymous

[Silas]

Romantic Ireland is dead and gone its with o Leary in the grave


William Butler Yeats

September 1913

[Sleezy]

"Love is short. Forgetting is so long."

Pablo Neruda

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/neruda.jpg

[Dill-man]

Another classic man oft quoted: Mr. Henry David Thoreau. Some of my favorites:

-"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

-"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

-"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

-"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."

-"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

-"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

-"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

-"I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born."

The classic quote:

-"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes." :D

http://z.hubpages.com/u/87632_f260.jpg

(He is a top 3 contender for best beard in history)

[Harry Lime]

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Sleezy]

"Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

--The sorrowful epitaph inscribed on the gravestone of John Keats (who requested it), one of the most celebrated poets of the English Romantic movement, whose work became notable only after his death at age 26.

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/keats.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/keats_gravestone.jpg

[Daffodil]

"Words are loaded pistols."
~Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it."
~Greta Garbo

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
~Thornton Wilder

"Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, they're from Georgia. But us Virginia girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin'. And if we have an opinion, you know you're gonna hear it."
~Ashley Judd

"In the end, everything is a gag."
~Charlie Chaplin
http://www.born-today.com/btpix/chaplin_charles1.jpg

[mikeython1]

"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money" -W.C. Fields

[mark f]

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

- Mark Twain

[Harry Lime]

Mark Twain, master of the quote!

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

[Caitlyn]

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner

[mark f]

"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony"

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

- Robert Benchley

[Daffodil]

"The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist."
~Piet Hein

"Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead."
~Jim Valvano

"We called him 'mumbles.' He didn't speak his words very loud. The sound man was always saying, 'Kid, speak up!' But he mumbled his way to a fortune."
~Sheb Wooley on Clint Eastwood

[Iroquois]

"Let's go fishing for a dream." - Tobias Jones

[mikeython1]

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree." -Albert Einstein

[Sleezy]

"The (American) Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

Alexis de Tocqueville

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/alexis.jpg

My 2,000th post. :)

[Dill-man]

I'll continue along the theme me and HarryLime kinda have done (Transcendentalists. Well kinda, people argue whether he is or not)

Walt Whitman

-"Be curious, not judgmental."

-"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."

-"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

-"I accept reality and dare not question it."

-"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."

I find this one particularly provocative:

-"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

http://ginavivinetto.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/walt_whitman1.jpg

[Caitlyn]

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

~ Abraham Lincoln



http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff97/ashishkankaria1302/Lincoln.jpg

[mark f]

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

- Nelson Mandela

[mikeython1]

"The good man is the friend of all living things." - Mohandas Gandhi

[Harry Lime]

"There is no truth. There is only perception."

- Gustave Flaubert

[mark f]

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."

- Orson Welles

[Caitlyn]

All of us have a God in us,
and that God is the spirit that unites all life,
everything that is on this planet.
It must be this voice that is telling me to do something,
and I am sure it's the same voice
that is speaking to everybody on this planet -
at least everybody who seems to be concerned
about the fate of the world,
the fate of this planet.

~ Wangari Maathai ~


Happy Earth Day

[mikeython1]

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[mack]

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow

[linespalsy]

--Cough, cough! Hiro, what in the world are you burning!?
--My youth.
--Well... I'd really much rather you burn those porno magazines under your bed, first... you know.
--Those... are my life.

Mitsuru Adachi, H2.

[mark f]

"Comedy comes from inside. It comes from your face. It comes from your body."

"The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience."

"The spectacle of a fat man slipping on an icy sidewalk never fails to get a laugh. The same is true of a man attempting to drive a nail and mashing his finger in the process, or a man with his arms full of bundles attempting to keep his hat from blowing off. These things are funny because they have happened to all of us and probably will happen again. They are trying experiences for the individuals involved and we sympathize with them. But we laugh, nevertheless because they are human touches."

- Harold Lloyd

[zedlen]

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.
William Shakespeare

[mikeython1]

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." -Will Rogers

[honeykid]

A few last words.

Am I dying or is this my birthday?
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964

Now comes the mystery.
~~ Henry Ward Beecher, evangelist, d. March 8, 1887

I'm bored with it all.
Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.
~~ Winston Churchill, statesman, d. January 24, 1965

[Dill-man]

Winston Churchill

-"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

-"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

-"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." :rolleyes:

-"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

-"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

-"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

http://www.loeser.us/examples/himages/wc4.jpg

[Caitlyn]

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
(MacBeth)

*

One touch of nature
makes the whole world kin.
(Troilus and Cressida)

*

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition;
oft got without merit,
and lost without deserving.
(Othello)

*

Cowards die many times before their deaths
The valiant never taste of death but once.
(Julius Caesar)

*

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
(Macbeth)

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o189/premogirl17/william-shakespeare.jpg


William Shakespeare
Born 23 April 1564 - died 23 April 1616

[7thson]

The last thing I want to be remembered by is my ability to spell. Oh yeah, that and bisqits.


