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The Producers (2005 film)

The Producers is a 2005 film starring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Uma Thurman about down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock who, after putting together another Broadway flop, teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
 * Directed by Susan Stroman. Written by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan.

Max Bialystock

 * [To Leo] Well, you know what they say: "smile and the world smiles with you." [to bust] This man should be in a straightjacket!

 * There's a lot more to you than there is to you! [mouthed] What the fuck?

 * Dear Lord... I want that money!

 * Please make audition - make audition allll over the office.

 * [to Ulla] Even though we're sitting down, we're giving you a standing ovation.

 * Hold me touch me, where is hold me touch me...Hold me touch me, Hold me touch me... Kiss me feel me, Lick me bite me, Yank me spank me, Suck me fu... ah! Hold me touch me!

 * [reading a play] As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a giant cock-a-roach. [speaking] Nah, too good.

 * [holding play] Smell it. Touch it. Kiss it. Kiss it! It's the mother lode...

 * I'll send you to the moon Thursday. I may even join you.

 * Shut up! I'm having a rhetorical conversation!

 * For once, I would love to see someone on that couch who's under eighty-five!

 * [After Ulla has painted the entire room white, he goes to the safe with the tax books] ...She painted over the numbers...

 * [after seeing Franz perform at the auditions] THAT'S OUR HITLER!

 * Let's get out of here before they kill us.

 * We got the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did we go right?

 * Leo, you are nervous, over-stimulated. GIVE ME THOSE FRIGGIN' BOOKS!

 * What are you shooting at us for, you teutonic TWIT?!

 * [with a very high Irish accent] And now I'll be on me way, before me voice gets any higher! As we say in the old country... [normal voice] TAXI!

 * [reading a postcard] Dear Max, Rio is everything you said it was and more. Ulla and i think of you every chance we get. In the morning, when we have Breakfast on our Terrace, many different Herrings. In the afternoon, we rub each other's sun-drenched bodies with Banana Cream Coconut Oil, Number 15. And then, in the evening, when we samba together in the moonlight.... Sorry, must run, Ulla's waiting. It's almost 11, wish you were here. Your pal, Leo!

 * I'm drowning here! I'm going down for the last time! I... I... I see my whole life flashing before my eyes! I see a weathered old farmhouse... With a white picket fence... I'm running through fields of alfalfa with my collie, Rex. No Rex, not on the alfalfa! And I see my mother... I see Mama, standing on the back porch, in a worn but clean gingham gown... And I hear my mama calling out to me..."Alvin, don't forget your chores! The wood needs a-cordin' and the cows need a-milkin'! Alvin! Alvin!"... Wait a minute. My name's not Alvin. That's not my life. Someone else's life is flashing before my eyes... WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT?! I'm not a hillbilly, I grew up in the Bronx! Leo's taken everything... even my past!

 * [to a prisoner in Sing Sing] What are you in for, lack of rhythm?

Leo Bloom

 * And what a day! In the same day I have taken the Siegfried oath, I've danced with a cop, a sailor and an extremely friendly Cherokee Indian.

 * When's it gonna be Bloomsday?

 * I want everything I've ever seen in the movies!

 * [Going hysterical, and pointing at Bialystock] FAT! FAT! FAT-FAT-FATTY-FAT!!!

 * Mr. Bialystock, I'm afraid you've made a terrible error in judgement. You've mistaken me for someone with a spine.

 * Stop the world! I wanna get on!

 * I'm not going into the toilet! I'm going into show business!

 * You were right about one thing. You are a CPA - a certified public asshole!

 * MY BLUE BLANKET! GIVE ME BACK MY BLUE BLANKET!! AAAAARGH!

 * [Hysterical, as Bialystock is standing over him] You're gonna jump on me! You're gonna jump on me! I know you're gonna jump on me and squash me like a bug! PLEASE DON'T JUMP ON ME! [Max jumps in place, screaming "I'm not gonna jump on you - get a hold of yourself!]

 * I'M HYSTERICAL! I'M HYSTERICAL! (Bialystock splashes him with a glass of water) ... I'M WET! I'M WET! I'M WET AND I'M HYSTERICAL! (Bialystock then slaps him) ...I'M IN PAIN! I'M IN PAIN AND I'M WET AND I'M STILL HYSTERICAL!

Franz Liebkind

 * Broadway! I haven't been zis happy since we crushed Poland!

 * Stop moving! How can I shoot you if you keep moving?!

 * Zis is no good! I'm not killing anyone!

 * [Finding Max and Leo under a desk] You sniveling cowards! Cringing under a desk. Clinging on for life like baby butterflies! I am going to show you how to die like a man! [points gun at self, attempts to shoot three times but is unsuccessful] Boy, when things go wrong. [throws gun on couch, shot fires]

 * Hilda, where are you going? Argentina's that way!

 * I was never a member of the Nazi Party! I only followed orders! I had nothing to do with the war! I didn't even know there was a war on! We lived at the back, near Switzerland. All we heard was yodeling... yodel le he hoo! Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo, Yodelay, Yodelay, Yodelay - WHO ARE YOU!?!

 * I must tell my birds!

 * Zis man could never play Adolf Hitler! Ze Führer wasn't a mousy little mama's boy! Ze Führer was BUTCH! And zat is not how you sing 'Haben Sie gehört das Deutsche band'! Zis is how you sing 'Haben Sie gehört das Deutsche band'!

 * AQAP! [pause] As kvick as possible!

 * Not many people know zis, but ze Führer was descended from a long line of English kveens.

 * Not many people know zis, but ze Führer was a terrific dancer.

 * Gott in Himmel!

 * That's because you were taken in by the BBC! FILTHY BRITISH LIES! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL! BLEUGH! With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN! Hitler - there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!

 * [Whispered at the end of the credits] Don't forget to buy... Mein Kampf... in paperback... available near you... at Border's Books... or Barnes & Noble... und Amazon.com... guten tag.

Roger De Bris

 * I shall have to think about it - I'll do it.

 * [signing his name] Roger Elizabeth DeBris!

