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Charles Kettering

Charles Franklin Kettering (29 August 1876 - 24 or 25 November 1958) was an American inventor and social philosopher.

Quotes

 * You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.
 * "Mr. Kettering's Talk", News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, 1936, p. 46
 * Variants:
 * I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious.
 * As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering, by T. A. Boyd 1957, pp. 3–4 (Internet Archive, Google Books)
 * My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
 * Common, since 1947. Examples: Instruments and Control Systems, Volume 20, 1947, p. 374; "Biography: Charles Kettering", American Experience, PBS; The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives, by Eric Schmidt,, 2014, p. 337

 * The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
 * As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 12

 * A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
 * As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 122

 * The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
 * As quoted in The End of Work (1995) by Jeremy Rifkin, p. 19

 * Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.
 * As quoted in

 * You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
 * As quoted in Scientific American (August 1934), p. 243

 * Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.
 * As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194

 * There are two kinds of courage. One is a spontaneous explosion of aroused instincts to meet some sudden emergency; the other is steadfast and enduring against repeated failures and rebuffs. It's what boxers call 'the fighting heart,' the will to come bouncing back every time one is knocked down. All pioneers need that kind of courage, and our youngsters will need plenty of it when the plunge into the world of tomorrow."
 * As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957, p. 211-212 (Internet Archive)

 * We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years.
 * As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194

 * We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.
 * As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 p. 106 (Internet Archive)

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Lyrics

These are quotations from song lyrics, especially from musicians who are unlikely to have their own quote articles, sorted by band name and artist last name.

0-9

 * 'Cause now again I've found myself So far down, away from the sun That shines into the darkest place
 * 3 Doors Down, "Away From The Sun", Away From The Sun (2002)

A-E

 * He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man
 * Avenged Sevenfold, 'Bat Country', City of Evil (2005)

 * She's a dwelling place for demons She's a cage for every unclean spirit, Every filthy bird and makes us drink The poisoned wine to fornicating with our kings Fallen now is Babylon the Great
 * Avenged Sevenfold, 'Beast and the Harlot', City of Evil (2005)

 * Here's a story about the boys at the altar Some of them came between me and my halter But I don't think the good lord would mind I was callin' his name the whole time!
 * Avenue D, Slut? (2004 single)

 * Cuz I'm a freaky streaker like Winnie the Pooh / T-shirt and no pants and I dance the boogaloo!
 * The Beastie Boys, To The 5 Boroughs(2005)

 * I never thought missing children could be so sexy. Did I say that out loud?
 * The Bloodhound Gang, "A Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying", Hooray for Boobies (2000)

 * These are the words you wish you wrote down
 * Brand New, "Okay, I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't", Deja Entendu (2003)

 * I swam across, I jumped across for you.
 * Coldplay, "Yellow", Parachutes (2002)

 * You've got that rainbow feel, but the rainbow has a beard
 * Cream, "SWLABR" (an abbreviation for "She Was (or Walks) Like A Bearded Rainbow"), Disraeli Gears (1967)

 * I'll wait in this place, where the shadows run from themselves.
 * Cream, "White Room", Wheels of Fire (1968)

 * And I'm standing at the crossroads, believe I'm sinking down.
 * Cream, "Crossroads", Wheels of Fire (1968)

 * He was high on intellectualism. I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice.
 * Sheryl Crow, "Every Day is a Winding Road", from Sheryl Crow (1996)

 * If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
 * Sheryl Crow, "If It Makes You Happy", Sheryl Crow (1996)

 * It's not getting what you want It's wanting what you've got
 * Sheryl Crow, "Soak Up the Sun", from C'mon, C'mon (2002)

 * Tell your daughters, "Do not walk the streets alone tonight!
 * The Decemberists, "Shanty For The Arethusa", from Her Majesty The Decemberists (2005)

 * Look for me when the sun-bright swallow Sings upon the birch bough high.
 * The Decemberists, "Yankee Bayonet", from The Crane Wife (2006)

 * Meet me on my vast veranda My sweet untouched Miranda
 * The Decemberists, "We Both Go Down Together", from Picaresque (2005)

 * You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
 * The Eagles, "Hotel California", Hotel California (1976)

 * You can spend all your time making love/You can spend all your love making time
 * Eagles, "Take It to the Limit", ''One of These Nights" (1975)

 * He can't even run his own life, I'll be damned if he'll run mine.
 * Jonathan Edwards, "Sunshine", from Jonathan Edwards (1971)

F-J

 * I love it when you call, I love it when you call/I love it when you call but you never call at all
 * The Feeling, "Love It When You Call", Twelve Stops and Home (2006)

 * [to "American Tune" by Paul Simon ] This pretty tune was written by Hans Leo Hassler In 1599. I wrote some words and changed about three notes. Now ASCAP says it's mine.
 * John Forster, "Fusion", Entering Marion (1993)

 * [to a tune similar to "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon] I'm well aware that there's an element you could call exploitation In the way that I appropriate the cultures of these peoples for my own commercial purposes. Mmm, but everyone who works for me gets credit And royalties And Grammys And a chance to ride to stardom on my coattails, neh-nyah neh-nyah. But hey, let's just remember who's the genius here!
 * John Forster, "Fusion", Entering Marion (1993)

 * Between the lines of fear and blame, You begin to wonder why you came. Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness. And I would have stayed up with you all night, Had I known how to save a life.
 * The Fray, "How to Save a Life", How to Save a Life (2005)

 * I said, "Hi!" She said, "Yeah, I guess I am."
 * Dean Friedman, "Ariel", from Dean Friedman (1977)

 * Wouldn't it be great if no one ever got offended? And wouldn't it be great to say what's really on your mind? I have always said all the rules are made for bendin' And if I let my hair down, would that be such a crime?
 * Great Big Sea, "Consequence Free", from Turn (1999)

 * Won't you die tonight for love? Baby join me in death. Won't you die?
 * HIM, "Join Me in Death", from Razorblade Romance (2000)

 * All in, all in a day A day it changes everything
 * Isis, Weight, from Oceanic
 * It's just a ride, it's just a ride No need to run, no need to hide It'll take you round and round Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down It's just a ride, it's just a ride Don't be scared, don't hide your eyes It may feel so real inside But don't forget it's just a ride
 * Jem, "Just a Ride", from Finally Woken (2004)

K-R

 * He's washing dishes and baby clothes He's so ambitious, he even sews But don't forget, folks, that's what you get, folks For makin' whoopee
 * "Makin' Whoopee", lyrics by Gus Kahn, popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical ''Whoopee!

 * If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife So for my personal point of view Get an ugly girl to marry you
 * Kid Creole and the Coconuts, "If You Wanna Be Happy", Doppelganger, (1983)

 * I know what you must be saying to yourselves. If that's the way she feels about it, why doesn't she just end it all? Oh, no, not me. I'm not ready for that final disappointment. 'Cause I know, just as well as I'm standing here talking to you, That when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath, I'll be saying to myself… Is that all there is?
 * Peggy Lee, "Is That All There Is?" (written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), from Is That All There Is? (1969)

 * The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
 * Alan Jay Lerner, "The Rain in Spain", My Fair Lady (1956)
 * Often misquoted as "The rain in Spain falls mostly on the plain".

 * I swore I would love you till the end of time. So now, I'm prayin' for the end of time...
 * Meat Loaf, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", from Bat out of Hell (1977)

 * I'll be thuggin forever, see I'ma fighter, not a lover I'm a hit-and-run-it, cold-blooded, motherfucka
 * Memphis Bleek, "Round Here", M.A.D.E. (2003) (featuring Trick Daddy Dollars)

 * Your life's an open book Don't close it fore it's done
 * Metallica, "Mama Said", ''Load, 1996

 * Staying awake to chase a dream
 * Muse, "Falling Away With You", ''Absolution, 2003

 * Sex is natural, sex is good; not everybody does it, but everybody should.
 * George Michael, I Want Your Sex, Faith, 1987

 * This is how we like to do it in the murder scene.
 * My Chemical Romance, "Give 'Em Hell, Kid", Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (2004)

 * Becoming perfect as if they were sterling silver chainsaws going cascading...
 * My Chemical Romance, "Vampires Will Never Hurt You", I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love  (2002)

 * They're coming to take me away Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time And I'll be happy to see Those nice young men in their clean white coats
 * Napoleon XIV, "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" (1973 single)

 * I'll be back when I've calmed my fears And I'll see you around in a thousand years
 * Juice Newton, "Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me", Quiet Lies (1982)

 * Talking is just masturbating without the mess.
 * Our Lady Peace, "Happiness and the Fish", Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch (1999)

 * Scared the lights'll turn green You'll have to be seen You'll be like anybody else Scared the lights'll turn red You're stuck in your head You can't run it to even her How you gonna get through the year?
 * Liz Phair, "Red Light Fever", from Liz Phair (2003)

