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Megatokyo

These are quotes by Fred Gallagher and Rodney Caston and from their webcomic Megatokyo.

Fred's Rants
Buildings can be rebuilt, no matter what the size. The void in sky is not just the absence of buildings, but the loss of faith in the human conscience. We hold out hope that this, too, can be rebuilt." Monday afternoon I was laid off."
 * "September 11, 2001 - A Failure of Conscience
 * Source: Painting with Blood: Megatokyo #168
 * "Dealing with the constant conflict between the time Megatokyo needs, the time my day job as an architect requires, and the small in-between moments that are left for Seraphim and myself... I won't lie, it's been a hard balancing act. But it's always been worth it, because i feel that Megatokyo is something to be proud of (even with all it's problems). Unfortunately, something happened Monday that changed this balance drastically...
 * Source: Full Time Jitters: Megatokyo #331
 * "There are no ski lifts in the world of creativity. You gotta haul your own ass up the slope every time you want to come back down it. It's not so bad, the more you climb up, the stronger you get, and the higher you can go, which makes for better runs."
 * Source: Moods and Distractions: Megatokyo #380

Forum Quotes

 * "The world doesn't need more warm bodies, it needs happier people."
 * Source: Megatokyo Forums: Reproduction and Marriage
 * "Life is about contrast. You can usualy find humor in almost everything you do. Sometimes, things just aren't funny."
 * Source: Megatokyo Forums: Humor
 * "What you say in the games is scripted, and the actions the protagonist takes are often things that a player might wish he'd do, but often never would in real life. Hell, just the act of talking to a girl, something that seems to happen in these games without thought, is something most players are almost incapable of doing. Add to that the fact that you are often dealing with several girls, all of whom you are chasing to one degree or another. Maybe the problem isn't that the situations in the games (lots of girls who may be interested in you) isn't phony, maybe it's the actions of the protagonist (guided by the player) that are the biggest fantasy of all."
 * Source: Megatokyo Forums: On Dating Sims
 * "yknow, now that i think about it, the greeks were pretty Emo, weren't they?"
 * Source: Megatokyo Forums: Catharsis

Chat Quotes

 * "I'm not negative, I just have a fail-friendly way of looking at the world."
 * Source: Chat during live drawing on justin.tv: Fredrin

Dom
(see also combinations below)

 * "They don't build these things like they used to.. One stray H.E.A.T. round and down they go."
 * Source: Megatokyo #190
 * H.E.A.T. stands for High explosive anti-tank.

 * "She's not a person, Largo, she's a commodity. Be happy for her. At least commodities are worth something."
 * Source: Megatokyo #666

Hayasaka Erika
(see also combinations below)

 * "All men are fanboys. You need to stop being so prissy and learn how to benefit from it."
 * Source: Megatokyo #72
 * About Hentai: "Well, at least the monster seems to always make sure the girl's satisfied"
 * Source: Megatokyo #83
 * "This is my life. My game. My rules. If you want to be a part of it, you will respect that."
 * Source: Megatokyo #584

Largo
(see also combinations below)

 * Flight attendant: "Sir, please, it's against airline policy to use the headphone cord to strangle a fellow passenger." - "Just gimme five more minutes..."
 * Source: Megatokyo #7
 * Flight attendant: "Does anyone here speak l33t?" - "j0"
 * Source: Megatokyo #9
 * "There it was! A AMD Athlon CPU that wasn't being overclocked! This was a crime! I felt that I had to right this injustice!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #15
 * "Ph34r my l33t n3kkid skillz!!!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #70
 * "But, we lack b33r. Ph34r my l4ck of b33r!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #127
 * "I am Great Teacher Largo!!!! Ph33r my l33t t34ching ski||z! Why? Why learn? Why submit yourself to Great Teacher Largo?? What is in it for you? I will tell you... Because knowl3dg3 is pow3r!!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #153
 * "Video games are a conduit for the soul. They expand our lives, channel our imagination, test our skillz. Games exist as a channel for the boundless energy of people all over the world. It is a medium you are incapable of understanding."
 * Source: Megatokyo #153
 * "There's something else... something about this place... something unusual... Oh yeah! I've never been in a girl's bathroom before! Cool!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #243
 * To Erika: "Woah... you are r4ck3d! Hey, both of our roomies are totally wasted. Whaddya say...when we get to your place let me show you what l33t things I can do with your systemz. I kin mak3 em scr34m!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #296
 * "Ph33r this one, Piro. Ph34r with gr34t ph33r."
 * Source: Megatokyo #275
 * "It has a secret program of ultimate destruction. All Sonys do."
 * Source: Megatokyo #368
 * Talking about Ping.
 * Miho: "I wasn't aware the Tokyo Police employed uneducated, paranoid, delusional foreign delinquents." - "In my case, they made an exception."
 * Source: Megatokyo #392
 * "Your game and your rules. But it doesn't mean I have to play."
 * Source: Megatokyo #683
 * Talking to Erika after she tells him to let her have her way or leave. This is also a reference to #584
 * As Endgames Largo, having discovered a go-kart: "Wow, we don't even have to worry about fuel! It runs on fruit!"
 * “There are many kinds of wounds. But to take damage from someone you trust…Betrayal is the deepest wound of all.”
 * Source: Megatokyo #834
 * Telling the Endgames story to Erika

Nanasawa Kimiko
(see also combinations below)

Megumi: "That's easy. You're a little 'unbalanced'." "Aaaaagh!!!! Oh my god how embarrassing! That does it! I'm not wearing these things anymore." "Oh... you poor girl. You really do need them, don't you?" "Don't be such a meanie..."
 * Kimiko: "I've been a klutz all evening. I don't know what's wrong with me."
 * Source: Megatokyo #32
 * Referring to 'padding'

Piro
(see also combinations below)

 * "You vomited, I took that for a 'yes'."
 * Source: Megatokyo #7
 * Explaining to Largo why they're on a plane en route to Japan
 * "Shoujo manga has helped me with so many problems. All I need to do is read until I find a similar situation and it will tell me everything I need to know."
 * Source: Megatokyo #43
 * Pirogoeth: "Please don't wave dead things in my face, or I'll hurt you."
 * Source: Megatokyo #608
 * "Even when they have digital readouts, I can't understand them."
 * Source: Megatokyo #810
 * Referring to (robot) girls

Seraphim

 * "'I wish I was never born' is too expensive for my budget, but I think I can swing this."
 * Source: Megatokyo #208
 * "I don't get it. What is it about a school uniform that turns fanboys like you into drooling morons?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #336
 * "Sometimes you just gotta go with whatya got! Pathetic people need love too!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #603
 * Contested. A little earlier in the story, Seraphim's sister was revealed to the readers, and a little later, in the same place in the shop, we see that "Seraphim" forcibly removed from her spot by another "Seraphim", differently clad. She also behaves and dresses very differently from Seraphim or her "evil twin," and lacks the bandage Seraphim is wearing at the time. Most readers thus believe her to be a third sister (who has not been seen outside of this scene, and was only shown interacting with Piro.)

