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Office Space

Office Space is a 1999 comedy film that pokes fun at work life in a typical software company during the late 1990s by portraying individuals who are completely fed up with their jobs.
 * Directed and written by Mike Judge.

Work Sucks, Blow it Up taglines

Peter Gibbons

 * (to Michael, when the two of them are drinking at a bar) We don't have a lot of time on this Earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way! Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!
 * Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be.
 * (after Michael's computer virus has taken $300,000 over the weekend, and the trio try to absolve themselves) I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.

Bill Lumbergh

 * Ah, ah, I almost forgot... I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Thaaaaaanks.
 * I'm going to need those TPS reports... ASAP...
 * ...So, if you could do that, that would be great...
 * Hello, Peter. What's happenin'?

Milton Waddams

 * [Waiting at the bus stop; also his first lines] I-I was told that if I was late again, I would be summarily dismissed...
 * [After Peter tells him to turn his radio down] I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
 * [Talking to Peter on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
 * The ratio of cake to people is too big...
 * I could set the building on fire...
 * I believe you have my stapler...
 * [on holiday in Mexico, having taken the traveller's cheques from Initech before burning the place down, also absolving Peter] Excuse me? Excuse me, senor? May I speak to you please? I asked for a mai tai, and they brought me a pina colada, and I said no salt, NO salt for the margarita, but it had salt on it, big grains of salt, floating in the glass...
 * And yes, I won't be leaving a tip, 'cause I could... I could shut this whole resort down. Sir? I'll take my traveler's checks to a competing resort. I could write a letter to your board of tourism and I could have this place condemned. I could put... I could put... strychnine in the guacamole. There was salt on the glass, BIG grains of salt.

Michael Bolton

 * Cockgobblers!
 * There was nothing wrong with it [his name]... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
 * PC LOAD LETTER? What the fuck does that mean?
 * [Regarding the malfunctioning fax/copy machine] That thing's lucky I'm not armed.

Bob Slydell

 * What would ya say... ya do here?

Samir Nagheenanajar

 * Yes, I am also not a pussy.
 * [first lines, when he is in his car, driving to work and stuck in the traffic jam with Peter and Michael] Mother shitter, son of an ass! You, I just!
 * [drunk singing] Back up in your ass with the resurrection.
 * [frustrated with the malfunctioning printer] Why does it say "Paper Jam" when there IS no paper jam?!

Lawrence

 * [Repeated line] Fuckin' A!
 * [When asked by Peter if anybody has ever said "Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays"] No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
 * [When Peter prepares to confess to stealing from his company, which will mean certain jail time.] Hey, Peter, watch your cornhole, bud.

Dialogue

 * Female Temp: [handing out letters; reads the name on one] Michael...Bolton?
 * Michael Bolton: [leans over to take the letter] Yeah, that's me.
 * Female Temp: Wow! Is that your real name?
 * Michael Bolton: [takes the letter, goes back to his computer] Yeah.
 * Female Temp: So are you related to that singer guy?
 * Michael Bolton: No. It's just a coincidence.
 * Female Temp: [visibly disappointed] Oh.
 * Samir Nagheenanajar: No-one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It..it's not that hard. Na-ghee-na-na-jar...Nagheenanajar.
 * Michael Bolton: Well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
 * Samir Nagheenanajar: You know, there is nothing wrong with that name.
 * Michael Bolton: No, there was nothing wrong with it, until I was about 12 years old and that no talent ass-clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
 * Samir Nagheenanajar: Why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael.
 * Michael Bolton: No way, why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

 * Peter Gibbons: Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you would do if you had a million dollars and didn't have to work. And invariably, whatever you'd say, that was supposed to be your career. So if you wanted to fix old cars, then you're supposed to be an auto mechanic.
 * Samir Nagheenanajar: So what did you say?
 * Peter Gibbons: I never had an answer. I guess that's why I'm working at Initech.
 * Michael Bolton: No, you're working at Initech 'cause that question is bullshit to begin with. If everybody listened to her, there would be no janitors, because no one will clean shit up if they had a million dollars.
 * Samir Nagheenanajar: (smiling) You know what I would do if I had million dollars? I would invest half of it in low-risk mutual funds, and then take the other half over to my friend Sadulach who works in Securities...
 * Michael Bolton: Samir, Samir, you're missing the point. The point of the exercise is that you're supposed to figure out what you would (the printer makes a discouraging sound and then stops) want, to do if.. (reads the printer's display) "PC load letter"?!! The fuck does that mean?!! (he lashes out and knocks a paper tray off)

 * Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?"
 * Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

 * Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
 * Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
 * Peter Gibbons: [laughs, then realises Lawrence is being serious] That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
 * Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, 'cause chicks dig a dude with money.
 * Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
 * Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
 * Peter Gibbons: Good point.
 * Lawrence: Well, what about you now? What would you do?
 * Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
 * Lawrence: Well, yeah.
 * Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
 * Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
 * Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, I would sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
 * Lawrence: Well you don't only need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't even do shit.

 [in the hypnotherapy class]
 * Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
 * Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
 * Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
 * Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up. [Anne shoots him a dirty look]

 * Joanna: So, where do you work, Peter?
 * Peter Gibbons: Initech.
 * Joanna: Ini- yeah, what do you do there?
 * Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.
 * Joanna: What's that?
 * Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.
 * Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
 * Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
 * Joanna: Won't you get fired?
 * Peter Gibbons: I don't know, but I really don't like it, and, uh, I'm not gonna go.
 * Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
 * Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. Uh, I'm just gonna stop going.
 * Joanna: When did you decide all that?
 * Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
 * Joanna: Oh, really? About an hour ago... so you're gonna get another job?
 * Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'd like another job.
 * Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...
 * Peter Gibbons: You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.
 * Joanna: Well, so what do you wanna do?
 * Peter Gibbons: I wanna take you out to dinner, and then I wanna go back to my apartment and watch Kung Fu. Do you ever watch Kung Fu?
 * Joanna: [surprised] I love Kung Fu.
 * Peter Gibbons: Channel 39.
 * Joanna: Totally.
 * Peter Gibbons: You should come over and watch Kung Fu tonight.
 * Joanna: Okay, Okay, can we order lunch first? Okay?

