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It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 film about an angel-in-training redeeming a despondent family man by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
 * Directed by Frank Capra. Screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Frank Capra.

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George Bailey

 * [as everyone inside was about to go to Potter's bank for money] Now wait...now listen...now listen to me. I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets hold of this Building and Loan, there'll never be another decent house built in this town. He's already got charge of the bank. He's got the bus line. He got the department stores. And now he's after us. Why? Well, it's very simple. Because we're cutting in on his business, that's why. And because he wants to keep you living in his slums and paying the kind of rent he decides. Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken-down shack? Here, Ed. You know, you remember last year when things weren't going so well, and you couldn't make your payments? You didn't lose your house, did you? Do you think Potter would have let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicking and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other.

 * Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way... show me the way.

 * Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence! Get me back! Get me back, I don't care what happens to me! Get me back to my wife and kids! Help me, Clarence, please! Please! I wanna live again. I wanna live again. I want to live again. Please, God, let me live again.

Clarence Oddbody

 * Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

 * [Inscribed in a copy of Tom Sawyer] "Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends . Thanks for the wings, Love Clarence."

Mr. Henry F. Potter

 * [to George] Look at you. You used to be so cocky. You were going to go out and conquer the world! You once called me a warped, frustrated, old man. What are you but a warped, frustrated young man? A miserable little clerk, crawling in here on your hands and knees and begging for help.

Uncle Billy

 * [after Potter says George was unfit for military service] After all, Potter, some people like George HAD to stay at home. Not every heel was in Germany and Japan.

Dialogue

 * Pop: I know it's soon to talk about it.
 * George: Oh, now Pop, I couldn't. I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office...Oh, I'm sorry Pop, I didn't mean that, but this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe...I'd go crazy. I want to do something big and something important.
 * Pop: You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. Satisfying a fundamental urge. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office.
 * George: I know, Dad. I wish I felt...But I've been hoarding pennies like a miser in order to...Most of my friends have already finished college. I just feel like if I don't get away, I'd bust.
 * Pop: Yes...yes...You're right son.
 * George: You see what I mean, don't you, Pop?
 * Pop: This town is no place for any man unless he's willing to crawl to Potter. You've got talent, son. I've seen it. You get yourself an education. Then get out of here.
 * George: Pop, you want a shock? I think you're a great guy. [to Annie, listening through the door] Oh, did you hear that, Annie?
 * Annie: I heard it. About time one of you lunkheads said it.
 * George: I'm going to miss old Annie. Pop, I think I'll get dressed and go over to Harry's party.
 * Pop: Have a good time son.

 * Mary: What'd you wish, George?
 * George: Well, not just one wish. A whole hatful, Mary. I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and the next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world. Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here and go to college and see what they know... And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long...

 * George: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
 * Mary: I'll take it. Then what?
 * George: Well, then you could swallow it, and it'd all dissolve, see? And the moonbeams'd shoot out of your fingers and your toes, and the ends of your hair... Am I talking too much?
 * Old Man: Yes! Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?
 * George: How's that?
 * Old Man: Why don't you kiss her instead of talking her to death?
 * George: Want me to kiss her, huh?
 * Old Man: Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people!
 * The first line of this dialogue is sampled in the McFly song "Love is Easy" (2012)

 * George: Mary... [picks up Mary's robe, which is lying on the ground] Okay, I give up. Where are you?
 * Mary: Over here in the hydrangea bushes.
 * George: Here you are. Catch. [He is about to throw her the robe, but reconsiders mischeviously] Wait a minute. What am I doing? This is a very interesting situation! (This line was repeated by Jimmy in the 1940 film ''"No Time for Comedy").
 * Mary: Please give me my robe.
 * George: Hmmm...A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day.
 * Mary: [Getting annoyed] I'd like to have my robe.
 * George: Not in Bedford Falls, anyway.
 * Mary: [thrashing around in the bushes] Ouch!
 * George: Gesundheit. This requires a little thought here.
 * Mary: George Bailey! Give me my robe!
 * George: I've heard about things like this, but I've never thought I would be in one.....not in Bedford Falls anyway
 * Mary: Shame on you. I'm going to tell your mother on you.
 * George: Oh, my mother's way up the corner there.
 * Mary: I'll call the police!
 * George: They're way downtown. They'd be on my side, too.
 * Mary: Then I'm going to scream!
 * George: Maybe I could sell tickets. No, no... Let's see. No, the point is, in order to get this robe...I've got it! I'll make a deal with you, Mary.
 * A car pulls up with Uncle Billy in the passenger seat
 * George: Uncle Billy?!
 * Uncle Billy: George, George! Your father has had a stroke!
 * [George throws robe in bushes]
 * George: Sorry Mary, I need to go!

 * Dr. Campbell: I'm sure the whole board wishes to express its deep sorrow at the passing of Peter Bailey.
 * George: Thank you very much.
 * Dr. Campbell: It was his faith and devotion that are responsible for this organization.
 * Potter: I'll go further than that. I'll say that to the public Peter Bailey was the Building and Loan.
 * Billy: Oh, that's fine, Potter, coming from you, considering that you probably drove him to his grave!
 * Potter: Peter Bailey was not a business man. That's what killed him. Oh, I don't mean any disrespect to him, God rest his soul. He was a man of high ideals, so called, but ideals without common sense can ruin this town. Now, you take this loan here to Ernie Bishop...You know, that fellow that sits around all day on his brains in his taxi. You know...I happen to know the bank turned down this loan, but he comes here and we're building him a house worth five thousand dollars. Why?
 * George: Well, I handled that, Mr. Potter. You have all the papers there. His salary, insurance. I can personally vouch for his character.
 * Potter: A friend of yours?
 * George: Yes, sir.
 * Potter: You see, if you shoot pool with some employee here, you can come and borrow money. What does that get us? A discontented, lazy rabble instead of a thrifty, working class. And all because a few starry-eyed dreamers like Peter Bailey stir them up and fill their heads with a lot of impossible ideas. Now, I say...
 * George: Just a minute, just a minute. Now, hold on, Mr. Potter. You're right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. Why he ever started this cheap, penny-ante Building and Loan, I'll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character, because his whole life was...Why, in the twenty-five years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never once thought of himself. Isn't that right, Uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me. But he did help a few people get out of your slums, Mr. Potter. And what's wrong with that? Why...Here, you're all businessmen here. Doesn't it make them better citizens? Doesn't it make them better customers? You...you said...What'd you say just a minute ago?...They had to wait and save their money before they even ought to think of a decent home. Wait! Wait for what? Until their children grow up and leave them? Until they're so old and broken-down that they...Do you know how long it takes a working man to save five thousand dollars? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about...they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped frustrated old man, they're cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you'll ever be!
 * Potter: I'm not interested in your book. I'm talking about the Building and Loan.
 * George: I know very well what you're talking about. You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on, and it's galling you. That's what you're talking about, I know...Well, I've said too much. I...You're the Board here. You do what you want with this thing. Just one more thing, though. This town needs this measly one-horse institution if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter.

 * George: Do you know the three most exciting sounds in the world?
 * Billy: Sure, "Breakfast is served, "Lunch is served, "Dinner is served."
 * George: No. Anchor chains, plane motors, and train whistles.

 * Sam: I may have a job for you, that is, unless you're still married to that broken-down building and loan. Ha, ha, ha. It's the biggest thing since radio and I'm lettin' you in on the ground floor. [to Mary] Will you tell that guy I'm giving him the chance of a lifetime? You hear - the chance of a lifetime.
 * Mary: He says it's the chance of a lifetime.
 * [the phone suddenly drops to the floor as George grabs Mary]
 * George: Now, you listen to me! I don't want any plastics, and I don't want any ground floors, and I don't want to get married - ever - to anyone! You understand that? I want to do what I want to do. And you're...and you're... [suddenly starts kissing Mary] Oh Mary, Mary.
 * Mary: George, George, George.

