text:
Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio, percipio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

Quotes

 * Sorted alphabetically by author or source

 * The cultural bias of the translator inevitably shapes his or her perception of the materials being translated, often in ways that he or she is unaware of. Culture is fundamentally a shaper of perception, after all, and perception is shaped by culture in many subtle ways. In short, it’s hard to see the forest when you’re a tree.
 * Paula Gunn Allen, Chapter Three

 * Truth is universal. Perception of truth is not.
 * Anonymous quote, in Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior (2003) by John Moore, p. 87

 * Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
 * Douglas Adams, in Mostly Harmless (Chapter 9)

 * If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
 * William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, A Memorable Fancy, (1790–1793).

 * As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't.
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part III (1678), Canto I, line 481, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 593

 * In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
 * Desiderius Erasmus in Adages (1500)

 * It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
 * Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities

 * The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
 * Kahlil Gibran, as quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, p. 103

 * They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
 * Kahlil Gibran, as quoted in Visualizing Categorical Data (2000) by Michael Friendly, Ch. 3.5 Sieve Diagrams, p. 85

 * It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
 * C. W. Leadbeater, in The Chakras (1927), p. 138

 * What perception is, every one will know better by reflecting on what he does himself, what he sees, hears, feels, &c. or thinks, than by, any discourse of mine. Whoever reflects on what passes in his own mind, can-not miss it: and if he does not reflect, all the words in the world cannot make him have any notion of it.
 * John Locke, Essay on Humane Understanding Vol 2 p. 121 CH 9 S1

 * The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye  is  good, your whole body will be full of  light. 22But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! 23
 * Matthew, Chapter 6, New King James Version

 * He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
 * James Russell Lowell, My Study Window, Coleridge, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 593

 * Whatever may have been written or thought about perception in literate cultures, it remains a special competency of consciousness, its essential faculty. Day by day, minute by minute, consciousness is preoccupied with perception. Through perception it is captivated by an external world. Without perception it would have to terminate its autopoiesis, and even dreams can occur only by suggesting perceptions.
 * Niklas Luhmann, Art as a Social System (1995) 1. Perception and Communication: The Reproduction of Forms

 * That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.
 * Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, E. Payne, trans., Vol. II, Ch. 7, p. 74

 * I see the same sadness in the eyes of conformists as I do in the eyes of those convulsing radically in opposition. I talk to people that aren't like me, individually, thoughtfully. And I listen. If I walk away from a conversation thinking differently than before I entered into it, I have succeeded in doing something that doesn't compute. If I haven't interacted and challenged what I know, resulting in a change of perception, I am still running my own set of stupid old programs.
 * Paul J. Schrag, in Adbusters (2003)

 * You must choose: Do you wish to see (perceive) nothing, or do you want to see things as they really are? It is not hard to see things as they really are, it is simply a matter of tearing down walls, ridding oneself of defenses and presumption, rendering oneself vulnerable, an idiot, a fool. But it is not easy to see things as they really are, because it is painful, it is real, it requires response, it's an incredible commitment. To go nine-tenths of the way is to suffer at every moment utter madness. To go all the way is to become sane. Most people prefer blindness. But most people are a dying race.
 * Paul Williams, Das Energi (1973)
 * Michael C Gregersen "perception can blind us like the noon day sun" University of Phoenix (2010)

 * Being lifted out of your normal routine completely changes your perception of everything. I often think that this time twist is like taking a drug, it alters your consciousness.
 * Andrea Zittel Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists by Phaidon (2016) p 249

title: Perception


text:
Bill Cosby

William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. Ed.D (born 12 July 1937) is an American actor, comedian, television producer, and author. He first found success as a standup comic before moving into acting. In the action series I Spy (1965-68) he was one of the first black actors to have a leading role on a regular American series, and in the 1980s and '90s The Cosby Show (1984-1992) was a major hit for NBC, being the most popular American television program for five consecutive seasons.

Quotes

 * If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
 * Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

 * The weatherman is always right, It's his timing that's off.
 * Id.

 * The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.
 * id.

 * Let the message be known to bigots and racists that they don’t count!
 * In 1968 when accepting his third Emmy Award.

 * People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn't that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
 * We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
 * "Dr Bill Cosby Speaks at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision," known as the "Pound Cake" speech (May 2004).

 * I am not interested in statistics that tell me things are not as bad as they seem. Things are horrible. I have met people crying about what is happening, but there is no solution yet. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. I don't care what the statistics say.
 * "Paths to Success: A Forum on African American Men" panel discussion (July 18, 2006), quoted in

 * We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
 * Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)

 * My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

Bill Cosby: No, no, we don't answer that. Brett Zongker: OK. I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to respond about whether any of that was true. Bill Cosby: There's no response. Brett Zongker: I'm gonna ask you, if— With the persona that people know about Bill Cosby, should they believe anything differently about what—? Bill Cosby: There is no comment about that. Brett Zongker: OK. Bill Cosby: And I'll tell you why. Brett Zongker: OK. Bill Cosby: I think you were told. I don't want to compromise your integrity, but um, we don't— I don't talk about it.
 * I know I didn't say anything, but I'm asking your integrity that since I didn't wanna say anything, but I did answer you, in terms of I don't wanna say anything of what value will it have? ... And I would appreciate it if it was scuttled.
 * Associated Press interview,, quoted in
 * Post-interview on-camera remarks, requesting they not air his interviewer's attempt to ask him about comedian Hannibal Buress' comedy routine about multiple women having alleged that Cosby drugged and raped them:
 * Brett Zongker: I have to ask about your name coming up in the news recently regarding this comedian—

 * I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees.

 * I have never changed my stance nor my story. I have always maintained my innocence. Thank you to all my fans, supporters and friends who stood by me through this ordeal. Special thanks to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for upholding the rules of law.
 * In 2021 on his acquittal concerning sexual assault allegations that involved him.

Himself (1983)

 * My wife and I have five children, and the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.

 * My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you."

 * Carol Burnett put it best when she described labor pains. She said, "Take your bottom lip, and pull it over your head."

 * I said to a guy, I said, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?", and he said, "Well, it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

 * Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair, and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

 * A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em — they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

 * My wife stood up in the stirrups, grabbed my bottom lip and said "I want morphine!" I said "But, dear —" [vigorously breathing]. She said "You shut up! YOU did this to me!" And on the next contraction she told everybody in the delivery room that my parents were never married.

 * Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

Attributed

 * [Eddie Murphy imitating Bill Cosby's voice] "Yooouuu can not say filth flarn filth flarn filth in front of people." And I said, "I never said no 'filth flarn filth'!" He said, "You know what I'm talking about. I can't use the type of language that you use, but you know what I mean when I say 'filth flarn flarn flarn filth'." And I said, "I never said no 'filth flarn filth', and I don't know what you're talking about, and I'm offended that you called. Fuck you." And that's when Bill got pissed. "That's what I'm talking about! Yoooouuuu cannot say... 'fuck'!"
 * Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
 * Recounting a phone call he received from Bill Cosby.

Misattributed

 * I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
 * Originally from Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958); often attributed to Cosby, he actually cites this as a sound advice he once read elsewhere, in "Dr. Bill Cosby" in Ebony, Vol. 32, No. 8 (June 1977), p. 136

 * The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
 * Originally from Stuart Chase

Quotes about Bill Cosby

 * We don't turn people away because things are out of statute. You come to us, especially with a sexual allegation, we will work with you. We address these things seriously, and it's not just because it's Mr. Cosby.
 * Charlie Beck ( Chief) on willingness to investigate claims of sexual assault against Bill Cosby even if past the — quoted in:

 * There was no knowledge on my part about his specific actions, but… There was just energy. And that type of sinister, shadow energy cannot be concealed
 * Lisa Bonet (played Claire Huxtable) in 9 March 2018 interview

 * And it's even worse because Bill Cosby has the fuckin' smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. He gets on TV, "Pull yo' pants up, black people. I was on TV in the '80s! I can talk down to you, cause I had a successful sitcom!" Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so, kinda brings you down a couple notches. "I don't curse on stage!" Well, yeah, you a rapist, so, I'll take you sayin' lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren't a rapist.
 * Hannibal Buress, comedian, performing at the Trocadero, Philadelphia,, quoted in

 * Hey, Bill Cosby. Pull your damn pants up.
 * Michael Che, "Weekend Update", Saturday Night Live season 40 episode 7, quoted in

 * Well let me tell you, and I understand this about the current victim. The first thing you feel is stupid, and then you feel that no one will believe you. This is the great Bill Cosby, he has tremendous wealth, power, a p.r. machine, a reputation, he is Mr. Jell-O, but the worst thing you feel is stupid. There's a shame element involved.
 * Tamara Green, on why victims are scared to come forward — cited in:

 * Bill Cosby has been a good friend for many years and the mere thought of these allegations is truly saddening. I would never tolerate this kind of behavior, regardless of who was involved.
 * (Playboy magazine) founder — quoted in:

 * But there’s something else, along with the plight of poor people, dogging Bill Cosby. His lawyers have gotten it pushed to the back burner, down to a simmer, and maybe it will amount to nothing, yet there is also the possibility that it will bubble up to destroy him. It is still Cosby’s no against her yes, except for one difference: Thirteen women are waiting to be deposed in the suit; in a court filing, Constand’s lawyer says that all of them — with nothing to gain, with no payout waiting, with their own statutes of limitations run out — have stories about Bill Cosby as well, and some of them will claim a similar drug-and-fondling M.O. These accusations are about as far removed from the character of Heathcliff Huxtable — that’s Bill, right? — as we could imagine. And as Cosby's lawyers string out the suit, filing motions, keeping it in limbo, with those witnesses largely quiet and nothing substantiated, it remains — even 14 strong — nothing more than allegations, about which Bill Cosby has nothing to say.

 * The Navy is revoking Bill Cosby's title of honorary Chief Petty Officer, originally presented in 2011. The Navy is taking this action because allegations against Mr. Cosby are very serious and are in conflict with the Navy's core values of honor, courage and commitment.

 * I'll say this. If you give a woman, or a man, for that matter, without his or her knowledge, a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape. And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape.
 * Barack Obama (2nd term as POTUS), press conference,, quoted in
 * Asked whether he would revoke Cosby's (of which he said "We don't have that mechanism.")

 * We are formed by all kinds of strange or vague memories from childhood. That kind of understanding is needed to see that Cosby was involved in a symbiotic, push-pull thing with his wife, where he went out and did these awful things to assert his own independence. But for that, he required the women to be inert. He needed them to be dead! Cosby is actually a necrophiliac--a  style that was popular in the late Victorian period in the nineteenth-century.
 * Camille Paglia, as quoted by David Daley Camille Paglia: How Bill Clinton is like Bill Cosby, Salon.com, July 28, 2015

 * No one was there except for the two people to know exactly what happened. All I can speak to is the man that I know and I love
 * Keshia Knight Pulliam (played Rudy Huxtable) on 26 August 2015

 * The gravamen of plaintiff’s complaint is that while alone with defendant at defendant’s home in January 2004, defendant deceived plaintiff into ingesting a narcotic or other type of drug which caused plaintiff to become semi-conscious, and thereafter defendant sexually assaulted plaintiff.
 * Judge, (June 2, 2005) "2005 June 2 order by Court on motions by parties". Andrea Constand v. William H. Cosby, Jr. Case No. 2:05-cv-01099. Nature of Suit 320 Assault, Libel & Slander. Cause of Action: 28:1332 Diversity-Libel,Assault,Slander. Court: Pennsylvania Eastern District Court. Office: Philadelphia Office. Jury Demanded By: Defendant..

 * Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, with 12 saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The saga of the abuse allegations is set in locales that speak to Cosby’s wealth and fame: a Hollywood-studio bungalow, a chauffeured limousine, luxury hotels, a New York City brownstone. But it also stretches into unexpected places, such as an obscure Denver talent agency that referred two of Cosby’s future accusers to the star for mentoring. The allegations are strung together by perceptible patterns that appear and reappear with remarkable consistency: mostly young, white women without family nearby; drugs offered as palliatives; resistance and pursuit; accusers worrying that no one would believe them; lifelong trauma. There is also a pattern of intense response by Cosby’s team of attorneys and publicists, who have used the media and the courts to attack the credibility of his accusers. If his accusers are to be believed, the earliest allegations against Cosby remained hidden for decades, private artifacts of an era when women were less likely to publicly accuse men they knew of sexual misdeeds and society was less likely to believe them. But they have flared periodically throughout the past nine years, both because of changing attitudes and, particularly over the past month, because of social media’s ability to transform a story into a viral phenomenon almost impossible to suppress or control. The allegations represent a stunning reshaping of Cosby's legacy. Cosby built his fame on a family-friendly comedic persona. He has lectured black youths about proper behavior. He has been honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom and been lauded for making the largest donation ever by an African American to a historically black college, Spelman College in Atlanta.

