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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare, OM, CH (April 25, 1873 – June 22, 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. Many of his poems and stories were for children, though he believed that there is no such thing as a good poem for children, only a good poem that children can understand.

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 * Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.
 * Silver.

 * A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.
 * Silver.

 * Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.
 * An Epitaph.

 * But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare—rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?
 * An Epitaph.

 * Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour—let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
 * Fare Well, st. 3 (1918).

 * ‘Who knocks?’ ‘I, who was beautiful, Beyond all dreams to restore, I from the roots of the dark thorn am hither, And knock on the door.’
 * The Ghost.

 * A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast sorrow was there— The sweet cheat gone.
 * The Ghost.

 * Do diddle di do, Poor Jim Jay Got stuck fast In Yesterday.
 * Jim Jay.

 * It's a very odd thing&mdas; As odd as can be— That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.
 * Miss T.

 * Three jolly huntsmen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed.
 * The Huntsmen.

 * Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what fun!
 * Hi!

 * Wonderful lovely there she sat, Singing the night away, All in the solitudinous sea Of that there lonely bay.
 * Sam.

 * For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.
 * The Old Summerhouse.

 * Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Some one came knocking, I’m sure—sure—sure.
 * Some One Came Knocking.

 * Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.
 * Nod.

 * His are the quiet steeps of dreamland, The waters of no-more-pain; His ram’s bell rings ‘neath an arch of stars, “Rest, rest, and rest again.”
 * Nod.

 * We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
 * All That's Past.

 * Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
 * All That's Past.

 * Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.
 * Summer Evening.

 * Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer’s day.
 * Summer Evening.

 * All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
 * All But Blind.

 * So, blind to Someone I must be.
 * All But Blind.

 * What lovely things Thy hand hath made.
 * The Scribe.

 * “Bunches of grapes,” says Timothy; “Pomegranates pink,” says Elaine; “A junket of cream and a cranberry tart For me,” says Jane.
 * Bunches of Grapes.

 * “A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay”
 * Bunches of Grapes.

 * Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
 * Tired Tim.

 * ‘What is the world, O soldiers? It is I, I, this incessant snow, This northern sky.
 * Napoleon.

The Listeners (1912)

 * "Is anybody there?" said the Traveler, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor.

 * "Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said.

 * Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

The Song of the Mad Prince

 * Who said "Peacock Pie"? The old king to the sparrow: Who said "Crops are ripe"? Rust to the harrow. Who said, "Ay, mum's the word"? Sexton to willow. Who said, "Green dusk for dream?" Moss for a pillow.  Who said, "All Time’s delight Hath she for narrow bed; Life’s troubled bubble broken"?— That’s what I said.

About Walter de la Mare

 * The delicate, invisible web you wove The inexplicable mystery of sound.
 * T.S. Eliot, To Walter de la Mare.

 * Or when the lawn Is pressed by unseen feet, and ghosts return Gently at twilight, gently go at dawn, The sad intangible who grieve and yearn...
 * T.S. Eliot, To Walter de la Mare.

 * Walter de la Mare's "The Listeners"-I will never forget that poem.
 * 1979 interview in Conversations with Audre Lorde (2004)

 * De la Mare’s poetry represents some of the finest, beautifully crafted, classical verse of the twentieth century. It is truly tragic that his poems remain largely neglected, forgotten as the world passed them by.
 * Adam Sedia, "Neglected Gems: The Poetry of Walter de la Mare", ClassicalPoets.org (August 30, 2021)

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Ian Holloway

Ian Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football manager.

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 * We're like a bad tea-bag - we never stay in the Cup that long - reacting to his QPR side's defeat in the League Cup (then known as the Carling Cup for sponsorship reasons) to Aston Villa in September 2004.

 * To put it in gentleman's terms if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they're good looking and some weeks they're not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She wasn't the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let's have a coffee - on the "ugly" win against Chesterfield.

 * Apparently it's my fault that the Titanic sank.
 * On criticism from Plymouth Argyle fans during Leicester City's match against Plymouth Argyle. Holloway Column, BBC Sport: Football (website), retrieved 15 February 2008, page now lapsed.

 * I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
 * Reported on The Football League Show, BBC 1, 26 September 2009.

 * If you're a burglar, it's no good poncing about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

 * Why haven't they got cameras? The officials can speak to each other easily enough now. Why aren't we using laptops that are linked up and can give a decision in five seconds? A chimpanzee could do it - with not much training. We might as well go back to being cavemen, grab our girl by the hair, drag her into the cave whether she wants to come in or not because we may as well live in that age. We've come forward, haven't we?

 * In the first-half we were like the Dog and Duck, in the second-half we were like Real Madrid. We can't go on like that. At full-time I was at them like an irritated Jack Russell.

 * I'd rather do that than build chicken sheds no-one wanted!
 * On Blackpool making the Championship play-off final in 2010 having spent a year out of football making hen houses.

 * Reporter: Ian, have you got any injury worries? Holloway: No, I'm fully fit, thank you.

 * In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory’s throw. Call that cinnamon and he’s got a cinnamon flavoured cake. It’s not fair and it’s not right and it’s only a small part of what he does.
 * On Tony Pulis's style of management. Mirror Football, 10 December 2010

 * The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!
 * On Cristiano Ronaldo
 * "Holloway column", BBC SPORTS(4 april 2008)

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George Aiken

George David Aiken (August 20, 1892 – November 19, 1984) was an American politician and horticulturist. A member of the Republican Party, he was the 64th Governor of Vermont (1937–1941) before serving in the United States Senate for 34 years, from 1941 to 1975. At the time of his retirement, he was the most senior member of the Senate.

