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Talk:Kurt Cobain

Hey, thanks for adding more stuff here, I was gonna do it but havent had time yet. Also cant remember much, used to be a right "nirvana-file" but

Guns N' Roses quote

 * And they told me The times have changed Cause' our parents had Hendrix, Janis and Jim But what about River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain.
 * Sex, Drugs And Rock N' Roll by Guns N roses

Where's the source for that? Cause Kurt and Axl Rose (singer GN'R) hated each other. Source for that: http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/kurt-cobain-and-axl-rose-hated-each-other-170562 And that isn't a secret. You can find more sources by using google. Only Axl Rose hated him...

I think if there can't be found any source somebody should remove that quote.

This song isn't from Guns And Roses... it's from the band called Laughing Colors.

Removed quotes
Removed two quotes that Kurt has actually never said (misinterpreted).

"I hate myself and I want to die."

Actually the working title of the album In Utero for some time, and is also a song that was featured on an MTV cd. Kurt also stated he used that sentence just for fun and he didn't actually hate life or something. He just said that to tease people and look for their reactions, or, as I said before, just for making fun (like "Here we are now, entertain us").

"I can't live this life, I don't have the passion anymore. (5th of April, 1994)"

This was not in the so-called suicide note, the phrase actually went: "I'm too much of an erratic, moody baby and I don't have the passion anymore". In fact, nothing in the whole note was about his own feelings towards life, but towards music and the music industry. Please research quotes for correctness before posting them.

"Forever in debt to your priceless advice"

This was from heart shaped box, and not an actual quote.

Kurt Cobain didn't quote Neil Young he quoted Queen when he wrote on his suicide note "its better to burn out than to fade away" from Gimme the Prize, Queens. In which Brian May wrote that song in 1985. Kurt was a big fan of Queen... (and a even bigger fan of Neil Young, obviously who ever wrote this doesn't know what they're talking about)

That was a Neil Young song he quoted... He referenced Freddie Mercury early on in the note but actual line "It's better to burn out than to fade away." was from Neil young.

"It's better to burn out than to fade away" is part of a lyric from the song "My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)", (an acoustic version of Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)) by Neil Young, from his album Rust Never Sleeps (1979). Queen (band) has the same lyric in one of their songs "Gimme the Prize (Kurgan's Theme)", from the album A Kind of Magic (1986). Kurt Cobain was a fan of both Neil Young and Queen. Because none of us can be 100% sure about who Kurt Cobain really quoted in his note, we need to give the credit to Neil Young since he came up with this quote first.

"Congratulations, you have won It's a year's subscription of bad puns." Opinion

You shouldn't read into things too much guys. A great line, restated by one of the greats.

Non-Lyrical Quotes
"we're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves"

Issues with this page
Most of the quotes here (except those from the song lyrics) are unsourced. (I assume that someone has checked the credits on the song lyrics and made sure that Cobain is listed as the sole lyricist...?) Before adding any more unsourced material, properly sourcing what's already here would probably be a good idea, or someone is likely to take an axe to it. 121a0012 04:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

I'll say. The filter song isn't even abou Kurt Cobain, it's about Bud Dwyer

"Fuck fuck fuckity fuck!" -Kurt Cobain

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 * I hate Mom. I hate Dad. Dad hates Mom. Mom hates Dad. It just makes you want to be so sad.(Kurt scratched this into the wall of his bedroom in 1976 after his parents had a fight.)

 * I won't eat anything green. (Unknown)

 * I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney

 * Like Hamlet, I have to choose between life and death. (1994)

 * We're so trendy, we can't even escape ourselves. (Unknown)

 * Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

 * I hate having people feed me fine French meals when all I want is macaroni and cheese

 * I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

 * If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

 * No amount of effort can save you from oblivion. (Journals)

From interviews

 * Kurt Cobain often ridiculed rival Pearl Jam, arguing that it lacked the underground purity of Nirvana - that it was simply an old-line commercial rock band in grunge clothing. But Cobain, who was 27 when he died, liked Vedder personally, and that made him feel guilty about the put-downs. "I'm not going to do that anymore," he said in a 1992 interview. "It hurts Eddie and he's a good guy"; L.A. Times 5/1/94, "He Didn't Ask for All This" (Cobain about Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam)

 * In Aberdeen, I hated my best friends with a passion, because they were idiots. (1989)

 * I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine. (1989)

 * It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. (1990)

 * Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock. (1990)

 * I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. (1991)

 * Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes. (1991)

 * If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. (1991)

 * I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me. (1992)

 * We sound like the Bay City Rollers after an assault by Black Sabbath. And, we vomit onstage better than anyone. (1992)

 * Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. (1992)

 * Guns N' Roses are a shitty band that makes shitty music. (1992)

 * I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it. (1992)

 * Zits are beauty marks. (1992)

 * All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against [them]. (1992)

 * I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia. (1992)

 * Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle. (1992)

 * If you're a really mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat crap. (1992)

 * Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball. (1993)

 * I wouldn't have been surprised if they had voted me Most Likely To Kill Everyone At A High School Dance. (1993)

 * If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love) (1993)

 * I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am. (1993)

 * The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes. (1993)

 * I can't play [guitar] like Segovia. The flip side of that is that Segovia could probably never have played like me. (1994)

 * I just think there's a breed of people who honestly like music. And there aren't very many of 'em, really. Those are the people who usually become musicians. It doesn't really matter what environment you grow up in. It's just some environments are more restrictive than others. (1994)

Stage banter

 * Hello, we're major label corporate rock sell outs. (04/17/91 at the O.K. Hotel, Seattle, Washington)

 * There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge) (08/27/91 at Bremen, Germany)

 * I think I see a guy who's has a cassette o' phone out there. But we know that all boot people who bootleg shows or sell bootleg T-shirts. They all a bunch of pedophiles. They support murder in the Third World. They torture children. That's the reason not to support bootleggers. (12/31/93 sanfrancisco, california)(EDIT - this was actually 2-22-94 - Palaghiaccio - Rome Italy - http://www.livenirvana.com/bootography/reviewad06.html?filename=roma)

 * Hi, my name is Kurt Cobain, I'm homosexual, I'm a pagan, I'm a drug abuser, and I like to fuck pot-bellied pigs! (12/02/91 at Newcastle, UK)

 * What's the matter with all you people at the back, did you come here to see Gloria Estefan? (11/27/93 at AT&T Bayfront Park Amphitheater, Miami, Florida)

 * OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo! (12/31/93 at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California)

 * I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena. (12/30/93 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California)

 * This song is dedicated to Frank Zappa, and River Phoenix, Fred Gwynne who played Herman Munster, Dixie Lee Ray, Thomas P, Tip O'Neil, and you, dumb ass, who just threw water on me. (01/07/94 at Seattle Center Arena, Seattle, Washington)

About Kurt Cobain

 * I remember Kurt for what he was, caring, generous and sweet.
 * Krist Novoselic

 * I still dream about Kurt. Every time I see him in a dream, I’ll be amazed and I get this feeling that everyone else thinks he’s dead. It always feels totally real, probably because I’m a very vivid dreamer. But, in my dreams, Kurt’s usually been hiding - we’ll get together and I’ll end up asking him, ‘God, where have you been?’
 * Dave Grohl

 * He really didn't care about a lot of things that you're supposed to care about in the public arena. He really just didn't care.
 * Kurt Loder

 * In his way, he was the closest equivalent this decade and this generation of rock fans had to a John Lennon, and I don't make that comparison easily or impulsively.
 * David Fricke

 * I think one of the reasons so many people connected to him is they could tell his music was really pure and instinctual.
 * Badly Drawn Boy

