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Edward Bernays

Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) was an Austrian-born American publicist, sometimes called "the father of public relations".

Quotes

 * This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.
 * "Manipulating Public Opinion", American Journal of Sociology 33 (May, 1928), p. 958–971

 * The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
 * "The Engineering of Consent", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science No. 250 (March 1947), p. 113; Reprinted in Edward L. Bernays, Howard Walden Cutler, The Engineering of Consent, University of Oklahoma Press, 1955

 * The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed.
 * Public Relations (1952) p. 12

 * Goebbels [...] was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me.
 * Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel (1965)

 * It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.
 * Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102

 * For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.
 * Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102
 * On why he read Playboy

 * The best place to find things: the public library.
 * Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102

 * The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
 * Quoted in L. Tye The Father of Spin (1998) p. 102

 * When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words. So we found the words "counsel on public relations".
 * Quoted in Adam Curtis' The Century of the Self (2002)

Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923)

 * When Napoleon said, 'Circumstance? I make circumstance‚' he expressed very nearly the spirit of the public relations counsel's work.
 * p. 51

 * Domination to-day is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.
 * p. 133

 * Let us assume that our problem is the intensification in the public mind of the prestige of a hotel. The problem for the public relations counsel is to create in the public mind the close relationship between the hotel and a number of ideas that represent the things the hotel desires to stand for in the public mind.
 * p. 168

 * The public relations counsel, therefore, is a creator of news for whatever medium he chooses to transmit ideas. It is his duty to create news no matter what the medium which broadcasts this news.
 * p. 171

 * The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.
 * p. 212

Propaganda (1928)

 * Unless otherwise noted, page numbers refer to the 2004 Ig Publishing edition, ISBN 0970312598 (The text begins on p. 35, after an introduction by Mark Crispin Miller.)

 * The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.
 * p. 37

 * In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.
 * p. 37–38

 * In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.
 * p. 39

 * Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
 * p. 48

 * Who are the men, who, without our realizing it, give us our ideas, tell us whom to admire and whom to despise, what to believe about the ownership of public utilities .. about immigration who tell us how our houses should be designed, what furniture we should put into them, what menus we should serve at our table, what kind of shirts we must wear, what sports we should indulge in, what plays we should see, what charities we should support, what pictures we should admire, what slang we should affect, what jokes we should laugh at?
 * p.59

 * The new profession of public relations has grown up because of the increasing complexity of modern life and the consequent necessity for making the actions of one part of the public understandable to other sectors of the public. It is due, too, to the increasing dependence of organized power of all sorts upon public opinion. Governments, whether they are monarchical, constitutional, democratic or communist, depend upon acquiescent public opinion for the success of their efforts and, in fact, government is government only by virtue of public acquiescence. Industries, public utilities, educational movements, indeed all groups representing any concept or product, whether they are majority or minority ideas, succeed only because of approving public opinion. Public opinion is the unacknowledged partner in all broad efforts. The public relations counsel, then, is the agent who, working with modern media of communications and the group formations of society, brings an idea to the consciousness of the public.
 * p. 63

 * If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it?
 * Page 71 (1928 edition?)

 * If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn. His mind retains the patterns which have been stamped on it by the group influences.
 * Page 73 (1928 edition)

 * But when the example of the leader is not at hand and the herd must think for itself, it does so by means of clichés, pat words or images which stand for a whole group of ideas or experiences. Not many years ago, it was only necessary to tag a political candidate with the word interests to stampede millions of people into voting against him, because anything associated with "the interests" seemed necessary corrupt. Recently the word Bolshevik has performed a similar service for persons who wished to frighten the public away from a line of action. By playing upon a old cliché, or manipulating a new one, the propagandist can sometimes swing a whole mass group emotions.
 * Page 74

 * It is chiefly the psychologists of the school of Freud who have pointed out that many of man's thoughts and actions are compensatory substitutes for desires which he has been obliged to suppress. A thing may be desired not for its intrinsic worth or usefulness, but because he has unconsciously come to see in it a symbol of something else, the desire for which he is ashamed to admit to himself...This general principle, that men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves, is as true of mass as of individual psychology...Human desires are the steam which makes the soial machine work. Only by understanding them can the propagandist control that cast, loose-jointed mechanism which is modern society.
 * Page 75 as quoted in Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism edited by Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf, p.40

 * While, under the handicraft of small-unit system of production was that typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand. A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. This entails a vastly more complex system of distribution than formerly.
 * Page 84

 * No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
 * Page 109

 * One reason, perhaps, why the politician today is slow to take up methods which are a commonplace in business life is that he has such ready entry to the media of communication on which his power depends. The newspaperman looks to him for news. And by his power of giving or withholding information the politician can often effectively censor political news. But being dependent, every day of the year and for year after year, upon certain politicians for news, the newspaper reporters are obliged to work in harmony with their news sources.
 * Page 120

 * Propaganda is of no use to the politician unless he has something to say which the public, consciously or unconsciously, wants to hear.
 * Page 123

Quotes about Bernays

 * The American journalist, Edward Bernays, is often described as the man who invented modern propaganda. The nephew of Sigmund Freud, the pioneer of psycho-analysis, it was Bernays who coined the term “public relations” as a euphemism for spin and its deceptions.  In 1929, he persuaded feminists to promote cigarettes for women by smoking in the New York Easter Parade – behaviour then considered outlandish. One feminist, Ruth Booth, declared, “Women! Light another torch of freedom! Fight another sex taboo!” Bernays’ influence extended far beyond advertising. His greatest success was his role in convincing the American public to join the slaughter of the First World War.  The secret, he said, was “engineering the consent” of people in order to “control and regiment [them] according to our will without their knowing about it”.  He described this as “the true ruling power in our society” and called it an “invisible government”.
 * John Pilger, Inside the Invisible Government: War, Propaganda, Clinton & Trump, Information Clearing House, October 28, 2016

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Places

Places (or place) is a term that has a variety of meanings in a dictionary sense, but which is principally used in a geographic sense as a noun to denote location, though in a sense of a location identified with that which is located there.

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 * A place where I can find out again—where I am—and what I must do. A place where I can stop and do nothing in order to start again.
 * James Baldwin in Charles E. Adelsen, "A Love Affair: James Baldwin and Istanbul", Ebony (March 1970), p. 44.

 * You don't want to stand on a corner and be told to get off it when you got nowhere else to go. And we want somewhere else to go.
 * Arna Bontemps, Anyplace But Here (1966).

 * The place is silent and aware; It has had its scenes, its joys and crimes, But that is its own affair.
 * Robert Browning, "By the Fireside", stanza 20, in Men and Women (1855).

 * All places are distant from heaven alike.
 * Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part 2, Section 3, Member 4.

 * Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
 * Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871), Ch. 2.

 * One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.
 * Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit (1855–1857), Book 1, Ch. 2.

 * We are children of our landscape. It dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure in which we are responsive to it.
 * Lawrence Durrell, Justine (New York: Dutton, 1957), p. 41.

 * Man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
 * Lawrence Durrell, Justine (New York: Dutton, 1957), p. 175.

 * It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper, "I am watching you—are you watching yourself in me?"
 * Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place (New York: Dutton, 1969), p. 158.

 * The great thing is to try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in with reverence, idly—but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
 * Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place (New York: Dutton, 1969), p. 162.

 * The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in the beholders.
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" in Essays, Second Series (1841).

 * No two persons can ever see the same landscape.
 * Norman Gale, Solitude (London: B. T. Batsford, 1913), p. 45.

 * I had my existence. I was there. Me in the place and the place in me.
 * Seamus Heaney, "A Herbal" (After Guillevic's "Herbes de Bretagne"), Human Chain (2010).

 * God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Belovèd over all.
 * Rudyard Kipling, "Sussex" (1902). Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Inclusive Edition, 1885–1918 (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919), p. 244.

 * Every continent has its own great spirit of place. Every people is polarized in some particular locality, which is home, the homeland. Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, different vibration, different chemical exhalation, different polarity with different stars: call it what you like. But the spirit of place is a great reality.
 * D. H. Lawrence, "The Spirit of Place", Studies in Classic American Literature (1923).

 * I have lived in a place, I shall die in a place, I have no craving for distant lands. But a place is nothing, not even space, Unless at its heart a figure stands.
 * Amy Lowell, "Thorn Piece", Ballads for Sale (1927).

