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William Bradford (Plymouth Colony governor)

William Bradford (March 19, 1590 – May 9, 1657) was a leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts who became Governor of the Plymouth Colony. He was the second signer and primary architect of the Mayflower Compact. As Governor of Plymouth, Bradford is also credited as being the first to proclaim what popular American culture viewed as the first Thanksgiving.

Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation, 1606-1646
Boston: MA, Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers (1898)
 * Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.
 * Ch. 1.

 * Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
 * Ch. 2.

 * The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.
 * Ch. 3.

 * But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
 * Ch. 4.

 * Cold comfort to fill their hungry stomach.
 * Ch. 5.

 * Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
 * Ch. 6.

 * Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
 * Ch. 7.

 * The experience that was had in ... the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent; and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.... For the young men that were most able and fit for labor and service objected that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, without any recompense.... The strong man or the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc., than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labor, food, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger ones, thought it some indignity and disrespect to them.
 * Chapter 10, [163] and [164]

Quotes about William Bradford

 * To consummate the wanton slaughter of some 700 Pequots, in 1637 the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, William Bradford, proclaimed that Thanksgiving Day be celebrated "in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won." Peace on stolen land is borne of genocide.
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Thaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin Shinawatra (Thai: ทักษิณ ชินวัตร, IPA: [tʰáksǐn tɕʰinwát] (help·info); born July 26, 1949) is a controversial Thai politician who served as prime minister of Thailand from 2001 to 2006 as leader of the now banned Thai Rak Thai Party. He was deposed by a military coup in 2006.

Interview with World Policy

 * I don't care whether I go back home or not. I just care how you can move our country forward, how the rule of law will be respected, and how the dignity of the Thai people must be respected.

 * You cannot deliver what you promise to the people, you cannot solve the problem of the country if you're being controlled by the politburo and appointed senators.

 * I think those who say that they are patriotic, they should be quiet and let the country run in a democratic way. In every election, if you don't like the government, you don't vote for it.

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Veronica Mars edits
An editor using this IP address has been making substantial deletions to Veronica Mars, which have been reverted by another editor. I would ask both editors to discuss the reasons for their actions at Talk:Veronica Mars to allow other interested editors to comment and to help come to an agreement on these series of edits. This is especially important whenever one wishes to make large changes of any sort in an article. Prior or at least concurrent discussion of such major edits is good Wikiquette. Thank you for your cooperation. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:57, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and producer.

Interview for Allure magazine, February 2008

 * I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

 * For so long, I didn't play the object of attention or affection. It wasn't until L.A. Story that anyone cast me in a role that had my sexuality as a point of interest or focus or operation. I just wasn't examined in the same way that a 'pretty girl' would be.

 * I didn't think I was going to be a person who other people knew, whose name was recognizable.

 * Anything having to do with food is pleasurable for me. Any conversation about food, review of food, story of food, picture of food, thought of food...

 * Just because people don't have money doesn't mean they don't desire the same thing. They should have it, and it should be good.

 * I strangely feel better before I go through hair and makeup. Maybe that's just because I feel like me.

 * It never grows old, putting on a beautiful dress. For me, it's a great distraction. It's always ridiculous, and it always feels like it should be happening to somebody else.

 * My instinct was that it felt personal. It was really about 'We don't like her.' Who were the judges and critics? I would like to ask them, 'What exactly is it that you personally find not sexy about me? Is it my figure? Is it my brain that bothers you?'
 * On being named the Unsexiest Woman Alive by Maxim magazine

 * That's the beauty of this country — we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended.

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.

Quotes

 * Éstas que fueron pompa y alegría despertando al albor de la mañana, a la tarde serán lástima vana durmiendo en brazos de la noche fría.
 * These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
 * A las flores ("Éstas, que fueron pompa y alegría").

La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream)

 * Complete text at Spanish wikisource

 * Que si a la Ley no te ajustas, quedó en la cuna labrada la materia de la tumba.
 * If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.
 * Segismundo, Act I, l. 956-958.

 * ¿Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida?  Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.
 * What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story.  And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
 * Variant: What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams. (trans. Roy Campbell)
 * Segismundo, Act II, l. 1195.

 * Mas, sea verdad o sueño, obrar bien es lo que importa. Si fuere verdad, por serlo; si no, por ganar amigos para cuando despertemos.
 * But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
 * Segismundo, Act III, l. 236.

 * El traidor no es menester siendo la traición pasada.
 * The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.
 * Segismundo, Act III, l. 1109.

 * ¿Qué os espanta, si fue mi maestro un sueño, y estoy temiendo, en mis ansias, que he de despertar y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prisión? Y cuando no sea, el soñarlo sólo basta; pues así llegué a saber que toda la dicha humana, en fin, pasa como sueño.
 * What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.
 * Segismundo, Act III, l. 1114.

 * Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacido.
 * For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
 * Variant: Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth. (trans. Denis MacCarthy)
 * Segismundo, Act I, Scene II.

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User:ZERVONIUS

This is ZERVONIUS. Sorry for the unnecessary edit, but I hate to see a red link on a wiki. It dosent flow with the rest of the format. I know what I am doing on wikis so please dont mistake me for a noob. I am a sysop on the halo wiki. Halo Wiki If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Welcome
~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Nierman
I noticed your understandable objection to deleting the article on Andrew Nierman. You might not be aware of the notability expectations that Wikiquote and its sister project Wikipedia have for university professors. Please review the information at w:Wikipedia:Notability (people) and w:Wikipedia:Notability (people) for more information. (Consider especially the comments from professor/WP editors Average Earthman and cmf in w:Wikipedia:Notability (people).)

To make a case for keeping the article, it would be helpful if you could mentioned the more prominent of Mr. Nierman's works so his credentials might be reviewed by the community. Please understand that, if the decision is ultimately made to delete the article, it doesn't impune the reputation of the subject. It's just that university professors (like so many other groups whose members number in the millions) must typically rise above their peers in some significant manner. I suspect that the IHIQS contest is not an adequate measure (even in Mr. Nierman's apparent opinion, based on the Ann Arbor News article I linked to). Of course, other Wikiquotians besides yourself may disagree.

Another way to help make the case for a specific person is to create a Wikipedia article for them, which Mr. Neirman does not appear to have at the moment. WP has a vaster audience of editors who can more thoroughly investigate notability and verify sources. Your article may be nominated for deletion there as well, but the VfD process [AfD on Wikipedia] itself often establishes, rather than dismisses, a subject because of its cited sources and rationale. (That's why I took so much trouble to check out and provide links to some of the points raised in your WQ article and other web pages I found.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome
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Invaders from the Deep
I've twice removed your addition of a quote to Mystery Science Theater 3000 because it is unverifiable. If you have a reliable source for this information, please describe it at Talk:Mystery Science Theater 3000 before adding it again, or it will be summarily removed. (If you do have such a source, there are tens of thousands of anxious MST3K fans who will want to talk to you!) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

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My Personal Quotes
"Two heads work better then one, but one works faster by itself."

"If she needs materialism to be happy, it is time you tell your girl you're not a bank and get someone better."

