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Diogenes Small

Diogenes Small is a fictional author often "quoted" in the Inspector Morse novels by Colin Dexter.

Quotations

 * Thursday is a bad day. Wednesday is quite a good day. Friday is an even better one. But Thursday, whatever the reason, is a day on which my spirit and my resolution, are at their lowest ebb. Yet even worse is any day of the week upon which, after a period of blessed idleness, I come face to face with the prospect of a premature return to my labours.
 * Autobiography, cited in

 * For coping with even one quarter of that running course known as 'Marathon'—for coping without frequent halts for refreshment or periodic bouts of vomiting—a man has to dedicate one half of his youthful years to quite intolerable training and endurance. Such dedication is not for me.
 * The Joys of Occasional Idleness, cited in

 * Be it ever so humble there's no place like home for sending one slowly crackers.
 * Obiter Dicta, cited in

 * Almost all modern architecture is farce.
 * Reflections, cited in

 * Yet always it is those fictional addenda which will effect the true alchemy.
 * Reflections on Inspiration and Creativity, cited in "The Inside Story" (short story from the collection Morse's Greatest Mystery)

 * Pension: generally understood to mean monies grudgingly bestowed on aging hirelings after a lifetime of occasional devotion to duty
 * Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 12th Edition, cited in

 * Thanatophobia (n): a morbid dread of death, or (sometimes) of the sight of death: a poignant sense of human mortality, almost universal except amongst those living on Olympus.
 * Small's English Dictionary, cited in

 * Examination: trial; test of knowledge and, as also may be hoped, capacity; close inspection (especially med.)
 * Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 1812 Edition, cited in

 * Prosnōpagnoia (n.): the failure of any person to recognize the face of any other person, howsoever recently the aforementioned persons may have mingled in each other's company.
 * Small's Enlarged Dictionary, 13th Edition (1806), cited in

 * Hypoglycaemia (n): abnormal reduction of sugar content of the blood — for Diabetes sufferers a condition more difficult to spell than to spot
 * Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 17th Edition, cited in

 * Character (n.) handwriting, style of writing: Shakes. Meas. for M. Here is the hand and seal of the Duke. You know the character, I doubt not
 * Small's Enlarged English Dictionary, 18th Edition, cited in

 * Alibi (adv.): in another place, elsewhere
 * Small's Latin-English Dictionary, cited in

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Shaft's Big Score

Shaft's Big Score (1972) is the second film in the trilogy in which actor Richard Roundtree starred as the private-eye, John Shaft.

John Shaft

 * Once this baby starts kicking, it ain't gonna stop. So nobody get cute! [While carrying an automatic, high-powered shotgun to hold the villains at bay]

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Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa, released in 1973, is the third film in the trilogy of films that starred actor Richard Roundtree as John Shaft.
 * Directed by John Guillermin, written by Stirling Silliphant

THE Brother Man in the Motherland. (taglines)

Dialogue

 * [Early in the film, as Shaft is given his assignment]
 * Shaft: Now wait a minute. I'm not James Bond, simply Sam Spade.

 * [Later in the film, as Shaft shares a moment with the femme fatale, Jazar (Neda Arneric)]
 * Jazar: How long is your phallus, Mr. Shaft?
 * Shaft: My what?
 * Jazar: Your cock?
 * Shaft: Baby, by now it's shrunk down to 20 inches.

Taglines

 * THE Brother Man in the Motherland.
 * Shaft is stickin' it...all the way.

Cast

 * Richard Roundtree - John Shaft
 * Frank Finlay - Amafi
 * Vonetta McGee - Aleme
 * Neda Arneric - Jazar
 * Debebe Eshetu - Wassa

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Shaft (1971 film)

Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster. It stars Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, and Lawrence Pressman. The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black from the novel by Tidyman. It was directed by Gordon Parks.

Dialogue

 * Ellie: You got problems, baby?
 * Shaft: Yeah, I got a couple of 'em. I was born black and I was born poor.

 * Lt. Androzzi: Where you going?
 * Shaft: To get laid — where the hell you going?

 * Mafia contact: I'm looking for a nigger named John Shaft.
 * Shaft: Just found him, wop.

Theme song

 * Isaac Hayes: Who's the black private dick / That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
 * Chorus: Shaft!
 * Isaac Hayes: You damn right. / Who is the man / That would risk his neck for his brother man?
 * Chorus: Shaft!
 * Isaac Hayes: Can ya dig it? / Who's the cat that won't cop out / When there's danger all about?
 * Chorus: Shaft!
 * Isaac Hayes: Right on! / You see, this cat Shaft is a bad mother—
 * Chorus: Shut your mouth!
 * Isaac Hayes: But I'm talkin' 'bout Shaft!
 * Chorus: Then we can dig it!
 * Isaac Hayes: He's a complicated man, / But no one understands him but his woman.
 * Chorus: John Shaft!

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Tench Coxe

 Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788-1789, and a key anti-Federalist, writing under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian".

Quotes

 * The power of the sword, say the minority..., is in the hands of Congress. My friends and countrymen, it is not so, for the powers of the sword are in the hands of the yeomanry of America from sixteen to sixty. The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be tremendous and irresistible.  Who are the militia?  Are they not ourselves?  Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom.  Congress has no power to disarm the militia.  Their swords and every terrible implement of the soldier are the birthright of Americans.
 * Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

 * The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments but where, I trust in God, it will always remain, in the hands of the people.
 * Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.

 * Whereas civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.
 * "Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution," under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, p. 2 col. 1. As quoted in the Federal Gazette, June 18, 1789, A friend of James Madison, writing in support of the Madison's first draft of the Bill of Rights.

 * The militia, who are in fact the effective part of the people at large, will render many troops quite unnecessary. They will form a powerful check upon the regular troops, and will generally be sufficient to over-awe them.
 * On October 21, 1787.

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Stuart Merrill

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill (August 1, 1863 in Hempstead, New York – December 1, 1915 in Versailles, France) was an American poet who wrote in French.

Quotes

 * Fume l'encens, veille l'amour, Dans son lit bleu la vierge est morte; Couve le feu, tombe le jour, L'Ange, mes soeurs, frappe à la porte.
 * Translation: Incense smokes, and love takes care, In her blue bed the virgin died; The fire broods, the day falls, The Angel, sisters, knocks on the door.
 * "La Mystérieuse Chanson"

 * Sonore immensité des mers de l’Harmonie, Où les rêves, vaisseaux pris d’un vaste frisson, Voguent vers l’inconnu, leur voilure infinie Claquant aven angoisse aux bourrasques du Son!
 * Translation: Sonorous immensity of the seas of Harmony Where dreams like ships that shake in the profound, Voyage to the unknown, their sails bent to infinity, Billowing with anguish in the gusts of Sound.
 * "Pendant qu’elle chantait", from Les gammes, translated by Catherine Perry and Henry Weinfield in The White Tomb: Selected Writing, Talisman House, 1999.

 * I believe Beauty is the condition of the perfect life, just as important as Virtue and Truth.
 * "Credo"

About

 * In the whole period, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Edwin Arlington Robinson and Robert Frost, the greatest American poet is Stuart Merrill.
 * Kenneth Rexroth, as quoted in Ramez Qureshi on Stuart Merrill's The White Tomb: Selected Writing

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User talk:86.129.142.19

It is good to see the interest in expanding the Epicurus page that you are showing, but there are some guidelines that should be kept in mind. In the case of translated work it is good to have variant translations, with sources noted if possible, but much of the additions that you have made appear to be commentary, and while this is allowed it is generally best to keep it to a minimum that provides some context. More extensive discussions about meaning and interpretation should be restricted to the talk pages, or if one is quoting others a section for "Quotes of others about Epicurus" could be made. ~ Achilles 12:14, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom (born 29 December 1937) was President of the Republic of Maldives from 1978 to 2008.

BBC World interview (2003)

 * Interview with Adam Mynott, as quoted in "Freedom of expression guaranteed by constitution in Maldives, Gayyoom tells BBC" in Maldives Culture (18 October 2003)

 * My main objective has been to raise the standard of living of the people, to achieve social and economic progress.