 * Quick darling, back in the closet!

 * You mean that smell is you? Oh GOD. If I could bottle you, I'd shove you under my armpits every day.

 * Of course that whole second act has to be rewritten. They're losing the war? Excuse me? It's too downbeat!

 * [singing] Keep it happy, keep it snappy, keep it gay!

 * [sung as Hitler] I was just a paper hanger no one more obscurer. Got a phone call from the Reichstag told me I was Führer. Germany was blue What, oh, what to do? Hitched up my pants and conquered France. Now Deutschland's smiling through! It ain't no mystery if it's politics or history. The thing you've got to know is everything is showbiz!

 * [singing] I see a line of beautiful girls dressed as stormtroopers each one a gem. With leather boots and whips on their hips. It's risque, dare I say, S&M! I see German soldiers dancing through France played by chorus boys in very tight pants. And wait there's more! THEY WIN THE WAR! And the dances they do will be daring and new. Turn turn kick turn, turn turn kick turn, one two three kick turn! Keep it sassy, keep it classy, keep it gay.

 * [sung] I'm the German Ethel Merman don't cha know?!

 * I'm supposed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, but I think I look more like the Chrysler Building!
 * Carmen,call in a singing Hitler,please.

Carmen Ghia

 * And so the rule is, when mounting a... play. Keep it sunny, keep it funny, keep it gay.

 * Roger, We're not alone...

 * May I take your hats, your coats, and your Swastikas?

 * [When he answers the door] Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss...ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss? Max: I- Carmen Ghia: Ssssssss?

 * Hello, the living room of renowned theatrical director Roger Debris, in an elegant eastside townhouse on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in June. Who may I say is calling? [Got angry] Listen, you broken down old queen, he was drunk, he was hot, you got lucky, don't ever call here again! [Roger in other room] Who was that!? Wrong number!

 * If your intention was to shoot an arrow through my heart...Bullseye!
 * Yes darling... Roger.

Ulla

 * [sung] Violinists love to play an E-string, but audiences really love a G-string!

 * Secretary-slash-receptionist? Okie-slash-dokie!

 * Why Bloom go so far camera right?

 * Ulla wake up at five A.M. every day. From five to seven, Ulla like to exercise. From seven to eight, Ulla like to take long shower. From eight to nine, Ulla like to have big Swedish breakfast. Many different herrings. From nine to eleven, Ulla like to practice her singing and her dancing. And at eleven, Ulla like to have sex. ... What time should I get here? (Max and Leo respond synchronicity - "Eleven")

Others

 * Brazilian Samba Performer: [Sung] You'll find your happiness in Rio! The beaches there are strewn with pearls! The latin breezes always blow there! And so, we hear, do the girls!

 * Sing Sing Prison Guard: Gentlemen, you are hereby granted a full pardon for having - through song and dance - brought joy and laughter into the hearts of every murderer, rapist, and sex maniac in Sing Sing! You're free!

 * Stormtrooper "Mel": Don't be stupid, be a smartie. Come and join the Nazi Party.

 * Mr. Marks: Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?

 * Stormtrooper "Rolf": I was born in Düsseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf.

Dialogue

 * Max: I was a protege of the great Boris Tomashevsky. He taught me everything I know. I'll never forget, he turned to me on his death bed and said: "Maxella, alle menschen muss zu machen, jeden tug a gentzen kachen!"
 * Nun: What does that mean?
 * Max: Who knows, I don't speak Yiddish. Strangely enough, neither did he. But in my heart, I knew what he was saying. He was saying when you're down and out and everybody thinks you're finished, that's the time to stand up on your two feet and shout: "Who do you have to fuck to get a break in this stinking town?"

 * Max: Do you know who I am?
 * Leo: You are Max Bialystock, King of BROADWAY!
 * Max: No, I am Max Bialystock - that's right!

 * Max: Whatta ya say, Bloom?
 * Leo: [sung] What do I say? Finally a chance to be a Broadway producer! What do I say? Finally a chance to make my dreams come true, sir! What do I say? What do I say? Here's what I say to you, sir... I can't do it!

 * Leo: I'm a fountain?
 * Max: [yelling] Yes, you're a fountain!

 * Max: The two cardinal rules of producing are one: Never put your own money in the show.
 * Leo: And two?
 * Max: [yelling] Never put your own money in the show!

 * Leo and Max: We can do it! We can do it!
 * Max: Every show I touch I doom!
 * Leo and Max: We were fated, To be mated, We're Bialystock and Bloom!

 * Carmen Ghia: He's having a stroke.
 * Max: What?!
 * Carmen Ghia: Of genius!!

 * Franz Liebkind: [Making Max and Leo take the Siegfried Oath] Raise Your right forefingers! I solemnly svear...
 * Leo and Max: [holding up their right forefingers] I solemnly svear...
 * Franz Liebkind: To obey ze Zacred Siegfried Oas...
 * Leo and Max: To obey the Sacred Siegfried Oath...
 * Franz Liebkind: Und!
 * Max: [Switching to his middle finger] Und!
 * Leo: [Switching to his middle finger] Und!
 * Franz Liebkind: [Wagging his finger] Never, Never, Never!
 * Leo and Max: [Flipping Franz off] Never, Never, Never.
 * Franz Liebkind: Dishoner ze spirit und ze memory of Adolf Elizabeth Hitler.
 * Leo and Max: Dishonor the spirit and the... Elizabeth?
 * Franz Liebkind: Jah. Dat vas his middle name. Not many people know it, but der Führer vas descended from a long line of English qveens.
 * [long pause]
 * Max: Is that right?
 * Leo and Max: [shrugging] Adolf ELIZABETH Hitler.

 * Franz Liebkind: You know, not many people know zis, but der Führer was a terrific dancer.
 * Max: Really? Gee, we didn't know that, did we, Leo?
 * Leo: No, we sure didn't.
 * Franz Liebkind: THAT'S BECAUSE YOU WERE TAKEN IN BY THE BBC! Filthy British lies! But did they ever say a bad word about Winston Churchill? CHURCHILL! With his cigars, and his brandy, and his ROTTEN paintings! ROTTEN! Hitler, there was a painter! He could paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!