 * He said, 'Man, I just escaped from Exodus' [a treatment facility]. I didn't have any foresight that the guy was going to do what he did. I could tell he was bummed out, and I'd been that way before. We were at baggage claim, and I thought I'd ask him to come stay at my house. I turned around and he was gone... What if. Only if. A lot of my friends have died. If only he'd...
 * Duff McKagan

 * He had an amazing ear for melody.
 * Norah Jones

 * Lyrically I thought Kurt's writing was sort of cynical and that his words meant more than even he realized.
 * Lou Barlow (Sebadoh)

 * I cried, I don’t know why….I don’t like his music or anything….you know it’s awful about his baby I just……I don’t want to talk about that…..I just don’t think he has very many guts……I just don’t see why he wouldn’t want to see his daughter grow up…you know…that he wouldn’t be excited enough about that to not think of himself……people just start thinking of themselves too much. I don’t think it’s so much that they become conscious of the world of video and the world of this and that and a world of fame, they just think of themselves and no matter who you are and whether you’re a rock star or a garbage man, if you’re thinking of yourself all the time you’re not gonna be very good at what you do. With a baby you can tell them funny jokes when they’re two and they’ll love it, you can teach them about how everyone’s an idiot and they’ll love it…..but you know…..it doesn’t occur to a lot of people how intense that is…..how beautiful it is.
 * John Frusciante (Years later, the clean John, turned in something like a Nirvana fan, playing nirvana covers in his shows)

 * Most kings get driven so insane that they try to hit the same vein Kurt Cobain did
 * Jay-Z

 * I remember the first time I saw him. I was 14 years old. I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video and instantly fell in love with him, even though I couldn’t see his face. I just wanted to see his face so much. After weeks of finding out anything I could about Nirvana, I saw his face — and he had a face like an angel. I loved him. He was my platonic love.
 * Shakira

 * He had a touch most guitarists would kill for.
 * Chuck Berry

 * I only met Kurt once...I was touched by him. He seemed a little shell shocked as though he felt yet another show might drop at any time.
 * Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys)

 * You know, I always thought I'd go first. I don't know why I thought that, it just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis - far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.
 * Eddie Vedder

 * I meet him a few times. He was a pretty cool guy.
 * Ozzy Osbourne

 * In twenty years from now, when people will look back at the 90's, they wont remember the commercial giants like Ace of Base or Backstreet Boys, they will remember the artistic bands and artists like Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
 * Charles R. Cross

 * I think one of Kurt's strengths was his simplicity. He knew how to write really catchy songs that said a lot without doing too much.
 * Steve Diggle (Buzzcocks)

 * The only person I have any respect for as a songwriter over the last 10 years is Kurt Cobain. He was the perfect cross between Lennon and McCartney...but he was a miserable fuck at the same time.
 * Noel Gallagher (Oasis)

 * Cobain was a marvelous singer...I heard his unplugged version of that Leadbelly song and it was such a perfect vocal that I was really moved.
 * Allen Ginsberg

 * He had a wonderful balance of raw, dangerous anger, but also he was this delicate, fun person...He was brilliant, but he played dumb. And you know, Kurt was funny as shit.
 * Dave Grohl

 * Kurt chewed bubblegum in his soul.
 * Courtney Love

 * Kurt Cobain was one of the best of our time
 * Madonna

 * I dont think there's any better expression for that era (the 90s) then Kurt Cobain and Nirvana.
 * Sam Mendes

 * Rage and aggression were elements for Kurt to play with as an artist, but he was profoundly gentle and intelligent.
 * Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

 * He had life figured out really young. He knew life wasn’t always fair.
 * Wendy O'Connor (mother)

 * [He] was very talented, but he was passive-aggressive, kind of a whiny white guy, basically.
 * Camille Paglia

 * [If he] applied the same brain to his music that he applied to his drug-infested life, its reasonable to think that his music may not have made much sense either.
 * Andy Rooney

 * I think Kurt was one of the deepest thinkers we've had in popular music over the last 20 years and if anyone deserves to have his songs dwelled upon it's him.
 * Jim Sclavunos (Bad Seeds)

 * Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.
 * Layne Staley (Alice in Chains)

 * I mourn for Kurt. A once beautiful, then pathetic, lost and heroically stupid boy.
 * Pete Townshend (the Who)

 * He really, really inspired me. He was so great. Wonderful. One of the best, but more than that. Kurt was one of the absolute best of all time for me.
 * Neil Young

 * There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no good reason.
 * William S. Burroughs

 * That kid had heart.
 * Bob Dylan

 * I don't know why everyone on earth felt so close to that guy; he was beloved and endearing and inoffensive in some weird way. For all his screaming and all of his darkness, he was just lovable.
 * Anthony Kiedis

 * He was a genius.
 * Paul McCartney

 * I only met Kurt once...I was touched by him. He seemed a little shell shocked as though he felt yet another shoe might drop at any time.
 * Jello Biafra, quoted during a speech at Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA (1994-04-16)

 * People keep calling him the voice of our generation, but I never understood any of his songs.
 * Dexter Holland, the vocalist of the band The Offspring

You know you're right
The lyric is "failed to fail" not "felt so well" the lyrics were incorrect on the linear notes.

Found a possible quote online; if anyone can confirm it as an actual quote, please ad it with appropriate source

 * I feel this society has somewhere lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression you need 100% freedom, and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with.

If this is an actual Cobain quote, please add it to the page with appropriate source. allixpeeke (talk) 22:22, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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Kalidasa

Kalidasa (Devanagari: कालिदास Kālidāsa) was a Sanskrit poet and dramatist, his title Kavikulaguru (Preceptor of All Poets) bearing testimony to his stature. Known to be an ardent worshipper of Shiva, he wrote his plays and poetry largely based around Hindu mythology and philosophy. His name means, literally, "Kali's servant." His life cannot be dated with precision, but most likely falls within the Gupta period, probably in the 4th or 5th century.

Quotes

 * अनुभवति हि मूर्ध्ना पादपस्तीव्रमुष्णं । शमयति परितापं छायया संश्रितानाम् ॥
 * The tree bears the intense heat on its head while it lessens the heat for those who take shelter under it.
 * Abhijñānaśākuntalam (The Sign of Shakuntala)

 * स्रजमपि शिरस्यन्धः क्षिप्तं धुनोत्यहिशंकया
 * One who is blind throws away even a garland of flower placed on his head, thinking it is a snake.
 * Abhijñānaśākuntalam (The Sign of Shakuntala)

 * न रत्नमन्विष्यति मृग्यते हि तत्
 * A jewel is sought after and has not to seek.
 * Kumārasambhava, Canto V, 45; translation by M. R. Kale

Is to have gained an academic post Where he can earn a livelihood, and then Neglect research, let controversy rest, He's but a petty tradesman at the best, Selling retail the work of other men.
 * If a professor thinks what matters most
 * Mālavikāgnimitram, i.17. In Poems from the Sanskrit, trans. John Brough (London: Penguin, 1968), no. 165; as reported in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay (Bristol: IOP Publishing, 1991), p. 136.

Quotes about Kalidasa

 * Kalidasa, the immortal poet and playwright, is a peerless genius whose works have won world-wide fame. The matchless qualities of his work have been lavishly praised both by the ancient Indian critics and modern scholars. [...] In modern times the translations of Kalidasa's works in numerous Indian and foreign languages have spread his fame all over the world and now he ranks among the few topmost poets and playwrights of the world.
 * Ram Gopal, Kālidāsa: His Art and Culture (1984)

 * The performance begins with a prologue, in which an actor or the manager discusses the play; Goethe seems to have taken from Kalidasa the idea of a prologue for Faust.
 * Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.