 * It's just fuck and run Fuck and run Ever since I was 17 Even when I was 12
 * Liz Phair, "Fuck and Run"

 * I want to be your Blowjob Queen
 * Liz Phair, "Flower"

 * In wine there's truth but in silence there's surrender.
 * Protest the Hero, "Heretics & Killers", Kezia (2005)

 * This is ourselves under pressure
 * Queen, "Under Pressure" (featuring David Bowie), from the album Hot Space (1981)

 * You're still searching for these answers They're not inside your wrist
 * Rise Against,"Heaven Knows", Revolutions Per Minute

S-Z

 * I never wanted to know Never wanted to see I wasted my time Till time wasted me I never wanted to go I always wanted to stay 'Cause the persons I am Are the parts that I play So I plot and I plan And I hope and I scheme To the lure of a night Filled with unfinished dreams And I'm holding on tight To a world gone astray As they charge me for years I can't pay
 * Savatage, "Believe", Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)

 * I am the way I am the light I am the dark inside the night I hear your hopes I feel your dreams And in the dark I hear your screams Don't turn away Just take my hand And when you make your final stand I'll be right there, I'll never leave And all I ask of you is... Believe
 * Savatage, "Believe", Streets: A Rock Opera (1991)

 * I did it my way.
 * Frank Sinatra, "My Way" (lyrics by Paul Anka), My Way (1969)

 * If the kids are united they will never be divided.
 * Sham 69, "If the Kids Are United", The Adventures of Hersham Boys (1979)

 * There are things in Doris's life, but then there are in everyone's. She opens her little mouth, She sings her little song. Like a flag it folds out across the city, and it goes:  "The old man becomes an ice-skater... A maniac becomes a stepfather... I watch a policeman's mouth - out comes an honest word."  Miracles happen when Doris sings. Couples in love stop dead in their tracks. Dishes clatter to the ground unbroken. Politicians die.
 * Shellac, "Doris", Uranus EP (1993)

 * Be careful how you touch her, for she'll awaken, And sleep's the only freedom that she knows.
 * Skylark, "Wildflower", Skylark (1972)

 * I'm not your star... Isn't that what you said, what you thought this song meant?
 * Something Corporate, "Konstantine", Ready... Break (2003)

 * [If] you can't hide it, you might as well embrace it.
 * Sum 41, "In Too Deep

 * 'Cause we're all to blame We've gone too far From pride to shame, We're trying so hard, We're dying in vain, We want it all, Everyone, don't we all?
 * Sum 41, "We're All to Blame", Chuck (2004)

 * The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
 * Timbuk 3, "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades", from Greetings from Timbuk 3 (1986)

 * 'The whole thing I think is sick.'
 * Slipknot "742617000027" from "Slipknot"

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Talk:Lyrics

Article start
I've started this article for song-lyric excerpts to provide a place to collect pithy and amusing lines from notable musicians who might not otherwise have a place for such quotes. Song lyrics have been rejected in the past, back when Wikiquote was primarily a collection of print quotes, but as Kalki has observed, they have become accepted, as long as they are only excerpts and not entire songs. (Even if a song is no longer under copyright, entire texts belong in Wikisource, not Wikiquote.)

I encourage anyone adding lyric excerpts to provide source information, just as we should with any quotes whenever possible. For lyrics, I believe the composer and/or artist, the name of the song, the first recording it appears on, and the year are a good set of data to make verification possible (not to mention making it easier for folks to track down copies for themselves!). All this information is available for most English-language pop music of the past 50+ years at All-Music Guide, to which I've provided a link. (Their album lists and dates for pre-1980 music, though, have some significant gaps.) I haven't provide a link to any particular lyrics website, because I find it easier to use Google to look up specific songs. (Others may decide to add such sites.)

I'm not sure if this article will make sense to the community, but I hope we can give it a try and see if it develops. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:30, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Formatting

 * Hi, Jeff. As the first editor on the page except you, I have a couple of comments:
 * 1. Formatting: I am not entirely happy with the formatting. (See below for a suggestion)
 * 2. Ordering: This page might get real popular real quick. I suggest thinking of ordering of quotes, if only to prevent duplication. (By wording of quote, by year of song, many possibilities).
 * 3. All in all, excellent page, when I had this chorus stuck in my head, I had somewhere to put it. :)
 * ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:14, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Alternative formatting:

 * If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
 * Never make a pretty woman your wife
 * So for my personal point of view
 * Get an ugly girl to marry you
 * Kid Creole And The Coconuts, "If You Want To Be Happy"

With the usual hr-trick to separate quotes ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:21, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Welcome to the lyrics page, MosheZadka! I'm hoping this will be a way to encourage the growth of lyrics quotes, leading to many full-blown articles, while subtly reminding people (by way of example) not to import entire songs.

 * I started with an alpha-sort by artist (last name first), mainly because I wanted to keep the two John Forster quotes together. That would also help us track the popularity of any artist, either to create a subheading for them, or ultimately to spin off an entire article for them. (I just thought that through as I was typing; it sounds much better planned that it really was.)

 * As for formatting, I'm not particularly happy with it, either. My thoughts were this:
 * Standard bullet form, with the text in a single line, doesn't look good for rhyming lyrics, since the symmetry is lost.
 * Another common structure, "firstline bullet, subsequent lines indented", is better than using ugly HTML breaks, but the 2-bullet citation line which follows the quote, due to some oddity in the MediaWiki HTML conversion, is rendered not as a second-level bulleted list item, but as a double-bullet, which looks silly. (It may still be useful, though, so I don't rule it out.)
 * As you say, we could use the dialog formatting method, but I really hate using HTML for those half-width lines, even though I started them. I only recommend them because there's no better solution for dialog right now. I keep hoping I'll somehow find the time to (A) set up a development wiki, (B) learn how to use something like "---" to create the half-width lines, and (C) successfully lobby the MediaWiki community to adopt this convention (the hardest part, given the apparent total lack of interest in anything relating to non-paragraph, non-list text formatting). And I'm still bothered by how those lines are more visible dividers than the spacing between third- and lower-level sections, giving a feeling of squashing the last quote of one section with the title and first quote of the next.
 * Then there's always those BR tags. They're short, and they don't interefere too much with reading the text. On the other hand, they require gathering up the whole text into a single line during edit, so they're very editor-unfriendly. Yuck.
 * I'm still looking for other ideas. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:06, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Alphanumeric sorting
I've sorted the page by alphanumeric order of band name (artist by last name), added a note at the top to make that clear, and added some section headings to emphasize the point and provide some manageability as the list grows. (The smaller sections helped me notice and fix my own error in alpha sorting!) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia links
John Forster says he died in the 19th century, whereas this page has him writing lyrics well into the late 20th century. This is probably not the same person...and so should not link to a wp link about someone else. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Oops! And to think I just advised a Wikipedian to check his links before saving. I obviously failed to do so here. Not only that, but I made 2 links where there should have only been one. I was really asleep at the wheel! Thanks for calling my attention to it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Merged in Cream
Attached history: * (cur) (last) 07:54, 19 September 2005 MosheZadka (stub -> people stub) * (cur) (last) 03:08, 18 September 2005 64.12.117.5 * (cur) (last) 21:03, 1 September 2005 MosheZadka (stub) * (cur) (last) 02:54, 1 May 2005 68.53.158.137 * (cur) (last) 15:19, 14 April 2005 Rmhermen * (cur) (last) 21:43, 13 April 2005 128.175.66.14 (fix) * (cur) (last) 21:42, 13 April 2005 128.175.66.14 (8-))

Gross-out songs transwiki
Some song lyrics for "gross-out songs" appeared at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gross-out_songs. The lyrics were all uploaded by Wikibooks:User:Hoishand182 at 25 December 2005. No one else edited to lyrics except to add "transwiki" or "votes for deletion" templates.

