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Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (August 16, 1934 – March 26, 2011) was an English author notable for her fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction.

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 * Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people’s lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.
 * 'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins, 2005). Retrieved June 14 2005.

Cart and Cwidder (1975)

 * ISBN 0-06-076369-8

 * If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.
 * p. 212.

Drowned Ammet (1977)

 * ISBN 0-06-076369-8

 * People may wonder how Mitt came to join in the Holand Sea Festival, carrying a bomb, and what he thought he was doing. Mitt wondered himself by the end.
 * p. 223.
 * First lines.

 * Mitt did not quite forget his perfect land. He remembered it, though a little fuzzily, next time the wind dropped, but he did not set off to look for it again. It was plain to him that soldiers only brought you back again if you went. It made him sad. When an inkling of it came to him in silence, or in scents, or, later, if the wind hummed a certain note, or a storm came shouting in from the sea and he caught the same note in the midst of its noise, he thought of his lost perfect place and felt for a moment as if his heart would break.
 * p. 233.

Power of Three (1976)

 * ISBN 0-00-711370-6

"I learnt it," said Hathil. "It pays to learn things." There was the kind of pause that happens when people do not like to say what they really think. While Gerald was pounding Brenda on the back, Ceri leaned back from the vibrating table and looked at Aunt Mary limpidly in the eye. "I'm afraid we don't remember Masaylia at all." "Malaysia!" hissed Ayna. "Or that either," said Ceri. "In stories," Gair agreed hopelessly. "brave men die defending the rest. But this isn't like that!" "Call it the modern version," Mr Claybury suggested kindly.
 * "The only good Dorig is a dead Dorig."
 * p. 9.
 * One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.
 * p. 9.
 * Adara was impressed. "How do you know that?"
 * p. 25.
 * She was one of those who could talk and talk and talk. Gair listened to her harsh voice - "Just like a duck," Ayna described it - and hoped she would lose the argument. But Adara once said Kasta had never lost an argument in her life. She just talked everyone insensible.
 * p. 108.
 * "Look here," Gerald said, "what do you think of Giants?"
 * p. 166.
 * Over scones round the kitchen table, it emerged that Aunt Mary thought Ayna, Gair and Ceri came from Malaysia. Brenda looked at their faces and breathed in half a scone.
 * p. 174.
 * "This is a very old argument. The greatest happiness of the greatest number. If you think about it, you'll find it always works out that a few suffer for the good of the rest."
 * p. 201.

The Homeward Bounders (1981)

 * ISBN 0-00-675525-9

Then I ran into Helen. My friendly neighbourhood enemy. There really was nothing like Helen on any world I'd ever been to. I sometimes didn't think she was human at all.
 * There was a little white statue there. Now I'm not artistic. I saw it was of a fellow with no clothes on - I always wonder why it's Art to take your clothes off: they never put in the goose pimples - and this fellow was wrapped in chains. He didn't look as if he was enjoying himself, and small wonder.
 * p. 13.
 * You wouldn't believe how lonely you get.
 * p. 36.
 * "Unprintable things!" I said - only I didn't say that. I really said them.
 * p. 56.
 * I was a thoroughly hardened Homeward Bounder. There seemed nothing I didn't know.
 * p. 70.
 * That was the trouble with Joris. He was nice. You ended up liking him, whatever you did. Even when you wanted to shake him till his head fell off.
 * p. 131.

Fire and Hemlock (1985)

 * ISBN 0-00-675519-4

"It's obviously an enchantment of some kind," Polly agreed, humouring him. "It must be," he said. It sounded as if he was humouring her. ''Tom wishes you, for some reason I can't understand, to consider the human back. He says there are many other matters you should consider too, but that was a particularly glaring example. He invites you, he says, to walk along a beach this summer and watch the male citizens there sunning themselves. There you will see backs - backs stringy, backs bulging, and backs with ingrained dirt. You will find, he says, yellow skin, blackheads, pimples, enlarged pores and tufts of hair.'' ''This is making me ill, but Tom says go on. Peeling sunburn, warts, boils, moles and midge bites and floppy rolls of skin. Even a back without these blemishes, he claims, seldom or never ripples, unless with gooseflesh. In fact, he defies you to find an inch of silk or a single powerful muscle in any hundred yards of average sunbathers. I hope you know what all this is about, because I don't. I think you should stay away from the seaside if you can.'' Yours ever, Sam.
 * "If nothing happened, then there's nothing to remember," she told herself, trying to sound philosophical. "Of course there's nowhere to start."
 * p. 14.
 * Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going.
 * p. 29.
 * "Heroes see things like that," he said.
 * p. 34.
 * Dear Polly,
 * p. 265.
 * "Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things."
 * p. 311.
 * To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.
 * p. 392.

A Tale of Time City (1987)

 * ISBN 0-00-675520-8

"No," said Vivian. "I'm hungry." "I'll give you half," Sam said, plainly thinking he was being generous. … "She was six when she went away, Father," Jonathan said. He did not seem in the least alarmed. "That was nearly six years ago. Think how much I've changed since then." "So you have," said this alarming man, turning his glare on Jonathan as if he did not think the change was for the better. "I see," he said. "She grew." Sam patted her arm. "You need a butter-pie," he said kindly.
 * Vivian stared. Never had she seen a boy with such long hair! In fact, she had a vague notion that boys were born with their hair short back and sides and only girls had hair that grew long.
 * pp. 16-17.
 * "Can I eat these?" he said.
 * p. 21.
 * "But she's too big!" the anguished man said, still glaring at Vivian. "This girl is not the right size!"
 * p. 45.
 * "If you call me V.S. once again," she said, "I shall scream - I warn you!"
 * p. 73.
 * It was very boring. Perhaps it was his job to be boring, Vivian thought, in which case he was very good at his job.
 * pp. 78-79.
 * "Curse those two time-ghosts!" he almost shrieked. "They made me quite sure you were the Time Lady! But you're not, are you? I could tell you were a real Twenty Century person with every word you said. Mickey Mouse!" he yelled.
 * p. 87.