 * How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you — you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences — little rags and shreds of your very life.
 * Katherine Mansfield, letter to Ida Baker (March 1922) in Leslie Moore (pseudonym for Ida Baker), Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of L. M. (London: Michael Joseph, 1971), p. 184.

 *     All places are alike, And every earth is fit for burial.
 * Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (circa 1592), Act 5, sc. 1, line 147.

 * Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
 * Alice Meynell, "The Spirit of Place", The Spirit of Place and Other Essays (London: John Lane, 1899), p. 3.

 * In some places you can pass through all the changes of fifty centuries in the space of five minutes. Everything is delineated, sculptured, etched. Even the waste lands have an eternal cast about them. You see everything in its uniqueness—a man sitting on a road under a tree: a donkey climbing a path near a mountain: a ship in a harbor in a sea of turquoise: a table on a terrace beneath a cloud. And so on. Whatever you look at you see as if for the first time; it won't run away, it won't be demolished overnight; it won't disintegrate or dissolve or revolutionize itself. Every individual thing that exists, whether made by God or man, whether fortuitous or planned, stands out like a nut in an aureole of light, of time and of space.
 * Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941). New York: New Directions, 1958, p. 146.

 * No, as with the sacred places so with the murderous spots—the record of events is written into the earth.[…] Certain spots stand out like semaphores, revealing not only the clue but the event—provided, to be sure, they are approached with utter purity of heart.
 * Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941). New York: New Directions, 1958, p. 198.

 * One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
 * Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (New York: New Directions, 1957), p. 25.

 * To get to a place where you could love anything you chose—not to need permission for desire—well now, that was freedom.
 * Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987), p. 162.

 * Something had happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only one place, where something has happened. And then there are the other places, which are just other places.
 * Alice Munro, "Face", Too Much Happiness (2009).

 * Human identity presupposes the identity of place.
 * Christian Norberg-Schulz, Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (New York: Rizzoli, 1979), p. 22.

 * Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place. Nothing outside you can give you any place […]. You needn't to look up at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
 * Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood (1952), Ch. 10.

 * Non hominis culpa, sed ista loci.
 * Translation: The fault is not of the man but of the place.
 * Ovid, Tristia, Book V (A.D. 12–13), Part vii, line 60

 * Pensai a quanti luoghi ci sono nel mondo che appartengono così a qualcuno, che qualcuno ha nel sangue e nessun altro li sa.
 * Translation: I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood and no one else knows.
 * Cesare Pavese, The Devil in the Hills (1949), Ch. 9.

 * Nullus locus sine genio.
 * Translation: There is no place without its spirit.
 * Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid (In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii, late 4th century), Book 5, Section 95.

 * All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.
 * William Shakespeare, Richard II (1595), Act 1, sc. 3, line 275.

 * A place for everything, and everything in its place.
 * Samuel Smiles, Thrift (1875), Ch. 5.

 * What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
 * Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4.

 * It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.
 * John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Ch. 3.

 * I think there is a fatality in it; I seldom go to the place I set out for.
 * Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), "The Address. Versailles".

 * One thing in life calls for another; there is a fitness in events and places. The sight of a pleasant arbour puts it in our mind to sit there. One place suggests work, another idleness, a third early rising and long rambles in the dew.[…] Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck. Other spots again seem to abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, 'miching mallecho.'
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Gossip on Romance", Longman's Magazine 1:1 (November 1882); reprinted in Memories and Portraits (1887).
 * The phrase "miching mallecho", meaning "sneaky or skulking mischief", is from Shakespeare's Hamlet, III, ii, 148.

 * Nothing will tell you where you are. Each moment is a place you've never been.
 * Mark Strand, "Black Maps", Darker (1970).

 * 'Space' is more abstract than 'place'. What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value.
 * Yi-Fu Tuan, Place and Space: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1977), p. 6.

 *   Geniumque loci, primamque Deorum Tellurem, Nymphasque, et adhuc precatur Numina.
 * Translation: He prays to the spirit of the place, and to Earth, the first of the gods, and to the Nymphs and as yet unknown rivers.
 * Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book 7, line 136.

 * "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old, But something ails it now; the spot is curse'd."
 * William Wordsworth, "Hart-leap Well", Part 2, in Lyrical Ballads (1800), Vol. II.

 * There is nothing more fragile than the balance of beautiful places.
 * Marguerite Yourcenar, note (1958) in "Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian", Memoirs of Hadrian (1951).

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Guidelines for discussion
I'm not clear on what level of discussion of new stuff is supposed to appear here. Are there any examples in other WikiMedia projects? (I didn't find a w:Wikipedia:Week in review when I checked just now.) Also, how is this different from Community Portal, which already reports on current happenings? It seems to me there are already too many places to look for something, and consequently too many places to remember to post information.

It's also instructive to observe that WQ:CP itself is currently and frequently very much out-of-date. Aphaia was the primary maintainer of that page, until she became more involved in other projects. MosheZadka followed with a week of activity related to some bot, Vfd, and image-upload issues, but virtually nothing has been done since, other than to revert vandalism. This is how things go on Wikiquote in its current state, which is why I question the editor availability and involvement for a new effort like this. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:18, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Sj asked me to make a weekly report, something around three lines or so, of what is going on here. I'm not entirely sure what intent he has for it, but I assume it is for larger Foundation use, but stored locally to make it easier to keep updated. Essjay Talk • Contact 23:58, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm curious — if it's for Foundation use, why doesn't Wikipedia have one? I'm against adding to administrative burdens when the few active folks are already spread so thin. (Has anyone responded to any of your WQ policy initiatives yet?) Sometimes I think that folks working on Foundation-wide efforts assume every project has Wikipedia-like resources. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:14, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

 * We didn't discuss Wikipedia, but I would guess that he'll pull from The Wikipedia Signpost, which is already doing this sort of thing. When I see him, I'll point him this way. Essjay Talk • Contact 04:23, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

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Megas XLR

Megas XLR (2004–2005) was an American animated television series produced by Cartoon Network Studios, which follows a fat slacker named Coop who accidentally becomes the pilot of a powerful mech from the future.

Test Drive [1.01]

 * Gorrath: A time warp? That's impossible. That technology is only theoretical. Earthers can't even TELL time, let alone travel through it!

 * Goat: Two! Bucks! Anything in that pile: two bucks. I doubt that whole pile is worth more than two bucks...
 * Coop: [Coop pulls on junk, causing the pile to collapse and revealing MEGAS] Whoa. What's that?
 * Goat: No idea.
 * Coop: Two bucks, huh? I'll take it!
 * Goat: Oh, man...

 * Kiva: My robot wasn't meant to be a toy for some prehistoric yahoo and his pet monkey-thing!
 * Jamie: Monkey-thing? MONKEY-THING?! BLAST HER, COOP!

 * Kiva: [After Coop bested Kiva's mech with a spectacular wrestling move] My drones! I can't understand how you beat me.
 * Coop: Yeah...it kinda ROCKED. [Kiva looks at him] I mean, sorry about that.
 * Kiva: How did YOU get to be such a good pilot?
 * Coop: Well...[Flashback occurs. Mainly showing Coop sitting by the couch playing video games, he gets older, Jamie comes along and they both get older]

 * Kiva: Look at them all, these odds are awful!
 * Coop: You're right, it is kind of unfair. [knocks his only ally unconscious] Now it's fair.

 * Gorrath: Take us into Null Space, so we can affect repairs.
 * Commander: Hmpf! Don't you mean: "run away because we got our jhorblochs handed to us by ONE EARTHER"? [Gorrath glares at him and the Commander shields his own face tentacles] Not the face!
 * Gorrath: Tread lightly, Commander...or you might find yourself at the head of the next assault...WITHOUT A MECH!

 * Coop: All right, you alien chumps! You're in MY town and nobody gets to wreck it.[Record Scratches] Uh...Except for me!

Battle Royale [1.02]

 * Magnanimous: We all know there's no way you can beat all of us and protect the subform here.
 * Jamie: SUB-FORM? Go get 'em Kiva, I got your back!
 * Kiva: [After both of them get captured] [sarcastically] Thanks for getting my back...
 * Jamie: [To Magnanimous] I wasn't doing anything! Hey, I don't even know her!