 [Michael and Peter are in a bar, discussing their frustrations with work.]
 * Peter Gibbons: It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It's about all of us. I don't know what happened to me at that hypnotherapist and, I don't know, maybe it was just shock and it's wearing off now, but when I saw that fat man keel over and die - Michael, we don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
 * Michael Bolton: I told those fudge-packers I liked Michael Bolton's music.
 * Peter Gibbons: Oh. That is not right, Michael.

 * Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
 * Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
 * Bob Slydell: Great.
 * Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. Ah, I use the side door–that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh. After that I sorta space out for an hour.
 * Bob Porter: Da-uh? "Space out"?
 * Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
 * Peter Gibbons: You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
 * Bob Porter: [confused] Don't–don't care?
 * Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's another thing: I have eight different bosses right now.
 * Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
 * Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses, Bob.
 * Bob Porter: Eight?
 * Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
 * Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

 * Bob Slydell: Would you bear with me for just a second here?
 * Peter Gibbons: Okay.
 * Bob Slydell: What if–and believe me this is "hypothetical"–but what if you were offered some kind of a stock option equity sharing program? Would that do anything for you?
 * Peter Gibbons: I don't know, I guess. Listen, I'm gonna go. It's been really nice talking to both you guys.
 * Bob Slydell: Absolutely, the pleasure's all on this side of the table, trust me.
 * Peter Gibbons: Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really, really well.
 * Bob Porter: Excellent.
 * Bob Slydell: Great. Wow.

 * Peter Gibbons: [Explaining the plan to steal from Initech to get revenge for him, Michael and Samir being mistreated] Alright, so when the sub routine compounds the interest it uses all these extra decimal places that just get rounded off. So we simplified the whole thing, we rounded them all down, and drop the remainder into an account we opened.
 * Joanna: [Confused] So you're stealing?
 * Peter Gibbons: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's uh it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
 * Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right?
 * Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
 * Joanna: Right. It's not yours?
 * Peter Gibbons: Well it becomes ours.
 * Joanna: How is that not stealing?
 * Peter Gibbons: [pauses] I don't think I'm explaining this very well.
 * Joanna: Okay.
 * Peter Gibbons: Um... the 7-11. You take a penny from the tray, right?
 * Joanna: From the cripple children?
 * Peter Gibbons: No, that's the jar. I'm talking about the tray. You know the pennies that are for everybody?
 * Joanna: Oh, for everybody. Okay.
 * Peter Gibbons: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here, but we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.

 * Bob Porter: Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.
 * Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't exactly say I've been missing it, Bob.

 * [The Bobs meet with Portwood and Lumbergh to go over employee files]
 * Bob Slydell: Well, there's two more people we can easily lose. Then there's Tom Smykowski; he's useless. [Chuckles] GONE.
 * Dom Portwood: Sounds good to me.
 * Bob Slydell: Here's an interesting one: Milton Waddams.
 * Dom Portwood: Who?
 * Bob Porter: You know, squirrely guy, mumbles a lot.
 * Dom Portwood: Oh, yeah.
 * Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a current employee here.
 * Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him about it; but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
 * Bob Slydell: So, we just went ahead and fixed the glitch.
 * Bill Lumbergh: Great.
 * Dom Portwood: So, uh, Milton has been let go?
 * Bob Slydell: Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the glitch. So, he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally.
 * Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem is solved from your end.

 * Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now, we had a chance to meet this young man and, boy, that's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.
 * Bill Lumbergh: Oooo... yeahhhh, ummm... I'm gonna have to go ahead and sort of disagree with you there. Yeah, uh, he's been real flaky lately, and I'm just not sure that he's the caliber person that we would want for upper management. He's also been having some problems with his TPS reports.
 * Bob Porter: [To Slydell] I'll handle this.
 * Bob Porter: [To Lumbergh] We feel that the problem isn't with Peter.
 * Bob Slydell: Mmm-mmm.
 * Bob Porter: It's that you haven't challenged him enough, to get him motivated.
 * Bob Slydell: There it is.
 * Bill Lumbergh: Yeah, um, well, I'm just not sure about that right now.
 * Bob Slydell: [Pulls Peter's file aside, showing Lumbergh's file next] Yeah, Bill, let me ask you a real quick question here: How much time would you say you spend each week dealing with these TPS reports?
 * Bill Lumbergh: [Pause] Yeahhhhhhhhh...

 * [Peter is now working construction with Lawrence, cleaning up the burned Initech building]
 * Peter Gibbons: This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside...
 * Lawrence: Fuckin' A.
 * Peter Gibbons:[Nods]...Fuckin' A.

Taglines

 * Work Sucks
 * I believe you have my stapler.
 * Yeeeeaaaahh, I'm gonna need you to come in on Saturday...

Cast

 * Ron Livingston - Peter Gibbons
 * Jennifer Aniston - Joanna
 * David Herman - Michael Bolton
 * Ajay Naidu - Samir Nagheenanajar
 * Diedrich Bader - Lawrence
 * Brian Carlos - Vincent Porter
 * Jon Schroeder - Ernest Porter
 * Stephen Root - Milton Waddams
 * Gary Cole - Bill Lumbergh
 * Richard Riehle - Tom Smykowski
 * Alexandra Wentworth - Anne
 * Joe Bays - Dom Portwood
 * John C. McGinley - Bob Slydell
 * Paul Willson - Bob Porter

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Megan Mullally

Megan Mullally (born 12 November 1958) is an American actress, comedienne, singer and dancer.