 * George: It's this old house. I don't know why we don't all have pneumonia. Drafty old barn of a place. It's like growing up living in a refrigerator. Why do we have to live here in the first place, and stay around this measly, crummy old town?
 * Mary: George, what's wrong?
 * George: Wrong? Everything. Why, you call this a happy family? Why do we have to have all these kids?

 * Mr. Potter: George, I am an old man and most people hate me. But I don't like them either, so that makes it all even. You know just as well as I do that I run practically everything in this town but the Bailey Building and Loan. You know, also, that for a number of years I've been trying to get control of it. Or kill it. But I haven't been able to do it. You have been stopping me. In fact, you have beaten me, George, and as anyone in this county can tell you, that takes some doing. Now take during the depression, for instance. You and I were the only ones that kept our heads. You saved the Building and Loan, I saved all the rest.
 * George: Yes, well, most people say you stole all the rest.
 * Mr. Potter: The envious ones say that, George. The suckers. Now, I have stated my side very frankly. Now let's look at your side. A young man, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, married, making, say, forty a week.
 * George: Forty-five!
 * Mr. Potter: Forty-five. Forty-five. Out of which, after supporting your mother and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say, ten, if you skimp. A child or two comes along and you won't even be able to save the ten. Now, if this young man of twenty-eight was a common, ordinary yokel, I'd say he was doing fine. But George Bailey is not a common, ordinary yokel. He is an intelligent, smart, ambitious, young man who hates his job, who hates the Building and Loan almost as much as I do. A young man who's been dying to get out on his own ever since he was born. A young man... the smartest one in the crowd, mind you... A young man who has to sit by and watch his friends go places because he's trapped. Yes, sir, trapped into frittering his life away, playing nursemaid to a lot of garlic eaters. Do I paint the correct picture or do I exaggerate?
 * George: Oh, what's your point, Mr. Potter?
 * Mr. Potter: My point? My point is, I want to hire you.
 * George: Hire me?
 * Mr. Potter: I want you to manage my affairs, run my properties. George, I'll start you out at twenty thousand dollars a year.
 * George: Twenty thous...twenty thousand dollars a year?
 * Mr. Potter: You wouldn't mind living in the nicest house in town, buying your wife a lot of fine clothes, a couple of business trips to New York a year, maybe once in a while Europe. You wouldn't mind that, would you, George?
 * George: Would I? Y-You're not talking to somebody else around here, are you? You know, th-this is me, you remember me? George Bailey.
 * Mr. Potter: Oh, yes, George Bailey. Whose ship has just come in, provided he has enough brains to climb aboard.
 * George: Holy mackerel! Well, how about the Building and Loan?
 * Mr. Potter: Oh, confound it, man! Are you afraid of success? I'm offering you a three-year contract at twenty thousand dollars a year, starting today. Is it a deal, or isn't it?
 * George: Well, Mr. Potter, I...I...I know I ought to jump at the chance but I...I just, uh, I-I wonder if-if it would be possible for you to give me twenty-four hours to think it over?
 * Mr. Potter: Sure, sure, sure. You go on home and talk about it to your wife.
 * George: I'd like to do that.
 * Mr. Potter: Yeah. In the meantime, I'll draw up the papers.
 * George: All right, sir.
 * Mr. Potter: Okay, George?
 * George: Okay, Mr. Potter. [pause] No, no, no, no. Wait a minute here. Wait a minute. I don't need twenty-four hours. I, I don't have to talk to anybody. I know right now, and the answer is no! No! Doggone it! You sit around here and you spin your little webs and you think the whole world revolves around you and your money. Well, it doesn't, Mr. Potter. In the whole vast configuration of things, I'd say you were nothing but a scurvy little spider! And... [turning to his aide] And that goes for you, too!

 * George: Well, you look about the kind of angel I'd get. Sort of a fallen angel, aren't you? What happened to your wings?
 * Clarence: I haven't won my wings, yet. That's why I'm called an Angel Second Class. I have to earn them. And you'll help me will you?
 * George: Sure, sure. How?
 * Clarence: By letting me help you.
 * George: I know one way you can help me. You don't happen to have 8,000 bucks on you?
 * Clarence: No, we don't use money in Heaven.
 * George: Well, it comes in real handy down here, bud!

 * George: Look, who are you?
 * Clarence: I told you, George. I'm your guardian angel.
 * George: Yeah, yeah, I know. You told me that. What else are you? What...are you a hypnotist?
 * Clarence: No, of course not.
 * George: Well, then, why am I seeing all these strange things?
 * Clarence: Don't you understand, George? It's because you were not born.
 * George: Then if I wasn't born, who am I?
 * Clarence: You're nobody. You have no identity.
 * George: What do you mean, no identity? My name's George Bailey.
 * Clarence: There is no George Bailey. You have no papers, no cards, no driver's license, no 4-F card, no insurance policy...They're not there, either.
 * George: What?
 * Clarence: Zuzu's petals. You've been given a great gift, George. A chance to see what the world would be like without you.

 * Clarence: Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine.
 * George: That's a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport.
 * Clarence: Every man on that transport died! Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry. You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?

 * George: Hello, Bedford Falls! Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! Hey! Merry Christmas, Mr. Potter!
 * Potter: Happy New Year to you, in jail. Go on home, they're waiting for you!

 * Zuzu: [after a bell on the tree rings] Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
 * George: That's right, that's right. Attaboy, Clarence!

Taglines

 * They're making memories tonight!
 * Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! How could it be anything else?
 * It's a wonderful laugh! It's a wonderful love!
 * They're going steady...straight to your heart!
 * I wish I had a million dollars! Hot Dog!

Cast

 * Jimmy Stewart - George Bailey
 * Donna Reed - Mary Hatch Bailey
 * Henry Travers - Clarence Odbody
 * Lionel Barrymore - Mr. Henry F. Potter
 * Thomas Mitchell - Uncle Billy
 * Todd Karns - Harry Bailey
 * Gloria Grahame - Violet Bick
 * Beulah Bondi - Ma Bailey
 * Frank Faylen - Ernie Bishop
 * Ward Bond - Officer Bert
 * H.B. Warner - Mr. Emil Gower
 * Frank Albertson - Sam Wainwright
 * Samuel S. Hinds - Peter Bailey (Pa)
 * William Edmunds - Mr. Martini
 * Sheldon Leonard - Nick

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List of films

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 * List of films (J–L)
 * List of films (M–O)
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 * List of films (T–V)
 * List of films (W–Z)

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David Hilbert

David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German logician, mathematician, and mathematical physicist. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry, as well as the theory of Hilbert spaces, one of the foundations of functional analysis. Hilbert and his students also supplied much of the mathematics needed for quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Quotes

 * Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.
 * "Axiomatic Thought" (1918), printed in From Kant to Hilbert, Vol. 2 by William Bragg Ewald

 * Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können.
 * No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created.
 * "Über das Unendliche" [On the Infinite] in Mathematische Annalen 95, (1926)

 * Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und überlegenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Für uns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaft überhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heiße im Gegenteil unsere Losung:

 * Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen!
 * We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be:
 * We must know — we will know!
 * Address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, in Königsberg (8 September 1930). The concluding statement was used as the epitaph on his tomb in Göttingen. Radio broadcast of the address, and transcription and English translation.