 * Magnanimous: Now either you throw the fight or the redhead and the little girl get a taste of the [ominous voice and music] quantum singularity!
 * [Sudden flashback to Coop not paying attention at school]
 * Teacher: Mr. Cooplowski! Pay attention! One day you'll need to know what a quantum singularity is, and then you'll be sorry!
 * Coop: Yeah, right.

 * Coop: [To Magnanimous] Okay you big-headed, tater-tot looking freak! You tricked me, you stacked the odds against me, you threatened my friends AND you insult my robot...NOW I'm mad!

All I Wanted Was a Slushie [1.03]

 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: I am the Replicant Engineered for Galactic Infiltration and Sabotage Mark V.

 * Kiva: First we need to run through all the systems.
 * Jamie: [Groans] But that could take hours.
 * Coop: Could. Won't. [Coop flies Megas into space and pushes practically all the buttons.]

 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: [After crushing the Megaslush machine in front of Coop] Do not panic. [Draws several weapons] You will all die. [R.E.G.I.S. chases after some people]
 * Jamie: Coop, we got to stop that thing! Before it hurts ME!
 * Coop: THAT thing...Just Hurt...My Megaslush! [In Megas, to R.E.G.I.S.] Hey, pal! I believe you owe me and my friend here a Megaslush.
 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: Who dares challenge R.E.G.I.S.? R.E.G.I.S. is the destroyer of worlds, consumer of their rubble, bringer of despair. R.E.G.I.S. is- [Gets crushed by Megas]
 * Jamie: Nice!

 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: Surrender now, and I will destroy you peacefully.

 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: The R.E.G.I.S. Mark V is invincible. No weapon forged by such a primitive species can defeat R.E.G.I.S., which is invincible.

 * Coop: [paying with pennies] $1.15...$1.16...
 * Goat: Oh yeah. Stratospheric strawberry slime. It's the nectar of the gods.
 * Coop: Where was I?
 * [Everyone groans]

 * Kiva: [After seeing the R.E.G.I.S. Mark V repeatedly regenerate after being physically beaten down] Just to reiterate: Smashing bad.
 * Jamie: You know, normally I'm pro-smashing, and I hate to agree with future-girl, but maybe smashing isn't the way to go this time.
 * Coop: We tried no smashing, and that didn't work. I'm sticking to my strengths...And smashing is my strengths. I just need to find the right way to smash him.

 * R.E.G.I.S. Mark V: The R.E.G.I.S. Mark V is the ultimate fighting machine. Unstoppable, merciless, glorious. No one is safe from the R.E.G.I.S..

 * Coop: All I wanted was a Megaslush, just ONE Megaslush! But you wouldn't let me have it would you? You busted up my town and you tried to eat my robot...NOW you're going down! HARD!

The Fat and the Furious [1.04]

 * Gorrath: I must admit that your strategies are strange and cunning...but mostly strange.

 * Coop: All right, you intergalactic snots! You busted up my car show!
 * Jamie: Yeah!
 * Coop: You wrecked my friends' rides!
 * Jamie: Yeah!
 * Coop: AND! You made me run half a block!
 * Jamie: Yeah! [record scratch] Wait-Half a block?
 * Coop: Now, it's payback time!

Buggin' the System [1.05]

 * Jamie: Coop, "Magnoflex!" NOW!

 * Coop: Listen up, you low rent Mothra wannabe! You going down and you going down EXTRA hard! No one gets away with trying to mess up MY robot! Let's get it on!

TV Dinner [1.06]

 * Megas' Dashboard: Missiles - More Missiles - ALL the Missiles!

 * Coop: [The TV suddenly turns off] No... [Coop leaps onto the table showering Jamie with food] NO! [Coop desperately smacks the TV to get it to work] No!
 * Jamie: [Still covered in food] Looks like the cable's out.

 * Kiva: Coop, forget it. It's just Television. The world can live without it.
 * Coop: [Coop imagines a bright happy world without TV where he is left as a pauper] No...I won't let that happen!

 * Jamie: [As MEGAS gets sucked into the Planet Monster's surface] So THIS is how it all ends...I always thought I'd go down fighting a bunch of cyborg ninjas, or something cooler this-[MEGAS gets sucked beneath the surface]

 * Coop: It's too bad we can't force it to over-eat. I mean, it always does me in.
 * Jamie: No it doesn't.
 * Coop: Well, yeah, but regular people get sick if they eat too much.

 * Coop: No! I'm sick of this thing. It's trying to eat my planet, it messed up my paint job with acid boogs AND it made me miss my show! I'M taking this TV eating sucka to the mat.

Breakout [1.07]

 * Grrkek: I should thank you for releasing me.
 * Coop: Don't mention it!
 * Grrkek: Instead I shall destroy you.

 * Grrkek: [Now twice as large as before] Remember me?
 * Coop: I remember I whooped your jacked up alien butt.
 * Grrkek: A temporary setback. But thanks to your laser beam, I feel good enough to kill a thousand planets. Guess where I'm going to start?
 * Coop: Uh, I don't know, YOUR MOM'S HOUSE!? [Grrkek kicks Megas]

 * Grrkek: Now you'll see why they call me Grrkek the Planet Killer. [pause] Actually, you'll be too dead to see anything. But you get the idea.

 * Coop: First, he smashes my car, which I was going to fix by the way! Then he breaks my video game-
 * Jamie: Coop, you broke that.
 * Coop: I'm on a roll here, man! And NOW he wants to break my planet? Well, I got news for you buddy! This town ain't big enough for the both...of...us? [Coop notices the giant tidal wave]

Dude, Where's my Head? [1.08]

 * Jamie: Come on man, haven't I always been there for you?
 * Coop: [Thinking to himself, Flashbacks to Coop waiting by himself for Jamie at the movie theater,an amusement park, at Coop's Birthday, and for some reason at Jamie's Birthday] Alright, but don't be touching none of the special buttons or nothing. [He gives Jamie the car keys]
 * Jamie: Yeah yeah, I promise. [He takes the keys leaving Coop alone like in the flashbacks]

 * Gorrath: [In a Mech that looks like MEGAS] Tremble before me! Pitiful Earth filth!
 * Goat: Sweet new paint job, bro.
 * Tiny: Looking good, Coop!
 * Gorrath: [Groans] What is wrong with this planet?

 * Coop: I installed it so that I could still operate MEGAS, if I was working on the car. I'm still tweaking it. [A nearby controller catches on fire and Coop quickly puts it out] [With a nervous laugh] Like I said, I'm still tweaking it...

 * [Jamie accidentally takes control of Megas, causing it to do random crazy things, while Gorrath watches in silent confusion]
 * Gina: Do any of these buttons do anything?
 * Gorrath: Enough of these foolish distractions!

 * Coop: Alright tentacle-breath. You copied my robot, hit me when I wasn't looking, threatened my town-
 * Jamie: AND you almost ruined my date!

Bad Guy [1.09]

 * [Coop has won a hot dog eating contest, but continues eating]
 * Jamie: Coop, you can stop eating now.
 * Coop: I ain't finished yet! [later] you know I'm still kind of hungry. You guys up for ice cream?
 * Kiva: How can you still be hungry after that...that horror show?
 * Coop: It takes many years of intensive training to cultivate this kind of refined appetite. [Flashback of Coop eating tons of food as he grows up] Many years...

 * [Coop is accused of being a Bad Guy by the S-Force]
 * Coop: Who, ME? It's just an eating contest. Is it a crime to eat?
 * Jamie: The way you do it, it should be.

 * Ender: I am Ender. I end things. People, planets, galaxies.

 * Ender: Now I am free to conquer and destroy! Or destroy and conquer! Or just destroy!

 * Megas' Dashboard: [Power levels] Low Energy - Fair Amount - Normal - Too Much! - Getting Ridiculous - Are You Kidding?

 * Coop: What's this OMNICRON13 thingy?
 * Argo: No! You destabilized the wave pattern! Who knows what will happen? Don't activate it!
 * Coop: [Immediately activates it]

 * Coop: Listen chump. I was just doing my own thing, when some robot-riding circus freaks jumped me! And then you had to show up and start bashing my town! And for SOME reason, everyone keeps calling ME-The Bad Guy! I may not be the best guy...But I sure ain't no bad guy! Yo, S-Force! You ready?
 * Argo: No! NO!
 * Sloan: [cries] My robot!