Sonoda Masamichi

 * "Two jail breaks, unauthorized Rent-A-Zilla usage, operating a Zilla without a license, deploying an opposing force without a permit, deployment of defensive weaponry without a license, illegal use of duct tape... You've been busy."
 * Source: Megatokyo #354
 * "Your actions constitute severe violations of many local ordinances and national laws... Not to mention several international treaties and the Android Rights Act of 1978. Ever consider a career in cataclysm management? Lemme buy you a beer."
 * Source: Megatokyo #380
 * "Please flee in terror in an orderly manner!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #585
 * "Give me a city block to rebuild anyday. Some things just can't be fixed."
 * Source: Megatokyo #604
 * "Never let anything become a zombie that's difficult to kill."
 * Source: Megatokyo #1109

Combination: Largo and Dom/Ed
Dom: "The explosion Ed set off must have formed an interdimensional rift. We've duplicated this in the Sega Labs before - it's where the Sega CD came from."
 * Largo: "Up in the sky! It's raining zombies!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #280
 * The Sega CD is an add-on to the Sega Megadrive.

Combination: Largo and Piro
"You mean like finding a girlfriend, getting out of debt, moving ahead in our careers, stuff like that?" "Yea." "There was a sim game about that, wasn't there?" "Yea, it sucked." "'Nuff said." "This scene is saying, 'I am really lame.' " "This scene says, 'This is the lamest thing that ever crawled out of the lamest hole on the planet where all lameness was originally spawned in the known universe.' " Piro: "And having a girl break your arm in three places wasn't lame?" Largo: "Nah, that was cool." "Actually, I was kind of hoping to avoid that experience again..." "Hey come on... we got handcuffed by real Mounties! That was cool."
 * "Piro, I've been thinking..." - "Aren't there laws against that?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #19
 * Largo: "Don't you ever think that there might be more to life than just games?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #19
 * Piro: "Nice mullet. Do all your heroes look like 'MacGyver'?" - "There are no more heroes."
 * Source: Megatokyo #20
 * About Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2.
 * Largo: "This scene is saying, 'I am lame.' "
 * Source: Megatokyo #64
 * Largo: "Chill, dude. I'm sure we'll get deported eventually. Remember that roadtrip we took to Canada?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #206
 * Largo, seeing Erika: "Woah. Bab3-O-R4m4. Are those real?" - "... Fly you fool, you know not your peril!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #211

Combination: Largo and Ibara Junko

 * Largo: "What are the m4d skillz that make you who you are??? What are you good at?!?" — "I am good at taking advantage of older men and getting money from them!!!"
 * Source: Megatokyo #574

 * Largo: "An undead horde surrounded our location early this morning, seeking to worship some demonic idol which they assumed was your roommate. I must know... has your roommate ever been the sacrifice in a demonic ritual? Has her blood ever been spilled in the raising of the undead??
 * Junko, trying to translate to Japanese: "I'm sorry, my English isn't creative enough to translate that."
 * Source: Megatokyo #592

Combination: Piro and Dom/Ed

 * Piro: "So you locked your best friend in the trunk of the car so he'd miss the job interview..."
 * Largo: "What Happened To The Other Applicants?"
 * Dom: "Well They Werent Really Friends, You Know..." *pulls out a Sig-Sauer and winks*
 * Piro: "Check Please."
 * Source: Megatokyo #3

 * Dom: "OK, what did Largo do this time?"
 * Piro: "Not enough to get us deported, not yet."
 * Dom: "I'd give him a few more days. He works fast."
 * Source: Megatokyo #321

Combination: Piro and Hayasaka Erika

 * Erika, putting a hat over Piro's eyes: "Perfect."
 * Piro: "But I can't see."
 * Erika: "Uhm hm. Should make it easier to stop staring at me."

 * Source: Megatokyo #339

Combination: Nanasawa Kimiko and Hayasaka Erika
"No. I did not." "Do you need me to?" "No." "Well, that's a shame."
 * Erika: "Did you sleep with the producer?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #71
 * Kimiko: "Besides, I figure if I make the dress real hard to get out of, it'll keep you out of trouble." - ... - "Remind me again... Who has an audition for a voice part in a porn game today?"
 * Source: Megatokyo #202
 * Kimiko: "It's just a little something... From a fan." - "From a fan? Already? You might want to keep it away from the food."
 * Source: Megatokyo #397

Others
'Neverwinter Nights will be released when it is complete.' 'Neverwinter Nights will be released this winter.' 'In Canada it's always winter.' 'Neverwinter Nights will be released soon, we promise!'"
 * Mr Grier: "OK! Let's get started with today's English lesson, eh? Today we are going to learn some 'Canadian' English. Let's start with some Canadian expressions popular right now, eh? Repeat after me:
 * Source: Megatokyo #213
 * Neverwinter Nights is a 3rd person role playing game made by the Canadian company BioWare. The release date was repeatedly changed.

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User:Andrewa

Hi and welcome!

At this date I'm more active on English Wikipedia than here, see my user page there. Andrewa 09:18, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:Andrewa

''Hi and welcome. At this date I'm far more active on English Wikipedia than here, so you are better to contact me on my talk page there. If you wish to leave a detailed message and/or receive a reply and are yourself more active here than on English Wikipedia, feel free to leave the message here but please also drop me a short note at my English Wikipedia talk page just to say that I have mail at Wikiquote. TIA (and I don't know what to do about any bot-generated messages). Andrewa (talk) 17:53, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