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 * Today the Republican Party attracts neither the farmer nor the industrial worker. Why not? To represent the people one must know them. Lincoln did. The Republican Party leadership does not. The greatest praise I can give Lincoln on this his anniversary is to say he would be ashamed of his party's leadership today.
 * 1938 radio broadcast from New York City marking Abraham Lincoln's birthday, quoted in Vermont Today, Vermont's Great Moments of the 20th Century

 * Let's Declare Victory and Get Out!
 * Attributed to Aiken. See Let's Declare Victory and Get Out!': Vermont Senator George D. Aiken and the Vietnam War

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Declare victory and go home
I read somewhere that Aiken actually never said the phrase "declare victory and go home." Supposedly, that was just a popular paraphrase of this speech. But, I don't have any sources at hand, so I'm leaving it as "attributed."--Fagles 21:55, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

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 * If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
 * The best policy is to declare victory and get out.
 * Discussing the Vietnam war
 * True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
 * People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
 * We cannot go back to the days when we graded apples by the number of wormholes, picked potato bugs by hand, and milked by hand in the lantern light.

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Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963, in Lagos, Nigeria) is a former professional basketball player whose best seasons were with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He was reverently nicknamed "Hakeem the Dream" for his grace on and off the court.

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 * Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me. And now, when I look at the system here and look at my position--not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from--I feel so blessed to be from Africa.

 * I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.
 * Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon - Interview, Feb, 1994 by Spike Lee.

 * My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam. That is the foundation from which I keep everything in perspective. I also want to let people know about Islam, how Islam can be a way of life. I want them to really understand its richness and its beauty and to see that Islam is for everybody. For me, this is the most important thing. From this, everything else falls into place.
 * Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon - Interview, Feb, 1994 by Spike Lee.

 * The people who run the show in the NBA don't know anything about Islam. I think that may also be why some people are against me personally--because I am a Muslim. It's the same way people can be against you because of the color of your skin. They don't look past these things. But it always depends on the individual.
 * Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon - Interview, Feb, 1994 by Spike Lee.

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Jessica Hoffman

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

The result was: Delete.. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:59, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Jessica Hoffman
I'm not convinced of the subject's notability. She has no WP article, despite the apparent links, and after 10 minutes Googling of various combinations of "Jessica Hoffman" "Jessica M Hoffman" "Hoff" and "Sabre" I've found no certain mention of her outside of WQ and its mirrors. Antiquary 22:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:56, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless identified as a notable person. I've likewise drawn a blank, and the date of birth in 1987 raises suspicions. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 23:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 19 years old and "famous" but we can't find her? I don't believe it. I am also suspicious about a page whose only quote is about the desire to be quoted. --Ubiquity 01:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided. ~ UDScott 20:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 07:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:27, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with Fys. As always, I'd like to see the quote sourced as well. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. 121a0012 16:10, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikiquote. The Reference Desk is the place to go to ask questions about quotations you can't trace, so I have transferred your question there. I'm sorry but I don't know the answer myself. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 12:48, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

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Edward R. Stettinius

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. (October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949) was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1946.

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 * The Department has noted with considerable apprehension increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official statements in favor of an autonomous Macedonia emanating from Bulgaria, but also from Yugoslav partisan and other sources with the implication that Greek territory would be included in the projected State. This Government considers talk of "Macedonian Nation", "Macedonian Fatherland", or "Macedonian National Consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing no ethnic or political reality, and sees in its present revival a possible cloak for aggressive intentions against Greece.
 * U.S. State Dep. Foreign Relations Vol. VII, Circular Airgram [868.014]

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Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

Henry Morgenthau (April 26, 1856 – November 25, 1946) was a lawyer, businessman and United States ambassador, most famous as the American ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. As ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Morgenthau has come to be identified as the most prominent American to speak out against the Armenian Genocide.