Junk in the Trunk [1.10]

 * Coop: No way! This guy sicked a giant worm-thingy on me, chased my pals around with zombie-robots and made me break a perfectly good Photonic Stabilizer! I'm putting you in a hurt-locker and slamming the door, junkman!

DMV: Department of Megas Violations [1.11]

 * Clerk: If I start making exceptions this whole place would fall apart.
 * [Later, Coop uses Megas to destroy the DMV while laughing. This is all revealed to be in his imagination]
 * Coop: I'll give you fall apart.

 * Coop: This alien chick thinks she can get my ride towed, make me go to the DMV and take a road-test!? I DON'T NEED NO STINKING ROAD TEST!
 * Jamie: Eh, dude, none of that stuff is her fault.
 * Coop: Yeah...Well she's still trying to kidnap Kiva, that ain't cool neither.

 * Coop: Jamie, stop screaming like a girl!
 * Jamie: It's not me, it's him! [the supervisor is shrieking and cowering]
 * Coop: Hey, you, stop screaming like Jamie!

Coop D'Etat [1.12]

 * Gyven: [After knocking down Zanzoar from attacking MEGAS] Following their transpacial rift was a clever idea. I appreciate you finding them for me.
 * Coop: Hey, thanks buddy! I don't know what was up with that guy back there.
 * Gyven: [To Coop] Surrender defiler! Or I'll tear your circuits out of the core!

 * Zanzoar: [carrying Megas off] I WILL be emperor!
 * Jamie: And I WILL be sick...

 * Jamie: The Metal Maiden's a sword...The Metal Maiden's a sword?!

 * Coop: Listen here, you walking water heater. YOU guys attacked me.
 * Jamie: Nope, that was you.
 * Coop: YOU screwed up my warp drive.
 * Kiva: You did that too.
 * Coop: AND you made me miss the Monster Truck combat of the century!
 * Jamie: Again, all you.
 * Coop: Do ya mind? I'm on a roll here. Right! [Pause] What was I saying? Ah, forget it!

The Driver's Seat [1.13]

 * Gorrath: You are the one stain on my perfect record of conquest.
 * Coop: Then you must have gone up against some pretty lame chumps.

 * [Gorrath is torturing Coop by eating food in front of him]
 * Coop: A Philly cheesesteak? That's low.
 * Gorrath: [eats it but finds the earth food disgusting and forces a smile] Mmm!
 * Coop: I'll remember this when I'm back in my bot!

 * Coop: Now for a little payback. Me and MEGAS vs a bunch of Glorft bots that got the home field advantage...Sounds fair to me. Hey Squid! About those goodbyes. Uh, buh-bye! [Proceeds to destroy Glorft bots]

 * Megas' Dashboard: Bet You Can't Guess What This Button Does

 * Coop: [To Gorrath] Come on, don't stop now. What else ya got? I've got only one arm and I'm still wiping the floor with ya! I think you'll need a bigger robot if you want to play with me anymore! What? You want me to drop the other arm so it's fair?  [Kiva and Jamie shake their heads and wave their hands in desperation]
 * Gorrath: Let's see how you like the Eradicator. [Pushes a button and the Karrajor converts into an enormous mech with Megas hovering in front of it's cannons like a grain of sand]
 * Coop: Well... That's pretty big.
 * Jamie: You just had to ask if he had a bigger robot, didn't you?

 * Megas' Dashboard: [Various buttons] DESTROY THE WORLD. SMITE THE WORLD. DESTROY THE WORLD WORSE. Save the world. [The last button is missing, wires hanging all over]

 * [Coop has just caused the Karrajor to be sucked into Null Space, seemingly destroying it]
 * Coop: Man, now I really need another Big Glug... and a cheesesteak... or 28.
 * Kiva: Coop! You just destroyed the Glorft!
 * Coop: So? What'ya think was going to happen?

Ultra Chicks [2.01]

 * Ultra Cadet: [to Jamie] Don't worry, Coop! We'll take care of this chubby thief and get your robot back!
 * Coop: [offended] Chubby? Ladies, this is fat!

 * Kiva: We better go find him. Leaving Jamie alone with some innocent aliens isn't a good idea.
 * Coop: What's the worst he can do? [Imagines Jamie as the King of an alien planet, an alien presents him a fish as a gift, Jamie gets angry and presses a button labeled "NOT GOOD ENOUGH" causing the entire planet to explode] You're right we better find him.

 * Jamie: Stop! I'm not Coop!
 * Ultra Cadet: What!?
 * Jamie: [Points at Coop] He's Coop. He's the guy you wanted...
 * Ultra Cadet: [observing the sweaty, fat, unshaven Coop] You're Coop?
 * Goat: [Whispering to Coop] I'll give you five bucks if you tell them I'm your sidekick...

 * Coop: That does it! You transforming girl-scout super freaks interrupted my quality junkyard time, kidnapped Jamie and made me miss second lunch. Oh, it's ON now!

The Return [2.02]

 * Kiva: I knew there was something more to this than some stupid fight. This is about revenge!
 * Magnanimous: It's about more than that, red. You put me in a quantum singularity, destroyed my empire, made me broke! And gave me this twitch. [eye twitches, completely ignoring his huge scar] It's about hurting you and I wish to go on hurting you, so I am going to humiliate you LIVE. And while I'm at it, I think I might do a little destruction number on this planet of yours!...Oh wow, I guess it IS about revenge.

 * T-Bot: T-Bot will pounce you! Trounce you! And utterly denounce you!.

 * Coop: Alright, you chumps...You guys are trying to steal my title, you're wrecking my town and now you're making me seriously late on my video. You wanna fight- [gets knocked down by T-bot]
 * T-Bot: T-Bot wins no matter what! [Coop kicks T-Bot into the air]

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Coop [2.03]

 * Skippy: So, who's the chick?
 * Kiva: "Chick"?
 * Coop: She's from the future.
 * Skippy: [looks at Kiva] Yeah, right.
 * Coop: Tell the kid something about the future, Kiva.
 * Kiva: Little boys like you are used as target practice for "chicks" like me.

 * Megas' Dashboard: Eject Skippy

 * Gorrath: I will return, Earther! Your underdeveloped brain has no capacity to comprehend the horrors I have in store for you!
 * Coop: And my underdeveloped brain will be waitin'. [Thinks for a second] Hey!

 * Coop: Okay, you slimy chump. First, you come back after I kill ya, then ya try to beat up my cousin and now you think you're gonna shoot the moon into the Earth?! Well, I got your trigger right here! [accidentally drops the trigger, which lands on Coop's lap. Coop sighs in relief, causing his belly to press the trigger, thereby activating the engine]
 * Kiva: You fired the engine!
 * Skippy: Should have let a responsible child hold it.

Viva Las Megas [2.04]

 * Coop: [After Kiva stops him from using his nukes] What's the point of having nukes if you can't use them?

 * R.E.C.R.: I MUST destroy the enemy!
 * Coop: The enemy? What enemy?
 * R.E.C.R.: The enemy...[''R.E.C.R. thinks for a moment] EVERYTHING IS THE ENEMY!

 * R.E.C.R.: I was designed to defend this land, and I will do it by destroying everyone!

 * R.E.C.R.: There is no way you can defeat the superior power of my massive 56 kilobyte processor!
 * Coop: I've got 10-year old video games that are smarter than you!

 * Megas' Dashboard: Do something stupid, Coop.

 * Coop: That's it! You locked me up in that underground pit, made me miss my shot at being the Gonzo Game Master and now you smash the cheapest All you can eat buffet in town? You just gambled and LOST pal!
 * Jamie: [Sarcastically] Ooh, nice one.
 * Coop: Yeah, pretty good huh?

Thanksgiving Throwdown [2.05]

 * Jamie: Those, are the Fabio Brothers!
 * Kiva: Let me guess, from the "Fabio Brothers" show?
 * Coop: No, from the video game.