 * Roger De Bris: [wearing a dress] I am going to the choreographers' ball this evening. There is a prize for best costume.
 * Carmen Ghia: We always win.
 * Roger De Bris: I am not so sure about this year. I am supposed to be the Grand Dutchess Anastasia, but I think I look more like the Chrysler Building.
 * Carmen Ghia: Well, as far as I'm concerned, without your wig on, you're only half dressed.
 * Roger De Bris: Well then, why don't you go and get it, o wicked witch of the west?
 * Carmen Ghia: If your intention was to shoot an arrow through my heart . . . Bullseye!

 * Max: Listen Roger, did you get a chance yet to read "Springtime for Hitler?"
 * Roger De Bris: Read it? I devoured it! It's loaded with historical goodies. I for one, for instance, never realized that the Third Reich meant Germany.
 * Max: Yeah, how 'bout that? Then you'll do it?
 * Roger De Bris: Do it? Of course not.
 * [Music starts]
 * Roger De Bris: [sung] The theatre's so obsessed With dramas so depressed It's hard to sell a ticket on Broadway Shows should be more pretty Shows should be more witty Shows should be more...
 * Roger De Bris: [spoken] What's the word?
 * Leo: Gay?
 * Roger De Bris: Exactly!

 * Donald Dinsmore: I would like to sing "The little wooden boy. "
 * [the song intro plays as Donald dances. Just before he is about to open his mouth...]
 * Roger De Bris: NEXT!

 * Leo: Actors aren't animals! They're human beings!
 * Max: Have you ever eaten with one?

 * Leo: What's your name?
 * Ulla: Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yansen Tallen Hallen Svadon Swanson.
 * Max: What's your first name?
 * Ulla: That was my first name. Would you like to know my last name?
 * Max: We don't have the time.

 * Ulla: Would you like Ulla make audition?
 * Leo: That won't be nece-
 * Max: Yes, it is nessa! Extremely nessa!

 * Leo: [to Ulla] We might have a position for you.
 * Max: Actually, we might have several positions for you.

 * Leo: So what time can you get here?
 * Ulla: Well, Ulla wake up every morning at five AM. From five to seven, Ulla exercise. From seven to eight Ulla like to take long shower. From eight to nine Ulla eat big Swedish breakfast. Many different herrings. From nine to eleven, Ulla practice her singing und her dancing. And at eleven, Ulla like to have sex. So, what time should Ulla get here?
 * Leo and Max: Eleven.
 * Ulla: Good! Ulla will come at eleven!
 * Max: [holding his head in his hands] Ulla will come at eleven...
 * Ulla: Gut dog me venen!
 * Leo and Max: God dag minen venena... ninna...
 * Ulla: God bless America!
 * [Ulla leaves]
 * Max: God bless Sweden!

 * Leo: Max, I think we're getting in too deep.
 * Max: Too deep? This is nothing. I'll tell you when we're getting in too deep.

 * Carmen Ghia: Hello, the living room of renowned theatrical director Roger De Bris' elegant Upper East Side townhouse on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in June. Whom may I say is calling? Listen, you broken down old queen. He was drunk, he was hot, you got lucky! Don't ever call here again!
 * Roger De Bris: Who was that?
 * Carmen Ghia: Wrong number!

 * Leo, Max, Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris: Break a leg!
 * [CRASH!]
 * Max: Franz, what happened?
 * Franz Liebkind: I broke my leg!

 * Leo: [Screams hysterically]
 * [Max runs over and splashes Leo with a glass of water]
 * Leo: I'M WET! I'M WET! I'M HYSTERICAL AND I'M WET!
 * [Max slaps Leo]
 * Leo: [Pauses] I'M IN PAIN! I'M WET AND IN PAIN! AND I'M STILL HYSTERICAL [Babbles]
 * Max: What can I do? You're making me hysterical
 * Leo: Get away, you're too close, you frighten me!
 * Max: I frighten you?!
 * Leo: Get down over there, sit over there!
 * Max: I'm sitting! I'm sitting!
 * Leo: [Flinches] You still look angry!
 * Max: I'm sorry, is this better? [Grins goofily] [In a childish, patronizing voice] Who's my little accountant? Who's my little accountant? Are you my little accountant? Yes you are!
 * Leo: [Now calm] Thank you for smiling, that helped a great deal!

 * Carmen: I'll take your coats, and hats...and your swastikas.
 * Max: Sorry. Just came from a big rally, everyone was wearing one.
 * Max (to Leo): You didn't tell me we were still wearing them!
 * Leo: I didn't notice.

 * Franz Liebkind: [furiously barges in waving a gun around] You have broken ze Siegfried Oas! YOU MUST DIE! YOU ALL MUST DIE!!!
 * [Everyone panics and hides as Franz attempts to shoot them]
 * Roger De Bris: What are you doing, you neo-Nazi nitwit? Your show's a hit!
 * Franz Liebkind: Who cares?!? You made a fool out of Hitler!
 * Carmen Ghia, Roger De Bris: He didn't need our help.

 * Roger De Bris: This crazy Kraut is crackers! He crashed in here and crassly tried to kill us!
 * Carmen Ghia: Oh, Roger, what alliteration.
 * Roger De Bris: Thank you, darling.

 * [With one leg already broken Franz Liebkind falls down the stairs]
 * Officer O'Rourke: [Calling down the stairs] What happened?
 * Franz Liebkind: I broke my other leg!

 * Mailman: Mail call! Hey! Fatso!
 * Max: I'm not that fat!
 * Mailman: Says you.

 * Hold Me-Touch Me: I know, let's play the virgin milkmaid and the well-hung stable boy.
 * Max: Oh, I don't think I have the strength.
 * Hold Me-Touch Me: Don't worry, I'll be gentle. Oh dear, this milk is so heavy. I'll never reach the house. You there, well-hung stable boy, won't you please help me?
 * Max: Why of course my little dairy queen. First, I shall take your milk. Then, I shall take your VIRGINITY!