Wikibookians considered moving the songs to Wikisource, but because of the uncertain copyright status, I decided only to quote them. I put the quotes on this Lyrics page; if they are too disgusting, someone might need to separate them to another page. --Kernigh 20:11, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge of "God Defend New Zealand"
I've performed a de-facto merge into this article of the former lyrical content of God Defend New Zealand prior to its deletion. Here is the edit history, to give credit to its contributors: — Jeff Q (talk) 04:50, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * (cur) (last) 02:36, 17 October 2006 (UTC) 121a0012 (Talk | contribs | block) (+vfd)
 * (cur) (last) 00:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Brian New Zealand (Talk | contribs | block) m (New Zealand moved to God Defend New Zealand: Quote from New Zealand national Anthem, Don't even know if it should be on WQ)
 * (cur) (last) 11:46, 8 July 2005 (UTC) MosheZadka (Talk | contribs | block) m (cat, cleanup)
 * (cur) (last) 11:46, 8 July 2005 (UTC) MosheZadka (Talk | contribs | block) m (God Defend New Zealand moved to New Zealand)
 * (cur) (last) 11:45, 8 July 2005 (UTC) MosheZadka (Talk | contribs | block) m (wikisourcepar)
 * (cur) (last) 18:15, 5 June 2005 (UTC) Zhaladshar (Talk | contribs | block) (touch up)
 * (cur) (last) 04:27, 5 April 2005 (UTC) Rmhermen (Talk | contribs | block)
 * (cur) (last) 06:01, 20 July 2004 (UTC) 218.101.109.148 (Talk | block)

Sourcing
I just re-removed a section of "Anonymous" songs that Fys had earlier removed as "non-notable, unsourced, pointless". Although I didn't directly consider notability or "pointfulness", I will point out that one contributor's argument that "Of course it's unsourced -- these songs are anonymous!" is not accurate for Wikiquote purposes. Wikiquote collects quotes that have been published in reliable sources. Many such sources cite quotes by "Anonymous" or "Unknown". What makes them arguably notable is that existing publishers found them quoteworthy enough to include them. Like Wikipedia, Wikiquote relies heavily on existing publications to separate the notable from the stuff people just post because they can. And like Wikipedia, one important inclusion guideline is "verifiability, not truth". Just because something exists doesn't mean it deserves a place here. By providing specific published sources even for "anonymous" quotes or lyrics, we strive to ensure that our quotes are verifiably accurate and already found to be quoteworthy. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:16, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * God of nations at Thy feet, In the bonds of love we meet, Hear our voices, we entreat, God defend our free land. Guard Pacific's triple star, From the shafts of strife and war, Make her praises heard afar, God defend New Zealand.
 * "God Defend New Zealand", one of two New Zealand national anthems, with words by Thomas Bracken (full text at Wikisource)

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Celia Green

Celia Green (born November 26, 1935) is a British philosopher and author.

The Human Evasion (1969)

 * On the face of it there is something rather strange about human psychology. Human beings live in a state of mind called sanity, on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not, either way it is unthinkable. If they think about time, they find that it is inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to sanity, which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon that deserves more recognition.

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

 * The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

 * Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

 * The fact that something is far-fetched is no reason why it should not be true; it cannot be as far-fetched as the fact that something exists.

 * Astonishment is the only realistic emotion.

 * People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

 * It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

 * The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

 * The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

 * When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

 * The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.

 * Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

 * In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

 * Democracy: everyone should have an equal opportunity to obstruct everybody else.

 * When people talk about 'the sanctity of the individual' they mean 'the sanctity of the statistical norm'.

 * In an unenlightened society some people are forced to play degrading social roles; in an enlightened society, everyone is.

 * Society is everybody's way of punishing one another because they daren't take it out on the universe.

 * 'Social justice' - the expression of universal hatred.

 * Society is a self-regulating mechanism for preventing the fulfilment of its members.

 * Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty.

 * The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.

 * People having religions is an insult to the universe.

 * People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

 * The object of the educational system is to make the child feel suitably guilty for the harm that has been done to him.

 * Education by the State is a contradiction in terms. Intellectual development is only possible to those who have seen through society.

 * In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.

 * What is scandalous is not that stupid people should sometimes inherit private incomes; but that clever people should sometimes not.

 * The human race knows enough about thinking to prevent it.

 * One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

 * That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

 * Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

 * It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.

 * The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

 * I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

Advice to Clever Children (1981)

 * The perception that existence exists invalidates the normal personality,as does the imminence of death.

 * Now if you see that it is inconceivable that anything should exist, it is evident that at least one inconceivable fact is there. That is to say, that which exists is not limited to the conceivable. Since the inconceivable is there, it is impossible to set any limit to the quantity of inconceivableness which may be present in the situation. Now were the existence of anything consistently to remind you of the fact of inconceivability, since it is impossible to live without interacting with a large number of existing things, it would be impossible for you to feel in the same way about the conceivable.

 * Now if anyone were reminded about the inconceivable by the fact of existence at all constantly, he would sooner or later have the perception that there may be inconceivable considerations which are inconceivably more important than any conceivable consideration could be.

 * Now if you do have a perception that any conceivable consideration may be utterly invalidated by some other consideration which you do not know, and if you are reminded of this perception constantly by the fact that things exist, certain modifications take place in the way you feel about things. These modifications have not taken place in the psychology of most people.

 * The starting point is that one is interested in the universe, one observes that one is finite and that this is intolerable. One has a limited time and apparently limited capacity with which to find anything out. Therefore it is possible to despair. There are many orders of despair, and none of them are known to normal psychology. This is demonstrated by the fact that it has not become existential. Normal psychology will never devalue anything. Existential psychology, at least to a certain point, consists of exploiting the recoil from the despair of finiteness. The recoil is a drive with at least the instinctive immediacy of the survival instinct. There is no point in saying, 'What is there to do? What could such a drive possibly tend towards?'. The survival instinct tends to prolong life. The fundamental drive tends to inform itself about the universe.

 * Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learned to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense. This is why they talk so much about the value of human understanding and sympathy - it has a certain rarity value in their world.

 * Children need admiration rather than affection.

 * Progress towards sanity is achieved by abandoning first the desire for omnipotence and then that for exceptional achievement.

 * In the universe there is room for an infinite series of beginnings.

 * I have long had a theory that the popularity of Christianity has always depended on its appeal to the sadism of its adherents. The exceptional should be crucified, saith Society; and somehow everyone suspects (in spite of all arguments to the contrary) that if there is a God, he may be exceptional in some way.  So the figure of Christ crucified becomes the figure of the dangerous exceptional alien—suitably defeated. 'Only a suffering God can help', said Bonhoeffer, licking his lips.

 * The most exciting thing possible is actually true.

The Lost Cause (2003)

 * What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.

Letters from Exile (2004)

 * It is actually a principle of modern paternalism that if you want something you should be stopped from having it[…] Most foods are harmful to some people if taken in excess, and I expect the only reason that carrots are still available without a prescription is that no one has got very excited about them, or claimed that they might cure cancer.

 * It is easier to make people appear equally stupid than to make them equally clever, so teaching methods are adopted which make it practically impossible for anyone to learn anything.

 * I spent a couple of years between eleven and thirteen analysing the social evaluations that were taken for granted, also acquiring a thorough scepticism about processes regarded as causal, and the consistency of the physical world, as well as the reliability of my own mental processes. By the time I was thirteen I was running out of things to think about, so starting on a run of exam-taking seemed all the more appropriate, as I was finding it difficult to make use of spare time.

 * It is when the commercial factor enters into the situation that the possibility of genuine individual liberty arises.

The Corpse and the Kingdom (2023)

 * It has never seemed to me offensive that persons should be other persons' paid servants; but that other persons should be other persons' doctors, who are able to prescribe and refuse chemicals, has always seemed to me abominable.

 * The basis of capitalism is that if a tiger rushes towards you, you need a gun. If you acquired a gun at some point in time previous to the tiger's attack, and have it ready to hand, this is useful. If you have not actually got a gun, but know that you could acquire one at some point in the future, this is not so good. The problem is to survive so as to reach the future. The essence of communism is that nobody may have guns unless everybody has guns, and the only way anybody can get guns is if the collective-at-large sees fit to make a universal issue. And you may not have a better gun than the collective sees fit to issue for everybody. So if the collective does not actually get round to issuing any guns at all, everybody will be equally likely to be eaten by tigers.

 * Couched, of course, in tones of the utmost friendliness and benevolence, they unite in regretting that he [Somerset Maugham] was able to fulfil his own wishes.

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Uncanny X-Men

Uncanny X-Men (launched as Giant-Size X-Men in 1975) is a comic book published by Marvel Comics.

Issue 61

 * Angel: Take 'im, Iceman!!
 * Sauron: Do you hope to fool Sauron with your feeble tricks? There is nobody behind meeEEEEEEE
 * [Sauron gets his wing frozen by Iceman.]
 * Iceman: Just call me nobody, batwing! By the way, that's quite a pair of tenor tonsils you've got there!

Issue 98

 * Jean Grey: Isn't the snow beautiful, Ororo?
 * Storm: In it's way, Jean...But I can't help remembering that on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the snow is...white.

 * [Jack Kirby and Stan Lee see Jean Grey and Cyclops kiss passionately.]
 * Jack Kirby: Hey, Stan, you know who they were? I tell ya, they never used to do that when we had the book.
 * Stan Lee: Ah, Jack, you know these young kids -- they got no respect.

Issue 101

 * [The birth of Phoenix.]
 * Phoenix: Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am Fire and Life incarnate! Now and forever - I am PHOENIX!

