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Kabir

Kabir (1440–1518) was an Indian poet, mystic and philosopher, and one of the Northern India Sants.

Quotes

 * I have come to save the devotees. I was sent here  because the world was seen in misery.
 * Quoted in Tara Chand, Influence of Islam on Indian Culture, The Indian Press (Allahabad, 1946). pp.150-151. Quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian muslims, who are they, 1990.

Bijak

 * Quotes from various translations of the Bijak [Seedling], an early compilation of Kabir's poetry.

 * I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand. Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.
 * The Bijak of Kabir (1983;2002) as translated by Linda Hess and Shukdeo Singh.

 * Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
 * Sakhi, 168; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib.

 * Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.
 * Sakhi, 170; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib.

 * A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up.
 * Sakhi, 171; translation by Yashwant K. Malaiya based on that of Puran Sahib.

 * When you were born, you cried while others laughed. Perform such deeds that when dying, you laugh while others cry.”
 * Quoted from    Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), Chapter: Humour in Hinduism

Songs of Kabîr (1915)

 * Translations of Kabir's poetry by Rabindranath Tagore, with alternate translations of some passages also provided.

I

 * O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time.
 * Variant translation: Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly — you will find me in the tiniest house of time.
 * As paraphrased by Robert Bly in The Kabir Book (1977)

 * Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."
 * Variant translation: Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath
 * As translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Heart (1993)

II

 * It is needless to ask of a saint the caste to which he belongs; For the priest, the warrior. the tradesman, and all the thirty-six castes, alike are seeking for God. It is but folly to ask what the caste of a saint may be; The barber has sought God, the washerwoman, and the carpenter — Even Raidas was a seeker after God.

 * Hindus and Moslems alike have achieved that End, where remains no mark of distinction.

III

 * O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body: If He is found now, He is found then, If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death. If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

IV
 * Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.

LXXVI

 * Open your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world! consider it well, and know that this is your own country.

 * When you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart; He will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you will know indeed that He transcends this universe.

 * He is the Ultimate Rest unbounded: He has spread His form of love throughout all the world. From that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are perpetually springing: and He pervades those forms.

 * There the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One; There in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon the great Being sits — Millions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of His body.

 * On the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart: There the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.

 * They call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all truths are stored! There within Him creation goes forward, which is beyond all philosophy; for philosophy cannot attain to Him: There is an endless world, O my Brother! and there is the Nameless Being, of whom naught can be said. Only he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than all that is heard and said. No form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I tell you that which it is?

 * He comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains to Him. Kabîr says: "It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper: It is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing — how shall it be explained?"

Azfar Hussain translations

 * Poems of Kabir, as translated by Azfar Hussain, in Reading About the World, Vol. 2 ISBN 0-8281-0849-8

 * I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

 * When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

 * I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am I! I am this body, a play Of five elements; a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

 * A drop Melting into the sea, Everyone can see. But the sea Absorped In a drop — A rare one can follow!

 * I am looking at you, You at him, Kabir asks, how to solve This puzzle — You, he, and I?

Quotes about Kabir

 * Poets like Jayasi, Rahim, and Raskhan are rare phenomena. So are saints like Kabir, Nanak and Gharib Das. They attempted a synthesis of the two cultural streams in the field of literature in their own way. But their endeavours were severly limited and short-lived. They failed to be popular amongst and influence the Muslims.
 * Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions, 1990, p.27

 * I have it on good authority that Kabir's thought is Hindu through and through. The fable that Kabir brought a synthesis between Islam and Hinduism, does not survive a comparison between his works and the Quran. That Kabir was a simple weaver who produced lofty poetry just like that, is another fable for children of socialists : Kabir was well-read and knew his classics. There are hardly any Muslims in the Kabirpanth, and it is only the Hindus who venerate him. The simplest proof that his contribution to Indian culture was un-Islamic, is that he was persecuted for his Kafir ideas by the Muslim ruler Sikandar Lodi.
 * Koenraad Elst (1993). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society. New Delhi: Voice of India.