 * The first time I came upon this inexhaustible work, [Shakuntala] it aroused such enthusiasm in me and so held me that I could not stop studying it. I even felt impelled to make the impossible attempt to bring it in some form to the German stage. These efforts were fruitless but they made me so thoroughly acquainted with this most valuable work, it represented such an epoch in my life, I so absorbed it, that for thirty years I did not look at either the English or the German version. It is only now that I understand the enormous impression that work made on me at an earlier age.
 * Goethe. source: Letters from Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

 * It is enough that Goethe, ablest of all Europeans to transcend provincial and national barriers, found the reading of Shakuntala among the profound experiences of his life, and wrote of it gratefully: Wouldst thou the young year’s blossoms, and the fruits of its decline, And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed; Wouldst thou the Earth and Heaven itself in one sole name combine? I name thee, O Shakuntala! and all at once is said.
 * Goethe. quoted in Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.

 * The first time I came across this inexhaustible work it aroused such enthusiasm in me and so held me that I could not stop studying it. I even felt impelled to make the impossible attempt to bring it in some form to the German stage. These efforts were fruitless but they made me so thoroughly acquainted with this most valuable work, it represented such an epoch in my life, I so absorbed it, that for thirty years I did not look at either the English or the German version .. .It is only now that I understand the enormous impression that work made on me at an earlier age.
 * Goethe, in 1830, letter to de Chenzy. in Von Herzfeld, Marianne and Syn, c. Me1vil Letters from Goethe. (trans). p. 514., as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture

 * In the whole world of Greek antiquity there is no poetical representation of beautiful love which approaches even afar.
 * Friedrich Schiller wrote to Wilhelm Humboldt, in Singhal, Damodar P India and world civilization Rupa and Co Calcutta 1993. p 230 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture

 * I cannot easily find a product of human mind more pleasant than this [Shakuntala]… a real blossom of the Orient, and the first, most beautiful of its kind! Something like that, of course, appears once every two thousand years.
 * J. G. Herder. source: An Introduction to Eastern Ways of Thinking, N.L. Gupta. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

 * A factor of uncertainty in precessional chronology is that the equinox moves very slowly (1° in nearly 71 years), so that any inexactness in the Vedic indications and anyambiguity in the constellations’ boundaries makes a difference of centuries. This occasional inexactness might, for example, be enough to neutralize the shift of ca. five centuries in Kalidâsa’s date, who could be dated to ca. 100 BC on narrowly interpreted astronomical grounds, rather than the conventional date of ca. AD 400... The great playwright and poet wrote that the monsoon rains started at the beginning of the sidereal month of Asâdha, which was most accurate in the last centuries BC: “We can, therefore, say that about 2000 years have elapsed since the period of Kâlidâsa”, according to P.V. Holay. This implicit astronomy-based chronology of Kalidasa could be enlisted as evidence for a higher chronology of the imperial Guptas, at whose court he supposedly worked. That unconventional chronology has been proposed by K.D. Sethna... However, shifting Kâlidâsa to ca. 100 BC would not necessarily have such drastic implications, as philologists had already questioned his synchronism with the Guptas on other grounds, arguing that he fits better in the Shunga or immediately post-Shunga age, which happens to be just around 100 BC. So, either way, the playwright’s birth date can be accommodated into the prevailing chronological paradigm.
 * P.V. Holay quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2007). Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate.

 * He first translated, in 1813, Kalidasa's Megha Dutt (Cloud Messenger), a work Wilson favorably compared to European poetry: "I advance an opinion that we have few specimens either in classical or modern poetry of more genuine tenderness or delicate feeling."
 * H.H. Wilson, quoted in Ibn, W. (2009). Defending the West: A critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer from Missouri, whose rural background gave a sense of place in his compositions. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, and later established himself in New York City, as a peer of Aaron Copland and was also a music critic for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1940 through 1954. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1949 with his film score for Louisiana Story.

Quotes

 * I got myself into a lovely little—shall we say controversy—with André Breton, by pointing out that the discipline of spontaneity, which he was asking his surrealist neophytes to adopt, was new for language but something that composers had been practicing for centuries.
 * Virgil Thomson (1981). A Virgil Thomson Reader, p.548. New York: E.P. Dutton Inc.
 * See: André Breton

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 1866 – 1 July 1925), known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist.

General quotes

 * I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless)."
 * Quoted by Rollo H. Myers (1968). Erik Satie, p.135. New York: Dover.
 * See also Socrate for the context of this quote.

 * Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.
 * Translation: Study for a bust of Mr Erik Satie painted by himself, with a thought: I came into the world very young in an age that was very old.
 * (Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image)

 * On the first movement of Claude Debussy's La Mer, From Dawn to Noon: " Ah, my dear friend, there's one particular moment between half past ten and a quarter to eleven that I found stunning!" (with slight variations in phrasing and translation)
 * Mary McAuliffe: Twilight of the Belle Epoque (2014), p. 111.
 * nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
 * about artist/model Suzanne Valadon at the end of their love affair
 * I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
 * The man in a velvet suit Lucy Daniel Telegraph Review January 25 2014.

Piano works
Satie was well known for curious directions to the would-be performer of his piano works, and also a sort of "running commentary" which he inserted into his humouristic works.

 * Postulez en vous-même.
 * Wonder about yourself.

 * Munissez-vous de clairvoyance.
 * Provide yourself with shrewdness.

 * Seul, pendant un instant.
 * Alone, for a moment.

 * Très perdu.
 * Very lost.

 * Ouvrez la tête.
 * Open your head.

 * Superstitieusement.
 * Superstitiously.

 * D'une manière très particulière.
 * In a very particular way.

 * Léger comme un œuf.
 * Light as an egg.

 * Comme un rossignol qui aurait mal aux dents.
 * Embryon desséché d'Holoturie, 1913
 * Like a nightingale with a toothache.

 * Citation de la célèbre mazurka de SCHUBERT
 * Citing of SCHUBERT's famous mazurka.
 * The piece in question that Satie was parodying was actually Chopin's Funeral March. Schubert never wrote any mazurkas that would have been well-known to his contemporaries, whereas Chopin wrote many of these pieces, that were very popular. Schubert was at the time however very often cited, for example, Satie's thentime friend Ravel had published Schubert-imitating Valses Nobles et Sentimentales in 1911.

 * Modéré, je vous prie.
 * Moderately, I insist.

 * Un peu chaud.
 * A little bit warm.

 * Très turc.
 * Very Turkish.

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Richard Franck

Richard Franck (c. 1624 - 1708) was an English author on the subject of fishing.

Quotes

 * Art imitates Nature, and Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
 * Northern Memoirs, written in 1658 and published in 1694 along with another work by Franck, The Contemplative and Practical Angler

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Talk:The Lord of the Rings

At first I wondered how an empty page rated a link from the main page. So I added some quotes. Then I checked the history, realized that the page once held quotes and was divided into sub-pages. I had thought they were just links back to Wikipedia. At the least I think the list needs to explain where the bulk of the quotes are. I think a case can be made for having a selection of quotes on this page because the presence of the quotes from the preface makes it look unfinished or at least very unbalanced and because the complete quotes pages for each book are so extensive and hard to read through. That depends more on how you see the project though and I would not be upset to see them removed from here. But it should be more obvious where the quotes are. Rmhermen 04:41, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Moving of quotes from the "Foreword"
I don't agree with the idea that the foreword should be given its own separate page. The Volumes themselves were given their own pages for reasons of length, and I can see a rationale to that, but the quotes from the foreword of the "second" edition were just a few general comments about the work as a whole, and I believe that they should remain here, behind the general links to the body of the work itself, because they were actually written years later, as is reflected by the very subject of the quotes, and there is simply no need for a separate page. ~ Achilles 13:03, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I concur. And there is another big change; see Talk:The Lord of the Rings (fandom) please. I don't think this type of fandom quotes passes our "notability" criteria. --Aphaia 20:08, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Note that I didn't introduce the "fandom" quote, I just created a new section for them. But I agree that removing them (well, it, there's only one of them) is probably a much better move. About the foreword page I don't feel strongly either way. Jhi

Gandalf
Does anyone have the song they made when they thought Gandalf was dead?