 * A pattern has clearly emerged among many of the women—totaling 18 so far—who’ve come forward sharing stories alleging inappropriate sexual behavior on Cosby’s part: companionship, abuse of trust, and a drugged beverage leading to an unwanted sexual violation. To recap: 12 of the women who’ve come forward with allegations against Cosby claim they were drugged prior to their assault, 12 of them were white females, and most were allegedly promised some form of mentorship or professional help. Many of the women also claimed they were in emotionally vulnerable states when Cosby allegedly set his sights on them.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

title: Bill Cosby


text:
Angel (1999 TV series)

 * Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 | Main

Angel (1999–2004) was an American TV show, created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt and airing on The WB, about the ongoing trials of Angel, a vampire whose human soul was restored to him by gypsies as a punishment for the murder of one of their own. After more than a century of murder and the torture of innocents, Angel's restored soul torments him with guilt and remorse. It was a spinoff of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * See the discussion page for suggested formatting and inclusion guidelines.

Seasons

 * Season 1
 * Season 2
 * Season 3
 * Season 4
 * Season 5

title: Angel (1999 TV series)


text:
User:Sj

Please visit me on en or on meta.

Thoughts
It is awfully unclear where to put a new quote. There should be a super-simple "submit a quote" interface available from every page... here are some of my own:

 * The way it was characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what the big companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then Berkeley had what we called ‘copycenter’, which is ‘take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want’ -- Kirk McKusick, at BSDCon 1999

Updates
Weekly: Week in review - revive this?

title: User:Sj


text:
User talk:Sj

Leave me a message here -- though I may not get it for a while -- or on the English Wikipedia. --sj

useful links

 * Browse To browse the site.
 * Reference desk To ask some questions related to quotes.
 * Village pump To discuss with other editors.
 * Community Portal Other useful links.

Shortly be bold and enjoy! --Aphaia 13:53, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Submit a quote
I like your idea of a "submit a quote" on every page, but I'm afraid I don't see any practical way to do for now, for two major reasons: I look forward to people and events overcoming these problems. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Different articles have different structures and organizations (for compelling reasons), so it's hard to see how an automated system would "decide" where to place a quote once submitted, and having a human do it for every new submission is tantamount to having an editorial board, which is very un-wiki.
 * 2) It seems like it would be difficult to implement any reasonable means for this without developer support. But the MediaWiki development community hasn't shown much interest in implementing features that primarily benefit non-Wikipedia projects like Wikiquote. This undoubtedly is at least partly because the WQ audience is a tiny fraction of the WP audience. This may change with time and greater lobbying from involved WQ editors.

 * This isn't so hard. Have the submit feature append it to the talk page of the article, using the existing "index.php?title=TITLE&action=edit&section=new" feature.  Then the other editors would come later and see if it was notable and in the right place, and add it to the article proper.  Sj 21:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Also, are you interested in helping with a regular review of what's new on wikiquote? A few lines every other week. Sj 21:56, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

We already have people posting requests at Requested entries. As far as I've noticed, virtually no one spends any time moving these simple requests to their appropriate articles. Multiply that by 6,000, and you've got a nightmarish mass of unpositioned quotes. (And don't even get me started on unsourced, junk Internet, and vanity quotes, which would really benefit from this stealth approach.) We might expect more direct effort by more involved editors on article talk pages, and we'd probably get it for extremely popular articles like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but I haven't noticed this happening in the few instances where people have done this ad hoc. Like so many other good ideas for Wikiquote, it has no real chance of working until we get more regular, general-article editors.

As far as "what's new on Wikiquote", I barely feel I can keep up with what's old. I'm not infrequently surprised by "new" stuff I had no awareness of, and I'm a "seasoned" admin here. I can't stress enough how inadequate our oversight of this project is, despite considerable effort from a small number of hard-working editors. Perhaps you should talk to Kalki; he may be more encouraging. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:41, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Librarianship
Your new article on Librarianship is currently featured on the Main Page. Unfortunately, in its current state, it's nothing more than a external-link referral. Normally we delete similar attempts to promote other quote websites as link-spam. However, I can see from the link that this is a valuable secondary source for some useful quotes, complete with meaningful primary sources. Could you take some time to transfer some of these to Wikiquote? Otherwise, the article is likely to be nominated for deletion rather quickly. Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:43, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Responded, a bit after the fact! Thanks for the update; I understand the concern. Sj (talk)

title: User talk:Sj


text:
227 (TV series)

227 is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 14, 1985 to May 6, 1990. It revolved around the lives of the mainly African American occupants of a Washington, D.C. apartment building numbered 227.

 * Mary Jenkins: [to Sandra Clark] I was here when you came, baby, and I will be here when you're gone!

 * [Mary and Rose are sitting on milk crates, gossiping on the front stoop of 227.]
 * Rose Lee Holloway: I heard the O'Briens had another crack in their living room wall.
 * Mary: Girl... [motions for her to move her crate closer] ...I heard the O'Briens got a crack in their marriage.
 * Rose: No!
 * Mary: Oh, yes!
 * Rose: No! I can't believe it! They just celebrated their silver anniversary!
 * Mary: Well, I can tell you one thing; they ain't goin' for the gold.

 * Rose: Sandra, at that theatrical agency you work for, do you see many celebrities?
 * Sandra Clark: I'm the receptionist. I see them all.
 * Mary: And they see all of her.

 * Mary: [about Sandra] Oh, she makes me sick. She sure loves to flaunt it.
 * Pearl Shay: [sticks her head out her window] Don't you wish you had it?
 * Mary: Girl, you know what they call women like that.
 * Pearl: Yeah. Lucky.

 * Brenda Jenkins: [about Calvin] Well, he's hot.
 * Mary: That boy's 16 and you're barely 14.
 * Brenda: So? When I'm 20, he'll be 22.
 * Mary: Fine. Call him then.

 * [The doorman from across the street walks over to Mary and Rose]
 * Doorman: It was such a shock. Mr. Calloway, dying so suddenly.
 * Rose: Yes, it was.
 * Doorman: Did he die of anything serious?
 * Mary: He stopped breathin'.

 * Mary: [to Brenda and Tiffany, Rose's daughter] You girls finish your homework?
 * Brenda: Yep, and you know what? I thought I just might make dinner tonight. You deserve a break.
 * Mary: [holds Brenda back, who was planning on walking off] You bein' awfully nice, young lady. Now just what is it you're gonna ask me that I'm not gonna like that you're gonna die if I don't do?
 * Tiffany Holloway: Well, we just want to know if we could go to the movies tonight.
 * Mary: On a school night? Did Rose say you could go?
 * Tiffany: She said it was all right with her if it was all right with you, and please, Mrs. Jenkins. It's with Eddie Murphy!

