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Clone High
Just wanted to let you know that I changed this page's formatting back (moving the wp link to the bottom, and wikifying the title), per the established template. ~ UDScott 18:02, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Post on Talk:Patton (film)
Hi from Wikipedia! I wanted to make sure someone saw what I left... and while RPickman seemed to have written the article, you last worked it.

 * re: Talk:Patton_%28film%29 My sigs not working over here, but DirectLinktomyTalk that will!

You use different templates here I gather, so wanted to make sure someone saw this. btw, if you have redirect capibility, I suggest Patton (Movie) and/or Patton (movie) be added as redirects for searching.
 * Best regards, 24.61.229.179 06:07, 21 March 2006 (UTC) aka User:fabartus at Wikipedia

South Park episodes
Is there a reason you've been creating separate pages for some South Park episodes? These should all be consolidated under the main page for the show. I've added merge tags for the episode pages you've added. The main page really needs some work, and the quotes from these episodes really belong on the main page. ~ UDScott 13:50, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm just transwiki-ing them from Wikipedia. You could consolidate them all into one article if you want but it would be extremely long. Probably a single article which had key quotes from each character and an organization of links to each episode (or season) would be better. If they get merged, please make sure the redirects are sharpened so that people clicking on the links from wikipedia get right to the quotes about that episode. Savidan 20:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

 * If you take a look at Templates/TV shows, you'll see that the accepted way to present quotes from a TV show is to have the episode quotes all on one page. Yes, this can get quite large. But that's the way that all other pages for TV shows are. For shows that have many seasons, sometimes a special table of contents is created (see Buffy the Vampire Slayer for an example). Also, when the quotes are gathered onto one page, they are still grouped by episode, rather than by character. ~ UDScott 13:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Singular vs. plural titles
I saw your question to LrdChaos about Pick-up lines. Wikiquote does generally follow Wikipedia's lead (although our article titles sometimes vary because WP's are occasionally wrong even by their own standards, and it's frequently easier for us to fix that than it is for them). This is nearly always the case for people and creative works. The one common exception is in themes. Some themes, like Love or Science or Floccinaucinihilipilification, are mass nouns, which have no plural sense. But countable nouns are typically used in their plural form for Wikiquote titles. The general rules is that a Wikiquote article title X should be in the form used in the phrase "quotes about X". This gives use "quotes about war" (mass noun), "quotes about Rounders" (looks plural, but is actually singular — the title of a film), and "quotes about William Shakespeare" (singular for a person), just like their corresponding WP articles. But "quotes about fools" and "quotes about pick-up lines" (both countable nouns) will differ. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the explanation. Savidan 08:15, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Jeff Gannon

 * You downgraded all the quotes to "attributed". I knew in the back of my head that somebody would do that eventually. I put an external link in the article providing videographic proof that he actually said all of those things. Is that enough? I'm seriously asking. I don't actually know much about wikiquote.

 * What "attributed" means is that the source of the quote is not known. In fact, there is a movement to replace this designation with "unsourced" on most pages. But what I mean by not having the source known is that for most quotes to qualify as "sourced" you need a definite, verifiable source (e.g. a specific book & chapter, or a date and title of a speech, etc.) In the case of these quotes by Jeff Gannon probably all that is needed is the date that the words were said by Gannon. ~ UDScott 14:22, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I would have to disagree with UDScott's assessment. A date is not a source, as it provides no direct citation of a quote. While a date may suffice for publications that have editorial boards, Wikimedia projects have no such professional scrutiny of evidence or professional reputation to stake on editorial decisions, so we editors are expected to point to material from sources that do. I've even been trying to encourage editors contributing quotes from famous historical speeches to cite a publication or wiki-reliable website for these speeches, as they are just as vulnerable to the "telephone game" as anything else. If we need them for famous speeches, we certainly need them for modern quotees, and there is no excuse not to cite reliable sources for a reporter from a 21st-century web-based publication. I would expect that Talon News itself could provide these. I note that you are primarily a Wikipedia editor, Savidan, so let me just say that Wikiquote has the same sourcing requirements as WP, however unevenly they are currently applied in any particular article (also much like WP). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 23:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Bush bash
I finally found the context! I was right. The liberal interviewer even wrote a piece highlighting this comment in context as evidence of something very positive in then-candidate Bush. Feel free to salvage the quote - but remember to preserve the context if you do add the quote. Mr. Grace

transwiki snafu
The following post from w:User:Jeffq was copied by User:Jeffq from w:User talk:Savidan, with links refomatted for use on Wikiquote:

 * Savidan, could you explain how a Wikipedian entrusted with sysop privileges could perform literally hundreds of transfers of material from Wikipedia to Wikiquote without any attempt to follow the transwiki process required to provide editors with proper credit under GFDL? We now have a massive amount of quote data at Wikiquote that give no indication that possibly thousands of edits from many different editors went into this material. Instead, the only person credited with these edits is you. Worse yet, they weren't even properly integrated into Wikiquote, but slapped into episode articles that encourage the kind of copyright violations that got French Wikiquote shut down for a year.

 * I'm sorry if I sound angry, but I am. You have left us with a maintenance nightmare that it will take the already horribly overworked sysops of en:Wikiquote months to untangle. I would really like to know how you might help us fix this mess. Please discuss this in detail on the appropriate Wikiquote pages: my WQ user page, your user page, and/or WQ:VFD, where we're just starting to call attention to the problem. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:27, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

''Sorry about that. I did most of those many months ago and was not familiar with the correct process. GFDL-wise, on Wikipedia, content placed in the wrong article is frequently moved to the correct article by a different user simply using copy and pasting; my impression was that as long as the edit summary noted the original location it still preserved authorship information consistent with the GFDL. For example, many off-site mirrors of Wikipedia do not include the page history, but merely state that the information was from Wikipedia (i.e. where the authorship info can be found).''

''I am not familiar with Wikiquote at all, and don't understand what needs to be done to fix the GFDL problems you allege. If you explain what needs to be done to fix this to me, I'll try to fix it. If this is really an issue that exposes Wikiquote to legal issues, why not just delete all the episode articles since they don't fit the TV show format anyway.''

''Also, back in March someone told me that it was a problem that the articles were for individual episodes, but did not mention the attribution problem that you talk about. Are you sure about it? Savidan 02:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)''

 * The lack of edit history information is not unique to transwiki or to Wikiquote. From Merging and moving pages:
 * Do not move or rename a page by copying/pasting its content, because doing so destroys the edit history. (The GFDL requires acknowledgement of all contributors, and editors continue to hold copyright on their contributions unless they specifically give up this right. Hence it is required that edit histories be preserved for all major contributions until the normal copyright expires.)
 * The policies for merging articles on Wikipedia exist to avoid the loss of contributor information when copy-and-paste is done. Edit histories are an important part of Wikimedia editing and GFDL. That is why meta:Help:Transwiki was developed, as there is no history-preserving mechanism to move material from one project to another. Like any other practice in the Wild-West environment of wikidom, sloppy handling of mergers is not uncommon, but it can be argued that it's not as big a problem for intra-project merged articles that remain as redirects, because the history still exists. But anything that deletes these histories (as mergers sometimes do, and transwikis usually do) violates the GFDL. I am not a lawyer, but it's my understanding that, as the originating work for the material, as long as Wikimedia projects preserve the edit histories, subsequent users of this material can keep within GFDL terms by pointing back to the specific page from which the material was derived, making a simple two-link journey to find the contributors. We do our jobs within Wikimedia by ensuring that those histories are attached to the place where the material exists, either by "history" or "discussion" links.

 * In general, the idea with transwikis is to avoid the almost-certain problems with inter-project synchronization by copying and pasting the edit history of the transwikied article into the talk page of the new project page, which is supposed to be titled . (Note that this is a special namespace that all Wikimedia projects have for this very purpose.) This temporary name allows the new project's community to decide whether the transferred material should be (A) moved to an appropriate page, based on its policies; (B) merged with an existing article; or (C) deleted. This is basic transwiki practice. Anyone who doesn't know this should not be doing transwikis. Many experienced transwikians will take shortcuts, but this should never be done unless the editor is familiar with the policies and practices of both projects, and knows how to do this correctly.