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 * The destruction of the Armenian race in 1915 involved certain difficulties that had not impeded the operations of the Turks in the massacres of 1895 and other years. In these earlier periods the Armenian men had possessed little power or means of resistance. In those days Armenians had not been permitted to have military training, to serve in the Turkish army, or to possess arms. As I have already said, these discriminations were withdrawn when the revolutionists obtained the upper hand in 1908. Not only were the Christians now permitted to bear arms, but the authorities, in the full flush of their enthusiasm for freedom and equality, encouraged them to do so. In the early part of 1915, therefore, every Turkish city contained thousands of Armenians who had been trained as soldiers and who were supplied with rifles, pistols, and other weapons of defense. The operations at Van once more disclosed that these men could use their weapons to good advantage. It was thus apparent that an Armenian massacre this time would generally assume more the character of warfare than those wholesale butcheries of defenseless men and women which the Turks had always found so congenial. If this plan of murdering a race were to succeed, two preliminary steps would therefore have to be taken: it would be necessary to render all Armenian soldiers powerless and to deprive of their arms the Armenians in every city and town. Before Armenia could be slaughtered, Armenia must be made defenseless. In the early part of 1915, the Armenian soldiers in the Turkish army were reduced to a new status. Up to that time most of them had been combatants, but now they were all stripped of their arms and transformed into workmen. … In almost all cases the procedure was the same. Here and there squads of 50 or 100 men would be taken, bound together in groups of four, and then marched out to a secluded spot a short distance from the village. Suddenly the sound of rifle shots would fill the air, and the Turkish soldiers who had acted as the escort would sullenly return to camp. Those sent to bury the bodies would find them almost invariably stark naked, for, as usual, the Turks had stolen all their clothes. In cases that came to my attention, the murderers had added a refinement to their victims' sufferings by compelling them to dig their graves before being shot. … Dreadful as were these massacres of unarmed soldiers, they were mercy and justice themselves when compared with the treatment which was now visited upon those Armenians who were suspected of concealing arms. Naturally the Christians became alarmed when placards were posted in the villages and cities ordering everybody to bring their arms to headquarters. Although this order applied to all citizens, the Armenians well understood what the result would be, should they be left defenseless while their Moslem neighbours were permitted to retain their arms. In many cases, however, the persecuted people patiently obeyed the command; and then the Turkish officials almost joyfully seized their rifles as evidence that a "revolution" was being planned and threw their victims into prison on a charge of treason. Thousands failed to deliver arms simply because they had none to deliver, while an even greater number tenaciously refused to give them up, not because they were plotting an uprising, but because they proposed to defend their own lives and their women's honour against the outrages which they knew were being planned. The punishment inflicted upon these recalcitrants forms one of the most hideous chapters of modern history. … Nothing was sacred to the Turkish gendarmes; under the plea of searching for hidden arms, they ransacked churches, treated the altars and sacred utensils with the utmost indignity, and even held mock ceremonies in imitation of the Christian sacraments. They would beat the priests into insensibility, under the pretense that they were the centres of sedition. When they could discover no weapons in the churches, they would sometimes arm the bishops and priests with guns, pistols, and swords, then try them before courts-martial for possessing weapons against the law, and march them in this condition through the streets, merely to arouse the fanatical wrath of the mobs. As a preliminary to the searches everywhere, the strong men of the villages and towns were arrested and taken to prison. Their tormentors here would exercise the most diabolical ingenuity in their attempt to make their victims declare themselves to be "revolutionists" and to tell the hiding places of their arms. A common practice was to place the prisoner in a room, with two Turks stationed at each end and each side. The examination would then begin with the bastinado. This is a form of torture not uncommon in the Orient; it consists of beating the soles of the feet with a thin rod. At first the pain is not marked; but as the process goes slowly on, it develops into the most terrible agony, the feet swell and burst, and not infrequently, after being submitted to this treatment, they have to be amputated. … In thousands of cases the Armenians endured these agonies and refused to surrender their arms simply because they had none to surrender. However, they could not persuade their tormentors that this was the case. It therefore became customary, when news was received that the searchers were approaching, for Armenians to purchase arms from their Turkish neighbours so that they might be able to give them up and escape these frightful punishments.
 * Ambassador Morgenthau's Story, Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York (1918), "Chapter XXIV - The Murder of a Nation" page 301

 * Those who fell by the wayside. Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms—massacre, starvation, exhaustion—destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation.

I was sent to Athens

 * Soon after Athens had reached the height of its glory under Pericles in the Fifth Century, B. C., and had started on its decline, the rise of Macedon under Philip carried Greek influence into new regions. The glory of Athens had been based upon sea power, but the conquests of Macedon were the work of land armies— Philip invented the invincible phalanx. Upon Philip's death his son, Alexander the Great, set forth to conquer the whole of the then known world, and as that world in his day lay to the east, his marches were in that direction. In a few years he had overrun the fertile plains and opulent cities of Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, and had carried his conquests to the gates of Delhi. In all the cities in the intervening countries he left large garrisons of Greek soldiers. In many of these countries he founded flourishing new cities. In every place his soldiers were followed by large colonies of Greek civilians. The result was that the whole of western Asia, and of what we call the Near East, including Asia Minor, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, Persia, and northwestern India, was saturated with the Greek influence and with Greek colonies.

 * The imagination of these conquered peoples was dazzled by the introduction of Greek art, literature, philosophy, and public works. Though the successors of Alexander were unable to maintain the political control of the lands he conquered, and though successive waves of Roman, Arabian, and Tartar conquests swept over these lands in succeeding centuries, none of the later conquerors has been able wholly to eradicate the influence of Greek culture, nor to exterminate that element of population which was of Greek blood.

 * ….The Greek War of Independence, which came to a successful conclusion in 1832, affected less than one half of the Greeks in the Turkish Empire. It did not bring freedom to the Greeks of Macedonia and Thrace, of Crete and the Aegean Islands, nor to the more than two million Greeks in Asia Minor and Constantinople.

 * When the Turks and the Bulgarians left, Macedonia remained a purely Greek region.

Quotes about Morgenthau

 * To this day, the Turkish government refuses to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. This is strange, since the historical evidence of what happened is plentiful. Western observers like the US ambassador in Constantinople, Henry Morgenthau, wrote detailed reports about what was being done - including the telling statement of Mehmed Talaat Pasha, the Interior Minister, that all the Armenians had to perish because 'those who were innocent today might be guilty tomorrow'. Western missionaries too wrote harrowing accounts of what they witnessed. Their testimony formed an important part of the wartime report on 'The Treatment of the Armenians' compiled by Viscount Bryce, who had also investigated the German atrocities in Belgium in 1914.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 177

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Ryan Adams

David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is an American alt-country and rock singer-songwriter.

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 * It's not very fashionable nowadays to have a philosophy that demands a lot of life. I tend to be drawn to people who are emotional - now they'd be called 'crazy'. Pollock, Jasper Johns, Toulouse-Lautrec. People said, 'They're off their nut!' Was Faulkner off his nut because he stayed in his house for eight months at a time writing books, and then you'd find him drunk up in a tree, making out with some old black woman? I think that's fuckin' great!
 * Blender (August/September 2001)

 * I want to make sure I'm with a girl that's a good kisser, and that when I wake up, I have coffee and a cigarette. That's all I really want out of life. That, and world domination.
 * Rolling Stone (February 14, 2002)

 * My lifestyle changed when this wonderful person came into my life. I couldn't sleep for years. All of a sudden, I don't know why or how, but I slept.
 * Spin (December 2003)

 * I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.
 * Spin (February 2006)

 * I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.
 * Blender (December 2003)

