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I tried to make an interlink to another language version, and hesitated. Are you okay to include some quotes below to this article? In my sketchy impression, those quotes have a bit different scopes of our current content ... or such kind of "mankind in general" should come here too? --Aphaia 06:48, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Man is the measure of everything. (Protagoras)
 * Man is a reed, the weakest of nature, but he is a thinking reed (Blaise Pascal)

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Amos Oz

Amos Oz (4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli novelist and journalist.

Quotes

 * "Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: 'Yids, get out of Palestine.'"
 * A Tale of Love and Darkness (2003).
 * Quoted on U.S. radio program "Fresh Air" (December 1, 2004).

 * The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. Now such a clash between right claims can be resolved in one of two manners. There's the Shakespeare tradition of resolving a tragedy with the stage hewed with dead bodies and justice of sorts prevails. But there is also the Chekhov tradition. In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekhov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive. And my colleagues and I have been working, trying...not to find the sentimental happy ending, a brotherly love, a sudden honeymoon to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy, but a Chekhovian ending, which means clenched teeth compromise.
 * From a PBS interview with Amos Oz. The entire interview

 * The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
 * "Try a Little Tenderness" (interview) in Ha'aretz, March 17, 2000.

 * The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
 * "Between Oz and Ayalon" (interview), the Supplement to Shabbat, 21 November 2008, Yedioth Ahronoth, p. 2.

 * The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
 * "The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4 (17 June 1999).

Interview (1986)

 * From We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers by Haim Chertok (1989)

 * America is too large and too abstract to generalize about.

 * The Hebrew writers who I feel should be more widely appreciated my own mentors, I suppose-are Micha Berdyczewski, Yosef Haim Brenner, and, of course, Shmuel Yosef Agnon. (HC: And on the world scene?) AO: That's too large an order. (HC: Well, whom of those you have read recently have you found impressive?) AO: The South Africans: Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee, and André Brink.

Interview with NPR (1988)

 * [M]uch like Israel itself, this is a novel about great dreams, about great expectations, about bigger-than-life visions and, indeed, about the morning after and the sad realization that every dream come true is bound to be flawed by coming true. (about Black Box)

 * I am a great believer in compromising. I think the only alternative to compromising is fight to the death on any front, on any level.

 * I don't believe in magnanimous dreams coming true. Every fulfillment of a dream or of an ambition is bound, destined, to be partial, especially because Israel was founded on such a shaky coalition of conflicting and contradicting dreams, master plans and visions. There was no way they all could come true. The other reason, of course, is that since its creation and even since earlier, Israel has been stuck with a nasty, violent conflict with its Arab neighbors. And I don't think an atmosphere of a constant, violent, hateful conflict is the right atmosphere to create the most egalitarian and just society in the world.

 * I'd fight again and again if it would be a matter of life and death for the nation. I would not fight, though, for any other cause. I would not fight for resources. I'd not fight for interests. When it comes to life and death, I have always believed that there is one thing in this world which is more ugly, more sordid, than using violence. And this thing is giving in to violence. In this respect, I am a peacenik not a pacifist. And the Israeli Peace Now movement is clearly not a Make Love Not War movement - not one of those.

 * [H]aving fought a war, you will never be the same human being. Having shot at people, having been shot at by total strangers, you will never be the same again.

 * To me, reconciliation means a political settlement. If I had to entitle my vision vis a vis the Arabs in general and the Palestinians in particular, I would say make peace not love. The name of the game for Israelis and for Palestinians, as I see it, is a fair and decent and painful divorce rather than a honeymoon bed together. I think Israelis and Palestinians should separate land and assets, divide the land between the two nations and live in peace like two ex people rather than try to reconcile in the way of living together. The conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is not a family dispute. It's a dispute between two families.

Interview with NPR (1991)

 * We have been through many wars in our life. We have been through fighting. I've been on the battlefield myself. This combination of gas and Jewish state certainly hits a chord and touches a nerve. And what's moreover, a German-manufactured gas aimed at Jews in the Jewish state is something which touches a very deep emotion in all of us.

 * [T]ime and again, I mentioned to our soldiers, to our reservists that there is no point in hating every Arab for being an Arab, that many of them are as much victims of this fanaticism and ruthlessness as we are or perhaps more so because they suffer more, and they will suffer more.

 * [T]his has been the condition of Israel for 40 years now. Not so extreme, not so dramatic, but we have always lived under a constant threat. Ever since the creation of this nation, we've never had a single day of a full-scale peace. We have always lived on edge.

Interview with NPR (2004)

 * [I]n the 1940s, Israel was still a dream, a vision and a blueprint. They talked about the impending creation of a Jewish state in messianic terms. This state, which is about to be born, will be pure, angelic, idyllic. It will hold world records in high job morality, gold medal in good behavior, in treating minorities, in social justice. It will be both biblical and modern, both very Jewish and very secular and very democratic and very socialistic. It will be more everything than anyone. But this, of course, was a dream, a fantasy, a vision. And then came the morning after. (And?) OZ: Well, the morning after is a disappointment by definition. I maintain that the only way to keep a dream - not only a Zionist dream, any dream, a sexual dream, a sexual fantasy. The only way to keep any dream or fantasy intact and rosy and perfect and flawless is never to try to live it out. Israel is a dream come true. As such, it is destined to be a disappointment to some extent. And I accept it philosophically.

 * Judaism to me is a culture - first and foremost, the Hebrew language, which I think is the crux of the heritage, a long line of books, creations, certain sensibilities which I identify as Jewish sensibilities, although they are not exclusively Jewish, humor and skepticism, certain anarchism, certain lack of confidence in any regime or government whatsoever, certain utopian ambitions about world reforming. All of these, I identify - this and more, I identify as Jewish heritage, Jewish sensibilities. And all of those are alive and kicking - sometimes kicking too hard - outside the realm of synagogue.

 * Israel is essentially a refugee camp. So is Palestine, which is what makes this conflict so tragic. It's a conflict - tragic conflict between two victims, between two refugee camps.

 * (What are your memories of Israel's Independence Day? You write that your father told you to take it all in because this is something you'd be talking about to your children, to your grandchildren.) OZ: Yes. This was a euphoric night for me. I was about a 9-year-old when the General Assembly of the United Nations, then in Lake Success, resolved by a two-thirds vote to divide Palestine into two sovereign states - Palestinian Arab states and Israeli Jewish states. This, in brackets, is going to be the bottom line of several decades of conflict. In the end, Israelis and Palestinians will come back to a two-state solution, closed brackets. Now, for me that night is a memory which I will carry for the rest of my life. Never in my life, either before or after, have I seen such a burst of public euphoria - euphoria combined with fear of the future. No one was certain of the results. No one was certain whether we are going to survive the impending battle with the Arab world. But this euphoria that the Jews will become an independent nation for the first time in 19 centuries since the eradication of ancient Israel by the Roman armies - by the Roman Empire - that once again, there will be a Jewish regime, a Jewish government and the Jewish law, a Jewish sovereignty. That kind of vindication of people who have always been an oppressed and loathed minority wherever - everywhere except, perhaps, in the United States of America - but everywhere else, the feeling that at last, we are going to have a home; it may be very small; it may be a home the size of a handkerchief or a postal stamp on the map of the world. But nonetheless, it's going to be our home. This euphoria of that night - the singing, the dancing in the street, the hugging between total strangers, the tears, the vows - this I'll never forget, just as I will not forget the deep, sad silence which dawned on the Arab neighborhoods. Our joy was their catastrophe. Their fear and trembling and despair and anger and bewilderment - I will never forget how while half Jerusalem celebrated with fireworks and singing and dancing, the other parts of Jerusalem were erupting darkness, silence and sadness.

Interview with NPR (2012)

 * We regard Judaism as a civilization, not just as a religion. I think there are many, many ways to be a Jew. And one of those ways to be a Jew is to be a nonreligious Jew. The heritage contains, first and foremost, books, texts, spiritual creativity. And religion is only one of the components of this magnificent heritage.

 * For thousands of years, we Jews had nothing but books. We had no lands, we had no holy sites, we had no magnificent architecture, we had no heroes. We had books, we had texts, and those texts were always discussed around the family table. They became part of the family life, and they traveled from one generation to the next — not unchanged, not unchallenged, but reinterpreted in each generation and reread by each generation.

 * The very term 'Israel' means 'he who struggles with God.' This is the literal, dictionary sense of the word 'Israel.' So chutzpah is built into this civilization. A pupil is not expected to obey, to follow and to learn by heart. A student is expected to say a chiddush, which means something new, something original, something of his or her own interpretation of the sacred texts.

Interview with NPR (2016)

 * I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. But this is no exception. Almost every person who steps out of the consensus is accused of treason by his contemporaries, or by her contemporaries. In fact, my protagonist in this novel (Judas) says that a traitor is very often simply a person who changes in the eyes of those who despise change, who mistrust change, who are antagonized to every change.

 * I feel much more comfortable talking about the past than about the future. I'm old enough to know that life is full of surprises, and this is true of this country as much as it is true of Israel. I have seen people surprising not only others but even themselves.