 * Coop: Alright you holiday wrecking chump! You trashed the city, busted up all them balloons and ruined my parade. You want heat? I'll give you heat! [sets the AC to maximum heat]

S-Force S.O.S. [2.06]

 * Kiva: How did they end up getting captured?
 * Targon: Zarek caught us by surprise.
 * Coop: Surprise? But I thought my training left the S-Force tougher than a microwaved steak.
 * Targon: Training? It was your very training that left them in such a weakened state!

 * Zarek: [After Coop escapes the Infinity Zone] Impossible! No one can escape the force of the Infinity Zone!
 * Coop: Hey, it's a good thing no one told me that.

 * Jamie: Erm, hi!
 * Duchess: Ugh, I forgot about you.
 * Jamie: [Sadly] Forgot?

 * Coop: Let's see how this guy likes Super Destructor Mode!
 * Megas' Dashboard: You heard him kids! Super Destructor Mode!
 * [Megas is soon littered with hundreds of missile launchers]
 * Kiva: Um, were you going to tell me you installed this?
 * Zarek: I bring you a gift. A quick and painful end to your miserable lives. [laughs]
 * Coop: And here's a gift for you ya pointy-eared chump. [Hundreds of missiles are fired towards Zarek] In fact, here's a whole bunch of gifts! 'Cause I'm such a nice guy.

 * [Super Destructor Mode's missiles go off target and hit the The S-Force seemingly destroying them]
 * Kiva: Coop!
 * Targon: S-Force!
 * Jamie: Duchess?

 * Jamie: Coop how could you do that to me? I was just getting somewhere with Duchess!
 * Duchess: No you weren't!
 * [The S-Force is revealed to have survived the blast of Super Destructor Mode's missiles]

 * Targon: That's Impossible!
 * Zarek: Nothing could have survived that blast!
 * Argo: Good thing no one told us that. [The S-Force laugh]

 * Coop: Okay, you cape-wearing space freak! You interrupted my quality beach-time, locked up a planet-load of people and you made me nearly destroy the S-Force!
 * Kiva: -Again!
 * Coop: Now it's time to party, tag-team style. Let's do it, S-Force!

Space Booty [2.07]

 * Jamie: [To a food-replicator] Vampire cheerleader. [Machine buzzes] Regular cheerleader? [Machine buzzes again]. Hey, this thing's busted!
 * [later]
 * Jamie: [To the same food-replicator] ...Solid gold. [Machine buzzes again] Goth Chicks?! [Machine buzzes again] ...A doughnut? [machine dings then makes one appear]

 * Megas' Dashboard: [Oil level] None - Good Enough - Plenty - More Than Enough - No, Really I'm Fine - PLEASE STOP

 * Megas' Dashboard: That Cool Giant Energy Sword Thing

 * Megas' Dashboard: Exactly the same button Coop just used like five minutes ago

 * Captain Warlock: Sweet Kiva, I give you one last chance. Stay with me, and forget about these fools.
 * Coop: Alright you-
 * Kiva: -Arrogant, overblown thief! You tried to break up our team, you almost killed Coop and Jamie, and you made me listen to your endless, cheesy pick-up lines!
 * Coop: Nice.
 * Captain Warlock: Cheesy?
 * Kiva: Get him, Coop!

 * [Coop's driving MEGAS at ramming speed towards the Saving Grace]
 * Coop: Kiva! Duck and cover!
 * Captain Warlock: He wouldn't!
 * Kiva: You don't know Coop.

Terminate Her [2.08]

 * Tiny: [seeing Jamie with Ally] Yo, man, that Jamie?
 * Goat: Nah, that guy's with a girl.

 * Coop: ROCK ON! [Performs a body-slam on the glorft below]

 * Coop: Alright you octopused faced losers. You crash my concert, stop me from getting fake cheese nachos AND try wipin' out this poor chick who ain't done nothing to you, just so you can make Kiva not been born and...me not get...my robot...Uh? Wait, explain it to me again? It's er-Ah forget it!

Ice Ice Megas [2.09]

 * Ator: Why have you done this?
 * Coop: Done what? [camera cuts to the broken robot that suddenly explodes]
 * Ator: Destroy our guardian!
 * Jamie: Uh, he was like that when we got here.
 * Kiva: Jamie, they saw us do it.

 * Ator: Hail to our new guardian! We are saved! [Megas destroys a building]
 * Coop: Sorry!
 * Ator: We are doomed...

 * Megas' Dashboard: Big Red Button of Irony

 * Drallag: Well, it seems this new "guardian" is nothing of the sort. He's done more damage than we have! [laughs]

 * Coop: Listen up you dorky sounding, ice-grubbing, robotic chump! You dinged my chrome, made me break my window AND snapped my favorite key! [Ator clears his throat] Oh yeah. You also tried to cut up the planet of the space big foots...You wanna eat some ice? Glad to oblige!

A Clockwork Megas [2.10]

 * Jamie: [screams] Ah? Wait, I'm okay?
 * Coop: Yeah, what's goin' on?
 * Kiva: This device must only affect a robot with an artificial intelligence operating construct.
 * Coop: Ha ha! Ya hear that!? You can't do nothin' to us, 'cause we don't have intelligence!

 * Klaar: Why are you interfering with my facility?
 * Coop: I was just looking for directions! See what happens when you ask for directions?

 * Coop: Okay chump, anything else you wanna throw at me?
 * Klaar: Just one thing. [summons a giant satellite dish]
 * Jamie: [scoffs] What's he gonna do? Make us watch some bad TV?

 * [Robot prisoners are coming to attack Megas]
 * Jamie: C'mon, Coop! What're you waiting for?! Tear 'em apart!
 * Coop: I can't! They're not the bad guys.
 * Jamie: So? That's never stopped you before! Smash 'em before they smash ME!

 * Coop: Alright, you brainwashing alien creep! You try to grind us up, you enslaved a bunch of innocent robots, and now you're making me late for spicy nuggets! I got one word for you, pal! Game over!
 * Kiva and Jamie: Two words.
 * Coop: Whatever!

Universal Remote [2.11]

 * [Megas' targeting computer begins zeroing in on multiple areas. Soon Skalgar's mech is targeted in just about every place conceivable]
 * Kiva: Uh, Coop? Overkill?
 * Jamie: Yeah! Do more!

 * Coop: Okay you galactic bad guy wannabe! You smash up my drive in, stole my one-of-a-kind universal remote controller and made me miss "Revenge of the amoeba people."
 * Jamie: And the final episode of "Cheerleader Wars".

 * Jamie: Hey school girl, bet you can't hit us!
 * Skalgar: Skalgar! Skalgar! Stop mocking me!

Rearview Mirror, Mirror (Part 1) [2.12]

 * Coop: [Seeing a destroyed Jersey City after activating the Trans-D Drive] No. No! You maniacs! You blew it up! You blew it all to- Wait...hope I didn't do this.

 * Gorrath: How is it possible that a remedial lifeform like you, could have stopped ME time and again? [Flashback to Coop beating aliens in various video games]
 * Coop: What can I say? Whooping alien freaks is a skill.
 * Gorrath: I demand to know who's in charge here!
 * Alternate Jamie: THAT would me. And I don't think YOU'RE in a position to demand anything.

 * Coop: Hey you got the wrong idea! See I was kicking his butt and then we ended up in this warp thing and-
 * Alternate Jamie: -Don't insult my intelligence! Since our war started, we've been trying to capture you.
 * Coop: War? Us? [Flashback to Coop and Jamie competing in various activities with Coop winning every time] Come on man! We were just messing around. I'll let you win next time.

 * Gorrath: Even in victory, you humans are pathetic.
 * Coop: [Laughs] And getting locked up in your own ship ain't pathetic?

 * Gorrath: We'll need some kind of diversion.
 * Coop: Right, diversion. Urm? [accidentally presses a button on the wall setting off an alarm]
 * Gorrath: No! [A laser beam shoots skyward and Coop punches the alarm a few times which makes it stop]
 * Coop: Uh...[Laughs nervously] I'm sure no one heard that. [The guard point their guns at Coop and Gorrath] Yep. Yep they heard it.
 * Gorrath: [angrily] Have I told you how much I hate you?
 * Alternate Jamie: I'm impressed. Allowing yourself to get caught, just so you can activate a homing beacon for them to find our base. Very clever.
 * Gorrath: Clever?!