Hexwood (1993)

 * ISBN 0-00-675526-7

"Fight my way through a mob of dancing girls and snatch the dulcimer off the leading damsel," Reigner Two said morbidly. "I can just see myself. I think the fools who invented this thing might have thought of a simpler way to stop it. What's wrong with a red switch?" "What a strange idea!" Mordion said.
 * Ann looked down at him, spread on the bank preparing to go to sleep, and lost her temper. "Then you should go and tell him! You should look after him! He's all alone in this wood, and he's quite small, and he doesn't even know he's not supposed to go out of it. He probably doesn't even know how to work the field to get food. You - you calmly make him up, out of blood and - and nothing, and you expect him to do your dirty work for you, and you don't even tell him the rules! You can't do that to a person!"
 * pp. 54-55.
 * "It looks as if you need only enter the field for long enough to recognise the bannus and take hold of it. Then you order it to stop."
 * p. 138.
 * "One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself."
 * pp. 181-182.
 * "Oh, thank goodness!" he babbled. "I didn't mean it - at least I did, but I don't mean it now, not any more!" He flung one arm around Yam and twisted the other into Mordion's rolled cloak. "They came. They rustled. Don't let them!"
 * p. 255.
 * Please, your story, or I shall offend the dignitaries of my kingdom by yawning at holy things.
 * p. 261.

Howl's Moving Castle
See Howl's Moving Castle.

Castle in the Air (1990)

 * ISBN 0-00-675530-5

Abdullah had heard that one before. He bowed over his tucked-up hands. "Many and various are the virtues said to reside in carpets," he agreed. "Which one does the poet of the sands claim for this? Does it welcome a man home to his tent? Does it bring peace to the hearth? Or maybe," he said, poking the frayed edge suggestively with one toe, "it is said to never wear out?" "Not I!" said Jamal. "I am a believer of free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so." Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, "He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly and you can't pin him down to anything." "Indeed?" asked Abdullah. "Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies." "What do you mean — vices?" Sophie asked angrily. "I was just describing Howl."
 * "It is of course a magic carpet."
 * pp. 16-17.
 * "Maybe," he said, "you should be more careful about whom you let your dog bite."
 * p. 31.
 * "I never said my wishes were supposed to do anyone any good," said the genie. "In fact, I swore that they would always do as much harm as possible."
 * pp. 102-103.
 * "Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours."
 * p. 214.

House of Many Ways (2008)

 * ISBN 0-00-727569-2

"Whatever for?" Charmain said. "I like to chop things down," the kobold explained. "Chief pleasure of gardening." "I'm disgusted," Charmain told Waif. "That," Charmain said haughtily, "was an accident."
 * "So you'll be wanting all these hydrangeas chopped down, then?"
 * p. 57.
 * "Oh, what a sweet little doggie!" Mrs Baker cried out. "Is ooh hungwy, then?" She gave Waif the rest of the cake she was eating. Waif took it politely, ate it in one gulp and continued to beg. Mrs Baker gave her a whole cake from the plate. This caused Waif to beg more soulfully than ever.
 * p. 99.
 * "I don't believe this!" Peter said. "Why is it respectable not to know how to do things? Is it respectable to light a fire with a bar of soap?"
 * p. 109.
 * "I had a mitherable childhood. Nobody loved me. I think I have a right to try again, looking pwettier, don't you?"
 * p. 306.

The Merlin Conspiracy (2003)

 * ISBN 0-00-715140-3

I didn't know how to go on. I sat and stared at this sentence, until Grundo said, "If you can't do it, I will." If you didn't know Grundo, you'd think this was a generous offer, but it was a threat really. Grundo is dyslexic. Unless he thinks hard, he writes inside out and backwards. He was threatening me with half a page of crooked writing with words like "inside" turning up as "sindie" and "story" as "otsyr". "A lot of Merlins have cried when they prophesied," Dad pointed out. "I know. But I don't have to like it, do I?" Grandad retorted. "No one ever showed me how," I said. He swayed about, looking solemn. "I quote," he said. "I'm very well read in the literature of several worlds, you know, and I quote. What do they teach them in these schools?" "My navel, you mean?" I said. "No, no!" he howled. "You're not a woman! Or are you?" "No, not as the main thing," Grundo grunted. "If you think like that, then you're treating him like something in a museum, not as a person."
 * I have been with the Court all my life, travelling with the King's Progress.
 * p. 7.
 * First lines of the novel.
 * "Oh, Lord! He's a weeper!" Grandad said disgustedly. "I wish I'd known. I'd have stayed away."
 * p. 27.
 * "Amazing. You're here, but you can't do a simple thing like raising light, or do I mean lazing right? Whichever. You can't. Why not?"
 * p. 113.
 * "What you do is find your centre - can you do that?"
 * pp. 113-114.
 * "Don't you even feel how marvellous it is to have talked to one of the Little People?" I said.
 * p. 150.

Quotes about

 * (I consider literary comfort food:) Books I read as a kid: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E. L. Konigsburg; the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary.
 * Celeste Ng Interview (2022)

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If I may ask, you have been contributing to the biblical article? Do you think it become too huge sooner or later? How about its division, at least to "NT" and "OT"? Or do you have any other idea? Thanks. --Aphaia 16:45, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I have been contributing to The Bible. It might become too large, and if so a split to the New Testament and Old Testament will not make it much better. (half of a large amount of text is still a large amount of text) We could try splitting according to Biblical books. (e.g: "Genesis", "Judges", "Psalms", etc.) But meanwhile, the page is not too large, so we can still keep it as it is.

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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/June

May << June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 >> July

This page lists quote of the day proposals specifically for dates in the month of June, and quotes proposed should ideally have some relation to the day, or persons born on it, though sometimes exceptions can be made, usually for notable quotes that relate to recent events, such as the death of prominent individuals. Developing ideas of people or works to quote on specific days can be explored through the Wikipedia page: List of historical anniversaries. The numeric section heading of each date is also a direct link to the Wikipedia list of births, deaths, and other events which occured on that date.

 * See also: June 2008 · 2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013 · 2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018 · 2019

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions.)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

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William McFee

 William McFee (15 June 1881 – 2 July 1966) was a British writer.