Interview with Forward (2018)

 * (In the book (Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land), you describe your childhood as a “little Zionist-nationalist fanatic.” Your attitude changed because of your friendship with a British policeman. What happened?) Amos Oz: He shared with me different perspectives. He taught me to ask questions: If I were a Palestinian Arab whose family lived here for many, many generations, how would I feel about the influx of Jewish immigrants armed with the Bible and claiming exclusive rights to the land? How would I feel if I were a British [man] who shed his blood in order to beat Hitler, and now he is being labeled by militant Israelis, militant Zionists, as a continuation of the Nazis? Those conversations were eye-openers for me, because this was a kind of language I hadn’t heard spoken around me.

 * Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking. The urge to change other people contains sometimes a certain fanatic potential.

 * I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end loathing begets hatred and violence. I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the “impossible” position. So I think curiosity, a certain capacity of imagining the other, and, yes, sense of humor, all of those are powerful antidotes to fanaticism.

 * If I had to squeeze my wisdom into one word, I would say: "Listen, you don't necessarily have to agree to what you listen to, but listen very carefully. Listen even to voices which you regard as dangerous, abhorrent, terrible, monstrous." Even if your conclusion is going to be, "I have to rebuff those voices, I have to fight them, I regard them as a threat to the future of my people or the future of my family," you still would be wise to listen very carefully to what those other people are saying before you form your position or even your tactic of combating them or struggling against them. Listen with a certain degree of curiosity. Even try to ask yourself: What would it be that would have made me one of them? A different background? A different family? A different upbringing? Different values? A different environment? Could I be one of those? I think this is a very simple practice, but it’s a helpful one.

 * I am old enough to tell you, here in the Middle East, words such as "never," "forever" or "eternity" mean something like six months to 30 years.

 * Israel is a dream come true, and as a dream come true it is flawed, very flawed, and sometimes dangerously flawed or painfully flawed. But this is in the nature of dreams, not necessarily in the nature of Israel.

Quotes about Amos Oz

 * Beyond his obvious intelligence and talent, Oz has done me several kindnesses, something not often associated with creative personalities of the first rank.
 * Haim Chertok in We Are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers (1989)

 * Above and beyond the loss of a major literary talent Amos Oz’s passing is a huge blow to Israelis and Jews of conscience for whom he has long been an articulate, spiritual guide on the very elusive quest for peace
 * Allyn Fisher-Ilan cited here (December 2018)

 * When I interviewed Amos Oz last month we joked about how the best examples of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians were in the medical field and the criminal world. Honored to have spent time in this prolific author’s presence…
 * Ruth Marks Eglash cited here (December 2018)

 * Among Israeli writers, including the vociferous Amos Oz, renowned internationally for his brilliant novels and bold, critical publication of possible solutions for two-state justice, every Israeli writer I met was against the occupied territories and the harsh measures used against the Palestinian inhabitants.
 * Nadine Gordimer Experiencing Two Absolutes" (2008)

 * We lost a soul, a mind, a heart, Amos Oz, who brought so much beauty, so much love, and a vision of peace to our lives
 * Natalie Portman on Instagram (December 2018)

 * I'm no Amos Oz, who's always ready to take a firm stance...(Interviewer: "In Europe, Amos Oz is often talked about as some kind of modern Israeli prophet.") DR: That's because he can't let go of the old prophetic gestures. It's a nice role and he's comfortable with it, and maybe we need him to open people's eyes. Who knows, maybe it's just me who's cynical. But there's nothing prophetic about the rest of us, particularly the younger writers. Your horoscope can tell you more about the future than we can.
 * Dorit Rabinyan 2002/2003 interview in Literature and War: Conversations with Israeli and Palestinian Writers by Runo Isaksen, translated into English by Kari Dickson (2009)

 * Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua, and Aharon Appelfeld, gained international recognition for works that turned inward, toward private obsessions.
 * Ruth Wisse The Modern Jewish Canon (2000)

 * Two months ago in the last interview Amos Oz gave infornt of the cameras he told me: “I want to leave this world with the feeling my words meant something to someone” – well they certainly did!
 * Antonia Yamin cited here (December 2018)

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Hilary Tamar Mysteries

This page is for quotations from the mystery series starring Hilary Tamar and the barristers of the Nursery, written by Sarah Caudwell.

Book I: Thus Was Adonis Murdered

 * On my first day in London I made an early start. Reaching the Public Record Office not much after ten, I soon secured the papers I needed for my research and settled in my place. I became, as is the way of the scholar, so deeply absorbed as to lose all consciousness of my surroundings or of the passage of time. When at last I came to myself, it was almost eleven and I was quite exhausted: I knew I could not prudently continue without refreshment.
 * Hilary Tamar

 * Julia's unhappy relationship with the Inland Revenue was due to her omission, during four years of modestly successful practice at the Bar, to pay any income tax. The truth is, I think, that she did not, in her heart of hearts, really believe in income tax. It was a subject which she had studied for examinations and on which she had thereafter advised a number of clients: she naturally did not suppose, in these circumstances, that it had anything to do with real life.
 * Hilary Tamar

Book II: The Shortest Way to Hades

 * You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it had a most remarkable effect—even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment. She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.
 * Julia Larwood

Book III: The Sirens Sang of Murder

 * Anyway, I promised I'd stick to Gabrielle like a postage stamp for the rest of the weekend, which actually sounded like rather a jolly scheme, and if any sinister chaps in false beards started leaping out of the undergrowth, I'd be on hand to biff them.

 * I say, Larwood, is this tax-planning business really as exciting as these Daffodil characters seem to think or do they just make believe it is to make life more interesting? I mean, if I'd known it was all about codes and secret documents and biffing chaps in false beards, I wouldn't have minded going in for it myself ...
 * Michael Cantrip

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 film about four London working class stiffs who pool their money to enter a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds, with one week to come up with the cash.
 * Written and directed by Guy Ritchie.

A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere. Taglines

Eddie

 * Anyway, fuck it. The battle is over and the war is won.
 * No, fuck that. You can think about it. I am panicking and I'm off.
 * [To Tom about the guns] So, the only thing connecting us to the case is in the back of your car, which is parked outside?

Tom

 * They're lacking in criminal credibility, ain't they? I might get laughed at.
 * There's no money, there's no weed. It's all been replaced by a pile of corpses.

Bacon

 * Let me tell you about Hatchet Harry. Once there was this geezer called Smithy Robinson, who worked for Harry. It was rumoured that he was on the take. Harry's invited Smithy 'round for explanation. Smithy didn't do a very good job. Within a minute, Harry's lost his rag. Reached out for the nearest thing at hand, which happened to be a 15-inch black rubber cock. He's then proceeded to batter poor Smithy to death with it. Now, that was seen as a pleasant way to go. Hence, Hatchet Harry is the man you pay if you owe.
 * [To Dog holding up a gun] Bend over the fucking desk!

Soap

 * Oi! Keep your fingers out of my soup!
 * You're not funny, Tom. You're fat, and look as though you should be, but you're not!
 * Cupid, stupid!

Rory Breaker

 * If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kind of pussy to drink it.
 * What do you want, a medal? I'll shoot you in the fucking throat if I don't get my ganja back!
 * Mr. Breaker. Today, my name is Mr. Breaker!
 * This white shite thinks he can steal my cannabis and sell it back to me? He's got less brains than you, Lenny! Get Nick, the greasy wop, shistos, pesevengi, gamouri Greek bastard, round here now, if he's still stupid enough to be on this planet!
 * We're gonna do a proper decoration job. I want the grey skies of London illuminated. I want that house painted red.
 * If you hold back anything, I'll kill ya. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill ya. If you forget anything, I'll kill ya. In fact, you are going to have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now do you understand everything I've said? [Nick nods head] Because if you don't, I'll kill ya. Now, Mr. Bubble and Squeak, you may enlighten me.

Barry the Baptist

 * No mortgages, no debts – lock, stock, the fucking lot.
 * [Trying to stop his monitor switching off] Come on! Not now, please, not – [monitor goes off] oh, you fucking bastard.
 * Hello boy, feeling a bit poorly? I know your friends are responsible for most of the cash, so I'm gonna give you one week to find it. Otherwise, I will take a finger of each of you and your friends' hands for every day that passes without payment. And then, when you run out of digits, your dad's bar, and who knows what then. All right, my son?
 * If you don't want to be counting the fingers you haven't got, I suggest you get those guns. Quick!
 * When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop, know what i mean?

Others

 * Barfly Jack: Rory? Yeah, I know Rory. He's not to be underestimated. He's a funny-looking fucker, I know, but you've got to look past the hair and the cute, cuddly thing – it's all a deceptive facade. A few nights ago Rory's Roger iron's rusted, so he's gone down the battlecruiser to watch the end of the football game. No one's watching the custard, so he switches the channel over. A fat geezer's north opens, and he wanders up and turns the Liza over. "Now fuck off and watch it somewhere else!" Rory knows claret is imminent, but he doesn't want to miss the end of the game. So, calm as a coma, he picks up a fire extinguisher, walks straight past the jam rolls who are ready for action, and plonks it outside the entrance. He then orders an Aristotle of the most ping-pong tiddly in the nuclear sub and switches back to his footer. "That's fucking it," says the geezer. "That's fucking what?" says Rory. And he gobs out a mouthful of booze covering fatty. He flicks a flaming match into his bird's nest and the geezer's lit up like a leaking gas pipe. Rory, unfazed, turns back to his game. His team's won, too: four–nil.
 * Big Chris: It's been emotional.
 * Big Chris: All right, son. Roll them guns up, count the money, and put your seat belt on!
 * Dog: Golf – the best way to spoil a good walk. Winston Churchill said that. I say it's a dog-eat-dog world. And I got bigger teeth than you two.
 * Hatchet Harry: I don't want to know who you use, as long as they're not complete muppets.
 * J.D.: You're lucky you're still breathing, let alone able to walk. I suggest you take full advantage of that fact.
 * Winston: Charles, get the rifle out. We're being fucked!