 * Megas' Dashboard: Park - Neutral - Reverse - Drive - Save Jamie

 * Coop: All right, squid. You tried to wreck the city again, you made me go to some alternate dimension where Jamie is an even bigger creep than usual, AND you got me locked up in a jail cell with no food! It's time to rumble!
 * Gorrath: Are you talking to me? I'm on your side now, remember?!
 * Coop: Oh, sorry. Force of habit, I guess.

Rearview Mirror, Mirror (Part 2) [2.13]

 * Coop: No one trashes Jersey City! Err... but me.
 * Evil Coop: You should be dead! I'm gonna sweep you aside like a fat ball of dust!
 * Coop: [scoffs] You and what army?
 * Gorrath: No doubt that one. [points at army of mechs behind Evil Coop]

 * Evil Kiva: Your obsolete mech is a disgrace.
 * Coop: Does THIS look obsolete?! [Megas strikes a dramatic pose, a piece falls of]
 * Evil Kiva: Yes, it does.

 * Coop: The only thing I hate more than you...is me? Uh, him... [Gorrath looks unimpressed] You know what I mean!

 * Gorrath: [looking at Coop's damaged car] Such a waste. First I'm trapped in the past, and now I'm trapped in a dimension where YOU rule! Shoot me now...
 * Coop: This ain't so bad. I can fix this. [Coop's car explodes]

 * Evil Coop: Why won't you die!?
 * Coop: Next time you abandon Megas, don't leave it in MY garage!

 * Evil Coop: You know you don't have a chance.
 * Coop: I don't know NOTHIN'!

 * Coop: Listen up, you jive clone wannabe! You wrecked my alternate dimension city, blew up my robot, and worst of all, made me SKINNY! Well you're in MY dimension now! And we do things a little differently here!

title: Megas XLR


text:
Amy Tan

Amy Ruth Tan (譚恩美 Tán Ēnměi) (born 19 February 1952) is a Chinese-American writer and member of the Rock Bottom Remainders, most famous for her novel The Joy Luck Club.

Quotes

 * I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read — which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I’m told my books are on required reading lists.
 * interview (2013)

The Joy Luck Club (1989)

 * My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago. My father thinks she was killed by her own thoughts.
 * First lines

 * Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine.

 * Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies.

 * Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.

 * I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

 * After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

 * For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

 * I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

 * My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

 * I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not.

 * Only two kind of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!

I found the opportunity.
 * When I want something to happen — or not happen — I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

 * I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

 * Now that I'm angry at Harold, it's hard to remember what was so remarkable about him.

 * I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...

 * That was the night, in the kitchen, that I realized I was no better than who I was... And I no longer felt angry at Waverly. I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there.

 * Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

 * On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.

 * I have always known a thing before it happens.

 * It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

 * I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I know these things do not mix?

 * Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense?

 * Look at this face. Do you see my foolish hope?

The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)

 * Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
 * p. 9

 * You see what power is – holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
 * p. 387

The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

 * My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco. "Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

 * Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?

SALON Interview (1995)

 * "The Spirit Within" - SALON (12 November 1995)

 * I don't feel the need to be a role model, it's just something that's been thrust upon me. Teachers and a lot of Asian-American organizations, for example, say to me, "We need you to come and speak to us because you're a role model." ... Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. Someone who writes fiction is not necessarily writing a depiction of any generalized group, they're writing a very specific story.

 * Other Asian-American writers just shudder when they are compared to me; it really denigrates the uniqueness of their own work. I find it happening less here partly because people are more aware now of the flaws of political correctness — that literature has to do something to educate people. I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.

 * One relative felt that the story of my grandmother should not have been revealed. My grandmother was the woman (in The Kitchen God's Wife) who had been raped, forced to be a concubine, and finally killed herself. My mother, though, got equally angry at the relative and said, "For so many years, I carried this shame on my back, and my mother suffered, because she couldn't say anything to anybody." And she said, "It's not too late; tell the world, tell the world what happened to her." And I take her mandate to be the one that is in my heart, the one that I should follow.

 * I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write. ...Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule. ... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

 * People look at me as this very, I don't know, Confucius-like wise person — which I'm not. They don't see all the shit that I've been through.

American Acheivement interview (1996)

 * Interview in Sun Valley, Idaho (28 June 1996), with images, audio and video

 * Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.

 * External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.

 * I was writing for businesses. I think my mother was a little skeptical in the beginning, but fortunately, as a free-lance writer I was successful almost immediately. And so she was very proud, because she measured success in terms of money, which is what I started to do as well. My goal then, became to increase the amount of money that I made each month. Not simply each year, but each month — I mean, talk about pressure — to have more billable hours each month. So that by the end of my third year of being a free-lance writer, I was billing 90 hours a week. I had no time to sleep. I had no life. People said I was crazy, that I was a workaholic. And I couldn't understand how it was that I had these wonderful clients, and I was making all this money, and I wasn't happy and I didn't feel successful. That's when I started to write fiction.

Quotes about Amy Tan

 * Today, great writers from minority groups in the U.S. are finding their voice in the wonderful, rich imagery of magic realism. Writers such as Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Amy Tan all have a unique, rich way of writing that can be described as magic realism. These women are among those who have broken away from the style of writing that defines most of the fiction coming from industrialized countries: that pragmatic, minimalist style and way of facing reality in which the only things one dares talk about are those things one can control. What cannot be controlled is denied.
 * 1991 interview in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)

 * I loved the early Amy Tan and her novel The Joy Luck Club.
 * 2009 interview included in Conversations with Edwidge Danticat edited by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (2017)

 * (Q: Can you name some contemporary writers whose work you admire?) Erdrich: ...Amy Tan's novels The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife...
 * 1993 interview in Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris edited by Allan Chavkin and Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994)

title: Amy Tan


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Self discipline

Self-discipline is the ability to manage ourselves and our emotions to determine a best course of action on any situation that whether it is according to or against our will.

Quotes

 * I chanced recently to be glancing over … a book on Japanese Buddhism, and I read among other things that several centuries ago there was a sect of Japanese Buddhism known as the Way of Hardships, and that shortly after there arose another sect known as the Easy Way which at once gained great popularity and tended to supplant the Way of Hardships. But the Japanese Way of Hardships is itself an easy way if one compares it with the original way of Buddha. One can follow indeed very clearly the process by which Buddhist doctrine descended gradually from the austere and almost inaccessible height on which it had been placed by its founder to the level of the prayer mill.
 * Irving Babbitt, "English and the Discipline of Ideas" (1920), pp. 61-62

 * Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.
 * Sydney J. Harris, Pieces of Eight (1982).

 * The middle gear of any man is self-discipline.
 * John le Carré, The Mission Song (2006).

title: Self discipline


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Wikiquote:Requests for adminship/Archives/2006

Here you can read past requests for adminship. See Administrators for what this entails and for a list of current admins. Current requests and on-going discussion are on requests for adminship. The current list of administrators are available.

This page archives requests in 2006.