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 * Steam is the friend of man. Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and rive your heart with imponderable electric force. They have arms and legs and warm hearts and veins full of warm vapour. Give us steam every time. You know where you are with steam.
 * "A Six-hour Shift : The Log of a Transport Engineer" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIX, No. 4 (April 1917), p. 449

 * There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
 * "On a Balcony", First lines, in The Atlantic Monthly (January 1920), p. 27

 * One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. There is a period, well on toward middle life, when a man can say such things to himself and feel comforted.
 * Harbours of Memory (1921), p. 114

 * A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
 * Harbours of Memory (1921), p. 236
 * Paraphrased variant: A man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Casuals of the Sea (1916)

 * Casuals of the Sea : The Voyage of a Soul

 * To those who live and toil and lowly die, Who past beyond and leave no lasting trace, To those from whom our queen Prosperity Has turned away her fair and fickle face; To those frail craft upon the restless Sea Of Human Life, who strike the rocks uncharted, Who loom, sad phantoms, near us, drearily, Storm-driven, rudderless, with timbers started; To those poor Casuals of the way-worn earth, The feckless wastage of our cunning schemes, This book is dedicate, their hidden worth And beauty I have seen in vagrant dreams! The things we touch, the things we dimly see, The stiff strange tapestries of human thought, The silken curtains of our fantasy Are with their sombre histories o'erwrought. And yet we know them not, our skill is vain to find The mute soul's agony, the visions of the blind.
 * Dedication

 * It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
 * Book I: The Suburb, Ch. IV
 * A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
 * Book I: The Suburb, Ch. IV

 * It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
 * Book I: The Suburb, Ch. X

 * The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
 * Book I: The Suburb, Ch. XIII

 * If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
 * Book II: The City, Ch. II

 * Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
 * Book II: The City, Ch. IV

 * People don't ever seem to realise that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
 * Book II: The City, Ch. VI
 * Also quoted as: Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. Paraphrased variant: "People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune."

 * Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
 * Book II: The City, Ch. VI

The Market

 * The Market from Modern Essays (1921) edited by Christopher Morley

 * London is always beautiful to those who love and understand that extraordinary microcosm; but at five of a summer morning there is about her an exquisite quality of youthful fragrance and debonair freshness which goes to the heart.

 * Roses just now predominate. There is a satisfying solidity about the bunches, a glorious abundance which, in a commodity so easily enjoyed without ownership, is scarcely credible. I feel no desire to own these huge aggregations of odorous beauty. It would be like owning a harem, one imagines.

 * "And what are those things at all?" demands my companion, diverted for a moment from the flowers. She nods towards a mass of dull-green affairs piled on mats or being lifted from big vans. She is a Cockney and displays surprise when she is told those things are bananas. She shrugs and turns again to the musk-roses, and forgets. But to me, as the harsh, penetrating odor of the green fruit cuts across the heavy perfume of the flowers, comes a picture of the farms in distant Colombia or perhaps Costa Rica. There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

 * While my companion is busily engaged in getting copy for a special article about the Market, I step nimbly out of the way of a swarthy gentleman from Calabria, who with his two-wheeled barrow is the last link in the immense chain of transportation connecting the farmer in the distant tropics and the cockney pedestrian who halts on the sidewalk and purchases a banana for a couple of pennies.

Quotes about McFee

 * He tells a story with the narrative power of a master of that art. His prose style has the rare combination of rhythm and smoothness together with a great deal of force... A quality not so much of style as of the writer's personality is his quiet, dry, and cutting humor. It crops out everywhere in his work... In the matter of his use of words, McFee seems to be going through some evolution. In Casuals of the Sea, he employs a number of words that necessitate more than an occasional reference to a good dictionary; however, in his later work, he has rid himself of this fault to a great degree, although a use of apt, but unusual, words may be said to be characteristic of his prose.
 * Lloyd George, "William McFee — An Appreciation" in The Wisconsin Literary Magazine Vol. XXI, No. 3 (December 1921)

 * He made a list of authors that floored me, beginning with Sinclair Lewis, William McFee — at that time famous for Casuals of the Sea, Command, Captain Macedoine's Daughter — and Vincent Sheehan and Mignon Eberhardt. Well, those were the plums, and he said, "I don't know if I can get any of them." Well, he got them all--every single one of them! … McFee was quite deaf and like so many deaf people he shrieked at the top of his lungs and had a funny habit — he'd grab you by the ear and scream into your ear. Of course, he couldn't hear. He'd start screaming in Harry Maule's ear and Harry would try to quiet him down. I still remember that we used to fall on the floor laughing at McFee and Harry Maule. What a combination this was. He was a nice man — McFee — an old sea captain. Unfortunately he drifted off and lost his popularity, but he did write three fine books: Casuals of the Sea, Captain Macedoine's Daughter, and Command. I think they're as good as Conrad's Sea Tales.
 * Bennett Cerf on editor Harry Maule and McFee in an interview (10 January 1968) at Columbia University Libraries, Oral History Research Office

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Initial guidelines
As guidelines for the placing of quotations for any day of the month I would suggest that proposals ideally would be some highly notable statement and...
 * 1) related to the anniversary of some famous person's birth, or occasionally their historical death date, or other date of celebration relating to them, if their birth dates were unknown, OR...
 * 2) related to the anniversary celebrations of some historical event, or well known national, international, or cultural holidays; these could include reference to such natural "marking points" of the year as the solstices and equinoxes, as well as various cultural holidays that are often associated with them. These could also be quotes referring to a particular month or season, usually on the first day of such. OR...
 * 3) related to prominent current events, especially where some famous person dies, or says something notable related to some prominent issue. These of course are the least anticipatable of the proposals, and they should probably be pretty notable to merit placement over the more regular historical ideas that may have been suggested.

Names of notable people whose birthdays are on a particular day, could also be added to specific dates, but of course final voting should be upon specific quotations to use, not specific people to quote without regard as to some specific statement. Also a limit of 4 quotes of any individual per user should be maintained, and there should be some statable rationale for adding them to any particular day. We certainly should not permit a flood of dozens of proposals quoting a single person upon any incidental days to become anyone's habit.

A voting or ranking system I initially considered which I still think appropriate would be one where registered users could rank proposals they wish to comment on as either:

 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used. (Perhaps, at most, only one quote per day should be ranked thus by any user, as to avoid confusions)
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

As is the case with other votes in the Wikimedia projects, votes by anonymous IPs should not be counted, and the use of "sock puppets" for voting should be rejected as absolutely unethical.

If there are definite preferences that clearly emerge, these can be placed in the "Quote of the day" slots 3-4 days ahead of time, but I continue to believe allowances should always be made for sudden changes for the sake of current events, though ideally any such changes that occur should be made at least a few hours before the new day begins at 00:00 UTC, to allow for comment. ~ Kalki 18:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Is it time to open up the Quote of the day/July votes yet? ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:21, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say about 5 days before the month starts would be fine AllanHainey 14:15, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I just created August so might as well go ahead with July too. This time next year, all of these pages will already exist, so I see no harm in creating them well ahead of time.  121a0012 04:32, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect,, , writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Vers une architecture [Towards an Architecture] (1923)

 * Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

 * The "styles" are a lie.

 * Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
 * A house is a machine for living in.

 * You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in.

 * It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

 * Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

La Ville Radieuse [The Radiant City] (1933)

 * The Despot is not a man. It is the Plan. The correct, realistic, exact plan.

"The Edict of Chandigarh," 1959
"The Edict of Chandigarh," plaque erected at Chandigarh, India as an abbreviated form of the document The Establishment Statute of the Land (1959-12-17)

 * The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.

 * The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.

 * Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

 * The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

 * The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all buildings constructed or to be constructed. The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to see that the tree flourishes.

Attributed from posthumous publications

 * Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
 * The New York Times [obituary] (1965-08-28)

 * Vous savez, c'est la vie qui a raison, l'architecte qui a tort.
 * You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
 * Le Corbusier's reply upon learning that the housing project he had designed at Pessac had been altered by its inhabitants, quoted by Philippe Boudon, Lived-In Architecture: Pessac Revisited (1969) [trans. Gerald Onn]

 * A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
 * When the Cathedrals Were White (1947)

 * My own duty and my aim is to try and raise people out of their misery, away from catastrophe; to provide them with happiness, with a contented existence, with harmony. My own goal is to establish or re-establish harmony between people and their environment.
 * Le Corbusier: Architect, Painter, Poet by Jean Jenger (1996).

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Creating Axl Rose

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock/heavy metal band that formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The classic lineup as signed to Geffen Records in 1986 consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.

Appetite for Destruction (1987)

 * Welcome to the jungle We've got fun 'n' games. We got everything you want Honey, we know the names. We are the people that can find Whatever you may need. If you got the money, honey We got your disease.
 * Welcome to the Jungle, written by Axl Rose and Slash

 * Welcome to the jungle. It gets worse here everyday. Ya learn ta live like an animal In the jungle where we play. If you got a hunger for what you see You'll take it eventually You can have anything you want But you better not take it from me.
 * Welcome to the Jungle

 * I get up around seven Get out of bed around nine And I don't worry about nothing no 'Cause worrying's a waste of my...time.
 * Mr. Brownstone, written by Slash and Izzy Stradlin

 * Take me down To the Paradise City Where the grass is green And the girls are pretty. Oh, won't you please take me home?
 * Paradise City, written by Axl Rose, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, and Duff McKagan

 * She's got a smile that it seems to me Reminds me of childhood memories Where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky. Now and then when I see her face, She takes me away to that special place. And if I stayed too long I'd probably break down and cry.
 * Sweet Child o' Mine, written by Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin

 * She's got eyes of the bluest skies As if they thought of rain. I'd hate to look into those eyes And see an ounce of pain. Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place Where as a child I'd hide And pray for the thunder and the rain To quietly pass me by.
 * Sweet Child o' Mine

G N' R Lies (1988)

 * Shed a tear 'cause I'm missin' you. I'm still alright to smile Girl, I think about you every day now Was a time when I wasn't sure But you set my mind at ease There is no doubt You're in my heart now.
 * Patience, written by Izzy Stradlin

 * I been walkin' the streets at night Just tryin' to get it right. Hard to see with so many around. You know I don't like bein' stuck in the crowd. And the streets don't change but baby the name I ain't got time for the game 'Cause I need you. Yeah, yeah, but I need you.
 * Patience

Use Your Illusion I (1991)

 * When I look into your eyes I can see a love restrained But darlin' when I hold you Don't you know I feel the same? 'Cause nothin' lasts forever. And we both know hearts can change And it's hard to hold a candle In the cold November rain We've been through this Such a long long time Just tryin' to kill the pain.
 * November Rain, written by Axl Rose

Use Your Illusion II (1991)

 * D'you wear a black armband When they shot the man Who said "Peace could last forever" And in my first memories They shot Kennedy. I went numb when I learned to see So I never fell for Vietnam We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all That you can't trust freedom When it's not in your hands When everybody's fightin' For their promised land.
 * Civil War, written by Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagen

 * I don't need one more war. What's so civil about war anyway?
 * Civil War

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First, I want to thank you for taking the trouble to register and properly sign your comment in the vote-for-deletion entry for Gus Arredondo. Many new users forget to sign their votes, rendering them uncountable.

But I would like to point out that personal attacks are not welcome on Wikiquote. Whether the article meets Wikiquote guidelines has nothing to do with who nominated it for deletion. Also, MosheZadka has indeed made many nominations recently, but others have made just as many over time. Not only does this help Wikiquote weed out inappropriate articles, but it also help promote potentially useful articles by calling attention to them. Many VfD articles are kept after Wikiquotians see the problems described and improve the articles in question, usually by adding quotes, Wikipedia links, and other useful information.

I would like to ask you to revise your comments to focus on the article's merits. (I don't normally take the trouble to make such suggestions, because most people making this error in wiki etiquette also show no interest in being Wikiquote users and add unsigned votes that are therefore ignored. We have many users, however, who have started their Wikiquote experience with a plea to preserve an article and have stayed to become regular contributors. In fact, MosheZadka is one of them.) Being polite and sticking to the topic is, of course, completely up to you, but I would suggest that you will be taken more seriously if you focus on the article, not who nominated it. If you have any questions or concerns about this, feel free to post me a note on my talk page. Thank you for your consideration. — Jeff Q (talk) 04:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * P.S. I just noticed that you labelled your text "Comment:". We usually use this to make comments without voting, but your text clearly suggests that you wish to vote to Keep this article. Might I suggest that you replace "Comment:" with "Keep" to make this clear? — Jeff Q (talk) 05:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Tonytimes

Hi. I could not help but notice that in spite of your apparent opinion in favour of keeping the Gus Arredondo article, you did not register a "keep" vote at WQ:VFD. Please allow me to suggest doing that, as well as adding quotes and external links to the relevant article. Best of all, adding an article to wikipedia would help, since wikipedia's larger manpower is much better at ascertaining notability, and is one of the prime criteria we use here. MosheZadka 04:52, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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 * P.S. I just noticed that you labelled your text "Comment:". We usually use this to make comments without voting, but your text clearly suggests that you wish to vote to Keep this article. Might I suggest that you replace "Comment:" with "Keep" to make this clear? — Jeff Q (talk) 05:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left an ambivalent legacy.