 * [The entire jury is dancing the samba, laughing]
 * Judge: Order! Order in the court! AND STOP THAT SAMBA!!! [forcefully slams his gavel]

 * Leo: I'm very sorry I caught you feeling up the old lady.
 * Max: "Feeling up the old lady." Thank you Mr. Tact.

 * Ulla: Remember when Ulla dance?
 * Max and Leo: Yes.
 * Ulla: Ulla dance again!
 * Max: Ulla dance again!!!

 * Franz: The punishment for breaking the Zigfried Oaths is dess.
 * Max: Dess? Is that anything like 'Death'?
 * Franz: Yeth!

 * Hold-Me Touch-Me: I made it out just like you told me to: To the title of the play. "Cash". It's a funny sort of name for a play, "Cash"...
 * Max: So is "The Iceman Cometh."

 * Judge: And who might you be, my dear?
 * Ulla: Ulla Inga Hansen Bensen Yonsen Tallen-Hallen Svaden-Svanson... Bloom.
 * Judge: You're HIS wife?
 * Ulla: He wouldn't do it unless we got married!
 * Judge: What a schmuck!

 * Leo: [sung] I wanna be a producer... 'Cause it's everything I'm not
 * Accountants: [sung] Unhappy... unhappy...
 * Leo: [sung] I wanna be a producer...
 * Accountants: [sung] Very, very... unhappy... Unhappy...
 * Leo: [sung] I wanna be a producer... [spoken] Wait a minute. Wait a minute! Hold everything!
 * Accountants: [sung] Very, very... unhappy... Unhap...
 * Leo: HOLD EVERYTHING! What I am I doing here? Mr. Bialystock was right! There is a lot more to me than there is to me! Stop the world, I wanna get on!
 * Mr. Marks: What the hell is going on here? Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?!? Bloom! Where do you think you're going? You've already had your toilet break.
 * Leo: I'm not going in the toilet... I'm going in SHOW BUSINESS! Mr. Marks, I've got news for you. I quit! And you were right about one thing. You are a C.P.A.: a Certified Public ASSHOLE!!
 * Accountants:' HOORAY!!!
 * Leo: Here's my visor... my Dixon Ticonderoga number two pencil... and my big finish! [sung] I'm gonna be a producer!
 * Chorus Girls: [sung] He's gonna be a producer!
 * Leo and Chorus Girls: [sung] Look out, Broadway...
 * Leo: [sung] 'Cause here I come!

 * Carmen Ghia: Well as far as I'm concerned, without your wig on you're only half dressed.
 * Roger De Bris: Well then, why don't you go and get it, oh Wicked Witch of the Wessst?
 * Carmen Ghia: [after a long pause] If your intention was to shoot an arrow through my heart... BULLSEYE!

 * Roger:Well they all just read Springtime, what'd you think of it guys?
 * Bryan:[all sung] It needs glamor
 * Scott: And glitz
 * Kevin:It needs sequins
 * Shirley Markowitz: And tits

 * Leo: Mr. De Bris... Roger, Roger, actually I think your gown is very stunning.
 * Roger: Why thank you Mr Bloom. Leo. [sniffing] Mmm, what is that enchanting cologne your wearing?
 * Leo: Me? I'm not wearing any cologne.
 * Roger: You mean that smell is you. Oh, God. If I could bottle you I'd shove you under my armpits everyday.

 * Roger: [singing] I'll sign! Roger Elizabeth De Bris! [Max and Leo look up confused, after just finding out the Hitler's middle name was also Elizabeth]

 * Roger: So Jason, what have you been up to?
 * Jason Green: For ze last 16 years I have been touring in No No Nietzsche.
 * Roger: Ahh, you played Nietzsche?
 * Jason Green: No no.
 * Roger: [making a face] What are you going ta sing?
 * Jason Green: Have you ever heard ze German band?
 * Roger: No.
 * Jason Green: Zat is za name of ze song I am going to sing!

 * Carmen Ghia: Jaques La Peduex! [both Carmen and Roger look around, but no one steps forward] Jaques La Peduex? [Roger looks at the name card and whispers into Carmen's ear] Jack Lapidus?

Cast

 * Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock
 * Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom
 * Uma Thurman - Ulla
 * Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind
 * Gary Beach - Roger De Bris
 * Roger Bart - Carmen Ghia
 * Michael McKean - Prison Trustee
 * Eileen Essell - Hold Me-Touch Me
 * David Huddleston - Judge
 * Debra Monk - Lick Me-Bite Me
 * Andrea Martin - Kiss Me-Feel Me
 * Jon Lovitz - Mr. Marks
 * Jim Borstelmann - Scott the Choreographer, Donald Dinsmore/Little Old Lady
 * Richard Kind - Jury Foreman
 * Mel Brooks - Hilda the Pigeon, Tom the Cat

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Tim Collins
I saw your reversion of the formatting on this article. I would argue that everything needs formatting, whether it is a list of individual quotes, or in this case, the text of a speech. If you will look at other pages (e.g. John F. Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln just to name a couple), you will see that every one of the quotes taken from their often quite-famous speeches is formatted appropriately. These quotes from Tim Collins should also be formatted apropriately, which I tried to do. Granted, it may not flow as easily as if it was considered one large quote, but then perhaps there's too much of this speech included, and only pieces of it should be recorded here, in a bulleted list. ~ UDScott 18:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Please do not interrupt the voting process, which must be allowed to complete. If you want to register a vote, you may do so, but once called, the vote must continue until its end date. ~ UDScott 18:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did to Mitch Hedberg. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. —LrdChaos 19:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page you will be blocked from editing. —LrdChaos 19:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote, as you did to Mitch Hedberg. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. —LrdChaos 19:52, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

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Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress.

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 * It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.

 * I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.