 * I've got maybe five or ten jean jackets with jeans. I can pack three to four pairs of denim jeans, five T-shirts, ten Western-style shirts, and two ties and just buy socks when I get there. That, a Walkman, two books, and some records, and I'm out the door for a year. Not a problem. Doesn't freak me out at all. Usually, if you're thinking about your clothes too much, you're probably not high enough.
 * GQ (April 2002)

 * What happens is, people get a little taste of fame, and they get used to having things go that way, and the ego really kicks in. They'll do whatever it takes to stay there. They get addicted, and they make decisions that don't have anything to do with music. You get big like that, and people will maybe come and see you once. It never lasts. It's not real. I'll tell you this - it's fucking real behind a guitar.
 * Harp (July/August 2005)

 * It’s like—I don’t know, sometimes it’s like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do…I can do.
 * MySpace - Easy, Tiger description/interview by Stephen King (May 2007)

 * I was doing soundcheck, and Rancid was playing over there. That's some good shit. Actually, it wasn't Rancid, it was the opening band, the Distillers. I was like, screaming and shit. Running around. I had no one to slam dance with. I was very lonesome. It was very singer-songwriter.
 * Live performance

 * If I had a reed made of lightning I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightning but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.
 * Live performance 9/29/07- Chicago Theater

 * "Most of my songs are about ladies. This one's about ladies metaphorically. There are some of my songs that are about the power of lightning.
 * Songwriters' Circle, 2012

Song Lyrics

 * When you get the time Sit down and write me a letter When you're feeling better Drop me a line I wanna know how it all works out I had a feeling we were fading out I didn't know that people faded out That people faded out so fast I wanna show you all the things I got inside But you know those parts of me died Just like us they faded out They faded out so fast When there was love enough left to fix it But there it is
 * Sun Also Sets

Love Is Hell pt. 2 (2003)

 * And I'm tired of living here in this hotel,Snow and the rain falling through the sheets.In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street.Strung out like some Christmas lightsOut there in the Chelsea night.
 * Hotel Chelsea Nights

29 (2005)

 * I should've died a hundred thousand times,Teetering stoned off the side of a building.Nobody loved me and nobody even triedYou can't hang on to something that won't stop moving.Singing and dancing to them nighttime songs.
 * 29

 * She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell, And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still. She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette, And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get.
 * Miss Sunflower

 * Real. Real like a plastic bouquetThat thrives on the smoke from an old fireplaceAnd dies every night with her face on the news.Nobody cries, they just smoke and stare and their shoes.The only difference is,The only difference is,Nobody can cry -It's hard to doFor most folks, without a reason why.
 * Cry on Demand

 * There's something in the way she eases my mind And lays me across the bed till I close my eyes. Stirs me in the morning till I can't ever be satisfied. I leave Carolina every night in my dreams, Like the girls that try to love me that I only leave. Rock me like a baby doll and hold me to your chest, But I'm always moving too fast.
 * When Will You Come Back Home?

 * As a man I ain’t never been much for sunny days. I’m as calm as a fruit stand in New York and maybe as strange. But when the color goes out of my eyes, it’s usually the change. But damn, Sam, I love a woman that rains.
 * Damn Sam

 * I would've held your mother's hand on the day you was born. She runs through my veins like a long black river and rattles my cage like a thunderstorm.
 * How Do You Keep Love Alive?

 * See her smiling at him? That used to be me, and I could find her in a thunderstorm just by the way that the rain would fall.
 * Hard Way To Fall

 * Just a nobody girl
With a radar to the scene.
When the emptiness finds you
You find all the numbers you need.
You say you follow your heart
Well, honey, you're just being lost.
You could you follow your gut
But how much would it cost?
 * Nobody Girl

 * They carved your name into a stone and then they put it in the ground. I run my fingers through the grooves when no one's around, Drink till I'm sick and I talk to myself in the dog days of the summer. Then I feel you coming but I don't know how...
 * September

 * One night at the diner over eggs, Over easy she showed me the length of her legs, But that gold plated cross on her neck, it was real And you don't get that kind of money from pushing a meal.
 * Carolina Rain

 * I feel just like a map
Without a single place to go of interest
And I'm further north than south
If I could shut my mouth
She'd probably like this.
 * My Winding Wheel

 * These things inside me, they repeat like broken records
Spinning pretty things behind my eyes
And when I can't look at you
I can paint your picture perfectly in my mind
And when I get old
I'm gonna miss you all the time.
 * Friends

 * All the sweetest winds they blow across the south
 * Oh My Sweet Carolina

 * While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax
 * To Be the One

 * Words may move but they’re never moving fast enough
 * English Girls Approximately

 * Bring you down, can't bring you down Bring you down, can't hear the sound Run through the river and head to town Pretty little moon with it's head hung down Chin up. Cheer up.
 * Chin Up, Cheer Up

 * Do you remember stormy winter? Well button up your coat, one's comin' soon
 * The Last Dance

When we don't belong So I'm saving up my energy for you Well we can't go on Well we don't belong So I'm saving up this last dance just for you
 * Well we can't be strong
 * The Last Dance

We're just trapped inside the lens without a smile Wanna get to you, nothing can get through Lookin' back's a real fine time to say goodbye
 * You didn't see us, nothing can free us
 * The Last Dance

But I don't know anything anymore I let the dirt and the rain and the cold come in They were outside just poundin' on the door
 * If I could tell you something, I would tell you it all
 * Cracks in the Photograph

I just wanna burn up hard and bright
 * Well, everybody wants to go forever
 * Firecracker

Dancin' where the evening fell
 * Dancin' where the stars go blue
 * Where the Stars Go Blue