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Wikiquote talk:Village pump

/Archive 1

Archiving
What do you think about archiving the VP? I feel a 336,504 byte page is somehow intimidating. What if we archived all the materials until this August except related ones to the ongoing discussion? I mean Image usage related discussions but if you think of some other ones, please point them out. Thought? --Aphaia (talk) 11:52, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed. This is browser-breaking length. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 13:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I see a potential problem if this means empowering one individual (or a BOT) to make all archiving decisions, without allowing any feedback from the community about things like how often content is archived, or how large the page is allowed to grow before it is archived. Ottawahitech (talk) 21:30, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * The community is definitely allowed and encouraged to give feedback on when/how to archive threads. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:49, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I have not seen an invitation to give feedback on when/how to archive threads. How long has the BOT been archiving threads here? Ottawahitech (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There was a bot doing it in 2012: Village_pump_archive_38. It stopped working by 2018: Village_pump_archive_53 (in the interim, I created most of the archives by hand--see revision histories if you need confirmation). —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:03, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know that there was/is a problem with archiving in general at enwq, and I know that admins here have been trying valiantly to plug the dikes with their own fingers. Why not let the community help you? You may be surprised by how much crowdsourcing can achieve, if it is gently and constructively channeled.
 * Signed: your sincere professional back seat driver Ottawahitech (talk) 14:30, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I think it's fine to make a proposal. If you want to post on the content page here and suggest that we change to archiving every 90 days or whatever, that's fine. Please make a proposal. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:32, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Searching for quotes and phrases
One should be able to type in a specific quote or phrase and then view all instances of these appearing on Wikiquote. Instead you get instances of every word in the quote or phrase, which results in a largely useless mess of links. Enclosing a quote or phrase in parentheses doesn't work. Can anything be done about this? It seems to me to be a fundamentally useful/important feature of a quote archive. 174.24.241.20 19:23, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Try using quotation marks. ~ DanielTom (talk) 19:36, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Where can I find this?
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump#Boldface_in_all_%22last_words%22. Appears to have been archived, but I can't find it. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 17:45, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Here. ~ DanielTom (talk) 08:10, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Star Trek on war/X lengthy work of fiction on Y subject.
if a particular work of fiction has a plethora of particularly "relevant" quotes pertaining to a particular subject, would it be permissible to give it a subsection? CensoredScribe (talk) 00:18, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * "This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Wikiquote:Village pump page." – See above. ~ Ningauble (talk) 00:28, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it best I erred and not waste any one's time with this trivial matter anyways, my apologies. CensoredScribe (talk) 00:59, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Confusing category: Village Pump Archive?
Hello, I suggest that the category Village Pump Archive be removed from this page because it’s confusing: this isn’t an archive at all. What’s your opinion? ~ Josephina • Talk 2 Me 23:44, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Makes sense.  G M G  talk  00:30, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

When will the pump be archived again?
I noticed that archive 52 extends from 21 January 2018 to January 20, 2019, is the pump now only archived on a yearly basis? 84 current topics is quite a few to move through, and may intimidate people from using the pump and prevent cluttering it with even more, just looking at the archived pages for 2014-2016 it can be seen that the pump used to be archived about three times a year and the number of topics was always below 50. I don't know if a formal vote is required, but I think a return to form would be an improvement and we've "let ourselves go" a bit, since the last half of 2017. CensoredScribe (talk) 14:54, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It appears that archiving of this page is done manually. If so, why? Ottawahitech (talk) 14:31, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Automatic archiving of the project page
See Wikiquote:Administrators' noticeboard/Expanding MAbot to WQ:VIP and WQ:VP -- DeirgeDeltac 09:07, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

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Orrin Hatch

Orrin Grant Hatch (March 22, 1934 – April 23, 2022) was an American attorney, retired politician, and composer who served as a United States Senator from Utah for 42 years (1977–2019). He was the longest-serving Republican U.S. Senator in history and the longest-serving U.S. Senator from Utah.

Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions from 1981 to 1987. He also served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005. On January 3, 2015, after the 114th United States Congress was sworn in, Hatch became President pro tempore of the Senate. He served as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 2015 to 2019. Hatch led the efforts to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. He retired in January 2019 and was succeeded by the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

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 * If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that […] if that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines. There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws.

 * I’m not aware of it. I don’t pay much attention to his tweets. I’ll say this for ya: He’s been one of the best presidents I’ve served under. And the reasoning is, he’s not afraid to make decisions. He’s not afraid to take on the big mouths around here.
 * On Donald Trump after asked about a series of anti-Muslim videos that Trump had retweeted. As quoted in ''Shaq Didn’t Call Trump the 'Best President (September 17, 2018) by Catherine Monk, '

Quotes about Hatch

 * …Senator Hatch taught us that an abusive tax system is particularly dangerous for freedom of religion or belief. Religious and spiritual movements are vulnerable, and ideologically motivated bureaucrats can do much damage to them. Tax reform and the defense of freedom of religion or belief are inseparable.
 * Marco Respinti, "Religious Liberty and Tax Reform: Remembering Senator Orrin Hatch" (2022), Bitter Winter

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"I'm not making a page here" -- Bobdoe

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Yellow Submarine (film)

Yellow Submarine is a 1968 British animated film designed to present The Beatles music set to various images. Directed by George Dunning and written by Al Brodax and Jack Mendelsohn. It's all in the mind, y'know! (taglines)

Ringo Starr

 * Woe is me, heh...Liverpool can be a lonely place on a Saturday night, and this is only Thursday morning.
 * I'd jump into the river Mersey, but it looks like rain. [Sighs] Nothing ever happens to me.
 * I could have sworn I was being followed by a yellow submarine... But that isn't logical now, is it? It must have been one of them unidentified flying cupcakes, or a figment of me imagination... But I don't HAVE an imagination.
 * I warned you not to eat on an empty stomach.
 * [regarding Jeremy] He's so smart, he doesn't even remember what he knows.
 * "H" is for hurry! "E" is for ergent! "L" is for love me! "P" is for please!

Chief Blue Meanie

 * A thing of beauty... destroy it forever!
 * A pun on the opening line of the John Keats poem Endymion: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
 * Glove, Glove, come here, Glove. Look out there, and what do you see? Tell him, Max. [Max: Someone running, Glove.] Yes. Well, you'll soon put a stop to that, won't you, Glovey? Go, Glove! Point, and having pointed, POUNCE! GO!
 * Oh, I haven't laughed so much since Pompeii!
 * What, WHAT, WHAT?! THE GLOVE'S LOSING HIS TOUCH! DO YOU WORST! Explode them!
 * My dear friend... let us not forget that heaven is blue... TOMORROW THE WORLD!!! BRING IN MY BLOOPERS...
 * Ah, here you are, my glovey-dovey. Go get thee hence, and destroy yon upstarts. Smash them, squash them, crush them! O-BLUE-TERATE THEM!

Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph.D, the Nowhere Man

 * Yes! Ah, "yes" is a word with a glorious ring! A true universal, euphonious thing! Engenders embracing and chasing of blues! The very best word for the whole world to use!
 * [writing with his foot] The footnotes for my 19th book! This is my standard procedure for doing it; and while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it!
 * Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo! So little time. So much to know!

John Lennon

 * [After transforming from a Frankenstein's monster] Hey Ringo, I've just had the strangest dream.
 * It's time for time. [raises eyebrows repetitively]
 * I'm the ego-man, goo goo g'joob.

Dialogue

 * Big Blue Meanie: Pepperland is a tickle of joy upon the blue belly of the universe...it must be scratched. Right, Max?
 * Max: [saluting] Yes, Your Blueness!
 * Big Blue Meanie: WHAAAAAAT?!?! [he grabs Max by his ears] We Meanies only take NO for an answer! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD, MAX?!
 * Max: No, Your Blueness!
 * Big Blue Meanie: That's better. Are the troops in readiness?
 * Max: No, Your Blueness!
 * Big Blue Meanie: The Bonkers?
 * Max: No!
 * Big Blue Meanie: Clowns?
 * Max: No!
 * Big Blue Meanie: Snapping Turks?
 * Max: No!
 * Big Blue Meanie: Anti-Music Missile?
 * Max: No!
 * Big Blue Meanie: The Dreadful Flying Glove?
 * Max: No!
 * Big Blue Meanie: Splendid! Today, Pepperland goes blue-y! FIREEEE!
 * [Anti-Music Missile is fired, encasing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in a giant bubble. General panic ensues.]