"Plants are living creatures that drink and breathe like other creatures, including ourselves. Who is to say they are any less than a human or even a cow? They even react to changes in their surroundings in order to survive — thus, proving their advanced intellect and instincts. There is no justification for enslaving these poor creatures. These unfortunate organisms are forced into large collective ghettos called "farms." Many of the aspects of their lives are controlled and closely monitored by the overseers of these ghettos, called farmers. They are force-fed drugs to make them grow larger, and they are covered in shrouds of chemicals meant to "protect" them."

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Talk:The Sonnets

—LrdChaos (talk) 14:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

=Formatting=

It seems that the formatting of the poems on this page is not working out. I propose two alternative formats for the sonnets; sonnets I and II are done in the first format, and sonnets III and IV are done in the second. When we decide on which one to use (or another format), it'll be no problem to edit the others. Also, maybe we should break up this page into several pages of 50 sonnets? Psp 07:20, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

you may use http://4umi.com/shakespeare/sonnet/ as source in case you want to add the missing sonnets without line numbers

Too much material?
Does anyone else feel that it is a bit much to have every line of every sonnet? Shouldn't these instead by just a few lines from each, with pointers to Wikisource for the full sonnet? This just seems to be excessive. ~ UDScott 11:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah I came here to say the exact same thing. This is wikisource material, we should have the potent excerpts broken out for Wikiquote. Dbergan 22:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Should still be trimmed quite a bit. --Nemo 21:58, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Basic Instinct

I think this page could be deleted as none of the quotes appear to be of a remotely interesting standard and some are just plain obscence. (194.80.32.8 07:27, 4 February 2006 (UTC))

Speedy Deletion
w:WP:NOT on Wikipedia explains that Wikipedia isn't censored for minors. If there's a similar policy here, then there's the contest reason. Sceptre 11:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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User:Shotgunlee

A young man who is interested in digital imaging. :)

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Contributions

 * The Hours
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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Fit Finlay

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

The result was: move to Dave Finlay. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Fit Finlay
No valid quotes. This appears to be another nonsense page created by this anon user. ~ UDScott 17:04, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: move to Dave Finlay (2 Moves; no dissent). Already accomplished (see comment below). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:00, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 17:04, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Move, to Dave Finlay; concur with Jeff, now that he has made this a viable page. ~ UDScott 17:17, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep can get quotes...
 * Struck anon vote. ~ UDScott 17:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Move to Dave Finlay to match the WP article on this pro wrestler. I've added an appropriate intro and a less-inane set of quotes, both from WP, and added some useful infrastructure to make it a decent stub. I've also begged our anonymous friend to do some minimal work to make his/her apparent nonsense articles more useful to Wikiquote, lest we stop trying so hard to accomodate him/her and just delete the usual junk. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:05, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I was busily closing VFDs when I accidentally took action on this article 2 days before the close date by moving it to Dave Finlay. I could move it back, but since it seems this article will be moved there anyway, and the existing title is still active (and will remain so unless we reverse our current course and choose to delete), I beg the community's indulgence to allow me not to move it back only to move it again in 2 days. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:57, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Seems reasonable to me Jeff. If there are any dissenting votes over the next couple of days (which I highly doubt), you could then take other action if it becomes necessary. ~ UDScott 16:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/The Boogeyman

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

The result was: delete. — Jeffq 19:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

The Boogeyman
No valid quotes. ~ UDScott 17:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (2 Deletes; 1 unsigned anon vote struck; no other dissent; no improvement to article). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:02, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 17:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep need more quotes though...
 * Struck anon vote, properly formatted vote. ~ UDScott 17:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless made into a proper stub article with appropriate references. If so, I would support a move to Marty Wright. Apparently, all that 169.244.143.115 has learned from our copious requests, pleas, and advice is that if he nominates one of his junk articles for deletion himself, other people will do his work by filling in the details, like I've just done for Fit Finlay and earlier did for Enya. Well, now that he's made me feel like a chump for letting him use me, I will no longer support his laziness. If the article creator doesn't care enough to make even a decent stub with a correct title, with information easily obtained from Wikipedia, I don't want to see the resulting garbage cluttering up our serious quote compendium. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 17:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Top Gear

Pre-Cleanup Discussion
"what car is a mobile version of eurodisney"

Is that a question?

There's a repeat in the stig quotes.
He's either stumped by clouds or has no understanding of them. Either way there's a duplicate.

Rampart incorrect quotes
Someone has been submitting a multitude of quotes to this page, and whilst I appreciate the effort, I find myself correcting every one of them, the words themselves and the formatting. Here is one example, giving what was submitted first and the real quote after:

Original: (Silence) Hammond: You're kidding. May: No, look! Clarkson: The car wash is on fire!!! Hammond: Right, everyone, OUT the car! (everyone gets out and legs it) May:(later, at end of show) The car-wash manger was really annoyed when I wrote and asked for our two-fifty back!
 * May: Oh my God, We set fire to a car wash!

Proper:
 * Clarkson: "Uh... it's on fire."
 * Hammond: "What?! It can't be on fire!" (he looks) "It's on fire."
 * Clarkson: "It's on fire. Just run.  Just run."
 * Clarkson: "The thing is, we've managed to set fire to something that's basically made of water!"
 * Hammond: "How did you do that? Did you see the owner of the car wash afterwards?"
 * Clarkson: "He was..."
 * Hammond: "Cross. Very cross."
 * May: "He was especially cross when I rang him up and asked if we could have our three pounds fifty back."

The car wash does not catch fire until they are out of the car. See episode 08x01 for reference. Also, the lines in the studio directly follow the end of the car wash scene.

I hate to say it, but this article has quality issues. It's nothing personal on the fellow submitting the quotes, but please, be careful. Otherwise, those correcting material won't be able to keep up with those who add the incorrect quotes.

--A strolling player 09:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Jeremy quotes missing?
The Nigel Mansell quote looks fractured- has someone done a block delete? I'm sure there were more than this a while back... - sephjnr

Someone has broken it a bit, I think. I'm going to copy and paste off an archived version... 86.11.124.189 16:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Standards template
In an effort to uphold quality standards given by Wikiquote, I propose a shift in format to follow the template for television shows.

I'm actually nearly finished a personal project of mine--I've compiled quotes from each episode of Top Gear and made a listing, by episode. When I'm done I'll be able to do all the work in TextEdit and submit it all at once so the page doesn't spend a lot of time looking like a mess. After that, it should be easy to maintain the new format.

--A strolling player 09:08, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Numbers scrolling down the screen
I always took this to be a reference to the Terminator, particularly the scenes when he's driving at high speed and you see through the Terminator's eyes as the numbers scroll and he analyses everything in his path? 85.210.40.169 07:21, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If he said green then it would most likely be matrix. raptor 15:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

credits
Although not technically quotes, tonight's episode's credits (9x03) started with some apt names for the presenters - Cletus Clarkson for example (half the episode being filmed in the southern US). Did anyone catch them? -- MiG 21:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC) Cletus Clarkson, Earl Hammond Jr., Ellie May May ,Roscoe P. Stig ... and the Rest of Staff had their first Names replaced with "Billy Bob". I was wondering if any other episodes have had something like that ... anyone?