 * Lawyer: [reading Mr. Calloway's will] I, therefore, with a clear conscience, leave 227, lock, stock, and barrel... [Sandra, who is expecting to inherit the building, stands up and smiles] ...to the woman who makes the best apple pie I've ever tasted.
 * Sandra: Apple pie?! We never used apple pie!

 * Mary: [on the phone with the telephone company] But I didn't make the call...I'd remember talking an hour to Hawaii...Do I sound like I have relatives in Hawaii?...Do I sound like I'm gonna pay for this call?...Well, you do that. You call those people and ask them if they know me. Because if they do, I know who we'll be droppin' in on this Christmas.

 * Sandra: You know your problem, Mary? You just don't have enough couth. That's why I'm thinkin' of maybe goin' condo. Get a better class of people in here.
 * Mary: I'm glad to hear it. When are you moving?

 * [Pearl returns from her high school reunion]
 * Mary: Oh, Pearl!
 * Pearl: Good mornin'.
 * Mary: So, how was the reunion?
 * Pearl: Well, fine, if you like break dancing.
 * Mary: Break dancing? At your reunion?
 * Pearl: Uh-huh. Every time we danced, somethin' broke.

 * [Sandra joins Rose and Mary on the stoop.]
 * Sandra: Sandra is here.
 * Mary: Should we kneel?

 * Sandra: I lost my job. I got fired yesterday. I'm out of work! They showed me the door and said go! Oooooooh! [sticks out lip, looks at Mary] Thank goodness I have friends like you... [switches to Rose] ...I mean you.

 * [Sandra is late to a dinner Mary fixed for her]
 * Sandra: I hope I'm not too early.
 * Mary: Believe me, you're not.
 * Sandra: Oh, good. It's so gauche to be early. I just hate gauche, don't you?
 * Mary: Gauche is fine when it's on time.

 * Sandra: Now, Mary, it would be a lovely world if everybody went around sticking notes on cars. "Excuse me, I believe I hit your car." "Pardonnez-moi, I may have smashed your window and stolen your radio." But they don't, and that's why God created insurance companies, Mary.

 * Sandra: Mary, I had plans for this building. I was going to give it class. Distinction. Jacuzzis.

 * Various Characters (Rose, Lester, etc.): My name's Bennett, and I ain't in it!

 * [Brenda is surprised that her father still isn't back from a basketball game]
 * Brenda: Honestly, Mom, I don't understand how men can spend a good part of the night watching a bunch of boring, self-centered showoffs.
 * Mary: I know.
 * [Brenda looks at her watch]
 * Brenda: Hey, mom, it's nine o'clock! Dynasty's on!

 * Brenda: Mom, can I go upstairs to Tiffany's and watch television?
 * Mary: On a school night?
 * Brenda: It's "oldies-but-goodies" night on MTV. They're showing Michael Jackson and Prince!

 * [On Family Feud, Sandra is picked to play in the Fast Money round.]
 * Ray Combs: Sandra, you have 15 seconds to answer these questions and win $10,000.
 * Sandra: Ooh, I'm so nervous! Can you imagine what I can do with $10,000?
 * Mary: [dryly] Yeah, pay for your funeral.
 * Ray Combs: You're not gonna share it with the rest of your teammates?
 * Sandra: Oh. Oh, yeah. Can you imagine what I can do with $9,000?
 * Mary: Have a cheaper funeral.
 * Ray Combs: All right, don't be nervous, say the first thing that comes to your mind. Name something--
 * Sandra: Eggs!
 * Ray Combs: Let me finish. Name something you must have in order to live.
 * Sandra: A man.
 * Ray Combs: One of the seven wonders of the world.
 * Sandra: A rich man.
 * Ray Combs: Something that improves with age.
 * Sandra: A young man.
 * Ray Combs: A Christmas present you'd exchange.
 * Sandra: A...old man.
 * Ray Combs: A condemned person's last request.
 * Sandra: Any man!
 * [buzzer dings, Sandra smiles and crosses her fingers]
 * Ray Combs: That's 15 seconds. Let's see how you did. Something you must have in order to live. You said a man. Our survey said...
 * [buzzer makes abrupt "wrong" sound effect, Sandra continues to be hopeful and crosses her fingers]
 * Ray Combs: Zero. Your second answer was a rich man. Our survey said...
 * [buzzer makes abrupt "wrong" sound effect, Sandra looks sad but still crosses her fingers]
 * Ray Combs: Zero. Third answer was a young man. Our survey said...
 * [buzzer makes abrupt "wrong" sound effect]
 * Ray Combs: Oh. A Christmas present you'd exchange. You said an old man. Our survey said...
 * [buzzer makes abrupt "wrong" sound effect]
 * Ray Combs: Ugh. A condemned person's last request. You said any man. Our survey said...
 * [buzzer makes abrupt "wrong" sound effect]
 * Ray Combs: Goose egg.
 * Mary: [claps] Hey! When you're hot, you're hot, and when you're not, you not!
 * Ray Combs: Okay, Sandra, looks like you got a perfect zero.
 * Sandra: [pouting] How can a perfect 10 get a perfect zero?

title: 227 (TV series)


text:
Red Symons

Red Symons (born 13 June 1949) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as the snide judge of "Red Faces", of the long-running Hey Hey It's Saturday variety television show.

Attributed quotes

 * They say familiarity breeds contempt but I hardly know you.
 * Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.
 * Opportunity only knocks once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
 * No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
 * Laughter is the only tranquillizer with no side effects.
 * Friends are the family you can pick.
 * The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Red Faces
"Millions of people across Australia recognise me as the only honest man in television"

"Ever stop and think what kind of person watches on a Saturday night 6:30-8:30? A very sad and lonely bunch... and you did that to them"

"Three quarters of a million people just changed the channel to, for the first time in their lives, Lebanese people are learning to speak Italian on SBS and you wonder why the state of the country is as it is"

"You're a butcher at Subway, and I'm a butcher on television"

"That was tasteless and vulgar, pretty much everything this show stands for"

"You came here hoping to make your mark and all you really left was a nasty stain"

"That's more like it, is it? That's the kind of act we're used to on Red Faces, absolute rubbish! you really are a moron aren't you?"

"If I found you floating face down in my pool I'd punish my dog!"

"You were talking about the auditions before, can you imagine what the other guys at this guy's audition must have been like?... to lose"

"You're not very good aren't you?"

title: Red Symons


text:
Talk:James A. Michener

Hi, The Michener Novel - The 26th Wife - is his rarest work. I would like to know how to get a copy of it. Please, if anyone has any info that could help, please respond e-mail me at: td1854@hotmail.com

Thanks,

P.S. I am not one of those that would burn or destroy this book, I simply want a copy to complete my collection.