Dialogue

 * Bacon: Right. Let's sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, and those who trust me from the ones who don't. Because if you can't see value here today, you're not up here shopping, you're up here shoplifting. You see these goods? Never seen daylight, moonlight, Israelite; Fanny by the gaslight. Take a bag, come mon, take a bag. I took a bag home last night. Cost me a lot more than ten pound, I can tell you. Anyone like jewellery? Look at that one there. Handmade in Italy, hand-stolen in Stepney. It's as long as my arm; I wish it was as long as something else. Don't think because these boxes are sealed up, they're empty. The only man who sells empty boxes is the undertaker, and by the look of some of you lot today, I'd make more money with me measuring tape. Here, one price. Ten pound.
 * Eddie: Did you say ten pound?
 * Bacon: Are you deaf?
 * Eddie: That's a bargain. I'll take one.
 * Bacon: Squeeze in if you can. Left leg, right leg, your body will follow. They call it walking. You want one as well, darling? You do? That's it, they're waking up! Treat the wife. Treat somebody else's wife. It's a lot more fun if you don't get caught. Hold on. You want one as well? Okay, darling, show me a bit of life, then. It's no good standing out there like one o'clock half-struck. Buy them, you better buy them. These are not stolen, they just haven't been paid for, and we can't get them again, they've changed the bloody locks. Here, one for you. It's no good coming back later when I've sold out. "Too late, too late" will be the cry when the man with the bargains has passed you by. If you got no money on you now, you'll be crying tears as big as October cabbages.
 * Eddie: Bacon, cozzers!
 * Bacon: Shit. [quickly throws all the goods inside a suitcase and starts running]

 * Nick the Greek: [haggling with Tom] What else do I get with it?
 * Tom: You get a gold-plated Rolls Royce, as long as you pay for it.
 * Nick the Greek: Dunno, Tom. Seems expensive.
 * Tom: Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That is a 900 nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in. And you're complaining about 200? What school of finance did you study? It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the fucking century. In fact, fuck it, Nick, I think I'll keep it!
 * Nick the Greek: All right, all right, keep your Alans on!
 * [Nick pulls a massive wad of money out of his pocket and peels off a few notes]
 * Nick the Greek: Here's a ton.
 * Tom and Eddie: Jesus Christ!
 * Eddie: You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling over one hundred pound? What do you do when you're not buying stereos, Nick, finance revolutions?
 * Nick the Greek: 100 pounds is still 100 pounds.
 * Tom: Not when the price is 200 pounds, it's not! And certainly not when you've got Liberia's deficit in your skyrocket. Tighter than a duck's butt, you are. Now, come on, let me feel the fiber of your fabric.

 * J: [discussing their careers as marijuana growers] I've a strong suspicion we should have been rocket scientists, or Nobel Peace Prize winners … or something.
 * Charles: Peace Prize? Be lucky to find your penis for a piss the amount you keep smoking.

 * Winston: Charles, why have we got that cage?
 * Charles: Uh, security.
 * Winston: That's right, that's right – security. So what's the point in having it if we're not going to fucking use it?
 * Charles: Well, I would've used it, but this is Willie, and Willie lives here.
 * Winston: Yes, Charles, but you didn't know it was Willie until you opened the door, did you?
 * Willie: Chill, Winston, it's me. Charlie knows it's me, what's the problem?
 * Winston: The problem is, Willie, that Charles and yourself are not the quickest of cats at the best of times. So just do as I say and keep the fucking cage locked! … What is that?
 * Willie: That's Gloria.
 * Winston: Yes, I know that's Gloria. What's that?
 * Willie: Uh, fertilizer.
 * Winston: You went out six hours ago to buy a money counter, and you come back with a semi-conscious Gloria and a bag of fertilizer? Alarm bells are ringing, Willie!
 * Willie: We need fertilizer, Winston.
 * Winston: Mm-hm, we also need a money counter. This money's got to be out by Thursday, I'm buggered if I'm gonna count it. Oh, and, uhm, if you do have to buy sodding fertilizer, could you just be a little more subtle?
 * Willie: What do you mean?
 * Winston: We grow copious amounts of ganja, yeah?
 * Willie: Yeah.
 * Winston: And you're carrying a wasted girl and a bag of fertilizer. You don't look like your average horti-fucking-culturist! That's what I mean, Willie.

 * Big Chris: I've got some bad news for you, John.
 * John: What the fuck?
 * [Chris slams the top of the tanning bed on John]
 * Big Chris: Mind your language in front of the boy!
 * John: Jesus Christ!
 * [Chris does it again]
 * Big Chris: That includes blasphemy as well!

 * Little Chris: Fucking hell, John, you always walk around with that in your pocket?
 * Big Chris: Hey! You use language like that again, son, you'll wish you hadn't!

 * Barry the Baptist: [turns around from stripper] Right, where was we?
 * Gary: Shotguns? Well, like guns that fire shots?
 * Barry the Baptist: Oh, you must be the brains, then. That's right, guns that fire shots. Make sure you bring everything from inside the gun cabinet. There'll be a load of old guns, that's all I want. Everything else, outside the cabinet, you can keep, it's yours.
 * Gary: [sarcastically] Oh, thank you very much. There better be something there for us.
 * Barry the Baptist: It's a fucking stately home. Of course there'll be something there.
 * Dean: Like what?
 * Barry the Baptist: Like fucking antiques.
 * Dean: Antiques? What the fuck do we know about antiques? We rob post offices …
 * Gary: … and steal cars.
 * Dean: What the fuck do we know about antiques, mate?
 * Barry the Baptist: If it looks old, it's worth money. Simple. So stop fucking moaning and rob the place!
 * Gary: So who's the Guv? Who we doing this for?
 * Barry the Baptist: You're doing it for me is all you need to know. You know because you need to know.
 * Gary: I see. One of those "on a need to know basis" things, is it? Like one of those James Bond films.
 * Barry the Baptist: Careful. Remember who's giving you this job. … Right, I'm off. Call me when you're done. Ta-ta.
 * [He gets up and walks off]
 * Barry the Baptist: Fucking northern monkeys!
 * Gary: I hate these fucking southern fairies.

 * Security #1: [upon seeing Eddie and friends] Invitations.
 * Eddie: Invitations?
 * Security #2: Yeah, invitations. You know, four pretty white pieces of paper with your names on.
 * Eddie: Well, we've got a 100.000 bits of paper with the Queen's head on. Will that do?
 * Security #2: All right, just you. The others, they can wait next door in Samoan Jo's.
 * Eddie: Samoan Jo's, you mean the pub? Hold on …
 * Security #2: [interrupting Eddie] Hold on to your fucking tongue, and I will hold on to my patience, okay, sonny? No one in here tonight but card players, and I do mean no one.

 * Hatchet Harry: You must be Eddie, J.D.'s son.
 * Eddie: You must be Harry. Sorry, didn't know your father.
 * Hatchet Harry: Never mind, son. You just might meet him if you carry on like that.

 * [At Samoan's Jo's]
 * Bacon: What's that?
 * Barman: It's a cocktail. You asked for a cocktail.
 * Bacon: No, I asked you to give me a refreshing drink! Wasn't expecting a fucking rainforest. You could fall in love with an orangutan in there!
 * Barman: You want a pint, go to the pub.
 * Bacon: I thought this was a pub!
 * Barman: It's a Samoan pub.

 * Don: Fold.
 * Phil: Fold? Is that the only word they taught you at school, Donald?
 * Don: No, Phil. They also taught me the word "cunt"!

 * Bacon: The odds are a hundred to one. All we need is five grand.
 * Soap: I'd rather put my money on a three-legged rocking horse. The odds are a hundred to one for a good reason, Bacon. It won't win!

 * Tom: Listen to this one: you open a company called the "Arse Tickler's Faggots Fan Club".
 * Soap: You what?
 * Tom: You take out an advert in the back page of some gay mag, advertising the latest in arse-intruding dildos. You sell it with, I dunno, "does what no other dildo can do until now", "the latest and greatest in sexual technology", "guaranteed results or your money back", all that bollocks. Now, these dils cost twenty-five quid a pop. That's a snip for the amount of pleasure they're gonna give the recipients. But they send their cheques to the other company name – nothing offensive, er, "Bobbie's Bits" or something – for twenty-five quid. You take that twenty-five quid, you stick it in the bank until it clears. Now, this is the smart bit. You send back the cheque for twenty-five pound from the other company name, "Arse Tickler's Faggots Fan Club", saying we're sorry, we couldn't get the supplies from America because they ran out of stock. Now, you see how many people cash that cheque: not a single soul, because who wants their bank manager to know they tickle arse when they're not paying cheques?
 * Bacon: So how long do you have to wait until you see a return?
 * Tom: Probably no more than four weeks.
 * Bacon: A month? So, what fucking good is that if we need it in six – no, five days?
 * Tom: Well, it's still a good idea.