 * In the 2"inter Olympics Special" everyone was called Björn or a member of Abba; the "Polar Special" everyone was called Sir Ranulph; and in the "African Adventure Special" everyone was called Archbishop Desmond. TheTrojanHought 02:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

"BadWord" censorship
Since when hast the Word "cock" become censorworthy? Last Time I looked in a Dictonary, it had several meanings. English Wikipedia lists 11 mayor Meanings, and only ONE has a sexual reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock Quotes should be seen in Context, and even good ol´ censorhappy konservative BBC let all "Cocks" in the Programm. Especially censoring the "golden Cock" is stupid, since it means a golden miniature male chicken - a golden cock. I´m putting all the cocks back in.

 * Yeah what a bunch of cocks

 * It's been my habit to censor the words that actually are bleeped in the transmission and present everything else as aired. - 66.55.222.158, 2010.11.05 1812 EDT

Suspect Stig Quotes
Some of these are a bit wrong ... not that accurate Each episode, one of the presenters gives a short quote about the Stig, invariably starting with "Some say", then two of the quotes below. He finishes by saying "All we know is, he's called The Stig." He uses several of these and more during 1 show. Very funny

Mchance27 03:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 * He sets rabbit traps on easter
 * His armpits are WI-FI hotspots
 * He can make computers pregnant
 * He was arrested in Russia for Elvis
 * He spews liquid nitrogn out of his eyelids
 * He was once a playable character on th Grand Theft Auto games
 * His brother is the Master Cheif (referring to the Halo games)
 * He has sexual relationships with lammas
 * He has his own brand of tampons
 * He wrote his own biography, local critics commented "Strange, Bizzare, Sexually unhealthy and strangely angry"
 * He lives on the internet
 * He believes in Santa and the Tooth Fairy
 * He is the No.1 transmitter of syphillis in the world
 * He styles Jams May's hair
 * He drinks a lot of petrol.
 * He was born in space. (A reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey)
 * He never blinks.
 * He does not see like humans do, instead he sees numbers in green scrolling down. (A reference to The Matrix)
 * He could annihilate the Daleks, Dr Who and the Cyberman, if he could be bothered.
 * He lives in a tree.
 * He likes DragonBoarder.
 * He was raised by wolves.
 * His favourite philosopher is Immanuel Kant.
 * His brain is a Satellite navigation system.
 * He can "accumbularate".
 * He had a staring contest with the Sun... and won.
 * He appears on Japanese banknotes.
 * After eating printing ink, he obtains the ability to fly.
 * He can melt concrete on contact.
 * He is more machine than man. (A reference to Robocop)
 * His favourite food is raw meat.
 * He has no age.
 * He urinates 98 RON petrol. (On The Top Gear Website Profiles)
 * He can smell corners. (On The Top Gear Website Profiles)
 * He likes his eggs sunny side up. (Top Gear Website Profiles)
 * He has acid for blood. (A reference to Alien).
 * Jimmy Carter wants him dead.
 * He has a bionic arm.
 * He has a tattoo of Buzz Aldrin on his thigh.
 * He has no understanding of clouds.
 * He is scared of bells.
 * He has named every single blade of grass surrounding the Top Gear test track.
 * (During Clarkson's 'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly') If he left Britain, his ears would explode. However, they're wrong - because he's here.
 * His fingernails have 330bhp.
 * His tongue can strip the paint off a Porsche in 30 seconds.
 * His right nipple is shaped like the Nürburgring.
 * He sucks Matthew Earl's one in wonder
 * he has more dandruff than Steven Hunt
 * He's fatter than Thomas Naylor

The Stig Issue
While this page is still marked for cleanup (and that cleanup has come a long way), contributors continue to add a section devoted to The Stig. These additions have not been in compliance with Wikiquote standards for televisions shows. Going forward, anyone who wishes to contribute to this page should keep some things in mind to ensure wikiquote standards are upheld: Mchance27 00:29, 5 January 2008 (UTC) Some say he owns a striped green tshirt just like mine (as james may says while wearing an awful tshirt)
 * Quotes should be cited by episode, not person. This rules out a section devoted to the Stig.
 * Most stig quotes are already included for each episode, but we still need help identifying earlier quotes.
 * When adding quotes, please try to adhere to standards. This article is already marked for cleanup--please don't make it worse.
 * This page is intended for quotes from the BBC2 television show Top Gear. Quotes related to Top Gear but not actually aired on Top Gear should not be included on this page, but rather the wikiquote page devoted to that person.  For example, if Jeremy Clarkson says something funny on a talk show about Top Gear, it should NOT appear on this page.  Intead, it should appear on Jeremy Clarkson's page.

Top Gear Quote
Can any remember where Clarkson and Hammond talk about Blue Tooth and mateing with the dashboard, and the going on to say your car may have PMS?

Chap6595 12:13, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Series 11 Episode 2 During the News

Vietnam Special?
Is anyone going to add quotes from the Vietnam Special? NA 05:37, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Ok, I've just started a section for this special. The problem is that the show was already cut down a lot - the 'transmission' blog says they had trouble editing it down for broadcast and even at 75 minutes long it's still only the core of the story. So there's a higher than normal concentration of good/entertaining quotes and I feel I could end up almost writing a transcript of the entire episode. I was about to remove some of the quotes I had written but thought it would be a shame to waste the effort I put into typing it out. So it's at least still there in the history of the page even if it gets removed by myself or someone else.
 * What's the usual standard for deciding what quotes to include? I feel I've been including too much. What do others think? --Imroy 03:23, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I have to confess I don't really understand the problem with "including too much". Even large text files take up a miniscule amount of disk space, and consume a tiny quantity of bandwidth to transfer, compared with pretty much any other sort of media.  If zealous quotefile compilation is liable to break the Wikimedia Foundation, they've got bigger problems than can be solved by a few Top Gear fans economizing on quotations. :)  So I figure, if it's funny or otherwise pleasing, include it, and don't worry about overdoing it.  I submit to you that worrying about overdoing it is not the Top Gear way anyway. - 66.55.222.158, 2010.11.06 1521 EDT
 * The issue isn't mainly data amounts; it's copyright infringement. Please read Limits on quotations and refrain from adding excessive content to pages.  Thanks. -Sketchmoose 20:08, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Aha, I confess I hadn't considered that possibility - I mean, it seems to me that if we were to concern ourselves with that sort of thing, we wouldn't have the page in the first place. Still, message received.  Since I know from experience that the only way of curbing my chronic completism is not to engage it in the first place, I'll steer clear of the edit button in future.  (Hmm, it's hard to say that in a way that doesn't come across as a classic Internet-drama flounce-out, isn't it?  Not the spirit I mean it in, but there you are :) - 66.55.222.158, 2010.11.07 2247 EST
 * I'm sorry; I didn't mean to dissuade you entirely! I tend to be a "completist" myself so I understand the challenge. -Sketchmoose 15:07, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

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 * Jeremy: A Ferrari is like a downscaled version of... God...