Quotes

 * It doesn't matter who you love, it's that you love. Who cares if men marry men or women marry women? In San Francisco you don't care, and I applaud that. And I applaud Mayor Newsom for being so brave.
 * Upon receiving GLAAD's Golden Gate Award, which honors a member of the entertainment or media community for their outstanding contribution in combating homophobia

 * See, I thought that Jay has had too many high class, very hoity-toity guests on this week. And I wanted to bring everything down a notch or two.
 * Appearing on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno"

Attributed

 * "He's kicking such major ass that it's insane!"
 * On Tony Bennett

 * It is no big deal to me. I have always been attracted to women, and I went on dates with women if they asked me.... It did not seem that different to me. But then I met my [husband], and now he is the apple of my eye.

 * I consider myself bisexual, and my philosophy is, everyone innately is, although I've never had a full-on relationship with a woman, just a couple of what I'd term half-assed dalliances. So I haven't explored it to the degree that I'd like to, but I'll tell you, I'm open to it. And I don't have any problem saying that.

 * [Madonna] worked so hard that it was really very touching. She’s a perfectionist and there’s never been anyone on the show that wanted to rehearse more than Madonna did. She wanted to rehearse her scenes over and over again.

 * Chicago is my favorite American city. … I like all the museums. I love the Art Institute. I love all the theatre and the blues clubs and bars, and the people are so great. I think Chicago is the perfect blend of a big city with a Midwestern finish on it. Everybody is really nice but it is a sophisticated city. I love the park. I love the zoo. I love the lake. The whole thing.

 * I like to take chances, and that's the key to comedy -- dancing like an idiot but doing it with wild abandon.

 * I said, `Now, wait a minute, so you're telling me you want this fish who lives in a fish tank in a dentist's office to be a fictitious character from an NBC sitcom?' I mean, it just doesn't make any sense to me. It's like, why would you want Mickey Mouse to be the lead in the `House of the Seven Gables' or something.''
 * On being fired from "Finding Nemo" for refusing to do her Karen voice

 * I couldn't pronounce my last name until I was, like, 11.

 * Well, I was missing my earplugs. And the way that I found out why they're missing is because the little Elmo -- his five pounds -- came in to the bedroom and deposited something on -- he came in from outside, he put something on the rug and was going to eat it. And I walked over and it was an earplug that had already been in and back out -- and apparently so delicious … he wanted it again!
 * On her new dog, Elmo.

 * One day when I'm walking and I see -- at first I thought maybe he was resting -- but I saw a big dead seal on the beach, which was really sad. However, the thing that I thought was puzzling was there was a couple, a young guy and a girl on a beach towel not 15 feet from this big, dead mammal, and I look up and they're waving at me, like, 'Isn't it a pretty day?' And I'm like, 'There's a big dead seal right there.' They're putting on lotion. It was just bizarre. And, curtain. I just didn't want to be at the beach anymore.

 * My off-white poodle. She doesn't consider herself to be gay, but I have my hunch.
 * On the gayest thing in her home.

 * So I light the fire with the lighter and then I'm like, 'Now, how am I going to light the candles?' And I'm racing through the house, tearing open drawers and throwing things out of closets, looking for matches … and I had just lit the fire with the thing!!! And then I was like, 'How did I light the fire?' So then l took the thing and lit the candles.

 * I'm going to climb up this ladder, you understand, to this gate that's like this high and I'm going to pass two dogs and some bags and myself over the thing into a cab driver's arms. THAT's my plan!

 * My best friend was at the grocery store standing behind these two guys in line, and one of the guys told the other that I was a man. He said, 'If you look closely, you can tell that she is,' and the other guy was like, 'Oh, my God! Now that you mention it, she is a man!'. So I'm denying that I'm a man.

 * I should have my 'girl citizenship' revoked. I never get facials. I never get my nails done. I'm so busy.

 * I like looser clothes, which always prompts my mom to say something classic like, 'You have such a darling figure - show it off more!'

 * One tabloid had an article about how I was an irresistible sex- and man-magnet and how men flock to me. Of course, they were absolutely correct...

 * I am terrified of mayonnaise. It was so bad when I was little that my friends would chase me around the house with a jar of mayonnaise and a knife.

 * I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God...'
 * On sudden fame.

 * You don't need someone else's approval to do what you want; just figure it out and do it, damn it!

 * I'm really good at staying home all day in my pajamas because I had a [dad] who did that.

 * Two days ago, I dreamt I married a 5-year-old boy. He treated me like a queen and was perfectly lovely. We took a driving trip for our honeymoon. Then it dawned on me: 'Oh my God! He doesn't have a driver's license! We could get arrested!'"

 * If I weren't an actress playing a socialite, I'd have lavender hair, wear crappy vintage clothes and have tattoos. I'd be some kind of crazy lawless rebel - an alternative underground riot girl.

 * People see you one way and think, 'That's not her real thing, she's just putting that on now.' But that is! That's where my creativity really resides. Where it all springs. My characters are really bizarre. They're kind of dark and not really considered great people. It all comes from the same dark place, it's just filtered through comedy.

 * A lot of people come up to me and say, 'Oh God, I'm just like Karen, that's what they [tell me] at the office'. I'm like, 'You know what? The people in your office may not be giving you a compliment. You may be getting fired soon.'