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 James A. Michener. --Antiquary 18:38, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

 * Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors — somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating — none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

 * As a boy I was saved from a life of ignorance by my library

 * Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

 * Gore Vidal, who wrote Williwaw at only nineteen, was another whose early book could well have been his last, but instead he wrote a series of books that varied in subject matter from the critical days of early Christianity to the dramatic eras of American history to outrageous sexual games. I envy him two novels on whose subjects I also did a great deal of work: Julian, which deals with the apostate who tried to turn back Christianity in ancient Antiochea, and 1876, which covers the amazing incident in American history that year when the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes stole the presidential election from the Democrat Samuel J.Tilden.

 * I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

 * I am right now in the middle of a difficult writing project. And it's just as difficult now as when I started. But when I get up in the morning I am really qualified to say, 'Well, Jim, it isn't going too well, but there is nobody on the block who is better able to wrestle with it than you are, so let's get on with it.'

 * I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

 * I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

 * I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

 * I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

 * I think young people ought to seek that experience that is going to knock them off center.

 * If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

 * It is unimaginable that I graduated from one of America's better colleges, yet I am totally incapable of understanding tax returns.

 * It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

 * Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

 * The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

 * The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

 * The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

 * There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

 * Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you.

title: Talk:James A. Michener


text:
Mort Sahl

Mort Lyon Sahl (May 11, 1927 – October 26, 2021) was a Canadian-born American comedian, actor, and social satirist, considered the first modern stand-up comedian since Will Rogers. Sahl pioneered a style of social satire that pokes fun at political and current event topics using improvised monologues and only a newspaper as a prop.

Quotes

 * In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.
 * The Last Word - The Sexes

 * The bravest thing that men do is love women.
 * The Last Word - The Sexes

Quotations Collected by Donald Gudehus: Mort Sahl (1987)
Quotations Collected by Donald Gudehus: Mort Sahl (1987)

 * Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

 * Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

 * Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning 50 feet off shore, he'd throw you a 30 foot rope. Then Kissinger would go on TV the next night and say that the President had met you more than half-way.

title: Mort Sahl


text:
Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick (c. 385 – March 17, 462, 492, or 493) was a Christian bishop and missionary, and is the patron saint of Ireland. (Accounts of his birth and death dates vary widely; some place his birth as early as 371 or as late as 387, and some his death as early as 461 or as late as 493)

Quotes

 * At Tara today in this fateful hour I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And fire with all the strength it hath, And lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace, Between myself and the powers of darkness.
 * "The Rune of St. Patrick", derived from "The Lorica", both traditionally attributed to St. Patrick, translation by James Clarence Mangan, published in Lyrica Celtica (1896); also in Celtic Christianity : Ecology and Holiness (1987) by Christopher Bamford and William Parker Marsh, p. 54

Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)

 * Written in response to a massacre and enslavement of newly baptized Christians, it heavily quotes Christian scriptures. As translated from the Latin by John Skinner in The Confession of St. Patrick (1998)

 * I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that "all that I am," I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. He himself testifies that this is so. I never would have wanted these harsh words to spill from my mouth; I am not in the habit of speaking so sharply. Yet now I am driven by the zeal of God, Christ's truth has aroused me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors who are my only sons; for them I gave up my home country, my parents and even pushing my own life to the brink of death. If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

 * I am not addressing my own people, nor my fellow citizens of the holy Romans, but those who are now become citizens of demons by reason of their evil works. They have chosen, by their hostile deeds, to live in death; comrades of the Scotti and Picts and of all who behave like apostates, bloody men who have steeped themselves in the blood of innocent Christians. The very same people I have begotten for God; their number beyond count, I myself confirmed them in Christ.

 * Because of all this, I am at a loss to know whether to weep more for those they killed or those that are captured: or indeed for these men themselves whom the devil has taken fast for his slaves. In truth, they will bind themselves alongside him in the pains of the everlasting pit: for "he who sins is a slave already" and is to be called "son of the devil."

 * I do not overreach myself, for I too have my part to play with "those whom he has called to himself and predestined" to teach the gospel in the midst of considerable persecutions "as far as the ends of the earth", even if the enemy reveals his true envy through the tyranny of Coroticus, who fears neither God nor the priests whom he has chosen and to whom he has given the highest divine power, namely that "those whom they bind on earth are bound in heaven."

 * It would take too long to discuss or argue every single case, or to sift through the whole of the Law for precise witness against such greed. Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. You shall not murder. A homicide may not stand beside Christ. Even "He who hates his brother is to be labeled murderer." Or, "He who does not love his brother dwells in death." therefore how much more guilty is he, who has stained his own hands in the blood of the sons of God, those very children whom only just now he has won for himself in this distant land by means of our feeble encouragement.

 * Can it be out of the kindness of my heart that I carry out such a labor of mercy on a people who once captured me when they wrecked my father's house and carried off his servants? For by descent I was a freeman, born of a decurion father; yet I have sold this nobility of mine, I am not ashamed, nor do I regret that it might have meant some advantage to others. In short, I am a slave in Christ to this faraway people for the indescribable glory of "everlasting life which is in Jesus Christ our Lord."

 * How bitterly they despise me! just see how your sheep are torn apart and despoiled, and by those gangsters I have named, bound to the last man by the inimical mind of Coroticus. Far away from the love of God is the man who betrays my Christians into the hands of the Scotti and Picts. "Ravenous wolves" have gulped down the Lord's own flock, which was flourishing in Ireland and tended with utmost care.

 * I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing "have I labored," neither has my exile been "in vain."

 * Now you, Coroticus — and your gangsters, rebels all against Christ, now where do you see yourselves? You gave away girls like prizes: not yet women, but baptized. All for some petty temporal gain that will pass in the very next instant. "Like a cloud passes, or smoke blown in the wind," so will "sinners, who cheat, slip away from the face of the Lord. But the just will feast for sure" with Christ. "They will judge the nations" and unjust kings "they will lord over" for world after world. Amen.

 * My chief request is that anyone who is a servant of God be ready and willing, to carry this letter forward; may it never be hidden or stolen by anyone, but rather, may it be read aloud before the whole people — Yes, even when Coroticus himself is present.

 * May God inspire these men sometime to come to their senses in regard to God again, so that they may repent, however latter day, of their grave crimes, namely homicide against the brothers of the Lord, and that they free these baptized women whom they have taken, so that then they may deserve to live to God and be made whole once more, here, now and for eternity.

The Confession (c. 452?)