Quotes

 * Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not, know the Absolute Truth.
 * As quoted in An Indian pilgrim: an unfinished autobiography (1997) by himself, Sisir Kumar Bose, and Sugata Bose, p. 124

 * You will readily understand my mental condition as I stand on the threshold of what the man-in-the-street would call a promising career. There is much to be said favour of such a service. It solves once for all what is paramount problem for each of us—the problem of bread and butter. One has not to go face life with risk or uncertainty as to success or failure. But for a man of my temperament who has been feeding on ideas which might be called eccentric — the line of least resistance is not the best to follow. Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle — if there are no risks to be taken. The uncertainties of life are not appalling to one who has not, at heart, worldly ambitions. Moreover, it is not possible to serve one's country in the best and fullest manner if one is chained to the Civil Service . In short , national and spiritual aspirations are not compatible with obedience to Civil Service Examinations.
 * In a letter to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose on 22 September 1920, as quoted in Life and times of Subhas Chandra Bose, as told in his own words (1978) by himself, p. 83

 * It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.
 * In his address to the Indian National Army on becoming its Supreme Commander on 26 August 1943, as quoted in India Calling (1946) by himself and R. I. Paul, p. 52

 * One of the dreams that have inspired me and given a purpose to my life is that of a great and undivided Bengal … a Bengal that is above all sects and groups and is the home alike of the Muslim, the Hindu, the Christian and the Buddhist.
 * Nearly a decade before he formed the Indian National Army (INA), Netaji wrote this passionate message to his fellow Bengalis.

 * When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller.
 * In his address to the Indian National Army on becoming its Supreme Commander on 26 August 1943, as quoted in Formation and growth of the Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) (1946) by Durlab Singh, p. 25

 * Nobody would be more happy than ourselves if by any chance our countrymen at home should succeed in liberating themselves through their own efforts or by any chance, the British Government accepts your `Quit India’ resolution and gives effect to it. We are, however proceeding on the assumption that neither of the above is possible and that a struggle is inevitable. Father of our Nation in this holy war for India’s liberation, we ask for your blessings and good wishes.
 * Message to Mahatma Gandhi on Azad Hind Radio (June 1944)

 * Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.
 * Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

 * It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
 * Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

 * India is calling. Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. Chalo Delhi (March to Delhi)."'''
 * As quoted in India Calling (1946) by himself and R. I. Paul, p. 5

 * One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
 * "Quotations by 60 Greatest Indians" at Institute of Information and Communication Technology

 * I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines. The Very first thing that our future national government will have to do is to set up a commission for drawing up a comprehensive plan for reconstruction.
 * As quoted in The Alternative Leadership 1936-1941 (1996) by Aleander Werth p. 63

 * The slogan coined by him in early 1939 was - "Britain's difficulty is India's opportunity".
 * S.R.Goel, GENESIS AND GROWTH OF NEHRUISM, Vol I

 * [ National-Socialism is] not only narrow and selfish but arrogant [with a] very weak scientific foundation [for its racial philosophy].
 * quoted in Leonard Gordon, Bengal The Nationalist Movement, p 260, and in    Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". p 959

 * The recent speech of Herr Hitler in Munich gives the essence of Nazi philosophy … The new racial philosophy which has very weak foundation stands for the glorification of the white races in general and the German race in particular. Herr Hitler has talked of the destiny of the white races to rule over the rest of the world … Apart from this new racial philosophy and selfish nationalism, there is another factor which affects us even more. Germany, in her desire to curry favour with Great Britain, finds it convenient to attack India and the Indian people.
 * Subhas Chandra Bose, letter written in March 1936, in Sitanshu Das, Subhas: A Political Biography, Rupa Publications India, 2001. quoted from Sanjeev Sanyal - Revolutionaries, The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom-HarperCollins India (2023)

Quotes about Bose

 * The Japanese encountered resistance from some indigenous peoples, to be sure, and not only from those ethnic groups and elites that had done relatively well under Western colonial rule. The overwhelming majority of Indians showed no interest in the kind of liberation the Japanese had in mind for them. In the Philippines the peasant Hukbalahap movement waged a guerrilla war against them; in Burma the Karen and Kachin hill tribes also resisted Japanese rule. Nevertheless, the Japanese had no difficulty in finding collaborators among both anti-European nationalists and opportunists. Indian nationalists had not forgotten the 1919 Amritsar Massacre; it was in March 1940 that Udham Singh assassinated Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who had been Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab at that time. Though the majority of Congress leaders eschewed collaboration with the Japanese - in practice, 'Quit India' meant neutrality, albeit with a great deal of circumlocution - Subhas Chandra Bose enthusiastically hailed 'the end of the British Empire' and called on Indians to join the Axis side. Around 3,500 answered the initial call from Berlin of the self-proclaimed Netaji ('leader') to form an Indian Army of Liberation, most of them Indians who had been taken prisoner by the Germans in North Africa. When he reached Asia - having travelled by U-boat from Kiel to Sumatra - Bose was able to recruit a further 45,000 men (again mostly prisoners from Singapore and elsewhere) to his Indian National Army and the Axis cause.
 * Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), p. 500-501

 * "Subhash Bose is a prince among patriots…."
 * Mahatma Gandhi, Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Ahmedabad: The Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Navajivan Trust, 1972–78), Volume LXXXIII, p. 135

 * "Netaji Subhas gave India the confidence to achieve an independent and prosperous country. He was the person who established the first independent government on Indian soil."
 * Narendra Modi

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Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿, Miyazaki Hayao, born January 5, 1941) is one of the most famous and respected creators of anime, or Japanese animated films.

Quotes

 * 命は闇の中のまたたく光だ.
 * Translation: Nausicaä: Life is a winking light in the darkness.
 * Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Manga: 1982-1994, Anime: 1984), Manga, vol. 8

 * We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.
 * Proposal for Princess Mononoke

 * Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
 * At the New York Film Festival

 * I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
 * (2005) The Guardian article

 * It's difficult. [My female protagonists] immediately become the subjects of rorikon gokko (play toy for Lolita Complex males). In a sense, if we want to depict someone who is affirmative to us, we have no choice but to make them as lovely as possible. But now, there are too many people who shamelessly depict [such protagonists] as if they just want [such girls] as pets, and things are escalating more and more.
 * 1988 interview with Animage, Animage, vol. 125, November 1988. Retrieved June 8, 2007.