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John Howe

John Howe is a name shared by more than one notable person:

 * John Howe (cleric) (1630–1705), English Puritan theologian
 * John Howe (artist) (born 1957), Canadian illustrator

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John Howe (cleric)

John Howe (1630–1705) was an English Puritan clergyman, chaplain to Oliver Cromwell

Quotes

 * No man can certainly know, or ought to conclude, concerning himself or others, as long as they live, that the season of grace is quite over with them. As we can conceive no rule God hath set to Himself to proceed by, in ordinary cases of this nature; so nor is there any He hath set unto us to judge by, in this case. It were to no purpose, and could be of no use to men to know so much; therefore it were unreasonable to expect God should have settled and declared any rule, by which they might come to the knowledge of it.
 * The Redeemer's Tears Wept Over Lost Souls (1684)

 * Tho none ought to conclude that their day or season of grace is quite expired, yet they ought to deeply apprehend the danger, lest it should expire before their necessary work be done and their peace made. For tho it can be of no use for them to know the former, and therefore they have no means appointed them by which to know it, 'tis of great use to apprehend the latter; and they have sufficient ground for the apprehension.
 * The Redeemer's Tears Wept Over Lost Souls (1684)

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John Howe (illustrator)

John Howe (born 21 August 1957) is an artist and book illustrator known for his work based upon J. R. R. Tolkien's stories.

Quotes

 * Illustrating Tolkien means treading warily, dipping one's brush in shadow and rinsing them in light. Battle and balance, down the impossible path between the clear and the obscure.
 * As quoted in Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-Earth (1992) published by MJF Books

 * History is like a jigsaw puzzle, except every piece is from a different puzzle, and you try to make them all fit. Although you many never have a finished picture, the time you spend, I think you end up understanding at least the pieces.
 * Lost Worlds : A visit with John Howe (May 2009)

John Howe : Fantasy Art Workshop (2007)

 * Drawing is giving yourself up to an exercise with no immediate application. It is a form of communion with your subject, be it in front of you or in your head. Expertise and skill go hand in hand with your desire to express feelings, to tell stories, to create and share worlds. It's personal.
 * p. 6

Each has a role to play, but must not look to play the role of the other. Inspiration may be the bright tower in the clouds; information is the solid rock where the foundations are.
 * It is wise not to confuse information and inspiration. The former is the result of studious application, the latter is what happens when you don't think about it.
 * p. 11

 * Like any admirer of Celtic myth, I was eager to have a go at depicting Cernunnos, the antlered god. I often sit with one of my many books on the subject and look in awe at the reproduction of the Gunderstrup Cauldron, on which he appears.
 * p. 52

In the Artist's Studio interview (2010)

 * Quotes from interview at In the Artist's Studio (7 January 2010)

 * From Alan, I learned to take a more instinctive and intuitive approach to pencil work. I used to let my mind get far too far ahead of my pencil, which can be productive, but removes the serendipitous switch of direction when the pencil and hand discover an idea the mind’s eye had missed. Drawing at the right speed is a sort of graphic contrapposto providing what I’d be tempted to call an “intuitional resilience” unobtainable with more energetic methods. I very much enjoyed working with him, a situation of symbiosis between enthusiasm and despair, the former because his work is just so good, the latter because his work is just so good. He is hard to keep up with, but then I believe he says the same of me. He is a dear friend and a wonderful artist.
 * On Alan Lee

 * I dislike giving advice, and am always very careful to find out what the person needs to hear (not necessarily wants to hear; the two usually have little in common) before venturing into that territory. I’m sure I have received much good advice, but can only recall the bad.

 * If your work reflects not only your technical skills, but also who you are and more importantly what you have to say, then it will do the talking in your stead. I agree that networking and meeting people is very important, but a foot in the door doesn’t always stop it closing.

Quotes about Howe

 * His magic has a purpose, to make us think and wonder about distant places and people in times gone by.
 * Sir Ian McKellen, as quoted in Lost Worlds : A visit with John Howe (May 2009)

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Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, physician, historian, dramatist, and playwright.

Quotes

 * I feel an army in my fist.
 * Die Räuber (The Robbers), Act II (1781)

 * To save all we must risk all.
 * Fiesco, in Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy (1783) Act IV, Sc vi

 * The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
 * Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. vii (1783)

 * Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
 * Die Verschwörung des Fiesco (The Conspiracy of Fiesco), Act I, sc. xviii (1783)

 * The lemonade is weak, like your soul.
 * Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love), Act V, sc. vii (1784)

 * There are three lessons I would write, — Three words — as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light Upon the hearts of men. Have Hope. Though clouds environ now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, — No night but hath its morn. Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, — The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, — Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one, But men, as man, thy brothers call; And scatter, like the circling sun, Thy charities on all. Thus grave these lessons on thy soul, — Hope, Faith, and Love, — and thou shalt find Strength when life's surges rudest roll, Light when thou else wert blind.
 * Hope, Faith, and Love (c. 1786); also known as "The Words of Strength", as translated in The Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) edited by Horace Mann, p. 386

 * Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
 * Translation: World history is the world's court.
 * Resignation (1786)

 * What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return.
 * Resignation (1786)

 * What the inner voice says Will not disappoint the hoping soul.
 * Hope, last stanza (1797)

Give it then, unto the few; many to please is but in vain.'''
 * '''If thou canst not give pleasure to all by thy deeds and thy knowledge
 * Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine That und dein Kunstwerk, // Mach es wenigen recht, vielen gefallen ist schlimm.
 * Tabulae Votivae  (Votive Tablets) (1796), "Choice"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)

Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.''' If you want to know yourself, Just look how others do it; If you want to understand others, Look into your own heart
 * '''Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others.
 * Tabulae Votivae  (Votive Tablets) (1796), "The Key"; tr. Edgar Alfred Bowring, The Poems of Schiller, Complete (1851)
 * Variant translation:

 * Man is created free, and is free, Though he be born in chains.
 * Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 2 (1797)

 * Virtue is no empty echo.
 * Die Worte des Glaubens (The Word of the Faithful), st. 3 (1797)