 * [In a room full of trophies]
 * Old Fred: Hey, what would your friends be doing here?
 * Ringo: Displaying.
 * Old Fred: Displaying what?
 * Ringo: Displaying around.

 * Ringo: Hey. I wonder what would happen if I pull this lever.
 * Old Fred: You mustn't do that!
 * Ringo: Can't help it, I'm a born Lever-puller.
 * "Lever-puller" is a pun on "Liverpooler", as Ringo and indeed all the Beatles are. (The usual term for people from Liverpool, England is "Liverpudlian".)

 * Old Fred: Well, lads, what do you think?
 * John: Well, I think that-
 * Old Fred: Remember, there'll be rough seas ahead! What do you think?
 * Paul: Well, erm-
 * Old Fred: Pounding, overwhelming waves! What do you think of that, eh?
 * George: Well, I think that-
 * Ringo: As a matter of fact, I-
 * All: Well, I think-
 * Old Fred: Well?
 * All: I've forgotten.

 * Old Fred: I don't mean to alarm you, mates, but the years are going backwards!
 * George: What's that mean, Old Fred?
 * Old Fred: It means if we slip back in time at this rate, very soon we'll all disappear up our own existence!

 * [Passing themselves as they go backwards in time]
 * Ringo: Look, there's another yellow submarine ...and they're waving at us!
 * John: Wave back!

 * George: Hey! There's a Cyclops!
 * Paul: Can't be. It's got two eyes.
 * John: Must be a "bi-cyclops" then.
 * Ringo: There's another one.
 * John: A whole "cyclopedia"!

 * Paul: Look, it's a school of whales.
 * Ringo: They look a little bit old for school.
 * Paul: University then.
 * Ringo: University of whales...
 * John: They look like drop-outs to me.

 * George: Is that the motor?
 * Fred: Can't you tell one when you see one?
 * George: Course I can, let me peruse it.
 * [George pokes the motor and electrocutes himself]
 * Fred: Well, what do you think?
 * George: I think I burnt me finger...

 * Jeremy: Medic, pedic, zed oblique, Orphic, morphic, dorphic, Greek. Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo, So little time, ha-ha, so much to know!
 * John: Well, can you tell us where we're at?
 * Jeremy: A true Socratic query, that!
 * John: Oh yeah? And who the Billy Shears are you?
 * Jeremy: Who? Ah, who indeed am I? [hands out several business card to the Beatles]
 * John: 'Jeremy?'
 * Paul: 'Hillary?'
 * George: 'Boob?'
 * Ringo: 'P'hhhhhhd.'
 * All: Who?
 * Jeremy: Eminent physicist, polyglot, classicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-biting satirist, talented pianist. Good dentist too. Ha-ha!
 * George: Lousy poet.
 * Jeremy: Critic's voice, take your choice.
 * Ringo: Must be one of them angry young men.
 * Paul: Or a daffy old creep.
 * Jeremy: I, daffy old creep?
 * John: You speak English?
 * Jeremy: Old English, middle, a dialect, pure.
 * Paul: Well, do you speak English?
 * Jeremy: You know, I'm not sure!
 * Ringo: He's so smart, he doesn't even remember what he knows.

 * Jeremy: I must complete my bust, two novels, finish my blueprints, begin my beguine.
 * John: Hey, Jeremy, must you always talk in rhyme?
 * Jeremy: Ha-ha! If I spoke prose, you'd all find out, I don't know what I talk about. Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo. So little time, so much to know.
 * Paul: Hey, fellas. Look.
 * Jeremy: The footnotes for my 19th book. This is my standard procedure for doing it. And while I compose it, I'm also reviewing it.
 * George: A Boob for all seasons.
 * Paul: How can he lose?
 * John: Were your notices good?
 * Jeremy: It's my policy never to read my reviews!

 * [In the Sea of Holes]
 * John: This place reminds me of Blackburn, Lancashire.
 * Paul: Oh boy...
 * A reference to their song, A Day in the Life

 * George: John!
 * John: George?
 * George: How do we get them out?
 * John: Break the glass.
 * Ringo: We can't, it's Beatle-proof.
 * John: Nothing is Beatle-proof.

Taglines

 * The forces of good! The forces of evil!
 * It's all in the mind, y'know!
 * Nothing is real.

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Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco (born Angela Marie Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a popular folk-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Quotes

 * I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..
 * from a 2003 interview with MuchMusic

 * In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
 * Regarding her bisexuality, 1994 interview

 * I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
 * Rolling Stone interview (1995)

Song lyrics

 * I think I'm done gunnin to get closer. To some imagined bliss. I gotta knuckle down. And just be ok with this.
 * "Knuckle Down"

 * There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
 * Animal

 * I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
 * Grand Canyon

 * Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
 * My IQ; one of the mottos for the 2000 book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

 * They're gonna be mad at us. They're gonna be mad at me and you. They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
 * Shameless

 * I used to be a superhero. No one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into, And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.
 * Superhero

 * I am still praying for revolution.
 * Fixing Her Hair

 * Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
 * Lost Woman Song

 * Because the world owes me nothing And we owe each other the world.
 * Joyful Girl

 * I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
 * Both Hands

 * Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
 * In or Out

 * And their eyes are all asking Are you in or are you out? And I think, oh man What is this about? Tonight you can't put me Up on any shelf Cuz I came here alone And I'm gonna leave by myself.
 * In or Out

 * They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
 * Promised Land

 * I’m going to go ahead and go boldly Cuz a little bird told me That jumping is easy That falling is fun Right up ‘til you hit the sidewalk Shivering and stunned.
 * Swan Dive

 * So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall And our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
 * Subdivision

 * My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
 * Phase

 * They can call me crazy if I fail All the chance that I need Is one in a million And they can call me brilliant If I succeed…
 * Swan Dive

 * The windows of my soul are made of one way glass Don't bother looking into my eyes If there's something you want to know - just ask.
 * Willing to Fight

 * Because I know the biggest crime Is just to throw up your hands And say "This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.
 * Willing to Fight

 * You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.
 * Willing to Fight

 * Girl, next time he wants to know What your problem is Next time he wants to know Where the anger comes from Just tell him this time the problem's his Tell him the anger just comes It just comes.
 * Hide and Seek

 * And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash. A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
 * 32 Flavors

 * Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
 * Evolve

 * So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove. It took me too long to realize that I don't take good pictures Cuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.
 * Evolve

 * And we hold these truths to be self-evident: Number one-- George W. Bush is not president. Number two-- America is not a true democracy. And, Number three-- the media is not fooling me.
 * Self-Evident

 * Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
 * Fuel

 * Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-- But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life; Well, you know, there's no escape. That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.
 * Pixie

 * My country tis of thee, To take swings at each other on talk-show TV.
 * Tis of Thee

 * Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, That I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.
 * Out of Habit

 * My thighs have been involved in many accidents, And now I can't get insured, And I don't need to be lured by you. My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal, And now you don't have to ask Because you know how I feel.
 * Out of Habit

 * So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent. And it broke in three places when it finally went. It wanted only to say what it meant. So it suffered every punishment.
 * You Each Time

 * 'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories. See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me. It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road, But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.
 * Studying Stones

 * And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
 * Out of Range

 * If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.
 * Out of Range

 * There's a crowd of people harbored in every person, there are so many roles that we play. And you've decided to love me for eternity. I'm still deciding who I want to be today"
 * Light of Some Kind

 * Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
 * The Waiting Song

 * When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.
 * Dilate

 * So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile. If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style, and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess, 'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.
 * Dilate

 * You know Taken out of context I must Seem so strange.
 * Firedoor

 * And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can. But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan, She tells herself.
 * Tamburitza Lingua

 * My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.
 * Brief Bus Stop

 * We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time, When we're not just toeing the line.
 * Brief Bus Stop

 * I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
 * Talk To Me Now

 * Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.
 * Dog Coffee

 * They put you in your place, and they tell you to behave But no one can be free until we're all on even grade.
 * The Story

 * Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally.
 * Hell, Yeah

 * I fight with love, and I laugh with rage. You've gotta live light enough to see the humor, And long enough to see some change.
 * Pick Yer Nose

 * I remember now how our bright spring green deepened. With the years the seasons changed, And we were lush as the underside of August.
 * How Long Can It Last

 * Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.
 * Star Matter

 * I still define myself by the places that I've been.
 * North Main Street

 * I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
 * Not So Soft

 * I know there is strength in the differences between us, And I know there is comfort where we overlap.
 * Overlap

 * I think you're the least fucked-up person I've ever met, And that may be as close to the real thing as I'm ever gonna get.
 * The Diner

 * Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
 * Good, Bad, Ugly

 * She says “Do I know you?” I say “Well, no, not biblically, But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me. I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.” She says, “Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.”
 * If It Isn't Her

 * I am looking for the holes, The holes in your jeans Because I want to know: Are they worn out in the seat, Or are they worn out in the knees?
 * Looking for the Holes

 * When we patch things up, They say a job well done. But when we ask the question why Where did the rips come from?, They say we are subversive, And extreme, of course. We are just trying to track a problem to its source.
 * Looking for the Holes

 * I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
 * What If No One's Watching

 * But what if no one's watching? What if when we're dead, we are just dead? What if there's no time to lose? What if there's things we gotta do, Things that need to be said?
 * What If No One's Watching

 * We have to be able to criticize what we love, Say what we have to say, 'Cause if you're not trying to make something better, Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
 * What If No One's Watching

 * People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose."
 * Fuel

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Anonymity

Anonymity is derived from the Greek word ἀνωνυμία, anonymia, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, anonymity typically refers to the state of an individual's personal identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown.

This page contains quotes on the subject of anonymity; for quotes for which the author is not publicly known, see Anonymous, and for quotes by or about the social action group see Anonymous (group).

Quotes

 * We share the collective idea of ANONYMOUS worldwide; we are the people. We believe in non-violent, peaceful civil disobedience.
 * Anonymous introductory page for Anonymous UK

 * We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
 * Anonymous representative of the activist group Anonymous, as quoted in Yale Law and Technology (9 November 2009).

 * "People who make sacrifices are very much loved and admired, aren't they? " she asked, earnestly. "If the sacrifice is a true one. But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty, though perhaps it makes them harder, for we all like sympathy," and Dr. Alec sighed a patient sort of sigh.
 * Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins, or, The Aunt-hill (1875), p. 106.

 * My efforts have gone through many incarnations, and at one time, I would not post the face of the female, I wouldn’t post her name, and I wouldn’t post any information. [But] many times, family members get in touch with me because they’ve lost touch with this person and are trying to locate them. Sometimes, law enforcement will say that it’s a runaway that they’ve been trying to locate. I just found that there was no reason to maintain their anonymity.
 * Brian Bates Drone Vigilante Brian Bates JohnTV Oklohoma Spies on Sex Workers VICE

 * Never answer an anonymous letter.
 * Yogi Berra, as quoted in He Who Laughs, Lasts (2004) by Anson R. Nash, Jr., p. 108.

 * We talked of the casuistical question, Whether it was allowable at any time to depart from Truth? JOHNSON. 'The general rule is, that Truth should never be violated, because it is of the utmost importance to the comfort of life, that we should have a full security by mutual faith; and occasional inconveniences should be willingly suffered that we may preserve it. There must, however, be some exceptions. If, for instance, a murderer should ask you which way a man is gone, you may tell him what is not true, because you are under a previous obligation not to betray a man to a murderer.' BOSWELL. 'Supposing the person who wrote Junius were asked whether he was the authour, might he deny it?' JOHNSON. 'I don't know what to say to this. If you were sure that he wrote Junius, would you, if he denied it, think as well of him afterwards? Yet it may be urged, that what a man has no right to ask, you may refuse to communicate; and there is no other effectual mode of preserving a secret and an important secret, the discovery of which may be very hurtful to you, but a flat denial; for if you are silent, or hesitate, or evade, it will be held equivalent to a confession. But stay, Sir; here is another case. Supposing the authour had told me confidentially that he had written Junius, and I were asked if he had, I should hold myself at liberty to deny it, as being under a previous promise, express or implied, to conceal it. Now what I ought to do for the authour, may I not do for myself?
 * James Boswell in Life Of Johnson (1794), Vol. 4.

 * A factor that is almost indispensable to this kind of behavior [serial killing] is the mobility of contemporary American life. Living in large centers of population, and living with lots of people, you can get used to dealing with strangers. It's the anonymity factor, and it has a twofold effect. First of all if you're among strangers you're less likely to remember them, or care what they're doing or what they should, or should not, be doing. If they should or shouldn't be there. Secondly, you're conditioned almost not to be afraid of strangers. Mobility is very important here. As we've seen...the individual's [himself in third person] modus operandi was moving large distances in an attempt to camouflage what he was doing. Moving these distances, he was able to take advantage of the anonymity factor.
 * Ted Bundy, quoted in Michaud, Stephen; Aynesworth, Hugh (1999) The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Paperback; revised ed.). Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press. pg. 326

 * We are clandestine because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity and we are everyone. Because without real names, faces or noses, we show that our words, dreams, and desires are more important than our biographies. Because we reject the society of surveillance that watches, controls, spies upon, records and checks our every move. Because by hiding our identity we recover the power of our acts. Because with greasepaint we give resistance a funny face and become visible once again.
 * Official statement of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army at ClownArmy.org, the official CIRCA site.

 * The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
 * George Eliot, Middlemarch : A Study of Provincial Life  (1871).