I have been an editor on Wikiquote since March 4, 2005; I currently have approximately 314 edits. (Feel free to check Kate's tool.) I have been an administrator on Wikipedia for over six months, and have been an extremely prolific admin. I am also currently up for Meta administrator (as of 14:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC) the results were 18-0-1). I am now a Meta administrator as well. I have done cleanup tasks (mostly formatting) on Wikiquote since I began, and after a discussion with Jeffq on the Village Pump, I've started WikiProject Policy Revision to help revise and build Wikiquote's policy base. I believe adminship would be helpful in this, as it will help me gain a better feel for exactly how Wikiquote is administrated (thus, how the policies should be written), as well as grant me access to protected pages (some of the policies needing revision are currently protected). I believe I have the necessary skills and abilities to be an effective Wikiquote administrator, and I look forward to hearing the community's input. -- Essjay ·   Talk 14:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. For some reason I have never encountered this user here or in other projects before, but the more "background checking" I did today about his recent activities, the more impressed I became. He seems to have a good grasp of English Wikipedia admin work and policies, making him the best candidate we have (after our hardworking super-admin Jeff Q of course!) to help coordinate the policy updating. jni 08:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I must add I find it a little strange that almost all of his edits to Wikiquote were made during last four days. I'm not going to change my vote based on that, but maybe our bureacrat should consider extending the ending date of this vote, if not postponing for a little while like was done with User:Sams? I don't want to be too harsh on this though, because I was myself promoted at least partially based on my sysop experience acquired in Wikipedia. What do others think? jni 09:24, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm certainly open to having it extended. I realize that most of my work has been done in the last few days, but that is a result of changing my focus from Wikipedia to other projects since I came back from an extended break. I certainly want the Wikiquote community to have ample time to see me in action before making an important decision like this.-- Essjay ·   Talk 03:44, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now. With his substantial energy and commitment to policy work, Essjay made the top of my fast-track list for sysop candidates, but this is much too fast. We have a lot of problems with experienced Wikipedians not realizing the differences in policies and practices on Wikiquote, so it usually takes a few months for them to get enough WQ experience to adjust. I am expecting Essjay's coming experiences on this policy work to blood him (in more ways than one). I anticipate supporting him, but probably not for at least 6 weeks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 10:36, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Unlike Jeff Q, I think that this "should be no big deal", i.e. imho less qualifications are needed than perhaps what Jeff Q has in mind - and we can continue to review how he operates as a new admin. iddo999 17:49, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - previous Wikimedia adminship elsewhere, and the recent activity by this editor here shows a high level of familiarity with the Wikimedia communities, and competence with many wiki technical details (more than my own). I had also been considering nominating him soon, but had not done so yet because most of his activity here was too recent, and I had not realized that he had been around here to some degree for much longer. I recognize the recent contributions could be helpful, but the primary focus on establishing policy articles and procedures also made me a bit uncomfortable, as beyond the swift elimination of spam and other obvious instances of vandalism I generally prefer a more loose, relaxed and informal atmosphere than is necessarily found on Wikipedia. As an encyclopedia project Wikipedia must develop many rules to properly minimize the intrusion of individual points of view in its articles, while Wikiquote exists more as a testimony and even a celebration of many individual and often peculiar points of view. As with the Wikipedia these should be presented with maximal fairness, accuracy, and with no endorsement of any of the forms of bigotry that might be clearly documented; but potentially, we can accommodate a greater range of "points of view" than the encyclopedia properly can. I also prefer to permit some degree of stylistic variation, and remain opposed to automatic imposition any of particular formats, even though the long standing guidelines and templates which have been developed are generally preferable to any of the innovations that have yet arisen. He also seems to be a very active vandalism fighter, which is always a good thing. In recent periods Jeff, Moshe, and I, who each at some time have been very busy here, all seem to have been even busier with many other things, and as with all wikis the more reliable contributors and admins the better. ~ Kalki 18:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Essjay is now an admin. ~ Kalki 15:13, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Jaxl is an experienced Wikipedia admin who has been editing on Wikiquote since December 2005, racking up about 500 edits, most of which involve article cleanup, vandalism reversion and warnings, and other maintenance work. Despite being honored by inclusion in Wikipedia's "most reverted admin" list (which indirectly counts the number of nasty user-page attacks from vandals, if I read it correctly), he keeps a cool head under fire, using test templates in progression to provide appropriate warnings to vandals, and in at least one case (User talk:68.170.86.111) calmly responding to vicious attacks not with ripostes but with links showing objective evidence of manifest lies from the editor. He would be a valuable addition to our sysop team. Support. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 06:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. I agree with Jeff. iddo999 08:36, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support without question. Essjay Talk • Contact 15:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. ~ Kalki 18:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Abstain because I don't know him at all currently - so I can't express support at that moment, but I have no reason to oppose him either. Currenty I just say all those votes from trustworthy editors on the above has me expect that it will be fun to work with him. --Aphaia 10:34, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Concur with Jeff and the others above. ~ UDScott 14:04, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Agree with Jeff. jni 08:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Jaxl is now an admin here. ~ Kalki 15:41, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

He's only been here a couple of months, but has already racked up 800 edits, about 600 devoted to article cleanup and improvement, and the rest to Wikiquote maintenance, including vandalism reversion and warnings and VfD nomination and voting. He's been a Wikipedian for over a year (with about 2500 edits), so he's had a decent amount of experience with wiki editing and policy. We could really use another active and conscientious sysop to help out as some of us quasi-old timers have been cutting back a bit. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:57, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I accept the nomination. —LrdChaos 23:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. Keep 'em coming, Jeff :-) iddo999 09:38, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. ~ Kalki 15:53, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. -- Robert 02:33, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Obviously. Essjay Talk • Contact 15:10, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. ~ UDScott 20:04, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

 * LrdChaos is now an administrator. ~ Kalki 18:45, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

I am nominating InvisibleSun for sysop status. He has been an industrious editor here since beginning his work on Wikiquote last September, and I feel he definitely deserves to be trusted with the additional tools against vandals available to an admin. ~ Kalki 00:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I accept this nomination. InvisibleSun 01:07, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. I suspect I hadn't noticed InvisibleSun's good work before because it's been largely focused on people articles, too few of which I've been watching. Anyone who does as much work as s/he's done on sourcing and verifying quotes would get my support anyway; his/her anti-vandalism work is a nice bonus. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. I talked to him a little in the past about some specific issues. Anyway, his admin work so far seems good. iddo999 17:17, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. ~ UDScott 17:22, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. Like Jeff, I largely hadn't seen InvisibleSun's work, which surprises me, given the quality and volume. —LrdChaos 17:28, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. -- Robert 23:03, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * InvisibleSun is now an administrator. ~ Kalki 20:21, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

ì Hi this is Paranoid1 as you probably already know I'm pretty much here everyday putting in tv show quotes. Even though it burns me out I really enjoy adding quotes. I don't know why I just has a fixation with quotes. So I don't know if I'm still green to you guys or what but I was thinkg that maybe I could be an admin. I probably won't be that great at spotting bad stuff but I guess I could try. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Paranoid1 (talk • contribs) 11:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

 * By looking at Special:Contributions/Paranoid1, in my humble opinion it's pretty good, and therefore I support your request for adminship. However, the threshold for supporting such requests should probably be higher than my preference, i.e. I personally prefer a low threshold compared to what other admins here prefer, in particular the almighty JeffQ. So in case other admins stay neutral or reject your request for now, just stick around and try again in a few months. BTW you shouldn't have marked your request as a minor edit (that's for typos, or trivial reverts, etc.) iddo999 23:29, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, it would be better to put this request on hold for now, as I see JeffQ and Paranoid1 agreed to at User_talk:Paranoid1. iddo999 11:24, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now. Since we don't have any "on hold" state for sysop discussions, and Paranoid1 hasn't made any edits since 31 July 2006, I recommend we close this nomination as unappproved for the time being, without prejudice to a future nomination. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:41, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The above is a good illustration that my admins choosing skills suck. I'll shut up from now on. iddo999 20:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

CLOSED - not accepted: 2 opposed; no support. ~ Kalki 00:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi, this is Cute 1 4 u. I figured since I love television shows, I can help expanding articles by adding more and more quotes. But I want to be an admin not really for over ruling, but more like for keeping vandalism away.Also for helping other users.And I notice that there are only a few admins here. -- ~ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ~  05:57, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Oppose strongly. There are my usual concerns about lack of Wikiquote knowledge and experience, but much more important is that Cute has been blocked indefinitely on Wikipedia for involvement and possible sockpuppetry (more likely meatpuppetry) with like-minded youthful vandals, and has apparently even promised to retaliate on different Wikimedia projects. She also lied about not impersonating actress Raven-Symoné with a WP user ID, but was caught out by a Checkuser investigation, which suggests the extent of trouble she and her friends have been causing WP. (See her WP talk page, especially the "Proof" section and beyond, and w:WP:AN/I.) Finally, she has routinely demonstrated there (and to some extent here as well) that she has little awareness of just how Wikimedia projects work, and how globally spread their information becomes. (She is currently advertising many personal details which, if she is 11 years old, might even get Wikiquote in trouble for allowing this. I'm trying to dig up policy info on this issue.) So far, her edits here have not been harmful (except for her excessive personal info), but she just doesn't qualify as an admin candidate. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I did no vandalism and yes I am 11.despite my age...-- ~ * Cute 1 4 u  |talk to me! * ~  08:08, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Oppose strongly. I'm not familiar with any of the WP events of which Jeffq speaks, so my serious objection is due to lack of experience and familiarity with "the way of things" here. Cute's edit history, which is only about three days of contributions, shows only meaningful edits to two pages in the main namespace, with a couple of redirects, lots of userpage work, and a few Talk pages rounding out the list. Most of the edits seem to be additions and minor cleanups, not efforts to bring either of the pages into line with the appropriate template format. There are no contributions, other than this self-nomination for adminship, to any pages in the Wikiquote: namespace; I'm firmly unconvinced that Cute has read through and understands most of the policies around here, and hasn't been around long enough to see most of them in action. Furthermore, I'm also not sure that Cute is at a level of maturity suitable for a Wikiquote sysop; the Talk: and User talk: contributions seem to bear this out (e.g., on Talk:Raven-Symoné: "I'm here #1 fan"; User talk:Jesussaves: "Hi. I like the articles you created. Holla back!"). —LrdChaos 14:02, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Support. I honestly see why not. I do not think this user should be judged by what they did on Wikipedia. Cute 1 4 does not even hide the fact that this happened, I was in the same situation once but was let out on grounds of AGF. Anyways, Wikiquote needs all the help it can get I dont see what would hurt if this user was Admin... It could only help.--Seadog.M.S