 * It is often said that the 15th-century poet Kabir was neither a Hindu nor a Muslim because he criticized and mocked both Hinduism and Islam, or rather, both Hindus and Muslims... Thus, Kabir’s rejection of Islamic animal sacrifice... does pit him against Islam as such. But Hinduism has far more fluid boundaries: most things Hindu have been rejected at one time or other by authoritative thinkers whose inclusion in the Hindu category is not in doubt... Kabir’s relative originality lies in his combination of devotion with the conception of the object of devotion as faceless (nirguna, “without quality”) rather than iconographically distinct, but that doesn’t place him outside the Hindu continuum... Scholars who place Kabir (or Sikhism founder Guru Nanak) as much outside Hinduism as outside Islam, may be suspected of projecting non-Hindu, mainly Christian categories of box-type religious divisions onto a civilization in which they don’t apply.
 * Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), Chapter: Humour in Hinduism

 * While there is evidence that both Hindus and Muslims were ready to assault Kabir physically during his lifetime, they have since his death been ready to assault each other over the privilege of claiming him as their own. … Some modern commentators have tried to present Kabir as a synthesizer of Hinduism and Islam; but the picture is a false one. While drawing on various traditions as he saw fit, Kabir emphatically declared his independence from both the major religions of his countrymen, vigorously attacked the follies of both, and tried to kindle the fire of similar autonomy and courage in those who claimed to be his disciples.
 * Linda Hess in the Introduction to The Bijak of Kabir (1983;2002)

 * The contrast of Kabir’s intimate Hindu thought, writings and ritual with the purely superficial knowledge of Moslem belief revealed in the Bijak is too striking to be ignored.
 * Ahmad Shah, Bijak of Kabir (Hamirpur, 1917), p.40. Quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian muslims, who are they, 1990.

 * Kabir belongs to that small group of supreme mystics amongst whom St. Augustine, Ruysbroeck, and the Sufi poet Jalalu'ddin Rumi are perhaps the chief who have achieved that which we might call the synthetic vision of God. These have resolved the perpetual opposition between the personal and impersonal, the transcendent and immanent, static and dynamic aspects of the Divine Nature; between the Absolute of philosophy and the "sure true Friend" of devotional religion. They have done this, not by taking these apparently incompatible concepts one after the other; but by ascending to a height of spiritual intuition at which they are, as Ruysbroeck said, "melted and merged in the Unity," and perceived as the completing opposites of a perfect Whole.
 * Evelyn Underhill, in Introduction to the Poems of Kabir (1915)

 * The whole background of Kabir’s thought is Hindu.
 * Westcott, G.H., Kabir and the Kabir Panth, p. 118. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 6

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Stan Lee

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber 28 December 1922 - 12 November 2018) was an American writer, editor, and memoirist, who — with several artist co-creators, especially Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko — introduced complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books.

Quotes

 * WITH GREAT POWER THERE MUST ALSO COME--GREAT RESPONSIBILITY!
 * Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) – The first Spider-Man story.
 * In later stories and adaptations, including the 2002 movie, this has appeared as "With great power comes great responsibility."
 * The saying pre-dates Amazing Fantasy. The phrase "with great power goes great responsibility" was spoken by J. Hector Fezandie in an 1894 graduation address at The Stevens Institute of Technology: "The Moral Influence of a Scientific Education", The Stevens Indicator, Volume 11, Alumni and Undergraduates of Stevens Institute of Technology, 1894, p. 217. The exact phrase was repeated during a speech by President Harry S. Truman on November 6, 1950: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, United States Government Printing Office, 1965, p. 703. A UK Member of Parliament implied in 1817 that a variant of it was already a cliché ( The editor is quoting William Lamb (pp. 1125–1229)). The sentiment is also found in Luke 12:48: "from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked" (NIV).

 * Excelsior!
 * Closing signature line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages, since the 1960s.
 * See, for example, Web of Spider-Man 84 (January 1992)

 * 'Nuff Said!
 * Often-used line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages, since the 1960s.

 * Face front, true believer!
 * Often-used line on "Stan Lee's Soapbox" editorial pages.