 * Including quotes from the translation by John Skinner in The Confession of St. Patrick (1998) ISBN 0-385-49163-8

 * '''I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a priest, of the settlement of Bannavem Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was at that time about sixteen years of age. I did not, indeed, know the true God; and I was taken into captivity in Ireland with many thousands of people, according to our deserts, for quite drawn away from God, we did not keep his precepts, nor were we obedient to our priests who used to remind us of our salvation. And the Lord brought down on us the fury of his being and scattered us among many nations, even to the ends of the earth, where I, in my smallness, am now to be found among foreigners.

 * I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

 * I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

 * For some time I have thought of writing, but I have hesitated until now, for truly, I feared to expose myself to the criticism of men, because I have not studied like others, who have assimilated both Law and the Holy Scriptures equally and have never changed their idiom since their infancy, but instead were always learning it increasingly, to perfection, while my idiom and language have been translated into a foreign tongue. So it is easy to prove from a sample of my writing, my ability in rhetoric and the extent of my preparation and knowledge, for as it is said, 'wisdom shall be recognized in speech, and in understanding, and in knowledge and in the learning of truth.'

 * Why make excuses close to the truth, especially when now I am presuming to try to grasp in my old age what I did not gain in my youth because my sins prevented me from making what I had read my own? But who will believe me, even though I should say it again? A young man, almost a beardless boy, I was taken captive before I knew what I should desire and what I should shun.

 * I am, then, first of all, countryfied, an exile, evidently unlearned, one who is not able to see into the future, but I know for certain, that before I was humbled I was like a stone lying in deep mire, and he that is mighty came and in his mercy raised me up and, indeed, lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for his great favours in this world and for ever, that the mind of man cannot measure.

 * Therefore be amazed, you great and small who fear God, and you men of God, eloquent speakers, listen and contemplate. Who was it summoned me, a fool, from the midst of those who appear wise and learned in the law and powerful in rhetoric and in all things? Me, truly wretched in this world, he inspired before others that I could be — if I would — such a one who, with fear and reverence, and faithfully, without complaint, would come to the people to whom the love of Christ brought me and gave me in my lifetime, if I should be worthy, to serve them truly and with humility.

 * I used to stay out in the forests and on the mountain and I would wake up before daylight to pray in the snow, in icy coldness, in rain, and I used to feel neither ill nor any slothfulness, because, as I now see, the Spirit was burning in me at that time. And it was there of course that one night in my sleep I heard a voice saying to me: "You do well to fast: soon you will depart for your home country." And again, a very short time later, there was a voice prophesying: "Behold, your ship is ready."' And it was not close by, but, as it happened, two hundred miles away, where I had never been nor knew any person. And shortly thereafter I turned about and fled from the man with whom I had been for six years, and I came, by the power of God who directed my route to advantage (and I was afraid o nothing), until I reached that ship.

 * After three days we reached land, and for twenty-eight days journeyed through uninhabited country, and the food ran out and hunger overtook them; and one day the steersman began saying: "Why is it, Christian? You say your God is great and all-powerful; then why can you not pray for us? For we may perish of hunger; it is unlikely indeed that we shall ever see another human being." In fact, I said to them, confidently: "Be converted by faith with all your heart to my Lord God, because nothing is impossible for him, so that today he will send food for you on your road, until you be sated, because everywhere he abounds." And with God's help this came to pass; and behold, a herd of swine appeared on the road before our eyes, and they slew many of them, and remained there for two nights, and the were full of their meat and well restored, for many of them had fainted and would otherwise have been left half dead by the wayside. And after this they gave the utmost thanks to God, and I was esteemed in their eyes, and from that day they had food abundantly.

 * A second time, after many years, I was taken captive. On the first night I accordingly remained with my captors, but I heard a divine prophecy, saying to me: 'You shall be with them for two months. So it happened. On the sixtieth night the Lord delivered me from their hands.

 * In a vision of the night, I saw a man whose name was Victoricus coming as it from Ireland with innumerable letters, and he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of the letter: "The Voice of the Irish", and as I was reading the beginning of the letter I seemed at that moment to hear the voice of those who were beside the forest of Foclut which is near the western sea, and the were crying as if with one voice: "'We beg you, holy youth, that you shall come and shall walk again among us." And I was stung intensely in my heart so that I could read no more, and thus I awoke. Thanks be to God, because after so many ears the Lord bestowed on them according to their cry.

 * It is tedious to describe in detail all my labours one by one. I will tell briefly how most holy God frequently delivered me, from slavery, and from the twelve trials with which my soul was threatened, from man traps as well, and from things I am not able to put into words. I would not cause offence to readers, but I have God as witness who knew all things even before they happened, that, though I was a poor ignorant waif, still he gave me abundant warnings through divine prophecy. Whence came to me this wisdom which was not my own, I who neither knew the number of days nor had knowledge of God? Whence came the so great and so healthful gift of knowing or rather loving God, though I should lose homeland and family.

 * How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherished idols and unclean things, they are lately become a people of the Lord, and are called children of God; the sons of. the Irish and the daughters of the chieftains are to be seen as monks and virgins of Christ.

 * So I hope that I did as I ought, but I do not trust myself as long as I am in this mortal body, for he is strong who strives daily to turn me away from the faith and true holiness to which I aspire until the end of my life for Christ my Lord, but the hostile flesh is always dragging one down to death, that is, to unlawful attractions. And I know in part why I did not lead a perfect life like other believers, but I confess to my Lord and do not blush in his sight, because I am not lying; from the time when I came to know him in my youth, the love of God and fear of him increased in me, and right up until now, by God's favour, I have kept the faith.

 * What is more, let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, [he] who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

 * The Lord took pity on me thousands upon thousands of times, because he saw within me that I was prepared, but that I was ignorant of what to do in view of my situation; because many were trying to prevent this mission. They were talking among themselves behind my back, and saying: 'Why is this fellow throwing himself into danger among enemies who know not God?' Not from malice, but having no liking for it; likewise, as I myself can testify, they perceived my rusticity. And I was not quick to recognize the grace that was then in me; I now know that I should have done so earlier.

 * You know, as God does, how I went about among you from my youth in the faith of truth and in sincerity of heart. As well as to the heathen among whom I live, I have shown them trust and always show them trust. God knows I did not cheat any one of them, nor consider it, for the sake of God and his Church, lest I arouse them and [bring about] persecution for them and for all of us, and lest the Lord's name be blasphemed because of me, for it is written: 'Woe to the men through whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed.'

 * Behold over and over again I would briefly set out the words of my confession. I testify in truthfulness and gladness of heart before God and his holy angels that I never had any reason, except the Gospel and his promises, ever to have returned to that nation from which I had previously escaped with difficulty. But I entreat those who believe in and fear God, whoever deigns to examine or receive this document composed by the obviously unlearned sinner Patrick in Ireland, that nobody shall ever ascribe to my ignorance any trivial thing that I achieved or may have expounded that was pleasing to God, but accept and truly believe that it would have been the gift of God. And this is my confession before I die.