 * Barry the Baptist: Hello, my son. Do you want a lolly?
 * Little Chris: Piss off, you nonce!

 * Barry the Baptist: (points at Gary's hair) Oi, is your hair supposed to look like that? Alright, short stuff?
 * Dean: Never mind short stuff. Listen, the next time we do a job like this we gonna want more money Barry, or we are going back to post offices and cars, fuck that. (opens the trunk with the guns)
 * Barry the Baptist: Where's the others?
 * Dean: There we no others.
 * Barry the Baptist: Stop fucking around. The others, the old ones?
 * Dean: I don't know what you mean.
 * Barry the Baptist: There were two old guns there. Where're they now?
 * Dean: Not in the cabinet there wasn't. There was a couple of old hammer-lock muskets the butler was carrying, but they were ours - were sold 'em!
 * Barry the Baptist: Well you better un-sell 'em, sharpish.
 * Dean: We had to sell 'em, we needed the money!
 * Barry the Baptist: I'm not fucking interested! If you don't want to be countin' the fingers you haven't got, or sharing a bed with the Anti-Christ, I want those guns!  QUICK!
 * Dean: ...Alright, Barry. Calm down.  We'll get them, alright?
 * Barry the Baptist: Now fuck off, you scouse cunts!

 * Eddie: Right. We hit them as soon as they come back. We'll be prepared, waiting. And they're armed …
 * Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean, armed? Armed with what?
 * Eddie: Er, bad breath, colourful language, feather duster … what do you think they're gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!
 * Soap: Guns? You never said anything about guns. A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's turning into a bad day in Bosnia!
 * Eddie: Soap, stop being such a mincer. I've thought about that, and …
 * Soap: And what, exactly?
 * Eddie: And, all we have to do is find out who's carrying them.
 * Soap: Carrying them? Well, they could all be carrying them for what we know!
 * Eddie: No. Only one of them carries them going to the job, so I assume the same one will be carrying them when they come back from the job.
 * Soap: Oh, you assume, do you? And what did they say about assumptions being the brother of all fuck-ups?
 * Tom: It's the mother of all fuck-ups, stupid.
 * Soap: Well, brother, mother, or any other sucker! It don't make any difference. They're still fucking guns, and they still fire fucking bullets!

 * Nick the Greek: Weed?
 * Tom: No, it's not normal weed. It's some fucked-up skunk, class A, I-can't-think-let-alone-move shit.
 * Nick the Greek: Doesn't sound very good to me.
 * Tom: Well, neither me. But it depends what flicks your switch. And the light is on and burning brightly for the masses. Anyway, do you know anyone?
 * Nick the Greek: I know a man, yes. Rory Breaker.
 * Tom: Not that madman with an afro? I don't want anything to do with him.
 * Nick the Greek: You won't have to. Just get me a sample.
 * Tom: No can do.
 * Nick the Greek: What's that? A place near Katmandu? Meet me halfway, mate.
 * Tom: Look, it's all completely chicken soup.
 * Nick the Greek: It's what?
 * Tom: It's kosher. As Christmas.
 * Nick the Greek: The Jews don't celebrate Christmas, Tom.
 * Tom: Well, never mind that. I'm gonna need some artillery too, couple of sawn-off shot-guns.
 * Nick the Greek: This is a bit heavy. This is London, not the Lebanon. Who do you think I am?
 * Tom: Think you're Nick the Greek.

 * Big Chris: He likes your bar.
 * J.D.: Yes.
 * Big Chris: He wants your bar!
 * J.D.: And?
 * Big Chris: Do you want me to draw you a picture?

 * Soap: Have a look at these. [hands Tom a ski mask]
 * Eddie: And what are we supposed to do with these?
 * Soap: [puts it on] Put them on your head, stupid!
 * Eddie: [pulls it off him] Christ.
 * Soap: If you think I'm gonna turn up there clean-shaven and greet them with a grin on my face, you've got another thing coming! Now, these fellas, they are your neighbors. I thought it might be a good idea to disguise ourselves a little!
 * Eddie: Right. Er, yeah, good thinking, Soap, well done.
 * Soap: I brought weapons as well.
 * Eddie: What do you mean, weapons?
 * Soap: [pulls a bundle from his coat and unrolls it, revealing large knives] These.
 * Eddie: Jesus! [grabs the bundle and rerolls it] Let's keep them covered up, eh? Couldn't you get anything bigger?
 * Soap: [pulls a big ass machete from his trousers] What, like that? What do you think?
 * Eddie: … I think you need help.

 * Soap: Where'd you get these? A fucking museum?
 * Tom: Nick the Greek.
 * Bacon: How much did you part with?
 * Tom: 700 for the pair.
 * Soap: Drachmas, I hope. I'd feel safer with a chicken drumstick. These are gonna do more harm than good.

 * Eddie: Oh, and if Tom or anyone else for that matter feels like giving them a bit of a kicking, I'm sure it won't do any harm.
 * Soap: Yeah. Little bit of pain never hurt anybody, if you know what I mean. Also, I think knives are a good idea. Big, fuck-off shiny ones. Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. Knives are good because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. Shit 'em right up. Makes it look like we're serious. Guns for show, knives for a pro.
 * Tom: Soap, is there something we should know about you?
 * Bacon: I'm not sure what's more worrying, the job or your past.

 * Soap: Where the fuck are they going? Shift a piano? I thought this was meant to be a robbery.
 * Eddie: Where did they get those outfits?
 * Tom and Bacon in unison: Not a bad idea, that.

 * Dog: [indicates massive gun] What the fuck is that?
 * Mickey: It's me Bren gun.
 * Dog: Don't you think you could have thought of something more practical?

 * Plank: [gets hit with an air rifle] Ah! They fucking shot me!
 * Dog: Well, shoot them back!
 * Plank: [shoots wildly]
 * John: Jesus, Plank, couldn't you have got smokeless cartridges? I can't see a bloody thi– ah! Shit! I've been shot.
 * Dog: I don't fucking believe this! Can everyone stop getting shot?

 * Paul: Look. Come have a look.
 * Traffic Warden: Take a look at what, exactly?
 * Paul: Well, the van's half-full.
 * Traffic Warden: So?
 * Paul: So all I've got to do is fill it up, put you in it …
 * Traffic Warden: What?
 * [Paul knocks the warden out]
 * Paul: … and I'm off.

 * Eddie: The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea …
 * Soap: Yeah, and look what happened to that.
 * Eddie: … and if you think I'm going to war without one, mate, you're mistaken.

 * Eddie: Where the hell are we gonna hide?
 * [Long pause]
 * Bacon: Don't complicate things, just hide!

 * Dog: I'll find ya.
 * Bacon: 'Course you will, sweet'eart.
 * Dog: I'll find ya.
 * Bacon: What do you think this is, hide and seek?

 * Tom: [after having just robbed Dog and his crew] Jesus, that wasn't too bad, was it?
 * Soap: When the bottle in my arse has contracted, I'll let you know.
 * Eddie: Bacon, see what we've got.
 * Bacon: Let's have a butcher's, eh?
 * [He inspects the loot]
 * Bacon: We've hit the jackpot, lads! We've got God knows how much of this stinking weed, a shitload of cash … and a traffic warden.
 * Tom: What?
 * [Bacon holds up an unconscious man]
 * Tom: Jesus, Ed, we've got a traffic warden!
 * Bacon: I think he's still alive – he's got claret coming out of him somewhere. What did they want with a traffic warden?
 * Eddie: I don't know, but I don't think we need him! Knock him out and dump him at the lights.
 * Bacon: Knock him out? What do you mean, knock him out? Knock him out with what?
 * Eddie: I don't know. Use your imagination!
 * [Bacon punches the Traffic Warden, who moans in pain]
 * Tom: Don't touch him up. Knock him out!
 * Bacon: I'll knock you out in a minute! Look, you want to knock him out? You knock him out.
 * Eddie: I fucking hate traffic wardens.
 * [Tom and Eddie jump into the back of the van with Bacon; all three proceed to batter the Traffic Warden senseless]

 * Rory Breaker: What did you shoot him with? An air gun?
 * Winston: Look, we grow weed. We're not mercenaries.
 * Rory Breaker: You don't say.

 * Rory Breaker: Your stupidity may be your one saving grace.
 * Nick the Greek: Uh?
 * Rory Breaker: Don't "uh" me, Greek boy! How is it that your fucking stupid soon-to-be-dead friends thought they might be able to steal my cannabis and then sell it back to me? Is this a declaration of war? Is this some white cunt's joke that black cunts don't get? 'Cause I'm not fucking laughing, Nich-ohl-arse!
 * [Nick shrugs with a stupid look on his face]
 * Rory Breaker: I have three interests in life, Nick. No, four: football, music, money, and the annihilation of anyone that interferes in that short list. I know you couldn't have known my position, 'cause you're not that stupid, that if you did, you wouldn't have turned up here scratching your ass with that "what's going on here?" look slapped all over your chevy-chase! But what you do know … is where these people live.
 * [Rory swings around his chair, gets up and straightens his jacket]
 * Rory Breaker: If you hold back anything, I'll kill you. If you bend the truth, or I think you're bending the truth, I'll kill you. If you forget anything, I'll kill you. In fact, you're gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I've said?
 * [Nick nods in fear]
 * Rory Breaker: Because if you don't, I'll kill you!
 * [Rory puts on a gentle smile]
 * Rory Breaker: Now, Mr. Bubble and Squeak, you may enlighten me.