 * In the early days, I was writing scripts for virtually all the books, and it was very hard to keep all the artists busy; poor little frail me, doing story after story. So I'd be writing a story for Kirby, and Steve Ditko would walk in and say, 'Hey, I need some work now.' And I'd say, 'I can't give it to you now, Steve, I'm finishing Kirby's.' But we couldn't afford to keep Steve waiting, because time is money, so I'd have to say, 'Look Steve, I can't write a script for you now, but here's the plot for the next Spider-Man. Go home and draw anything you want, as long as it's something like this, and I'll put the copy in later.' So I was able to finish Jack's story. Steve in the meantime was drawing another story.....Okay, it started out as a lazy man's device...but we realized this was absolutely the best way to do a comic.....Don't have the writer say, 'Panel one will be a long shot of Spider-Man walking down the street.' The artist may see it differently; maybe he feels it should be a shot of Spider-Man swinging on his web, or climbing upside-down on the ceiling or something.
 * On the early days of work at Marvel Comics. Interview (1975)

 * They are working on The Fantastic Four, The Silver Surfer, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, The Hulk— they're doing a sequel to Spider-Man, a sequel to X-Men, and probably a third sequel to Blade. They still haven't gotten around to Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.— they have to do the Ghost Rider.
 * On characters he created in comic books which are being used as the basis of movies. Interview at the DareDevil movie premiere (February 2003).

 * To me you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, 'Do not do unto others...' All I tried to do in my stories was show that there's some innate goodness in the human condition. And there's always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.
 * How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) Reform Judaism (2003)

 * As comics writers we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk.
 * How the Jews Created the Comic Book Industry Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) Reform Judaism (2003)

 * What did Doctor Doom really want? He wanted to rule the world. Now, think about this. You could walk across the street against a traffic light and get a summons for jaywalking, but you could walk up to a police officer and say "I want to rule the world," and there's nothing he can do about it, that is not a crime. Anybody can want to rule the world. So, even though he was the Fantastic Four's greatest menace, in my mind, he was never a criminal!
 * On Doctor Doom, in Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe (2006) by Roy Thomas

 * We tried to make our characters as human and empathetic as possible. Instead of merely emphasizing their super feats, we attempted to make their personal life and personal problems as realistic and as interesting as possible. We wanted to make them seem like real people whom the reader would like to spend time with and want to know better.
 * Huffington Post, 28 March 2012

 * Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.
 * cyberspacers.com

 * Our faiths are similar — it's merely our religions that may differ. I have faith in the inherent goodness of man and I'm sure you feel the same. ... I have the greatest respect for any discipline that preaches kindness and charity and love for one's fellow man. Most important of all, to me — "Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you" is the greatest phrase ever written. If everyone followed that creed, this world would be a paradise.
 * "Unlikely Saints: Stan Lee, Soupy Sales and the Golden Rule" by Peter M. Wallace, The Huffington Post (10 August 2010)

 * [F]or me, superheroes will always spark the imagination of people around the world regardless of their background, because I think that people are always looking for something that represents the ideal person or the ideal situation. Almost all of us have loved fairy tales when we were young. Just remember stories of giants and witches and wizards and monsters and things that were so colorful and bigger than life. But then, you get a little older and you’re too old to read fairy tales. But you never outgrow your love of that type of story. And if you think about it, superheroes stories today are really like fairy tales for grown-ups. The characters are bigger than life, just like in fairy tales. They have the same type of superpowers: some can fly, some are extra-strong, some can be invisible. It gives the viewer and the reader a chance to relive the excitement he or she had when they were young. They’re really reading fairy tales for grown-ups when they read or when they see superhero stories today, and that’s why I love them so.
 * “Stan Lee: What Makes a Superhero?”, TEDxGateway 2013 conference.

 * To me, the human aspect of superheroes has always been, perhaps, the most important part. By that, I mean: Okay, we assume your superhero might be extra-strong, or might be able to fly or run as fast as a comet. But unless you care about the superhero’s personal life, you’re just reading a shallow story. Just because a person has a superpower doesn’t mean he might not have the same personal problems that you or I might have. Maybe he doesn’t have enough money, maybe he has a family problem, maybe the girl he loves doesn’t love him. Or maybe the girl he loves doesn’t want to be involved with a superhero. There are so many things you can think of that round out the character and the personality, so the superhero isn’t just one or two dimensional. You want a three-dimensional superhero who lives and breathes and worries and experiences things just the way you and I do, except for the fact that she or he has a superpower.
 * “Stan Lee: What Makes a Superhero?”, TEDxGateway 2013 conference.

