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Posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
I thought it might be fun for us to share some favorite quotes. I'll probably add more later, but here are a few to start us off:
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." -Richard Bach
"My cat's breath smells like cat food." -Ralph Wiggum (The Simpsons)
"So it goes." -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Posted by Emily Elizabeth on January 17, 2010, at 9:57:34
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
"I put my heart and my soul into my work and I have lost my mind in the process" --Vincent Van Gogh
"There is no snooze alarm on a cat who wants breakfast" --unknown
Great thread!! :)
EE
Posted by obsidian on January 17, 2010, at 12:29:29
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher
something Lennon said..."Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans"
Gandhi.."We must be the change we want to see in the world."
"Go placidly amongst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence"...or something like that
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
-Steven Wright
Posted by obsidian on January 17, 2010, at 12:32:33
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and
looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years
later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their
deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, "So.
What did you think?" -- Steven Wright
Posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 14:38:36
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by obsidian on January 17, 2010, at 12:29:29
There's always Dostoevsky
>Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
Posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 15:29:27
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 14:38:36
I am of course notoriously hooked on cigarettes. I keep hoping the things will kill me. A fire at one end and a fool at the other.
* Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey
Posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 15:33:02
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 15:29:27
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 15:40:54
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 15:33:02
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran
Posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 16:03:09
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
Great contributions, everyone!
"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know." -Groucho Marx
Posted by inanimate peanut on January 17, 2010, at 18:01:49
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
I'm too anxious to think of a famous quote at the moment, but I had to take a moment and laugh at my old over-achieving self whose quote always was "Shoot for the moon-- even if you miss, you'll land among the stars"
Posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 20:51:53
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by inanimate peanut on January 17, 2010, at 18:01:49
Why not, one from King Lear, a prayer one might wish from our rulers and financiers
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en
Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,
That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,
And show the heavens more just.
Posted by Phillipa on January 17, 2010, at 21:25:32
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Sigismund on January 17, 2010, at 20:51:53
Just Do It Nike. Well it's a favorite what can I say? Phillipa
Posted by janejane on January 18, 2010, at 7:05:29
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Emily Elizabeth on January 17, 2010, at 9:57:34
EE- love the van Gogh quote, and can totally relate to the kitty one.
Obsidian- That Lennon quote is in the song "Beautiful Boy," isn't it? I haven't listened to that one in a long time. And Steven Wright is a riot.
Sigismund- Nice selection! Vonnegut is always a favorite.
Peanut- I see this one as being along similar lines as the Richard Bach quote I gave above, though more poetic than his. This is a good reminder not to settle for mediocrity.
Phillipa- A classic. Simple yet empowering.
Good job, everyone! Please add more.
"There are times when we cannot see one step ahead of us, but five years later we are eating and sleeping somewhere." -Chrysis.
Posted by Roslynn on January 18, 2010, at 12:35:37
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 18, 2010, at 7:05:29
A great thread!
Here are two I thought of.
From Martha Manning's book Undercurrents:"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."-Leonard Cohen, Anthem
From John 1:5:
"The Light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not overcome it."
Posted by Sigismund on January 18, 2010, at 15:46:43
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Roslynn on January 18, 2010, at 12:35:37
There is a real tombstone somewhere with
God She Was Thine
written on it, but the engraver ran out of room and put the last e on the back.
Posted by floatingbridge on January 18, 2010, at 16:44:13
In reply to Favorite quotations, posted by janejane on January 17, 2010, at 7:48:37
an anecdote allowed?
An Inuit man says to a missionary priest, "If one never knew about sin, would they still go to hell?" And the priest answers, "Of course not." "Then why," asks the Inuit man, "did you tell me?"
From the New Yorker: a man on an anyalst's couch:
"I'm really nothing. But I'm all I can think about."
Posted by janejane on January 19, 2010, at 14:08:19
In reply to Re: Favorite quotations, posted by Roslynn on January 18, 2010, at 12:35:37
Roslynn- you remind me that I have to look up Leonard Cohen. People have told me I would like his music.
Sigismund- I'm sure many women would love to remembered as thin. ;-)
fb- Great point! Also, I totally identify with the client in the second one.
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." -Richard Bach
(Yes, another one from Bach. Illusions is an odd little book, very quotable.)
Posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:00:26
In reply to Quote of the day, posted by janejane on January 19, 2010, at 14:08:19
There is a beginning. There is no beginning of that beginning. There is no beginning of that no beginning of beginning. There is something. There is nothing. There is something before the beginning of something and nothing, and something before that. Suddenly there is something and nothing. But between something and nothing, I still don't really know which is something and which is nothing. Now, I've just said something, but I don't really know whether I've said anything or not.
All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?
Posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:22:18
In reply to Quote of the day, posted by janejane on January 19, 2010, at 14:08:19
I saw him...he was just like this....a high point of my life.....the best concert anyone could remember....quite unusually wonderful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e39UmEnqY8
"Anthem"
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.Ring the bells that still can ring ...
You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
Posted by janejane on January 21, 2010, at 11:28:04
In reply to Re: Quote of the day, posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:22:18
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow." -Helen Keller
I'm not sure I totally agree with this one (since shadows can be very insistent), but I do believe that optimism is usually a good policy.
Posted by janejane on January 21, 2010, at 11:45:40
In reply to Chuang Tzu, posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:00:26
You have intrigued me. (Thanks.)
Posted by Roslynn on January 22, 2010, at 17:08:15
In reply to Re: Quote of the day, posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:22:18
Sigismund,
Thank you for posting the whole thing! I especially like the first part.
Roslynn
Posted by Sigismund on January 22, 2010, at 17:52:37
In reply to Re: Quote of the day » Sigismund, posted by Roslynn on January 22, 2010, at 17:08:15
I read what is known as the "Chuang Tzu" in 1970 something. It's very funny in parts, a sort of ancient spiritual anarchist text. I must get it. I'd like to have it around. Those quotes I just got off the internet.
Posted by floatingbridge on January 22, 2010, at 18:01:18
In reply to Chuang Tzu, posted by Sigismund on January 19, 2010, at 16:00:26
Yes, I enjoyed this, too. A smidge of Beckett, a pinch of Gertrude's Stein. Who translated? (Of course I have no idea who Chuang Tzu, though I suspect I should.)
Thanks sigi
Posted by Sigismund on January 22, 2010, at 18:56:13
In reply to Re: Chuang Tzu » Sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on January 22, 2010, at 18:01:18
At school they put on Waiting for Godot. I didn't have a clue what it was about. It seemed very boring. Now it cracks me up. One of the first groups to hear it was a group of prisoners, who were apparently able to grasp it. You might have thought I would have been able to, being in a boarding school, but maybe the native optimism of youth ruined it. How can you be so dense? For example
> What do we do now?
ESTRAGON:
Wait.
VLADIMIR:
Yes, but while waiting.
ESTRAGON:
What about hanging ourselves?
VLADIMIR:
Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
ESTRAGON:
(highly excited). An erection!
VLADIMIR:
With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that?
ESTRAGON:
Let's hang ourselves immediately!
VLADIMIR:
From a bough? (They go towards the tree.) I wouldn't trust it.
ESTRAGON:
We can always try.
VLADIMIR:
Go ahead.
ESTRAGON:
After you.
VLADIMIR:
No no, you first.
ESTRAGON:
Why me?
VLADIMIR:
You're lighter than I am.
ESTRAGON:
Just so!
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