 * You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, 'Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.' If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it. Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves. Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It’s produced by humans who can’t stand looking at other humans. And that’s why the industry is full of otaku!
 * 2014 interview with Japanese news website Golden Times, 27 January 2014. Translated by RocketNews24 on January 30, 2014.

On Ponyo

 * Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn't be defeated by life without them.
 * (2009) Independent News article 2009

On Animation

 * If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
 * on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article

 * Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.
 * on the topic of CGI animation (2005) The Guardian article

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Herbert Stein

Herbert Stein (August 27, 1916 – September 8, 1999) was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Quotes

 * "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
 * Congressional testimony in 1986, in reference to a then-current economic trend of rising international trade deficits.
 * Herb Stein's Unfamiliar Quotations

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User talk:Abdulla~enwikiquote

Hi my name is Abdulla I started Arabic Wikiquote in 2004 and my internal ID here is number 1 ar:Wikiquote:user:عبدالله & i'm requesting to be sysop for the Arabic part of Wikiquote, Also i'm old user on Arabic Wikipedia since 2004 & I have wrote many articles there

 * Hi, Abdulla, do you want to have sysop right on Arabic Wikquote? If so you need to talk with other Arabic Wikiquoters (if exists) and then ask steward to make you sysop on Arabic Wikiquote on Requests for permissions on meta. Is it your case? Either or nor, you are welcome to English Wikiquote. Our discussion page is WQ:VP. Enjoy. --Aphaia 16:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Aphaia yes i'm looking to get sysop on Arabic Wikiquote, about other Arabic Wikiquoters there few users & they are not active , I will ask steward thank you for your help Abdulla

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Boiler Room (film)

Boiler Room is a 2000 American drama film about a college dropout who, attempting to win back his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm. The job puts him on the fast track to success, but it might not be as legitimate as it once appeared to be.
 * Written and directed by Ben Younger.

Welcome to the new American Dream taglines

Seth Davis

 * I read this article a while back that said that Microsoft employs more millionaire secretaries than any other company in the world. They took stock options over Christmas bonuses. It was a good move. I remember there was this photograph of one of the groundskeepers next to his Ferrrari. Blew my mind. You see shit like that, and it just plants seeds, makes you think it's possible, even easy. And then you turn on the TV, and there's just more of it. The 87 million dollar lottery winner. That kid actor that just made $20 million on his last movie. That internet stock that shot through the roof. You could have made millions on it if you'd just got in early. And that's exactly what I wanted to do: get in. I didn't want to be an innovator. I just wanted to make the quick and easy buck. I just wanted in. Notorious B.I.G. said it best: Either you're slinging crack rock, or you got a wicked jump shot. Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking the after school job at Mickey D's. Honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slinging crack rock: I became a stock broker.
 * From the opening monologue.

 * I had a very strong work ethic. The problem was my ethics in work.

 * I was making good money with the casino but these guys were "macking" it hard. That's the level I wanted to be operating on, so I drove out to Long Island. The office was a good hour from Wall Street. Somebody forgot to tell the guys who worked there, though. They looked and acted like they took the sixth train to Fulton Street every morning, but it wasn't Wall Street, it was exit fifty-three on the Long Island Expressway, a good hour from the New York Stock Exchange. "Group interview my ass", it was like a Hitler youth rally in retrospect. The guy who pitched us, Jim Young, was the head recruiter there. Between him and Michael, honestly, they can sell bubblegum at the lockjaw ward at Bellevue.

 * Looking back the casino was the most legitimate business I had running, I looked my customers in the eye and I provided a service they wanted, now I don't even look my customers in the eye and I push them something they never asked for.

 * I'm plagued by "what ifs?" these days. What if Greg hadn't come over that night, what if I hadn't forgot my bag? Or seen Michael walk into the other building that day? What if I had skipped over Harry's card? What are the chances? What are the odds?

 * I ran casino. I've got to figure what I'm going to do next because I'm not a lottery winner. I tried "slinging crack rock" and I never had a jump shot, I've got to find a job.

 * I originally I got in for the cash but getting my dad's respect is what kept me there, I had to adapt to this new world, I didn't know any of these guys but what I did know is that they had all the money in the world and not a clue what to do with it.