 * Soap: Rory Breaker? That psychotic black dwarf with an afro?
 * Tom: That would be the same man, yes.

 * Tom: Well, he can afford to do the deal at the price we're selling. It's not worth him giving us any trouble, 'cause he knows we'll be a pain in the arse, and who needs a pain in the arse?
 * Soap: I'd take a pain in the arse for half a million quid.
 * Tom: You'd take a pain in the arse for air miles.
 * Soap: Tom, the fatter you get, the sadder you get.
 * Eddie: Will you two stop flirting for a minute?

 * Dean: He's got the guns. Go ahead, you get them.
 * Gary: Why me?
 * Dean: You're supposed to be the hard case.
 * Gary: [shrieks] You get the guns. I drive the car!

 * [After shooting each other]
 * Gary: What the fuck are you doing here?
 * Barry: What the fuck are you doing here?

 * Eddie: They’re armed.
 * Soap: What was that? Armed? What do you mean armed? Armed with what?
 * Eddie: Err, bad breath, colorful language, feather duster… what do you think they’re gonna be armed with? Guns, you tit!

Taglines

 * A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.
 * They lost half a million at cards, but they've still got a few tricks up their sleeve …

Cast

 * Jason Flemyng – Tom
 * Dexter Fletcher – Soap
 * Nick Moran – Eddie
 * Jason Statham – Bacon
 * Steven Mackintosh – Winston
 * Nicholas Rowe (actor) – J
 * Nick Marcq – Charles
 * Charles Forbes – Willie
 * Vinnie Jones – Big Chris
 * Lenny McLean – Barry the Baptist
 * Peter McNicholl – Little Chris
 * P.H. Moriarty – "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale
 * Frank Harper – Dog
 * Steve Sweeney – Plank
 * Huggy Leaver – Paul
 * Tony McMahon – John
 * Stephen Marcus – Nick the Greek Hagiliassis
 * Vas Blackwood – Rory Breaker
 * Sting (musician) – J.D. (Eddy's Dad)
 * Danny John-Jules – Barfly Jack

title: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels


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The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 film about a Welsh village that is offended when English cartographers tell them that their mountain is only a hill. The villagers set out to change that, by raising their hill above the required 1,000 feet to qualify for the mountain label.
 * Written and directed by Christopher Monger, based on a story by Ivor Monger.

A romantic comedy about a town that wouldn't give up. A man who couldn't get out. And the mountain that brought them together.

Grandfather

 * All this fuss over what? Is it a hill, is it a mountain? Perhaps it wouldn't matter anywhere else, but this is Wales. The Egyptians built pyramids, the Greeks built temples, but we did none of that, because we had mountains. Yes, the Welsh were created by mountains: where the mountain starts, there starts Wales. If this isn't a mountain—well, if this isn't a mountain, then Anson might just as well redraw the border and put us all in England, God forbid.

Mechanic

 * Well I don't know the English word, but in Welsh we call it a be'chi'ngalw.

Johnny Shellshocked

 * Stop actin' so English!
 * In France, we dug trenches ten miles long. We took earth from here and made hills there. We moved entire fields. You wouldn't believe what we did. It's possible. It's just hard work.

Dialogue

 * Narrator: For some odd reason, lost in the mists of time, there's an extraordinary shortage of last names in Wales. Almost everyone seems to be a Williams, a Jones, or an Evans. To avoid widespread confusion, Welsh people often add an occupation to a name. For example, there was Williams the Petroleum, and Williams the Death. There was Jones the Bottle, and Jones the Prize Cabbage... which described his hobby and his personality. Evans the Bacon, and Evans the End of the World. But one man's name was a puzzle, and it wasn't until I was 10 years old that I asked my grandfather about the man with the longest and most enigmatic name of all.
 * Grandfather: [to the narrator at age 10] The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain? Now there's a long name for you. And a long story. You are not going to fidget, are you? For this is a story... an epic story. Yes, epic.

 * [Anson and Garrad have explained they must go and calculate the height.]
 * Thomas Twp Too: And how d'you know later?
 * Anson: Well, w-we've made, um, we've made measurements with those two hills, and w-we already know the height of Newton Beacon and Whitchurch Hill...
 * Thomas Twp: But how were they measured?
 * Anson: The same way, by comparing them with other hills.
 * Thomas Twp Too: But who measured the first hill?
 * Rev. Robert Jones: [whispering] God. God, my boy. God.

 * [Morgan is selling drinks as the rest of the village works to raise the mountain]
 * Rev. Robert Jones: Have you no shame?
 * Morgan the Goat: [patting his sides as if searching] No... I can't think where I've left it!

 * Morgan the Goat: I don't want Ffynnon Garw to be on the map because we begged for it, because we, we-we pleaded. No. If Ffynnon Garw has to be a thousand feet, then I say let it be a thousand feet! Put 20 feet, that's all we need, a 20-foot tump and we have our mountain!
 * Jones the JP: I'm not sure how legal that is...
 * Rev. Robert Jones: Yes, or ethical...
 * Morgan the Goat: Legal? Ethical? Wh-- how legal was it to say that a thousand feet is a mountain and 984 isn't, uh? Uh? Do we call a short man a boy, or a small dog a cat? No! This is a mountain, our mountain, and if it needs to be a thousand feet, then by God let's make it a thousand feet!

 * [The resurvey could not be completed by nightfall]
 * Anson: Well, i-i-it will be measured again! I mean, uh, perhaps we'll even come back through here on our return, and...
 * Betty: You won't be back. This isn't a place that people like you come back to.
 * Anson: Well, I'll try, I'll, I'll really try...
 * Betty: I'll try! Is that the best you can do?

 * Anson: Um, I'm not sure that I can rely on Mr. Garrad. But, um, the thing is, I-I will need an assistant. I, uh-- you wouldn't, um?
 * Betty: Me?
 * Anson: Well, why not?
 * Betty: Well... I've never been to Abyssinia!
 * Anson: Heh.
 * Betty: Or Aden, or Sevastopol. And I can't speak with a posh accent for long.
 * Anson: Well, I-I-I-I think we can get over that.
 * Betty: I'm just a maidservant!
 * Anson: Well, I-I don't think the word just could apply to you about anything.
 * Betty: Was that a compliment?
 * Anson: Yes. Yes. Now, n-now I'm going to blush, so, um, would you help me... please?
 * Betty: Since you said please. And you're blushing!
 * Anson: Ohh.
 * Betty: Yes, I will.
 * Anson: Good. Then, um, prepare the engineer's transit.
 * Betty: What?
 * Anson: I'll show you.

 * Betty: There's nothing very special about me. I'm the kind of girl you usually don't notice: I scuttle in with a tray of tea, bow my head, and scuttle out.
 * Anson: I'd notice.
 * Betty: No, you wouldn't. Not usually.

Cast

 * Hugh Grant - Reginald Anson
 * Tara Fitzgerald - Elizabeth/Betty from Cardiff
 * Colm Meaney - Morgan the Goat
 * Ian McNeice - George Garrad
 * Ian Hart - Johnny "Shellshocked" Jones
 * Kenneth Griffith - Rev. Robert Jones
 * Robert Pugh - Williams the Petroleum
 * Ieuan Rhys - Sgt Thomas
 * Harry Kretchmer - The Grandson
 * Tudor Vaughan - Thomas Twp
 * Hugh Vaughan - Thomas Twp Too


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Monkey (TV show)

Monkey (Saiyûki) is a live-action television show that tells the story of Tripitaka (Xuanzang Sanzang in Chinese) and his followers, including Monkey (Sun Wu-Kong), Pig (Zhu Ba-Jie), and (Friar) Sand (Sha Wu-Jing), as they travel from China to India to obtain holy scriptures to save the world. Saiyûki is based on the novel Journey to the West (or Monkey King) by Wu Ch'êng-ên, which is in turn based on Chinese legends about the origin of Buddhism.

Introduction

 * In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, as endless eons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moisture of the Earth, the powers of the sun and the moon all worked upon a certain rock, old as creation. And it became magically fertile. That first egg was named "Thought". Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, said, "With our thoughts, we make the world." Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

[opening theme song]
Chorus: Born from an egg on a mountaintop / The funkiest monkey that ever rocked / He knew every magic trick under the sun / To tease the gods and everyone, and have some fun / Monkey magic, Monkey magic! Monkey magic, Monkey magic! Monkey magic, Monkey magic! Monkey magic, Monkey magic!

Narrator

 * The wicked go to hells, the good go to heavens and the pure neither live nor even die... but those hit on the head tend to fall unconscious.
 * When what is indestructible meets what is irresistible, the female all too often wins.