 * O tender yearning, sweet hoping! The golden time of first love! The eye sees the open heaven, The heart is intoxicated with bliss; O that the beautiful time of young love Could remain green forever.
 * The Song of the Bell (1799)

 * Appearance should never attain reality, And if nature conquers, then must art retire.
 * To Goethe, when he put Voltaire's Mahomet on the stage (1800)

 * Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, Zu denken, was sie wollen.
 * One cannot prevent people from thinking what they please.
 * Maria Stuart, Act I, sc. viii (1800)

 * I am better than my reputation.
 * Maria Stuart, Act II, sc. iv (1800)

 * Was man nicht aufgibt, hat man nie verloren.
 * What is not abandoned is never completely lost.
 * Maria Stuart, Act II, sc. v (1800)

 * Das Leben ist Nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer!
 * Life is but a moment. Death is but a moment, too.
 * Maria Stuart, Act III, sc. vi (1800)

 * Who dares impede my progress? Who presume The spirit to control which guideth me? Still must the arrow wing its destined flight! Where danger is, there must Johanna be; Nor now, nor here, am I foredoomed to fall; Our monarch's royal brow I first must see Invested with the round of sovereignty. No hostile power can rob me of my life, Till I've accomplished the commands of God.
 * [[w:Die Jungfrau von Orleans|Die Jungfrau von Orleans] (The Maid of Orleans)] (1801), Act II, Scene 4 (as translated by Anna Swanwick)

 * Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. Exalted reason, Resplendent daughter of the head divine, Wise foundress of the system of the world, Guide of the stars, who art thou then if thou, Bound to the tail of folly's uncurbed steed, Must, vainly shrieking with the drunken crowd, Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss. Accursed, who striveth after noble ends, And with deliberate wisdom forms his plans! To the fool-king belongs the world.
 * Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) (1801), Act III, sc. vi (as translated by Anna Swanwick)
 * Variants of the most commonly quoted portion: Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. Against stupidity the gods themselves labor in vain. Against stupidity the gods themselves fight unvictorious Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain. Against stupidity gods themselves contend in vain. With stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

 * Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
 * The Maid of Orleans (1801), last line

 * Life is only error, And death is knowledge.
 * Cassandra (1802)

 * What are hopes, what are plans?
 * Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act III, sc. v (1803)

 * Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
 * Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. iv (1803)

 * On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
 * Die Braut von Messina (The Bride of Messina), Act IV, sc. vii (1803)

 * Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.
 * Die Künstler (The Artists)

 * Der Menscheit Würde ist in Eure Hand gegeben, bewahret Sie! Sie sinkt mit euch! Mit euch wird sie sich heben!
 * The dignity of mankind is in your hands; protect it! It sinks with you! With you it will ascend.
 * Die Künstler (The Artists)
 * Variant translation: The dignity of mankind is in your hands, preserve it!

 * Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — And motionless forever stands the Past.
 * Sentences of Confucius

 *  The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
 * As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 324

 * Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven,— 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,— Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.
 * Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), edited bt Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 284

Don Carlos (1787)

 * O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
 * Act I, sc. i

 * O the idea was childish, but divinely beautiful.
 * Act I, sc. ii

 * Grosse Seelen dulden still.
 * Great souls endure in silence.
 * Act I, sc. iv ; as translated by R. D. Boylan and Joseph Mellish (1902)
 * Variant: "Great spirits suffer patiently"; as translated by A. Leslie and Jeanne R. Willson (1983)

 * A moment lived in paradise Is not atoned for too dearly by death.
 * Act I, sc. v

 * I am called The richest monarch in the Christian world; The sun in my dominion never sets.
 * Act I, sc. vi

 * Liebe ist nur dem bekannt, der hoffnungslos in der Liebe beharrt
 * Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
 * Act II, sc. viii

 * KING PHILIPP II: Can you establish some new creed to justify my bloody murder of my only son? GRAND INQUISITOR: To appease eternal justice and redeem us, God's own Son was killed on the wooden cross. KING: And can you spread this creed throughout all Europe? GRAND INQUISITOR: Far and wide, everywhere people worship the cross.
 * Act V, sc. x

An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

 * (full text) This poem is most famous as providing the inspiration for Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and the lyrics to the choral portion of that work.

 * Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.
 * Stanza 1

 * Be embraced, ye millions! This kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the arch of stars A loving Father surely dwells.
 * Stanza 5

 * Welcome, all ye myriad creatures! Brethren, take the kiss of love!
 * Chorus 1

 * He, that noble prize possessing— He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!
 * Stanza 3

 * Bow before Him, all creation! Mortals, own the God of love! Seek Him high the stars above,— Yonder is His habitation!
 * Chorus 3

 * Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion, When the wheel of time goes round
 * Stanza 4

 * Joy from truth's own glass of fire Sweetly on the searcher smiles; Lest on virtue's steeps he tire, Joy the tedious path beguiles. High on faith's bright hill before us, See her banner proudly wave! Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,— Bursts the bondage of the grave!
 * Stanza 5

 * To the Gods we ne'er can render Praise for every good they grant; Let us, with devotion tender, Minister to grief and want. Quenched be hate and wrath forever, Pardoned be our mortal foe— May our tears upbraid him never, No repentance bring him low!
 * Stanza 6

 * Sense of wrongs forget to treasure— Brethren, live in perfect love! In the starry realms above, God will mete as we may measure.
 * Chorus 6

 * Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!
 * Stanza 8

 * Lo, the dead shall rise to heaven! Brethren hail the blest decree; Every sin shall be forgiven, Hell forever cease to be!
 * Stanza 9

On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

 * Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man (online at the Modern History Sourcebook)