 * Err... What does this have to do with wikiquote?
 * This can be an addition to wikiquote....because that was a significant moment in film. I am not sure if there is such song in books too. 221.120.250.68 21:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Citing sources
Since this article has been added to Good entries, I have been ruthless about restructuring and noting its sourcing failures. Most of the "sources" provided are too vague for any reasonable attempt at verifying them. I've also marked the "Forward to the Second Edition" section because a work as popular as LoTR probably has many editions and printings that include this forward, so we should have some specifics on at least one of them. I'm also concerned about the use of the term "portal", as we have no standards for such things here, but I'm more worried about the basics for now.

"Good articles" ought to be the best examples of well-formatted, well-sourced articles. Just as with Wikipedia's good- and featured-article system, nomination to this list should be a positive encouragement for improving articles to our highest standards (as opposed to Wikiquote's more traditional negative encouragement of VfD nomination). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

"Oh f--k, not another elf!"
Seriously? Seriously??

Let's remove that nonsense.

 * I agree... we don't need that crap here. And no, I am not a sock puppet, though I have no WQ contribs I have made numerous WP contribs, you can check for yourself. - Robodude2000 15:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Like the humor of it or not, this has become widely quoted, is well-sourced, and does belong in a compendium of notable quotes. ~ Kalki 02:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

What about quotes from the book?
Instead of just real world ones?

 * Quotes for each of the books are provided on the pages which are linked prominently at the start of the page. ~ Kalki 02:44, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

moving Faramir here?
The page shows that a discussion is going about moving Faramir here. But I don't see any. So am starting one. I don't think it's a good idea. Because if we do that, we can run into trouble...we will have to move Gandalf, Frodo, Samwise Gamgee, Bilbo, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Merryadoc, Peppin and many other pages here too. Besides, it makes no sense to move the character's quotations here...because then we can get in trouble with characters like Elrond and Gladriel, because they were mentioned outside LoTR too. And what about the quotes from The Hobbit? So, I think it's better if we keep characters' quotations separated. But you are welcome to include interesting dialogues from the books. Aarsalankhalid 21:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * oops! I just realized that most of the pages don't exist! Then why the page about Faramir was created? Aarsalankhalid 21:43, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Why was any page created? Somebody thought it was a good idea at the time. Note that after Faramir was tagged for merging, a general policy for Fictional characters has been drafted, which indicates it is not such a good idea. To be clear, it would not be merged to this page per se, but to the listed articles on individual books. ~ Ningauble 13:18, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

i think we should move all the characters so we can fine em all

Yes, Move Him Here

Yup! Move all here!! Its easier to find them!

What's the year?
Hy.

Review by C.S. Lewis, as quoted in The Essential J. R. R. Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan's Guide to Middle-Earth and Beyond (2004) by George W. Beahm, p. 28

Here, however, we find the book was published in 2003:
 * Amazon
 * Openisbn
 * Alibris
 * Libon
 * Bookshop

Only here we find "2004". So what's the correct year? Thanks. --109.118.32.135 22:04, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

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Alice in Chains

Alice in Chains (often abbreviated as AIC) is an American rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1987 by guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney, who later recruited bassist Mike Starr and lead vocalist Layne Staley. Starr was replaced by Mike Inez in 1993. William DuVall joined the band in 2006 as co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist, replacing Staley, who died in 2002. The band took its name from Staley's previous group, the glam metal band Alice N' Chains.

Often associated with grunge music, Alice in Chains' sound incorporates heavy metal elements. The band is known for its distinctive vocal style, which often included the harmonized vocals between Staley and Cantrell

Members

 * Jerry Cantrell - lead guitar, lead/backing vocals (1987-2002, 2005-present)
 * Sean Kinney - drums (1987-2002, 2005-present)
 * Mike Inez - bass (1993-2002, 2005-present)
 * William DuVall - lead/backing vocals, rhythm guitar (2005-present)
 * Layne Staley - lead vocals (1987-2002)
 * Mike Starr - bass (1987-1993)

"We Die Young"

 * "Down, down, down you're rollin'/Watch the blood float in the muddy sewer/Take another hit/And bury your brother"
 * "Another alley trip/Bullet seek the place to bend you over/Then you got hit/And you should of known better/Faster we run/And we die young"

"Man in the Box"

 * "I'm the man in the box/Buried in my shit/Won't you come and save me?/Save me"
 * "Fear in my eyes (can you sow them shut?)/Jesus Christ (deny your maker)/He who tries (will be wasted)/Fear in my eyes (now you told me)"
 * "I'm the dog who gets beat/Shove my nose in shit"

"Sea of Sorrow"

 * "Mind, of destructive taste/I choose...to stroll amongst the waste/That was your heart/Lost in the dark/Call off the chase"
 * "Walls of thought, strong and high/As my castle crumbles with time/I think of you/Oh, yes I do/Such a crime"
 * "I live tomorrow/You I'll not follow/As you wallow/In a sea of sorrow"

"Bleed the Freak"

 * "These stand for me/Name your god and bleed the freak/I'd like to see/How you all would bleed for me"

"Got Me Wrong"

 * "Yeah, it goes away/All of this and more of nothing in my life/No colored clay/Individuality not safe"
 * "As of now I bet you've got me wrong/So unsure you run from something strong"

"Them Bones"

 * "I believe them bones are me/Some say we're born into the grave/I feel so alone, gonna end up a/Big ol' pile a them bones"
 * "Dust rise right on over my time/Empty fossil of the new scene/I feel so alone, gonna end up a/Big hole pile a them bones"

"Dam that River"

 * "I broke you in the canyon/I drowned you in the lake/You a snake that I would trample/Only thing I'd not embrace"
 * "Oh, you couldn't dam that river/And maybe I don't give a damn anyway/So you couldn't dam that river/And it washed me so far away"
 * "I pushed and then you stumbled/I kicked you in the face/You stare at me so hollow/Got to keep that killin' pace"

"Down in a Hole"

 * "Bury me softly in this womb/I give this part of me for you/Sand rains down and here I sit/Holding rare flowers/In a tomb... in Bloom"
 * "Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved/I sing my heart out decorated like a grave/You don't understand who they thought I was supposed to be/Look at me now I'm a man who won't let himself be"
 * "Down in a hole, losing my soul/Down in a hole, losing control/I'd like to fly,/But my wings have been so denied"

"Rooster"

 * "Ain't found a way to kill me yet/Eyes burn with stinging sweat/Seems every path leads me to nowhere/Wife and kids, household pet/Army green was no safe bet/The bullets scream to me from somewhere"
 * "Here they come to snuff the rooster/Ah yeah, yeah/Yeah, here come the rooster, yeah/You know he ain't gonna die/No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die"
 * "Walkin' tall machine gun man/They spit on me in my home land/Gloria sent me pictures of my boy/Got my pills 'gainst mosquito death/My buddy's breathin' his dyin' breath/Oh god please won't you help me make it through"

"Hate to Feel"

 * "Stare at me with empty eyes and/Point your words at me/Mirror on the wall will show you/What you're scared to see"

"Angry Chair"

 * "Sitting on an angry chair/Angry walls that steal the air/Stomach hurts and I don't care/What do I see across the way, hey/See myself molded in clay, oh/Stares at me, yeah I'm afraid, hey/Changing the shape of his face, oh yeah"
 * "I don't mind, yeah/I don't mind, I-I-I/I don't mind, yeah/I don't mind, I-I-I/Lost my mind, yeah/But I don't mind, I-I-I/Can't find it anywhere/I don't mind"

"Would?"