 * In this particular situation, South Park episode WP articles still retain the edit histories, so it is at least possible to recover this information. But we have only half a dozen regular editors for nearly 9,000 articles, and we have a severe backlog in nearly every aspect of project maintenance. You have presented us with yet another huge task. I haven't had time to review the entire scope of the problem, but my initial idea is that we will, at the very least, need to go through all of your "transwikied" articles, find the corresponding WP article, copy its entire edit history up to the point of the pasting (because actually finding the quote edits would be unreasonably difficult), format them for talk-page posting, and then post them… somewhere. I don't yet know if it would be advisable to add them to the now-redirected ep articles or post them en masse to the South Park season articles. And there are also the film articles, and any other material you transferred.

 * The copyright legal problem is a serious one, and one which many Wikipedians fail to realize. (This is one of the reasons I encourage new editors coming from Wikipedia to read about Wikiquote policies and practices, and one of two reasons I started a total-welcome campaign last year to ensure that every new registered user receives a welcome message with Wikiquote info links.) At Wikipedia, it is necessary to compose your own words in writing about a topic. Copyright violations can be summarily excised, and editors told to rewrite the material. But Wikiquote must include exact copies of quotes — its raison d'être — so our articles must be very selective in the amount of quoting we do, lest we violate the vague requirements to avoid "substantial" copying of material. By recommending against articles that are likely to violate copyrights if they have more than a small handful of quotes — like TV-episode articles — we try to avoid legal exposure. (See Copyrights and its talk page for some discussion on the general issue in the context of quotation compliation.)

 * I'm sorry if I'm being harsh, but I can't adequately express my frustration. I take licensing and copyvio issues very seriously, and I am very concerned about Wikiquote's ability to handle even its basic maintenance tasks. Your work has hit all of my sore spots in one breathtaking mass action. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:55, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Psammon

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User talk:Armethos~enwikiquote

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User talk:Microbefox~enwikiquote

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Ratko Mladić

Ratko Mladić (born 12 March 1943) is a Bosnian Serb general and a war criminal who committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. On 31 May 2011, Mladić was extradited to The Hague, where he was processed at the detention center that holds suspects for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY); he was convicted in 2017.

Quotes

 * [F]uck the Turks in Žepa, in Srebrenica, in Goražde.
 * As quoted in "The Prosecutor vs Ratko Mladić - Trial Judgement - Volume 4" (2017), The Hague: ICTY, pp. 2251, 2252, 2253

 * People are not little stones, or keys in someone's pocket, that can be moved from one place to another just like that.... Therefore, we cannot precisely arrange for only Serbs to stay in one part of the country while removing others painlessly. I do not know how Mr. Krajišnik and Mr. Karadžić will explain that to the world. That is genocide.
 * As quoted in "Bosnia's 'Accidental' Genocide" (30 September 2006), by Edina Becirevic, Bosnian Institute, United Kingdom

Srebrenica Massacre

 * With one exception, the following quotes are taken directly from archival footage shot by VRS military cameramen. The arrival of the Bosnian Serb army is covered, as well as their subsequent rush to Potočari, the site of the Dutch base where tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim refugees had taken cover, seeking protection from the United Nations.

 * Krle, Krstić, come on. Record that flag.  Tear that flag down so it doesn't fly any more.  Pull it down.  Bravo!  Towards Potočari!  Towards Potočari and Bratunac!  Don't stop, come on!  Go in front of me the whole way, come on.  Come on, boys, forward!
 * Here we are, on the eleventh of July of the year 1995, in Serbian Srebrenica. On the eve of yet another great Serb holiday we present this town as a gift to the Serb nation.  The moment has finally arrived that, after the revolt against the Dahijas, we will have vengeance against the turks in this place.
 * There are so many! It is going to be a feast. There will be blood up to your knees.
 * Nedzida Sadikovic, as quoted by Roy Gutman, Newsday News Service, August 9, 1995.
 * Don't be afraid of anything, just take it easy, easy. Let the women and children go first.  Thirty buses are coming, we're send you off toward Kladanj.  Don't be afraid of anything, nobody is going to do anything to you.  Thank you, thank you.  Thanks, be safe.  Nobody knows anything.  Everything is done on my order.