Monkey

 * Even a starving camel is still bigger than a horse.
 * It's better to travel alone than with a fool. But what may two fools do?
 * The monstrous is only a question of opinion. To some of us, opinions are so precious that we will die for them, again and again.
 * [after finding out that Buddha was female] I always thought Buddha was a fella!
 * What's it all for? What's the point of it all? And if it hasn't got a point, what's the point of that?

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Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Carl Engelbart (January 30, 1925 – July 2, 2013) was an American engineer and inventor, and an early computer and Internet pioneer. He is best known for his work on founding the field of human–computer interaction, particularly while at his Augmentation Research Center Lab in SRI International, which resulted in creation of the computer mouse, and the development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces. These were demonstrated at The Mother of All Demos in 1968. Engelbart's law, the observation that the intrinsic rate of human performance is exponential, is named after him.

Quotes

 * The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.
 * Intelligence in the Internet Age, New York Times, 9/19/05

 * The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.
 * Computer History Museum - Fellow Awards

title: Douglas Engelbart


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Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (12 February 1884 – 20 February 1980) was the only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.

Quotes

 * He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
 * On Calvin Coolidge, as quoted in The Washington Post (21 October 1924).

 * The little man on the wedding cake.
 * Describing Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman's Republican opponent, as quoted in The Washington Post (22 May 1951); also attributed to Walter Winchell.

 * If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.
 * As quoted in Time (9 December 1966)
 * Variants:
 * If you haven't anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
 * If you haven't something good to say about someone sit right here by me.

 * I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
 * As quoted in The Best (1974), edited by Peter Passell and Leonard Ross.

 * I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
 * As quoted in Alice, The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1979) by Howard Teichmann, p. 237.

 * I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
 * As quoted in "The Doyenne of the Drawing Room" in The New York Times (23 August 1981).

Quotes about Longworth

 * I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.
 * Theodore Roosevelt, in response when a dignitary asked if he could better control his daughter, as quoted in Hail to the Chiefs : My Life and Times with Six Presidents (1970) by Ruth Shick Montgomery, and Time magazine (3 March 1980).

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Talk:T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence moved here. But I am not sure this is the best lemma for this article, though this name is probably the most known form as his name. Personally I prefer to hold an person article under his real name, not a form as initial(s) + family name. But before taking an action, I would hear others their opinion. --Aphaia 09:40, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Personally, I prefer "best known form of name", not "full name". Notice how we only use the middle name in articles like Sarah Michelle Gellar, where the middle name is part of the "best known" form, but we always indicate it (when known) in the intro. I think this is enough to indicate wikiquote's de-facto convention is "best known". ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:08, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

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 * The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

 * There could be no honor in sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat

 * I'm re-reading it with a slow deliberate carelessness.

 * With two thousand years of examples behind us, we have no excuses when fighting for not fighting well.

 * I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me (from Lonely Planet Guide to Jordan).

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Edgar Bergen

Edgar John Bergen (16 February 1903 – 30 September 1978) was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.

Quotes

 * Charlie McCarthy: I can't take this schoolwork any more - it's driving me nuts. Edgar Bergen: Well Charlie, I'm sorry, but hard work never killed anyone. Charlie McCarthy: Still, there's no use in taking chances.
 * Quoted in Todd Harris Goldman, Teachers: Jokes, Quotes, and Anecdotes (2001) p. 136

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User talk:Dominic

"Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" transwiki
Hey folks, we've really made a mess of the transwiki of this neo-Latin proverb. To recap, the following actions occurred: When I noticed oddities about the resulting article, I went to Transwiki to figure out what had happened. But not a single change was logged since it arrived in Wikiquote. This is why we have the transwiki log — to untangle these hard-to-track movements and frequent transwiki editing errors and omissions. I've logged the major transactions and added a heading and text to the talk page to clarify where the original material came from.
 * On 7 August 2005, Dmcdevit simply moved the transwikied article into Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, despite the fact that quoted text is not itself an appropriate article title.
 * On 17 August 2005, MosheZadka merged the information into Margaret Atwood and created redirects from the article and its talk page, but neglected to check for double redirects, something that should always be done when creating redirects (or doing moves). Also, the resulting talk page history statement made it look like what was transwikied was "Margaret Atwood", which was misleading.
 * On 20 September 2005, Aphaia fixed the Transwiki: redirects.

I know this transwiki stuff is a pain, but until the MediaWiki projects come up with some automated system to get things moved between projects properly, it's important to follow the correct procedures. Whenever processing a transwiki, I highly recommend setting aside 10-15 minutes, reviewing the steps described in Help:Transwiki, logging the changes made, and checking "What links here" for any moved or redirected articles. When you're done, you should not only verify that the transwiki log shows the complete move (preferably by clicking on the links in the log, which will expose broken redirects or misspelled titles), but also read the resulting article and talk pages to ensure they make sense for people who come across them for the first time. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Freddie Mercury

is he
is freddie mercury gay? thats wut ive heard.. i looove his music!!!!!

--He was, however, he's rather dead now. Unless he's off being gay in heaven, which I wouldn't be surprised at. He was amazing, end of story.

he was actually bisexual, and amazing.

Meaning?
Hey, I was just wondering what you reckon Mercury meant by 'Fuck today, its tomorrow." For the love of Freddie I can't work it out.  Thanks.

Presumably, you could consider it as a carefree view on the matter of time. In other words, today doesn't matter, because before you know it it's tomorrow.

Sweet thanks a lot, that makes sense.

Perhaps he said it just as it turned from one day to the next at midnight??

amazing...just amazing
The words of a true Queen...Freddie Mercury is amazing in every way possible. If you don't believe me, listen to his music. It is beyond normal comprehension.

the quote "Fuck today, it's tomorrow" is one of my favorite quotes. I believe it was brought up in regard to his future. the quote also includes "I live for tomorrow." It's somewhere in there with it i believe

Either way, Freddie made it clear of his message: he was just there to make good music and do what he wanted to do. And that's exactly what he did!

 * Okay here's the best one...I'm surprised it's not here, but I'm just adding it know..."Fuck them darling, if they just don't get it"--85.99.168.91 00:48, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * These quotes should be properly sourced before being moved back onto the article page.

 * The way I look at myself if I ever do is is that I'm a man of extremes. I have a very soft side and a very hard side, and there's no half measures with me.

 * I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

 * An interview? Oh, don't be ridiculous.

 * I thought we would be huge - and we were.

 * I'm as gay as a daffodil, darling.

 * I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear!

 * Money can't buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

 * The bigger, the better - in everything.

 * I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.

 * I've made no effort to become a guitar hero because I can't play the fucking guitar!

 * I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

 * Hi, my name is Kim Basinger... ummm, Freddie Mercury.

 * We're gonna stay together until we fucking well die, I'm sure we will. I keep wanting to leave, but they won't let me!

 * We all have constant rows. We're like four cocks fighting. Ooh it's getting interesting this.

 * Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. Fuck them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there.

 * I enjoy being a bitch. I enjoy being surrounded by bitches. Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling. Sometimes I think there must be more to life than rushing round the world like a mad thing getting bored.

 * I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

 * Fuck today, it's tomorrow.

 * I've stopped all that promiscuous lifestyle. I've stopped having sex and started growing tulips.

 * You're the last person I'm talking to, so you'll probably get the best interview, darling. I don't want to change the world. For me, happiness is the most important thing and if I'm happy then it shows in my work. In the end, all the mistakes and all the excuses are down to me. I like to feel that I'm just being my honest self and as far as I'm concerned I just want to pack in as much of life and fun, having a good time as much as I can within in the years I have. Well there you are, you have it on tape. Use it. Well that's the nearest I've come to a lot of passion in terms of interviews. How much more have you got? Come on, I'm getting bored.

 * I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

 * The reason we're so successful is my overall charisma, of course.

 * May you all have champagne for breakfast.

 * If it's planned, it's boring

 * I'm just me, you know, just me. I'm very disorganised at times, I'm organised at times and... I'm just me.

 * I live life to the full, everyday is Fasching for me (German Carnival)

 * I've got a few good friends, a big house and I can go wherever I want whenever I want... but the more money you make the more miserable you get. It just so happens that I have a lot of money.

 * Fuck them darling, if they just don't get it!

 * Why kill the goose that laid the golden egg?

 * I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

 * If I didn't do this, I, I don't have anything to do, you know. I can't cook, I'm not very good at being a housewife.

''Interviewer (Rudi Dolezal): Yeah, what, to what music you would strip? What music would you..'' All the songs I've written, come on.
 * As long as the music is still there, and as long as the people are still buying the music, then, then it's OK. When they stop stop buying our records, then I'll say goodbye and do something else, become a strip artist or something.

 * If I had to do it again, yes, why not, why not. I'd do it slightly differently.

 * Four old ladies are still rockin' away.

 * I hate doing the same things over again, I like to see what's happening now and try and sort of incorporate all those forms into Queen.

 * Most of what I like, is for the audience to really feel like they're really there, virtually part of the show.

 * From Queen, thank you very much. Sayonara...