~ my Dad.:cool:

[mark f]

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

[mikeython1]

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths." -Steven Wright

[Caitlyn]

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ~ John Burroughs

[Dill-man]

Socrates

-"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

-"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." :p

-"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

-"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

-"The unexamined life is not worth living."

-"Wisdom begins in wonder."

-"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."

http://contactfront.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/socrates.jpg

[mark f]

"People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine."

"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."

"Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton."

- David Letterman

[mikeython1]

"I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."- Andy Warhol

[mark f]

"When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it."

"Despite this discussion of things spiritual - I still think of myself as a very 'human' being. I have the full complement of weaknesses, fears, problems, ego, and sensuality. But I think this is why we're here - to work our way through all this, and, hopefully, come out a bit wiser and better for having gone through it all."

"I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day with a good frame of reference. As part of my prayers, I thank whoever is helping me - I'm sure that somebody or something is - I express gratitude for all my blessings and try to forgive the people that I'm feeling negative toward. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems."

- Jim Henson

[Harry Lime]

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

- Plato

[mark f]

"Aye, but how do you tell which ones those are?"

- mark f

[Harry Lime]

"You don't need to, it's the others you should notice. They are the ones seeking to gain."

- harry l

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

- Plato

[Caitlyn]

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.

A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
died 27 April 1882

[Sleezy]

But learn this; I would rather take my part
With God's Dead, who afford to walk in white
Yet spread His glory, than keep quiet here
And gather up my feet from even a step
For fear to soil my gown in so much dust.
I choose to walk at all risks.

-- E.B. Browning

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j38/iusreview/ebbrowning.jpg

[Dill-man]

Michelangelo

-"Genius is eternal patience."

-"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

-"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."

-"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

-"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it."

-"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."

-"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Michelango_Portrait_by_Volterra.jpg

[mikeython1]

"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[John McClane]

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." -Winston Churchill

"In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten." -Paul Tillich

[Harry Lime]

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."

- Leonardo da Vinci

[mark f]

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."

"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."

- Jean Cocteau

[mikeython1]

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."
-Tony Robbins

[Caitlyn]

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view -
until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

(Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird)

~ Harper Lee
born 28 April 1926

[Dill-man]

T.S. Eliot

-"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."

-"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."

-"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."

-"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

-"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."

-"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

-"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

-"There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him."

-"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."

These last two remind me of 2001: A Space Odyssey,

-"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

-"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

http://sophiawellbelovedpoetry.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/eliot1.jpg

[honeykid]

Those at the top of the greasiest pole are the one's with the stickiest fingers. - honeykid

With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life. - P.J. O'Rourke

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. - Amanda Cross

[mark f]

"How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas, 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover'? This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001."

"I believe Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio De Sica and Federico Fellini are the only three filmmakers in the world who are not just artistic opportunists. By this I mean they don't just sit and wait for a good story to come along and then make it. They have a point of view which is expressed over and over and over again in their films, and they themselves write or have original material written for them."

"Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car."

- Stanley Kubrick

[Godoggo]

"Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end."~Immanuel Kant

(http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/i/immanuelka130694.html)

[mikeython1]

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." -John Lennon

[Dill-man]

Woody Allen

-"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

-"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

-"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

-"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. "

-"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."

-"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."

-"It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more."

-"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/3/Celebrity-Image-Woody-Allen-233427.jpg

[mark f]

"If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy."

"If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk."

"I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage."

- Conan O'Brien

[Caitlyn]

I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense.
It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western.
An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

..the eyes are the most important element to me. Everything can be read in them..

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema.
So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

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Sergio Leone
died 30 April 1989

[mikeython1]

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals." -Malcom X

[Sedai]

"I mean...I like math, I think it's important. It orders the mind, and also, and this is important, it teaches people to think critically about other issues, and it teaches you not to believe something unless it is proven. This is an important concept in today's political world." - Jerry Bowyer

[Golgot]

"If you want to end up with the politics of Pakistan, the economy of Ukraine and the inflation rate of Zimbabwe, bank nationalization is the way to go."

~Peter Boone and Simon Johnson (http://baselinescenario.com/2009/01/27/to-save-the-banks-we-must-stand-up-to-the-bankers/) on the US being a lot like an IMF-debtor 'banana republic', but full-on nationalization would be a mistake.