Interviews (1993–1995)

 * I can not participate in a conversation if people are portraying me as somebody who is trying to establish greater Serbia. I am not Tsar [king] Dušan.
 * From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
 * The generations of the past failed to unite Serbia and to establish a common Serbian state, which should include all Serbian national, ethnic and historical territories.
 * From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
 * We, as the winners [of WW1 & WW2], created a common country [ Yugoslavia] with our enemies [Croats & Muslims], who were on the defeated side [ Central Powers & Axis Powers].
 * From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
 * We Serbs are the only nation, on this planet, who decided to unite with people who tried to exterminate us and were our enemies.
 * From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
 * I have no intention to create greater Serbia, neither to re-establish the former Byzantium. I am only defending my nation and my country.
 * From interview with PTC Б1, 1992
 * We are fully aware that war is not the only way to defend our values. But if those values are fundamentally endangered, as is the case today, then war is the only way to defend them. Everything that hinders us in our effort to defend ourselves is an injustice. We did not want this war, it was thrust upon us, like all others. Defending one's people is a holy duty,
 * From interview with Robert Block, 1995

 * It would have been better if we had fought in Italy and Austria which are really at war against us, instead of allowing them to use our unfortunate Slovenians, Croats and Moslems as bait and cannon fodder.
 * From interview with Vreme, May 24, 1993

 * I wonder, if France really wants to create a Muslim state in Europe, why don't they empower them to do this in Paris or Britain?
 * Interview with Gaspari di Sklafani in DJente, Han Pijesak, 1994

 * They went running around to jewelry stores, banks, and well-stocked super-markets. There is not a single hill that they kept or liberated. On the other hand, the soldiers and officers in the army lead modest lives.
 * Commenting on war profiteers in interview with Robert Block, 1995

 * I think it is time for all peace-loving people of this world to start pondering where all this leads. I think it's high time that the weapons in this part of the world, and all over the world, were silenced."
 * From interview with Robert Block, 1995

 * If humankind were to follow my advice and if it were in my power, I wouldn't allow the word 'war' to be uttered in any language, I would ban all weapons, even in the form of toys.
 * From interview with Robert Block, 1995

 * When I guarantee something, it's the same as the word of the Almighty.
 * Quoted by Laura Silber in the Financial Times

Quotes about Mladic

 * The most brutal in all this was Mladic; his orders, like the one from May 1992, "aim at Velusici; there aren't many Serbs there," or the one "shoot in their bodies, blow up their brains," show that he is a monster. Unfortunately, he wasn't the only one.
 * Jovan Divjak, interview with Rajko Zivkovic (1996)

 * Who are they for a whole nation to suffer for them, both in the Republika Srpska and in Serbia, because a certain Mladic has decided that he does not want to surrender and go to court? Or Karadzic? And then they say: "I love the Serbian people." The hell they love us. They are pushing us into ever deeper problems.
 * Milorad Dodik, as quoted in "BOSNIAN SERBS SUPPORT TRIALS OF MLADIC, KARADZIC" (27 July 2007), RFE/RL Newsline

 * As a confused old pensioner or retiree, Mladic is in danger of arousing local sympathy in rather the same way John Demjanjuk did but of doing so within a few years of the original atrocities and not several decades. Moreover, Mladic was a director and organizer of the mass slaughters at Srebrenica and Zepa (as of the obscene bombardment of the open city of Sarajevo), and not a mere follower of orders. The new and allegedly reformist Serbian government bears some responsibility for this moment of moral nullity and confusion, since it seems to regard the arrest of Mladic and his political boss Radovan Karadzic as little more than an episode in the warming of Belgrade's relations with the European Union. You don't have to be a practicing Serbo-chauvinist to find something a bit trivial and sordid in that calculation. (And what if it doesn't prove possible to stretch the increasingly inelastic Eurozone to accommodate Serbia's pressing needs and add them to those of Greece and Ireland? A possible hostage to fortune here.)
 * Christopher Hitchens, "Mladic the Monster: Our failure to respond to the Serbian atrocities prolonged the slaughter" (30 May 2011), Slate