 * [M]ost writers — and I think it’s an unfortunate thing — they try to write something that they think a certain audience might enjoy. I’ve never been able to do that, because I can’t put myself in the mind of other people. I only know what I enjoy. So every time I’ve written a story, I’ve always tried to write the sort of story that I, myself would enjoy reading, a story that would interest me while I’m writing it as I’m waiting to find out what happens next. And I can’t know what other people think, but I can know what I think, and I feel. I’m not that unusual. If there’s a type of story I like, there must be lots of people who like the same type of stories. Therefore, I have always written to please myself, not to please a certain type of audience, because you can’t know the audience as well as you know yourself.
 * “Stan Lee: What Makes a Superhero?”, TEDxGateway 2013 conference.

Lee Quotes from Movies, TV Series and Video Games

 * “You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...” - Dialogue from Spider-Man 3

 * “Human nature doesn’t change. It’s the environment. What’s happened to us is, the world has been wildly changing,producing new sets of rules each time you blink your eye.None of us is all that different from each other. We all want essentially the same things out of life. A measure of security, some fun, some romance, friendship, and respect of our contemporaries. That goes for Indians, Chinese, Russians, Jews, Arabs, Catholics, Protestants, Blacks, Browns, Whites, and green-skinned Hulks. So why don't we all stop wasting time hating the other guys? Just look in the mirror, mister - that other guy is you! Excelsior! ” - Dialogue from Marvel's Behind The Mask

Attributed

 * The worst advice Stan Lee ever gave me: “Work with the devil himself if he has talent.”
 * Jim Shooter, Jimshooter.com (2011/06)

Quotes about Lee

 * When my father died, no one from Marvel or Disney reached out to me. From day one, they have commoditized my father's work and never shown him or his legacy any respect or decency. In the end, no one could have treated my father worse than Marvel and Disney's executives.
 * Joan Lee, as quoted in ''Stan Lee's daughter: 'No one could have treated my father worse than Marvel and Disney's executives (August 22, 2019) by Sarah Whitten, '.

 * Reflecting back on some of his co-creations in 1975, Stan Lee dubiously claimed that "Marvel Comics has never been into politics" or beholden to an "official party line" before offering a near-apology for the moral simplicity of the portrait of the Vietnam conflict in 1963's "Iron Man Is Born!" (Son of Origins 47.) A disinterested observer would find much evidence to counter these claims in the pages of Tales of Suspense between 1963 and 1968.
 * Brian Patton, "The Iron Clad American: Iron Man in the 1960s", in "The Ages of Iron Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times", edited by Joseph J. Darowski, (2015), p.10.

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Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard OM CBE FRSL (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter, knighted in 1997.
 * See also:
 * Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
 * Shakespeare in Love

Quotes

 * It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable … it's better to be quotable than honest.
 * Interview with Janet Watts in The Guardian (21 March 1973)

 * I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
 * "Tom Stoppard," profile by Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker (19 December 1977)

 * I began my talk by saying that I had not written my plays for purposes of discussion. At once, I felt a ripple of panic run through the hall. I suddenly realised why. To everyone present, discussion was the whole point of drama. That was why the faculty had been endowed — that was why all those buildings had been put up! I had undermined the entire reason for their existence.
 * "Tom Stoppard," profile by Kenneth Tynan, The New Yorker (19 December 1977)

 * I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
 * Interview, The Guardian [London] (18 March 1988)

 * When Harold Pinter was lobbying to have London's Comedy Theatre renamed the Pinter Theatre, Stoppard wrote back: "Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?"
 * William Langley, "Profile: Sir Tom Stoppard," The Telegraph (6 November 2006)

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon (1966)

 * Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.
 * Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences

 * Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.
 * Ch. I: Dramatis Personae and Other Coincidences

 * My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
 * Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits

 * When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead.  But I take both parts, O'Hara, leapfrogging myself along the great moral issues, refuting myself and rebutting the refutation towards a truth that must be the compound of two opposite half-truths. And you never reach it because there is always something more to say.
 * Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits

 * I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
 * Ch. 2: A Couple of Deaths and Exits

 * The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe — responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
 * Ch. 6: An Honourable Death
 * This is a reference to a quote of Rudyard Kipling, "Power without responsibility — the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages," which became widely known after being quoted by prime minister Stanley Baldwin in a speech of 17 March 1931.