 * We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
 * Letter 2

 * The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter. But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that prevails, and bends a degraded humanity under its iron yoke. Utility is the great idol of the time, to which all powers do homage and all subjects are subservient. In this great balance of utility, the spiritual service of art has no weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time. The very spirit of philosophical inquiry itself robs the imagination of one promise after another, and the frontiers of art are narrowed, in proportion as the limits of science are enlarged.
 * Letter 2 Variant translation of a passage: Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

 * It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
 * Letter 2

 * When man is raised from his slumber in the senses, he feels that he is a man, he surveys his surroundings, and finds that he is in a state. He was introduced into this state, by the power of circumstances, before he could freely select his own position. But as a moral being he cannot possibly rest satisfied with a political condition forced upon him by necessity, and only calculated for that condition; and it would be unfortunate if this did satisfy him. In many cases man shakes off this blind law of necessity, by his free spontaneous action, of which among many others we have an instance, in his ennobling by beauty and suppressing by moral influence the powerful impulse implanted in him by nature in the passion of love.
 * Letter 3

 * Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
 * Letter 8

 * Dare to be wise! Energy and spirit is needed to overcome the obstacles which indolence of nature as well as cowardice of heart oppose to our instruction. It is not without significance that the old myth makes the goddess of Wisdom emerge fully armed from the head of Jupiter; for her very first function is warlike. Even in her birth she has to maintain a hard struggle with the senses, which do not want to be dragged from their sweet repose. The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. Content if they themselves escape the hard labor of thought, men gladly resign to others the guardianship of their ideas, and if it happens that higher needs are stirred in them, they embrace with a eager faith the formulas which State and priesthood hold in readiness for such an occasion.
 * Letter 8; Variant: The greater part of men are much too exhausted and enervated by their struggle with want to be able to engage in a new and severe contest with error.''' Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

 * They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.
 * Letter 8; Variant: They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

 * As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.
 * Letter 9

 * No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
 * Letter 9

 * Lebe mit deinem Jahrhundert, aber sei nicht sein Geschöpf; leiste deinen Zeitgenossen, aber was sie bedürfen, nicht was sie loben.
 * Live with your century; but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.
 * Letter 9

 * Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.
 * Letter 15

 * While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
 * On the famous statue "Juno Ludovisi", Letter 15

 * The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.
 * Letter 35

Wallenstein (1798)

 * Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Prologue - Wallensteins Lager (Wallenstein's Camp)

 * Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
 * Prologue

 * He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
 * Prologue

 * Life is earnest, art is gay.
 * Prologue

 * Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
 * Prologue

Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

 * What is the short meaning of the long speech?
 * Act I, sc. ii

 * Der Krieg ernährt den Krieg.
 * Translation: War nourishes war.
 * Act I, sc. ii

 * My son, there's nothing insignificant, Nothing! But yet in every earthly thing First and most principal is place and time.
 * Act I, sc. vi

 * The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, — all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
 * Act II, sc. iv

 * In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.
 * Act II, sc. vi

 * You say it as you understand it.
 * Act II, sc. vi

 * When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
 * Act II, sc. v

 * The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.
 * Act III, sc. viii

 * The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.
 * Act IV, sc. v, Kellermeister (Master of the Cellar)

Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)

 * The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and in the depths Of the imagination dominates; And his are all things that eschew the light. The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance, For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now, And the dark work, complete of preparation, He draws by force into the realm of light. Now must we hasten on to action, ere The scheme, and most auspicious positure Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight, For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.
 * Act I, sc. i

 * Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.
 * Act I, sc. iv

 * I have only an office here, and no opinion.
 * Act I, sc. v

 * Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
 * Act I, sc. vii

 * Many a crown shines spotless now That yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
 * Act II, sc. ii

 * The world is narrow, broad the mind— Thoughts dwell easily side by side Things collide violently in space
 * Act II, sc. ii

 * There's no such thing as chance; And what to us seems merest accident Springs from the deepest source of destiny.
 * Act II, sc. iii

 * What is life without the radiance of love?
 * Act IV, sc. xii

 * Time is man's angel.
 * Act V, sc. xi

Wilhelm Tell (1803)

 * The strong man is strongest when alone.
 * Tell, Act I, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin

 * Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.
 * One people will we be, — a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves. We will rely on God's almighty arm, And never quail before the power of man.
 * Act II, Sc. 2, as translated by C. T. Brooke
 * Variant translation: We shall be a single People of brethren, Never to part in danger nor distress. We shall be free, just as our fathers were, And rather die than live in slavery. We shall trust in the one highest God And never be afraid of human power.

 * The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.
 * Act III, sc. i

 * Who reflects too much will accomplish little.
 * Act III, sc. i

 * You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
 * Act III, sc. i

 * This feat of Tell, the archer, will be told While yonder mountains stand upon their base. By heaven! The apple's cleft right through the core.
 * Act III, sc. iii

 * No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, Who's made the master of his destiny.
 * Gessler, Act III, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin

 * What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.
 * Act IV, sc. ii

 * A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
 * Act IV, sc. iii, as translated by Sir Thomas Martin

 * The most pious man can't stay in peace If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.
 * Act IV, sc. iii

The Philosophical Letters

 * Online text at Project Gutenberg

 * The reason passes, like the heart, through certain epochs and transitions, but its development is not so often portrayed. Men seem to have been satisfied with unfolding the passions in their extremes, their aberration, and their results, without considering how closely they are bound up with the intellectual constitution of the individual.
 * Prefatory Remarks

 * The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.
 * Prefatory Remarks

 * Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.
 * Prefatory Remarks

 * Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
 * Prefatory Remarks

 * The universe is a thought of God. After this ideal thought-fabric passed out into reality, and the new-born world fulfilled the plan of its Creator—permit me to use this human simile—the first duty of all thinking beings has been to retrace the original design in this great reality; to find the principle in the mechanism, the unity in the compound, the law in the phenomenon, and to pass back from the structure to its primitive foundation. Accordingly to me there is only one appearance in nature—the thinking being. The great compound called the world is only remarkable to me because it is present to shadow forth symbolically the manifold expressions of that being. All in me and out of me is only the hieroglyph of a power which is like to me. The laws of nature are the cyphers which the thinking mind adds on to make itself understandable to intelligence—the alphabet by means of which all spirits communicate with the most perfect Spirit and with one another. Harmony, truth, order, beauty, excellence, give me joy, because they transport me into the active state of their author, of their possessor, because they betray the presence of a rational and feeling Being, and let me perceive my relationship with that Being.
 * Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius, Variant portion: "The universe is one of God's thoughts".