 * Setting his goal as the creation of a ‘Greater Serbia’, Milošević deployed the Yugoslav National Army (JNA) — then the fourth largest army in Europe — against would-be secessionist republics. Meanwhile, Serb separatist forces within such republics were encouraged to rise up. Lacking a large Serb population, Slovenia was allowed by Milosevic, after a ‘ten-day war’, to go its own way after declaring independence in June 1991. Not so with Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: he was determined that their sizeable Serb minority populations would remain within Yugoslavia. Milosevic loyalists helped carve out Serb autonomous enclaves in each: first Milan Babic in the Serb-dominated Krajina region of Croatia, and then General Ratko Mladić and the psychiatrist-turned-demagogue Radovan Karadžić, within Bosnia. Paramilitary gangs bearing outlandish names — Arkan’s Tigers, the White Eagles, the Chetniks — rampaged through Serb-run Croatia and Bosnia, bringing death and destruction wherever they went. In the process they endowed the lexicon of conflict with a new term, ethnicko cis cenje terena — literally the ‘ethnic cleansing of the earth’, or simply ethnic cleansing.
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), pp. 361-362

 * General Ratko Mladić is a living 100 kg contradiction … His large and compact face is almost always painted with a smile. He inspires trust at first sight, but the same senior UN functionaries, those who spent the most time with him in [1993], are divided in their judgement.
 * Demetriu Volcic (1993) Sarajevo: Quando la Storia Uccide, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 34
 * All over northern and eastern Bosnia, Serb paramilitaries, the JNA, and Ministry of Interior forces, acting in conjunction, laid siege to towns and villages, driving out Muslims in a firestorm of brutality. On 20 May 1992, General Ratko Mladic, since indicted as a war criminal by the Hague Tribunal, was named commander of the Republika Srpska (that is, the Bosnian Serb Republic) Army. He brought a high level of professional expertise and ruthlessness to the Serb nationalist forces. Everywhere the pattern was the same—artillery barrages that laid waste to people and buildings; sieges that went on sometimes for months, even years, reducing the populations to a starved, diseased, and fearful existence. When Serb nationalist troops entered a town, the suffering became even worse.
 * Eric D. Weitz, A Century of Genocide (2018), pp. 214-215

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey (August 12 1774 – March 21 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.

1790s

 * If you would be pungent, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
 * Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 52

 * Cold is thy heart and as frozen as Charity!
 * The Soldier's Wife, l. 11 (1795).

 * "You are old, Father William." the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are grey; You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man: Now tell me the reason, I pray."
 * The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 1 (1799).

 * "In my days of youth, I remembered my God, And he hath not forgotten my age."
 * The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 6.

The Battle of Blenheim (1798)

 * It was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
 * St. 1.

 * He came to ask what he had found, That was so large, and smooth, and round.
 * St. 2.

 * "'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he, "Who fell in the great victory."
 * St. 3.

 * But what they fought each other for I could not well make out.
 * St. 6.

 * "And everybody praised the Duke Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas a famous victory."
 * St. 11.

The Devil's Walk (1799)

 * From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little, snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on.
 * St. 1.

 * How, then, was the Devil dressed? Oh! he was in his Sunday's best; His coat was red, and his breeches were blue, And there was a hole where his tail came through.
 * St. 3.

 * He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And he owned with a grin That his favorite sin Is pride that apes humility.
 * St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts.

 * Thou hast confessions to listen, And bells to christen, And altars and dolls to dress; And fools to coax, And sinners to hoax, And beads and bones to bless; And great pardons to sell For those who pay well, And small ones for those who pay less.
 * St. 25.

 * At this good news, so great The Devil's pleasure grew, That, with a joyful swish, he rent The hole where his tail came through.
 * St. 31.

 * "Great news! bloody news!" cried a newsman; The Devil said, "Stop, let me see!" "Great news? bloody news?" thought the Devil; "The bloodier the better for me."
 * St. 33.

1800s

 * How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!
 * Thalaba the Destroyer, Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).

 * And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
 * The Inchcape Rock, st. 4 (1802).

 * Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock, “Oh Christ! It is the Inchcape Rock!”
 * The Inchcape Rock, st. 15.