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Category:Period films

Films set in specific historical periods; these works may have varying degrees of historical accuracy and may include minor to major amounts of alternate history and speculative fiction, so long as the particular time periods remain recognizable. Social mores of the period and interactions between ethnic/economic classes are often themes of these films; while dress, art, technology and architecture of the period are often emphasized.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Mr. Ryan, Mr. Beauvoir, and Mr. Murphy

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. — Jeffq 00:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Ryan, Mr. Beauvoir, and Mr. Murphy
Not notable.

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 Deletes-all; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:58, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all three. They appear to be either vanity pages or lists of a few teacher's quotes. In any case, they don't seem notable enough to warrant inclusion here. ~ UDScott 17:30, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all, concur with UDScott. —LrdChaos 18:10, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete for all of them. - InvisibleSun 18:34, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all. 121a0012 20:29, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Kevin Miller

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 00:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Kevin Miller
Not notable. ~ UDScott 19:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (5 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. Somehow, given the listed quotes, I don't think this is the same person as Kevin Miller. ~ UDScott 19:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability given. - InvisibleSun 22:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability shown and quotes reliably sourced. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, concur with Jeffq and UDScott. —LrdChaos 14:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 20:30, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Big (film)

Big is a 1988 film about a boy who wishes to be big at a magic wish machine and wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body.
 * Directed by Penny Marshall. Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg.

Have you ever had a really big secret? (taglines)

Dialogue

 * Computer game: You are standing in the cavern of the evil ice wizard. All around you are the carcasses of slain ice dwarves.
 * Mrs. Baskin: Josh, take out the garbage!
 * Josh: In a minute, Mom! [talking to himself] Melt the wizard. [typing] Melt wizard.
 * Computer game: What do you want to melt him with?
 * Josh: What do you think I want to use? Throw the thermal pod.
 * Mrs. Baskin: JOSH!! The garbage is starting to stink up the house! Take it out, NOW!!
 * Mr. Baskin: Josh, you heard your mother!
 * [In the computer game, the enemy attacks Josh's avatar by encasing him in a big block of ice]
 * Computer game: Your hesitancy has cost you dearly. The wizard, sensing your apprehension, fires a fatal bolt from his ice scepter. With luck, you will thaw in several million years.
 * Josh: Great.

 * Josh: [to himself, at a carnival where he finds an antiquated fortune-telling machine] Zoltar Speaks?
 * [Josh inserts a quarter but the machine is off]
 * Josh: [annoyed, hitting machine] Work, work, work, dammit!
 * [Machine activates; Zoltar's eyes glow red]
 * Machine: Aim ramp at Zoltar's mouth
 * [As the Zoltar head opens and closes his mouth, Josh aims the coin ramp at Zoltar, who eats the quarter]
 * Machine: Zoltar says make your wish.
 * Josh: I wish I were big.
 * [Machine produces a card]
 * Card: Your wish is granted.
 * [Josh then goes to find his family. As a cold wind blows, Josh sees the Zoltar machine was unplugged all along, giving him the creeps]

 * [Josh has supposedly disappeared. The Baskin residence is covered by squad cars and neighbors have gathered to see the hoopla]
 * Policeman: This is one of the oddest missing child cases. His mother is all hysterical; cannot get a word out of her. No sign of forced entry, no ransom note and the only fingerprints we found all belonged to the Baskin family.
 * Kid #1: Bet he got sick of his parents and ran away. Wish I could do that.
 * Kid #2: I will help you pack.

 * Josh: I want a listing of all amusement arcades and carnivals in the tri-state area.
 * Clerk: Consumer Affairs, down the hall.
 * Bureaucrat: Fill this out in triplicate, five dollar processing charge.
 * Billy: See, no problem.
 * Bureaucrat: Standard six-week wait with backlog.
 * Billy and Josh: [in unison] Six weeks??!
 * Bureaucrat: Could take longer, but hey, you could get lucky.
 * [Outside. Josh is sitting on steps staring into space]
 * Josh: I am going to be 30 years old for the rest of my life.
 * Billy: Come on Josh, it is only for six weeks. Besides, you may be even older that that! ha ha!

 * [Josh is making application for a job]
 * Josh: Social security number?
 * [Billy fills it out]
 * Josh: What was that?
 * Billy: My locker combination.
 * Receptionist: Mr. Baskin?
 * Billy: Remember, Josh, eye contact!
 * Receptionist: Your son will have to wait out here.
 * Josh: Certainly. OK son, you heard the lady. Don't give anyone a hard time.
 * Billy: Sure thing, "Dad".
 * [Josh and Billy laugh at their private joke to the odd look of the receptionist]

 * [MacMillian employee is looking over Josh's job application while pen-clicking]
 * Office worker: It says you have four years of experience in computers, good. But you are missing a couple of numbers on the social security.
 * Josh: Uh, um, twelve.
 * Office worker: OK, 1-2. Office worker puts in numbers Where did you go to school?
 * Josh: Hmmm, it was called George Washington.
 * Office worker: Oh, G.W! My brother-in-law got his doctorate there. Did you pledge?
 * Josh: Yes, every morning.

 * Billy: So you got a job, where you play with all these toys.
 * Josh: Yup!
 * Billy: And they're gonna pay you for that?
 * Josh: Yup!
 * Billy: SUCKERS!

 * Paul: Have you tried Mattel?
 * Susan: Yes.
 * Paul: Well, how about Coleco?
 * Susan: Yes, as well as Fisher Price and Worlds of Wonder. None of these places reported ever having a Josh Baskin on their payroll.
 * Paul: Well, he's got to come from somewhere. The guy just does not come into the executive offices out of the blue.
 * Susan: Face it Paul, the man comes from data processing.
 * Paul: It's a mystery.
 * [Susan pours milk into her coffee. She has not seen the reverse side, which has a picture of the young Josh]
 * Milk Carton: MISSING: JOSHUA BASKIN

 * Josh: I'm much better at video hockey.
 * Paul: That's not a sport.
 * Josh: It requires hand and eye coordination.
 * Paul: It's not a sport if you don't sweat.
 * Josh: What about golf? It's a sport and you don't sweat.
 * Paul: It's not a sport if you let a machine do all the work.
 * Josh: What about car racing?
 * Paul: Shut up, Baskin.