 * I think our human rights record is very good. ... there is no systematic human rights abuses in the Maldives, there are no arbitrary arrests and people are tried in open court and they have access to lawyers.

 * These people where inciting people to violence. That is not allowed in any country, in any democracy. You don't allow that in the United Kingdom, you don't allow that in the United States, or anywhere in the world.

 * Freedom of expression is guaranteed by our constitution.

 * When asked about why the opposition members were arrested, Gayyoom replied "Violence, Violence, Violence"

2007

 * Yes, because that conceals their character. You don't know who you are talking to. Who you are dealing with. So, the face should be seen. That is even in Islam, even during the time of the holy Prophet Mohammed, women used to have bare faces. I mean women did not cover their faces. "
 * When asked by al jazeera journalist, Juliana Ruhfus (in an interview on 8 August 2007) that there is a law (in Maldives) that women are not allowed to wear a dress that only shows the eyes.

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Talk:Macbeth

The WikiSource-link sends one to the article "Macbeth", which again says, that it was moved to the french page. The link though should send you to "The Tragedy of Macbeth". How can the interwiki be corrected? Or should the WikiSource-"Macbeth" page become a redirect to "The Tragedy of Macbeth"? Genesis2093 12:51, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:The Cosby Show

"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Don't be that weak link." -Quote passed down from Cliff to Theo to Vanessa to Rudy

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English Victorian writer.

Quotes

 * Profoundly grateful, and as if I had swallowed a small baby. … Why, they are perfect beasts of oysters!
 * Thackeray's reply when asked how he felt upon eating an unusually large American oyster during his first visit to the United States (1852–3); reported in James Grant Wilson, Thackeray in the United States: 1852–3, 1855–6 (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1904), pp. 81–82.

 * She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.
 * The Rose and the Ring (1855), Ch. 2.

 * Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.
 * Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.

 * I should like to see before I die, and think of it daily more and more, the commencement of Jesus Christ's christianism in the world, where I am sure people may be made a hundred times happier than by its present forms, Judaism, ascenticism, Bullarism.
 * Thackeray, William Makepeace. Nov. 1840, A Collection of Letters (1887). Ardent Media. p. 36.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)

 * A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
 * Ch. 5

 * The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
 * Ch. 10.

 * Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
 * Ch. 13.

Sketches and Travels in London (1847–1850)

 * Sketches and Travels in London (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904). Papers contibuted to Punch from 1847 to 1850.

 * Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
 * "Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew: On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General", p. 12.

 * I set it down as a maxim that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
 * "Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: On Friendship", p. 38.

 * Let us be very gentle with our neighbours' failings; and forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
 * "Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: On Friendship", p. 42.

 * When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as I have no doubt she is to herself.
 * "Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: On Love, Marriage, Men and Women", p. 96.

 * Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.
 * "Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: On Love, Marriage, Men and Women", p. 109.

 * Time passes—Time the consoler—Time the anodyne—Time the grey calm satirist, whose sad smile seems to say, Look, O man, at the vanity of the objects you pursue, and of yourself who pursue them!
 * "On the Pleasures of Being a Fogy", p. 143.

Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

 * Full text online
 * Numerous editions. Page numbers here are from the trade paperback edition, published in the series of Barnes and Noble Classics, ISBN 1-59308-071-9, 4th printing
 * Italics as in the book. Bold face added for emphasis.

 * “How can you—how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts?” “Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered Miss Rebecca. “I’m no angel.” And, to say the truth, she certainly was not.
 * Chapter 2, “In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign” (p. 12)

 * The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
 * Chapter 2, “In Which Miss Sharp and Miss Sedley Prepare to Open the Campaign” (p. 12)

 * And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
 * Chapter 4, “The Green Silk Purse” (p. 27). Compare: "I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table; "The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women", Bernard Shaw, Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman

 * If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt Crawley might have become very wealthy.
 * Chapter 9, “Family Portraits” (pp. 82-83)

 * Vanity Fair—Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read—who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but what was sordid and foul; and yet he had rank, and honours, and power, somehow: and was a dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue.
 * Chapter 9, “Family Portraits” (p. 84)

 * “And for what follows after death,” would Mr. Crawley observe, throwing his gooseberry-coloured eyes up to the ceiling. He was always thinking of his brother’s soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.
 * Chapter 10, “Miss Sharp Begins to Make Friends” (p. 91)

 * What is there in a pair of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth? these dear moralists ask, and hint wisely that the gifts of genius, the accomplishments of the mind, the mastery of Mangnall’s Questions, and a ladylike knowledge of botany and geology, the knack of making poetry, the power of rattling sonatas in the Herz-manner, and so forth, are far more valuable endowments for a female, than those fugitive charms which a few years will inevitably tarnish. It is quite edifying to hear women speculate upon the worthlessness and the duration of beauty.
 * Chapter 12, “Quite a Sentimental Chapter” (p. 107)

 * I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.
 * Chapter 12, “Quite a Sentimental Chapter” (p. 108)

 * But oh, mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!
 * Chapter 12, “Quite a Sentimental Chapter” (p. 114)

 * Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.
 * Chapter 13, “Sentimental and Otherwise” (p. 120)

 * Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
 * Chapter 13, “Sentimental and Otherwise” (p. 125)

 * When men of a certain sort, ladies, are in love, though they see the hook and the string, and the whole apparatus with which they are to be taken, they gorge the bait nevertheless—they must come to it—they must swallow it—and are presently struck and landed gasping.
 * Chapter 14, “Miss Crawley at Home” (p. 133)

 * Like many wealthy people, it was Miss Crawley’s habit to accept as much service as she could get from her inferiors; and good-naturedly to take leave of them when she no longer found them useful. Gratitude among certain rich folks is scarcely natural or to be thought of. They take needy people’s services as their due. Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain! Your friendship for Dives is about as sincere as the return which it usually gets. It is money you love, and not the man; and were Croesus and his footman to change places, you know, you poor rogue, who would have the benefit of your allegiance.
 * Chapter 14, “Miss Crawley at Home” (p. 135)

 * If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
 * Chapter 16, “The Letter on the Pincushion” (p. 153)

 * The best of women (I have heard my grandmother say) are hypocrites. We don’t know how much they hide from us: how watchful they are when they seem most artless and confidential: how often those frank smiles which they wear so easily, are traps to cajole or elude or disarm—I don’t mean in your mere coquettes, but your domestic models, and paragons of female virtue. Who has not seen a woman hide the dullness of a stupid husband, or coax the fury of a savage one? We accept this amiable slavishness, and praise a woman for it: we call this pretty treachery truth.
 * Chapter 17, “How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano” (p. 167)

 * It was over these few worthless papers that she brooded and brooded. She lived in her past life—every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how—these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world. And the business of her life, was—to watch the corpse of Love.
 * Chapter 18, “Who Played on the Piano Captain Dobbin Bought?” (p. 174)

 * She had been a gracious friend to Miss Briggs, the companion, also; and had secured the latter’s good-will by a number of those attentions and promises, which cost so little in the making, and are yet so valuable and agreeable to the recipient. Indeed every good economist and manager of a household must know how cheap and yet how amiable these professions are, and what a flavour they give to the most homely dish in life. Who was the blundering idiot who said that “fine words butter no parsnips”? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. As the immortal Alexis Soyer can make more delicious soup for a half-penny than an ignorant cook can concoct with pounds of vegetables and meat, so a skilful artist will make a few simple and pleasing phrases go farther than ever so much substantial benefit-stock in the hands of a mere bungler. Nay, we know that substantial benefits often sicken some stomachs; whereas, most will digest any amount of fine words, and be always eager for more of the same food.
 * Chapter 19, “Miss Crawley at Nurse” (p. 179)

 * Yes, if a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business.
 * Chapter 19, “Miss Crawley at Nurse” (p. 183)

 * Managing women, the ornaments of their sex—women who order everything for everybody, and know so much better than any person concerned what is good for their neighbours, don’t sometimes speculate upon the possibility of a domestic revolt, or upon other extreme consequences resulting from their overstrained authority.
 * Chapter 19, “Miss Crawley at Nurse” (pp. 184-185)