The Lorica of Patrick

 * Also known as "St. Patrick’s Breastplate", and "The Deer’s Cry", this is a poem traditionally attributed to St. Patrick, though his authorship is not certain. It is quoted in many publications, including Christian Spirituality : Origins to the Twelfth Century (1986) by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, and John Meyendorff

 * I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity Through belief in the threeness Through confession of the Oneness Towards the creator.

 * I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock.

 * I arise today Through God’s strength to pilot me: God’s might to uphold me, God’s wisdom to guide me God’s eye to look before me, God’s ear to hear me, God’s word to speak for me, God’s hand to guard me, God’s way to lie before me, God’s host to secure me against snares of devils against temptations of vices against inclinations of nature against everyone who shall wish me ill, afar and anear, alone and in a crowd.

 * Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left Christ where I lie, Christ where I sit, Christ where I arise Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
 * Variant: Christ for my guardianship today: against poison, against burning, against drowning, against wounding, that there may come to me a multitude of rewards; Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ over me, Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me, Christ in lying down, Christ in sitting, Christ in rising up, Christ in the heart of every person who may think of me, Christ in the mouth of every person who may speak of me, Christ in every eye, which may look on me! Christ in every ear, which may hear me!

 * I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Thrones, Through confession of the Oneness Towards the Creator.

Quotes about St. Patrick

 * St. Patrick was a gentleman Who through strategy and stealth Drove all the snakes from Ireland, Here's toasting to his health; But not too many toastings Lest you lose yourself and then Forget the good St. Patrick  And see all those snakes again.
 * Anonymous, in "Irish Toasts" (1996) edited by Karen Bailey

 * Patrick... understood that, though Christianity was not inextricably wedded to Roman custom, it could not survive without Roman literacy.
 * Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995)

 * St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.
 * Charles M. Madigan, in "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye" (14 March 1997)

 * It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.
 * Charles M. Madigan, in "Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye" (14 March 1997)

title: Saint Patrick


text:
Patrick McGoohan

Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 – January 13, 2009) was an Irish actor and director, best known for playing the title role in The Prisoner (as Number Six) and John Drake in Danger Man. He appeared in several Columbo television films as the murderer.

Quotes

 * Mel [Gibson] will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a number.
 * Cited in "Actor achieved cult status with 'The Prisoner"" Los Angeles Times (15 January 2009)
 * Of his role in The Prisoner

 * The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. [...] And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
 * Cited in "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" Mailonline website (15 January 2009)
 * Of The Prisoner

 * When they did finally see it, there was a near-riot and I was going to be lynched. And I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks, until things calmed down. That's really true!
 * Interviewed by Warner Troyer (1977), cited in Peter Bennett, Alex Kendall, Julian McDougall After the Media: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century Abingdon, Oxon (UK) & New York City: Routledge, 2011, p. 90
 * On the unconventional ending of The Prisoner considered confusing by viewers.

title: Patrick McGoohan


text:
Margaret Courtney

Margaret Courtney (1822 – 1862) was an American poet.

Quotes

 * Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
 * Be Kind

title: Margaret Courtney


text:
Talk:Clint Eastwood

Deletion debate
This article was nominated for deletion. The result, after source issues were addressed, was keep. The discussion can be seen here. BD2412 T 23:34, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Unsourced

 * They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

title: Talk:Clint Eastwood


text:
User:Galatea~enwikiquote

About Me
Hello, my name is April-Lyn and this is my user page. Right now I am just experimenting with the wiki markup, so there isn't much of interest here.

Have a quote:

 * "Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

And another:

 * "We are the music makers,
 * And we are the dreamers of dreams,
 * Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
 * And sitting by desolate streams; --
 * World-losers and world-forsakers
 * On whom the pale moon gleams:
 * Yet, we are the movers and shakers
 * Of the world forever, it seems."
 * ~Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy, Ode

Contact Info
email: cascading_starlight@yahoo.com

AIM: Apltree99

blog: Blistered Avalon

title: User:Galatea~enwikiquote


text:
Nat King Cole

Nat "King" Cole (born Nathaniel Adams Coles; 17 March 1919 – 15 February 1965) was an American singer and jazz pianist.

Quotes

 * I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me— I was a father."
 * Ebony (March 1950)

 * Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
 * Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor. (1956) Quoted in article at the Songwriters Hall of Fame

 * I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
 * Spoken in VOA interview (c. 1956) broadcast on Pop Chronicles Show 22 - Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66: A skinny dip in the easy listening mainstream.
 * Also on cassette 3, side B of Pop Chronicles Interviews #131 - Nat "King" Cole.

 * I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
 * British interview (1963)

 * I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
 * As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

 * Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
 * As quoted in Nat King Cole (1990) by James Haskings

 * «There's just one thing I can't understand. My income tax!”».

Lyrics

 * A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top."
 * "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

 * The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me Release your hold and I'll set you free" The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said "Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie."
 * "Straighten Up And Fly Right" (1937) written with Irving Mills.

title: Nat King Cole


text:
User:Jguk~enwikiquote

Article I have created and contributed to:

Brian Close

title: User:Jguk~enwikiquote


text:
Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.

Quotes

 * To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.
 * Quoted in: "An Imperial Moment" (December 5, 2002), by Jonathan Schell and John Maxwell Hamilton at The Nation.

 * Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
 * Quoted in: George J. Borjas (2001) Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy. p. 132

 * Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves.
 *

Round the World, 1884

 * "Did you ever sum up these prizes and think how very little the millionaire has beyond the peasant, and how very often his additions tend not to happiness but to misery!"
 * p. 353 General Conclusions.

Wealth, 1889

 * "Wealth," in: North American Review, June 1889 vol. 148, issue 391, p 653-664.