 * Every body is a critic.
 * Letter to Robert Rickman (30 May 1804)

 * Will ye believe The wonders of the ocean? how its shoals Sprang from the wave, like flashing light; .. took wing, And, twinkling with a silver glitterance, Flew through the air and sunshine? yet were they To sight less wondrous than the tribe who swam, Following like fowlers, with uplifted eye, Their falling quarry: .. language cannot paint Their splendid tints! though in blue ocean seen, Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue, In all its rich variety of shades, Suffus'd with glowing gold.
 * Madoc in Wales, Part I, Sec. V - 48 (1805). Compare: "'Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,' As some one somewhere sings about the sky", Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto iv. stanza 110.

 * What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up?
 * Madoc in Wales, Part II, 2 (1805).

1810s

 * And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,— A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
 * March to Moscow, St. 8 (1814).

 * Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!
 * Ode written during the War with America (1814).

 * The laws are with us, and God on our side.
 * On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection, Essay viii, Vol. ii (1817).

 * My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
 * My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 1 (1818).

 * Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
 * My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 4.

The Curse of Kehama (1810)

 * Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.
 * Motto.

 * They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
 * Canto X, st. 10.

 * Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?
 * Canto X, st. 11.

 * Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
 * Canto XV, st. 11.

1820s

 * Agreed to differ.
 * Life of Wesley (1820).

 * The Satanic school.
 * Vision of Judgment, original preface (1821).

 * How little do they see what is, who frame Their hasty judgement upon that which seems!
 * A Tale of Paraguay (1827), Canto IV, Stanza 54.

 * The arts babblative and scribblative.
 * Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 2 (1829).

 * The march of intellect.
 * Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, No. 1, pt. 14. Compare: "The march of the human mind is slow", Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii., p. 149.

The Cataract of Lodore (1820)

 * How does the water Come down at Lodore?
 * St. 1.

 * So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store.
 * St. 1.

 * From its fountains In the mountains, Its rills and its gills; Through moss and through brake, It runs and it creeps For a while, till it sleeps In its own little lake.
 * St. 2.

 * It runs through the reeds, And away it proceeds, Through meadow and glade, In sun and in shade, And through the wood-shelter, Among crags in its flurry, Helter-skelter, Hurry-skurry.
 * St. 2.

 * Rising and leaping, Sinking and creeping, Swelling and sweeping, Showering and springing, Flying and flinging, Writhing and ringing, Eddying and whisking, Spouting and frisking, Turning and twisting, Around and around With endless rebound: Smiting and fighting, A sight to delight in; Confounding, astounding, Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.
 * St. 4.

 * And so never ending, but always descending, Sounds and motions forever and ever are blending All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, — And this way the water comes down at Lodore.
 * St. 8.

1830s

 * No sooner was the Baltic open to our merchants, than corn was bought up there for importation into England; at the same time the continent was glutted with English goods, which, because the supply greatly exceeded the demand, were sold at less than their prime cost, and upon which the foreign governments soon laid new duties...to prevent the ruin of their own manufactures. This might have been a salutary lesson, if nations were ever rendered wise by experience; it might have taught us that, however willing one part of this nation might be to see the other ruined by the free admission of foreign grain, foreign governments would never consent to have their fabrics destroyed by the unrestricted introduction of British goods. It is a sound maxim in politics, whatever it may be in morals, that charity begins at home.
 * 'On the Corn-Laws', The Quarterly Review, Vol. LI. (March & June 1834), p. 231

 * Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.
 * Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837, reported in Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 139, and in Mumby Letters of Literary Men, Vol. II (1906), p. 185.

 * Write poetry for its own sake — not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity; the less you aim at that the more likely you will be to deserve and finally to obtain it.
 * Letter to Charlotte Brontë in March 1837; Gaskell The life of Charlotte Brontë, Vol. I (1857), p. 140.

 * And then she went to the porridge of the Little, Small, Wee Bear, and tasted that; and that was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.
 * "The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837).

 * Somebody has been sitting in my chair!
 * "The Story of the Three Bears", The Doctor (1837).

 * Wild dreams! but such As Plato lov'd; such as with holy zeal Our Milton worshipp'd. Blessed hopes! awhile From man with-held, even to the latter days When Christ shall come, and all things be fulfill'd.
 * For the apartment in Chepstow Castle where Henry Marten the Regicide was imprisoned thirty years.