 * Pity the fallen gentleman: you to whom money and fair repute are the chiefest good; and so, surely, are they in Vanity Fair.
 * Chapter 20, “In Which Captain Dobbin Acts as the Messenger of Hymen” (p. 193)

 * Them’s my sentiments.
 * Chapter 21, “A Quarrel about an Heiress” (p. 198)

 * Rawdon, with roars of laughter, related a dozen amusing anecdotes of his duns, and Rebecca’s adroit treatment of them. He vowed with a great oath that there was no woman in Europe who could talk a creditor over as she could. Almost immediately after their marriage, her practice had begun, and her husband found the immense value of such a wife. They had credit in plenty, but they had bills also in abundance, and laboured under a scarcity of ready money. Did these debt-difficulties affect Rawdon’s good spirits? No. Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt: how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. Rawdon and his wife had the very best apartments at the inn at Brighton; the landlord, as he brought in the first dish, bowed before them as to his greatest customers: and Rawdon abused the dinners and wine with an audacity which no grandee in the land could surpass. Long custom, a manly appearance, faultless boots and clothes, and a happy fierceness of manner, will often help a man as much as a great balance at the banker’s.
 * Chapter 22, “A Marriage and Part of a Honeymoon” (p. 212)

 * “Well, my dear Blanche,” said the mother, “I suppose, as Papa wants to go, we must go; but we needn’t know them in England, you know.” And so, determined to cut their new acquaintance in Bond Street, these great folks went to eat his dinner at Brussels, and condescending to make him pay for their pleasure, showed their dignity by making his wife uncomfortable, and carefully excluding her from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British female reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and humbler women, is a very good sport for a philosophical frequenter of Vanity Fair.
 * Chapter 28, “In Which Amelia Invades the Low Countries” (p. 269)

 * Dreadful doubt and anguish—prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable—followed the regiment. It was the women’s tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women.
 * Chapter 31, “In Which Jos Sedley Takes Care of His Sister” (p. 301)

 * It seemed a humiliation to old Osborne to think that his son, an English gentleman, a captain in the famous British army, should not be found worthy to lie in ground where mere foreigners were buried. Which of us is there can tell how much vanity lurks in our warmest regard for others, and how selfish our love is? Old Osborne did not speculate much upon the mingled nature of his feelings, and how his instinct and selfishness were combating together. He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of a wasp or serpent his hatred rushed out armed and poisonous against anything like opposition. He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
 * Chapter 35, “Widow and Mother” (pp. 346-347)

 * Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!
 * Chapter 37, “The Subject Continued” (p. 372)

 * I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
 * Chapter 41, “In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors” (p. 414)

 * It is very likely that this lady, in her high station, had to submit to many a private indignity and to hide many secret griefs under a calm face. And let us, my brethren who have not our names in the Red Book, console ourselves by thinking comfortably how miserable our betters may be, and that Damocles, who sits on satin cushions and is served on gold plate, has an awful sword hanging over his head in the shape of a bailiff, or an hereditary disease, or a family secret, which peeps out every now and then from the embroidered arras in a ghastly manner, and will be sure to drop one day or the other in the right place.
 * Chapter 47, “Gaunt House” (p. 459)

 * If you were heir to a dukedom and a thousand pounds a day, do you mean to say you would not wish for possession? Pooh! And it stands to reason that every great man, having experienced this feeling towards his father, must be aware that his son entertains it towards himself; and so they can’t but be suspicious and hostile.
 * Chapter 47, “Gaunt House” (p. 459)

 * Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, “To-morrow, success or failure won’t matter much, and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.”
 * Chapter 61, “In Which Two Lights are Put Out” (pp. 597-598)

 * I like to dwell upon this period of her life and to think that she was cheerful and happy. You see, she has not had too much of that sort of existence as yet, and has not fallen in the way of means to educate her tastes or her intelligence. She has been domineered over hitherto by vulgar intellects. It is the lot of many a woman. And as every one of the dear sex is the rival of the rest of her kind, timidity passes for folly in their charitable judgments; and gentleness for dullness; and silence—which is but timid denial of the unwelcome assertion of ruling folks, and tacit protestantism—above all, finds no mercy at the hands of the female Inquisition.
 * Chapter 62, “Am Rhein” (p. 613)

 * When a traveller talks to you perpetually about the splendour of his luggage, which he does not happen to have with him, my son, beware of that traveller! He is, ten to one, an impostor.
 * Chapter 67, “Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths” (p. 667)

 * Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?—come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
 * Chapter 67, “Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths” (p. 680; closing words)

The Book of Snobs (1848)

 * Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
 * Ch. 1: "The Snob Playfully Dealt With".

 * He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
 * Ch. 2: "The Snob Royal"

 * It is impossible, in our condition of society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
 * Ch. 3: "The Influence of the Aristocracy on Snobs".

 * If you will fling yourself under the wheels, will go over you, depend upon it.
 * Ch. 3: "The Influence of the Aristocracy on Snobs".

 * That which we call a Snob, by any other name would still be Snobbish.
 * Ch. 18: "Party-Giving Snobs".

The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1848)

 * Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life of the time; of the manners, the movement, the dress, the pleasures, the laughter, the ridicules of society—the old times live again, and I travel in the old country of England. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
 * Lecture 3: "Steele".

 * Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
 * Lecture 4: "Prior, Gay, and Pope".

 * I suppose as long as novels last and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero, a wicked monster his opposite, and a pretty girl who finds a champion; bravery and virtue conquer beauty: and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him and honest folks come by their own.
 * Lecture 5: "Hogarth, Smollett, and Fielding".

 * One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. One suspects the genuineness of the tear, the naturalness of the humour.
 * Lecture 7: "Charity and Humour".

 * There is no man that teaches us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
 * Lecture 7: "Charity and Humour".

 * Humour is the mistress of tears; she knows the way to the fons lachrymarum, strikes in dry and rugged places with her enchanting wand, and bids the fountain gush and sparkle. She has refreshed myriads more from her natural springs, than ever tragedy has watered from her pompous old urn.
 * Lecture 7: "Charity and Humour".

The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)

 * Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little
 * Ch. 4.

 * It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.
 * Ch. 6.

 * Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.
 * Ch. 23.

 * Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
 * Ch. 28.

 * Of the Corporation of the Goosequill — of the Press, my boy, … of the fourth estate … There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world — her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous.
 * Ch. 30.

 * Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover, And near the sacred gate, With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her.
 * "At the Church Gate", in Ch. 32.

 * As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.
 * Ch. 40.

 * If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
 * Ch. 42.

 * How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!
 * Ch. 70.

 * We see flowers of good blooming in foul places.
 * Ch. 76.

The History of Henry Esmond (1852)

 * Full text online (1852)

 * 'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry — every man of every nation has done that — 'tis the living up to it that is difficult, as I know to my cost.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 6.

 * 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
 * Bk. I, Ch. 7.

 * There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 1.

 * If there is a verity in wine, according to the old adage, what an amiable-natured character Dick's must have been! In proportion as he took in wine he overflowed with kindness.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 11.

 * I think Steele shone rather than sparkled.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 11.

 * Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 11.

 * We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
 * Bk. II, Ch. 15.

 * Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.
 * Bk. III, Ch. 13.

The Newcomes (1854–1855)

 * What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
 * Ch. 1.

 * The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
 * Ch. 9.

 * What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
 * Ch. 16.

 * The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?
 * Ch. 20.

 * To be beautiful is enough. If a woman can do that well, who shall demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
 * Ch. 25.

 * Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion; and, I believe, what are called broken hearts are very rare articles indeed.
 * Ch. 32.

 * If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of spirit burns brightly; and if we die deplores us forever and loves still equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the faithful bosom—whence it passes with the pure soul beyond death; surely it shall be immortal!
 * Ch. 46.

 * Bad husbands will make bad wives.
 * Ch. 55.

 * People hate, as they love, unreasonably.
 * Ch. 56.

Ballads (1855)

 * Full text online

 * This a noble dish is— A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo.
 * "The Ballad of Bouillabaisse", st. 2.

 * Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we: Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.
 * "The Mahogany Tree", st. 1.

 * Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the barber’s shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin,— Wait till you come to Forty Year.
 * "The Age of Wisdom", st. 1.

 * Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
 * "Sorrows of Werther", st. 1.

 * Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
 * "Sorrows of Werther", st. 4.

 * Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang: “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long!”
 * "A Credo", st. 1.

 * The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter’s bell: A moment yet the actor stops, And looks around, to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task; And, when he’s laughed and said his say, He shows, as he removes the mask, A face that’s anything but gay.
 * "The End of the Play", st. 1.

The Virginians (1857-1859)

 * The Virginians (1857-1859)

 * The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion.
 * Ch. 4.

 * Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
 * Ch. 4.

 * Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
 * Ch. 16.

 * When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
 * Ch. 20.

 * Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
 * Ch. 21.

 * I would rather make my name than inherit it.
 * Ch. 26.

 * He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
 * Ch. 38.

 * I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
 * Ch. 56.

 * Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
 * Ch. 57.

 * Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
 * Ch. 61.

 * If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
 * Ch. 66.

 * 'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have even a life-enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease.
 * Ch. 73.

 * To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?
 * Ch. 92.

Lovel the Widower (1860)

 * Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries!—what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
 * Ch. 1.

 * Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
 * Ch. 6.

 * We are most of us very lonely in the world. You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.
 * Ch. 6.

Four Georges (1860-1861)

 * Bravery never goes out of fashion.
 * "George II".

 * It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
 * "George III".

 * George, be a King!
 * "George III".
 * Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III

Roundabout Papers (1863)

 * Roundabout Papers: Reprinted from "" (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863)

 * Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them—almost all women;—a vast number of clever, hard-headed men.
 * "On a Lazy Idle Boy", p. 7.

 * Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
 * "On Ribbons", p. 30.

 * The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair […,] it stings me now as I write.
 * "Thorns in the Cushion", p. 72

 * We who have lived before railways were made, belong to another world. […] It was only yesterday; but what a gulph between now and then? Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armour, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, ancient Britons, painted blue, and so forth—all these belong to the old period. […] But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. […] We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.
 * "De Juventute", pp. 110, 112.

 * Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbour is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper, excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.
 * "On a Hundred Years Hence", p. 211.

 * At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain, we had a  than which a better was never eaten at : and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word: on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.
 * "A Mississippi Bubble", p. 269.

 * So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.
 * "On Letts's Diary", p. 291.

 * Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room: and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will no more be seen.
 * "On Letts's Diary", p. 292.

Misattributed

 * The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
 * In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781)

Quotes about Thackeray

 * Thackeray is everybody's past — is everybody's youth. Forgotten friends flit about the passages of dreamy colleges and unremembered clubs; we hear fragments of unfinished conversations, we see faces without names for an instant, fixed forever in some trivial grimace: we smell the strong smell of social cliques now quite incongruous to us; and there stir in all the little rooms at once the hundred ghosts of oneself.
 * G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) [University of Notre Dame Press, 1963], Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 64).

 * (“Chip Delany says that science fiction is as much a way of "reading" as it is a way of writing, and learn that. What is it that we have to learn?”) That's true for realism, too. You have to learn how to read Jane Austen. We have to learn how to read realistic fiction. A lot of people never do. Some of them, our fantasy readers, don't know how to read Thackeray, or any novels. They don't know what to expect, they don't know what the rewards are supposed to be.
 * 1994 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin

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Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Ian MacKaye: It was just the title of a song that I wrote. I guess I coined the phrase but certainly never intended to start a movement.

Uno Mas: You may not take responsibility for the "Straight Edge" movement, but you are credited with it. How do you feel about that?

Ian MacKaye: I'm credited because I coined a phrase and wrote a song about it. I'm not going to spend any more energy than I already have explaining that. From the very beginning I've tried to say that this is not my opinion. That whole thing just makes me realize I don't have any control over what people think of me. And I don't really give a fuck.

 * "When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance."

 * "I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to."

 * "An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by."

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Alison Lohman

Alison Lohman (born 18 September 1979) is an American actress who was born in Palm Springs, California. Although her family has no show business connections, she has been acting since age 9.

Interview with Rebecca Murray

 * I wanted to look young in this role, it was a needed thing. She’s 14. This role I really needed to feel 14, I had to be 14 in every way possible, so I hung out with my 14 year-old cousin for a month. She had a retainer and pigtails and all that. There’s something in their eyes, between age 10 and 15 I think, it’s just that sort of ‘anything is possible’ look. For me, the most beautiful thing you could ever see is like a child’s eyes. I wanted to really make sure that I captured her spirit, that youthful spirit. For me it’s all about dreaming. What does she look like when she walks? What’s the look in her eye? It’s not about, ‘Oh, on this move, I’m going to put my arm like that.’ It’s just the whole spirit, so that any way that I would move would be right.
 * On her role in Matchstick Men.

 * Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It’s not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it’s something in his spirit. It’s almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it’s really simple. It was so easy to work with him."
 * Of Ridley Scott.

 * I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.
 * Of Nicholas Cage.

Interview in USA Today, 7 Oct 2002
with Claudia Puig
 * I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.
 * On her role in Kraa! the Sea Monster.

 * One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle [Pfeiffer] told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.

 * She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't.
 * On her role in White Oleander.

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Mallrats

Mallrats is a 1995 film about two best friends who are both dumped by their girlfriends and seek refuge in the local mall.
 * Written and directed by Kevin Smith.

They're not there to shop. They're not there to work. They're just there. Taglines

Brodie Bruce

 * One time my cousin Walter got this cat stuck in his ass. True story. He bought it at our local mall, so the whole fiasco wound up on the news. It was embarrassing for my relatives and all. But the next week, he did it again. Different cat, same results, complete with another trip to the emergency room. So I run into him a week later at the mall and he was buying another cat! And I said to him, "Jesus, Walt, what are you doing? You know you're just gonna get this cat stuck in your ass, too. Why don't you knock it off?" And he said to me, "Brodie, how the hell else am I supposed to get the gerbil out?" My cousin was a weird guy.
 * You're gonna listen to me? To something I said? Jesus, man, haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? I mean, half the time I'm just talkin’ out of my ass, or stickin’ my hand in it.
 * [about the break-up letter from Rene] Yeah, and she also said I had no dick. Which precedes the financial question, proving once more what women really look for.

Jay

 * [To Willam, still staring at the 3D art] I'll tell you what you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit. Look at me, look at me, you sloppy bitch!
 * [after hitting LaFours over the head with a baseball bat] Come, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod! Snootchie-bootchies. Ha-ha-ha-ha!
 * [Explaining the details of Operation Drive By to Silent Bob] Phase One: First, you take a run at La Fours with a sock full of quarters. I'd do it, but I pulled my back out humping your mom last night. Nooch. Okay, you clock him on his headpiece and knock his ass out cold. That's when Phase Two kicks in. I attack the structure Wolvie Berserk style, and knock out the fucking pin and - bickety bam! - the motherfucker is rubble. Hence, no game show.
 * [Explaining the details of Operation Dark Knight to Silent Bob] Okay, Lunch Box, let's try this again. We tie you to the roof and you jump off and sail like a Spitfire passing right over the arch nemesis La Fours. You then swing up to the stage and knock out the pin. And when that's gone, the stage is trashed and we go smoke a bowl. You got it? Now get your fat ass up there! And dude, don't forget your helmet. Snoogans.
 * [referencing Silent Bob] Human brown-eye here is a walking calamity. We're gonna have to take a pass on the stage-trashing business, otherwise he's liable to kill himself. Sorry, bro.

Dialogue

 * Brodie: You have my Punisher War Journal #6, my copy of "Fletch" and the remote control to my TV. Now, I know it's going to be hard to give this stuff up because of it's sentimental attachment--
 * Rene: Sentimental attachment? Look, if I have any of that crap it's because you brought it over to my house and left it there.
 * Brodie: Okay, then let's talk about coming up with a schedule for visitation rights.
 * Rene: For what?
 * Brodie: For the mall. I figure you can take the odd days, I'll take the even days and weekends. When there's any special feature like a sidewalk sale--
 * Rene: Brodie, Brodie--
 * Brodie: --or a boat show--
 * Rene: Brodie! I've always taken you with a grain of salt. On your birthday, when you asked me to do a striptease to the theme of "Mighty Mouse", I said "Okay". When we were at that hotel prom night and you asked me to sleep under the bed in case your mother burst in, I did it. And even when we were at my grandmother's funeral when you told most of my relatives that you could see her nipples through her burial dress, I let it slide. [Grabs Brodie by the ear] But if you think I'm gonna suffer any more of your shit with a smile now that we're broken up, you're in for some serious fucking disappointment.