 * "Into the flood again/Same old trip it was back then/So I made a big mistake/Try to see it once my way"
 * "Drifting body, its sole exertion/Flying, not yet quite the notion"
 * "Am I wrong?/Have I run too far to get home/Have I gone?/Left you here alone/If I would, could you?"

"Nutshell"

 * "We chase misprinted lies/We face the path of time/And yet I fight/And yet I fight/This battle all alone/No one to cry to/No place to call home"

"I Stay Away"

 * "Why you act crazy/Not an act maybe/So close a lady/Shifty eyes shady"
 * "Why you act frightened/I am enlightened/Your weakness builds me/So someday you'll see"

"No Excuses"

 * "It's alright/There comes a time/Got no patience to search/For peace of mind/Layin' low/Want to take it slow/No more hiding or/Disguising truths I've sold"
 * "Everyday it's something/Hits me all so cold/Find me sittin' by myself/No excuses, then I know"
 * "It's okay/Had a bad day/Hands are bruised from/Breaking rocks all day/Drained and blue/I bleed for you/You think it's funny, well/You're drowning in it too"
 * "Yeah, it's fine/We'll walk down the line/Leave our rain, a cold/Trade for warm sunshine/You my friend/I will defend/And if we change, well I love you anyway"

"Don't Follow"

 * "Hey, I ain't never coming home/Hey, I'll just wander my own road/Hey-hey, I can't meet you here tomorrow - no, no/Say goodbye don't follow/Misery so hollow"
 * "Well I forgot my woman, lost my friends/Things I've done and where I've been/Sleep in sweat - the mirror's cold/Seen my face? It's growin' old/Scared to death, no reason why/Do whatever to get me by/Think about the things I've said/Read the page its cold and dead"

"Grind"

 * "Come the morning light/It's a see-through show/What you may have heard and/What you think you know"

"Heaven Beside You"

 * "Be what you wanna be/See what you came to see/Been what you wanna be/I don't like what I see"
 * "Like the coldest winter will/Heaven beside you... Hell within/And you think you have it still, heaven inside you"

"Again"

 * "Hey, let them do it again, yeah/Hey, you said you were my friend/Hey, turn me upside down, Oh/Hey, feelin' so down"

"Over Now"

 * "You know its been on my mind/Could you stand right there/Look me straight in the eye and say/That it's over now"

"Check My Brain"

 * "So I found myself in the sun, oh yeah/A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah/California, I'm fine/Somebody check my brain/California's all right/Somebody check my brain"
 * "I walk these streets, I creep and I fall, oh yeah/When she sang I answered the call, oh yeah"

"Your Decision"

 * "Time to change has come and gone/Watched your fears become your god/It's your decision"
 * "You feed the fire that burned us all/When you lie/To feel the pain that spurs you on/Black inside"

"A Looking in View"

 * "Hear footsteps creak the floor/The shadows give away/Someone outside the door/Won't let 'em in"
 * "These things I hate in you/Also reflect it seems/Distortion laced with spite/Takes you out of me"
 * "A looking in view too long on the outside/Desperate plans make sense in a low life/Lie/A looking in view too long on the outside/Desperate plans make sense in a low life/Lie/It's why you never tell me/Whatever's on your mind"

"Lesson Learned"

 * "Just another lesson learned/Wear a scar, abhore repeating/Take a simple fateful turn/Opened up to stop the bleeding"
 * "Nowhere to buy in/Most of us hiding/Others are shining"

"Black Gives Way to Blue"

 * "I don't wanna feel no more/It's easier to keep falling/Imitations are pale/Emptiness of tomorrows/Haunted by your ghost"
 * "Lay down, black gives way to blue/Lay down, I'll remember you"

"Hollow"

 * "Hollow as a mountain/All tunneled and drilled below/Hollow as a mountain/Crowned with a cold, blue sky"
 * "Silence! So loud! Silence!/I can't tell my up from down"

"Stone"

 * "What makes you want to carve your initials in me?"
 * "Find me distant/Outwardly rough/Obscene"
 * "Cold/Dry/Stone"

"Voices"

 * "Every time I listen/Voices in my head/Everybody listen/Does yours say what mine says"
 * "Calling out their names/Faces, uniforms I've worn/And all that is gone/Always climbing/To fall down again"

"Phantom Limb"

 * "...this ain't over/My regrets are many, true/Still so much worse lies ahead for you"
 * "Gonna wear you like a second skin/I'll haunt you like a phantom limb"

"The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here"

 * "The devil put dinosaurs here/Jesus don't like a queer/The devil put dinosaurs here/No problem with faith just fear"

"The One You Know"

 * "Tell me, does it matter/If I'm still here, or I'm gone?/Shifting to the after/An impostor, so disowned"
 * "Are you surprised black water flows/From wells run dry?/I'm not the one you know"

"So Far Under"

 * "The trap is time and no one gets off of this ride alive"
 * "So far under/Far I've never fell/Now forever dwell/So far under"
 * "So far under/Too much pain to tell/And now I'm ripped asunder/"So far under"

"Never Fade"

 * "My inner voice/Seems to want me dead/Only choice/Manage down the trail I’ve lead"
 * "Never far away away I always see you/When it all goes dark you light my way through"

Other

 * "Friends Don't Let Friends Get Friends Haircuts" - This was written on Mike Inez's bass during the band's set on Unplugged. It was in reference to the members of Metallica, who were sitting in the audience. Metallica had recently gotten haircuts to coincide with the release of their album Load and many saw this as the band "selling out."

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Category:Psychologists

 * See also: Psychology.

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User:Pgunn~enwikiquote

Please see my Wikipedia Userpage instead.

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Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer.

Quotes

 * "Then M. Ravel discussed another idea. That was that in these days of cacophony it might be quite an original idea for the orchestra to start, say, in C major, and then, through a series of discords the instruments should divide, some going up a semitone at every three or four bars, while others went down in the same way, eventually ending in perfect harmony in C major two octaves apart. He said: 'It is just an idea but it might be rather fun working it out and certainly a novel way of resolving harmony from discord.'"
 * Maurice Ravel and unattributed. "Finding Tunes in Factories", Evening Standard, London, 24 February 1932.
 * Also printed in: Orenstein, Arbie, ed. (1990). A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews, p.490-91. New York: Columbia University Press.

 * "Mais est-ce qu'il ne vient jamais à l'idée de ces gens-là que je peux être 'artificiel' par nature?"
 * "But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?"
 * Answering M. D. Calvocoressi on a question insinuating that many people thought Ravel's music rather "artificial" than "natural".
 * quoted in Calvocoressi's Musicians gallery, London, Faber, 1933

 * "I have the intention to dedicate Le Gibet to you. It is not because I think you merit a rope to hang yourself, but because it is the least difficult of the three pieces."
 * Ravel to pianist Jean Marnold about Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit

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Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara (Samuel Rosenstock/Rosenstein) (16 April 1896 – 25 December 1963) was a French-Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborater with Marcel Janco.