Artist Descending a Staircase (1972)

 * Donner: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Jumpers (1972)

 * There is presumably a calendar date — a moment — when the onus of proof passed from the atheist to the believer, when, quite suddenly, secretly, the noes had it.
 * George, Act I

 * It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.
 * George, Act I

 * It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.
 * Dotty, Act I

 * How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
 * George, Act I

 * Dotty: Archie says the Church is a monument to irrationality. George: … The National Gallery is a monument to irrationality! Every concert hall is a monument to irrationality! — and so is a nicely kept garden, or a lover's favour, or a home for stray dogs! You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
 * Act I

 * Language is a finite instrument crudely applied to an infinity of ideas, and one consequence of the failure to take account of this is that modern philosophy has made itself ridiculous by analysing such statements as, "This is a good bacon sandwich," or, "Bedser had a good wicket."
 * George, Act II

Travesties (1974)

 * An essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
 * Carr, Act I

 * Bennett seems to be showing alarming signs of irony. I have always found that irony among the lower orders is the first sign of an awakening social consciousness. It remains to be seen whether it will grow into an armed seizure of the means of production, distribution and exchange, or spend itself in liberal journalism.
 * Carr, Act I

 * Tzara: Causality is no longer fashionable owing to the war. Carr: How illogical, since the war itself had causes. I forget what they were, but it was all in the papers at the time. Something about brave little Belgium, wasn't it? Tzara: Was it? I thought it was Serbia... Carr: Brave little Serbia...? No, I don't think so. The newspapers would never have risked calling the British public to arms without a proper regard for succinct alliteration.
 * Act I

 * To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
 * Carr, Act I

 * War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero. It takes courage to sit down and be counted.
 * Tzara, Act I

 * I had no idea Gwendolen knew any foreign languages, and I am not sure that I approve. It's the sort of thing that can only broaden a girl's mind.
 * Carr, Act I

 * When I was at school, on certain afternoons we all had to do what was called Labour — weeding, sweeping, sawing logs for the boiler-room, that sort of thing; but if you had a chit from Matron you were let off to spend the afternoon messing about in the Art Room. Labour or Art. And you've got a chit for life? Where did you get it? What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.
 * Carr, Act I

 * An artist is the magician put among men to gratify — capriciously — their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is any meaning in any of it, it is in what survives as art, yes even in the celebration of tyrants, yes even in the celebration of nonentities. What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots. But it is we who stand enriched, by a tale of heroes, of a golden apple, a wooden horse, a face that launched a thousand ships — and above all, of Ulysses, the wanderer, the most human, the most complete of all heroes — husband, father, son, lover, farmer, soldier, pacifist, politician, inventor and adventurer.
 * Joyce, Act I
 * Stoppard called this "the most important" speech in the play

 * I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary. … I forget the third thing.
 * Carr, Act II

Professional Foul (1977)

 * Now a philosopher exploring the difficult terrain of right and wrong should not be over-impressed by the argument "a child would know the difference". But when, let us say, we are being persuaded that it is ethical to put someone in prison for reading or writing the wrong books, it is well to be reminded that you can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
 * Anderson, scene 11

Night and Day (1978)

 * A foreign correspondent is someone who lives in foreign parts and corresponds, usually in the form of essays containing no new facts. Otherwise he's someone who flies around from hotel to hotel and thinks that the most interesting thing about any story is the fact that he has arrived to cover it.
 * Wagner, Act I