Issue 111

 * Boy: Mom, look! One o' the big monkeys got loose.
 * Beast: Thanks, kid, my ego needed that. Don't you people know a super-hero when you see one?

Issue 136

 * Phoenix: Dark Phoenix knows nothing of love!
 * Cyclops: Oh? For love of the X-Men, you sacrificed your life. For love of me, you resurrected yourself. For love of the whole universe, you almost died a second time to save it. Know nothing of love?! Jean, you are love!

Issue 137

 * [The death of Phoenix.]
 * Phoenix:...If even one more person died at my hands... It's better this way. Quick. Clean. Final. I love you, Scott. A part of me will always be with you.
 * Cyclops: Jean, no. Don't! No!
 * [A ray gun emplacement fires, killing Phoenix.]
 * Phoenix: SCOTT!
 * Cyclops: JEAN!

Issue 141

 * Kitty Pryde: We fought. We lost. We d-died. And now... seeing you all alive -- oh God, I didn't think it would hurt so much.

Issue 162

 * Wolverine: I'm the best there is at what I do. But what I do best isn't very nice.
 * [Often misquoted as "I'm the best at what I do, and what I do isn't very nice".]

 * Wolverine: I'm not an animal. I'm a man. An X-Man!

Issue 171

 * Storm: Professor, if Rogue stays, I go.
 * Nightcrawler: My apologies, Herr Professor, but we all go.
 * Professor X: I see. We pick and choose who we help, is that it? Some are worthy, others not?! Who was it, Ororo, told me Wolverine was an X-Man, not because of his "sterling" chacter (sic), but his potential for good. That to deny him-- though we abhor his violent nature-- would thereby deny our true reason for being, which is to help him achieve that potential. The same argument holds for Rogue, does it not? Of course, there's a risk in accepting her-- but consider the alternative. At least with us she has a chance for a better life, Deny her and we condemn her outright... and that I will never do-- to any mutant-- so long as breath remains within me.

Issue 175

 * Cyclops: Got the ring, Alex?
 * Alex Summers: What's it worth to you?
 * Cyclops: Want to die, Alex?

Issue 176

 * [Madelyne stops Cyclops from falling off a floating plane into the water.]
 * Cyclops: It's okay, Madelyne, I can swim.
 * [A shark is seen below him]
 * Madelyne Pryor: Great, dummy -- so can he!

Issue 270
''Jean Grey and Storm spending quality time after Storm had been believed dead and was restored to a state of pre-adolescence. (NOTE: The coloring in the panel erroneously shows Storm's hand white and Jean's hand black; this error becomes apparent through the dialogue)''
 * Jean Grey: Ain't we the pair-- me, with too many lives for one body, you with not enough body for your life.
 * Storm: Muddling through regardless.
 * Jean Grey: From one catastrophe to the next.
 * Storm: 'Til death do us part.
 * Jean Grey: That'll be the day.
 * Storm: (proposing toast) To the X-Men, then! Who do not die the old fashioned way.
 * Jean Grey: And no matter how hard we try...
 * Storm: ...none of us die forever.

Issue 275

 * Magneto: The New Mutants were left in my charge and they suffered for it-- because I tried to pattern myself after Charles Xavier. I am not Charles Xavier. I will never be Charles Xavier. I was a fool to try. (...) As he was, for believing I could succeed. [Magneto kills Zaladane]

Issue 281

 * Sentinel: Termination accomplished. Target Marvel Girl is dead.
 * Fitzroy: A condition with which I understand she is quite familiar. This time, however, she will find it more permanent!

Issue 287

 * (A video from the future is shown to the X-Men by Bishop. Due to improper storage, it has corroded)
 * Jean Grey: Alex?! - Cable... Anyone?! - - Don't even know - transmission being received? -- taken total - taken totally unaware! Both teams - and - decimated! Mansion security was deactivated - activated... activated... deactivated from within! -- Betrayed by one of our own! Professor Xavier - was the first to die. One one left... power's negated. Our own fault, really - should never have trusted -- We knew so little about - YOU?! - may have killed the X-men... but the dream will never...
 * [Bright light.]
 * Voice off-panel: Die?

Issue 295

 * Jubilee: Yer nothin' but a whining bunch o' head-padded, hyper-thyroided, pig-headed, spoiled brat, poorly dressed, overly accessorized, delusionally disadvantaged X-Men WANNABES in major need of a total 'tude adjustment!

(Jubilee commenting on X-Force)

Issue 330

 * Magneto: I don't want to do this Charles, rather I have to. I must be strong, because you and your X-Men are too weak to do that which must be done! ....For no matter what happens to you and me, the welfare of the children is paramount. Whether they be the innocent like Illyana, Doug and Anya before them, the lost such as my Acolytes, or the misguided like the fools you count among the X-Men; they need to be protected! They need to be awakened from the dream in which you've lulled them! Whether you admit it or not, they need...MAGNETO!

Issue 337

 * Wolverine: Things change. People change. You. Me. Everyone o' us..... everyday of our lives. The day ya stop changin' --is the day ya die.

Issue 341

 * Rogue: Not the most discreet use o' your magnetic powers. Ya realize Cyclops would have both our heads for this?
 * Joseph: Then it is a good thing he's not here.
 * Coachman: Um...I'm going to go out on a limb here...
 * (View shifts, they are riding a horse-drawn cab several stories above the streets of Manhattan)
 * Coachman: ...mutants, right?
 * Rogue: That obvious? We're sorry, sir. We'll put you down and --
 * Coachman: You'll do no such thing, ma'am. I've read the papers...I've seen the television reports about mutants. What's more, I've come to my own conclusions. I think you're all trying your best to lead your own lives...A lot of times going out of your way to make sure us normal folk can live ours. What I'm saying is, it's an honor to have you in my cab. I mean, Christmas is a time for miracles, right..? I'd like to enjoy this one. Just as soon as I get get my fingernails off of my kneecaps, that is.
 * Rogue: Why... thank you, sir. That means a a lot.
 * Joseph: If you could drop us off at the World Trade Center--that would be perfect.
 * (View shifts again, to a man in an office. He is unnamed, but we are led to understand, through visual cues, that he is Bob Harras, editor of the comic)
 * Bob: I would love for me to be home too, Anne -- but I have books three days from shipping -- And Scott and Joe haven't even started the next issue! Give the boys a kiss goodnight for me and...
 * (Rogue and Joseph's coach hovers past his window, leaving him speechless)
 * Bob: ...Um. Uh. Mm. Maybe you're right.  I have been working too hard.  I'll, uh... be home soon.  Love you.

Issue 349

 * Grovel: Gambit, what's your funk? You like the girl... she likes you... Whatever the problem is, just tell her. No-one in my species likes to see a person with a sad-on.
 * Gambit: Real simple, old man: I tell her, I lose her.
 * Grovel: Yeah? Even simpler, kid: you don't tell her, you never really had her to lose.

Issue 350

 * First words of narration: What is it that pulls a man apart... yet at the same time, holds him together?

 * Narration: Once, long ago, what held this man together - the young Charles Xavier, a genius telepath with the simple dream of helping mutant by providing a school for them to learn how to control their powers - was his original group of students. And later, though he still cared about his school - and his all-new, all-different students - what held this man together was his love for a beautiful princess from another world. Recently, as adjectives became inadequate to describe the many souls in his school - what held this man together seemed to fall away...

 * Gambit: I'm sorry, Rogue. I know I wasn't straight with you... but I promise you I will change that when we get home.
 * Rogue: Home? You ain't got a home. Not with me, not with the X-Men.
 * Gambit: Fine. Fine. I deserve that. But can you at least drop me somewhere inhabited -
 * Rogue: Remy, it's too much. I can't take what you did. Whatever comes, whatever the cost to other people, I'm sure you'll survive, you seem to have done that very admirably in the past.
 * Gambit: But I... I love you.
 * Rogue: (throwing him the card he gave her symbolizing their relationship)You're honest with the people you love, Remy. Otherwise... it's a gamble.
 * (Rogue flies away, leaving Gambit to his fate)
 * Final words of narration: What is it that pulls a man apart, yet at the same time holds him together? It is his soul. And whether good... or evil... or some combination of the two... no man can escape the dictates of his soul.

Issue 403

 * Iceman: Bring it on, Blob. I've been kicking your mealy ass since I was thirteen.

Issue 434

 * Nightcrawler: Azazel may have provided the genetic material that made me what I am, physically... but my "father" has always been here whenever I needed him, Professor Xavier... with food, money, support, family... and most importantly... with love, understanding, and kindness. "The foolish notion of the angels." Thank you Professor, for being a true father to me all these years.