About Robert Southey

 * Bob Southey! You're a poet—Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race; Although 'tis true that you turn'd out a Tory at  Last—yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at?  With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like "four and twenty Blackbirds in a pye;"Which pye being open'd they began to sing"  (This old song and new simile holds good), "A dainty dish to set before the king,"  Or Regent, who admires such kind of food; And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,  But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood, Explaining Metaphysics to the nation— I wish he would explain his Explanation.*You, Bob! are rather insolent, you know,  At being disappointed in your wish To supersede all warblers here below,  And be the only Blackbird in the dish; And then you overstrain yourself, or so,  And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture quite a-dry, Bob!
 * Lord Byron, Don Juan, Dedication

 * Ye vales and hills, whose beauty hither drew The poet's steps, and fixed him here, on you His eyes have closed; and ye, loved books, no more Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown, Adding immortal labors of his own; Whether he traced historic truth with zeal For the state's guidance, or the church's weal; Or Fancy, disciplined by studious Art, Informed his pen, or Wisdom of the heart Or Judgments sanctioned in the patriot's mind By reverence for the rights of all mankind. Large were his aims, yet in no human breast Could private feelings find a holier nest. His joys, his griefs, have vanished like a cloud From Skiddaw's top, but he to heaven was vowed Through a life long and pure, and steadfast faith Calmed in his soul the fear of change and death.
 * William Wordsworth, "Epitaph on Southey" (1843)

 * Not the last struggles of the Sun, Precipitated from his golden throne, Hold darkling mortals in sublime suspense;  But the calm exod of a man  Nearer, tho’ far above, who ran The race we run, when Heaven recalls him hence.
 * Walter Savage Landor, "On the Death of Southey" (1843)

 * A considerable stir was being made (1795) by two youthful advocates of revolution, who were trying to rouse the people of Bristol. These two young men who protested boldly against the war, the ministry and the established church and social order were Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Colerige.
 * Emile Legouis, The Early Life of William Wordsworth (J. M. Dent & Co., 1897), p. 320

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Somebody removed the category Australians. I have replaced it as I believe it is relevant due to Banjo Paterson's formative influence on Australian culture.--Bodhirakshita 05:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Nobody knows him as 'Andrew Paterson'; to the point that he is unrecognisable by that name. It's 'Banjo' Paterson; whether or not that is what was written on his birth certificate. Having the article titled 'Andrew Paterson' is needlessly obfuscating things- not unlike having the Madoona page titled 'Madonna Louise Ciccone'. On wikipedia, he is listed as Banjo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_Paterson).-- (User:not a wikipedian) 28 February 2013

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Adrian Edmondson

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The result was: delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Adrian Edmondson
No quotes. ~ UDScott 18:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (3 Deletes; no dissent; no quotes added). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless quotes are added. ~ UDScott 18:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't think he has said anything notable as Ade Edmondson. Quotes could be put on The Young Ones from Vyvyan. Dbiv 18:08, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless quotes added. I've added a WP link to help identify the subject. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:35, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Günün sözü

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 22:14, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Günün sözü
I'm not even sure what this is, or if it is notable. ~ UDScott 14:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (2 Deletes; no dissent; no changes or further information provided). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:14, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 14:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This appears to be Turkish, perhaps "Quote of the day" (gün=day, söz=remark). The sole entry is apparently a Turkish version of an Archimedes quote, which even my best efforts couldn't adequately translate. However, it is cited in Arşimet, Turkish Wikipedia's Archimedes article, which isn't a translation of the en:WP article and in fact may be a copyvio of . (It's tempting to think the quote may be "Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world", especially because of "dayanak" (foundation) and "dünyayı" (dünya=earth), and the fact that most quote dictionaries have only this quote and "Eureka!", narrowing the possibilities.) But enough of "Fun with Turkish". In any case, this is en:Wikiquote, so the articles should only have non-English titles when dealing with people's names and creative works that are not only notable, but also not better known in the English-speaking world by an Anglicized name. This doesn't appear to meet any such qualification. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Paulyxxx