 * Brodie: I took you shopping all the time!
 * Rene: You took me where you went shopping, you jerk! You think I care what store in that shit pit dirt mall has the latest Godzilla bootlegs? Do you call eating pizza in the same dive pizzeria every night eating out? Do I give a shit what two comic labels are crossing over characters, selling two editions of the book in varied-ink chromium covers?! I'm a girl, damn it! I wanna do girly things!

 * [in elevator]
 * Brodie: What the hell gives at the cover boy?
 * Rene: None of your damn business, [slaps Brodie with shopping bag] but he'd probably kick your ass if he knew what you just pulled.
 * Brodie: Are you insane?! The guy looks like a date rapist! Is that my jacket?
 * Rene: Brodie, start the elevator.
 * Brodie: No! Not until you tell me what the deal is with you and the Sperminator out there! How long has this been going on!?
 * Rene: Since I finally mustered the good sense to send you packing! He's a much more suitable companion any day.
 * Brodie: Are you nuts?! The guy's pure testosterone! He's a walking hard-on just looking for a hole!
 * Rene: I'm in need of testosterone after babysitting you and your comic book collection! I forgot what real men were like!

 * Brodie: Here you are now, a legend in the field, probably had a slew of woman since her. Am I right?
 * Stan Lee: Oh, lots of women. Jagged and me, we had a running contest to see who had the most. As a matter of fact, last time I looked I was way ahead.
 * Brodie: Damn, that's hot!

 * Shannon: What? You wanna say something?
 * Brodie: Yeah. About a million things, but I can't express myself mono-syllabically enough for you to understand them all.

 * Brodie: Hey, look at that ring. What is that?
 * Jared Svenning: That is, um, my Junior College class ring. Cum Laude, '69.
 * Brodie: I also hope to cum loud one day, preferably in a 69.

 * Brodie: Look, if I have any kind of glow it's because I just got laid. I would look the same had I banged anyone in that elevator... present company excluded.
 * T.S.: Deny it all you want. I think that you're too proud to admit that you want her back.
 * Brodie: I suddenly want something very bad to happen to you.
 * T.S.: What is your problem? I don't understand.
 * [Gwen suddenly approaches T.S. from behind and accidentally elbows her in her chest and she falls to the ground in pain]
 * T.S.: Gwen! I'm sorry, I didn't even know it was you.--
 * Gwen: You fucker!
 * [In retaliation, Gwen hits T.S. in the groin with her shopping bag and he goes down]
 * Brodie: See, that's what you get for fucking with me. [Gwen gets up and Brodie kicks T.S. while he's still down] Sorry, Gwen. He didn't mean to hit you.
 * Gwen: He's got a funny way of showin’ it by elbowing me in my freakin’ tit. [she also kicks T.S.] Why the hell are you glowing?
 * Brodie: I'm not glowing. All right!

 * [Silent Bob is trying to levitate a cigarette]
 * T.S.: What's he doing?
 * Jay: Shit Head here watched Empire and Jedi last week and ever since then, he's been trying to do the Jedi mind trick. The crazy fuck thinks he can levitate shit with his thoughts.
 * [slaps the cigarette out of Silent Bob's hand]
 * Jay: Knock it off.
 * Brodie: The Force is strong with this one.
 * Jay: Dude, don't encourage him.
 * Brodie: So, I was just telling T.S. here that we needed to find Jay and Silent Bob. If there's anybody who can help us, it's the two guys who have even less to do than us.
 * Jay: What is this shit? Everybody's looking for us today. We're ducking Tricia 'cause she wants to talk to Obi-Wan here about her video setup.
 * Brodie: Why him?
 * Jay: Silent Bob's an electrical genius. He won the science fair in the eighth grade by turning his mom's vibrator into a CD player using some chicken wire and shit. Motherfucker's like McGyver--no, motherfucker's better than McGyver! [he knocks the cigarette from Silent Bob's hand again] Knock it off!

 * T.S.: But they're engaged.
 * Brodie: Doesn't matter, it can't happen.
 * T.S.: Why not? It's bound to come up.
 * Brodie: It's impossible. Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I guarantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry his child?
 * T.S.: Sure, why not?
 * Brodie: He's an alien, for Christ's sake. His Kryptonian biological makeup is enhanced by Earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. But that would kill him.
 * T.S.: How is it that I go from the verge of hot Floridian sex with Brandi to Man of Steel coital debates with you in the food court?
 * Brodie: Cookie stand isn't part of the food court.
 * T.S.: Of course it is.
 * Brodie: The food court is downstairs. The cookie stand is upstairs. It not like we're talking quantum physics here.
 * T.S.: The cookie stands counts as an eatery, the eatery's a part of the food court.
 * Brodie: Bullshit. Eateries that operate within the designated square downstairs count as food court. Anything outside of said designated square counts as an autonomous unit for mid-mall snacking. Now, if you're going to wax intellectual about the subject-- [notices Rene at the clothing store] Holy shit!

 * Brodie: [regarding Svenning] After all he's done to you, you should still kinda stick it to him.
 * T.S.: How do you propose I do that?
 * Brodie: You stinkpalm him.
 * T.S.: What's a stinkpalm?
 * Brodie: You take your hand and stick it in your ass like this. You been walkin' all day and you're nervous, so no doubt you'll be sweaty as hell.
 * T.S.: You should see yourself right now, a grown man with his hand down his pants.
 * Brodie: Yeah I probably look like my old man. So you shake hands with the guy, "Hello Mr. Svenning how have you been?"
 * T.S.: What's the point?
 * Brodie: You know how long it takes for that smell to come off? Scrub all you want, it'll stick around for at least two days. How does he explain it to his colleagues and family? They'll think he doesn't know how to wipe his ass properly.
 * T.S.: Meanwhile you yourself are left with a hand that smells like shit.
 * Brodie: Small price to pay for the smiting of one's enemies.

 * [Shannon and Brodie are in a hallway]
 * Shannon: Smart-ass ex-boyfriend! I've got two things to tell you. One: I don't like you. I see you every week in this mall. I don't like you shiftless layabouts. You're one of those loser fucking mallrat kids. You don't come down here to do work or shop. You hang out all day. You act like you fucking live here. Well, I have no respect for people with no shopping agenda.
 * Brodie: Is this what's known as motivated salesmanship?
 * [Shannon punches Brodie]
 * Shannon: Rene told me to leave you alone, but she's fucking clueless. You see, Bruce, I like to pick up girls on the rebound from a disappointing relationship. They're more vulnerable and in much more need of solace and they're fairly open to suggestion. And, I use that to fuck them some place very uncomfortable.
 * Brodie: What, like the back of a Volkswagen?
 * Shannon: No. Like someplace girls dread.
 * [Brodie tries to take a poke at Shannon, but Shannon gives him another beat-down]

 * Jay: You're fucking kidding me! The Easter bunny did this?!
 * Brodie: All I said was that the Easter bunny at the Menlo Park mall was more convincing and he just jumped the railing and knocked me down.
 * Jay: He's fucking dead!
 * Brodie: Oh, let it go, he's under a lot of pressure.
 * [T.S. and Gwen approach them]
 * T.S.: What the hell happened?
 * Jay: The guy in the Easter bunny suit kicked his ass.
 * Brodie: I had it coming.
 * Jay: Fuck all that shit. Come on, Silent Bob.
 * [Jay and Silent Bob leave]
 * T.S.: What really happened?
 * Brodie: The proprietor of Fashionable Male beat a rain check into my stomach.
 * Gwen: Shannon Hamilton?
 * T.S.: You know that guy?
 * Gwen: I went out with him once after we dated. He tried to screw me some place very uncomfortable.
 * T.S.: What? Like the back of a Volkswagen?
 * Brodie: Sounds like his M.O.