Issue 443

 * Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch have just learnt that Polaris is ruler of Genosha, as their father Magneto named her as his heir
 * Quicksilver: He named her as his heir? What about us?
 * Scarlet Witch: Don't be so quick temepered, Pietro. Do you really want to be his heir after what he just did to New York?
 * Quicksilver: Oh. Good point.

Issue 485
The X-Men and Starjammers are watching the wedding of Deathbird and Vulcan on monitor.
 * Warpath: It's like they're Charles and Lady Di out here or something.
 * Mam'selle Hepzibah: Lady Death, I think you mean to say.
 * Warpath: Yeah, Hepzibah... I guess that about fits.

About

 * When I took over with issue #94, the presumption was that the industry was dying, the X-Men would not last. Based on its history as a series, it did not have much impact on the audience… unless you’re using Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, which changes all the game parameters.
 * Our attitude was: ‘If we’ve only got a year or two, let’s have fun! Let’s throw everything at the wall and see what sticks!’” And, it turns out, quite a lot of it stuck. “So we start out with the team coming together; we throw in a trauma with Storm and a demon; we throw in planes blowing up at Kennedy airport; and then we’re up to issue #100 right off the bat – so let’s bring back the Sentinels! And suddenly we have the transition of Jean into Phoenix and that was the second gamechanger.
 * Chris Claremont An Interview With Chris Claremont, Them0vieblog.com

 * The actual story line was that Xavier would die in issue #200...and that Magneto would become head of the school [pause] permanently.....But the idea, that goal was built from the death of Phoenix. The hope was to show that this is ... their lives as X-Men have a real risk. This isn't superhero games. This is reality. In reality good guys sometimes do not win and people die. And that has to be part of their lives otherwise it just becomes a video game ... life isn't like that. . And I always thought, my thought was the stories we tell in comics shouldn't be like that either. If there is risk for the reader, then the victory is that much sweeter. And you can, something can happen that can catch you by surprise and can have that much power and heart.
 * Chris Claremont Ages of the X-Men” Essays on the Children of the Atom in Changing Times Freakytown p.101

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Avengers Forever

Avengers Forever was a twelve-issue comic book miniseries published by Marvel Comics starring the superhero team called the Avengers.

 * 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12
 * External links

Issue 1

 * Immortus: You cannot prevent what is written!
 * Kang: Writers! Pfah!

Issue 2

 * Hawkeye: It's just a typical Avengers adventure as far as ol' Hawkeye's concerned -- opponents everywhere, but no one's got a clue what's going on!

Issue 3

 * Kang: We have been glorious enemies in the past, and with fortune on our side we will be again. But now, I ask you-- do you stand with me? Do we stand against Immortus?
 * Yellowjacket: Ah - -
 * Songbird: Uh --
 * Wasp: A-all right, Kang. For now…

Issue 4

 * Libra: I was trained in the martial arts by the priests of Pama and I am quite capable of defending myself!
 * Hawkeye: Wall, I was trained in combat by the older kids at the St. Ignatius Home for Orphaned Boys in Waverly, Iowa -- An' buster, they'd eat those priests of yours for breakfast!

Issue 5

 * Hawkeye: You know, Yellowback -- you're using the word "we" an awful lot for someone who didn't actually do anything…
 * Yellowjacket: Details, details.

Issue 6

 * Rick Jones: Welcome back to confusion central, folks. Hope you're not expecting any answers -- because frankly, I'm fresh out!

Issue 7

 * Captain America: How's a man supposed to trust his senses -- even his instincts -- in a place where nothing's dependable?
 * Giant-Man: We muddle through, Cap -- just like in the real world.

Issue 8

 * [Following a long, convoluted exposition covering a large part of the Avengers' history.]
 * Hawkeye: Well, I'm glad you understand it, tall socks. Alla this divergent stuff -- it's just givin' me a migraine.

Issue 9

 * Kang: Contained. I did not like the word. It made me think of cattle…animals to be bred and slaughtered at will.

Issue 10

 * Wasp: Yellowjacket!
 * Yellowjacket: In the flesh doll-face. Large as life, twice as cute, and runnin' around free while you're locked up.

Issue 11

 * Libra: My first and greatest allegiance is to the balance. My job is to serve the balance, and to let it play out as events dictate -- I've studied for years, trained -- all to achive a state of balance, to lose myself in it -- but the heck with it!

Issue 12

 * Kang: And any machine can be beaten. Any defense overcome.

 * Hawkeye: Nuts! If only I'd been able to stop that time-travelling crumb before he got away...
 * Captain America: Stand easy, Hawkeye. I'm sure there'll be other... times.

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Michael Chabon

Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author, essayist, short-story writer, and screenwriter. He is married to Ayelet Waldman.

 * See also: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Quotes

 * Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.
 * The Recipe for Life, The Washington Book World (2000)

 * Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.
 * Maps and Legends, Architectural Digest (April 2001)

 * The presence of evil, once scented, tends to bring out all that is most irrational and uncontrollable in the public imagination. It is a catalyst for pea-brained theories, gimcrack scholarship, and the credulous cosmologies of hysteria.
 * The God of Dark Laughter, The New Yorker (April 9, 2001)

 * I have staked my career—my life itself—on the things I could see, on the stories I could credit, and on the eventual vindication, when the book was closed, of the reasonable and skeptical approach. In the face of twenty-five years of bloodshed, mayhem, criminality, and the universal human pastime of ruination, I have clung fiercely to Occam’s razor, seeking always to keep my solutions unadorned and free of conjecture, and never to resort to conspiracy or any kind of prosecutorial woolgathering. My mother, whenever she was confronted by calamity or personal sorrow, invoked cosmic emanations, invisible empires, ancient prophecies, and intrigues; it has been the business of my life to reject such folderol and seek the simpler explanation. But we were fools, she and I, arrant blockheads, each of us blind to or heedless of the readiest explanation: that the world is an ungettable joke, and our human need to explain its wonders and horrors, our appalling genius for devising such explanations, is nothing more than the rim shot that accompanies the punch line.
 * The God of Dark Laughter, The New Yorker (April 9, 2001)

 * When I first set my sights on becoming a writer at age eleven or so, I wanted to be a fantasy and science fiction writer. That was my preferred reading material and that's what I thought I was going to write. That's always been there. You can even see little hints of it in Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonderboys.
 * Interview with Metro Weekly, March 12, 2002

 * I think it was when I got to the butterflies -- in that brief, beautiful image comprising life, death and technology -- that the hair on the back of my neck began to stand on end. All at once, the pleasure I took in reading was altered irrevocably. Before then I had never noticed, somehow, that stories were made not of ideas or exciting twists of plot but of language. And not merely of pretty words and neat turns of phrase, but of systems of imagery, strategies of metaphor.
 * Close Encounters, Washington Post (April 7, 2002)
 * On reading Rocket Man by Ray Bradbury

 * I would give a good deal of money, blood, books or years to be able to watch as Amanda, in a picture hat, looked back from the vantage of a long and productive career to reject her first published efforts as uneven or only halfway there or, worst of all, as promising, or to see her condescend to them, cuddle them almost, as mature writers sometimes do with their early books, the way we give our old stuffed pony or elephant, with its one missing shirt-button eye, a fond squeeze before returning it to the hatbox in the attic. At bottom of this kind of behavior on the part of old, established writers is the undeniable way in which our young selves, and the books that issued from them, invariably seem to reproach us: with the fading of our fire, the diminishment of our porousness to the world and the people in it, the compromises made, the friendships abandoned, the opportunities squandered, the loss of velocity on our fastball.
 * The New York Times Magazine (December 28th, 2003)
 * About Amanda Davis, who died at the age of 32 in a plane crash

 * Pity those—adventurers, adolescents, authors of young adult fiction—who make their way in the borderland between worlds. It is at worst an invisible and at best an inhospitable place. Build your literary house on the borderlands, as the English writer Philip Pullman has done, and you may find that your work is recommended by booksellers, as a stopgap between installments of Harry Potter, to children who cannot (one hopes) fully appreciate it, and to adults, disdainful or baffled, who 'don't read fantasy.' Yet all mystery resides there, in the margins, between life and death, childhood and adulthood, Newtonian and quantum, 'serious' and 'genre' literature. And it is from the confrontation with mystery that the truest stories have always drawn their power.
 * Dust & Daemons, The New York Review of Books (March 25, 2004)

 * It is in the nature of a teenager to want to destroy. The destructive impulse is universal among children of all ages, rises to a peak of vividness, ingenuity and fascination in adolescence, and thereafter never entirely goes away. Violence and hatred, and the fear of our own inability to control them in ourselves, are a fundamental part of our birthright, along with altruism, creativity, tenderness, pity and love. It therefore requires an immense act of hypocrisy to stigmatize our young adults and teenagers as agents of deviance and disorder. It requires a policy of dishonesty about and blindness to our own histories, as a species, as a nation, and as individuals who were troubled as teenagers, and who will always be troubled, by the same dark impulses. It also requires that favorite tool of the hypocritical, dishonest and fearful: the suppression of constitutional rights.
 * Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth, New York Times (April 13, 2004)