 * Scotty Brennen: See that girl over there in the red? Say "hi" to her and she's yours. She'll have her legs around you so tight you'll be begging for mercy.
 * Josh: Well, I'll stay away from her, then.

 * Susan: I'm not so sure we should do this.
 * Josh: Do what?
 * Susan: Well, I like you, and I want to spend the night with you.
 * Josh: Do you mean sleep over?
 * Susan: Well, yeah.
 * Josh: Well, okay, but I get to be on top.

 * Josh: Will you please leave? I got a deadline to meet. Gosh.
 * Billy: Who the fuck do you think you are?
 * Josh: HEY!
 * Billy: You're Josh Baskin, remember? You broke your arm on my roof! You hid in MY basement when Robert Dyson was about to rip your head off!
 * Josh: You don't get it, do you? This is important!
 * Billy: I'm your best friend. What's more important than that, huh? [Turns to leave] And I'm three months older than you are, ASSHOLE!

 * Mrs. Baskin: [on the phone] You have my son?
 * Josh: Yes.
 * Mrs. Baskin: Look, if you touch one hair on his head, I swear I will spend the rest of my life making sure you suffer.
 * Josh: Wow, thanks.

 * Paul: What is so special about Baskin?
 * Susan: He's a grown up.

 * Billy: There. Sea Point Park!
 * Josh: Thanks.
 * Billy: See you around.
 * Later, Josh has run out of a business meeting
 * Josh: Taxi! Sea Point Park, please.
 * [Billy is on street]
 * Billy: Sea Point Park? Way to go, Josh!
 * [Susan tries to follow Josh but runs into Billy]
 * Susan: You know Josh?
 * Billy: Yes, I am his friend.
 * Susan: I am...his girlfriend.
 * [Billy looks amazed seeing a full-grown woman who has breasts is his best friend's girl]
 * Billy: His girlfriend?? Whoa!

Taglines

 * Have you ever had a really big secret?
 * Yesterday 12-year old Josh Baskin wanted money, cars, and girls. Today he got all those.
 * You're only young once!
 * You're Only Young Once But For Josh It Might Just Last A Lifetime.
 * Yesterday Josh Wanted Everything In Life - Girls...Money...Cars... Today, All His Wildest Dreams Have Come True!

Cast

 * Tom Hanks - Josh Baskin
 * David Moscow - Young Josh
 * Elizabeth Perkins - Susan Lawrence
 * Robert Loggia - Mac MacMillan
 * John Heard - Paul Davenport
 * Jared Rushton - Billy Kopecki
 * Jon Lovitz - Scotty Brennen
 * Mercedes Ruehl - Mrs. Baskin
 * Josh Clark - Mr. Baskin
 * Debra Jo Rupp - Miss Patterson

title: Big (film)


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January 22

January 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ Douglas Adams
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. ~ Muhammad
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~ Robert E. Howard (born 22 January 1906)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ~ Francis Bacon (born 22 January 1561)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * So, we'll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~ (born 22 January 1788)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Honor is, or should be, the place of virtue and as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. ~ Francis Bacon
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

Stranger than fiction.'' ~ Lord Byron in Don Juan
 * 2010
 * ''Truth is always strange;
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. ~ Francis Bacon
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. ~ Francis Bacon (born January 22, 1561)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Great Galileo was debarr'd the Sun Because he fix'd it; and, to stop his talking, How Earth could round the solar orbit run, Found his own legs embargo'd from mere walking: The man was well-nigh dead, ere men begun To think his skull had not some need of caulking; But now, it seems, he's right — his notion just: No doubt a consolation to his dust. ~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Doing good isn't [that] hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage. ~ Irving Kristol
 * 2 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work. ~ Irving Kristol
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Patriotism springs from love of the nation’s past; nationalism arises out of the hope for the nation’s future. ~ Irving Kristol
 * 4 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge. ~ Peter Beard
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. ~ Peter Beard
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

I have never believed in war. It is a crime against humanity whether you win or lose. I just read an article in this magazine I have in my hands that one day the moon will fall on the earth, but it is my feeling that until then, we should try to make the world a better place to live in. ~ Hjalmar Schacht
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:55, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! ~ August Strindberg
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

By aiming for the impossible, you reach the highest level of the possible. ~ August Strindberg
 * 3 Zarbon 15:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:11, 21 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

No more of courts, of triumphs, or of arms, No more of Valour’s force, or Beauty's charms! The themes of vulgar lays with just disdain I leave unsung, the flocks, the amorous swain, The pleasures of the land, and terrors of the main. How abject, how inglorious 'tis to lie Grovelling in dust and darkness, when on high Empires immense, and rolling worlds of light, To range their heavenly scenes the muse invite! ~ Richard Blackmore
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:19, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:40, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC); with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:44, 22 January 2017 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:53, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC); this merges and condenses portions of some of the previously related suggestions from Novum Organum Scientiarum into one.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC); with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * OR:

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

title: January 22


text:
February 22

February 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity. ~ George Washington (born 22 February 1732)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ George Washington (born 22 February 1732)
 * proposed by Sir John Alexander Macdonald

 * 2007
 * Promote... as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened. ~ George Washington
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support. ~ George Washington
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think, And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak, Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store, Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower. ~ James Russell Lowell ~ (born 22 February 1819)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, — No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat — the sky Will cave in on him by and by. ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay (born 22 February 1892)
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2012
 * Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2013