 * The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
 * Quoted in Constance Reid, "Hilbert" (1970)

 * One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
 * Quoted in Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971) by Howard Whitley Eves

 * Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
 * Quoted in Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971) by Howard Whitley Eves

 * "Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.
 * Quoted in Hilbert's Die Grundlagen der Mathematik (1927)

 * If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
 * Quoted in Comic Sections (1993) by Desmond MacHale

 * If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
 * Quoted in Mathematical Mysteries : The Beauty and Magic of Numbers (1999) by Calvin C. Clawson, p. 258

 * One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
 * On the Cantor set, as quoted in A World Without Time : The Forgotten Legacy of Godel and Einstein (2005) by Palle Yourgrau, p. 44

 * But he (Galileo) was not an idiot,... Only an idiot could believe that scientific truth needs martyrdom — that may be necessary in religion, but scientific results prove themselves in time.
 * Hilbert (2nd edition, 1996) by Constance Reid, p. 92

 * Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.
 * Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 174

 * Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.
 * Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 104

 * Immer mit den einfachsten Beispielen anfangen.
 * Begin with the simplest examples.
 * Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 104; German version quoted in Algebra by Michael Artin

 * I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bath-house.
 * Hilbert-Courant (1984) by Constance Reid, p. 143

 * Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.
 * Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry, as quoted in [http://books.google.com/?id=nnpChqstvg0C&pg=PA151 The Universal Book of Mathematics (2004) by David J. Darling, p. 151

Mathematical Problems (1900)

 * "Mathematical Problems" an address to the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris (1900), translated by Maby Winton Newson for the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 8 (1902)

 * History teaches the continuity of the development of science. We know that every age has its own problems, which the following age either solves or casts aside as profitless and replaces by new ones. If we would obtain an idea of the probable development of mathematical knowledge in the immediate future, we must let the unsettled questions pass before our minds and look over the problems which the science of today sets and whose solution we expect from the future. To such a review of problems the present day, lying at the meeting of the centuries, seems to me well adapted. For the close of a great epoch not only invites us to look back into the past but also directs our thoughts to the unknown future.

 * A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

 * It remains to discuss briefly what general requirements may be justly laid down for the solution of a mathematical problem. I should say first of all, this: that it shall be possible to establish the correctness of the solution by means of a finite number of steps based upon a finite number of hypotheses which are implied in the statement of the problem and which must always be exactly formulated. This requirement of logical deduction by means of a finite number of processes is simply the requirement of rigor in reasoning.

 * To new concepts correspond, necessarily, new signs. These we choose in such a way that they remind us of the phenomena which were the occasion for the formation of the new concepts.

 * If we do not succeed in solving a mathematical problem, the reason frequently consists in our failure to recognize the more general standpoint from which the problem before us appears only as a single link in a chain of related problems. After finding this standpoint, not only is this problem frequently more accessible to our investigation, but at the same time we come into possession of a method which is applicable also to related problems.

 * This conviction of the solvability of every mathematical problem is a powerful incentive to the worker. We hear within us the perpetual call: There is the problem. Seek its solution. You can find it by pure reason, for in mathematics there is no ignorabimus.

 * Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. For with all the variety of mathematical knowledge, we are still clearly conscious of the similarity of the logical devices, the relationship of the ideas in mathematics as a whole and the numerous analogies in its different departments. We also notice that, the farther a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separate branches of the science. So it happens that, with the extension of mathematics, its organic character is not lost but only manifests itself the more clearly.

 * The organic unity of mathematics is inherent in the nature of this science, for mathematics is the foundation of all exact knowledge of natural phenomena. That it may completely fulfil this high mission, may the new century bring it gifted masters and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples!

 * An old French mathematician said: A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street. This clearness and ease of comprehension, here insisted on for a mathematical theory, I should still more demand for a mathematical problem if it is to be perfect; for what is clear and easily comprehended attracts, the complicated repels us.
 * Eine mathematische Theorie ist nicht eher als vollkommen anzusehen, als bis du sie so klar gemacht hast, daß du sie dem ersten Manne erklären könntest, den du auf der Straße triffst.

(1952)

 * English translation, by, of the 1932 book, Anschauliche Geometrie by David Hilbert and , based on a series of lectures Hilbert made in the winter of 1920–21

 * In mathematics, as in any scientific research, we find two tendencies... [T]he tendency toward abstraction seeks to crystallize the logical relations inherent in the maze of material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency toward intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects... a live rapport with them... which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations. ...[I]ntuitive understanding plays a major role in geometry. ...[S]uch concrete intuition is of great value not only for the research worker, but... for anyone who wishes to study and appreciate the results of research in geometry.
 * Preface

 * [O]ur purpose is to give a presentation of geometry... in its visual, intuitive aspects. With the aid of visual imagination we can illuminate the manifold facts and problems... beyond this, it is possible... to depict the geometric outline of the methods of investigation and proof, without... entering into the details... In this manner, geometry being as many-faceted as it is and being related to the most diverse branches of mathematics, we may even obtain a summarizing survey of mathematics as a whole, and a valid idea of the variety of problems and the wealth of ideas it contains. Thus a presentation of geometry in large brushstrokes... and based on the approach through visual intuition, should contribute to a more just appreciation of mathematics by a wider range of people than just the specialists.
 * Preface

 * [M]athematics is not a popular subject... The reason for this is to be found in the common superstition that [it] is but a continuation... of the fine art of arithmetic, of juggling with numbers. [We] combat that superstition, by offering, instead of formulas, figures that may be looked at and that may easily be supplemented by models which the reader may construct. This book... bring[s] about a greater enjoyment of mathematics, by making it easier... to penetrate the essence of mathematics without... a laborious course of studies.
 * Preface

 * The various branches of geometry are all interrelated closely and quite often unexpectedly. This shows up in many places in the book. Even so... it was necessary to make each chapter...self-contained... We hope that... we have rendered each chapter taken by itself... understandable and interesting. We want to take the reader on a leisurely walk... in the big garden that is geometry, so that each may pick for himself a bouquet to his liking.
 * Preface

Disputed

 * Physics is too difficult for physicists!
 * This quote has many variants. An early version attributed to the Göttingen School appears in a book review by Heinrich Wieleitner in Isis, Volume 7, No. 4, December 1925, p. 597: Ach, die Physik! Die ist ja für die Physiker viel zu schwer! (Oh, physics! That's just too difficult for the physicists!).

Quotes about Hilbert

 * More decisive than any other influence for the young Hilbert at Königsberg was his friendship with Adolf Hurwitz and Minkowski. He got his thorough mathematical training less from lectures, teachers or books, than from conversation.
 * Hermann Weyl. (quote on p. 613)

 * David Hilbert—the undisputed, foremost living mathematician in the world and lifelong close friend and collaborator of the by then deceased Minkowski—had already presented to the Göttingen Academy his own version of the same equations a few days earlier [than Einstein]. Although Minkowski and Hilbert accomplished their most important achievements in pure mathematical fields, their respective contributions to relativity should in no sense be seen as merely occasional excursions into the field of theoretical physics. Minkowski and Hilbert were motivated by much more than a desire to apply their exceptional mathematical abilities opportunistically... On the contrary, Minkowski's and Hilbert's contributions to relativity are best understood as an organic part of their overall scientific careers.
 * Leo Corry, on the Relativity priority dispute "Hermann Minkowski and the Postulate of Relativity", in Archive for History of Exact Sciences Vol.51, No.4 (1997)

 * A more thorough study of Euclid's axioms and postulates proved them to be inadequate for the deduction of Euclid's geometry. ...Hilbert and others succeeded in filling the gap by stating explicitly a complete system of postulates for Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries alike. Among the postulates missing in Euclid's list was the celebrated postulate of Archimedes, according to which, by placing an indefinite number of equal lengths end to end along a line, we should eventually pass any point arbitrarily selected on the line. Hilbert, by denying this postulate, just as Lobatchewski and Riemann had denied Euclid's parallel postulate, succeeded in constructing a new geometry known as non-Archimedean. It was perfectly consistent but much stranger than the classical non-Euclidean varieties. Likewise, it was proved possible to posit a system of postulates which would yield Euclidean or non-Euclidean geometries of any number of dimensions; hence, so far as rational requirements of the mind were concerned, there was no reason to limit geometry to three dimensions.
 * A. D'Abro, The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein (1927) pp. 37-38