 November 16th, 2003 [3.4]
 * Jeremy: Richard, uh, forgive me for bringing this up, but that looked suspiciously like a crash there.
 * Richard: No, no. Just parking vigorously at the end of the tape there.
 * Jeremy: You see, the problem is, ladies and gentlemen, uh, he's not really tall enough to see over the dashboard in most cars, large ones like the Mini, especially.

 * Jeremy: I am such a child. [As he is travelling 160 mph on the Autobahn, 6.6]

 * Jeremy: It feels soft and flobbery, like a big woolly bison.

 * Jeremy: It's an epic car.

 * Jeremy: Yes, but this isn't a democracy, this is Top Gear.

 * Jeremy: Anyone who sits in the back of a four-seater convertible looks like Hitler.

 * Jeremy: We're not going to listen to him because he's got a beard.

 * Jeremy: There's no such a thing like cheap and cheerful; there's cheap and nasty and there's expensive and cheerful.

 * Jeremy: Also European cars are rather less ostentatious and vulgar.

 * Jeremy: We have had literally some phone calls on this.

 * Jeremy: It's, um, a mobile phone holder, or as Richard Hammond calls it, a seat!

 * [On the Hummer H3]
 * Jeremy: It's a lot smaller than a normal Humvee. Hopefully Greenpeace will be using that as a company car. No, they won't, will they.

 * Jeremy: Putting it in a car this heavy is a bit like trying to move the moon out of orbit using the motor from a food blender.

 * [On the PT Cruiser cabriolet]
 * Jeremy: I would rather eat seventeen and a half thousand pounds, in pound quids!

 * Jeremy: We tease each other, work, then go to bed.

 * Jeremy: Well, we have been literally inundated with a phone call.

 * Jeremy: In the whole world... ever!

 * Jeremy: Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you, that's the killer.

 * [Of the last Mercedes S Class]
 * Jeremy: The first time I've ever done a power slide in a home cinema that's for sure!

 * Jeremy: POWEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR! (used in several competitions)

 * Jeremy: Cadillacs are for pimps and pensioners. And that's an end of it.

 * [On the Daihatsu Copen]
 * Jeremy: It's not so much a car as a shoe.

 * Jeremy: You simply ease the gear lever into S, for Star Trek Warp Factor mode...

 * Jeremy: Really is as useful as a snooze button on a smoke alarm.

 * Jeremy: You see, this is what I've had to put up with. [Hammond] thought Colin Powell was the drummer with Black Sabbath!

 * [On the vC2]
 * Jeremy: Well, it's known in the trade as the Citroën Supertanker.

 * Jeremy: Frankly, the Stig's mother could drive this lap, although that's unlikely because he was raised by wolves.

 * Jeremy: All the cars are equal. But one is more equal than the others.

 * Jeremy: It is as uncomfortable and as loud as Rod Stewart's leopard-skin disco trousers.

 * [On the Rolls Royce Phantom]
 * Jeremy: I imagined that driving this car through a village would be a bit like trying to thread an oil rig through someone's letterbox.

 * Jeremy: So that means breaking out the Stig, and that's a problem, because he's been to Nashville for his holidays, and I'm afraid he's developed a penchant for country and western music. [Unenthusiastically] Yee-ha.

 * Jeremy: Houston, das Eagle has landed.

 * [On the Dodge Challenger]
 * Jeremy: Listen, listen! That thing, okay... is like that ape that came to Wimbledon. What do you call... that... big ape in the final. Nadal! Loping around, he was loping around on the court like something out of that PG Tips advert. Now that is Federer, okay? And Federer kicked the ape's arse!... What about that? Look at that! The new Jag, Tim Henman! No, that doesn't work. Doesn't work at all.

 * Jeremy: It's like listening to the Cirque du Soleil being chopped up by their own chainsaws! (08x07, while reviewing the Lambo Gallardo Spyder)

 * Jeremy: I remember the air conditioning in Lambos of old used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw. That didn't work. (08x07, while reviewing the Lambo Gallardo Spyder)

 * [On the Porsche Cayenne]
 * Jeremy: It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis.

 * [On the Perodua Kelisa]
 * Jeremy: It's made in a jungle clearing by someone who went to work on an ox.

 * Jeremy: So they rang us up, and they said, "Your Stig. If we ship one of these over from Japan, could he take it out on your track and do a rap in it?" I said, "No! He prefers easy listening. Oh, a lap! Oh, right, a lap! Happy to oblige!"

 * [On the penultimate corner]
 * Jeremy: It's like threading a needle at a hundred miles an hour.

 * [On the Maserati Quattroporte, to the spectator who said Fiat was French]
 * Jeremy: It's a British car, this!

 * Jeremy: Roger Daltrey had no interest in the smallness of my van. He just wanted to explain the best way of throwing a television into a swimming pool. (08x08)

 * Jeremy: Now, my guest tonight is a huge star and a Cockney! So, ladies and gentlemen, uh, onto your plates of meat, and open your minced pies, because he's here in the s-- wait a minute, the Phil Collins Sususudio! That's not working, is it.

 * Jeremy: I'm going to start by fire-axing my way into James' bedroom... (08x08)

 * Jeremy: God that's a stup-erb thing! It's brilliant.

 * Jeremy: This Subaru is a hugely manly experience - the noise it makes... It's got a macho gearbox, it's got macho steering... It even smells of man - the essence of [sniffs deeply] burnt clutch - splash it on all over, before going out at night for a curry, and a fight!

 * James: [On the bloopers] ...And the news today... it has been officially announced that Jeremy Clarkson is an arse!

 * James: And now for the sitting-down news.

 * James: Eat my pants.

 * James: And now, the car every footballer's wife's hairdresser's masseuse has been waiting for: the new Mercedes SLK.

 * James: The interesting thing about the French nation, I think, because they are essentially peasants and Communists, is that they are quite good at the fairly small and fairly simple car.

 * James: This car is incredible. I like it, and I'm Captain Slow!

 * James: Why don't you save 20 grand and buy a Micra?

 * James: You do look a little bit like D'Artagnan, but shorter!

 * [When commenting on Carrera 4 and the Boxster S]
 * James: It's not a 911!

 * James: When you drive one of those and it's a diesel, it says three things about you: one is, you're tighter than two coats of paint, the second one is that you care so much about the environment that you want to leave a little protective sooty film over it, and the third one is, you're probably French.

 * James: Oh cock...

 * James: Mae popeth yn digwydd, un wrth un... [After losing a race to Hammond and Clarkson]

 * James: [Talking on BBC southern counties radio; audio which isn't in the episode but is somewhere on the internet] Thank you for making my headphones smell so lovely. ... The nice girl who talks about films has made my headphones smell all perfumy and lovely.

 * James: Do you honestly think I am going to put up with a small diesel hatchback just so that I can have a golden cock?

 February 18th, 2007 [9.4] (After the Power Lap Times was done for the Barbus SL)
 * James: And furthermore, we are British. We are the inventors of everything. It is time to brace ourselves, hasten unto the shed and liberate ourselves from the abyss made dark by the lights of perverted German science!

 * James: I've won something on Top Gear!!!