 * The imagination of teenagers is often -- I'm tempted to say always -- the only sure capital they possess apart from the love of their parents, which is a force far beyond their capacity to comprehend or control. During my own adolescence, my imagination, the kingdom inside my own skull, was my sole source of refuge, my fortress of solitude, at times my prison. Like all teenagers, I provisioned my garrison with art: books, movies, music, comic books, television, role-playing games. Given their nature as human creations, as artifacts and devices of human nature, some of the provisions I consumed were bound to be of a dark, violent, even bloody and horrifying nature; otherwise I would not have cared for them.
 * Nanny Nation, San Francisco Chronicle (April 15, 2004)

 * We don't want teenagers to write violent poems, horrifying stories, explicit lyrics and rhymes; they're ugly, in precisely the way that we are ugly, and out of protectiveness and hypocrisy, even out of pity and love and tenderness, we try to force young people to be innocent of everything but the effects of that ugliness. So we censor the art they consume and produce, and prosecute and suspend and expel them, and when, once in a great while, a teenager reaches for an easy gun and shoots somebody or himself, we tell ourselves that if we had only censored his journals and curtailed his music and video games, that awful burst of final ugliness could surely have been prevented. As if art caused the ugliness, when of course all it can ever do is reflect and, perhaps, attempt to explain it. Let teenagers languish, therefore, in their sense of isolation, without outlet or nourishment, bereft of the only thing that makes it all bearable: knowing that somebody else has felt the way that you feel, has faced it, run from it, rued it, lamented it and transformed it into art; has been there, and returned, and lived, for the only good reason we have: to tell the tale. How confident we shall be, once we have done this, of never encountering the ugliness again! How happy our children will be, and how brave, and how safe!
 * Nanny Nation

 * It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.
 * A Woman of Valor, Alure (May 2004)

 * I suppose there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I’m thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious.
 * Introduction to McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004)

 * The point of Obama's candidacy is that the damaged state of American democracy is not the fault of George W. Bush and his minions, the corporate-controlled media, the insurance industry, the oil industry, lobbyists, terrorists, illegal immigrants or Satan. The point is that this mess is our fault. We let in the serpents and liars, we exchanged shining ideals for a handful of nails and some two-by-fours, and we did it by resorting to the simplest, deepest-seated and readiest method we possess as human beings for trying to make sense of the world: through our fear. America has become a phobocracy.
 * Obama vs. the Phobocracy, Washington Post (February 4, 2008)

 * One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark “S” that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman’s alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.
 * Secret Skin (March 10, 2008)

 * The Weinreichs have laid out, with numerical precision, the outlines of a world, of a fantastic land in which it would behoove you to know how to say, in Yiddish, 250. What is the flight number? 1372. I need something for a tourniquet. 1379. Here is my identification. 254. Can I go by boat/ferry to?
 * A Yiddish Pale Fire

 * As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.
 * Unpublished Letter of Complaint to The New York Review of Books

 * [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying—but entirely bogus—rumble of pleasure.
 * Greasy Kids’ Stuff

Wonder Boys (1995)

 * Eight solid light-years of lead...is the thickness of that metal in which you would need to encase yourself if you wanted to keep from being touched by neutrinos. I guess the little fuckers are everywhere.

 * The young men listen dutifully, for the most part, and from time to time some of them even take the trouble to go over to the college library, and dig up one or another of his novels, and crouch there, among the stacks, flipping impatiently through the pages, looking for parts that sound true.

 * If Miss Sloviak were not already a transvestite, Crabtree would certainly make her into one.

 * I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

 * Over the years I'd surrendered many vices, among them whiskey, cigarettes, and the various non-Newtonian drugs, but marijuana and I remained steadfast companions. I had one fragrant ounce of Humboldt County, California, in a Ziploc bag in the glove compartment of my car.

 * The problem, if anything, was precisely the opposite. I had too much to write: too many fine and miserable buildings to construct and streets to name and clock towers to set chiming, too many characters to raise up from the dirt like flowers whose petals I peeled down to the intricate frail organs within, too many terrible genetic and fiduciary secrets to dig up and bury and dig up again, too many divorces to grant, heirs to disinherit, trysts to arrange, letters to misdirect into evil hands, innocent children to slay with rheumatic fever, women to leave unfulfilled and hopeless, men to drive to adultery and theft, fires to ignite at the hearts of ancient houses.

 * I had a certain cetacean delicacy of movement in the wide open sea of a hundred-yard field...

 * Dutifully I thumbed the rides, hopped the B & Os and the Great Northerns, balled the lithe small-town girls in the band shells of their hometown parks, held the job as field hand and day laborer and soda jerk, saw the crude spectacles of American landscape slide past me as I lay in an open boxcar and drank cheap red wine; and if I didn't, I might as well have.

 * It was in this man's class that I first began to wonder if people who wrote fiction were not suffering from some kind of disorder--from what I've since come to think of, remembering the wild nocturnal rockings of Albert Vetch, as the midnight disease.

 * A couple of years later I would marry her for a little while.

 * As a lifelong habit of marijuana I was used to having even the most dreadful phenomena prove, on further inspection, to be only the figments of my paranoid fancy...

 * "I feel great," I said, trying to decide how I did feel.

 * I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.

 * ...as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.

 * Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

 * There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

 * Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.

 * The overcoat was a trademark of his. It was an impermeable thrift-shop special with a plaid flannel lining and wide lapels, and it looked as though it had been trying for many years to keep the rain off the stooped shoulders of a long series of hard cases, drifters, and ordinary bums. It emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

 * Her style was plain and poetic as rain on a daisy--she was particularly gifted at the description of empty land and horses. She lived in the basement of my house for a hundred dollars a month, and I was desperately in love with her.

 * He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

 * Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite.

 * The whiskey tasted like bear steaks and river mud and the flesh of an oak tree. I had another swallow because it tasted so good.

 * I found myself going over a particular troublesome scene in the novel, for the one thousand and seventy-third time, in the manner of a lunatic ape in a cage at the zoo, running his fingers back and forth along the iron bars of his home.

 * Although it was only nine o'clock he had already gone once around the pharmacological wheel to which he'd strapped himself for the evening, stolen a tuba, and offended a transvestite; and now his companions were beginning, with delight and aplomb, to barf. It was definitely a Crabtree kind of night.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)

 * "To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in."
 * Part I, ch. 1

 * "Forget about what you are escaping from," he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. "Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."
 * Part I, ch. 2

 * [I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.
 * Part II, ch. 1

The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
Online text, Gourmet

 * Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.

 * [I]f neuroses were swimming pools one might, like Cheever's swimmer, steer a course from my house to the city limits and never touch dry land.

 * When Berkeley does not feel like some kind of vast exercise in collective dystopia—a kind of left-wing Plymouth Plantation in which a man may be pilloried for over-illuminating his house at Christmastime—then paradoxically it often feels like a place filled with people incapable of feeling or acting in concert with each other.

The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

 * The rest of Sitka’s homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.
 * Chapter 1

 * “Are you mocking the concept?” “Not necessary,” Berko says. “The concept mocks itself.”
 * Chapter 9

 * The daily sight of her is going to be a torment, like God torturing Moses with a glimpse of Zion from the top of Mount Pisgah every single day of his life.
 * Chapter 9

 * A friendship across sectarian lines is not a common phenomenon, in his experience. In the past, it has struck him that, apart from homosexuals, only chess players have found a reliable way to bridge, intensely but without fatal violence, the gulf that separates any given pair of men.
 * Chapter 10

 * Men tend to cry, in Landsman's experience, when they have been living for a long time with a sense of rightness and safety, and then they realize that all along just, under their boot, lay the abyss. This is part of the policeman's job, to jerk back the pretty carpet that covers over the deep jagged hole in the floor.
 * Chapter 11

 * He knows, of course, that a criminal organization like the Verbover ring can’t flourish without the ready services of bagman and secret lobbyists, without regular applications of grease and body English to the works of government.
 * Chapter 12

 * Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.
 * Chapter 16

 * Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve.
 * Chapter 23

 * He’s too superstitious not to see this as a bad omen, but when you're a pessimist, all omens are bad.
 * Chapter 23

 * He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.
 * Chapter 23

 * Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself
 * Chapter 38

 * Dr. Roboy, in Litvak’s measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.
 * Chapter 39

 * A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment.
 * Chapter 39

 * Litvak knew that charisma was a real if indefinable quality, a chemical fire that certain half-fortunate men gave off. Like any fire or talent, it was amoral, unconnected to goodness or wickedness, power or usefulness or strength.
 * Chapter 39