 * I never got used to the way the house Trots fell into the jargon back in Grimsby — I mean, on any other subject, like the death of the novel, or the sex life of the editor's secretary, they spoke ordinary English, but as soon as they started trying to get me to join the strike it was as if their brains had been taken out and replaced by one of those little golf-ball things you get in electric typewriters... "Betrayal"… "Confrontation"… "Management"… My God, you'd need a more supple language than that to describe an argument between two amoebas.
 * Milne, Act I

 * Wagner: There were printers getting more than journalists! Milne: Yes, I know, but you make it sound as if the natural order has been overthrown. Fish sing in the streets, rivers run uphill, and the printers are getting more than the journalists. Okay — you're worth more than a printer. But look at some of this — "We find the vanishing vicar of Lovers' Leap!" "Sally Smith is a tea lady in a Blackpool engineering works, but it was the way she filled those C-cups which got our cameraman all stirred up!" It's crap. And it's written by grown men earning maybe ten thousand a year. If I was a printer, I'd look at some of the stuff I'm given to print, and I'd ask myself what is supposed to be so special about the people who write it — is that radical enough for you — Dick?
 * Act I

 * The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
 * Ruth, Act I

 * Milne: No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable. Ruth: I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.
 * Act I

 * Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
 * Milne, Act I

 * I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of their traditional freedoms while giving the reader as much of the truth as they think is good for him.
 * Mageeba, Act II

 * Mageeba: Do you know what I mean by a relatively free press, Mr. Wagner? Wagner: Not exactly, sir, no. Mageeba: I mean a free press which is edited by one of my relatives.
 * Act II

The Real Thing (1982)

 * The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
 * Max, Act I, scene I.
 * Often misquoted as "The days of the digital watch are numbered."

 * I'm showing an interest in your work. I thought you liked me showing an interest in your work. My showing. Save the gerund and screw the whale.
 * Max, Act I, scene I

 * Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
 * Henry, Act I, scene II

 * Buddy Holly was twenty-two. Think of what he might have gone on to achieve. I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.
 * Henry, Act II, scene V

 * This thing here, which looks like a wooden club, is actually several pieces of particular wood cunningly put together in a certain way so that the whole thing is sprung, like a dance floor. It's for hitting cricket balls with. If you get it right, the cricket ball will travel two hundred yards in four seconds, and all you've done is give it a knock like knocking the top off a bottle of stout, and it makes a noise like a trout taking a fly. What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might...travel.
 * Henry, Act II, scene V

 * I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
 * Henry, Act II, scene V

Arcadia (1993)

 * Chater: You insulted my wife in the gazebo yesterday evening! Septimus: You are mistaken. I made love to your wife in the gazebo. She asked me to meet her there, I have her note somewhere, I dare say I could find it for you, and if someone is putting it about that I did not turn up, by God, sir, it is a slander.
 * Act I

 * We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?
 * Septimus, Act I

 * Oh, you're going to zap me with penicillin and pesticides. Spare me that and I'll spare you the bomb and aerosols. But don't confuse progress with perfectibility. A great poet is always timely. A great philosopher is an urgent need. There's no rush for Isaac Newton. We were quite happy with Aristotle's cosmos. Personally, I preferred it. Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than the speed of light. Quarks, quasars - big bangs, black holes - who gives a shit? How did you people con us out of all that status? All that money?
 * Bernard, Act II

 * I'd push the lot of you over a cliff myself. Except the one in the wheelchair, I think I'd lose the sympathy vote before people had time to think it through.
 * Bernard, Act II

 * It is a defect of God's humour that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
 * Lady Croom, Act II

 * It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.
 * Hannah, Act II

 * Septimus: When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore. Thomasina: Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
 * Act II

The Invention of Love (1997)

 * I will take his secret to the grave, telling people along the way. Betrayal is no sin if it is whimsical.
 * Housman, Act I

 * The Church's idea of the good and the beautiful excludes sexual aberration, apart from chastity, I suppose because it's the rarest
 * AEH, Act I

 * To dream of taking the sword in the breast, the bullet in the brain [...] and wake up to find the world goes wretchedly on and you will die of age and not of pain.
 * AEH, Act I