And the people they come and go
 * The night plays games
 * Nobody Girl

And it shatters like broken glass
 * Well, the night makes moves
 * Nobody Girl

 * The night destroys the sun
 * Gonna Make You Love Me

 * Sleep now and your angels will come, dear
 * Wild Flowers

 * Forever only takes its toll on some
 * Wild Flowers

So close your mouth And do this all in time to the music That screams like a child in the back of your mind In a clown's saloon
 * So close your eyes
 * Goodnight, Hollywood Boulevard

That dance like fools set on fire
 * And I do this all in time to the music
 * Goodnight, Hollywood Boulevard

Note to self: don't die
 * Note to self: don't change for anyone
 * Note to Self: Don’t Die

Not that I'm going to remember And have you seen the moon tonight Is it full? Still burning its embers The people dancing in the corner, they seem happy
 * So, I am in the twilight of my youth
 * Anybody Want to Take Me Home

Wasted like you're losing your job you're so fired We're just like the ones we used to make fun of
 * Walking through a star field covered in lights
 * Beautiful Sorta

Where the cold don't come and the wind don't blow Moonlight flickers on the water below
 * Let's take a ride to the easy plateau
 * Easy Plateau

 * Bad nights lead to better days
 * Easy Plateau

On a Sunday morning in her Saturday shoes
 * The mirrors in the room go black and blue
 * Cold Roses

Saturday's bruises and cold roses
 * Daylight comes and exposes
 * Cold Roses

Can't find the truth in a house of lies And you can't see tomorrow with yesterday's eyes One shot, one beer and a place where nobody cries
 * And the pain in the morning comes as easy as it goes
 * A Kiss Before I Go

With the sky full of nothing but moon And I lose my reflection in the bottles of wine
 * All the cars are lined up on a Saturday night
 * The End

And it's a hard way to fall And this ain't the easy way down And it's a hard thing to love anyone, anyhow
 * Oh, my God, I miss those things
 * Hard Way to Fall

To the peaceful valley Down the winding river To your city your soul I've grown so tired And my hearts grown heavy To walk any longer To your cities of gold
 * Lord take me home
 * Peaceful Valley

To sing when everything goes wrong Till the peaceful valley calls me home
 * Trying to find a peaceful song
 * Peaceful Valley

Up there in heaven with a bottle of wine
 * Can I still smoke my cigarettes and have my coffee
 * Peaceful Valley

Goddamn it Nashville, don't never grow up
 * Hope this place don't never change
 * Saturday Night

Let go of the worry, there's so much nobody understands Don't live your life in such a hurry, life goes by us so so fast
 * Put your troubles behind you and go on to bed
 * Goodnight Rose

"All wrapped up, in the ribbons of your heart." "16 Days" Strangers Almanac

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User:Officer Konquist

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User talk:Officer Konquist

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikiquote. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. —LrdChaos (talk) 00:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Reversion of pauses from "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"
An edit I made was reverted with the edit summary "Pauses are not quotes." However, this is dialogue from a movie and pauses are in the original source. So I'm thinking that, in this instance, pauses are quotes. Am I wrong? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 04:11, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I actually agree that context is sometimes necessary for quotes. In this case, I see no problem with including the pauses, since they are such an iconic part of this particular quote. ~ UDScott (talk) 16:25, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The only thing iconic about the quote is his monotonous, repetitive tone. The pauses mean nothing. So Butwhatdoiknow is wrong. WikiLubber (talk) 21:13, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Can we we agree that the quote, as delivered in the movie, does have pauses? (Whether or not they have meaning is a separate question.) Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:15, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it makes no difference. The character's tone is what matters most. WikiLubber (talk) 22:38, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

It occurs to me that maybe I haven't asked the right question. Let's try this one: Do you think that adding ellipses to the text might cause some harm? If not, is there some other concern that motivates your opposition? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 23:58, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

 * All I can say for sure is that it is absolutely unnecessary, and nobody cares for the pauses. Just the tone. WikiLubber (talk) 03:12, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Well, to be fair, I care for the pauses. And at least one other editor sees "no problem" with including them. I appreciate that they conflict with your aesthetic view of quotes, but Wikiquote is a collaboration. Since they do no harm, I'm asking you to do me the favor of leaving them. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 04:50, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Denied. Completely unnecessary. WikiLubber (talk) 12:55, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the [no response] solution. As you'll see, I've tweaked it a bit. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:44, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

 * P.S. - Good catch on the 4th "Bueller?" Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:49, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

 * The tweaking was unnecessary. WikiLubber (talk) 00:23, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

It appears we now have a few areas of disagreement. Let's deal with the easiest one first: IMDB spells Simone's last name as "Adamley." What is your basis for thinking the spelling is "Adamle"? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:32, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Well, I guess we have a preliminary question: Where can I find the "NO full names allowed" rule upon which you relied for removing Simone's last name? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:31, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

 * This has nothing to do with the topic in question, and since it is resolved, I say we put this discussion to rest. P.S.: Never trust IMDB, as it is no different from Wikiquote or Wikipedia, since it can be edited and all. WikiLubber (talk) 21:09, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

 * You making an edit and me not reverting it (thereby avoiding an edit war) does not "resolve" anything. The original text had a last name. You removed the last name (twice) saying that last names are not allowed. Can you point me to the Wikiquote rule that says last names are not allowed? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 23:15, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

 * There is no Wikiquote rule which states  "NO full names allowed" Miszatomic User talk 17:19, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

WikiLubber, you have offered nothing to support your assertion of a "no last names" rule or to rebut Miszatomic's determination that there is no such rule. That brings us back to my original question on this area of disagreement: IMDB spells Simone's last name as "Adamley." What is your basis for thinking the spelling is "Adamle"? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:57, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Let me rephrase the statement: "No full names necessary". Nevertheless, that is immaterial to what the whole topic was about in the first place. And furthermore, IMDB is not a reliable source anymore. WikiLubber (talk) 19:14, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Okay, where can I find the "only necessary text is allowed on Wikiquote" rule upon which you relied for removing Simone's last name? (I'm hoping it contains a definition of "necessary" that the community has agreed upon and I can use for guidance in the future.) Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 21:15, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