 * Brodie: You know about this game show they got going on here? We need you guys to somehow ensure that it doesn't happen.
 * Jay: Is that it? We were gonna do that anyway.
 * Brodie: Really? Why?
 * Jay: What else are we gonna do? Silent Bob stole the schematics from some foolish carpenter and found a weakness just like the fucking Death Star. You knock this crossbeam out and fuckin’ bickety-bam! The whole stage comes crashing down.
 * Brodie: Well we were thinking of something simple, but, hey, if you wanna destroy the stage, we're all for that.

 * Brandi: Second suitor, would you ever make whoopee in public?
 * Brodie: Already did once today. [points to Rene and smirks] But my cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control. So he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, the hydraulics kick back in, and the plane rights itself. It lands safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever you know, away and deboard. Nobody mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.
 * [The audience is stunned speechless]
 * Gill: Well, did he cum, or what?
 * Brodie: Jesus Christ, man! There's just some things you don't talk about in public!

 * Brandi: Suitor Number Three, what would our first date be like?
 * Gill Hicks: Well, uh, first I'd take you shopping to stores you wanna shop in, and then we'd do a little lunch, probably at the Cheese Haus, followed by some golfing. And then at night, we'd take in an opera, probably Die Fledermaus, and then I'd follow it up with a drive to a secluded beach where I'd pop on the radio and we could slow-dance 'til the sun came up.
 * Brodie: That was the biggest load of crap I've ever heard! I mean, look at you. You're the kind of guy who would beg for sex. And I should know, we can smell our own.

 * Brandi: Suitor Number Three, is your kiss like a soft breeze, a firm handshake, or a jackhammer?
 * Gill: Definitely a jackhammer. I'm in there with some pressure, and when I'm done you're not the same as before. You're changed.
 * Brodie: Where do you come up with this shit?! That is the cheesiest response to an honest question I've ever heard! I saw you kiss and it wasn't even anything like that!
 * Gill: Who the hell did you see me kiss?
 * Brodie: Some dude backstage. I don't know who he was, but he seemed unimpressed.
 * Gill: I didn't kiss any guy backstage. I swear! I'm not gay.
 * Brodie: Hey, suitor-ette, this guy's a homo-phobe! You heard how repulsed he sounded! Is this the kind of guy you wanna spend a vacation with, this hate-monger?
 * Gill: I don't hate gay people!
 * Brodie: So you love them?
 * Gill: Yes! I mean, no.
 * Brodie: Textbook closet case. Self-loather. Can't be comfortable with his own sexuality.

 * Shannon: That's it. You're dead, mallrat. I'm gonna fuck you up beyond repair!
 * Brodie: Ladies and gentlemen, this tall drink of water headed my way is a pillar of the shopping community who informed me earlier today of a nefarious plan of his to screw my girlfriend in an extremely uncomfortable place.
 * Gill: What, like the back of a Volkswagen?

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 * [the videotape of Shannon having sex with Tricia is playing on the big screen, with cheesy 70s porno music in background]
 * Shannon: Yeah, who's your favorite new kid? Yeah, call me Joey. Oh, come on. Don't make me get loose. Yeah, that's right. Call me Donnie. Oh, girl. Please don't go.
 * Jay: God damn, this is one wacky game show.
 * Brodie: [to the cops] Hey! That girl's only 15!
 * [cops focus their attention on Shannon]
 * Shannon: Ah, 15? I thought she was 36! [as he is being arrested] Come on, guys. Tell me you wouldn't have popped her.

Taglines

 * They're not there to shop. - They're not there to work. - They're just there.
 * Get Malled
 * It's mall or nothing
 * Superhero Anatomy! Topless Fortune Telling! Bunny Bashing! And More!

Cast

 * Shannen Doherty - Rene Mosier
 * Jeremy London - T.S. Quint
 * Jason Lee - Brodie Bruce
 * Claire Forlani - Brandi Svenning
 * Ben Affleck - Shannon Hamilton
 * Joey Lauren Adams - Gwen Turner
 * Renée Humphrey - Tricia Jones
 * Jason Mewes - Jay
 * Kevin Smith - Silent Bob
 * Ethan Suplee - Willam Black
 * Stan Lee - Himself
 * Priscilla Barnes - Miss Ivannah
 * Michael Rooker - Mr. Jared Svenning

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Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher. He was very noticeably influential, and was regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy. In 1906 he became the first Italian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Il Parlamento (1879)

 * Il sole / ridea calando dietro il Resegone
 * The sun laughed as it set behind the Resegone

Inno a Satana

 * To thee of All Being     /A te, de l’essere
 * The First Cause immense  /Principio immenso,
 * Of matter and spirit,    /Materia e spirito,
 * Of reason and sense      /Ragione e senso;
 * Whilst in the full goblet /Mentre ne’ calici
 * Shall sparkle the wine,  /Il vin scintilla
 * So bright the pupil      /Si’come l’anima
 * The souls of men shine,  /Ne la pupilla
 * Whilst earth still is smiling, /Mentre sorridono
 * And the sun smiles above,     /La terra e il sole
 * And men are exchanging        /E si ricambiano
 * Their sweet words of love,    /D’amor parole
 * Thrills mystic of Hymen       /E corre un fremito
 * Through high mountains course, /D’imene arcano
 * And broad plains are heaving  /Da’ monti e palpita
 * With life's fertile force,    /Fecondo il piano;
 * On thee in verse daring,      /A te disfrenasi
 * From tight rein released,     /Il verso ardito,
 * On thee I call, Satan,        /Te invoco, o Satana
 * The King of the feast.        /Re del convito
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)
 * From tight rein released,     /Il verso ardito,
 * On thee I call, Satan,        /Te invoco, o Satana
 * The King of the feast.        /Re del convito
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)
 * -lines 1-20 (as Printed by the Nobel Prize Library)

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S. M. Stirling

Stephen Michael Stirling (born 30 September 1953) is a Canadian-American science fiction and fantasy author. His novels often describe military situations and militaristic cultures.

Quotes

 * Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.
 * Dragon Page Cover to Cover interview, Episode 372A (8 September 2009)

 * A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.
 * Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written (7 July 2000)

 * [...] Anyone who might think of attacking them would also probably recognize that they were armed. She smiled slightly; all three of them actually had valid concealed-carry permits for the Belgian FiveseveN specials under their jackets. Although not for the P90 machine pistols in the attaché cases, and some of the stuff in the vehicle would be right out of it. Semtex, timers, detonators, cans of gasoline and thermite bombs, for example. Even if the invoice reads "Cleaning supplies" back at HQ.
 * Conquistador (2003), chapter 1

 * There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
 * Conquistador (2003)

 * They rode armed for war, curved swords at their side and the thick horn-and-sinew bows of mounted archers in cases at their knees.
 * The Scourge of God
 * The waxen line of the bowstrings struck their leather bracers with a light whapping sound ... A man dropped from each end of the attackers' rough formation, with the flat punching smack of arrowheads striking flesh loud enough to hear.
 * The Sword of the Lady
 * The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that pricked at his eyes. Without that tapestry of colour and words and ritual, what was life but eating and mating, sleeping and moving your bowels? All of them good and necessary, but not enough; and they themselves needed that framework too, to give them meaning.
 * ibid
 * ....another vision, where water still curled on the sandy beach beneath a clear blue sky where birds flew, but their patterns were mathematics precise beyond his comprehension. A man walked between buildings that were perfect, and empty. He turned to look at Rudi for an instant and where his eyes should have been were silvery tendrils that waved and sought.
 * ibid

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Jesse Owens

James Cleveland Owens (12 September 1913 – 31 March 1980) was an African-American athlete and civic leader; winner of 4 Gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany; he used the name Jesse beginning in childhood, when he gave his name as "J.C. Owens" and was misheard.

decade unknown

 * The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
 * As quoted in People In America : "Jesse Owens" by Barbara Dash on VOA (7 June 2002)

 * It took a lot of courage for him to befriend me in front of Hitler... You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn't be a plating on the 24-karat friendship I felt for Lutz Long at that moment. Hitler must have gone crazy watching us embrace. The sad part of the story is I never saw Long again. He was killed in World War II.
 * On the congratulations given by German athlete Lutz Long, a competitor in the long jump, who in some accounts he credited with giving him some friendly advice that helped him to win against him; as quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz in ESPN SportsCentury (2005)

 * When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either.
 * As quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" (2005), by Larry Schwartz, ESPN SportsCentury

1930s

 * Mr. Hitler had to leave the stadium early, but after winning I hurried up to the radio booth. When I passed near the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me and I waved back at him."
 * Quoted in "Owens, Back, Gets Hearty Reception" by Louis Effrat, The New York Times, (August 25, 1936), p.25. Online for subscribers only.

 * Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
 * About Franklin D. Roosevelt, as quoted in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics (2007), by Jeremy Schaap, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 211

1960

 * I'm old now. It's all right.
 * In response to Armin Hary's comment, "You smoke? That's no good. No good!" at the 1960 Olympics in Rome; as quoted in Rome 1960 (2008) by David Maraniss.

 * Another old friend gone!
 * Reported response to learning that his last remaining world record had been broken (31 December 1960); as quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations (1988) compiled by James B. Simpson

1970–1980

 * The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at.
 * As quoted in Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man (1970)

 * People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.
 * Interview (1971); also quoted in "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz in ESPN SportsCentury

 * I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
 * I Have Changed (1972)

 * Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.
 * The Tampa Tribune (April 1, 1980)

Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)

 * Quotations of Owens from Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990) by Tony Gentry ISBN 0791083721

 * We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

 * She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count. I fell in love with her some the first time we ever talked, and a little bit more every time after that until I thought I couldn't love her more than I did. And when I felt that way, I asked her to marry me … and she said she would.
 * On his wife, Minnie Ruth Solomon

 * It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close.

 * I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago... the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

 * To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first "second" is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final "second" — the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete — is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.

 * I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
 * On his final record-breaking leap in the long-jump competition.

 * It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere — one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.

 * After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.

 * It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards. … The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find and make sure the starter fires that big gun right by the nervous thoroughbred's ear.

 * We'd get into these little towns and tell 'em to get out the fastest guy in town and Jesse Owens would spot him ten yards and beat him.

 * People who worked with me or knew me still called me the "world's fastest human" because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

 * It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
 * On having his world records beaten

 * The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers — weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.
 * Said to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who had given the black power salute while receiving their Olympic medals

Quotes about Owens

 * Hitler Salutes Jesse Owens
 * This athletic contest between the leading nations of the country, is a spectacle of spectacles! Its the greatest thing of its kind I've ever seen. Sunday, I witnessed 110,000 people cheer two Negro athletes, because they were supreme in their field. Monday, I saw another vast crowd of close to 100,000 people go "literally crazy" as they saw Jesse Owens, running with the effortless speed of an antelope, completely dominate his field to win "going away" in the 100 meters, with Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette University placing second. And then . . . wonder of wonders . . . I saw Herr Adolph Hitler, salute this lad. I looked on with a heart which beat proudly as the lad who was crowned king of the 100 meters event, get an ovation the like of which I have never heard before. I saw Jesse Owens greeted by the Grand Chancellor of this country as a brilliant sun peeped out through the clouds.

 * I saw a vast crowd of some 85,000 or 90,000 people stand up and cheer him to the echo. And they were mostly Germans! Make no mistake about it. These German people are mighty fine. They have a spirit of sportsmanship and fair play which overrides the color-barrier. This week, as Negro athletes have sent the Stars and Stripes of the United States shooting to the top of the flag-pole on three different occasions, I have observed the spirit, not only of the German people, but of those competing from foreign countries. And I've found out, that in the world of sport, where personal perfection is the measuring rod of achievement, color does not count.
 * African-American U.S. journalist Robert L. Vann about witnessing Hitler salute Owens, something Owens also spoke about [see 1930s section above]. "Hitler Salutes Jesse Owens", [|Pittsburgh Courier], 8 August 1936, p.1; partially quoted in Jeremy Schaap, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics, NYC: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007, p.194.

 * The real snub of Owens came from his own president. Even after ticker-tape parades for Owens in New York City and Cleveland, President Franklin D. Roosevelt never publicly acknowledged Owens' achievements. Gold in the 100 meter, 200 meter, 400 meter relay, and long jump. Owens was never invited to the White House and never even received a letter of congratulations from the president. Almost two decades passed before another American president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, honored Owens by naming him 'Ambassador of Sports'. In 1955.
 * "German Myth 10: The 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler, and Jesse Owens" (10 June 2004), German Misnomers, Myths and Mistakes, About, Inc

 * You smoke? That's no good. No good!
 * Armin Hary, at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, as quoted in Rome 1960 (2008) by David Maraniss

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Barney Frank

Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S. financial industry. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, is considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States.

Quotes

 * I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
 * Interview with Claudia Dreifus in September and October 1995, published in Times Magazine (4 February 1996)

 * These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
 * The New York Times (11 September 2003)

 * Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots.
 * Quoted in Dionne, E. J., The Washington Post, (16 November 2004)]

 * The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.
 * KUOW.org audio program (7 September 2005) (RealAudio)

 * … [they] believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth…
 * Speaking of anti-abortion legislators

 * In the debate between those who believe in essentially unregulated markets and others who hold that reasonable regulation diminishes market excesses without inhibiting their basic function, the subprime situation unfortunately provides ammunition for the latter view.
 * Frank in an op-ed piece "A (sub)prime argument for more regulation" in Financial Times (August 2007)

 * I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications. I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.
 * Frank on being accused of having a "radical homosexual agenda" Statement of U.S. Representative Barney Frank on the Inclusion of people who are Transgender in Antidiscrimination Protection Legislation (March 2008)
 * In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
 * Frank commenting on legislation to remove federal criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use. CNN Newsroom : Rep. Barney Frank's Marijuana Bill (30 July 2008)]

 * Here's the story: There's a terrible crisis affecting the American economy. We have come together on a bill to alleviate the crisis. And because somebody hurt their feelings they decide to punish the country. I mean, I would not have imputed that degree of pettiness and hypersensitivity [...] But think about this: Somebody hurt my feelings so I will punish the country. I mean, that's hardly plausible. And there are 12 Republican members who were ready to stand up for the economic interests of America but not if anybody insulted them. I'll make an offer: Give me those 12 people's names and I will go talk uncharacteristically nicely to them and tell them what wonderful people they are and maybe they'll now think about the country.
 * Speaking of the defeat of a financial bailout plan in the House

 * There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common […] I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her "Elsie Fag".
 * Responding to Dick Armey's referring to him as "Barney Fag", unidentified publication/date
 * Quoted in

 * I've seen anti-Semitism essentially disappear in my adult life as a social and economic factor. There may be some nuts out there, but generally things are fine.  I think the same thing will happen with gayness.  We'll get to a point soon enough where it's not even an issue anymore.  But progress can be slow.  I filed my first gay rights bills in 1972 in Massachusetts.  Forty years later, it would be nice to have this wrapped up and put to bed.
 * Quoted in

 * It is possible to debate how strong America should be militarily in relation to the rest of the world. But that is not a debate that needs to be entered into to reduce the military budget by a large amount. If, beginning one year from now, we were to cut military spending by 25 percent from its projected levels, we would still be immeasurably stronger than any combination of nations with whom we might be engaged... Spending on military hardware does produce some jobs, but it is one of the most inefficient ways to deploy public funds to stimulate the economy. When I asked him years ago what he thought about military spending as stimulus, Alan Greenspan, to his credit, noted that.. .it was not good for the economy; and to the extent that it could be reduced, the economy would benefit...The math is compelling: if we do not make reductions approximating 25 percent of the military budget starting fairly soon, it will be impossible to continue to fund an adequate level of domestic activity even with a repeal of Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy.
 * Barney Frank: ‘Cut the Military Budget’, The Nation (2 March 2009)

 * Questioner: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy as Obama has expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it? Frank: When you ask me that question I am gonna revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time? [...] As you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table: I have no interest in doing it.
 * Response to questioner at a town-meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, broadcast on CNN (18 August 2009); YouTube video.