 * Hilbert's problems have the characteristics of any good founding document. Each one is a short essay on its subject, not overly specific, and yet Hilbert makes his intent remarkably clear. He leaves room for change and adjustment. Hilbert's goal was to foster the pursuit of mathematics.
 * Benjamin Yandell:
 * Hilbert was on the verge of retirement. He was the dignified chairman of the mathematical society's meetings, though he no longer came up with those caustic quips that people would repeat afterwards, imitating as best they could his Baltic accent. It is a pity these were not recorded before it was too late. The samples cited in English translation, in Constance Reid's biography of Hilbert, give only the palest idea of his biting wit.
 * André Weil, The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician (1992), p. 51

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Talk:Advertising slogans

Initial suggestion
I suggest this idea on the main page a while back:

"Slogans I had the idea of also addng slogans to Wikiquote eg: Coca-Cola:

 * "Always Coca-Cola"
 * Date: 19whenever - whenever
 * Countries: United Kingdom, other1, other 2
 * Notes: maybe brief history of the slogan

Although will we face copyright problems with some slogans? -fonzy"

We will have to have a countries section. becuase differnt slogans are used in different countries.

It would also be nice too organise it by company.

eg

Query
Why is "this seems to be irrelevant" written at the end of the food and beverages section? Should that be removed?
 * I just removed it, and updated the wikipedia links on the page. Thanks for pointing that out. ~ Kalki 21:19, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Isn't the Kit-Kat "Give Me A Break" song a jingle, not a slogan?

Cleanup

 * It seems that this article has been copied from wikipedia and thus all it's coding is meant for wikipedia - making it appear incomplete (with it's massive RED words) on wikiquote. I've gone through and at least changed the dates to point to wikipedia and not wikiquote...Should we redirect all the links from q: and into w:?  I wanted to get an opinion on what the proper procedure would be here; after all, I see no point linking majority of these red empty links to wikiquote and would rather see them be linked to wikipedia - I would also suggest removing some of the links (keeping company name).  ~  RoboAction 07:11, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree the links for all the companies should go to Wikipedia, and not to Wikiquote and went ahead and did the tweaking. ~ Achilles 09:17, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Great work cleaning that up! Thanks. Quadell 19:17, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

History of Automobiles and transport
* (cur) (last) 09:32, 8 August 2005 MosheZadka (→Advertising - remove section) * (cur) (last) 09:28, 8 August 2005 MosheZadka (seperate the ads from the rest of the stuff to make their merge easier) * (cur) (last) 23:38, 4 August 2005 Thomas (+de) * (cur) (last) 03:51, 29 July 2005 Obradovic Goran (sr:Аутомобили) * (cur) (last) 09:09, 25 April 2005 Jeffq (→Other - +car needs love) * (cur) (last) 08:08, 21 April 2005 Jeffq m (fixed ) * (cur) (last) 06:46, 29 January 2005 64.36.218.162 (→Other) * (cur) (last) 06:45, 29 January 2005 64.36.218.162 (→Other) * (cur) (last) 21:48, 20 December 2004 LGagnon (Category:Technology) * (cur) (last) 05:21, 15 December 2004 RoboAction (needs to be merged with Ad Slogans) * (cur) (last) 21:08, 21 November 2004 82.32.37.163 (Added quote from Wikipedia) * (cur) (last) 06:45, 5 November 2004 134.139.138.19 * (cur) (last) 02:49, 26 October 2004 LGagnon (Category:Themes) * (cur) (last) 21:29, 13 October 2004 Krik (Fmt. Plus a famous quote.) * (cur) (last) 11:41, 13 October 2004 212.219.56.244 * (cur) (last) 11:32, 26 May 2004 212.219.56.244 * (cur) (last) 14:09, 5 May 2004 212.219.56.244 * (cur) (last) 10:53, 4 May 2004 Krik (more automobile quotes) * (cur) (last) 23:38, 3 May 2004 82.32.34.54 (start automobile page with skoda quote.) * (cur) (last) 23:37, 3 May 2004 82.32.34.54 I added a bunch of ads from Automobiles and transport ~

Merged from Leslie Joseph Hooker
* (cur) (last) 04:58, 21 August 2005 MosheZadka (redir to merged page) * (cur) (last) 15:43, 13 August 2005 MosheZadka (no-intro) * (cur) (last) 00:31, 5 May 2005 Rmhermen m   * (cur) (last) 09:50, 26 April 2005 Jni m (people-stub, cat.) * (cur) (last) 09:16, 12 July 2004 203.35.154.254

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 02:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Non-English slogans
I've removed most (I may have missed a few) of the non-English slogans, in those cases where the slogan wasn't intentionally in a foreign language in an English-speaking country (to the best of my knowledge). —LrdChaos 20:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

M•A•C {editorial comment}
M•A•C's Advertising slogans should read "All ages, all races, all sexes" (I Think) why is there an editorial comment in it -- "All ages, all races{editorial comment}, all sexes" unless someone can show that it belong there it needs to be remove--Lookatthis 16:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Vandalism has been remove thanks.--Lookatthis 18:26, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning out unsourced in 72 hours
In 72 hours, I will delete all quotes in Advertising slogans which are not properly sourced to a printed publication other than one produced by the advertiser itself. Cheers! BD2412 T 19:59, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I believe the term "Advertising Slogans" refers to the slogans the "Advertisers" use. So if Burger King uses the slogan: "have it your way", but another "printed publication say's otherwise, then you assume Burger King which created the slogan must be wrong?
 * There are two issues at stake. First, not every slogan is a "have it your way". Some previously listed entries claimed as slogans were not so quickly recognizable. Second, the vast majority of slogans are not quoteworthy. Say we have Joe's Pizza, and their slogan is "Joe's Pizza is the best!" That's neither notable nor particularly original, so it is not worth including here. Every advertiser will promote its own slogan, but to determine whether a slogan is notable and quotable, the test is whether someone unrelated to the advertiser has noted and quoted it. BD2412 T 00:42, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Alphabetizing
I'm going to alphabetize these, since putting them in chronological order would require better information about their dates of use. BD2412 T 21:28, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Three more slogans
allixpeeke (talk) 16:12, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Rolaids
 * How do you spell relief?
 * R-O-L-A-I-D-S
 * Rolaids spells relief.
 * YouTube
 * Merrill Lynch
 * Merrill Lynch is bullish on America.
 * YouTube
 * The Hertz Corporation
 * Just let Hertz put you in the driver's seat today.
 * YouTube

 * Thanks, but in order to include these, we need more than a YouTube source. We need to know that they are notable enough to have been referenced by third parties in print, and preferably which ad agency actually came up with the lines. An example would be Thomas Riggs, Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns - Volume 1 (2000), p. 1912: "The word "relief" was first used in Rolaids' advertising tag lines in 1975, when the campaign slogan was "R-O-L-A- I-D-S Spells Relief." Later ads used the tag lines "How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S"... BD2412 T 16:14, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Another slogan
allixpeeke (talk) 10:15, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Westinghouse Electric (1886)
 * You can be SURE …if it's Westinghouse.
 * YouTube

Two margarine slogans
allixpeeke (talk) 14:20, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Chiffon margarine
 * It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
 * YouTube
 * I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
 * I can't believe it's not butter!
 * The taste you love without the cholesterol.
 * YouTube
 * YouTube

move page to Slogans
There are slogans that are advertising slogans, I just (tried to) added one (No taxation without representation) that are equally important?