Quotes of Tristan Tzara

 * sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes of Tristan Tzara

'Dada Manifesto', 1918

 * Quotes of Tzara in his 'Dada manifesto', 1918 - transl. from the French: Robert Motherwell, in Dada Painters and Poets, by Robert Motherwell, New York, pp. 78-81; reprinted by permission of George Wittenborn, Inc., Publishers, 10l8 Madison Avenue, New York 21, N.Y.

 * There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators.. .Every page must explode, either by profound heavy seriousness, the whirlwind, poetic frenzy, the new, the eternal, the crushing joke, enthusiasm for principles, or by the way in which it is printed. On the one hand a tottering world in flight, betrothed to the glockenspiel of hell, on the other hand: new men. Rough, bouncing, riding on hiccups. Behind them a crippled world and literary quacks with a mania for improvement.

 * Dada is the signboard of abstraction; advertising and business are also elements of poetry.. .I destroy the drawers of the brain and of social organization: spread demoralization wherever I go and cast my hand from heaven to hell, my eyes from hell to heaven, restore the fecund wheel of a universal circus to objective forces and the imagination of every individual.

 * Some people think they can explain rationally, by thought, what they think. But that is extremely relative... There is no ultimate Truth. The dialectic is an amusing mechanism which guides us / in a banal kind of way / to the opinions we had in the first place. Does anyone think that, by a minute refinement of logic, he has demonstrated the truth and established the correctness of these opinions? Logic imprisoned by the senses is an organic disease
 * Experience is also a product of chance and individual faculties... I detest greasy objectivity, and harmony, the science that finds everything in order. Carry on, my children, humanity... Science says we are the servants of nature: everything is in order, make love and bash your brains in. Carry on, my children, humanity, kind bourgeois and journalist virgins... I am against systems, the most acceptable system is on principle to have none.

 * Dada; knowledge of all the means rejected up until now.. . Dada; abolition of logic, which is the dance of those impotent to create: Dada; of every social hierarchy and equation set up for the sake of values by our valets: Dada; every object, all objects, sentiments, obscurities, apparitions and the precise clash of parallel lines are weapons for the fight: Dada; abolition of memory: Dada; abolition of archaeology: Dada; abolition of prophets: Dada; abolition of the future: Dada; absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity:* Dada; elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere... Freedom: Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

1920s

 * To make a Dadaist Poem (1920) Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are—an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.
 * Quote of Tzara's poem from 1920; as cited in Cambridge Introduction to Modernism, ed. Pericles Lewis (Cambridge UP, 2007), p. 107 - online:

 * If I shout: Ideal, Ideal, Ideal Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge, Boomboom, Boomboom, Boomboom I have recorded fairly accurately Progress, Law, Morals, and all the other magnificent qualities that various very intelligent people have discussed in so many books.
 * As quoted in The Dada Almanac: Berlin 1920, (1983) ed. Richard Huelsenbeck, transl. Malcolm Green, p.127

 * A manifesto is a communication made to the whole world, whose only pretensions is to the discovery of an instant cure for political, astronomical, artistic, parliamentary, agronomical and literary syphilis. It may be pleasant, and good-natured, it's always right, it's strong, vigorous and logical. Apropos of logic, I consider myself very likeable.
 * In: 'Dada Manifesto On Feeble Love And Bitter Love', Intro of part II, by Tristan Tzara, 12th December 1920

 * Dada belongs to everybody.
 * As quoted in Dada Art and Anti-art, Hand Richter, Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 2004
 * Tzara's reaction when in 1921 Picabia, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp jokingly asked to grant them permission to use the name 'Dada' as their own name for Dada in New York.

'Lecture on Dada', 1922

 * Quotes from 'Lecture on Dada', Tristan Tzara, 1922', - transl. from the French: Robert Motherwell, in The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology (1981), by Robert Motherwell, New York, pp. 246-51; reprinted by permission of George Wittenborn, Inc., Publishers, 10l8 Madison Avenue, New York 21, N.Y.

 * I know that you have come here today to hear explanations. Well, don't expect to hear any explanations about Dada. You explain to me why you exist. You haven't the faintest idea. You will say: I exist to make my children happy. But in your hearts you know that isn't so. You will say: I exist to guard my country, against barbarian invasions. That's a fine reason. You will say: I exist because God wills. That's a fairy tale for children.

 * Dada is not at all modern. It is more in the nature of a return to an almost Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada covers things with an artificial gentleness, a snow of butterflies released from the head of a prestidigitator. Dada is immobility and does not comprehend the passions.

 * Nothing is more delightful than to confuse and upset people. People one doesn't like. What's the use of giving them explanations that are merely food for curiosity? The truth is that people love nothing but themselves and their little possessions, their income, their dog. This state of affairs derives from a false conception of property. If one is poor in spirit, one possesses a sure and indomitable intelligence, a savage logic, a point of view that can not be shaken. Try to be empty and fill your brain cells with a petty happiness. Always destroy what you have in you. On random walks..

 * Men are different. It is diversity that makes life interesting. There is no common basis in mens minds. The unconscious is inexhaustible and uncontrollable. Its force surpasses us. It is as mysterious as the last particle of a brain cell. Even if we knew it, we could not reconstruct it.

 * Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting. Dada knows the correct measure that should be given to art: with subtle, perfidious methods, Dada introduces it into daily life. And vice versa. In art, Dada reduces everything to an initial simplicity, growing always more relative. It mingles its caprices with the chaotic wind of creation and the barbaric dances of savage tribes. It wants logic reduced to a personal minimum.

 * You will often hear that Dada is a state of mind. You may be gay, sad, afflicted, joyous, melancholy or Dada. Without being literary, you can be romantic, you can be dreamy, weary, eccentric, a businessman, skinny, transfigured, vain, amiable or Dada... Dada is here, there and a little everywhere, such as it is, with its faults, with its personal differences and distinctions which it accepts and views with indifference.

 * We Dadaists are often told that we are incoherent, but into this word people try to put an insult that it is rather hard for me to fathom. Everything is incoherent... There is no logic... The acts of life have no beginning and no end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way. That is why everything is alike. Simplicity is called Dada. Any attempt to conciliate an inexplicable momentary state with logic strikes me as a boring kind of game... Like everything in life, Dada is useless... Perhaps you will understand me better when I tell you that Dada is a virgin microbe that penetrates with the insistence of air into all of the spaces that reason has not been able to fill with words or conventions.

Quotes about Tristan Tzara

 * sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes about Tristan Tzara

 * Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty.
 * Quote of Francis Picabia, in a letter to Tristan Tzara, Summer 1919; as cited in TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Press, 12 Sep 2014, p. 151

 * Splendid, it has done me enormous good to finally see and read something in Switzerland that isn't bullshit. All of it is very nice, it is really something; your manifesto expresses every philosophy seeking truth, when there is no truth, only convention.
 * Quote of Francis Picabia, in a letter to Tristan Tzara, Nov. 1919, (after having received a copy of 'Manifesto Dada 3.', written by Tzara); as cited in: TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara, Marius Hentea, MIT Press, 12 Sep 2014, p. 115

 * Dada was founded in Zurich in the spring of 1916 by Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck at the Cabaret Voltaire [in Zurich, Switzerland]... Through Tzara we were also in relation with the Futurist movement and carried on a correspondence with Marinetti. By that time Boccioni had been killed, but all of us knew his thick book, Pittura e scultuptura Futuriste. We regarded Marinetti's position as realistic, and were opposed to it, although we were glad to take over the concept of 'spontaneity', of which he made so much use. Tzara for the first time had poems recited simultaneously on the stage, and these performances were a great success, although the 'poeme simultane' had already been introduced in France by Dereme and others.
 * Quote of Richard Huelsenbeck (1920), in: 'En Avant Dada: A History of Dadaism', Richard Huelsenbeck – translated (completely from the German) by Ralph Manheim. First published as 'En Avant Dada: Eine Geschichte des Dadaismus', Hannover, Leipzig, Wien, Zurich, Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1920, pp. 23-24; – pdf of 'En Avant Dada: A History of Dadaism', on:

 * In May 1922, Dada staged its own funeral. According to Hans Richter, the main part of this took place in Weimar, where the Dadaists attended a festival of the German Bauhaus art school, during which Tzara proclaimed the elusive nature of his art: 'Dada is useless, like everything else in life... Dada is a virgin microbe which penetrates with the insistence of air into all those spaces that reason has failed to fill with words and conventions.'
 * Quote of Hans Richter, (1964) in Dada. Art and Anti-art, HaNS Richter (with a postscript by Werner Haftmann, Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 2004. ISBN 0-500-20039-4, p. 191

 * Tzara would draw slips of paper with words described on them from a hat, and present the resulting combination of words as a poem. [Hans] Arp allowed cut-outs of free or geometric shapes to arrange themselves in a random order, then pasted them on a surface and presented the result as a picture.
 * Quote of Werner Haftman, (1965), reports of Dada-evenings, in Painting in the Twentieth Century, An Analysis of the Artists and their Work, New York Praeger, 1965, p. 183; as quoted in Aesthetics and the Environment: The Appreciation of Nature, Art and Architecture, by Allen Carlson, Routledge, London & New York, 2005, p 112

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François-Joseph Fétis

François-Joseph Fétis (March 25, 1784 – March 26, 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher. He was one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century, and his enormous compilation of biographical data in the Biographie universelle des musiciens remains an important source of information today.

Quotes

 * "In the passage quoted here from Monteverdi's madrigal [Cruda amarilli, mm.9-19 and 24-30], one sees a tonality determined by the characteristic of the accord parfait on the tonic, by the sixth chord assigned to the third and seventh degrees, by the optional choice of the accord parfait or the sixth chord on the sixth degree, and finally, by the accord parfait, and above all, by the unprepared seventh chord (with major third) on the dominant."
 * Joseph Fétis, (1844). Traité complet de la théorie et de la pratique de l'harmonie contenant la doctrine de la science et de l'art, 2d ed., p. 166. Brussels and Paris.

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Ernst Kurth

Ernst Kurth (1 June 1886 – 2 August 1946) was a Swiss music theorist.

Quotes

 * The concept of 'tonality' signifies the unified relationship of chords to a central tonic and hence comprises two different assumptions: first, the existence of unifying factors, and second, the existence of, or at least the hypothetical ability to reconstruct, a tonal center.
 * Romantische Harmonik und ihre Krise in Wagners Tristan (1920), p. 273.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (25 September 1683 – 12 September 1764) was a French composer and music theorist.

Quotes

 * Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau (1726). Nouveau système de musique théorique, p. 59. Paris.

 * In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f* [a F major chord].
 * ibid, p. 14.

-Conceal Art by Art itself.
 * Cacher l’Art par l’Art lui même.
 * Lettre à Houdar de la Motte, 1727.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 – 2 August 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.

Quotes

 * Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.
 * First intelligible words spoken over the telephone (10 March 1876), as recorded in Bell's Journal entry (10 March 1876). These are often misquoted as "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." Watson later recounted that Bell had spilled battery acid and had called for him over the phone with these words, but this may have been in a separate incident.

 * The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
 * Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Boston, Massachusetts (27 August 1880): published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light" in American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, vol. XX, n°118 (October 1880), pp. 305-324.

 * There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
 * Statement to a reporter a few months before he died, as quoted at Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers at the Library of Congress

 * I had made up my mind to find that for which I was searching even if it required the remainder of my life. After innumerable failures I finally uncovered the principle for which I was searching, and I was astounded at its simplicity. I was still more astounded to discover the principle I had revealed not only beneficial in the construction of a mechanical hearing aid but it served as well as means of sending the sound of the voice over a wire. Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when a man gives his order to produce a definite result and stands by that order it seems to have the effect of giving him what might be termed a second sight which enables him to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
 * As quoted in Making a Habit of Success: How to Make a Habit of Succeeding, How to Win With High Self-Esteem (1999) by MacK R. Douglas, p. 45. Unsourced variant: What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists... and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

 * Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
 * As quoted in Sophia's Fire (2005) by Sango Mbella, p. 133.

 * Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
 * As quoted in The Military Quotation Book by James Charlton, p. 37.

 * The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
 * As appears on plaque in the entrance to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Bell Telephone Talk (1901)

 * Interview with Bell published in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden, Ch. 2.

 * I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

 * Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

 * I am a believer in unconscious cerebration. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. At night it follows up what we think in the daytime. When I have worked a long time on one thing, I make it a point to bring all the facts regarding it together before I retire; I have often been surprised at the results... We are thinking all the time; it is impossible not to think.

 * You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

 * Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

 * Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

 * The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

 * If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.

 * A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.

Disputed

 * This quotation has numerous sourced variants, and as yet no original sourcing. This might be because Bell stated it in slightly different ways on a number of occasions, or because published versions are derived from second hand accounts that have been recalled differently.

 * Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
 * As quoted in "The Chemistry of Life" by Ralph Whiteside Kerr in Rosicrucian Digest (1947), p. 131.

 * Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
 * Quoted in Design of Devices and Systems (1998) by William H. Middendorf, p. 177.

 * Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore around it; one discovery will lead to another, and before you know it you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
 * Advanced Device Modeling and Simulation (2003) by Tibor Grasser, p. 719.

 * Don't keep forever on the public road. Leave the beaten path occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
 * Worth Repeating: More Than 5000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 87.

 * Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to see something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it, something worth thinking about to occupy your mind.
 * A Treasury of Inspirational Thoughts (2004) by S.P. Sharma, p. 41.

 * Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will find something you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore around it, and before you know it, you will have something to think about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.
 * Engraving at Bell Labs as quoted in Comprehending and Decoding the Cosmos: Discovering Solutions to Over a Dozen Cosmic Mysteries by Jerome Drexler (2006). p. viii.

Quotes about Alexander Graham Bell

 * Bell had his own theories about the threat that people with disabilities represented to the future of the species. His mother and wife had both been born deaf, and in 1883 he warned the National Academy of Sciences that unless the use of sign language was vigorously discouraged in schools for the deaf, society ran the risk of engendering "a race of deaf-mutes."
 * Steve Silberman NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (2015) p 112

 * Years later I told Alexander Graham Bell of my introduction to the telephone. "Nobody," he said, "can estimate what the teachers of science in colleges and high schools were doing in those days not only to spread knowledge of the telephone but to stir youth to tackle the possibilities in electricity." What I best remember is not the telephone but Professor Tingley's amazing enthusiasm for the telephone. This revelation of enthusiasm, its power to warm and illuminate was one of the finest and most lasting of my college experiences. The people I had known, teachers, preachers, doctors, business men, all went through their day's work either with a stubborn, often sullen determination to do their whole duty, or with an undercurrent of uneasiness, if they found pleasure in duty. They seemed to me to feel that they were not really working if they were not demonstrating the Puritan teaching that labor is a curse. It had never seemed so to me, but I did not dare gloat over it. And here was a teacher who did gloat over his job in all its ramifications. Moreover, he did his best to stir you to share his joy.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * At that time Mr. Bell was giving his nights to trying to "make iron talk"...He was up and began his day around four to six. Often there were guests for dinner, for everybody of note the world over who came to Washington wanted to meet him. On Wednesdays after dinner there usually gathered a group of scientists and public men to talk things over. Mr. Bell was something to see at these dinners and gatherings, the finest social impresario I ever saw in action, so welcoming, appreciative, eager, receptive. I thought then I had never seen anybody so generous about what others were doing. He loved to draw out great stories of adventure and discovery and would silence all talkers when once such narrating was started.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

 * he was the type of inventor whose interest flags when he has solved his problem. Let somebody else take care of the development. He would be off on a new voyage of discovery.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

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J. C. Watts

Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. (born November 18, 1957) is an American politician, clergyman, and athlete. Watts was a college football quarterback for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 as a Republican, representing Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District.