 * All I can say is that full names are redundant and are completely unnecessary. There is no rule against full names, but still, full names are redundant. But that is STILL irrelevant to the whole (resolved) topic in the first place. End of discussion. WikiLubber (talk) 04:45, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

 * I've lost track. What do you understand to be the "whole topic" and how do you believe it has been resolved? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 05:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

 * It turns out "redundant" means "unnecessary". So I'm still in the dark regarding (a) whether Wikiquote has a rule against unnecessary (but perhaps, for example, helpful) text and, if so, (b) how the community defines "unnecessary." Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 05:17, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

 * WikiLubber, since you do not cite a rule or provide a standard for "unnecessary," which you give as your rationale for removing Simone's last name from the pre-December 1 version of this article, I intend to restore it. Please let me know if you object to this change and, if so, provide support for your objection. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:18, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

 * I strongly object, since the rest of the article does not use full names, either. P.S.: This has nothing to do with the topic in question. WikiLubber (talk) 23:10, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Well, that makes sense. Next time, to save us all a lot of bother, please provide a meaningful explanation (for example, "remove last name to conform with other names on this page" rather than "unnecessary" or a made up "no last names allowed" rule). Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 02:15, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

That brings us back to "the topic in question" - the pauses. Two editors believe they add relevant information to the quote. Can you explain what there is about the "tone" that should prevent them from being in the quote? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 02:28, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * The only answer is to leave the quote as it is now. WikiLubber (talk) 02:47, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * There is another answer: change the quote. Do have any reason other than "tone" why your answer is better? If not, what do you mean by "tone"? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 19:30, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Maintain it as it was when it was first submitted. Nobody changed it for years. WikiLubber (talk) 21:46, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

 * There is no status quo rule and, if there were, your "remove the last name" change would violate it. Do you have any other basis to oppose the ellipses? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 05:57, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The point is, the pauses have no relevance and must NOT be included, especially if they are repetitive, which is extremely redundant.
 * But since we are still not in agreement, replacing the quote with something better is the only way to end this pointless discussion. WikiLubber (talk) 21:13, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Actually, there is another option: invite others into the discussion. This I intend to do after Miszatomic responds (one way or the other) to my request to restore and edit protect the article. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 23:33, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

 * Since the quote has been restored, the only option is to leave the quote as it is and not add pauses, because they are extremely redundant and unnecessary. End of discussion. WikiLubber (talk) 15:56, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
 * In conclusion, IMDB never included the pauses, either. So why should anything else? WikiLubber (talk) 16:14, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

 * As I said, I'll ask others to comment once Miszatomic has had a chance to respond to my request for edit protection. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:04, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Quote limitations
After resolving that earlier dispute, I rechecked the article and found that the number of quotes far exceeded the maximum of eight for this 102-minute film (one every full 12 minutes means no more than eight total quotes). WikiLubber (talk) 22:11, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * What you are citing to justify limiting this page to 8 quotes is not official policy (WQ:LOQ) - it is a proposed guideline that has never received enough support to become official policy. As such, it should not be used to exercise extreme limits on the number of quotes, especially in the middle of a contentious discussion like this. ~ UDScott (talk) 02:35, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Put ellipses in "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?"?
I put ellipses at the end of each of the four "Bueller?" sentences in this iconic quote. In response, WikiLubber reacted as follows: - I distill from this that WikiLubber objects to the ellipses because (a) pauses are not quotes, (b) pauses mean nothing (it is the tone that matters), (c) indicating pauses is unnecessary, (d) nobody cares for the pauses, (e) no editor previously sought to add pauses, (f) the pauses are irrelevant, (g) these pauses are repetitive/redundant, and (h) the pauses do not appear in the IMDB version of the quote.  please let me know if I've missed any other basis for your objection to the ellipses. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:00, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) reverting, saying "Pauses are not quotes."
 * 2) saying "The pauses mean nothing."
 * 3) saying "it makes no difference. The character's tone is what matters most."
 * 4) saying "it is absolutely unnecessary, and nobody cares for the pauses. Just the tone."
 * 5) editing the page to add one "[no response]" at the end of the four sentences
 * 6) reverting my edit inserting "[no response]" in between the four sentences; changing the single entry to "[no response each time];" and saying "The tweaking was unnecessary."
 * 7) saying "The only answer is to leave the quote as it is now."
 * 8) saying "Maintain it as it was when it was first submitted. Nobody changed it for years."
 * 9) saying "the pauses have no relevance and must NOT be included, especially if they are repetitive, which is extremely redundant."
 * 10) removing the entire quote and saying "replacing the quote with something better is the only way to end this pointless discussion."
 * 11) removing the entire quote again (after it was restored), saying "Removed for copyvio."
 * 12) removing the entire quote again (after it was restored again), saying "When I say removed for copyvio, I mean that quote has exceeded the limit of quotes for the length of this film. Film articles here have limits (depending on the length), and this one (one hour, 42 minutes long) = 14 is the limit." (Another editor then explained that no Wikiquote policy contains this limitation.)
 * 13) saying, after the quote was restored a third time, "Since the quote has been restored, the only option is to leave the quote as it is and not add pauses, because they are extremely redundant and unnecessary."
 * 14) saying "In conclusion, IMDB never included the pauses, either. So why should anything else?"