 * James: So now we have the world's lairiest car, on the start line at the world's most grueling endurance race. At the wheel is the world's most plastered racing driver. And guess what happened? He won.

 * James: [Referring to Richard's crashing a Ferrari] Actually, this is why it's called the F360, this model. You drive along and you go 'ffffffff' and you do a 360!

 * James: [On the Maserati Quattroporte] Right, once you start driving like an Italian this starts to make much more sense.

 * James: Swooping through trees, the whole vista of beautiful England, relayed into the comfort of your cabin in stunning windscreen format.

 * James: If I may, that's the revised Daihatsu Copen, and in your tennising analogy that you made, that is the ball. That is 660cc of flexing micro-Japanese sinew.

 * James: [On the blooper reel] Now, it's time for a rare dose of the real world, 'cause I've been driving a car that people actually buy! [smiles strangely, and the camera begins to swing round, but is interrupted by] Was that smile a bit too camp at the end there? [to resounding laughter and applause]

 * James: [Talking about the new Fiat Panda] Well, that's not right. I've had this thing nearly a week and nothing has fallen off and everything still works. I mean, who the hell do the Italians think they are anyway, the Germans?!

 * James: [after driving car with terrible handling] You see... It's like piggy-backing Richard Hammond when he has a few too many drinks. You don't know what he will do next.

 * James: [on the Mercedes SLR Roadster in the news] If a Bluebottle were to hit you in the middle of your head [at speed]... it will go right through... its own arse!

 * Richard: [disappointed at a breakdown] Subarus don't break!

 * Richard: I'd have all my clothes in brushed aluminium on matte black if I could.

 * Richard: [Responding to Jeremy's claim that an open-top car's rear seats are only for dictators] Oh, brilliant. So you're saying the best thing about your four seat cabriolet is you can only fit two people in it... God, you do talk some rubbish sometimes!

Surname or forename?
I seem to realise that at the beginning of each of the quotes from series 1 - 11 it has the presenters forenames (i.e. Jeremy, Richard and James). However, we have seemed in series 12 to use their surnames (i.e. Clarkson, Hammond, and May respectively), before reverting to their forenames in the Winter Olympics and Polar race, and then re-reverting to their surnames in the Vietnam special. You should have one or the other, not both. I will set about making them the same, (although it will take some time) and using their first name, since the overwhelming majority of the article uses their first names, but in future, when the new series comes out, please use the first name.--Fiddle and herman 13:36, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I've just finished editing the article, but in the future, use the presenter's first names, not their surnames.--Fiddle and herman 15:01, 30 May 2009 (UTC) riiiiiight....

Notability
Is this theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee complete transcripts of Top Gear or a list of memorable quotes?

 * Is this the preface to a suggested set of guidelines or just grumpiness? Notability is in the eye of the quoter, I should think. Myself, I go for stuff that made me laugh. - 66.55.222.158, 2010.11.05 1816 EDT

Audi R8 Review
I'm quite confident that Clarkson is saying "smearing honey into Keira Knightly". . So I'm going to change it back. -salle81

Top Gear Challenge
Dear guys,love your work.Now here it is.A real challenge.This will really push the limit.{A race across the moon}Not for whimps.

Reverted edits
I made some edits to Series 10.1 last month in regards to the segment on the Volkswagen Golf GTI W12 adding quotes from that to the episode. Though they were later reverted, probably due to how many there were. All I need is just a bit of clarification to be completely sure and understand the reason why. Cheers! Mitcho2001 (talk) 02:17, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I have been removing quotes to trim down what we can all agree is a much too long article. If you insist on keeping particular quotes, than fine. You may want to consider removing some quotes as well. The article is not improved when truly unique or funny excerpts from the show are separated by a ton of bad and unnoteworthy quotes. J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 11:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

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Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 - September 8, 2017) was an American essayist, journalist and science fiction author.

Lucifer's Hammer (1985)

 * with Larry Niven

 * In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
 * The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
 * To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. (Note: This quote, although found in the 1985 sci-fi novel, 'Lucifer's Hammer', by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, may be erroneously attributed to Pournelle. As this quote can also be found in the Preface of Henri Poincare's "Science and Hypothesis" the 1952 Dover abridged edition)

Assorted

 * If there aren't any whaling ships, then whales may survive. Anything short of that is so much hot air.
 * Twilight Song, Analog (June 1980), p. 104

 * I thought MAD was truly insane when we first adopted it, and I haven't changed my opinion.
 * Twilight Song, Analog (June 1980), p. 105

 * To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.
 * There Will Be War (1983)

 * One of the first things they teach stockbrokers is to stay out of the stock market. Brokers make their pile from selling advice, and from commissions on stock transactions. They can't predict the market, and few risk their own money. They, at least, only affect their clients' fortunes. Economists, though, can ruin the lot of us with their advice — yet if no science can predict a relatively closed system like the stock market, how the devil are you going to 'fine tune' something a large as the American economy? I'd think it arrogant to try; as arrogant as the man with three illiterate drug-addicted spoiled brats writing a book on parenting.
 * "The Voodoo Sciences", 1988

 * Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
 * Reply to reader email in Chaos Manor Mail 141, February 19-25, 2001

 * Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.
 * Reference quote in Chaos Manor View 408, April 3-9, 2006

 * I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.
 * Chaos Manor, Byte magazine, October 1990, page 84.

 * One thing that is known about ARPA: you can be heaved off it for supporting the policies of the Department of Defense. Of course that was intended to anger me. If you have an ARPA account, please tell CSTACY that he was successful; now let us see if my Pentagon friends can upset him. Or perhaps some reporter friends.  Or both., Or even the House Armed Services Committee.
 * How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the [[ARPANET] from message published on BIX networks/arpanet #3, from jerryp, Tue Jul 9 18:22:01 1985.

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 * I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
 * Commonly seen with the attribution "Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS"
 * Clarified in a reply to reader email in Chaos Manor View 402, February 20-26, 2006

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Alfred Korzybski

Alfred Korzybski (3 July 1879 – 1 March 1950) was a Polish engineer, mathematician, and philosopher, most famous for creating the theory of General Semantics.

Manhood of Humanity (1921)
Alfred Korzybski (1921), Manhood of Humanity : The Science and Art of Human Engineering, New York : E. P. Dutton & Company.

 * Let us imagine that the aboriginal-original human specimen was one of two brother apes, A and B; they were alike in every respect; both were animal space-binders; but something strange happened to B; he became the first time-binder, a human. … He had thus a new faculty, he belonged to a new dimension; but, of course, he did not realize it; and because he had this new capacity he was able to analyze his brother "A"; he observed "A is my brother; he is an animal; but he is my brother; therefore, I AM AN ANIMAL." This fatal first conclusion, reached by false analogy, by neglecting a fact, has been the chief source of human woe for half a million years and it still survives. … He [then] said to himself, "If I am an animal there is also in me something higher, a spark of some thing supernatural."
 * p. 67. Chapter: What is Man?

 * Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women. One has to stop and think! There is nothing mystical about the fact that ideas and words are energies which powerfully affect the physico-chemical base of our time-binding activities. Humans are thus made untrue to "human nature." … The conception of man as a mixture of animal and supernatural has for ages kept human beings under the deadly spell of the suggestion that, animal selfishness and animal greediness are their essential character, and the spell has operated to suppress their REAL HUMAN NATURE and to prevent it from expressing itself naturally and freely.
 * p. 71. Chapter: What is Man?

 * To regard human beings as tools — as instruments — for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker — they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
 * p. 133. Chapter: Capitalistic Era.

 * Such as contribute most to human progress and human enlightenment — men like Gutenberg, Copernicus, Newton, Leibnitz, Watts, Franklin, Mendeleieff, Pasteur, Sklodowska-Curie, Edison, Steinmetz, Loeb, Dewey, Keyser, Whitehead, Russell, Poincaré, William Benjamin Smith, Gibbs, Einstein, and many others — consume no more bread than the simplest of their fellow mortals. Indeed such men are often in want. How many a genius has perished inarticulate because unable to stand the strain of social conditions where animal standards prevail and "survival of the fittest" means, not survival of the "fittest in time-binding capacity," but survival of the strongest in ruthlessness and guile — in space-binding competition!
 * p. 136. Chapter: Capitalistic Era.

Science and Sanity (1933)
Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity. 1933; Lancaster (Penn.) 1941.

 * There is a fundamental confusion between the notion of the older 'semantics' as connected with a theory of verbal 'meaning' and words defined by words, and the present theory of 'general semantics' where we deal only with neuro-semantic and neuro-linguistic living reactions of Smith, Smith, etc., as their reactions to neuro-semantic and neuro-linguistic environments as environments.
 * p. vii, as cited in: Schaff (1962;91)

 * The only link between the verbal and objective world is exclusively structural, necessitating the conclusion that the only content of all "knowledge" is structural. Now structure can be considered as a complex of relations, and ultimately as multi-dimensional order. From this point of view, all language can be considered as names for unspeakable entities on the objective level, be it things or feelings, or as names of relations. In fact... we find that an object represents an abstraction of a low order produced by our nervous system as the result of a sub-microscopic events acting as stimuli upon the nervous system.
 * p. 20.

 *  "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.
 * p. 35.

 * The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
 * Edition:Institute of General Semantics, 1995, p. 58.

 * Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that. It is seemingly little realized, at present, that this simple and innocent-looking statement involves a full structural revision of our language...
 * p. 64.

 * The main thesis of this non-Aristotelian system is that as yet we all (with extremely few exceptions) copy animals in our nervous processes, and that practically all human difficulties, mental ills … have this … component.
 * p. 73.

 * Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
 * p. 76.

 * The word is not the thing.
 * p. 222.

Quotes about Alfred Korzybski

 * "What is good in Korzybski's work," they say, "is not new, and what is new is not good." On the other hand, many "Korzybski-ites" proclaim that Korzybski's work has "nothing to do" with semantics. They go so far as to say that the very term "general semantics" was an unfortunate choice; that had Korzybski known what confusion would arise between semantics and general semantics he would not have used it at all. Korzybski himself has maintained that while semantics belongs to the philosophy of language and perhaps to the theory of knowledge, general semantics belongs to empirical science: that it is the foundation of a science of man, the basis of the first "non-aristotelian system," which has had no predecessor and which no academic semanticist has ever achieved.
 * Anatol Rapoport (1950), "What is Semantics?", p. 14

 * Korzybski's book Science and Sanity is quite useless as a source of information about general semantics. It is embarrassingly vague and dilettantish, and greatly oversized at that (nearly 800 pages). I can, however, recommend three excellent articles from the collection Language, Meaning and Maturity, New York 1954, which includes selected papers chosen first of all from the periodical ETC for the period 1943-53. I mean the above mentioned work by Anatol Rapoport, "What Is Semantics?" and two works by : "Semantics. General Semantics and Related Disciplines" and "What Is Meant by Aristotelian Structure of Language?"
 * Adam Schaff (1962). Introduction to semantics, p. 91-92, footnote 4.

 * Scientific language, which Korzybski used as his model of sane language, is almost exclusively extensional and denotative, or at least tries to be. The language of the mentally ill, most obviously "un-sane," is almost totally intensional and connotative. This is the language that does not correspond to anything "out there," and this is, in fact, how and perhaps even why the user is mentally ill. Korzybski's concern with keeping the conscious "connection" or correspondence between language and verifiable referents is, for all practical purposes, paralleled by the process of psychotherapy. In this process, which is largely "just talk," the purpose is to foster closer and more accurate correspondence between the patient's language and externally verifiable meanings.
 * Neil Postman, Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969).

 * Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.
 * Robert Anton Wilson, in an interview in High Times (2003).

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The Rock (film)

The Rock is a 1996 action film about a mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con who must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

''Directed by Michael Bay. Written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, and Mark Rosner.''

Brig. General Francis X. Hummel

 * [Visiting his wife's grave] I miss you so much... [places flowers] There's something I've gotta do, Barb. Something I couldn't do while you were here. I tried. You know I tried everything, and I still don't have their attention. Let's hope this elevates their thinking. But whatever happens... Please don't think any less of me. [Places his Medal of Honor on the tombstone and kisses it]
 * [addressing Marines] We'll be branded as traitors. The gravest capital crime, punishable by death. Couple of hundred years ago, a few guys named Washington, Jefferson, and Adams were branded traitors by the British - and now they're called patriots. In time so shall we.

Dialogue

 * Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Three tours in Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Desert Storm, three Purple Hearts, two Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of– Jesus. This man is a hero.
 * General Al Kramer: Well, I think "legend" might be a better description, Mr. Sinclair.
 * Sinclair: Yeah, well, now we can add kidnapping and extortion to his list of accolades.
 * Gen. Kramer: [mildly indignant] Mr. Sinclair, General Hummel is a man of honor.

 * [In the Pentagon situation room, General Kramer and other military and civilian staff receive a call]
 * General Al Kramer: Frank, it's Al Kramer.
 * BG Francis Hummel: [chomps a cigar] Hi, Al, how you doin'?
 * Kramer: I don't know, Frank. Ah, why don't you tell me. Got a lot of very, very worried people here, Frank.
 * Hummel: I'll come straight to the point. Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands. Forty-seven in northern Laos and southern China.
 * White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair: Southern China? We never admitted we sent troops into China.
 * Hummel: Who is this? Identify yourself.
 * Sinclair: White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General.
 * Hummel: [stands up] How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair?
 * Sinclair: I'm 33-
 * Hummel: Well, Mr. Sinclair, you've probably got no fucking idea what I'm talking about. By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China. My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills. Now put some rigging tape over Mr. Sinclair's mouth, he's wasting my time!
 * Kramer: Ah you want to continue, Frank?
 * Hummel: Remember Operation Desert Storm? Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs, covered so well on CNN? It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lasing the targets. Twenty of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended. No benefits were paid to their families. No medals conferred. These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial. This situation is unacceptable. You will transfer 100 million dollars from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account to an account I designate. From these funds, reparations of $1 million will be paid to each of the 83 Marines' families. The rest of the funds, I will disperse at my discretion. Do I make myself clear?
 * FBI Director James Womack: Except for the Red Sea Trading Company. What is that?
 * Hummel: Identify yourself.
 * Womack: This is FBI Director Womack, General.
 * Hummel: It's a slush fund where the Pentagon keeps proceeds from illegal arms sales-
 * Kramer: Jesus, Frank! This is classified information!
 * Hummel: You alert the media, I launch the gas. You refuse payment, I launch the gas. You've got 40 hours, till noon day after tomorrow to arrange transfer of the money. I am aware of your countermeasure. You know, and I know, it doesn't stand a chance. Hummel from Alcatraz. Out. [disconnects video call]

 * [Stanley Goodspeed's girlfriend Carla has just revealed she's pregnant with his child]
 * Carla: You didn't really mean what you said about bringing a child into this world... being an act of cruelty, did you?
 * Goodspeed: I meant it at the time.
 * Carla: Stanley, "at the time"? You said it seven-and-a-half seconds ago!
 * Goodspeed: Well... gosh. Kind of a lot's happened since then.