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. ~ James Russell Lowell
 * 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined. ~ James Russell Lowell
 * 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander 08:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart. ~ James Russell Lowell
 * 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 * 3 Kalki 20:02, 21 February 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 15:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
 * 3 Lyle 15:51, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:53, 19 February 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 nice analogy; opinions change. Zarbon 05:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander 08:47, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 21:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I was considering using this for this year, but it is a portion of the quote already used in 2009. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 22 February 2017 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:17, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:19, 22 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 (about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 1 FPTI (talk) 18:59, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

title: February 22


text:
March 22

March 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ Martin Luther King
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ~ Marcel Marceau (born 22 March 1923)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ Anne Hutchinson (banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 22 March 1638)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth... I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. ~ Marcel Marceau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ~ Marcel Marceau
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I buoyed me on the wings of dream, Above the world of sense; I set my thought to sound the scheme, And fathom the Immense; I tuned my spirit as a lute To catch wind-music wandering mute. Yet came there never voice nor sign; But through my being stole Sense of a Universe divine, And knowledge of a soul Perfected in the joy of things, The star, the flower, the bird that sings.  Nor I am more, nor less, than these; All are one brotherhood; I and all creatures, plants, and trees, The living limbs of God; And in an hour, as this, divine, I feel the vast pulse throb in mine. ~ Francis William Bourdillon ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ~ Marcel Marceau
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. ~ Francis William Bourdillon
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * 'Tis now the summer of your youth; time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Then use your beauty wisely; and, freed by injuries, fly from the cruellest of men, for shelter with the kindest. ~ Edward Moore
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 the crucial distinction to be made always involves the question "Optimism about what?"

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. … The explorer seeks the undiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history, the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity. … If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 2 Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 though I would start with "The explorer seeks…" bystander (talk) 19:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. Inside every good travel writer there is a pedagogue — often a highly moral pedagogue — struggling to get out. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 2 Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, … for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 2 Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 2 Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC) I was intending to shift my ranking to a 4 on this, and use it on 2018·03·21, but have not yet been able to source it.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. ~ Paul Fussell
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. ~ Edward Moore
 * 3 Zarbon 00:33, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC) but perhaps a 3 with more context:
 * What tho' on her cheeks the rose loses its hue, Her wit and her humour bloom all the year thro'; Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires,— As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. ~ Thomas Carew
 * 2 Zarbon 00:49, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:09, 21 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. ~ Robert Millikan (born 1868-03-22)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 19:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 21 March 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen. ~ Louis L'Amour (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:03, 22 March 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 21 March 2015 (UTC) This is good, but I have not yet sourced this definitely.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:32, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

title: March 22


text:
April 22

April 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ Anne Frank
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ Immanuel Kant (born 22 April 1724)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. ~ Vladimir Nabokov (born 22 April 1899) {10 April O.S.}
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is certainly not then — not in dreams — but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan (quote for Earth Day)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ Immanuel Kant
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. … We must recover the sense of the majesty of the creation and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. ~ Wendell Berry (quote for Earth Day)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. ~ Charles Mingus
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2016

— Added to QOTD layout as tribute to Prince after his death on 21 April 2016 —

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki for Earth Day.

 * 2021

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matter. ~ Immanuel Kant
 * 3 Kalki 21:39, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in terms of earthly life. All one could do was to glimpse, amid the haze and the chimeras, something real ahead, just as persons endowed with an unusual persistence of diurnal cerebration are able to perceive in their deepest sleep, somewhere beyond the throes of an entangled and inept nightmare, the ordered reality of the waking hour. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do God and Devil combine to form a live dog? ~ Vladimir Nabokov
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:05, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because the regression of science is the death of mankind. Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:19, 22 April 2019 (UTC) 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC) but trimmed of the initial "And". with a lean toward 4, but ONLY if extended for context to read:

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because the entire world is full of people who have sheer hatred for one another and that is moreso a fact than anything else. The very prevention of this hatred will result in even worse a fate for everyone...maintaining that prevention can end up being deadlier than the actual act which will send one to "hell". Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I need physics more than friends. ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 3 because friends are plenty, but physics will allow for much more. Zarbon 22:45, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ~ Robert Oppenheimer (born April 22)
 * 4 for the full version or just trimmed to "Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds" in reference to the old scripture and the usage of the atomic bomb as a dual dynamic. But 4 either way. Zarbon 03:04, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC) for full version only.

Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

One cannot live in society and be free from society. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 3 because for better or for worse, history repeats itself. Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The state does not function as desired. The car does not obey. A man is at the wheel and he seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes. ~ Vladimir Lenin
 * 2 Zarbon 03:17, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is an episode in a man's. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Men do not change; they unmask themselves. ~ Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible. ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! ~ Henry Fielding
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. ~ Charles Mingus
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ~ Charles Mingus
 * 2 Zarbon 03:33, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:44, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant. ~ Indro Montanelli
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:44, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 -- User: Tryst  (talk to me!) 22:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:07, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:29, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:01, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

More solar energy falls on Earth in one hour than all the energy our civilization consumes in an entire year. If we could harness a tiny fraction of the available solar and wind power, we could supply all our energy needs forever, and without adding any carbon to the atmosphere. ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 21:41, 7 October 2016 (UTC) To celebrate Earth Day (April 22nd), I propose discussing the solution (renewable energy) instead of simply complaining about the problem (impending global warming disaster).

Here is a longer version of the same quote, with a pep talk in the second paragraph:

"More solar energy falls on Earth in one hour than all the energy our civilization consumes in an entire year. If we could harness a tiny fraction of the available solar and wind power, we could supply all our energy needs forever, and without adding any carbon to the atmosphere.

"It's not too late. There's a future worth fighting for. How do I know? Every one of us comes from a long line of survivors. Our species is nothing if not adaptive. It was only because our ancestors learned to think long-term, and act accordingly, that we're here at all. We've had our backs to the wall before, and we came through to scale new heights."
 * Pithy Francoln (talk) 13:00, 21 March 2017 (UTC) I am indifferent as to whether the longer or shorter version of the above quote could be used. However, I do think that the challenge of global warming and adoption of renewable energy as a response to that challenge is of vital importance for our world community. I would love to see either one displayed as a quote of the day.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 22 April 2017 (UTC) 3 Kalki 21:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Keep your eye on the man, not the dog. (Comparing the gradual curve of Neil deGrasse Tyson's path along a beach to climate and the erratic path of a dog Tyson is holding on a leash to  weather.) ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:36, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is such a great illustration, but any more talk just explaining the problem is less important now than discussing the solution (renewable energy).