Opinions? Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:25, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I would avoid commingling these, and would instead propose to have a separate page for political slogans, of which there are plenty. BD2412 T 19:45, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
 * But who will populate political slogans? It seems to me that enwq-content-contributors are already working at capacity? Ottawahitech (talk) 16:17, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I would guess, anyone who is interested in having Wikiquote coverage of such a topic. I would suggest starting with a page with four or five or the most notable example. BD2412 T 01:27, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

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Eddie Izzard

Suzy Eddie Izzard (born Edward John Izzard, 7 February 1962 in Yemen) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and political activist.

Quotes

 * In my first year I was taught about the slide rule. They said, "The slide rule is important. Without it you can do nothing. The slide rule is the modern weapon of efficiency. With the slide rule you can get from here to the stars. Buy it, use it – your slide rule!" Within one year it was, "Burn the slide rule. The calculator can add up with none of this fucking sliding the shit around and working out where that bit in the middle goes. Smash it over your head."
 * eddieizzard.com, Biography: Ch. 5 (undated, Google had indexed the page by 2013)

Live at the Ambassadors (1993)

 * Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion – they're two words which are both … different. In spelling.

 * Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?

 * She said, "Spell 'ant' ", and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, "That doesn't spell 'ant' ", and I said, "It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!"

 * And we're going, "Oh, Captain Clever! Whoa-ho-ho! Rattle it, and if it doesn't go off, it can't be a bomb!"

 * And in the back, behind there, not giving a damn … and all the bright colours and stuff just drops off when you get to this section. White wrap-up, big red letters; LARD! Eat this shit and die! LARD! Kills you stone dead! Does blood move through your arteries? Block it up with LARD! Nutritional advice? No! Proteins? What the hell are they? Carbohydrates? Never heard of them, Guv! Fat? You bet your bum! We've got some some of that, yes sirree Bob! Oh, we're full of that, mate … [later on] Remember that campaign for butter, "Welcome back to butter"? "Welcome back to LARD!" We never went nowhere! Just been sitting at the back, quietly waiting … like Jack Nicholson …

Unrepeatable (1994)

 * I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

 * We throw sticks at dogs, that's the level we have dogs at. You'd never dream of throwing one for a cat. We throw sticks for dogs, and dogs go, "Oh, he's dropped his stick! I better go and get that. [mimes chasing after the stick] Saw you dropped your stick there, thought I'd bring it back. And you – hang on! [mimes giving the stick back and follows it with eyes as it's thrown again] Did you see me just bring that back? And then you … you dropped it again? This is very weird. I don't know what's going on here. [mimes bringing the stick back again] Now, hang on to it this time, I don't want to piss about all the time. You think I enjoy this? There you … don't fucking throw it!" That's why the third time, when they come back, they won't give it to you. They go, [through clenched teeth] "No … I won't let you take it!"

 * Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they fuck off; that's the deal.

 * You have no control over your cat! You can't say to your cat, "Cat, heel! Stay! Wait! Lie down! Roll over!" 'Cause the cat's just gonna be sitting there going, "Interesting words … have you finished?" While you're shouting all this to your cat, your dog's next to you, going … [mimes obeying all commands] "What the hell are you doing? I'm talking to the cat!" "Oh, I'm sorry!"

 * And cats leap up walls! Six foot walls, they just go … *fwang* [mimes cat jumping] Lands perfectly, and turn … turn … and back flip and forward flip, and dismount! They always land perfectly, they never do that sort of wobbly-gymnast … [mimes wobbling] You never see cats on a wall having a problem, do you? You never see a cat going, [mimes tentative walk] "Fucking 'ell! I'm not sure about this …" and a cat on the ground, going, "Easy, Ginger! I'll walk you down!"

 * [About homophobes] As long as they're homophobic behind closed doors, and don't hurt anyone, I'm fine with it.

Definite Article (1996)

 * "My name is Mrs. Smith, I've made apples out of bread and dripping, a bit of green paint, and corrugated iron." "No, these are horrible apples, Mrs. Smith. Go away, Mrs. Smith! Go away until your daughter has a baby." "Shag, daughter, shag! It's a marketing idea, shag for babies! [mimes running back] My daughter's had a baby, I'm Granny Smith now!" "Come in, Granny Smith! You wonderful idea, you! Come in with your shiny apples."

 * Pears can just fuck off too. 'Cause they're gorgeous little beasts, but they're ripe for half an hour, and you're never there. They're like a rock or they're mush. In the supermarket, people banging in nails. "I'll just put these shelves up, mate, then you can have the pear." … So you think, "I'll take them home and they'll ripen up." But you put them in the bowl at home, and they sit there, going, "No! No! Don't ripen yet, don't ripen yet. Wait til he goes out the room! Ripen! Now now now!"

 * What? … The Carthaginians are attacking? God, I knew they'd do that. What? … They are attacking over the Alps? Damn, I knew they'd do that. What? … They're coming on elephants? … Where'd they get the elephants? There aren't any elephants in Europe. This I got to see … are you sure? … It's not just a typo mistake? Perhaps the Carthaginians are attacking over the Alps and they are in their element? Kind of upbeat, you know. They're coming on fucking elephants, huh.

 * If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

 * Day One: Rang bell, cat fucked off. (Oh dear.) Day Two: Rang bell, cat went and answered door. Day Three: Rang bell, cat said he had eaten earlier. (Cheeky bugger.) Day Four: Went to ring bell, but cat had stolen batteries. Final Day – Day Five: Went and rang bell with new batteries, but cat put his paw on bell so it only made a thunk noise. Then cat rang his own bell. I ate food.
 * On Pavlov's cats.

 * Off to Azerbaijan!

Glorious (1997)

 * Beekeepers, yes … they've gotta want to be – "I want to be a beekeeper! I wanna keep bees! Don't wanna let them get away; I wanna keep them! They have too much freedom … I want bees on elastic, so when they get pollen, they come back here! My father was a beekeeper before me, his father was a beekeeper before him; I wanna walk in their footsteps." And their footsteps were like this: [running wildly from imaginary bees] "I'm covered in bees!"

 * I like my coffee like I like my women... in a plastic cup.

 * I like my women like I like my coffee... covered in beeees!

 * [God, who was James Mason, to Noah] "Noah, stop what you're doing and build me an ark!" [Noah, who was Sean Connery] "I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible."

 * So then God created the world, and on the first day he created light and air and fish and jam and soup and potatoes and haircuts and arguments and small things and rabbits and people with noses and jam – more jam, perhaps – and soot and flies and tobogganing and showers and toasters and grandmothers and, uh … Belgium. And the second day he created fire and water and eggnog and radiators and lights and Burma and things that go "urh" and … and Colonel Gaddafi and Arthur Negus. On the third day he probably got lists and said, "I can't remember what I've invented now. I've just been ad-libbing so far."

 * "Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I'm trying to be a myth; give us cash!" "No, I'm not gonna give you cash." "Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?" "No, I'm … comfortable." "That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?"
 * On Robin Hood.

 * I don't have techno-fear, I have techno-joy! I love technology! I love to get a new machine. Every time I get a new machine, I think, "This is the one! I won't have to work again; I've got this thing!" And if you have techno-joy, you get the instructions, you unwrap it, and you throw the instructions out the window! [mimes doing so] Forget them! Fuck 'em! [mimes turning on a computer] On. [mimes typing] I must know how this works, I've used machines before!

Dress to Kill (1998)

 * We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going, "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag…? "What? We don't need a bloody flag. This is our country, you bastards!" "No flag, no country, you can't have one! Those are the rules ... that I just made up! And I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association."

 * Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death – lunch – death, death, death – afternoon tea – death, death, death – quick shower …' "

 * They went to the Moon and they brought back rock. Trouble is, we've got rock. That was the one thing we didn't need, wasn't it? "Rock, Neil? I don't know whether you looked at the planet before you took off, but it's made of fucking rock!" "But it's Moon rock …" "Oh, fucking hell, this is Earth rock, Neil, come on! Have you heard, on the stock market, rock's gone up three points? No, it hasn't, has it? 'Cause it's fucking rock! We wanted diamonds, sherbet or a squirrel with a gun!"

 * His name changed from Gerry Dorsey to Engelbert Humperdinck. I mean, I just wanted to be in the room when they were working that one through: "Zingelbert Bembledack! Yingybert Dambleban! Zangelbert Bingledack! Wingelbert Humptyback! … Slut Bunwalla!" "What?!" "All right, Kringelbert Fishtybuns! Steviebuns Bottrittrundle –" "No, Gerry Dorsey! I like Gerry Dorsey!" "No, we can't, who we got? Zingelbert Bembledack, Tringelbert Wangledack, Slut Bunwalla, Klingybun Fistelvase, Dindlebert Zindledack, Gerry Dorsey, Engelbert Humptyback, Zengelbert Bingledack, Engelbert Humperdinck, Vingelbert Wingledanck –" "No, no, go back one!"

 * I had to chat up girls, and I'd only tagged them before. I didn't have the verbal power to be able to say, "Susan, I saw you in the classroom today. As the sun came from behind the clouds, a burst of brilliant light caught your hair, it was haloed in front of me. You turned, your eyes flashed fire into my soul, I immediately read the words of Dostoevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, 'I fancy you.' " But no! At 13, you're just going, " 'Ello, Sue. I saw you in the room... I've got legs, have you? Oh yeah... Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. [mimes smacking her with the loaf and dashing off] Bye! (I love you!)"

 * (Talking about American and British Language) You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking 'H' in it.

2000–2009

 * I can have fantastic conversations with women about clothing and make-up, the external areas of girliedom, because I completely share their interest in it. So I have the fun, sexy, let's-go-dress-up part of being a woman in me but not the rest.
 * I don't do drag [...] Drag is about glamour, pearls, wigs, sequins and that's not where I am. What I am doing is much edgier.
 * [On the aim of his exercise routine] Lean and lithe are the two places I am trying to get to. Seeing as I am fairly blokey-looking, with a broad chest, if I am going to get into what people consider girls' clothing, I need to go for lean in the torso department.
 * What I want people to understand is this isn't an act. This is an intrinsic part of who I am. I wear girlie stuff on the street, not just on stage.
 * "From Eddie to Sexie by design", The Times (6 December 2003)

 * That's how I see my audience, a surrogate affection machine. It doesn't necessarily have to be comedy, either. It could be drama or music, anything where you want that love back.
 * If you can walk down the street in women's clothes, you can do anything.
 * [On coming out on stage] My first joke at that gig was, 'If you're a stand-up, it's good to be a minority because then you've got something to rail against. If you're black, you can rail against white supremacists; if you're poor, you can rail against the rich. But if you're a white, male, middle-class stand-up, it's shit. So thank God I'm a transvestite.' It went down a storm.
 * I was walking past a building site in Liverpool and a brickie shouted at me from the scaffolding, 'Hey Eddie, where's your lippie?' I said I'd left it at home, and he replied: 'Wanna borrow mine?' Moments like that make everything worthwhile.
 * If you're going up for a Hollywood film, you'd better stay in boy mode because producers don't have wild imaginations.
 * "Eddie Izzard: The tough transvestite who can take care of himself", The Independent (23 May 2004)

 * [On fully transitioning to being a woman via surgery] If I looked beautiful, like Julian Clary, then maybe I would do it. But the way I look, everyone would know I was a bloke who had had a sex change. Besides, it would confuse things because I like girls.
 * From an interview, as cited in "I'm all boy", The Telegraph (30 July 2006)

Circle (2000)

 * The Crusades were, "We kill you in the name of Jesus!" "Wait, we have Jesus, too! He's a prophet in our religion! We kill you in the name of Jesus!" "Do you? … Well, we kill you for your dark skin, for Jesus was a white man from Oxford!" "No, he wasn't! He was from Judea! Dark-skinned man, such as we!" "… Really? Look, we've come all this way. Would you mind awfully if we hacked you to bits? Just for the press back home."

 * Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a [air quotes] "Genocidal Fuckhead … [air quotes again] with bunny rabbit ears". But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as "Pope Gutless Bastard I."

 * There's 200,000 gods in Hinduism … and they've got gods like Shiva, the God of Creation and Destruction. Which is a good god to be, 'cause you can go *whoom* [creates thing] "What do you think? Do you like that? You don't like that?" *whoom* [destroys thing] If you're just the God of Creation, you're going *whoom* "Do you like that? You don't? All right, I'll put it in the garage … shit, I haven't got a garage!" *whoom* [creates garage]

 * Makeup's just crazy, anyways. Native Americans used to wear it, and it did all right for them until, uh … well, until you killed them all, I suppose.

 * But there must've been a Death Star canteen, yeah? There must've been a cafeteria downstairs, in between battles, where Darth Vader could just chill and go down: "I will have the penne all'arrabbiata." "You'll need a tray." "Do you know who I am?" "Do you know who I am?" "This is not a game of who the fuck are you. For I am Vader, Darth Vader, Lord Vader. I can kill you with a single thought." "Well, you'll still need a tray." "No, I will not need a tray. I do not need a tray to kill you. I can kill you without a tray, with the power of the Force, which is strong within me. Even though I could kill you with a tray if I so wished, for I would hack at your neck with the thin bit until the blood flowed across the canteen floor." "No, the food is hot. You'll need a tray to put the food on." "Oh, I see, the food is hot. I'm sorry, I did not realize...Ha..ha..ha.h.. I thought you were challenging me for the fight to death." "A fight to the death? This is a canteen, I work here." "Yes, but I am Vader. I am Lord Vader? Every one challenges me to a fight to the death."

Sexie (2003)

 * So … uh … I'd better explain the tits. Um … didn't have those at school. Wanted to, but not in the school curriculum … even though I asked.

 * No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea. Why don't you put it on my breasts?" "Certainly. Tea for this man's breasts! Anything else, sir?"

 * So, I thought, it's not working. So I threw my breasts out of the window of my Lamborghini, in my mind … no, I threw the breasts out of the window of my Ford Fiesta, in my mind. Actually, I threw them out over the handlebars of my bicycle [mouthing the words] in my mind. And they hit a small child, who ran, "Mum, mum, mum … I've been attacked by … jellyfish!"

 * Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, "Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette." Racist people never go, "Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …"

 * Homo Sapiens wouldn't have made it, and everything would be different! Television would be … you know, Book of the Month club on television would be: Neanderthal presenter: "And now we have the professor … uh … whaddayou think of this book?" Neanderthal professor: "Wha' …?" Presenter: "What do you think of this book, in a critical way?" Professor: "It's all right …" Presenter: "There you have it. It's all right!"
 * On the consequences if Neanderthals had not become extinct

Stripped (2009)

 * So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

 * And I think that if God did exist, he had many children. I think Jesus proves this. Jesus must be the seventh son of God. A-sus, B-sus, C-sus, D-sus, E-sus, F-sus, G-sus. That's just logic. That's just mathematical. And T-sus would always be fucking about. And P-sus does deliveries. C-sus started the Roman Empire. Cae-sus. F-sus, City in Turkey. B-sus was covered in something. Some people applauding there; other people going, "What?" … B-sus was covered in bees.

 * Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true, they proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.

 * The main point is, did God tell him to make a boat, or did Noah just use his captain common sense? Cause there are a number of us, if we were somewhere where it was raining and raining and raining and raining and raining and raining and raining and raining, and we had a big pile of wood, some of us might put two and two together and go, "I'm gonna make a bloody boat!" Others might go, "I'm gonna make a hairdresser's", "I'm gonna build a monkey emporium.", "I'm gonna build a big pair of wooden shoes, that would fit a giant." … But he made a boat. Oh, he was quite sensible! And what did he put on the boat? His family. What else? Animals. Which animals? Any he could find. Did he put two of every animal in the world on the boat? No! How can I be so sure? Try it!

 * Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18[gibberish]. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You".

 * [Talking about the royal family] 'Cause they got in at '52, and then immediately the Queen introduced the new … then in the '60s, the Queen decided to change the way that … and she encouraged people to … and in the '70s she completely redistributed … and realised she had too much wealth, so she decided to … then in the '80s, they set up a charity to do … and then they encouraged other people to … and in the '90s, they just totally relaxed, and they said, "Everyone, why don't you …" And then in the 2000s, they've set a great example by … stop me at any point. I think she's got 20 years left. She's in there, but she essentially does what she does on the stamps.

2016–2020

 * I've got this weird thing which is, for one thing, making the stuff universal. Anyone would get the references in my show, no matter what the country.
 * [Having described himself as a lazy person with a huge drive] It's the oil tanker thing. Once I get going I don't want to stop. Once I stop I don't want to get going.
 * From an interview, as cited in "Eddie Izzard interview: The comedian wants to pursue a parliamentary seat in 2020 - but what exactly is his vision?", The Independent (8 January 2016)

 * [On making (male) bathrooms, restrooms or toilets gender-neutral] If you just take out urinals, then everyone can use them. You can solve it right now. Just rip them all out. Lets share so everyone is equal. It gets rid of so many things in one fell swoop.
 * I have played one transgender character. I will play hopefully more transgender roles in the future, but there are a lot of boy genetics in me so I am happy to play boy roles. It would be great if more transgender actors can play more transgender characters.
 * "Eddie Izzard Reflects on Coming Out as Transgender, Why Caitlyn Jenner Is a Role Model", The Hollywood Reporter (13 June 2017)

 * I have girl genetics and boy genetics, I feel they are fun and sexy [...] I came out 32 years ago [as trans]. And women have total clothing rights and I have total clothing rights. I'm not wearing women's clothes - I'm wearing clothes.
 * I'm a wannabe lesbian. I've fancied women always, I fancied girls, but I also sort of wanted to be one. I also got boy genetics. I have both. I wanted to be special forces as a kid. I've performed in four languages, run marathons and come out.
 * On Loose Women, as cited in "Eddie Izzard: 'I'm a wannabe lesbian. I've fancied women always but I also sort of wanted to be one'", ITV (30 June 2017)
 * The year is missing from the webpage but the dateTime is given as "2017-06-30T16:19:10.000Z" in the document's source code.

I knew I had to come out and gradually get back into society. I knew I had to get trans-whatever, the language has changed over the years, into society as part of the world because we are citizens. I am running to be a member of Parliament now and that is not even an issue. '''It's not even talked about or brought up in the campaign, mostly in girl mode. I have boy mode and girl mode. I am kind of gender fluid. I want to express both sides of myself, which has always been there. I am a tomboy and tomgirl kind of person.''' EI: I am going with either "he" or "she." Either way is fine. If I am in boy mode then "he" or girl mode "she." People get confused, but thank you for asking.
 * I felt it was better to come out even though people suggested that I didn't. I knew I would get to a better place. I think that is part of my strength. I have done these shows in different languages and done charity by running over 70 marathons. My strength comes from me coming out in 1985.
 * WCT: What do you prefer your pronouns to be?
 * Interviewed by Jerry Nunn "Eddie Izzard works Wunderbar in Chicago" Windy City Times (Chicago, 24 May 2019)

I just want to be based in girl mode from now on.
 * I try to do things that I think are interesting, and this is the first programme I’ve asked if I can be she and her. The transition period.
 * Well it feels great, because people just assume that they know me from before but I'm gender fluid.
 * "Eddie Izzard has announced that she uses she/her pronouns - and gender fluidity explained" The Scotsman (21 December 2020).
 * In conversation with painter Curtis Holder during Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year.

2021–2022
This is not an attacking thing, this is just existing.
 * [On a preference for she/her pronouns] If it's not affecting someone, then why do you need to lean in and stop other people just trying to create a little space for themselves to be positive.
 * On ITV News (3 February 2021), as cited in "Eddie Izzard tells people 'miffed' about her pronouns to 'have a cup of tea'", The Independent (3 February 2021)

 * I've been promoted to she, and it's a great honour.
 * Relationships with me are tricky. You've got to be a woman who's very self-confident about your own sexuality to go out with me.
 * [On aging and being transgender] It's true older men and older women look quite a lot similar. There's a middle area where it’s much trickier. Visually, there's not so much difference between older men and older women, so it does get easier.
 * [Asked if they wish to possess breasts] Yeah! I've had boob envy since my teens. Just when teenage girls of my age were going "I want boobs", I was thinking yeah me too. But I couldn't say it. They talk about penis envy, and I believe some women suffer penis envy. I cannot for the life of me get my head around this. But yes, I've always had breasts envy
 * From an interview, as cited in "Eddie Izzard: 'I'm just trying to create a space for myself'", The Guardian (12 March 2021)

I've been out and open about it since 1985, it's a long time… And if we go back to the 1930s, if I've been in Nazi Germany, I would have been murdered for saying that I was trans. I hope that I would have said: 'No, this is rubbish. This person is lying.' And some Germans did, but you don't hear much about those stories.
 * I consider being trans a superhero thing - I wanted to put it in a very positive light with superheroes because some people are so negative about LGBT stuff.
 * I always wonder if I'd grown up in Germany in the 1930s, would I have joined the Hitler Youth? Would I have signed up for this thing? Would I have tried on one of those uniforms?
 * "Eddie Izzard: 'I consider being trans a superhero thing - but if I'd lived in Nazi Germany I'd have been murdered for it'", Sky News (25 March 2021)

 * [After the Portrait Artist of the Year programme on Sky Arts] [I]n two days in America and Britain, where I'm best known, all my pronouns were changed.
 * I prefer she/her, don’t mind he/him, and I’m going to be relaxed about it. It’s not the time for fighting each other on this.
 * On the My Seven Wonders with Clive Anderson podcast, as cited in "Eddie Izzard opens up about decision to announce use of she/her pronouns", The Independent (12 August 2022)

 * [On the Labour MP Rosie Duffield refusing to consider Izzard a woman] She has got to join the 21st century. She’s got to catch up with the rest of us. The vast majority of the world is now moving forwards … The millennium has happened and we’re 22 years into it. So come and join us in the 21st century.
 * [Confirming their use of a women's toilet] You've got to question people's sensibility, if they're going around taking photographs of people going into toilets. I go to the loo to go to the loo. I don't know where other people's imaginations are going.
 * I've had such disgusting things said to me over 37 years and now, to stand to be an MP in the seat of democracy in the United Kingdom, I've had to have such a torrent of transphobic abuse at that point when we're talking about democracy, we're talking about making people's lives better. It’s rather sad that these people feel that they want to do this attacking and this abuse online
 * From an interview as cited in "Eddie Izzard rules out appearing on all-women Labour MP shortlists", The Guardian (27 October 2022)
 * Izzard said they were "not sure" if trans women should be on an all-women shortlist for candidate selection. A former women's officer for the Labour Party in the neighbouring |Sheffield Hallam constituency had photographic evidence of Izzard having used a women's toilet at a Labour campaigning event.

 * [On the "fixation" about their transgender identity] I happen to be trans. It isn’t the central part of me. I also happen to play the piano. I also happen to have blue eyes.
 * "Attacks on trans candidate Eddie Izzard come from all sides in the U.K.", The Washington Post (7 November 2022)
 * At the time, Izzard was attempting to become a Labour Party parliamentary candidate for Sheffield Central for the next general election.