 * I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, — through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
 * Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius

 * Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.
 * Letter 4: Theosophy of Julius

The Thirty Years War

 * Even the strongest minds cannot, with impunity, defy the prejudices of the age.

 * It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its execution must never be entrusted to the violent.

 * Fortune, which had never forsaken him in his lifetime, favored the King of Sweden even in his death, with the rare privilege of falling in the fullness of his glory and an untarnished fame. By a timely death, his protecting genius rescued him from the inevitable fate of man - that of forgetting moderation in the intoxication of success, and justice in the plenitude of power.
 * History of the Thirty Years War 178

 * All men without distinction, are allured by immediate advantages. Great minds alone are excited by distant good. So long as wisdom in it's projects, calculates upon wisdom, or relies upon its own strength, it forms none by chimerical schemes - and runs the risk of making itself the laughter of the world. But it is certain of success, and can reckon upon aid and admiration, when it finds a place in it's plans for barbarism, rapacity and superstition and can render the selifsh passions of mankind the executor of its' purposes.
 * History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II

 * In circumstances where the law of force prevails, where security depends on power alone, the weakest party is naturally the most busy to place itself in a posture of defense.
 * History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II

 * Law can only be applied to foreseeable cases.
 * History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II

 * Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
 * History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II

 * His Armies, weakened by defeat and defeat, dispirited by misfortune, had unlearned - under beaten generals - that warlike impetuosity which as it is the consequence, so it is the guarentee of success.
 * History of the Thirty Years War - Volume II
 * Attitude of the Imperial/League army after the protestant victory at Brietenfeld.

Quotes about Schiller

 * Schiller's blank verse is bad. He moves it as a fly in a glue bottle. His thoughts have their connection and variety, it is true, but there is no sufficiently corresponding movement in the verse. How different from Shakespeare's endless rhythms! … There is a nimiety — a too-muchness — in all Germans. It is the national fault. Lessing had the best notion of blank verse. The trochaic termination of German words renders blank verse in that language almost impracticable.
 * Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in notes for 2 June 1834, in Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835), edited by H. N. Coleridge

 * In the middle of the war there was Heine, there was Goethe, there was Schiller. I did posters for the German club, in the middle of the war. When I think back to how happy I was, studying German and flunking algebra, and I think what was going on for other Jewish teenagers on the other side of the world, I'm so puzzled by those dates.
 * Cynthia Ozick Interview with ‘’The Guardian’’ (2011)

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Aqua Teen Hunger Force (also known by various alternative titles) (2000–) is an American adult animated television sitcom from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block. The show follows the exploits of three anthropomorphic fast food items: Master Shake, the milkshake; Frylock, the carton of French fries; and Meatwad, the meatball.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 (season 8)
 * Aqua Something You Know Whatever (season 9)
 * Aqua TV Show Show (season 10)
 * Aqua Teen Hunger Force Forever (season 11)

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Jay London

Jay London (born September 12, 1966, in The Bronx) is an American stand-up comic whose one-liner jokes made him a favorite on NBC's second and third seasons of Last Comic Standing. He had a thing for saying "Thank you" after some of his one-liners, depending on crowd reaction. He also acted very self-conscious and would randomly badmouth himself, especially if the crowd was left dumbstruck by a joke and didn't laugh much. It was all part of the act.

One-liners

 * (In a tone suggesting a reference to his upbringing) I was brought up on charges.

 * So how do you like my overall look? (Jay's usual stage attire was bib overalls)

 * You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on evolutionary chart.

 * I get all my hair products at PetCo. (Jay's hair is long, curly, and quite messy)

 * You know what burns me? Matches.

 * I was born nine months premature.

 * I work at Bed Bath and Beyond. I work in the Beyond section. When someone asks me where the Bath section is, I say "It's beyond me."

 * It all started when my dog received free rollover minutes.

 * People read me but they don't subscribe.

 * After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, because we all have nicknames. So I named my private part Pride. It's not much, but at least I have my Pride.

 * I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

 * I went to a urologist. He told me I could go at any time.

 * My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

 * I wanted to join the Army. The sign said "Be all that you can be." They told me it wasn't enough.

 * I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said "Compared to who?"

 * A guy gave me a job at an information booth, no questions asked.

 * I went on a date with a weather girl, we talked up a storm.

 * A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.

 * I went out with a promiscuous impressionist. She did everybody.

 * I go around slashing tire prices.

 * I'm addicted to prescription glasses.

 * I recorded my hair this morning. Tonight I'm watching the highlights.

 * My whole family is lactose intolerant and when we take pictures we can't say cheese.

 * I went to a record store and asked for 50 Cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling.

 * I went to the store and bought lady fingers. When I got home I noticed one of the fingers was missing so I went back to the store and the manager was nice enough to give me the finger.

 * I saw a sign that said "Left Lane Closed." So I went someplace else.

 * I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds. 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

 * I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me.

 * My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

 * I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

 * I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry, it's not the end of the world.

 * My girlfriend has crabs, I bought her fishnet stockings.

 * I saw a stationery store move.

 * My boss told me to get my butt in gear. I told him I was shiftless.