 * I’m surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
 * In response to a constituent’s angry letter. Quoted in ''Slate Magazine, November 29, 2011.

 * There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn't make any difference. It's the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. [...] The bumper sticker I'm going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, "We're not perfect, but they're nuts."
 * From his keynote speech at the Maine People's Alliance 30th anniversary Rising Tide awards dinner, June 9, 2012, held at Woodford's Congregational Church in Portland.
 * Quoted in

 * The opposite of pragmatism is not idealism. It’s wishful thinking.
 * Quoted in

 * The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.
 * Quoted in "The Path to Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion" by Jeremiah J. Garretson, chapter 9, pg 229.

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Pik Botha

Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha (27 April 1932 – 12 October 2018) was a South African politician who served as foreign minister in the last years of apartheid. He retired in 1996.

Quotes

 * If we don't stand together, we will never catch up and the industrialised nations won't care. I predict it here today as your brother.
 * at the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
 * Quoted in Shaun Johnson, Strange Days Indeed (1993), p. 39

 * Senator, some of us strongly believe that Americans are the last people that can go around the world preaching morality. What we are doing to the blacks in Africa today is what you have already done and continue to do to the American Indian.
 * To Senator Ted Kennedy
 * Quoted in The Namibian newspaper, 27 Apr 2011

 * A new era has begun in South Africa. My government is removing racial discrimination. We want to be accepted by our African brothers.
 * At the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
 * Quoted in The Daily Maverick newspaper, 2 September 2011

Indeed, leaders across the globe ought to reflect on his legacy – particularly while they have the option to resolve disputes through peaceful negotiations instead of violence; abolish all nuclear devices or retain them to destroy our planet; take the quantum leap required to avert the lethal consequences of climate change and the depletion of the planet’s natural resources or enjoy our daily greed to such an extent that it forbids us to preserve our planet for our children to survive.
 * His [Nelson Mandela's] death is irreversible, his legacy, undying. All of us, the government, the voters, civil society, the churches, are faced with an inescapable challenge: are we going to honor and sustain his legacy or deviate from it?
 * "Ex-South African foreign minister reflects on his relationship with Mandela", Fox News (December 7, 2013)

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Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds is a mid-1960s Sylvia and Gerry Anderson television show which used a form of puppetry called "Supermarionation". Two seasons were produced, comprising thirty-two episodes in total. Production commenced in 1964 and the series premiered on British television in September 1965.

Trapped in the Sky [1.1]

 * Commander Norman: International Rescue, please give me information about your organization.  We cannot grant facilities without knowing more details.
 * Scott: (with some impatience) Look, there are 600 people up there with less than 40 minutes to live! Now you can't help them but I believe we can! Now what's it gonna be?
 * Commander Norman: (realizing he has no choice but to trust this mysterious International Rescue) All right, International Rescue, but I just hope you know what you're doing.

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 * [International Rescue has succeeded in saving the Fireflash aircraft via emergency elevator cars, but one driven by Virgil has crashed off the runway and is upside down]
 * Scott: Are you okay, Virgil?
 * [Virgil is trying to crawl right side up within his elevator car]
 * Virgil: Okay, Scott. Made good timing.
 * Scott: Great, Virgil! Just great.

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 * Jeff: Well, I guess that handshake was for all of us. Boys, I think we're in business!

Terror In New York City

 * Scott: [speaking via broadcast speaker after activating a beam transmitter toward the telebroadcast truck of Ned Cook and his cameraman Joe] I've electromagnetically wiped the videotape, Cook. The entire recording is blank.   Sorry about this but we have to protect ourselves.  So long.
 * [Thunderbird One pulls away and gains altitude as Cook stops the truck]
 * Ned Cook: He's just bluffing! It's not possible!
 * Joe: [with the ruined tape] He wasn't bluffing, and it IS possible.  There goes your story, Ned.

 * [Scott and Jeff look over a damaged Thunderbird 2]
 * Scott: Boy, what a mess.
 * Jeff: Once those replacement parts arrive we're gonna have to work round the clock to get her running again.
 * Scott: This is the trickiest part of our operation: Keeping our secret organisation secret.
 * Jeff: Look, Scott, we order each component from different aircraft manufacturers. None of them know what they're making. It's only when they arrive here that the jigsaw puzzle starts to be put together.
 * Scott: I guess I worry too much...

Sun Probe [1.11]

 * Brains: [On finding they've brought Braman, Brains' chess-playing robot, with them on a voyage to save Thunderbird 3] Oh no! Virgil, we've brought the wrong box!
 * Virgil: Base from Thunderbird 2, calling base from Thunderbird 2!

Alias Mr. Hackenbacker [2.3]

 * [Brains is driving into the London Airport under the pseudonym of Mr. Hackenbacker]
 * Brains: This is Hiram K. Hackenbacker calling Jeff Tracy. Come in, Jeff Tracy.
 * Jeff: Go ahead, er... Mr... Hackenbacker.
 * Brains: I am now entering the London Airport.
 * Jeff: Good luck Br- I mean Mr. Hackenbacker.

Recurring quotes

 * Jeff Tracy: Thunderbirds are go!

About

 * I started to think that there really ought to be dumps around the world with rescue gear standing by, so that when a disaster happened, all these items of rescue equipment could be rushed to the disaster zone and used to help to get people out of trouble ... I was thinking, 'Rescue, yes, rescue, but how to make it science fiction? What about an international rescue organisation?
 * Gerry Anderson on the premise as quoted in Bentley, Chris (2005) [2000]. The Complete Book of Thunderbirds (2nd ed.). o. 8-9

 * Lew watched ["Trapped in the Sky"] and at the end he jumped up shouting, 'Fantastic, absolutely fantastic! This isn't a television series – this is a feature film! You've got to make this as an hour!' ... I'm glad we did it, because it made the series much bigger and much more important. But it was still a very, very difficult job.
 * Gerry Anderson on the premise as quoted in Bentley, Chris (2005) [2000]. The Complete Book of Thunderbirds (2nd ed.). p.26

 * Since we always tried to minimise walking, we'd show the puppets taking one step only, then promptly cut. Through interspersing the programmes with "meanwhile" scenes – that is, showing what else was going on in the story at the same time – we would then cut back to the puppet who was now already in his craft.
 * Alan Pattillo on puppet movement Marriott, as quoted in John (1993). Supermarionation Classics: Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons p.179

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User talk:152.39.40.2

i like ur sense of humor and the way u answer the questions put forth to u in interview

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Talk:James Nicoll

Can someone add the lithobraking comment? I'm having a hard time finding the original.

Here's the original source; someone else can add it. http://groups.google.com.au/group/rec.arts.sf.written/msg/d68022cdcabffb94?hl=en&

In the sentence about the Nicoll Pledge, there should also be a remark about the "Nicoll Thread," which is a thread started for the purpose of increasing the on-topic content of a newsgroup.

The comment about Hollywood is me quoting someone else. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 149.99.96.249 (talk • contribs) 19:21, March 25, 2006 (UTC)

http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/511222.html?thread=5923062#t5923062 ? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 210.84.0.208 (talk • contribs) 02:19, October 16, 2006 (UTC)

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I've moved some of the references into footnotes; I'll do the rest when I get home, and split into "personal mishaps" and "book reviews" sections. Also, Google Groups's searches by message ID are broken at the moment, so I commented out the link to, as it's broken until I can find the relevant Google Groups page and put in a real ref. grendel|khan 21:34, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Please don't. Unless I have missed a dramatic change in recommended practices, that is not the Wikiquote style.  And the Google Groups links work fine for me.  121a0012 01:30, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:24.208.187.26

Deliberate vandalism can result in IP numbers being blocked from editing. ~ Kalki 04:12, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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User:Cyberjunkie

See my user page at the English Wikipedia.

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Pure Pwnage

 Pure Pwnage is an internet video series by ROFLMAO Productions featuring a Canadian pro gamer named Jeremy. The internet video series follows the exploits of Jeremy and his friends. The episodes center around pro gaming and "pwning noobs"

Season 1
PURE PWNAGE PWNS ALL N00BS IN THE WORLD

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User:Aupajo~enwikiquote

See Aupajo.

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