(a) are pauses quotes?
In our discussion (above) you agreed that the quote, as delivered in the movie, does have pauses. Later, you edited the page to add "[no response]" at the end of the four questions, which is an alternative way of expressing at least one pause. Thus, it seems you no longer dispute that pauses are quotes. Please let me know if I am wrong. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:28, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * That does not mean one should add redundant pauses after each "Bueller?". Just a simple "[no response]" after the last "Bueller?" is enough. WikiLubber (talk) 00:57, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that. We can talk about redundancy at "(g) these pauses are repetitive/redundant." Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:56, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

(b) Do pauses mean nothing? Is it the tone that matters?
Meaning. To me, the pauses have a meaning: they indicate that the speaker waits for a reply and doesn't receive one. You appear to agree to the extent that you are comfortable with adding a single "[no response]" after the last "Bueller?" Am I understanding correctly? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 18:56, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Look, the point is, just leave the quote as it is now. There is no point in improving/deteriorating it. WikiLubber (talk) 14:16, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I understand you are comfortable with the status quo. I am not. To resolve our differences I'm trying to analyze your objections to my change. Do I conclude correctly from your edit adding a "[no response]" after the four questions that you are not opposed to a single pause reference in the quote? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:48, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes. WikiLubber (talk) 01:04, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

Tone. I would like to accommodate your concerns as well, but I'm not sure what you mean by "tone." Can you give me an example of tone being expressed in a Wikiquote? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

 * Reading above I see you referred to a "monotonous" tone. Should we add "[in a monotone]" just before the Bueller questions? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:33, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

(c) Is indicating pauses unnecessary? If so, does Wikiquote ban them for that reason?
We could spend a lot of time debating what is "necessary." For the sake of argument, I'll agree the ellipses are not absolutely necessary - just as the "[no response]" text you added is not absolutely necessary. But both, I'd say, are helpful to the reader. Can you point to a Wikiquote policy or guideline that bans all "unnecessary" text? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:33, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * What does it matter? Just leave the quote as is. Any further changes are no longer needed. WikiLubber (talk) 19:07, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean by "it." If you mean the ellipses, they matter because they convey useful information (that there are pauses between the questions) and are needed to convey that information. If you mean whether Wikiquote bans all "unnecessary" text, it matters because you gave as a rationale for reverting my change that it was "unnecessary." Can you point to a Wikiquote policy or guideline that bans all "unnecessary" text? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 02:10, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I see nothing in the rules not to include them. Besides, if IMDB does not include ellipses, why should Wikiquote? Just leave the quote as it is, and let us end this dispute. WikiLubber (talk) 21:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * We'll get to IMDB at (h). Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:50, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

(d) Does nobody care for the pauses?
Will you accept that (a) I care for the pauses and (b) the only other editor to weigh in so far (besides you and me) sees "no problem with including the pauses, since they are such an iconic part of this particular quote"? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 01:50, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * They are not. Just the quote itself is. Leave it as is, and end this dispute. WikiLubber (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Your response does not deny that at least one editor cares for the pauses and at least one other editor thinks the pauses are an iconic part of the quote. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:51, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

(e) Does Wikiquote ban changes that no editor previously sought to add?
Can you point to a Wikiquote policy or guideline that bans all changes to quotes that no one previously thought to add? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:51, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
 * No, because it is not necessary. Just leave it as is, because there is no point in making any further changes. WikiLubber (talk) 02:43, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

(f) Are the pauses irrelevant?
Looking back, I think you may have used "irrelevant" with regard to the discussion we had about full names - not ellipses. I understand that you believe the ellipses are unnecessary. I'm wondering whether you agree that the pauses themselves are relevant to the "Bueller?" quote. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 19:20, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The answer is still no. Can we end this and leave the quote as it is? There is no point in changing it. You cannot fix what is not broken. WikiLubber (talk) 03:55, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You see no difference between "Bueller?" said four times in rapid succession and "Bueller?" said with pauses in between (waiting for a response each time), is that what you are saying? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 1. This is the last time I am going to tell you: The pauses are unnecessary and absolutely redundant.
 * 2. There is no difference, and absolutely no point in changing the quote, nevertheless. This discussion is over. WikiLubber (talk) 13:16, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank for establishing that you see "no difference between "Bueller?" said four times in rapid succession and "Bueller?" said with pauses in between (waiting for a response each time)." That is probably at the heart of our disagreement. But, first, let's get through your other objections to make sure we cover them all.

(g) Are the pauses are repetitive/redundant?
Do you believe that the text as it appears in Wikiquote ("Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?") is repetitive and redundant? If so, should we eliminate three of the "Buellers?" for that reason? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 20:08, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The pauses are beyond redundant. Nothing more. I believe I said "this discussion is over". We have already covered all objections since point A. WikiLubber (talk) 03:30, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I trying to understand what you mean by redundant in this context. Would you also characterize the dialogue ("Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?") as "redundant"? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 00:02, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Allow me to repeat myself yet again: "The pauses are beyond redundant. Nothing more. I believe I said "this discussion is over". We have already covered all objections since point A." WikiLubber (talk) 02:29, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Wiktionary gives one definition of "redundant" as "exceeding what is necessary." If that is your definition then I agree with you that we have discussed redundancy at (c) above. Is that your definition? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:45, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * You really are persistent, are you not? I made my point perfectly clear in point A: Leave it as it is now. WikiLubber (talk) 19:33, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
 * I am trying to understand why you are so persistent in refusing to show the pauses in the "Bueller?" text. Why is it such a big deal for you? Once I know that then I'll be able to either (a) understand and accept your position or (b) have the information which will allow me to try to deal with the underlying issue. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:12, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I apologize for not making myself clearer. I am not asking whether you think the pauses are repetitive and redundant, I'm asking whether you think the text ("Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?") is repetitive and redundant. Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:12, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * No. The pauses are, but the text is another story, because it is the actual quote. WikiLubber (talk) 23:37, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

(h) the pauses do not appear in the IMDB version of the quote
On December 24 (above) you said "IMDB never included the pauses, either. So why should anything else?" However, on December 6 (above) you said "Never trust IMDB" and on December 9 (above) you said "IMDB is not a reliable source." I'm confused. Do you think Wikiquote should consider IMDB a definitive source or not? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 02:37, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * The answer was very clearly spelled out from point A: No pauses. WikiLubber (talk) 03:44, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, that is an answer; however, it is not an answer to the question I asked.