Jim Young

 * Okay, here's the deal. I'm not here to waste your time. Okay? And I certainly hope you're not here to waste mine. So I'm gonna keep this short. If you become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years. Okay? I'm gonna repeat that. You will make a million dollars within three years of your first day of employment at J.T. Marlin. There is no question as to whether or not you'll become a millionaire working here. The only question is how many times over. You think I'm joking? I am not joking. I am a millionaire. It's a weird thing to hear, right? I'll tell ya. It's a weird thing to say. I am a fucking millionaire. And guess how old I am. Twenty-seven. You know what that makes me here? A fuckin' senior citizen. This firm is entirely comprised of people your age, not mine. Lucky for me, I happen to be very fucking good at my job, or I'd be out of one. You guys are the new blood. You're gonna go home with the kessef. You are the future big swinging dicks of this firm. Now, you all look money hungry, and that's good. Anybody tells you money is the root of all evil doesn't fuckin' have any. They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the fuckin' smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby. You want details? Fine. I drive a Ferrari 355 Cabriolet. What's up? I have a ridiculous house in the South Fork. I have every toy you could possibly imagine. And best of all, kids, I am liquid. So, now that you know what's possible. Let me tell you what's required. You are required to work your fucking ass off at this firm. We want winners here, not pikers. A piker walks at the bell. A piker asks how much vacation time you get in the first year. Vacation time? People come and work at this firm for one reason: to become filthy rich. That's it. We're not here to make friends. We're not savin' the fuckin' manatees here, guys. You want vacation time? Go teach third grade, public school. The first three months at the firm are as a trainee. You make $150 a week. After you're done training, you take the Series Seven. You pass that, you become a junior broker and you're opening accounts for your team leader. You open 40 accounts, you start workin' for yourself. Sky's the limit. Word or two about being a trainee. Friends, parents, other brokers, whoever, they're gonna give you shit about it. It's true. $150 a week? Not a lot of money. Pay them no mind. You need to learn this business, and this is the time to do it. Once you pass the test, none of that's gonna matter. Your friends are shit. You tell them you made 25 grand last month, they're not gonna fuckin' believe you. Fuck them! Fuck 'em! Parents don't like the life you lead? 'Fuck you, Mom and Dad.' See how it feels when you're makin' their fuckin' Lexus payments. Now, go home and think about it. Think about whether or not this is really for you. If you decide it isn't, listen, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's not for everyone. Thanks. But if you really want this, you call me on Monday and we'll talk. Just don't waste my fuckin' time. Okay, that's it.
 * There's an important phrase that we use here, and think it's time that you all learned it. Act as if. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the fucking President of this firm. Act as if you got a 9" cock. Okay? Act as if.
 * Goddammit, you fuckin' guys. I'm gonna keep this short, okay? You passed your sevens over a month ago. Seth's the only one that's opened the necessary forty accounts for his team leader. When I was a junior broker I did it in 26 days. Okay? You're not sendin' out press packets anymore. None of this Debbie the Time Life operator bullshit. So get on the phones, it's time to get to work. Get off your ass! Move around. Motion creates emotion. I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So I let him. I got every fuckin' rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. Towards the end I started askin' him buying questions, like what's the firm minimum? That's a buying question, right there. That guy's gotta take me down. It's not like I asked him, what's your 800 number? That's a fuckoff question. I was givin' him a run and he blew it. Okay? To a question like what is the firm minimum, the answer is zero. You don't like the idea, don't pick up a single share. But this putz is tellin' me you know, uhh, 100 shares? Wrong answer! No! You have to be closing all the time. And be aggressive, learn how to push! Talk to 'em. Ask 'em questions... ask 'em rhetorical questions, it doesn't matter, anything, just get a yes out of 'em. If you're drowning and I throw you a life jacket would you grab it? Yes! Good. Pick up 200 shares I won't let you down. Ask them how they'd like to see thirty, forty percent returns. What are they gonna say, no? Fuck you? I don't wanna see those returns. Stop laughing, it's not funny. If you can't learn how to close, you better start thinkin' about another career. And I am deadly serious about that. Dead fuckin' serious. And have your rebuttals ready, guy says call me tomorrow? Bullshit! Somebody tells you th-they got money problems about buyin' 200 shares is lying to you. You know what I say to that? I say, hey look, man, tell me you don't like my firm, tell me you don't like my idea, tell me you don't like my fuckin' neck tie, but don't tell me you can't put together 2,500 bucks. And there is no such thing as a no-sell call. A sell is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock, or he sells you on a reason he can't. Either way, a sell is made. The only question is: who's gonna close? You or him?! Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Michael Brantley

 * I just want you to know that those pikers down as NASD are finally off our ass. Bear Stearns can make all the calls they want to the SEC, but they still can't find any dirt on us! J.T. Marlin, once again, has unlimited trading authorization. I told you guys, you can't keep a good man down! We're superstars now. J.P. Morgan just faxed over their congratulations...it said, 'Welcome to the club!'...And just to show you how appreciative I am, there's a little something extra. I want you guys to go up to suite 418...I hand-picked them myself.

Judge Marty Davis

 * [to Seth] I spoke to Howard Goldberg over at Prudential, you lied again you unbelievable piece of shit, you lied to all of us, tell me about J.T. Marlin, it's a chop shop Seth, you've selling their shit all this time, how many people have you fucked over? All that bullshit about how their business works? "The great training program", remember? "All the profits you made for your customers", did you do anything for them? Did you make them any money at all? I'm done with you Seth, this it, I've had it with you, I don't ever want to see you again, I don't want you to come by the house, I don't you to call, this is worse than the casino, you've been stealing, you're destroying people's lives.

Others

 * Broker: [over the phone] I know you're not standing on your front porch with a bag of money waiting for me to call you. But I'm not some 18-year-old selling a cure for AIDS. I'm 46 years old, I have 22 years market experience, I know this business. So pick up your skirt, grab your balls, and lets go make some money

Dialogue

 * Jim Young: [Walks into the group interview, goes to the head of the table, where an interviewee is sitting] I'm sorry, man, this is my seat.
 * Interviewee #1: [Quickly gets up] Oh, shit, I-I'm so sorry!
 * Jim Young: It's okay, don't worry about it. [Moves the chair away]
 * Interviewee #2: [To Interviewee #1] Fuckin' dumbass.
 * Jim Young: [To Interviewee #2] Get the fuck outta here.
 * Interviewee #2: W-what?
 * Jim Young: Don't talk to me, don't look at me, just pick your ass out of that Italian leather chair, and get the fuck outta this room, right now! Come on, let's go, schlep rock! Out! [Interviewee #2 leaves; Jim gestures to Interviewee #1] Sit down. We expect everyone here to treat their co-workers with a certain level of respect. Okay, before we get started, I have one question. Does anyone here pass their Series Seven exam?
 * Interviewee #3: [Raises his hand] I have a Series Seven license.
 * Jim Young: Good for you, you can get out too.
 * Interviewee #3: What, why?
 * Jim Young: We don't hire brokers here, we train new ones.

 * Greg Weinstein: Now there's two rules you have to remember as a trainee, number one, we don't pitch the bitch here.
 * Seth Davis: What?
 * Greg Weinstein: We don't sell stock to women. I don't care who it is, we don't do it. Nancy Sinatra calls, you tell her you're sorry. They're a constant pain in the ass and you're never going to hear the end of it alright? They're going to call you every fucking day wanting to know why the stock is dropping and God forbid the stock should go up, you're going to hear from them every fucking 15 minutes. It's just not worth it, don't pitch the bitch.

 * Greg Weinstein: Now, now, listen to me. Even though you're not actually selling stock yet, I want you to remember the quota we have here, okay? Did you see Glengarry Glen Ross?
 * Seth Davis: Yeah.
 * Greg Weinstein: Okay, do you remember 'ABC'?
 * Seth Davis: Yeah. 'Always be closing.'
 * Greg Weinstein: That's right. 'Always be closing.' 'Telling's not selling.' That's the attitude you wanna have, okay.

 * Judge Marty Davis: I'm not your best friend. That's your mother's racket. I'm your father. I tell you when you screw up. What did you think I was gonna do? Pat you on the back for this casino idea? Tell you what a great entrepreneur you are? So what do you want me to do, Seth? I mean, my God, if I would have called my father to meet me for a cup of coffee to talk about my screw-ups, he probably would have laughed. We didn't have nice little chats about why I was a bad boy. I got smacked. And I didn't do it again. Much simpler.
 * Seth Davis: Look, you know, I'm just trying to restore what's left of our relationship. I mean...
 * Judge Marty Davis: Relationship? What the fuck are you talking about, relationship? What, are we dating? I'm not your girlfriend, Seth. I'm your father. Clean up you life, make an honest living, and then you and I can talk like normal people, all right?