Quotes

 * Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking...
 * Speech at the Republican National Convention (1996-08-13)

 * America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
 * Delivering the Republican Party response to President Bill Clinton's "State of the Union" Address (1997-02-04)

 * They said that I had sold out and Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have my thoughts. And I think they're race-hustling poverty pimps.
 * On declining to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Hannity & Colmes (1997)
 * I've done a lot of work in terms of outreach but I've done it because it was the right thing to do. Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
 * On his outreach to the black community as a black Republican. National Public Radio (2002)

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Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz (c. July 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel Goldfish, was an American film producer. He was most well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

Quotes

 * I don't think anybody should write his autobiography until after he's dead.
 * Quoted in Arthur Marx, Goldwyn: The Man Behind the Myth (1976), prologue

 * Unnamed director: [The script is] too caustic. Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
 * Quoted by Alva Johnston in The Great Goldwyn (1937)

Misattributed

 * A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
 * A misreporting of an actual quote praising the trustworthiness of a colleague: "His verbal contract is worth more than the paper it's written on". The identity of the colleague is variously reported as Joseph M. Schenk in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42, or as Joseph L. Mankiewicz in Carol Easton, The Search for Sam Goldwyn (1976). Goldwyn himself was reportedly aware of - and pleased by - the misattribution.

 * Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 38-39.

 * I can answer you in two words: im-possible!
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.

 * Gentlemen, include me out. (or just "Include me out.")
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.

 * We have that Indian scene. We can get the Indians from the reservoir.
 * Alternately reported as "We can get all the Indians we need at the reservoir", in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 40.

 * The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself.
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 41-42.

 * I read part of it all the way through.
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42.

 * Anyone who would go to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!
 * Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 42. A similar quote appears in the landmark book by Hollingshead and Redlich, Social Class and Mental Illness (1958), p. 237: The old saw, 'Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined,' is applicable here.

 * If you have a message, call Western Union.
 * The popular attribution to Goldwyn is false according to his biographer in A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography (1998). The earliest known print attribution is to Moss Hart in Van Wert (Ohio) Times Bulletin (26 August 1954) as cited in Fred Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (2006). Also attributed to Humphrey Bogart in Stephen Humphrey Bogart, Bogart: In Search of My Father (1995), and to Ernest Hemingway in James R. Mellow, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (1992).

About

 * " When Sam Goldwyn can with great conviction instruct Anna Sten in diction, then Anna shows, Anything goes!"
 * Cole Porter, Anything Goes.

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Dick Cavett

Richard Alva Cavett (born 19 November 1936) is an American television talk show host known for his conversational style of in-depth discussion on often serious issues.

Quotes

 * I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.
 * "Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett", Playboy (March 1971) vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70

 * It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one.
 * On hosting a talk show, "Playboy Interview: Dick Cavett", Playboy (March 1971) vol. 18, no. 3, p. 72

 * Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine.
 * In response to Norman Mailer's remark: "Why don't you just read the next question on your card there?" — on The Dick Cavett Show (2 December 1971)

 * There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
 * Mocking the TV-violence debate, as quoted in Life, Vol. 18 (1995), p. 8

 * You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
 * Cavett, co-authored with Christopher Porterfield (1974); also quoted in excerpt in New York magazine (22 July 1974)

 * You can piss away valuable hours of your life reading Ayn Rand—her wretched appeal to the young, her wretched writing, her wretched person. She was supposed to be on my show; I was kind of sorry she wasn’t, because I was kind of laying for her. I did not succumb, as a kid, to being enthused by Ayn Rand, and that sense of power, as every kid was at one time until they outgrew it. The old bag sent over a list of fifteen conditions for appearing with me, or for appearing with anyone, I guess. One of them was, “There will be no disagreeing with Ms. Rand’s philosophy.” […] I wrote at the bottom of the list, to be sent back to her, “There will be no Ms. Rand, either.”
 * As quoted in "Cavett on Ayn Rand’s Demands", an interview by Elon Green (6 June 2014)

 * The playwright George S. Kaufman remembered what he called the “greatest ‘line reversal’ of my lifetime.” He liked to drop in on Broadway shows he had directed to, as he put it, “just check on them and take out the ‘improvements.’ ” He was eternally grateful to have caught one performance when he heard an actor commit the gem. It ran: “Her breath would take your beauty away.” He kept the line framed on his desk ever afterward.
 * Oh, No! Live Drama and Unwritten Humor (Nov. 24, 2017)

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Carrie Fisher

Carrie Frances Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016) was an American actress, screenwriter and novelist, known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films. She was the daughter of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds.

Quotes

 * Mostly, you write a script and someone’s gonna rewrite you. They get hundreds of—not hundred but they get ten writers to write something. If you have a big budget, you can go and get a lot of people to write on script .... I just actually heard that somebody said, 'Well, your screenplay got bought and now someone like Carrie Fisher will come in and rewrite you.' And I feel terrible, you know, because that’s not what I mean to do. My idea was never to raid something and trash it, you know. ‘Cause that – that’s more work for me!
 * From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec

 * I have gone to the set and you’re kind of around in this—it’s kind of combat writing when you do rewriting and stuff, and I feel like it’s a kind of ambulance chasing. Recently, I did this kind of a (laughing) where you go, “Oh, my God, it’s bleeding from the second act. Quick! Quick! Give me a suture! No, give me the paddles! This is the third act that’s having a heart attack!! The star is coming! The star is coming!" And it's this incredibly intense process!
 * From the filmmaking documentary Dreams on Spec

 * I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George [Lucas]. I took too many drugs to remember.
 * In a Vanity Fair interview when asked how she got the part in Star Wars

 * I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.
 * on The Late Show with David Letterman

 * Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards.
 * on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"

Postcards from the Edge (1987)

 * I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

 * Instant gratification takes too long.

 * "That's the way it works in movies," said Suzanne. "Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect."

 * I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise. ...

Wishful Drinking (2008)

 * I have to start by telling you that my entire existence can be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

The Princess Diarist (2016)

 * It was one movie [Star Wars]. It wasn't supposed to do what it did—nothing was supposed to do that. Nothing ever had. Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story, carrying you rollicking along to the end, then releasing you back into your unchanged life. But this movie misbehaved. It leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen, affected a lot of people so deeply that they required endless talismans and artifacts to stay connected to it.

Quotes about Fisher

 * Ms. Fisher established Princess Leia as a damsel who could very much deal with her own distress, whether facing down the villainy of the dreaded Darth Vader or the romantic interests of the roguish smuggler Han Solo. ... Winning the admiration of countless fans, Ms. Fisher never played Leia as helpless. She had the toughness to escape the clutches of the monstrous gangster Jabba the Hutt and the tenderness to tell Han Solo, as he is about to be frozen in carbonite, “I love you.”
 * Dave Itzkoff, in "Carrie Fisher, Child of Hollywood and ‘Star Wars’ Royalty, Dies at 60", The New York Times (December 27, 2016)

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