 * Miss Frobisher smiles, with little cause that I know of. If Jesus of Nazareth had had before him the example of Miss Frobisher getting through the Latin degree papers of the London University Examinations Board he wouldn’t have had to fall back on camels and the eyes of needles, and Miss Frobisher’s name would be a delightful surprise to encounter in Matthew, Chapter 19; as would, even more surprisingly, the London University Examinations Board. Your name is not Miss Frobisher? What is your name? Miss Burton. I’m very sorry. I stand corrected. If Jesus of Nazareth had had before him the example of Miss Burton getting through the... Oh, dear, I hope it is not I who have made you cry.
 * Housman, Act I

The Coast of Utopia: Voyage (2002)

 * Alexander: I myself was educated in Italy. My doctorate in philosophy is from the University of Padua. Renne: Really? Philosophy? Alexander: My dissertation was on worms. Renne: Worms the philosopher? Alexander: No, just worms. Renne: Ah, the philosophy of worms. Alexander: Not at all. Worms have no philosophy, as far as is known.

 * Alexander: No spunk, simple as that! Your brother's an army deserter! Michael: Oh yes, I've resigned my commission. Alexander: He's refusing to return to duty. Michael: On grounds of ill health, Papa. I'm sick of the Army. Alexander: No discipline, that's the problem! Michael: No, it's riddled with discipline, that's the problem. That and Poland.

 * Michael: "March here, march there, present arms, where's your cap?" — you've no idea, the whole Army's obsessed with playing at soldiers.

 * Alexander: How the world must have been changing while I was holding it still.

The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck (2002)

 * Herzen: Marx is a bourgeois from the anus up. Natalie : Alexander! I won't have that word... Herzen: Sorry, middle-class.

 * Bakunin: Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not — well, it's progress

 * Turgenev: The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)

 * Their coarseness is the sinew of some kind of brute confidence which is the reason England is home to every shade of political exile. They don't give asylum out of respect for asylum-seekers, but out of respect for themselves. They invented personal liberty, and they know it, and they did it without having any theories about it. They value liberty because it's liberty.
 * Herzen

 * Bakunin: Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish. Herzen: Is that the same people or different people? Bakunin: The same people.

 * Wake me up for breakfast, if I'm not dead.
 * Turgenev

 * (Falls down in a drunken stupor): Let's sit down.
 * Ogarev

Misattributed

 * It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
 * Seneca, Epistle 88, as seen in the following: "You may sweep all these theories in with the superfluous troops of 'liberal' studies; the one class of men give me a knowledge that will be of no use to me, the other class do away with any hope of attaining knowledge. It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. One set of philosophers offers no light by which I may direct my gaze toward the truth; the other digs out my very eyes and leaves me blind." Seneca: Epistle 88

 * My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.
 * Hermann Weyl as quoted by Freeman Dyson: "Characteristic of Weyl was an aesthetic sense which dominated his thinking on all subjects. He once said to me, half-joking, 'My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.'" - Freeman Dyson, "Obituary of Hermann Weyl," Nature (10 March 1956)), pp. 457-458

 * Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. [Elle est désirée pour la salir. Non pour elle-même, mais pour la joie goûtée dans la certitude de la profaner.]
 * Georges Bataille, Erotism (1962) [City Lights Books, 1991, trans. Mary Dalwood, ISBN 0872861902], part I, ch. XIII, p. 144

 * If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
 * Abraham Sutzkever (born 1913), quoted in "Yiddish Poet Celebrates Life with His Language" by Joseph Berger, The New York Times (17 March 1985), Section 1, page 38

 * If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
 * Margaret Mead, quoted in "Growing Old in America: An Introduction with Margaret Mead" by Grace Hechinger, Family Circle (26 July 1977), p. 27

 * Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
 * Elbert Hubbard, "J.B. Runs Things," Short Stories and Index: Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 14 (1923) [Kessinger Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0766103978], p. 278

 * A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar— you pretend it's not there.
 * Darryl Hannah

 * Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
 * William R(ounseville) Alger, American clergyman and writer [1822-1905]; reported in Raphael Lewin, Ed., The New Era (1872), Volume 2, p. 315

 * Good things, when short, are twice as good.
 * Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Wordly Wisdom (Oráculo Manual) Maxim #105

 * From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
 * From principles is derived probability, but truth is obtained only from facts. - Jesse Olney (1798 - 1872), The National Preceptor (Goodwin, 1830), Lesson LXXXV: "Select Sentences," rule # 19 (p. 171)

Quotes about Tom Stoppard

 * (Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most?) Tom Stoppard is in my pantheon. I just saw “Leopoldstadt” on Broadway, and was equally moved and impressed. (Moved to the point of sobbing, impressed to the point of continued hero worship.) His “Arcadia” is my favorite play, and had a seismic impact on my writing.