 * Seth Davis: [Phone rings] Hello?
 * Ron from the Daily News: Hi, Mr. Dahvis, this is Ron from the Daily News. How you doin' this morning?
 * Seth Davis: It's Davis, and I'm not interested.
 * Ron: Okay, I'm sorry to have bothered you. Have a nice day.
 * Seth Davis: Wait a minute. Wait, that's your pitch? You consider that a sales call?
 * Ron: Well, um...
 * Seth Davis: You know, I get a call from you guys every Saturday and it's always the same half-assed attempt. If you guys wanna close me, you should sell me.
 * Ron: All right.
 * Seth Davis: All right. Start again.
 * Ron: Okay. Hi, this is Ron from the Daily News. How you doin' this morning?
 * Seth Davis: Shitty. What do you want?
 * Ron: It's not what I want, sir. It's what you want.
 * Seth Davis: Ron, now we're talkin'. All right. What are you selling me?
 * Ron: I'm offering you a subscription to the Daily News at a substantially reduced price. We're trying to reach out to people that have never had home delivery before.
 * Seth Davis: Right, so, basically, everybody who already has a subscription is getting fucked on this one?
 * Ron: Yeah, I guess so.
 * Seth Davis: All right, well, I can handle that. So, tell me, why should I buy your paper? I mean, you know, why... Why shouldn't I get the Times or the Voice, you know?
 * Ron: Well, the Village Voice is free, sir, so if you want it, you should certainly pick it up. But the Daily News offers you something no other paper can: a real taste of New York. We have the best features, more photographs than any other daily in New York and we have the most reliable delivery in the city. Now what do you think?
 * Seth Davis: You know what I think, Ron? I think that was a sales call. Good job, buddy.
 * Ron: So you gonna buy a subscription?
 * Seth Davis: No, I already get the Times.

 * Seth Davis: [after refusing an immunity deal offered by the FBI] No, no deal, you take my father out the back door and you bring him home, he has nothing to do with this case I swear to God, if his name ends up in one newspaper I do not testify and I mean that, for me it'd be worth going to jail for
 * FBI Agent David Drew: Are you serious?
 * Seth Davis: What'd you think?
 * FBI Agent David Drew: Alright, before we get ahead of ourselves, what are you offering?
 * Seth Davis: I'm going to hand you this case on a silver fucking platter, I know everything you don't, I know how it all works, I know how Michael makes his money, I know how he hides it, I know who he goes in with, I even know where he moves if you guys get too close, I know everything

 * Chris Varick: [Meeting secretly in the stairway] What's this about? You ok?
 * Seth Davis: I need you to sign a sell ticket for a client of mine.
 * Chris Varick: Fuck Greg, let's go deal with it and talk to Michael.
 * Seth Davis: Wait a minute Chris, I got arrested last night.
 * Chris Varick: What?
 * Seth Davis: The FBI arrested me.
 * Chris Varick: The FBI? Why the fuck would the FBI arrest you?
 * Seth Davis: Because of my involvement in this firm.
 * Chris Varick: Your involvement in the firm? What the fuck does that mean?
 * Seth Davis: Come on Chris you know what that means.
 * Chris Varick: No, I don't know what that means, what the fuck did you tell them?
 * Seth Davis: They knew everything, man. They had photographs and tape recorded conversations. They brought my father in. There was nothing I could do.
 * Chris Varick: [Yelling] What did you do?
 * Seth Davis: Chris, the FBI is going to raid this place in twenty minutes!
 * Chris Varick: What the fuck are you talking about? Fuck Seth!
 * Seth Davis: Come on man, I asked you for months about shit going on here and you told me to shut the fuck up and get ready to be a millionaire.
 * Chris Varick: That's right "shut the fuck up", didn't you learn anything?
 * Seth Davis: I learned how to fuck people out their money. My client, Harry Reynard, just lost his life savings. And he wasn't a whale, he was just a poor schmuck and I took him. I did everything J.T Marlin taught me to do and I made up his mind for him.
 * Chris Varick: What do you want me to tell you? That's what we do here.
 * Seth Davis: We lie, we're liars.
 * Chris Varick: Who they coming for?
 * Seth Davis: They're coming for everybody, everything.

 * Chris Varick: You know how hard I worked to get where I am?
 * Seth Davis: You need to forget about that; it doesn't mean shit. Right now, this moment is what you should be thinking about. What are you going to do in the next fifteen minutes. They're gonna make sure we never trade another share of stock for the rest of our lives. But we can do something.
 * Chris Varick: What's that?
 * Seth Davis: Harry, my client. I need a senior broker to sign a sell ticket so he can take his shares and dump them on the open market and make his money back. What's the difference? Do one thing right here. Just sign it.
 * [Chris signs the sell ticket]

Taglines

 * Anyone who says that money is the root to all evil, doesn't have it.
 * Motion creates Emotion!
 * Where would you turn? How far would you go? How hard will you fall?
 * There's no such thing as making too much money or taking too many risks.
 * Welcome to the New American Dream.

Cast

 * Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis
 * Vin Diesel - Chris Varick
 * Nia Long - Abbie Halpert
 * Nicky Katt - Greg Weinstein
 * Scott Caan - Richie O'Flaherty
 * Ron Rifkin - Judge Marty Davis
 * Jamie Kennedy - Adam
 * Taylor Nichols - Harry Reynard
 * Bill Sage - Agent Drew
 * Tom Everett Scott - Michael Brantley
 * Ben Affleck - Jim Young

title: Boiler Room (film)


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American Dad!

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American Dad! is an American adult animated sitcom created by created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman.

Seasons

 * Fox (2005–14)
 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5
 * Season 6
 * Season 7
 * Season 8
 * Season 9
 * Season 10
 * Season 11

 * TBS (2014–present)
 * Season 12
 * Season 13
 * Season 14
 * Season 15
 * Season 16

Cast

 * Seth MacFarlane - Stan Smith, Roger Smith
 * Wendy Schaal - Francine Smith
 * Scott Grimes - Steve Smith
 * Rachael MacFarlane - Hayley Smith
 * Dee Bradley Baker - Klaus
 * Patrick Stewart - CIA Deputy Director Avery Bullock
 * Jeff Fischer - Jeff Fischer

title: American Dad!