 * Faith lived in the incognito is one which is located outside the criticism coming from society, from politics, from history, for the very reason that it has itself the vocation to be a source of criticism. It is faith (lived in the incognito) which triggers the issues for the others, which causes everything seemingly established to be placed in doubt, which drives a wedge into the world of false assurances.
 * Jacques Ellul, L'espérance oubliée (1972) [Hope in Time of Abandonment] as translated by C. Edward Hopkin (1973).

 * Inigo Montoya: Who are you? Man in Black: No one of consequence. Inigo Montoya: I must know...  Man in Black: Get used to disappointment.
 * William Goldman, The Princess Bride (1987).

 * Sacrificing anonymity may be the next generation's price for keeping precious liberty, as prior generations paid in blood.
 * Hal Norby, as quoted in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (1998), by David Brin, p. 3.

 * Fear names. Names have power in identity. Others can use names as weapons. Names are a hook that can be used to track you across the planes. Remain nameless, and you shall be safe. I am the Nameless One.
 * Planescape: Torment (1999).

 * Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million, five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because it is the privilege and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.
 * Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1980).

 * If I had remained invisible, the truth would have stayed hidden. I couldn't allow that.
 * Sonmi-451, in Cloud Atlas (2012) based on the novel by David Mitchell

 * Great works of literature have frequently been produced by authors writing under assumed names. Despite readers' curiosity and the public's interest in identifying the creator of a work of art, an author generally is free to decide whether or not to disclose her true identity. The decision in favor of anonymity may be motivated by fear of economic or official retaliation, by concern about social ostracism, or merely by a desire to preserve as much of one's privacy as possible. Whatever the motivation may be, at least in the field of literary endeavor, the interest in having anonymous works enter the marketplace of ideas unquestionably outweighs any public interest in requiring disclosure as a condition of entry.
 * John Paul Stevens, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion, 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

 * On occasion, quite apart from any threat of persecution, an advocate may believe her ideas will be more persuasive if her readers are unaware of her identity. Anonymity thereby provides a way for a writer who may be personally unpopular to ensure that readers will not prejudge her message simply because they do not like its proponent.
 * John Paul Stevens, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion, 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

 * Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. … It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation--and their ideas from suppression--at the hand of an intolerant society. The right to remain anonymous may be abused when it shields fraudulent conduct. But political speech by its nature will sometimes have unpalatable consequences, and, in general, our society accords greater weight to the value of free speech than to the dangers of its misuse.
 * John Paul Stevens, McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission (Majority opinion, 514 U.S. 334 (1995)

I’ve always loved the idea of the craftsman, the anonymous man. For instance, I’ve always wanted my books to be called the work of Anon, because Anon is my favorite literary character.''' If you look through an anthology of poems that go from the far past into the present time, you’ll see that all the poems signed “Anon” have a very specific flavor that is one flavor all the way through the centuries. 'I think, perhaps arrogantly, of myself as “Anon.” I would like to think that Mary Poppins'' and the other books could be called back to make that change. But I suppose it’s too late for that.'''
 * You know C. S. Lewis, whom I greatly admire, said there’s no such thing as creative writing. … He said there is, in fact, only one Creator and we mix. That’s our function, to mix the elements He has given us. See how wonderfully anonymous that leaves us? You can’t say, “I did this; this gross matrix of flesh and blood and sinews and nerves did this.” '''What nonsense! I’m given these things to make a pattern out of. Something gave it to me.
 * P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins stories, in The Paris Review No. 86 (Winter 1982).

 * Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
 * Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891).

 * I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
 * Virginia Woolf, in A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 3; very often misquoted as "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.".

 * I have many names, and none of them matter.
 * Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967).

 * No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. The thing that has never happened before is still happening. It is still a miracle. The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality — the Nameless.
 * Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967).

 * I charge you — forget the names you bear, forget the words I speak as soon as they are uttered. Look, rather, upon the Nameless within yourselves, which arises as I address it. It hearkens not to my words, but to the reality within me, of which it is part. This is the atman, which hears me rather than my words. All else is unreal. To define is to lose. The essence of all things is the Nameless. The Nameless is unknowable, mightier even than Brahma. Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream. "Essence dreams it a dream of form. Forms pass, but the essence remains, dreaming new dreams. Man names these dreams and thinks to have captured the essence, not knowing that he invokes the unreal. These stones, these walls, these bodies you see seated about you are poppies and water and the sun. They are the dreams of the Nameless.''' They are fire, if you like.
 * Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967).

 * To struggle against the dreamers who dream ugliness, be they men or gods, cannot but be the will of the Nameless.
 * Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967).

 * Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.
 * Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light (1967).

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Empire Records

Empire Records is a 1995 comedy about the employees of an independent music store who learn about each other as they try anything to keep the store from being absorbed by a large chain.
 * Directed by Allan Moyle. Written by Carol Heikkinen.

Open 'til Midnight. Taglines

Gina

 * [on the loudspeaker] Attention Rex Manning fans, to your left you will notice a shoplifter being chased by night manager, Lucas. This young man will be caught, deep fried in a vat of hot oil and served to our first hundred customers. Just another tasty treat from the gang at Empire Records.

 * Oh now, Debra, don't be bitter, surely with your ever growing collection of flesh mutilating silver appendages and your brand new neo-nazi boot camp makeover the boys will come a-runnin'.

Mark

 * We mustn't dwell... no, not today. We CAN'T. Not on Rex Manning day!

 * [answers phone] Empire Records, we're open 'til midnight. [pause] Midnight.

Dialogue

 * Joe: Where's the money, Lucas?
 * Lucas: Joe, the money is gone.
 * Joe: I know it's GONE, where's it gone to?
 * Lucas: Atlantic City.
 * Joe: Atlantic City. ...Is it coming back from Atlantic City?
 * Lucas: I... I don't think so.
 * Joe: What's it doing in Atlantic City?
 * Lucas: Recirculating.
 * Joe: Recirculating?
 * Lucas: Yeah.
 * Joe: Lucas, listen to me. I told Mitchell Beck that you forgot to deposit the money. I told Mitchell that the money was still here.
 * Lucas: Joe, that's not true. It's in Atlantic City... I swear!
 * Joe: Shut up, sit down, and don't you move.
 * Lucas: [sitting down] It could be in other cities by now...
 * Joe: Oh, shut up! Under no circumstances do I want you to leave that couch... unless it's to get me $9000, and then you bring it here to me, okay?
 * Lucas: Okay. You know, I think things are gonna be all right now, Joe.
 * Joe: Oh? And what makes you think that.
 * Lucas: Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear.

 * A.J: What's with you? Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from Karate Kid. What's with you today?
 * Lucas: What's with today, today?

 * Gina: [about Debra having shaved her head] Well, Sinead O'Rebellion. Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior!
 * Debra: God, that is so clever. You know, I swear you get smarter the shorter your skirt gets.
 * Gina: And you get smarter the shorter your hair gets, so it's probably good you went with that. It's a wonderful look for you darling.