 * [Mason just had his haircut at the Fairmont Hotel balcony]
 * John Mason: So what do you have in store for me, Womack, when this is over?
 * FBI Director James Womack: You'll get your life back, Mason.
 * Mason: But you could have given my life back years ago. [walks away, but turns back to Womack] Why should I trust you now?
 * Womack: You've got my word.
 * Mason: Will you shake on it? [Womack nods. Both men shake hands but Mason attaches a rope on Womack's hand and throws him off the balcony.]

 * Commander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation?
 * Goodspeed: Define combat, sir.
 * Anderson: Shep?
 * LT Shepherd: An incursion underwater to re-take an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and 15 guided rockets armed with VX poison gas.
 * Goodspeed: Oh. In that case, no, sir. Excuse me a moment. [runs to the bathroom and throws up]

 * [While the US Navy SEAL’s are breaching through the tunnel system in Alcatraz]

 * Goodspeed: You enjoying this?
 * Mason: Well, it's certainly more enjoyable than my average day: Reading philosophy, avoiding gang rape in the washroom. Though it's less of a problem these days. Maybe I'm losing my sex appeal.

 * Mason: [Gives Goodspeed a handgun] Are you sure you're ready for this? [walks up staircase]
 * Goodspeed: I'll do my best.
 * Mason: [stops and motions back to Goodspeed] Your best? Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen!
 * Goodspeed: Carla was the prom queen.
 * Mason: [faintly impressed] Really?
 * Goodspeed: [Cocks his gun] Yeah!

 * [Mason and Goodspeed are defusing a poison gas rocket when Goodspeed notices a twitching corpse]
 * Goodspeed: You've been around a lot of corpses. Is that normal?
 * Mason: [looks at the twitching corpse] What, the feet thing?
 * Goodspeed: Yeah, the feet thing.
 * Mason: Yeah, that happens.
 * Goodspeed: Well, I'm having kind of a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it?
 * Mason: Like what? Kill him again?
 * Goodspeed: Listen, I'm just a biochemist. And most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo--a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here, is one of the most deadly substances the Earth has ever known. So what do you say you cut me some friggin slack?

 * [Goodspeed composes himself for a brief moment before removing its contents]
 * Goodspeed: A really elegant string-of-pearls configuration. Unfortunately, incredibly unstable.
 * Mason: What exactly does this stuff do?
 * Goodspeed: If the rocket renders it aerosol, it could take out an entire city of people.
 * Mason: Really? And what happens if you drop one?
 * Goodspeed: Happily, it'd just wipe out you and me.
 * Mason: How?
 * Goodspeed: It's a cholinesterase inhibitor. Stops the brain from sending nerve messages down the spinal cord within 30 seconds. Any epidermal exposure or inhalation and you'll know. A twinge at the small of your back as the poison seizes your nervous system- [Mason has lifted the chem round to look at it] DO NOT MOVE THAT! Your muscles freeze, you can't breathe, you spasm so hard you break your own back and spit your guts out. But that's after your skin melts off.
 * Mason: [wide-eyed] My God.
 * Goodspeed: [smiles grimly] Oh, I think we'd like God on our side at the moment, don't you?

 * [Mason voluntarily presents himself to General Hummel to save a tourist from execution]
 * Gen. Hummel: [thinking Mason is a SEAL] I thought I'd been in the service a long time... name and rank, sailor.
 * Mason: It's Army, actually.
 * Maj. Baxter: Answer the question. [Mason looks at him] And address him as "General, sir."
 * Mason: Captain John Patrick Mason, General, sir, of her Majesty's SAS. Retired, of course.
 * Gen. Hummel: You're a long way from home, Captain. How the hell are you involved in this?
 * Mason': Oh, I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.
 * Gen. Hummel: Have they bothered to tell you who I am, why I'm doing this, or are they just using you like they do everybody else?
 * Mason: All I know is, you were big in Vietnam; I saw the highlights on television.
 * Gen. Hummel: Then you wouldn't have any fucking idea of what it means to lead some of the finest men on God's earth into battle and then see their memory betrayed by their own fucking government!
 * Mason: I don't quite see how you cherish the memory of the dead by killing another million, and, uh, this is not combat. It's an act of lunacy, General, sir. Personally, I think you're a fucking idiot.
 * Gen. Hummel: [slightly smiling] "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
 * Mason: "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde. [Hummel strikes him in the back of the neck] Thank you for making my point.
 * Gen. Hummel: Where are the guidance chips? [aims pistol at Mason's head] Where are the guidance chips??!
 * Mason: I destroyed them.
 * Gen. Hummel: That's a bad move, soldier.
 * Mason: Does that mean you'll execute us both? [referring to the tourist]

 * Goodspeed: [Holding VX nerve gas] Do you know how this shit works?
 * Capt. Darrow: [Holding his knife] Do you know how this shit works?! [flashes his knife] Come on, come on, I don't need the gun. I'll put it down, come on. Let's play! Come on, come on!
 * Goodspeed: Listen, I think we got off on the wrong foot. Stan Goodspeed, FBI. Uh, let's talk music. Do you like the Elton John song "Rocket Man"?
 * Darrow: I don't like soft-ass shit!
 * Goodspeed: Oh, oh, you don't, OK. Well, I only bring it up because, uh... it's you. You're the rocket man! [he fires the rocket out the window, taking Darrow with it] How do you like how that shit works?!

 * [Goodspeed just told the FBI that Mason is dead]
 * Stanley Goodspeed: Womack tore up your pardon, John.
 * John Mason: But of course. I knew he would.
 * Goodspeed: The S.D.U.s and the scuba gear should still be where we came ashore. If you can get to the Pan Pacific Hotel, there's clothes in my closet, $200 in the Bible, Room 26.
 * Mason: Well, it's been a long time since I've said thank you to anybody... but thank you. Well, Stanley, I guess this is where we go our separate ways. I'm sure you understand the etymology of your name, "Goodspeed".
 * Goodspeed: Yeah, God speed: To wish someone a prosperous journey. Why?
 * Mason: Well, if you fancy a journey, I recommend Fort Walton, Kansas.
 * Goodspeed: I was thinking of Maui.
 * Mason: No... [puts something into Goodspeed's hand] Forget Maui.
 * Goodspeed: [reads piece of paper] St Michael's Church, Fort Walton, Kansas. Front pew, right leg, hollow. Is this what I think it is-[looks back at Mason, but he's disappeared] MASON!?