 * [On proposed gender self-id reforms and women-only spaces] I don't have all the answers [...] I happen to be trans. All I can do is say how it is for me. I can't come in and wave a magic wand and solve all the problems, because some people are very entrenched.
 * From an interview, as cited in "Eddie Izzard: 'Other people have to join the 21st century'", New Statesman (8 November 2022)

2023–present
So I’m going to be Suzy Eddie Izzard, that’s how I’m going to roll, so people can choose what they want. They can’t make a mistake, they can’t go wrong.
 * There’s another name I’m going to add in as well, which is Suzy, which I wanted to be since I was 10.
 * On adding Suzy to their name. From a recording of Matt Forde's The Political Party, as quoted in "'I'm going to be Suzy': Eddie Izzard announces her new name but says people can choose which to use" ITV News (7 March 2023)

 * I'm severely atypically dyslexic. My spelling's all over the place: cat with a 'k', ceiling with an 's'. I-Spy games went on for ever as a kid.
 * From an interview, as cited in "'I'm going for it like crazy': Eddie Izzard on her one-woman, 19-role Great Expectations", The Guardian (26 April 2023)

A tiger is attacking me? Is it a boy tiger, is it a girl tiger? I'm not sure — it's a f***ing tiger! You can surely check? No, I can't check. It's a tiger.
 * It's hyper-complex how humans work [...] Yet we're obsessed about boy-girl, whereas if a tiger is attacking you...[...]
 * As cited in "Eddie Izzard: 'Trans people going back in a shell? Won’t happen'", The Times (25 May 2024)

About Izzard

 * [From a review of Sexie] Mr. Izzard, whose theme is nothing less than civilization and its multifarious contents, traffics in delirious, dizzying circles of ideas and images. On the surface they have nothing to do with one another. And yet they flow effortlessly into a single, opalescent stream of consciousness.
 * Once he throws a conversational ball into the air, he keeps it in play for the rest of the night, even when you assume he's forgotten all about it. And every one of them is inspected with a magnifying eye that inflates everything to the point of absurdity.
 * Yet Mr. Izzard never reads as hostile or even aggressive. Unlike most American stand-ups, he attacks neither his audience nor himself, instead creating the illusion that he is courteously letting you eavesdrop on an infinite internal dialogue.
 * Ben Brantley "A Male Lesbian Whose Appeal Is Mainly Cerebral", The New York Times (9 October 2003)

Then "transvestite" became an unfashionable term and the concept of "gender identity" took hold. Whether you're a man or woman was defined not by your sexed body but your inner, soul-like essence.
 * The sad thing is women, particularly feminists, once adored Izzard. Not only the greatest 1990s stand-up, he was truly brave. On stage and off, in lipstick, leather skirts and sparkly eye-shadow, he subverted rigid ideas about what men could be. "These aren't women's clothes," he'd say. "They’re my clothes." He called himself a "transvestite": a heterosexual guy who sometimes wore frocks. And while some men abused him in the street, women thought he was cool.
 * In 2019, the US podcaster Joe Rogan asked how he moved from girl to boy mode, and Izzard replied: "I take off my heels."
 * Janice Turner "There’s more to womanhood than high heels", The Times (28 October 2022)

I wouldn’t say he's sold out. But he's in the grip of the same mania that a lot of other people are in. Eddie Izzard is trans? Really? He’s a fully intact crossdresser. How is he trans? I am as trans as Eddie Izzard.
 * I find the idea that I can’t make fun of Eddie Izzard and Sam Smith, two of the most ridiculous people around at the moment, absurd.
 * [Asked if he is misgendering Izzard] The Equalities Act also protects my belief that he's a man. What I find extraordinary about Eddie is he's an intelligent man. He's an enormously talented person. For him to not understand that his going into women's toilets means that men like Adam Graham [the transgender double rapist who identifies as Isla Bryson] can go into women's toilets. I just don't get how he doesn't see that. I can only imagine that he does see it and he’s ignoring it.
 * Graham Linehan interviewed by Camilla Tominey, as cited in "Graham Linehan interview: 'I didn’t realise how terrified everyone was of trans activists'", The Telegraph (2 October 2023)
 * An untransitioned trans women Isla Bryson (born Adam Graham) was convicted in Glasgow of raping two women (at the time of the crimes, the offender was unquestionably male), but began to identify as a woman after being charged. This individual was initially held in the Scottish women's prison.

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Wikiquote talk:Logo

I like the new logo. Suggestions for change:
 * the first curved stripe and the last one and thick, and the middle one is thin. Could you make the width of the stripes proportional to their length? So it would be thin, medium, thick (and the thickness of the gaps between also proportional to their length). If that doesn't look good, maybe try it with all the widths the same? Nanobug 12:45, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

 * I like it too! (obscure AOL reference) My suggenstion for improvement would be to have a triangle (but with just perceptibly curved sides like a horn, and maybe just perceptibly truncated on the side of the circle) section appearing close, but not touching the circle/sphere/head and then the threee bands about the width of the current middle one their length following roughly the curve of the "horn". As it is, it already suggests a hornlike curvature by the cleverly created optical illusion, but I personally would not have any objection on making it more explicit. But if my suggestion of a more explicit horn allusion is not supported, I would prefer that the current subliminal optical illusion remain. -- Cimon avaro 15:36, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I would also liek to see different langauge varients for "Wikiquote".

1) Cryllic Alphabet 2) Greek Alphabet 3) etc

As this logo should be used for all Wikiquotes (Unlike what is happening on wikipedia, where different wikipedias can choose to have a different logo).

PS I do not particullay like the shapes, just deosn;t look right IMO. maybe a blue semicricle (flat side against "Wikiquote". -fonzy

Long time no visit by myself. I like the new "skin", but my logo seems to have disappeared! If you need modifications to it to work on the current skin let me know. (wiki@neolux.biz). I can also take any suggestions as to redeveloping the logo and making it slicker. Let me know what you think, and leave suggestions on my talk page or on this page. I'll have a play and upload some more developed ideas to my talk page. Cheers! --Neolux 11:20, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

For me, the logo shows up as a yello rectangle with the word Wikiquote in italic black text, and 2 quotes in gray. Is there something wrong? -- 13 August 2004

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User talk:Brooke Vibber

Hi, thanks for helping with the setup of Wikiquote, fixing the Mars bug we had last month, and putting in the new logo recently. Could you spare some time to tidy up a couple of things on the site that only a developer can do? Many of these issues have been raised and discussed on the Village pump, Talk:Main_Page and elsewhere.

1) Change language.php file and replace many of the "Wikipedia" references to "Wikiquote". Some have been changed already (like the namespace 4 and 5), but others need adjusting e.g. the title of the page (which is still "Main Page - Wikipedia"); in Cologne Blue the logo is replaced by the large WIKIPEDIA text in the top left; each page still has an "About Wikipedia" link at the bottom; "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" should be "From Wikiquote, the free compendium of quotations" (mav's choice of words, which no-one here has disagreed with). That sort of thing.

 * See village pump. --Brion VIBBER 21:11, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I saw on the Village pump your discussion about namespace changing and the $wgSitename global variable. Could you also please change the other things listed above, like the replacement of the text "encyclopedia" and "Wikipedia" which still occurs in a lot of places? Thanks. Nanobug 12:10, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

2) On August 25th, mav set up http://wikiquote.org/ and http://www.wikiquote.org/ . They worked for a short time, but are no longer working. Also even though you could get to the main page with them, once there any links you followed went back to quote.wikipedia.org, so it was really like window dressing. Is it possible to get these working again, and working deeply rather than just superficially?

 * Okay, should work now. --Brion VIBBER 21:11, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Perfect. Thanks. Nanobug 12:10, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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