 * Mark: Oh, Lucas, I've decided to start a band.
 * Lucas: Well, the first thing you need is a name. That way you know what kind of band you've got.
 * Mark: I was thinking Marc.
 * Lucas: Is that with a "c" or with a "k"?
 * Mark: Well, my name is with a [looks down at name badge] "k". So my band could be with a "c". That way it's that whole, you know, psychedelic trip thing.
 * Lucas: Always play with their minds.

 * A.J.: Joe, I need to ask your advice. Now I know you know a lot about love and women and all that sort of thing...
 * Joe: Oh, yeah, my wife left me for another woman and my girlfriend forced me to leave at gunpoint. Does this qualify me?
 * A.J.: Oh yeah, definitely.

 * [Joe is talking to the police about Warren]
 * Joe: [to Warren] How old are you?
 * Warren: Old enough to kick your butt through your skull and splatter your brains on the wall.
 * Joe: [to the cops on the phone] Yeah, he's a juvenile.

 * Debra: [Reading the new Musictown rules] No visible tattoos.
 * Gina: No revealing clothing.
 * Debra: We're both screwed. At least you're used to it.
 * Gina: Oh now, Debra, don't be bitter, certainly with your ever growing collection of flesh mutilating silver appendages and your brand new Neo-Nazi boot camp makeover, the boys will come a-runnin'.
 * Debra: Let's not fight, let's just rip [both start tearing lists of rules]

 * Warren: Who glued these quarters down?
 * A.J.: I did.
 * Warren: What the hell for, man?
 * A.J.: I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.

 * Jane: What are you doing later?
 * Joe: I don't know. I'm either going to jail or hell. I can't decide.

 * A.J.: [on the roof] Hi, what're you doing up here?
 * [Corey pushes A.J so he falls]
 * Corey: You listen to me! You're so special and you're so talented and you have everything it takes! You have MORE than everything it takes and you're REALLY stupid because you don't know that. And I know you don't love me anymore, and I know that I blew it but at least I know that, and if you don't go to art school and if you don't understand how special you are then you know nothing!
 * A.J.: Corey, I...
 * Corey: And I did love you, and I still... only I didn't realise that it really was love because it was more than love and it wasn't just some stupid feeling in my stomach like everything else and I'll never love anybody as much as you and I hate you! I hate you!
 * A.J.: Corey, I quit. I quit! [pause] I'm going to art school, in Boston. So I can be near you.

Taglines

 * Open 'til Midnight.
 * They're selling music but not selling out.
 * Damn the Man! Save the Empire!
 * This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
 * What's with today, today?

Cast

 * Anthony LaPaglia - Joe Reaves
 * Maxwell Caulfield - Rex Manning
 * Debi Mazar - Jane
 * Rory Cochrane - Lucas
 * Liv Tyler - Corey Mason
 * Johnny Whitworth - A.J.
 * Robin Tunney - Debra
 * Renee Zellweger - Gina
 * Ethan Embry - Mark
 * Coyote Shivers - Berko
 * Brendan Sexton - Warren
 * James 'Kimo' Wills - Eddie
 * Brandon Crawford - Couch Kid #2
 * Ben Bodé - Mitchell

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Béla Bartók

Béla Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of Eastern European and Middle Eastern folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, the study and ethnography of folk music.

Quotes

 * Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal" folk-music, in my opinion, is unthinkable.) Since we depend upon a tonal basis of this kind in our creative work, it is quite self-evident that our works are quite pronouncedly tonal in type. I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.
 * "The Folk Songs of Hungary" in Pro Musica VII (October 1928)

 * In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
 * As quoted in The Enjoyment of Music : An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (1955) by Joseph Machlis; also The Vintage Guide to Classical Music (1992) by Jan Swafford

Quotes about Bartók

 * By the time of his Fourth String Quartet, inversional symmetry had become as fundamental a premise of Bartók's harmonic language as it is of the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. Neither he nor they ever realized that this connection establishes a profound affinity between them in spite of the stylistic features that so obviously distinguish his music from theirs … Nowhere does he recognize the communality of his harmonic language with that of the twelve-tone composers that is implied in their shared premise of the harmonic equivalence of inversionally symmetrical pitch-class relations.
 * George Perle, in The Listening Composer (1990), p. 46

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Definitions of music

Definitions of music, music

 * "Music is the space between the notes. It is something to be felt. Although it does not has a concrete and precise definition....All of us know that music is every sound that reaches our ears and our heart says that it is something fabulous.....that is music."
 * Claude Debussy.

 * "The phenomenon of music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the co-ordination between man [sic] and time."
 * Igor Stravinsky, quoted in DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465, Ch. 3. from Igor Stravinsky' Autobiography (1962). New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., p. 54.

 * "Form is supposed to cover the shape or structure of of the work; content its substance, meaning, ideas, or expressive effects. When the nineteenth-century music critic Eduard Hanslick declared, in an influential phrase, that music is 'forms put into motion through sounds,' he was suggesting that music's real content lies in its form."
 * Richard Middleton (1999). Form. Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture, p. 141. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0631212639.

 * "'Is music the art of combining sounds according to certain rules (which vary according to place and time) for organizing a durational unit [une durée] by means of sonorous elements?' (Petit-Robert). Here, music is defined according to the conditions of its production (it is an art) and by its materials: sounds. For another writer, 'the study of sound is a matter of physics. But choosing sounds that are pleasing to the ear is a matter of musical aesthetics' (Bourgeois 1946: 1). Definition according to conditions of production has ceded to definition according to effect produced in the "receiver": sounds, to be music, must be pleasant. For others, music is almost always identified with acoustics, a particular branch of physics: 'certainly the study of acoustics and the properties of sound in some sense goes beyond the domain of the properly musical, but these 'divergences' are much less important and numerous than is generally thought' (Matras 1948: 5).
 * Molino, J. (1975: 37). "Fait musical et sémiologue de la musique", Musique en Jeu, no. 17:37-62.

 * "Music is a play of tones, that is, of fixed, clearly defined quantities. Other sounds, glissandos, cries, noises, may occur as inserts; if they are numerous the result is partly musical; if they predominate, it is no longer music in the proper sense of the word...discussion about the nature of the new art of sounds, those part musical and those totally untonal, is beclouded by the fact that it is called concrete or electronic 'music' although it has in fact transgressed the boundaries of musical art."
 * Wiora, W. (1963: 191-192). Les quartre Ages de la musique. Paris: Payot. English trans. M.D. Hector Norton. New York:Norton.

 * "We are too rarely interested in specifying what defines the concept 'music' in the spirit of indigenous peoples. We would be hard put to say (for whatever population or group we might choose) where music begins for them, where it ends, what borders mark the transition between speaking and singing."
 * Gilbert Rouget (1968: 344). "L'ethnomusicologie", Ethnologie générale, p. 333-348. M. Poirier, ed. Paris: Gallimard.