 * Oppose I have no interaction with him or his, but as far as I skimmed his edits, I found a weak sigh of his or her maturity and understanding of policies enough be granted adminship. --Aphaia 04:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

CLOSED - not accepted: 3 opposed; 1 support. ~ Kalki 00:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I would like to self-nominate for adminship. I've been here since February with an account, and made a handful of contributions before from an IP (here). I have about 400 edits and specialise in British politicians, and have been moving to source the quotes where possible; I also do some cleanups and formatting and patrol new pages, and when bored, try to find suitable quotes of the day. I was an admin on Wikipedia for a year and a half. I would like to contribute to the general administration of Wikiquote, and to do more recent changes patrol (I'm in UK time zone, and some vandalism goes undetected if users based in the US are asleep at the time). Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 16:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Out of curiosity, why did you stop being an admin at Wikipedia? Your edits and administrative contribs here seem quite good to me, but better wait and see if the other admins would like you to do a little more administrative editing before considering your request. iddo999 21:07, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
 * To cut a long story short, I was deadminned by the Arbitration Committee. Apart from overuse of rollback, there were two instances: first when at 1 AM, having been blocked for a nonexistent 3RR violation in the middle of an hour-long edit, I self-unblocked (which was not picked up for a day and occurred months before the Arbitration case). The other issue was an article protection, although the version I protected on was later endorsed by an uninvolved admin. Desysopping was not originally going to pass but I refused to accept an article ban imposed as part of the decision, which caused a rethink. However, ultimately the Arbitration Committee did remove the article ban. I have since changed my user name, although this would have happened anyway. I think it's important to point out that admins are allowed to make mistakes as long as they learn from them, which I certainly have, and I also think that three mistakes in 18 months isn't particularly bad going. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 09:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that we generally make decisions about new admins just according to their editing on Wikiquote, so Wikipedia history doesn't have a special status in this regard. It can be a pointer, like other things which can be pointers, but it's not a litmus test or anything like that. (I don't mean to imply that your Wikipedia history sounds particularly bad or anything like that). Anyhow, if you keep up the good work here, I assume that the other admins will support your request within some time. iddo999 12:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. It seems to me that Fys has been doing a good job here on Wikiquote and shows a lot of promise. - InvisibleSun 23:03, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. I see a lot of edits provided sources for quotes, which is always a good thing, lots of vandalism reversion, and Fys is also active with votes for deletion. I would have liked to have seen some more participation with some of the Wikiquote: namespace policy pages, but that isn't a "showstopper" to me. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support : With many things keeping me busy the last few weeks (and very likely for the next few as well), I have recently been doing little more here than the QotD upkeep, and had not noticed the nomination until after JeffQ responded to it. The responsible edits Fys has made have made me inclined to support the nomination since noticing it, but I didn't wish to be the first or perhaps the only one supporting him, as I would be the one doing the status-changing, and there could conceivably be some opposition. Any squabbles that occurred at Wikipedia, where he has been more active in the past, so far as I investigated them, seem to have been rather minor contentions and misunderstandings, and I found no glaring reasons that would indicate that Fys would not make a good admin here. ~ Kalki 22:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. As Fys approaches 500 edits here and 9 months' participation, his work on articles (including sourcing and cleanup) and in vandalism reversion has been quite solid. (Not to mention 100% edit-summary usage, one of my expectations for excellent wiki editors.) Having been a WP sysop, he obviously knows the ropes there. (I would ask him to specifically review each current WQ policy he intends to take action on, as many of them have some differences from their WP equivalents. And don't be bashful about raising possible discrepancies between our policies and our practices — we're not perfect, either.) Normally, I'd like to see more Wikiquote: space work, but frankly, we could really use a lot of work on sourcing issues in article space, so I wouldn't want him to sacrifice that badly needed effort just to log more work under "Wikiquote:". My biggest concern is that his de-sysopping on WP partly involved "overuse of rollback", which is a problem we have here, too. We (and I am definitely including "I") sometimes rollback edits that are not vandalism, when w:Help:Reverting recommends against that, as it leaves no explanation for the reversion and implies that the edit is vandalistic or at least bad-faith. However, I expect he will be more careful than most to avoid this common pitfall, and will be a valuable contributor to the sysop and general maintenance work here. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 02:39, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. In case it wasn't clear above. iddo999 20:49, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

CLOSED: Fys is now an administrator. ~ Kalki 00:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I am placing a Rfda on Jeffq. I have notified him on his talk page. He showed his incompentance as an Administrator, last night. Any questions, just ask. Thanks. Nyarlathotep 20:18, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Support As nominator. Nyarlathotep 20:21, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Strongly oppose, and I think this nomination is in bad faith. For as long as I've been here, Jeff has been the most visible admin, with all his work with welcomes, policies, etc. Even if he did make a mistake in this case (and the burden is on you, Nyarlathotep, to convince me that it was not a mistake), a single mistake that, at worst, would result in you being unable to edit pages here for three days (note that this was not a permaban) is hardly grounds for de-adminning, and certainly doesn't warrant your gross overreaction. —LrdChaos (talk) 20:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * "and the burden is on you, Nyarlathotep, to convince me that it was a mistake" -Are you suggesting he knew Dragonfire1024 and I were not impostors? Nyarlathotep 21:02, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I left out a "not" in there (which I've now inserted). The way it reads now is the way I originally intended: the burden is on you to show me that this was an intentionally malicious act. —LrdChaos (talk) 21:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
 * That all right. Now I can answer your question:

I do agree that it was a mistake. The problem I see is that Jeffq should know that as, an administrator, much power is vested in his hands. Blocking users which have done no vandalism is an abuse of those powers -whether he though there was a threat from Dragonfire1024 an I or not. Mistakes as such are contrary to the Wiki platform of AGF Openness etc., and while I value Jeffq’s contributions to Wikiquote, it is my firm belief that he needs some time away from the tools where he can rethink his "strategy". Thanks for the question. Nyarlathotep 21:16, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Oppose I notice in your block log that Jeffq is also the one who unblocked you after he researched this further. We have only a few active admins here, and quite frequent vandalism issues, thus also quite frequent blocks of new users. I find your use of the term "incompentance" to describe what appears to be an isolated mistake (false positive, i.e. falsely claiming to identify a vandal) out of mountains of constant work against vandalism to be hurried and rude, particularly because he took the time to look further and then unblock you. In any case, I don't see how a single false positive that has nothing to do with malice is supposed to warrant a Rfda. iddo999 21:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Close nomination. Now that the person who made this nomination has been exposed and blocked as a vandal, there is no reason to continue this process. - InvisibleSun 23:54, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Oppose. Even if the 'crawling chaos' (H. P. Lovecraft) had not revealed himself as a cowardly vandal, it would still not be worth a desysopping for making an honest mistake. In any case there is no 'request for de-adminship' procedure. Close this nomination. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 00:00, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

CLOSED as a facetious request by a known vandal. ~ Kalki 00:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)