 * The one Brian did, the George Formby, uh, God what's it called, um... You know the George Formby ukulele number on A Night At The Opera? God I've forgotten the name, um, uh...oh dear. Anyway..it's the, guah, what's it called! A Night At The Opera....ah, I'll think about it in a minute! (the song Freddie forgot about was Good Company)

 * Okay, what should we do for you now? Let me see. Would you like something a bit softer, something quiet, or something heavier? -Earls Court, 1977

 * This is my champagne time, cheers everybody. I was going to make a nice long speech, but forget it. Have champagne for breakfast tomorrow, just go out and buy it -Earls Court, 1977

 * I need my fucking water, I don't care! -Live At Wembley Stadium, 1986

 * Thanks, thank you my darlings, you load of tarts, thank you. I think it's really interesting doing those acoustic things, don't you think? I think in the future, we might really think about introducing some more. So Brian's going to have to go and write some, because I can't. -Earls Court, 1977

 * OK, are you ready to rock? Are you ready to roll with us! OK, let's do it! - Live Killers album, 1979

 * Good evening all you rock'n'rollers! -Earls Court, 1977

 * I really do feel like being evil tonight. -Earl's Court, 1977

 * There's been a lot of rumors lately, about this certain band called Queen...and the rumors are we're gonna split up, what do you think? They're talking from here (he points to his rear end).  My apologies, but I'll say what I want, you know what I mean? So forget those rumours, we're going to stay together until we fucking well die so...I keep, I must tell you, I keep wanting to leave, but they won't let me... Also I suppose we are not, we are not bad for four aging Queens, are we? What do you think?... This is a new song, Who Wants To Live Forever... -Live At Wembley Stadium, 1986

 * We want you all to have a really good time, it's like a Queen carnival, so enjoy yourself -Quote to TV audience before Rock in Rio.

 * The British music press has taken a beating the last couple of nights from us (...) but they're fucking wankers, they eat shit in the bath. -London, 1978

 * Do you see all the gold discs and awards? I have another bunch at the office, for which I no longer have any hanging space. Do you think I do this for fame?! I don't even know how much money I have in the bank today or how many companies I own - so do you think I do this for the money ?! No! Every time I write a song, it's like my baby, and i go into the studio to sing and record it because I want to know for myself - and nobody else - am I still good?! - "Lover Of Life, Singer Of Songs" booklet.

 * Thank you, God bless you, sweet dreams! -"Live Magic" album, 1986
 * Hello again, my beauties!...Is it happening? Is everybody okay? Wanna fool around? -Live at Wembley Stadium, 1986

 * This shitty guitar never plays the chords I want it to play. It only knows three chords, but let's see what happens. This is for all you lovely, crazy people out there. - Queen: Live At Wembley Stadium 1986 (intro to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love")

 * About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar. - Queen on Fire: Live At The Bowl, Milton Keynes 1982 (intro to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love")

 * I hardly read books. I think that is a waste of time. (from an interview)

Montserrat Caballe Widely Misquoted
"The difference between Freddie and almost all the others, rock stars, the difference is, he was HAVING the voice." She does not say "SELLING the voice" as is widely misquoted all over the internet. You must listen carefully because of her Spanish accent and it is easy to hear this incorrectly. See "Freddie Mercury-A Kind of Magic" Part One on Youtube and watch her lips. I only wish that I could ask her myself to clarify this. What she says about Freddie takes on a whole new meaning when you replace "selling" with "having." Sparkylee (talk) 15:06, 10 May 2012 (UTC) May 10, 2012

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User:Andreas -horn- Hornig

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Robert Capa

Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro.

Quotes

 * If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough.
 * Randy Kennedy, "The Capa Cache", New York Times, Jan. 27, 2008.

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Simon Wiesenthal

Simon Wiesenthal (December 31, 1908 – September 20, 2005) was a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He survived the Janowska concentration camp (late 1941 to September 1944), the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp (September to October 1944), the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a death march to Chemnitz, Buchenwald, and the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp (February to 5 May 1945).

After the war, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazi war criminals so that they could be brought to trial. In 1947, he co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in Linz, Austria, where he and others gathered information for future war crime trials and aided refugees in their search for lost relatives.

Quotes

 * You're a religious man. You believe in God and life after death. I also believe. When we come to the other world and meet the millions of Jews who died in the camps and they ask us, 'What have you done?' there will be many answers. You will say, 'I became a jeweler.' Another will say, 'I smuggled coffee and American cigarettes.' Still another will say, 'I built houses,' but I will say, 'I didn't forget you.'

 * Survivors should be like seismographs... They should sense danger before others do, identify its outlines and reveal them. They are not entitled to be wrong a second time or regard as harmless something that might lead to catastrophe.
 * New York Times Obituary, 9/20/2005

 * Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.
 * Justice Not Vengeance, Museum of Tolerance website

Misattributed

 * There is no freedom without justice.
 * Although this maxim is associated with Wiesenthal (e.g. "Honoring Simon Wiesenthal", Congressional Record—House, Vol. 151, Pt. 15, 21 September 2005, p. 20804), he did not originate the quote, which appears in the context of the labor movement in the 19th century (e.g. Alexander Spencer, "Maintain Your Union", The Typographical Journal, Vol. 10, No. 7, 1 April 1897, p. 266).

Quotes about Wiesenthal

 * Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.
 * Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts p. liii

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Talk:Sam Brown

Which Sam Brown is this - different internet sites attribute this to Washington Post in 1977 and Sam Brown (musician) who is too young to have said this in 1977. Rmhermen 14:07, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Sam Brown artist of Explodingdog fame. 195.195.247.129 14:49, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

This is most probably singer Sam Brown, as the artist himself is in his late twenties. Another fact indicating that it is not Sam Brown of Exploding Dog, is that he never was interviewed by The Washington Post.

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User talk:Andreas -horn- Hornig

merging of High definition television
''hi moshe, you set up a merging link in the hdtv article here. if this will be done, how can we link form the wikipedia article to this sub-theme inside the wikiqoute television article? would that be possible in a way? thanx for a reply. greets, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 11:54, 20 September 2005 (UTC)''

 * Well, since there is one quote, I'm unsure what value you would be serving by linking...but in any case, it's possible to merge in HDTV to a seperate section, and then from WP you can link to High-definition television . ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 18:26, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * hi again, i know, that there is just one quote in it, but somewhere it has to start. if i would have more quotes, i would post it. but unless these quotes i have are not from important people ore at least movies i will not post them.
 * i know these kinds of anchor links, but i did not know, that these are usus here, because when the will article change or will move the anchor links do not work. thanx a lot for your response, --Andreas -horn- Hornig 21:09, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * "Somewhere to start?" The article had just one quote for four months now. The only edits except for administrative work I did was one anon fixing the wp link. This gives very little hope that the article will ever see more quotes. Merging it into Television would give it more visibility. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 00:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:William Butler Yeats

Is it Yeats who said that "Responsibilities begin in dreams"? (See ) Luis Dantas 21:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Though it is commonly attributed to Yeats, he himself credits the line "In dreams begins responsibility" as being from an "Old Play" as one of two epigraphs he uses to his poem "Responsibilities" (1914).

Unsourced
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 and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to William Butler Yeats. --Antiquary 15:01, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

 * "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" is a short story by Delmore Schwartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Dreams_Begin_Responsibilities

 * "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
 * — I am researching this now, and the earliest reference I see is unsourced, from a newspaper article from 1993. Danorton (talk) 19:17, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

 * I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

 * Talent perceives differences, Genius unity.

 * Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

 * You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

 * The rich are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch. - This is from "The Hour before Dawn" from "Responsibilities", 1914

 * Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness (2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was a British actor and diarist, nest known for his appearances in Ealing comedies and the original Star Wars trilogy.

Quotes

 * Much water has flown under Tiber's bridges, carrying away splendour and mystery from Rome, since the pontificate of Pius XII. The essentials, I know, remain firmly entrenched and I find the post-Conciliar Mass simpler and generally better than the Tridentine; but the banality and vulgarity of the translations which have ousted the sonorous Latin and little Greek are of a super-market quality which is quite unacceptable. Hand-shaking and embarrassed smiles or smirks have replaced the older courtesies; kneeling is out, queueing is in, and the general tone is rather like a BBC radio broadcast for tiny tots (so however will they learn to put away childish things?). The clouds of incense have dispersed, together with many hidebound, blinkered and repressive attitudes, and we are left with social messages of an almost over-whelming progressiveness. The Church has proved she is not moribund. "All shall be well," I feel, "and all manner of things shall be well," so long as the God who is worshipped is the God of all ages, past and to come, and not the idol of Modernity, so venerated by some of our bishops, priests and mini-skirted nuns.
 * Blessings in Disguise (1985), p. 45
 * There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.
 * My Name Escapes Me (Penguin, 1997), 1st paperback edition, p. 57.
 * ...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
 * A Positively Final Appearance (Penguin, 1999), 3rd hardback edition, p. 2.

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Talk:Transporter (Star Trek)

I suggest that this article be merged with a full Star Trek article. It's much to short for itself. Unless someone can come up with substatially more quotes.

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David Puttnam

David Puttnam (born February 25, 1941) is a British movie producer and director.

Sourced

 * If Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, you know for sure the entire 100 million cans would be dropped in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, without a second thought and irrespective of what that did to the year's profits. What do we do with a crappy movie? We double its advertising budget and hope for a big opening weekend. What have we done for the audience as they walk out of the cinema? We've alienated them. We've sold audiences a piece of junk; we just took twelve dollars away from a couple and we think we've done ourselves no long-term damage.
 * GQ magazine, April 1987

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Sangeeta Niranjan

Sangeeta Niranjan is a Fijian businesswoman of Indian descent. In September 2005, she became the first woman to be elected President of the Fiji Employers' Federation.