---

Johnson was the IMF's chief economist for a bit, so when he suggests the US is also acting like a banana republic by foolishly placating it's finance-sector elite (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice), he might be right ;)

[mark f]

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

- Marcus Aurelius

[mikeython1]

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." -George Edward Woodberry

[mark f]

Some quotes Bogie made in his movies:

"You know the story. Most of my life in jail; the rest of it dead!" - Duke Mantee, The Petrified Forest (1936)

"Nothing for nothing, kid." - "Baby Face" Martin, Dead End (1937)

"Now, listen Mac. I don't care how you handle Sullivan. But it's got to look like an accident with that priest." - James Frazier, Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

"I always say, when you got a job to do, get somebody else to do it." - George Hally, The Roaring Twenties (1939)

"Of all the 14 karat saps... starting out on a caper with a woman and a dog." - Roy Earle, High Sierra (1941)

To be continued...

[mikeython1]

"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" -Christina Aguilera

[mark f]

Some more Bogie character quotes...

"You're good. You're very good." - Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon (1941)

"I don't mind dying, but I hate to be divided up into small pieces." - Gloves Donahue, All Through the Night (1941)

"When you're slapped, you're gonna take it and like it." - Rick Leland, Across the Pacific (1942)

"I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one." - Rick Blaine, Casablanca (1942)

"My, my, my! Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains! You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail." - Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep (1946)

More to come...

[mikeython1]

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Caitlyn]

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent-which is so thick
that it's almost opaque-over a quite unbelievable term of years.

Once or twice I've been described as a light comedian.
I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I've ever seen.

He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
[his own epitaph]


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Bing Crosby
born 3 May 1903

[honeykid]

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner

[mikeython1]

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[Caitlyn]

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness;
and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.


Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm,
as you get older, remember you have another hand:
The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.


The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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Audrey Hepburn
born 4 May 1929

[Dill-man]

Thomas Jefferson

-"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

-"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

-"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness."

-"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

-"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

http://misterdiplomat.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/thomas-jefferson-president.jpg

[mark f]

Bogie Time.

"She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up." - Philip Marlowe, The Big Sleep (1946)

"My only interest in your head is how easy it'll crack open." - Vincenr Parry, Dark Passage (1947)

"Can you help a fellow American down on his luck?"
"Nobody puts one over on Fred C. Dobbs."
"Let's see, three times 35 - is a hundred and five. I'll bet you 105,000 dollars that you go to sleep before I do." - Fred C. Dobbs, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

[honeykid]

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. - Dick Werthimer

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. - George Aiken

[Harry Lime]

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

- Albert Einstein

[Caitlyn]

If they aren't able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won't break you. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Bobby Sands
died 5 May 1981

[mikeython1]

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there." -Bo Jackson

[mark f]

Bogart strikes again!

"One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for." - Frank McCloud, Key Largo (1948)

"Well, I grant you, the jokes could've been better, but I don't see why the rest should worry you - that is, unless you plan to arrest me on lack of emotion." - Dixon Steele, In a Lonely Place (1950)

"Any outfit that has got its own undertaker is operating on a pretty big scale." - Martin Ferguson, The Enforcer (1951)

"Well, I ain't sorry no more, you crazy, psalm-singing, skinny old maid!" - Charlie Allnut, The African Queen (1951)

"I don't like him. I'll think of a reason later." - Ed Hutcheson, Deadline - U.S.A. (1951)

[linespalsy]

The s**t and the man are not coming out at the same time. First comes the s**t.

Adachi Mitsuru, H2

[mark f]

Bogie Strikes Again!

"I've got to have money. Doctor's orders are that I must have a lot of money, otherwise I become dull, listless and have trouble with my complexion." - Billy Dannreuther, Beat the Devil (1953)

"Mr. Maryk, you may tell the crew for me that there are four ways of doing things aboard my ship: The right way, the wrong way, the Navy way, and my way. They do things my way, and we'll get along."
"Keith - you're an idiot!"
"This is the captain speaking. Some misguided sailors on this ship still think they can pull a fast one on me. Well, they're very much mistaken. Since you've taken this course, the innocent will be punished with the guilty. There will be no liberty for any member of this crew for three months. I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?"
"Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers... " - Capt. Queeg, The Caine Mutiny

[Harry Lime]

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

- Albert Einstein

I think it's a toss-up between Einstein and Twain for my favourite person to quote.

[mikeython1]

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." -Lily Tomlin

[mark f]

"Look at me. Joe College, with a touch of arthritis."
"Oh never resist an impulse, Sabrina. Especially if it's terrible." - Linus Larrabee, Sabrina (1954)

""Life, every now and then, behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies, when everything fits too well - the beginning, the middle, the end - from fade-in to fade-out." - Harry Dawes, The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

"I'll say one thing about prison. You meet a better class of people." - Joseph, We're No Angels (1955)

Some more Bogart character quotes.