 * Yes, all right, Landsman understands, so go shit in the ocean, that he made not the right but the only choice. He understands that the necessity of covering up for the dark deeds of the boys in the top drawer is one that nozzes have been making into a virtue since the dawn of police work.
 * Chapter 45

 * He didn’t want to be what he wasn’t, he didn’t know how to be what he was.
 * Chapter 46

Gentlemen of the Road (2007)

 * [A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result—and have been since at least the time of Odysseus—of the fatal act of leaving one's home, or trying to return to it again. All adventures happen in that damned and magical space, wherever it may be found or chanced upon, which least resembles one's home. As soon as you have crossed your doorstep or the county line, into that place where the structures, laws, and conventions of your upbringing no longer apply, where the support and approval (but also the disapproval and repression) of your family and neighbors are not to be had: then you have entered into adventure, a place of sorrow, marvels, and regret.
 * Afterword

 * [L]ook at yourself right now... hoping to lose yourself—your home, your certainties, the borders and boundaries of your life—by means of a bundle of wood pulp, sewn and glued and stained with blobs of pigment and resin. People with Books. … It makes me want to laugh.
 * Afterword

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User:Amiracle~enwikiquote

Law

"Instead of the law serving the people, it is the people that serve the law." —Amir Afsai (Sometimes appears as: "Instead of the law serving the people, it is often the people that serve the law.")

Justice

"It is never too late to repair an injustice." —Amir Afsai

Democracy

"Democracy is the system of values in which the individual and the collective can realize to the fullest their human potential." —Amir Afsai

Running

"Running is sex with the Earth." —Amir Afsai

Israel

"Anyone who compares Israel to apartheid South Africa either does not understand what happened in South Africa or has no understanding of what is happening in Israel." —Amir Afsai

Intuition

"Intuition is knowing something without knowing how you know it." —Amir Afsai

Epistemology

"The difference between knowledge and belief is that the question How do you know? is answerable while the question How do you believe? is not." —Amir Afsai

Life

"Do not rely on the failure of your peers as consolation for your own." —Amir Afsai

"Had it not been for boredom, mankind would never do anything. Were it not for coincidence, nothing would ever happen." —Amir Afsai

"Once you turn 30, it is the people who don't wish you a happy birthday whom you want to thank."

Linguistics

"Never trust a linguist." —Amir Afsai

Business

"There's no business like hopelessness." —Amir Afsai

"כל דשוויק גבר." —אמיר אפסאי

Time

Regret for wasted time is wasted regret." —Amir Afsai

All quotes © Amir Afsai | אמיר אפסאי.

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User talk:Matthew Platts~enwikiquote

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:10, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

likely copright violation
The page you created, Der Fuehrer's Face, appears to contain what might be the full lyrics of a song that is probably still under copyright, which is against Wikiquote and Wikimedia policies. Much of these lyrics should probably be trimmed down. ~ Kalki 01:27, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Ppale

Thanks for the work on Croatian proverbs ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Croatian proverbs
''Thank you for your kind greeting and for correcting (formating and content) my first attempts at creating "Croatian proverbs". Two brief questions:''

 * you cleaned italic and bold formating from my original (copy from Coriscan). German, Italian and some others use italic and put proverbs in quotes. i find that this improves reading and looks better. Should I use some of other languages as "template" or should I stick with what you proposed ?

 * what can I do for Croatian proverbs to be listed on the main page (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page) together with other languages under "Proverbs" paragraph ?

Thanks, Ppale 00:13, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry for removing italics — that was a mistake. I've restored italics now on all quotes. You can take a look at the latest version of Croatian proverbs if you want. Re: Main Page: I think that the list of proverbs on the main page is pretty static. However, I am working (slowly, since I have limited time) on a "Featured article" idea which will feature selected articles on the main page for a month, based on a vote. Once this is created, you'll be able to nominate Croatian proverbs for featured article. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:46, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi. I moved the origin of the page to the talk page, where meta-data belongs. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:16, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I am very new to Wiki so my question for today is: what is the proper (and cnonvenient way) to communicate with a user of Wiki? Both, if this is something interesting for general public and if it is private, just a conversation between me and the person? --Ppale 12:29, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

 * You can leave messages on the user talk page (like you're doing), or you can use the "e-mail this user" link. I strongly suggest against the latter except in unusual circumstances — just go ahead and leave messages on talk pages! ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:32, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

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Drowning Mona

Drowning Mona is a 2000 black comedy film in which the most-hated woman in town drives her car into the river to her death and everyone becomes a suspect.
 * Directed by Nick Gomez. Written by Peter Steinfeld.

1 murder. 460 prime suspects. Not so much of a 'who done it' as a 'who didn't'. Taglines

Rona Mace

 * Good luck doesn't happen to people like us. Good luck happens to Madonna.

 * I could wind up floating on the bottom of the Hudson.

 * Some shame bout that Mona Dearly. I mean, so young.

Phil Dearly

 * Don't kiss the dogs ass!

 * I was a battered husband.

 * [singing] I'm a Wheel Watcher! I'm a Wheel Watcher!

Mona Dearly

 * [to Bobby and Jeff, regarding the name BJ Landscaping] BJ? [laughs]'' Well, I think "JB" has a nicer ring to it. Besides, you don't want anyone goin' around calling ya "Blow Job Landscaping" - Do ya?

Jeff Dearly

 * I want half. And don't give me none of that "fifty-percent" shit.

 * Look, I heard you the first time, Bobby. I ain't mute.

Other

 * Lt. Feege Gruber: They found him this morning...dead in the water, so to speak.

Dialogue

 * Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad."
 * Mona Dearly: Yeah? Well life handed me a whole pile of shit. What am I supposed to do with that?!
 * Phil Dearly: Make shit salad?

 * Deputy Tony Carlucci: [to Phil Dearly, after informing him of his wife's death] So, uh...you want to tell Jeff about his mom, or do you think we should do it, or...
 * Phil Dearly: Yeah! Uh...
 * Deputy Jimmy D: I mean, we'd be more than happy to do it, Phil, you know, it's just that, coming from you it may cushion the blow.
 * Deputy Tony Carlucci: Being that, you know, he's your son and all.
 * Phil Dearly: Well, in that case, it might be best if one of you did it.

 * Bobby Kalzone: Mona Dearly's dead.
 * Ellen Rash: What?
 * Bobby Kalzone: She's dead- It was just a- car accident.
 * Ellen Rash: You gotta be kiddin' me. Well- We gotta celebrate!
 * Bobby Kalzone: Jesus, God, Ellie she's a human being. Have a little respect.
 * Ellen Rash: I don't gotta have respect for no one in that family. Think how they treated you.
 * Bobby Kalzone: How did they treat me?
 * Ellen Rash: Badly, they're a houseful of freaks.

 * Jeff Dearly: Where's my car?
 * Deputy Jimmy D.: Well Jeff, it's a little bit more serious than your car.
 * [Pause]
 * Jeff Dearly: Would someone mind tellin me what the hell's goin on?
 * Deputy Tony Carlucci: Your mother drove her car into the lake Jeff, I'm afraid she's dead.
 * Jeff Dearly: What was she doing in my car?

 * Bobby Kalzone: Dude, she's like 13.
 * Jeff Dearly: Finally!

 * Bobby Kalzone: It's been different since Jeff killed Peaches.
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: Jeff killed Peaches? I thought it was the other way around.
 * Bobby Kalzone: Peaches killed Jeff?
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: No, I heard you killed Peaches.

 * Bobby Kalzone: [after Ellen slaps him after explaining what he did] What you do that for?
 * Ellen Rash: [outraged] You killed Mona Dearly!
 * Bobby Kalzone: [chastened] I know.
 * Ellen Rash: BUT WHY?!
 * Bobby Kalzone: Because I thought I was killing Jeff!
 * Ellen Rash: Bobby, my dad is the chief of police!
 * Bobby Kalzone: I know, but I wasn't gonna go through with it.
 * Ellen Rash: It doesn't matter; you killed someone!
 * Bobby Kalzone: I know, but I was doing it for us. Jeff was killing the business, and Mona wasn't gonna let me out of the partnership, so - Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
 * Ellen Rash: A good idea at the time? 'Cut the grass at 6:00, lay sod at 7:00, DROWN THE DEARLYS AT 8:00'!

 * Ellen Rash: Yeah, but you're not even supposed to get that far, you're supposed to have that thing in your head that goes off and says, 'bad FUCKING idea, Bobby!'
 * Bobby Kalzone: I have that thing! I have that thing. It just didn't go off.
 * Ellen Rash: [pause] Yeah, well, I'm pregnant.
 * Bobby Kalzone: What? You're pregnant? That's great!
 * Ellen Rash: Uh huh! I thought so too, till a moment ago. I can't believe you killed someone!
 * [she walks off]
 * Bobby Kalzone: Where ya goin?
 * Ellen Rash: Home!
 * Bobby Kalzone: [quietly] We need milk.