Interview with the Fiji Times, 18 September 2005

 * "I feel that no amount of women's participation can be said to be enough."

 * "If a women is capable, deserving of a position of authority, then her gender should not be an issue. She should be judged on the basis of her ability and her competence and not because she is a woman."

 * "Seeing capable women holding positions of authority and importance in the country is very encouraging to young people, especially girls."

 * "Women must believe in themselves."

 * "Once I became an adult, I finally began to get a sense of who I really am. I think that I developed my talents much, much more when I became an adult, actually when I got married."

 * "No marriage is solid. There are always ups and downs. But we have learnt through those times and I was touched when celebrating my birthday recently, my husband stood up to make a speech and he said that I was a woman of substance."

 * "I love nice long walks, inspirational novels of influential people. I'm reading Kennedy - An Unfinished Life at the moment. And nothing beats listening to music and having tea with friends."

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Wikiquote talk:Stub

Discussion Archive

Stub tag placement
Having raised the issue on the Village Pump, I'd like to discuss having a consensus vote on stub tag placement. Being from Wikipedia, I'm used to seeing stub tags at the bottom of articles, and I was suprised to find many of them at the top of Wikiquote pages. I've moved some to the bottom as part of general formatting (I find formatting is the most helpful job I can do here), assuming them to have been placed at the top by mistake.

I asked on the Village Pump whether there was a set standard, and Jeffq responded to my question. He was able to confirm that placing tags at the top was in fact the current policy, but also noted that the issue had never really been considered in depth (as far as he was aware).

I'd like to start the process of gauging community consensus for where tags should be placed, so a consensus-based standard can be set and articles tagged uniformly. Is a straw poll the best form for this, or do others have ideas on how to go about this? -- Essjay ·   Talk 11:01, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm partial to the top, and this is because when a stub does grow, putting the tag at the bottom seems to ensure people will forget to remove the tag. This is from experience of weeding out the stub categories from long articles... ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 12:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I can't say that I necessarily advocate one way over the other, but I've grown accustomed to placing them at the top, mostly to highlight the fact that an article is a stub (so that it is obvious when it is opened), but also for the reason that Moshe offers - it makes cleanup and removal of the tag more likely to occur. ~ UDScott 13:18, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Personally, I don't care (I'm fairly new here, and I'll go with whatever the consensus is). I'd just like to have an acutal consensus so someone less consensus-friendly than myself doesn't cause problems moving them to the bottom. -- Essjay ·   Talk 14:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I prefer the bottom, but I concede Moshe's point and will go along with standardizing on top placement. (BTW, I hope everyone is okay with my reformatting to bullet form for easier tallying of this informal polling.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:20, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Just my two cents: I've been cleaning up various stubs around WQ and usually find myself subconciously moving stub tags to the bottom, as I'm used to seeing them that way on WP (I do a lot of stub sorting there.) However, I agree with Moshe and UDScott that the stub tag being on the top helps to draw attention to the fact that the article is a stub, and I have no problem with them being placed there. I'll make sure I stop moving them to the bottom. Jaxl 01:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The stubs at the top are annoying and greatly detract from the articles they are placed on. They should be at the bottom only. I also think the stub tag is being placed on too many articles. If an article has four or five very good quotes, plus a good introduction, I think in most cases an article is no longer a stub. BlankVerse 14:49, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm in favor of stubs at the bottom: there're annoying at the top and tend to stay there for a long time anyway. I also agree that 4 or 5 good quotes are enough for removing the stub tag. iddo999 19:38, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Having come over here from Wikipedia (where I've been doing a ton of stub-sorting), my tendency is to put them at the very bottom. I forget where I saw it, but in a discussion like this one that came up at WP, the question of "who is the stub tag for?" came up. If a stub tag is for editors who are looking to expand an article, then having it at the bottom is best, because they've specifically come to the article and don't need "This is a stub!" right in front of them. On the other hand, if the stub tags are more designed to try to entice lurkers to edit a page, then it makes more sense to have them at the top, because it makes it more likely that people will see it. I don't have any idea on what percentage of people will expand a stub-tagged article after seeing the tag (when they didn't already intend to), but my gut tells me that most people who read a page are reading for the quotes. In that case, throwing a stub tag as one of the first things is just a minor annoyance. Personally, I don't like the way the stub text looks sandwiched between the intro and the quotes; like some others, I'd been moving the stub tags to the bottom when I did edits, without realizing there was a guideline for it. As for what the threshold for a stub is, that's a whole other can of worms. —LrdChaos 20:33, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Policy Revision Draft
I have prepared a revision draft of this policy at Stub/Draft. If anyone is interested in taking up discussion on this, please leave comments on the Draft's talk page. Also, a diff view of the current policy and the draft (showing the changes being made) is availabe here. If I don't see any discussion within the next week or so, I'll be bold and subst: the draft in. If the discussion takes off, I'll move towards a consensus poll once the discussion has borne fruit. -- Essjay ·   Talk 04:51, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Having seen no discussion, I've been bold and substituted the draft. Essjay Talk • Contact 07:54, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Overuse
It seems like subs are handed out to everything that isnt the lenght of a wiki article and they are a eye sore.Its silly --Whywhywhy 10:57, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * That's the point. If an article has only a few relevant lines, it's the very definition of a stub. In Wikiquote's case, if they only have a few quotes (say, less than 5), they're stubs, even if they have tons of other material. (Quotes are the essence of any Wikiquote article.) The proper way to remove a stub tag is to add enough (valid) quotes to give the article some real substance, then delete the tag. If you feel an article has been inappropriately tagged, you should say so on its talk page to encourage the tagging editor to justify the tagging. You can also post your question or complaint to their talk page, especially if you get no response on the article's talk page. I hope this information helps. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:52, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

 * My point is that a complete quote page may only have 5 quotes ,but very good quotes and be complete, thus length is not the only factor deciding a complete page, holding wikiquote to the standards of wikipedia article lenghts is silly.--Whywhywhy 13:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, I don't believe there is any formal number here. (Quick-reading the current Stub, the only number I see mentioned for a non-stub article is the (intentionally vague) "beyond a few".) Anyone who feels an article is no longer a stub, regardless of the number of quotes, can remove the stub tag. If they are concerned it may be restored, they can forestall this with a brief justification on the article's talk page. Likewise, someone may restore the tag in the absence of such justification. If they restored a removed tag, they should definitely provide a justification. Once a discussion is started, the parties can work this out between them (and with community support). This is standard wiki practice. In short, don't be afraid to be bold, but be ready to explain your actions if there is disagreement. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 20:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * How many quotes a page needs to not be considered a stub is something that I don't believe can every be defined with a single number that works for all cases. There are going to be pages where there's a potential for a lot of quotes, and if only a few (even as many as ten, let's say, when there could easily be a thousand) are present, or if the ones present only present a small part of the whole issue (for a concept) or of a person's beliefs and what-not, then the article would still be a stub. On the other hand, there are going to pages where only a few quotes are going to be appropriate, and three quotes could be about as many as you'd ever get. That wouldn't really be a stub, because there isn't room to expand much beyond that. I think the best you can do is to use vague definitions; I personally like to consider that something isn't a stub if the quotes present provide a good portion of everything there is to present on a given subject/person. For example, if there's a page for an author with a dozen books, but quotes are only listed for one, but there are a lot of quotes, that's still a stub, because there's a lot that hasn't been said. A page for a not-exceedingly famous person might only include two or three quotes, and that could be reasonably complete, and not a stub. It's my opinion that setting a fixed number to be considered a "stub" isn't going to fix the problem of over-use; if the number is too low, then the problem would just become under-use (i.e., many articles that I would consider stubs by my subjective criteria would be ineligible for stub tagging), and if it's too high, then you still have over-use (too many articles would be tagged as stubs when they're about as complete as they'll ever get). This same discussion happens over at WP, and there really isn't a resolution to it, except for a few people to try to say the same thing I am, which is that you can't really put a definite number (or article size in bytes at WP) on what makes a stub and what doesn't. —LrdChaos 20:43, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well said. I just created Sheri S. Tepper with quotes from only one of her short stories. Even though I had 6 interesting quotes from this work handy, it still feels stubby to me because it's such a narrow view of her writings. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

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Humanitarianism

In its most general form, Humanitarianism is an ethic of kindness, benevolence, and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human beings. Humanitarianism has been an evolving concept historically but universality is a common element in its evolution.

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 * Today's real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated. Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another.
 * Kofi Annan, Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, (10 December 2001).
 * The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things. We must get together. The best thing humans can have going for them is each other. We have each other. We must reject everything which humiliates us. Humans are not objects of consumption. We must develop an absolute priority of humans ahead of profit — any humans ahead of any profit. Then we will survive. … Together.
 * Frank Herbert, "Introduction" to New World or No World (1970).
 * What does one mean by humanitarian rules and humanity? Babaji says one should not have hatred towards anyone; one should try not to let down other people; one should try to help others; one should try to love all.
 * Shri Shastriji about Haidakhan Babaji, cited in: The Teachings of Babaji, 25 December 1981.

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