[mikeython1]

"A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running." -Groucho Marx

[mark f]

Bye Bye Bogie.

"You listen to your old man, kid. He knows where it's buttered."
"You haven't got it in you, Pop." - Glenn Griffin, The Desperate Hours (1955)

"He knocked out 38 guys in a row. None of them went over three rounds. You believe that one and I'll tell you another."
"What do you care what a bunch of bloodthirsty, screaming people think of you? Did you ever get a look at their faces? They pay a few lousy bucks hoping to see a man get killed. To hell with them! Think of yourself. Get your money and get out of this rotten business."
"Money's not evil in and of itself. The purpose for which it's used is the determining factor." - Eddie Willis, The Harder They Fall (1956)

[mikeython1]

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war." -John F. Kennedy

[mark f]

"I really am looking for absolution for all the things I had to do for money's sake."

"I didn't want to be ground up in the Hollywood hash machine."

"My film Hannibal actually should have been the tragedy of a man at that point in history when he sees his society dying and can see with his eyes what good will come - he cannot destroy it. But Warner Brothers threw [his motivation] out - "much too philosophical". It was foolish."

- Edgar G. Ulmer, director of the seminal noir Detour which has my femme fatale Vera (Ann Savage)

[honeykid]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. - Bruce Cockburn

[mark f]

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

- Audrey Hepburn

[mark f]

"A director must be pretty bad if he can't get a thrill out of war, murder, robbery."

"Karloff's face fascinated me. I made drawings of his head, adding sharp bony ridges where I imagined the skull might have joined."

"The spine-chilling effect of Paul Robeson's 'Ol' Man River' sequence was something I shall never forget."

- James Whale, director of Frankenstein and Show Boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s

[Caitlyn]

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot,
and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

*

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

*

I do this real moron thing, it's called thinking,
and I'm not a very good American because
I like to form my own opinions.

*

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e250/classic_flirt00/george.jpg

George Carlin
born 12 May 1937

[mikeython1]

"I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face." -Jason Bateman

[n3wt]

Every fight is a food fight when you’re a cannibal. - Demetri Martin

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. - Bill Cosby

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. - Albert Einstein

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on. - Billy Connolly

[Golgot]

“As a means of uncovering truth, the experimental method is superior to intuition.”

“Their lives were too human for science, too beautiful for numbers, too sad for diagnosis and too immortal for bound journals."

~George Vaillant (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness), current head of the 7-decade Harvard 'wellbeing' study, discussing his subject & subjects.

[mark f]

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should ALL be bigger than life."

"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it. It's just that there's nothing in it for me."

"The male ego, with few exceptions, is elephantine to start with."

"Margo Channing (her character in All About Eve) was not a bitch. She was an actress who was getting older and was not too happy about it. And why should she be? Anyone who says that life begins at 40 is full of it. As people get older their bodies begin to decay. They get sick. They forget things. What's good about that?"

- Bette Davis

[Caitlyn]

We are the people our parents warned us about. ~ Jimmy Buffett

[mark f]

"I'm not going to make movies that tell children, 'You should despair and run away'."

"Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy."

"I can't believe companies distribute my movies in America. They're baffling in Japan! I'm well aware there are spots where I'm going to lose the audience. Well, it's magic. I don't provide unnecessary explanations. If you want that, you're not going to like my movie. That's just the way it is."

"When I think about the way the computer has taken over and eliminated a certain experience of life, that makes me sad. When we were animating fire some staff said they had never seen wood burning. I said, "Go watch!" It has disappeared from their daily lives. Japanese baths used to be made by burning firewood. Now you press a button. I don't think you can become an animator if you don't have any experience."

- Hayao Miyazaki

[mikeython1]

"Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come." -Lucy Larcom

[Caitlyn]

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger…for the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's we endure help us in our marching onward. ~ Henry Ford

[mark f]

"How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor."

"He's my style. Jean Renoir's good for actors. Renoir obviously loves actors and understands actors, and Grand Illusion, which I saw recently, is so modern that it could have been made this year - the acting and the staging of it are absolutely modern and true."

"In some of her films Judy Garland showed talent which was very comic and touching. Touching because she played with a bright smile and a great spirit, while the situation was rather dramatic, even tragic perhaps. She had in fact a quality which can only be compared to Charles Chaplin's heartbreaking quality: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive, against poverty, against desperate situations - and that's when Judy is at her best."

"That Valentino was certainly a very splendid fellow. And his unique glamor was not entirely due to the fact that he was unhampered by banal dialogue. Modern dialogue is not always banal, and the screen hero who could match Valentino's posturing technique with an equally polished vocal technique has a perfectly fair chance of becoming his romantic peer. It was his magnetism and dignity that assured him a peak of magnificent isolation."

- James Mason