 * "Music is motion in time."
 * Felix Salzer (1965 I: 30).
 * Nattiez, Jean-Jacques (1987). Music and Discourse: Toward a Semiology of Music (Musicologie générale et sémiologue, 1987). Translated by Carolyn Abbate (1990). ISBN 0691027145.

 * "Understanding, and eventually defining tayil [a "musical" genre] demands a delineation of its relationships to other phenomena in the Mapuche world. As a basis for departure we may say that tayil is the lifeforce that an individual shares with all living or deceased members of his/her patrilineage. The shared soul of a patrilineage is termed kimpen; the essence of a kimpen can be verbalized or activated only through the performance of its respective tayil."
 * "The performance of tayil is restricted to women termed eltun. The verb denotes the act of pulling as associated with extracting teeth, the drawing of water from a well, and the uprooting of a plant. The Mapuche explain eltun as 'pulling or extracting by force,' or 'removing something from its source.' The performance of tayil 'pulls' the compound patrilineal soul out of an individual through a specific combination of melodic contour and iconographic text."
 * Robertson-De Carbo, C. E. (1976: 40). "Tayil as Category and Communication among the Argentine Mapuche: A Methodological Suggestion", 1976 Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 8, p. 35-42.

 * "Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which doesn't know that it is counting."
 * Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
 * Original Latin: "Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi."

 * "Music is organized sound."
 * Edgard Varese

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Why are some of these quotes, or parts of some of these quotes in bold? I find it sort of distracting. -Sethmahoney 21:00, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Since very early on, this has been allowed as an option for those who edit wikiquote, in addition to the selection process itself. I personally like it, and especially with large pages, which can otherwise be very bland, prefer to see pages that have some quotes emphasized on them, even when I might disagree with some or many of the quotes emphasized. I find that it gives one a larger number of visual reference points, and helps in the locating of even the un-emphasized quotes on larger pages.

 * In some browsers, at some settings it may be less appealing than in others, but I still prefer it to a large bland page. ( I usually use Safari or Firefox as a browser, with a default of a sans-serif font).

 * We all have different perspectives, and many different preferences, but there have so far been just a few disputes over what should be emphasized, or whether it should be permitted at all. I personally strongly prefer retaining the option, as a further way of providing information, especially when there can be very long lists of relatively uninteresting quotes on a page. ~ Moby 22:32, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * P.S. It is also very useful for emphasizing more famous portions of much larger quotations, so they are more easily found, as well as for entire quotes. This helps avoid duplication of quotes on pages. ~ Moby 22:38, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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-- Les Nouvelles Nourritures
 * There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
 * Il est bien peu de monstres qui méritent la peur que nous en avons.

-- Les Nouvelles Nourritures
 * Dare to be yourself.
 * Ose devenir ce que tu es

-- Les Nouvelles Nourritures
 * Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
 * Connais-toi toi-même. Maxime aussi pernicieuse que laide. Quiconque s'observe arrête son développement. La chenille qui chercherait à « bien se connaître » ne deviendrait jamais papillon.

-- Les Nouvelles Nourritures
 * There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
 * Il y a d'admirables possibilités dans chaque être. Persuade-toi de ta force et de ta jeunesse. Sache te redire sans cesse : « Il ne tient qu'à moi. »

-- L'Immoraliste
 * What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
 * Que serait le récit du bonheur ? Rien, que ce qui le prépare, puis ce qui le détruit, ne se raconte.

MyXiLo 18:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

-- L'Immoraliste
 * Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
 * Rien n'empêche le bonheur comme le souvenir du bonheur

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Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable, precise and verifiable source for any quote on this list please move it to André Gide. --Antiquary 18:34, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

 * A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

 * Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

 * At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles— wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

 * Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

 * Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

 * Dare to be yourself.

 * Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

 * I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a sting even better than under a caress.

 * In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

 * It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. [I have added a sourced quote for this one. Please have a look and, if appropriate, remove this talk page entry. Szarka (talk) 00:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)]

 * It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

 * It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

 * It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

 * It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves— in finding themselves.

 * Je crois que les sentiments authentiques sont extrêmement rares et que l'immense majorité des êtres humains se contentent de sentiments de convention qu'ils s'imaginent réellement éprouver.
 * Source: Le Petit Robert (2006); under definition of the "authentique" term.
 * For the sake of it please do rephrase that one, but here for reference is the "Google Translate" output:
 * "I believe that genuine feelings are extremely rare and that the vast majority of human beings content themselves with feelings of convention which they imagine themselves to actually feel."

 * Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

 * Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

 * Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

 * Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

 * One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

 * '''Perverting the young! As if initiation in sexual pleasure was in itself an act of perversion! In general it is quite the opposite!'

 * So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

 * "The dogs bark but the caravan rolls on" (in response to critics)

 * The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
 * variant: Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

 * The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

I moved this to the sourced journal entries on the main page - http://books.google.com/books?id=6B9JrZU1a1gC&pg=PA387&dq=%22The+most+important+things+to+say+are+those%22&hl=en&ei=uDqPTtSREYy4tgfAouibDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22The%20most%20important%20things%20to%20say%20are%20those%22&f=false
 * The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say— because they were too obvious.

 * The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

 * There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself,  'It all depends on me'.

 * There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

 * There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

 * "Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

 * Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

 * To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

 * To what a degree the same past can leave different marks— and especially admit of different interpretations.

 * Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

 * What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

 * Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

 * Victor Hugo, hélas
 * In response to the question, "Who is the greatest French poet?"

 * If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
 * In response to the question, "What is your advice to young writers?"

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Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio (4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018)) is a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military.

Quotes

 * The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies. Thus, in the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
 * From Ctheory Interview With Paul Virilio 'The Kosovo War Took Place In Orbital Space: Paul Virilio in Conversation with John Armitage'

 * When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.
 * Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89

 * All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
 * Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 18

 * Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
 * Pure War. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Semiotext(e), 1983. p. 30

Conversation in 1995 with Friedrich Kittler.
 * The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
 * Pure War (2008), p. 183

 * a caste of "technology monks" is being created in our times, and that there exist monasteries of sorts whose goal it is to pave the way for a new kind of "civilisation"; one that has nothing to do with civilisation as we remember it. The work of these technology monks is not carried out in the way that it was in the Middle Ages. Rather, it is carried out through the revaluation of knowledge, like that achieved for Antiquity. The contribution of monks to the rediscovery of Antiquity is well known... And with information monotheism comes what I think of as the greatest danger of all, the slide into a future without humanity.
 * at the same time almost as much work is going into the development of the information bomb; a bomb that will have the same destructive effects on society's capacity to remember its past, a past that has a structure of its own and shapes the present.

Quotes about Paul Virilio

 * What he resists is not technology proper, but the propensity for us to confer upon technology a salvific function. Virilio, in other words, resists the mythologizing of technology, and he does so because it is precisely by idealizing technology that we come to unthinkingly embrace it.
 * Gil Germain, Spirits in the Material World (2009), p. 102

title: Paul Virilio