 * The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
 * p. 653

 * While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of the few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
 * p. 655

 * Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends—the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.
 * p. 656

 * Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
 * p. 662

 * Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee of the poor; intrusted for a season with a great part of the increased wealth of the community, but administering it for the community far better than it could or would have done for itself. (pp. 663-664)

 * The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.
 * p. 664

 * Such, in my opinion, is the true Gospel concerning Wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the Rich and the Poor, and to bring "Peace on earth, among men Good Will."
 * p. 664

The Best Fields for Philanthropy, 1889

 * "The Best Fields for Philanthropy," in: North American Review,'' December 1889 vol. 149, issue 397

 * Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
 * p. 684

The Gospel of Wealth 1906
(https://archive.org/details/jstor-25105641)

 * The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
 * Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?
 * Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. Neither is it well for the state. Beyond providing for the wife and daughters moderate sources of income, and very moderate allowances indeed, if any, for the sons, men may well hesitate, for it is no longer questionable that great sums bequeathed oftener work more for the injury than for the good of the recipients.
 * Wise men will soon conclude that, for the best interests of the members of their families and of the state, such bequests are an improper use of their means.
 * As to the second mode, that of leaving wealth at death for public uses, it may be said that this is only a means for the disposal of wealth, provided a man is content to wait until he is dead before it becomes of much good in the world.
 * It may fairly be said that no man is to be extolled for doing what he cannot help doing, nor is he to be thanked by the community to which he only leaves wealth at death. Men who leave vast sums in this way may fairly be thought men who would not have left it at all had they been able to take it with them. The memories of such cannot be held in grateful remembrance, for there is no grace in their gifts.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920

 * It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race of life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the "dark horse" in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
 * Chapter III

 * Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!
 * Chapter VII

 * The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never—neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability
 * Chapter XVI

 * No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
 * Chapter XXIX

Quotes about Andrew Carnegie

 * To his direction, Mr. Carnegie and others entrusted a fund for certain studies among Negroes. This is standard American procedure; if there is a job to be done and a Negro fit to do it, do not give the job or the responsibility to the Negro; give it to some white man and let the Negro work under him.
 * The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968)

 * in 1901, when Andrew Carnegie offered to augment the Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundation's trust with enough money to fund the construction of sixty-five public library branches for the City of New York, the history of North American public libraries entered a new phase, one that, among other things, led to making library services for children and young adults a priority (Lyndenberg 1972).
 * Lisa Sánchez González, The Stories I Read to the Children: The Life and Writing of Pura Belpré (2013)

 * the great fathers Jefferson, Lincoln and Jackson had given way to Carnegie, Morgan and DuPont.
 * Meridel Le Sueur "Crusaders" (1955)

 * Old-time steel workers who listened to the speeches on June 5, 1936 recalled the relentless war by Andrew Carnegie and his henchmen to preserve the open shop, and the repeated failures of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers to organize the steel industry.
 * Rose Pesotta Bread upon the Waters (1945)

 * Each generation repeats its leaders. Each sees men endowed with superior inventiveness, energy, and genius for business, inspired by love of power and possession, launch selfish schemes-Carnegies, Rockefellers, Goulds…Each generation has had its Henry George, its Bellamy, its Bryan, intent on persuading mankind that he had found the way, could lead men to the good life. In each generation employer and employee have faced the decision-war or cooperation.
 * Ida Tarbell, All in the Day's Work (1939)

title: Andrew Carnegie


text:
User:Sfinx~enwikiquote

Cercatemi sul mio profilo principale

 * 1) Profilo principale []
 * 2) Le mie discussioni []

Find me on my main page

 * 1) Main profile page []
 * 2) My talk page []

title: User:Sfinx~enwikiquote


text:
American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American non-profit organization with headquarters in New York City, whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.".

Quotes

 * Listening to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) speak is like having a real life history lesson. Mr. Conyers is the second-longest serving member of Congress, having been in office for nearly 50 years.  After participating in the March on Washington in 1963, he entered Congress in the middle of the fight for civil rights and, as a leading civil rights activist himself, has played a key role in passing, protecting and expanding our nation’s most vital civil rights laws.Today is the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This landmark law made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, and gender. It began to provide equal opportunities in areas like employment, voting, public accommodations, and education. Many know it better as the law that integrated lunch counters and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to protect American workers from discriminatory workplace practices.
 * The Civil Rights Act at 50: A Conversation with Rep. John Conyers, ACLU Washington Legislative Office,  Deborah J. Vagins,  (2 July 2014)

 * Many people don’t remember how violent and dangerous it was in the South at that time. This bill was the culmination of a long list of incidents going on all over America, particularly in the South... Many people, if not most people in the country, were tired of and embarrassed by the violence that accompanied resistance to ending segregation. ... There were two schools of thought in American politics during that time. There were those who were not willing to throw in the towel and agree that we were coming into a new era. The Southern senators—who were then Democrats—were going to resist to the bitter end bringing about any kind of social equality, and they meant it... This [division] wasn’t over because we passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These were very turbulent times... D.C. itself was still in the process of fully desegregating. It was very clear to a lot of people that this was something that had to change... couldn’t go on any longer. But it also meant that there were a large number of people that weren’t for the change.It’s become clear that this struggle isn’t over. Much of the violence is gone, which provoked and embarrassed so many people, but we’re still trying to make sure that we aren’t losing rights. Traditional civil rights groups [like] the NAACP [and] the ACLU are making sure we continue this and we don’t let the Act be treated as a bit of unsavory history in that past.
 * The Civil Rights Act at 50: A Conversation with Rep. John Conyers, ACLU Washington Legislative Office,  Deborah J. Vagins,  (2 July 2014)

 * It is easy to defend freedom of speech when the message is something many people find at least reasonable. But the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive. That was true when the Nazis marched in Skokie. It remains true today.

 * The ACLU has long argued that veterans and their families should be free to choose religious symbols on military headstones — whether Crosses, Stars of David, Pentacles, or other symbols — and that the government should not be permitted to restrict such religious expression in federal cemeteries.

 * Members of the military have a right to pray or not pray as they personally see fit, and that right is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is one of the fundamental rights they put their lives on the line to defend in service to their country. But the government should not be in the business of compelling religious observance, particularly in military academies, where students can feel coerced by senior students and officials and risk the loss of leadership opportunities for following their conscience.
 * Deborah A. Jeon, Legal Director, ACLU of Maryland, in

 * The ACLU is devoted to some very controversial principles — like the principle that everyone who is arrested should enjoy the same constitutional rights, regardless of their alleged crime or their character. We don't take that position to irritate people; we take that position because we believe in it. We believe in it, in part, in a spirit of enlightened self-interest, because the rights of each one of us are co-extensive with the rights of everyone who is arrested and prosecuted in the criminal courts. If we all don't enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.
 * Wendy Kaminer, in "6/24/95 Wendy Kaminer on Crime" (24 June 1995).

 * Even the American Civil Liberties Union, set up specifically to defend the liberties of Communists and all other political groups, began to wilt in the cold war atmosphere. It had already started in this direction back in 1940 when it expelled one of its charter members, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, because she was a member of the Communist party. In the fifties, the ACLU was hesitant to defend Corliss Lamont, its own board member, and Owen Lattimore, when both were under attack. It was reluctant to defend publicly the Communist leaders during the first Smith Act trial, and kept completely out of the Rosenberg case, saying no civil liberties issues were involved.
 * Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States

title: American Civil Liberties Union