By burning coal, oil and gas, our civilization is exhaling carbon dioxide much faster than Earth can absorb it. So, CO2 is building up in the atmosphere. The planet is heating up.. . . It's a pretty tight case. Our fingerprints are all over this one. ~ In commemoration of Earth Day, from the twelfth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 23:14, 11 October 2016 (UTC) This is also a great quote, but nowhere in there is a mention of renewable energy (the solution we must focus on to ensure long-term celebration of Earth Day for decades to come).

 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 20:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 20:41, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

title: April 22


text:
May 22

May 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle (born 22 May 1859)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. ~ Alexander Pope (The date of Pope's birth was not definite when this was proposed for QOTD; he is said to have been born 22 May 1688, in The Life of Pope (1781) by Samuel Johnson, but apparently this was an error, for 21 May seems to have become the most widely accepted date.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle in "A Case of Identity"
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? Arthur Conan Doyle in The Sign of the Four
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
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 * 2013

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 * 2014

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 * 2015

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 * 2016

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 * 2017

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 * 2020

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 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks at G7 summit in Hiroshima.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers. ~ Peter Matthiessen (dob: 1927 May 22) (goodreads quotes)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. ~ Peter Matthiessen (dob: 1927 May 22) (goodreads quotes)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

The glee of it. The ecstasy of It. I can't speak about this It because I know no word. It is just there, It is always there, like death in life. In this instant I know that something terrible is rising that must be seized and turned back upon itself before it twists outward into violence. But that knowing always comes too late, a wild unraveling is under way and I am caught up in it like a coyote seen late one afternoon in an Arkansas tornado-a toy dog spinning skyward, struck white by a ray of sun against black clouds, then black, then white, then gone and lost forever. The wind dies. A dead stillness. Mirror water. That ecstasy that shivered every nerve replaced by the precise knowing that what this self perpetrated is as much a part of the universal will as erupting lava that subsides once more into the inner earth. ~ Peter Matthiessen (dob: 1927 May 22) (goodreads quotes)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 15:13, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

title: May 22


text:
July 22

July 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * One can no more prevent the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. In the case of the sailor, this is called a tide; in the case of the guilty, it is called remorse. ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. ~ John Howe
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!  ~ Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (born 22 July 1849)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. We thought the long train would run to the end of Time. We thought the light would increase. Now the long train stands derailed and the bandits loot it. Now the boar and the asp have power in our time. Now the night rolls back on the West and the night is solid. Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~ (born 22 July 1898)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, The smooth appeasing compromises of time, Which are King Herod and King Herod's men, Always and always. Life can be Lost without vision but not lost by death, Lost by not caring, willing, going on Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude To something more — something no man has ever seen. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. ~ Emma Lazarus ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too. And he showed what the pride of it was till you couldn't help feeling it. Yes, even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it. And he wasn't pleading for any one person any more, though his voice rang like an organ. He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it — it took a man to do that. … His voice could search the heart, and that was his gift and his strength. And to one, his voice was like the forest and its secrecy, and to another like the sea and the storms of the sea; and one heard the cry of his lost nation in it, and another saw a little harmless scene he hadn't remembered for years. But each saw something. And when Dan'l Webster finished he didn't know whether or not he'd saved Jabez Stone. But he knew he'd done a miracle. For the glitter was gone from the eyes of the judge and jury, and, for the moment, they were men again, and knew they were men. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There was no pain when I awoke, No pain at all. Rest, like a goad, Spurred my eyes open — and light broke Upon them like a million swords: And she was there. There are no words. Heaven is for a moment's span. And ever. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Do not disturb my circles! ~ Archimedes
 * proposed by MosheZadka in honor of Pi Approximation Day.

 * 2012

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 * 2013

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 * 2014

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 * 2015

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 * 2017

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 * 2018

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 * 2019

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 * 2020

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 * 2021

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 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
It's not men who limit women, it's not straights who limit gays, it's not whites who limit blacks. What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it. ~ Tom Robbins (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤ ☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 0 Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims. ~ Tom Robbins
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:12, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤ ☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 0.5 Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:22, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Children of the future Age

Reading this indignant page,

Know that in a former time

Love! sweet Love! was thought a crime. ~ William Blake JJLiu112 (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Good quote, but I do not see any relevance to the date. – Ilovemydoodle (Not a sockpuppet) (talk / e-mail) 01:11, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

title: July 22


text:
August 22

August 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it. ~ Claude Debussy (born 22 August 1862)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ Claude Debussy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

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 * 2014

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 * 2015

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 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Battle of Bosworth Field
 * DOB: Ray Bradbury · Henri Cartier-Bresson · Claude Debussy · Valerie Harper · Scooter Libby · Dorothy Parker · Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ~ Dorothy Parker
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC) (just for the extreme case of irony)
 * 3 I hadn't heard of her anyway but assume she's well known. AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 04:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC) I'd prefer something else by her.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. ~ Dorothy Parker
 * 3 Kalki 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 because I strongly dislike dogmatism. Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 * 3 Zarbon 05:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Joy is the grace we say to God. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

''That so much time was wasted in this pain. Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down To not return again! A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! And with one final shake of laughter Breaks his bonds. The nails fall skittering to marble floors. And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty.'' ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Trapped in the blood, athirst for air, Christ, who once was employed as single Son of God Now finds Himself among three billion on a billion Brother sons, their arms thrown wide to grasp and hold and walk them everywhere Now weaving this, now weaving that in swoons… ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

''I am the dreamer and the doer I the hearer and the knower I the giver and the taker I the sword and the wound of sword. If this be true, then let sword fall free from hand. I embrace myself. I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile…  Leave off losings, and take on winnings, Erase all mortal ends, give birth to only new beginnings, In a billion years of morning and a billion years of sleep.'' ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but with perhaps the last couple lines trimmed off.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

We could find much more relevant ones to the ongoing global situation, but anyway it wouldn't be toxic to remember Battle of Bosworth was fought in this day, 1485-08-22. --Aphaia (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

title: August 22