 * Chief Wyatt Rash: Tell me something Cubby, you notice anything odd lately?
 * Cubby: You mean other than the fact that no one seems to care about this woman's death?
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: Along those lines.
 * Cubby: Hell Wyatt, I've seen people more upset over losing change in a candy machine.

 * Mona Dearly: Why'd you pull us over Feege?
 * Lt. Feege Gruber: Oh let me think about that Mona, you're riding on rims and you pulled an 1107 on an officer of the law. [to Jeff] What the hell is the matter with you son?
 * Mona Dearly: What did you hurt him for?
 * Lt. Feege Gruber: He's drunk!
 * Mona Dearly: No he ain't! [to Jeff] It's OK baby. [to Feege] You're gonna pay for this Feege! You just lost your lawn service, pal!

 * Jeff Dearly: [while threatening to kill himself] I know you all think I killed my parents.
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: We don't think you killed anybody!
 * Jeff Dearly: Yeah? Well, you're full of shit! Everyone know I've been wanting to get back at her ever since that night...
 * [a flashback shows Mona cleaving a sausage]
 * Jeff Dearly: Hey, Ma, there's no more beer. Give me some of yours.
 * Mona Dearly: Don't touch that beer, Jeff.
 * Jeff Dearly: [reaches out] Oh, give it to me.
 * Mona Dearly: I SAID...
 * [cleaves his hand clean off]
 * Jeff Dearly: [screams in pain] FUCK!
 * [back to present, everyone is shocked and disgusted]
 * Jeff Dearly: Was I so wrong?
 * Lt. Feege Gruber: You bet your ass.
 * Jeff Dearly: Yeah, but, I didn't kill her. Look, don't get me wrong: I'm glad she's dead and all, but I sure as hell didn't do it.
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: Jeff, I know you didn't kill her.
 * Jeff Dearly: I didn't kill my dad neither.
 * Chief Wyatt Rash: Then why don't you give me the gun.
 * Jeff Dearly: [puts the gun to head] BECAUSE MY LIFE SUCKS, MAN!

Taglines

 * 1 murder. 460 prime suspects. Not so much of a 'who done it' as a 'who didn't'.
 * The death of Mona Dearly wasn't so much a whodunnit, as a who didn't.
 * Who wanted to see Mona Dearly dead? Take a number.

Cast

 * Danny DeVito - Chief Wyatt Rash
 * Bette Midler - Mona Dearly
 * Neve Campbell - Ellen Rash
 * Jamie Lee Curtis - Rona Mace
 * Casey Affleck - Bobby Calzone
 * William Fichtner - Phil Dearly
 * Marcus Thomas - Jeff Dearly
 * Peter Dobson - Lt. Feege Gruber
 * Kathleen Wilhoite - Lucinda
 * Tracey Walter - Clarence
 * Will Ferrell - Cubby the Funeral Director
 * Paul Ben-Victor - Deputy Tony Carlucci
 * Paul Schulze - Deputy Jimmy D.

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User talk:143.165.201.47

I made some cosmetic edits to Bengali proverbs. Please feel free to look at it. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:52, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

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Blue Velvet (film)

Blue Velvet is a 1986 film about an innocent young man who discovers that a dark underworld exists beneath the surface of his seemingly quiet hometown.
 * Written and directed by David Lynch.

It's a strange world.

Frank Booth

 * All right. Let's hit the fuckin' road, we're givin' our neighbor a joy ride. Let's get on with it. Bye, Ben. Anyone, uh, want to go on a joy ride with us. [to Dorothy] How about you? Huh? Hey, no smile for Frank? No? OK. Fuck it. Let's go. Now it's dark. [shouting] Let's FUCK! I'll fuck anything that moves!
 * [to Jeffrey] Don't be a good neighbor to her. I'll send you a love letter straight from my heart, fucker. Do you know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fuckin' gun, fucker. If you receive a love letter from me, you are fucked forever. Do you understand, fuck? I'll send ya straight to Fuck, fucker!
 * Fuck you, you fucking fuck! Fuck you, you fuck!
 * HEINEKEN!? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!
 * Shut up! It's daddy, fuckhead. Where's my bourbon?
 * In dreams, I walk with you. In dreams, I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine, all the time. Forever.

Dialogue

 * Detective Williams: Well now Jeffrey, you found something which is very interesting to us. Very interesting. I know you must be curious to know more. But I'm afraid I'm gonna have to ask you now not only not to tell anyone about your find but also not to ask more about the case. One day, when it's all sewed up, I'll let you know all the details. Right now, though, I can't.
 * Jeffrey: I understand. I'm just real curious like you said.
 * Detective Williams: I was the same way myself when I was your age. I guess that's what got me into this business.
 * Jeffrey: It must be great.
 * Detective Williams: It's horrible too.

 * Sandy: I don't know if you're a detective or a pervert.
 * Jeffrey: Well, that's for me to know and you to find out.

 * Frank: [wailing] Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy.
 * Dorothy: Mommy loves you.
 * Frank: Baby wants to fuck! Get ready to fuck. You fucker's fucker. You fucker. Don't you fuckin' look at me!...Baby wants blue velvet...Don't fuckin' look at me. Don't fuckin' look at me. Don't you look at me. Daddy's coming. Daddy's coming home. Don't you fuckin' look at me. Daddy's coming home...Don't you fuckin' look at me! [gets up, blows out the candle] Now it's dark. Stay alive baby. Do it for Van Gogh.

 * Sandy: Well, aren't you going to tell me about it?
 * Jeffrey: OK. It's a strange world, Sandy. Dorothy Vallens is married to a man named Don. They have a son. I think the son and the husband have been kidnapped by a man named Frank. Frank has done this to force Dorothy to do things for him. I think she wants to die. I think Frank cut the ear I found off her husband as a warning for him to stay alive. Frank, is, uh, a very dangerous man.
 * Sandy: My god. Shouldn't you tell my father?
 * Jeffrey: No. I can't do that. I can't prove any of this. I found out my information illegally. You could get into a lot of trouble.
 * Sandy: You saw a lot in one night. It's a strange world.
 * Jeffrey: Why are there people like Frank? Why is there so much trouble in this world?
 * Sandy: I don't know. I had a dream. In fact, it was the night I met you. In the dream, there was our world and the world was dark because there weren't any robins, and the robins represented love. And for the longest time, there was just this darkness. And all of a sudden, thousands of robins were set free, and they flew down and brought this Blinding Light of Love. And it seemed like that love would be the only thing that would make any difference. And it did. So I guess it means there is trouble 'til the robins come.
 * Jeffrey: You're a neat girl.
 * Sandy: So are you. [laughs] I mean, you're a neat guy.

 * Raymond: He's a pussy, Frank!
 * Frank: Yeah, but he's our pussy. [Looks at Dorothy] Ain't that right, tits?

 * Frank: Where's the glasses? That beer's gonna get warm. One thing I can't fuckin' stand is warm beer. It makes me fuckin' puke!
 * Ben: Darling? Where's the glasses? Here, Frank. Here are the glasses. Here are the glasses.
 * Frank: Raymond, where's the fuckin' beer man?
 * Raymond: It's right here Frank. You want me to pour it?
 * Frank: No, I want you to fuck it. Shit yes. Pour the fuckin' beer.

 * Ben: To your health.
 * Frank: Ah, shit, let's drink to something else. Let's drink to fucking. Yeah, say, "Here's to your fuck, Frank."
 * Ben: If you like, Frank. Here's to your fuck.
 * Frank: Suave, man. You're so fuckin' suave. [punches Jeffrey in the face, forcing him to toast Ben]
 * Jeffrey: Here's to Ben.
 * Frank: Be polite!
 * Jeffrey: Here's to Ben.
 * Ben: Thank you for the toast. That was a very nice neighbor. Did he hurt your little face? [punches Jeffrey in the stomach] That feel better?

 * Paul: You ever been to pussy heaven?
 * Jeffrey: [nervously] Uh, no.
 * Frank: What did he say?
 * Paul: [laughing] He said, "Uh, no."

Cast

 * Isabella Rossellini - Dorothy Vallens
 * Kyle MacLachlan - Jeffrey Beaumont
 * Dennis Hopper - Frank Booth
 * Laura Dern - Sandy Williams
 * Hope Lange - Mrs. Williams
 * Dean Stockwell - Ben
 * Ken Stovitz - Mike
 * Brad Dourif - Raymond
 * George Dickerson - Det. John Williams
 * Priscilla Pointer - Mrs. Beaumont
 * Frances Bay - Aunt Barbara
 * Jack Harvey - Mr. Tom Beaumont

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