Let me try again: Do you agree that Wikiquote should not be bound by whatever IMDB does? Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 16:05, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
 * This question has no bearing on the decision that was made final from question A. WikiLubber (talk) 00:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, I meant "never trust IMDB" for name spellings. Nothing more. WikiLubber (talk) 00:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

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The Secret (film)

The Secret (2006) is a feature length film produced by Prime Time Productions. The film is comprised of a series of interviews and dramatizations, related to the concept of "The Law of Attraction". The Secret has traveled through centuries ...to reach you. (taglines)

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 * What we think about and thank about, we bring about.
 * Dr. John DeMartini
 * When you're visualizing, when you've got that picture playing out in your mind, always and only dwell upon the end result.
 * Mike Dooley
 * So we are the creators, not only of our own destiny but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny, we are the creators of the universe.
 * John Hagelin
 * The law of attraction is really obedience. When you think of the things that you want, and you focus on them with all of your intention, the law of attraction will give you what you want, every time.
 * Lisa Nichols
 * The universe ...is [like] a grand Genii [which] traditions have called with so many names like the holy guardian angel, your higher self ... [and it] says only one thing : "your wish is my command".
 * James Arthur Ray
 * Learn to become still and take your attention away from what you don't want and all the emotional charge around it and place the attention on what you wish to experience.
 * Rev. Michael Beckwith

2006 book based on the film

 * Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think, those thoughts are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source. And that source is You.
 * p. 10
 * The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don't want than what they do want. Listen to your thoughts, and listen to the words you are saying. The law is absolute and there are no mistakes.
 * p. 12
 * Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
 * p. 59
 * The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts.
 * p. 100
 * You cannot "catch" anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As you listen, you are giving all your thought and focus to illness, and when you give all of your thought to something, you are asking for it.
 * p. 132

About The Secret

 * In The Secret, a slickly produced cult-hit DVD that has sold approximately 500,000 copies since its release last April, a dizzying dream team of personal transformation specialists, spiritual messengers, feng shui masters, and moneymaking experts explain the "law of attraction," which basically states that if you think really, really hard, say, about vigorously cavorting with Salma Hayek on a soft, fluffy bed of Google Series A preferred stock, you will emit a magnetic signal to the universe that will make your vision a reality.

 * At this point I should add that The Secret is not only drivel—it's pernicious drivel. The obvious question that arises from its claim that it's easy to get what you want, is: Why do so many people get what they don't want? As Byrne writes, "Imperfect thoughts are the cause of all humanity's ills, including disease, poverty, and unhappiness." Yes, according to The Secret, people don't just randomly end up being massacred, for example. They are in the wrong place because of their own lousy thinking. Cancer patients have long been victims of this school of belief. But The Secret takes it to a new and more repulsive level with its advice not just to blame people for their illness, but to shun them, lest you start being infected by their bummer thoughts, too.

Taglines

 * The Secret has traveled through centuries ...to reach you.

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User talk:209.191.208.58

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Talk:Peter Cain

Ive got some quotes from Peter Cain; "You're late."

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Prozac Nation

Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir is an autobiography by Elizabeth Wurtzel, released in 1994 and adapted into an independent movie of the same name in 2001. In it, Wurtzel describes her experiences with major depression. The title is a reference to Prozac, the name of an Eli Lilly and Company manufactured antidepressant which was prescribed for Wurtzel.

"I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together...can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"...what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"That's the one thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal—unpleasant, but normal. Depression is in an altogether different zone because it involved a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space. But for all intents and purposes, the deeply depressed are just the walking, waking dead." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"...if you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there, to pin down the turning point, he'll never know. There is a classic moment in The Sun Also Rises when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, 'Gradually and then suddenly.' When someone asks how I lost my mind, that is all I can say too." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I'm always missing someone or someplace or something, I'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to hitch up to, a fantasy of peace someday which seemed better than any life with all this noise in my head." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"Nothing in my life ever seemed to fade away or take its rightful place among the pantheon of experiences that constituted my eighteen years. It was all still with me, the storage space in my brain crammed with vivid memories, packed and piled like photographs and old dresses in my grandmother's bureau. I wasn't just the madwoman in the attic—I was the attic itself. The past was all over me, all under me, all inside me." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"...whatever my gifts, the pieces of good buried inside and under so much that I feel is bad, is wrong, is twisted, are less clear than the ability to hit a ball with a bat and break the scoreboard or do a triple pirouette in the air on ice. My gifts are for life itself, for an unfortunately astute understanding of all the cruelty and pain in the world." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"I know I can do so much more than this, I know that I could be a life force, could love with a heart full of soul, could feel with the power that flies men to the moon. I know that if I could just get out from under this depression, there is so much I could do besides cry in front of the TV on a Saturday night." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?" -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"What do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I'm feeling now. It's so bad, it's useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

"...then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live." -Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Janeytop83. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Janeytop83~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:49, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Janeytop83~enwikiquote


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User talk:Segilla

Welcome
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title: User talk:Segilla


text:
User talk:Physchim62

Welcome
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title: User talk:Physchim62


text:
User talk:Autoterm~enwikiquote

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:05, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Autoterm. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Autoterm~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:18, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 05:42, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

title: User talk:Autoterm~enwikiquote


text:
User talk:Candycestarlight

Welcome
Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:05, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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title: User talk:Candycestarlight