 * I slept with this girl, and in the morning I asked her if she wanted breakfast in bed. She said one pig in the blanket was enough.

 * I model irregular clothing.

 * I had a very lonely New Year's this year. I had to watch my own balls drop.

 * I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

 * I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

 * People ask me what I think about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

 * I dated a partially nude model, and she did a half-assed job.

 * At Motel 6 in Amish Country I wonder if they leave the light on for you?

 * Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

Self-degradation

 * Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?

 * Take my life, please.

 * Thank you.

 * Am I bothering you, miss?

 * It'll be over soon, miss.

 * Let me move over here. (Jay would then move barely a few inches to the left or right. He generally repeats this a few times per show)
 * Sir, would you please come up here and kick the shit out of me?

Set-enders

 * Did you know it was a year ago today?

 * Well, I'd like to leave you with a joke.

 * Flowers for $25.00, reluctant. Wining and dining for $150.00, catastrophic. Trying to get on first base, unattainable. For everything else there's Masturbate.

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Talk:Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Started article
I noticed there wasn't an entry for ATHF on Wikiquote, so I started watching some episodes and typing the memorable quotes. Any help I could get would be appreciated. =) --LinkDJ 05:31, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Season 4
that isnt season 4 it has not come out yet i dont think they will make one maybe the show will cancel but i had a cool idea for a episode. -- User:205.188.116.197 23:39, 19 February 2005 (UTC)

Junk at bottom
What is up with that junk on the bottom? All the links? It looks like garbage, so I took it out... -- 69.76.148.149 03:15, 24 March 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've done a massive amount of reformatting to bring this article into line with Wikiquote TV-show guidelines. (Some of these are available at Templates/TV shows, but details of others are still somewhat strewn around in different articles. See Firefly (TV series)/Format for more information. I apologize for the lack of a centralized source, but we're operating on a skeleton crew for maintenance.)

One remaining problem that I can't adequately address (not being a regular viewer of the show) is the nature of many of the quotes. Some are rather lengthy and probably should be trimmed to their pithy essence. Others require so much contextual information, or involve so much audio or visual cues not available to readers of a text-based quotation collection like Wikiquote, that they make for poor material here. It's important to keep in mind that Wikiquote is not a transcription service for TV shows. We aren't trying to be a huge database for dialog transcription; we're more interested in accurate records of pithy selections of quotes. In addition to the problems of describing non-dialog to readers unfamiliar with the show, we also have to worry about copyright violations. (See Wikiquote talk:Copyrights for some urgent issues relating to TV show quotes.)

I would like to ask the contributing editors to this article to try to keep things terse, and try to consider when adding a quote whether it will have meaning for those who haven't seen the scenes being described. Thank you for your assistance in this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:39, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've gone through and cut out of a lot of stuff that wasn't necessary, or didn't make sense without seeing and hearing everything, or knowing the show well. —LrdChaos 18:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Removing all the mooninites quotes seems like maybe a bad call. They're fairly integral to the show and only quoted here once now?

Frylock
He's the smart one. Shake is arrogant, and Meatwad is stupid. --Cosby 17:16, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Stuff on the bottom
What's this "Celeste" stuff on the bottom? I think it should be removed. Anyone agree? 66.110.245.241 05:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Celeste Bonaci

 * I reported the IP address that keeps vandalizing this page by replacing Meatwad's name and Shake's name with Celeste and Summer. I'll continue to edit the pages to how they it is needed.
 * UPDATE: The IP address has finally been blocked for the time being so we can all relax. -SM

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Robby Krieger

Robert Alan Krieger (born January 8, 1946) is an American guitarist. He was the original guitarist of rock band the Doors; as such he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Krieger wrote or co-wrote many of the Doors' songs, including the hits "Light My Fire", "Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me", and "[[w:Love Her Madly|]".

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 * You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher. Come on baby, light my fire — Come on baby, light my fire — Try to set the night on fire.
 * "Light My Fire" (1967); because Jim Morrison sang this as The Doors first hit, and he was the group's primary songwriter, this is often mistakenly thought by many to have been written by Morrison.

 * I didn't plan on rock 'n' roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock 'n' roll with jazz, and I thought I could make money playing music. In rock 'n' roll you can realize anything that you can in jazz or anything. There's no limitation other than the beat. You have more freedom than you do in anything except jazz — which is dying — as far as making any money is concerned.
 * Comment posted at his official website.

 * In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. In the case of Tim Buckley or Dylan you have one man's ideas. Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
 * Comment posted at his official website.

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Hi my name is Andy and I live in Michigan. I'm the drum line section leader at my school. I'm 17.

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Hi,

I am user Walter (Walter Vermeir) form Belgium. My home Wiki is the dutch Wikipedia or "Wikipedia NL" like we call it.

I am not active on this wiki

For more info see my userpage on Wikimedia Meta; wikimedia:meta:user:Walter

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User talk:Stevesliva

Thanks for the info on the simplified links; anything that makes editing easier is always welcome news. ~ Kalki 19:54, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Invatation to help identify problems, suggest solutions, debate, & vote!

 * I was going to invite others to look at my analysis anyways, but Aphaia has suggested this:

 * "I would like you to consider if it is a good idea to invite other editors to read through over 100K talk. In my opinion, it is a sort of burden and shut out most of editors. And I suspect who is now interested in this issue. --Aphaia 5 July 2005 05:10 (UTC)", and I shall do as asked.

 * You are invited by me, Steve, to look at my analysis at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Abortion#Analysis_and_proposed_solutions and see if all the problems are identified, and if not, add one or two. Also, please notice that you can post your proposed solutions below. Afterwards, we can briefly discuss and then vote on different ideas. Don't worry: I addressed all concerns, but if you don't believe me, check it out. Sorry for the length, but many people had many problems.

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it, and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:56 (UTC)

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