Taglines

 * Get ready to rock!
 * Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.
 * America is Rocking!
 * Cocked, locked, and Ready to Rock!
 * Honey, you wanna know who really killed J.F.K.?

Cast

 * Sean Connery - Captain John Patrick Mason, Special Air Service (Rtd.)
 * Nicolas Cage - FBI Special Agent Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
 * Ed Harris - Brigadier General Francis X. "Frank" Hummel, USMC Force Recon
 * John Spencer - FBI Director James Womack
 * David Morse - Major Tom Baxter, USMC Force Recon
 * William Forsythe - FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Ernest Paxton
 * Michael Biehn - Commander Anderson, USN SEAL
 * Vanessa Marcil - Carla Pestalozzi
 * John C. McGinley - Captain Hendrix, USMC Force Recon
 * Gregory Sporleder - Captain Frye, USMC Force Recon
 * Tony Todd - Captain Darrow, USMC Force Recon
 * Bokeem Woodbine - Gunnery Sergeant Crisp, USMC Force Recon
 * Jim Maniaci - Private Scarpetti, USMC Force Recon
 * Greg Collins - Private Gamble, USMC Force Recon
 * Brendan Kelly - Private Cox, USMC Force Recon
 * Steve Harris - Private McCoy, USMC Force Recon
 * Danny Nucci - Lieutenant Shephard, USN SEAL
 * Claire Forlani - Jade Angelou

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 * My user page at Wikipedia
 * My user page at Wikisource

Articles I've done any real work on
Robert Graves¹ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Joseph Conrad (created daughter articles) – Walter Scott

¹ = articles I've started

To do

 * work on Wikiquote talk:Aims
 * Robert Graves, copy in material
 * go back to Abortion when time for consensus, and alphabetize if necess.

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Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

Quotes

 * As all the perfumes of the vanished day Rise from the earth still moistened with the dew So from my chastened soul beneath thy ray Old love is born anew.
 * Remembrance.

 * Great artists have no country.
 * L’Orfèvre, Lorenzaccio (1834).

 * Je ne puis;—malgré moi l'infini me tourmente.
 * I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
 * L'Espoir en Dieu, Revue des deux Mondes (1838).

Confession d'un Enfant du Siécle (1836)(translation)

 * The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be subsisting on the ruins of the past, as if the end of the world were near.
 * This quotation is useful for explanations of the period of art nouveau, and the causes of the art movement.

About Alfred de Musset

 * For us, a sorrowful generation consumed by visions and insulted by his angelic sloth, Musset is fourteen times worse! O the tedious tales and proverbs! O his Nuits! His Rolla, Namouna, La Coupe. It’s all so French, which is to say unbearable to the nth degree; French, but not Parisian. Another work by that odious genius who inspired Rabelais, Voltaire and Jean La Fontaine, with notes by M. Taine! How vernal, Musset’s mind! And how delightful, his love! Like paint on enamel, his dense poetry! We will savor French poetry endlessly, in France. Every grocer’s son can reel off something Rollaesque, every seminarian has five hundred rhymes hidden in his notebook. At fifteen, these passionate impulses give boys boners; at sixteen, they’ve already resolved to recite their lines with feeling; at eighteen, even seventeen, every schoolboy who can write a Rolla, does—and they all do! Some may even still die from it. Musset couldn’t do anything: there were visions behind the gauze curtains: he closed his eyes. French, half-dead, dragged from tavern to schooldesk, the beautiful corpse has died, and, ever since, we needn’t waste our time trying to rouse him with our abominations!
 * Arthur Rimbaud : LETTER TO PAUL DEMENY, 1871. Charleville, 15 mai 1871.

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Crowfoot

Crowfoot (c. 1830 – 25 April 1890) or Isapo-Muxika was a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation in Canada.

Quotes
Also found in King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (1885).
 * What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
 * Crowfoot's last words, 1890; reported in Clark Tibbitts, Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction (1957), p. 222.

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Neve Campbell

Neve Adrianne Campbell (born 3 October 1973) is a Canadian film and television actress.

Quotes

 * I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes.
 *

 * TS (Tourette's Syndrome) has really taught me a lesson about judging people who are different. Now when I see somebody do or say something I don't understand, I try to look beyond appearances and ask myself what makes that person tick — no pun intended. Think about it: When you keep an open mind about things that seem unusual or strange, all sorts of new understanding come to you. The world gets bigger, and so do you.
 * Celebrity Diary, Teen People Magazine, April 2000

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The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (also known as Billy & Mandy] (2003–08), created by Maxwell Atoms, is an American animated television series that aired on Cartoon Network. The two main characters, Billy and Mandy, have obliged the Grim Reaper to be their best friend forever after having won a bet over a sick hamster.

Seasons
==Codename: KND Crossover – The Grim Adventures of the Kids Next Door==

Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure

 * Grim: Hey, we got to this far. Not bad for a weenie, a dope and a useless bag of bones with no powers. You figure out the rest.
 * Billy: Am I the weenie or the bag of bones?

 * Grim: Love makes people do all sorts of stupid things.
 * Billy: I love everything!
 * Grim: That explains a lot.

 * Billy: Is Grim gonna be OK?
 * Mandy: He'll be fine. He's going through the seven stages of grief. Shock.
 * Grim: How could this happen?
 * Mandy: Denial.
 * Grim: It's a mistake. No way this can happen.
 * Mandy: Bargaining.
 * Grim: It's OK, it's OK, maybe I can fix it.
 * Mandy: Fear.
 * Grim: There's no way I can fix it!
 * Mandy: Anger.
 * Grim: I'm gonna pull Boogie's nose off and put it in a jar!
 * Mandy: Despair.
 * Grim: And when I'm done with Boogie, I'm coming for you little pukes!
 * Mandy: He's stuck on anger.

 * Fred Fredburger: Uh... we, the jury, find the defendant... uh... innocent!
 * Pale Ghoulish Juror: You idiot! That says guilty!
 * Fred Fredburger: Guilty! Yes.

Voice Cast

 * Richard Steven Horvitz - Billy, Harold (Billy's dad), Billy-bot, and Saliva
 * Grey DeLisle - Mandy, Milkshake, Aunt Sis, Major Dr. Ghastly, and Betty Rubble
 * Greg Eagles - Grim Reaper and Sperg
 * Vanessa Marshall - Irwin and Clarie (Mandy's mom)
 * Rachael MacFarlane - Mindy and Eris
 * Jennifer Hale - Gladys (Billy's mom)
 * Jane Carr - Pud'n
 * Debi Derryberry - Nergal Jr.
 * Diedrich Bader - Hoss Delgado and Floss Delgado
 * Armin Shimerman - General Skarr
 * Kari Wahlgren - Velma the Spider Queen

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