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Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian and jazz musician.

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 * My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what's acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It's the intent behind them that is what's important.
 * Interview, Breakup Girl (July 15, 1999)

 * Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
 * ibid.
 * When asked if she thought of herself as a performer, or as a performer with an agenda.

 * Never point at anything beige and call it cool.
 * Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May 2000) Rule # 4

 * Learn all the rules... then break them.
 * Lea's Book of Rules for the World (May 2000) Rule # 10

 * He looked me right in the face and said, "You fucking bulldyke!" And I thought to myself, "Oooh, what a smart man! Why, I'll bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too!"
 * Bulldyke in a China Shop

 * Did you read [Holly Near's book]? Let me save you the trouble. This is the most exciting sentence in the book: ..."I feel like a lesbian when I'm making love to a woman." Gooooooooood, Holly! Well, the major difference between me and Holly Near is that I feel like a lesbian when I am BREATHING!
 * Bulldyke in a China Shop

 * What do you mean, you "don't believe in homosexuality?" It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.
 * Box Lunch (liner notes)

 * They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!
 * Box Lunch

 * I'm at West Virginia University to do a show, right, and they've done all this fucking publicity about it...so when I get to my show, who's waiting for me but five hundred Christian protestors with great big signs. "Lea DeLaria is going to hell." Not generic "gay is not good:" "Lea DeLaria is going to hell." Which is what I need five hundred strangers to tell me, like twelve years of Catholic fuckin' school wasn't enough, right?!
 * Box Lunch

 * [An anti-abortion conference goer] says, "Well, don't you believe that life begins at inception?" I say, "No. I believe that life begins when you mind your own fucking business!"
 * Box Lunch

 * You know the people I'm talking about, you see them at every pride rally, they get up on stage and go, "We're just like everyone else! We are like them and they are like us. Straights are like us and we are like them! We - are like - EV - eryone - else!" And then a seven-and-a-half-foot-tall drag queen walks by with three feet spangled platforms and he opens up his butterfly wings, f-f-f-f-f-f-f! Oh, we're just like everyone else, all right! We have our own culture and our own way of doing things and we should celebrate that and stop licking straight ass!
 * Box Lunch

 * "I mean, what the fuck is it with you guys? I thought this was supposed to be a lesbian party. Lesbian? Perhaps you'd like me to tear it off so you qualify." Guido protests. "I have a right to be here, this is the United States, you know, you can't discriminate." "I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well, why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!"
 * Lea's Book of Rules for the World

External Links:

 * Lea DeLaria at Queer Theory
 * Review of Double Standards

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Hi, Welcome to Wikiquote.

Wikiquote is not a place for posting one's own random thoughts about things, as you seem to be doing. The posts you have made do not seem to be quotations of anyone else, and though they might be to some extent humorous, they should not be posted to the article space of Wikiquote. You can log in and create a user page where you can post some of your thoughts upon matters, along with favorite quotations and such, as I will probably do sometime today or tommorow, but the article space is primarily for notable quotations of people who have already acheived recognition or notability in some field. I hope you enjoy the contributions others make and will add your own, but personal reflections should be constrained to User pages, and Talk pages. ~ Prot 23:16, 2 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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"I travel light." ~ "Prot" in the film K-PAX

(Since your talk page was blank, I'm posting a note here; you can safely delete it if you like.) PS: Cool quote!

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

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

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

 * In conclusion, I have done all the research: Read my analysis, debate it, vote on it, and accept the vote -even if it goes against you; All will be well. Take my word for it. Have a nice day.--GordonWattsDotCom 5 July 2005 05:54 (UTC)

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