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 22:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Paulyxxx
Not notable. ~ UDScott 17:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (4 Deletes; 4 Keeps, 2 who registered only to vote, 2 who only edited the article and voted; no notability evidence or quote sources provided). Although the numbers alone don't say "delete", in my judgment, the additional registered voters do not seem to be part of the community and only registered to provide votes. As this closure may be considered controversial, any complaints about this action should be posted at Administrators' noticeboard. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 22:23, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is presented. ~ UDScott 17:18, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, Core10 19:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. Dbiv 20:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, Paulyxxx is a rather popular albeit local celebrity on the East Coast of the USA. dale 09:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. Dbiv 20:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dbiv 14:17, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, concur with dale. Mlaramie 16:44, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. Dbiv 20:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, It seems the entry is being fleshed out. eo99 20:38, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * User's first edit. Dbiv 20:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per UDscott. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. nn. vanity only. jni 17:47, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/DJ Robert Starkey

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The result was: delete. — Jeffq 07:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

DJ Robert Starkey
No quotes. ~ UDScott 19:19, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Vote closed. Result: delete (2 Deletes; no dissent). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless quotes are added (and the descriptive text is minimized, or moved to wikipedia). ~ UDScott 19:19, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This Wikipedia article (it certainly isn't a Wikiquote article) reads like it was written by the subject himself, but in third person. Worse, it seems designed to promote his business projects, violating both the vanity and commercial policies of MediaWiki projects. Notability is unpromising as well. Google on "DJ Robert Starkey" gets only 7 distinct hits, the top 2 of which are from Wikiquote, one being this VfD page! Of the four sites mentioned, two (Movin-Tunes and SDADJA.org) have no Alexa data at all, ADJA.org (American Disc Jockey Assoc.) has an Alexa rating of 225K, and Outsidethebox.biz, apparently a business services site for DJs, has one of 83K (up from 257K). No reason to transwiki; WP wouldn't want it. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:56, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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American Israel Public Affairs Committee

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is an American lobbying group that advocates for a strong relationship between the United States of America and Israel.

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 * The friendship between Israel and the United States is a great asset to our country. And AIPAC is a great advocate for this vital relationship.
 * Andrew Card (White House Chief of Staff), quoted in "What Top Leaders Say About Us" at aipac.org, 2005. Archived at archive.today/53UrI.

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 * Congress is 'terrorized' by AIPAC... In practice, the lobby groups function as an informal extension of the Israeli government.
 * Paul Findley (Congressman 1961-1982), They Dare to Speak Out (1985).

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 * Perhaps the most apt description of the power of AIPAC has been provided by, who argues: Without a doubt, AIPAC is the most powerful ethnic lobby to emerge in recent American history.
 * Nicholas Laham (2004) Crossing the Rubicon: Ronald Reagan and US Policy in the Middle East.

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 * Thank you for being here. AIPAC's work on behalf of America and Israel is valuable and important. With friends like you, Israel, and American interests in the Middle East, are well served. Thank you.
 * John McCain (Senator) in his press release of June 20, 2001

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 * AIPAC has a long and commendable record of promoting the unique relationship that exists between the United States and Israel. Both countries are better for your efforts, and so I thank and congratulate you for all you have done over the years.
 * Colin Powell (Secretary of State) speaking to Congress: Congressional Record, V. 147, Pt. 3, March 8, 2001 to March 26, 2001

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 * The American Israeli [sic] Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) exists for the purpose of lobbying Congress to support Israeli governmental policies and actions. These oligarchies have persistently reduced Israel to their ideological preferences by ignoring its critical opposition.
 * Adrienne Rich (2010) A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008. p. 166.


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Meet Joe Black

Meet Joe Black is a 1998 film about a media mogul who acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth, and in the process falls in love with his guide's daughter.
 * Directed by Martin Brest. Written by Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade, and Bo Goldman.

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William Parrish

 * Don't blow smoke up my ass, you'll ruin my autopsy.
 * When I introduce you, and I tell them who you are, I don't think anyone will stay for dinner.
 * Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say fall head over heels, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head and you listen to your heart and I'm not hearing any heart. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love - well, you haven't lived a life at all. But You have to try, because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived... Stay open, who knows? Lightning could strike.
 * I thought I was going to sneak away tonight. What a glorious night! Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly... perfect memory. Sometimes we've had our ups and downs, but we're all together, And you're mine, for a night. And I'm going to break precedence and tell you my one candle wish: that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, "I don't want anything more." 65 years... Don't they go by in a blink?
 * My wife turned me on to cold lamb sandwiches. Not as chewy as roast beef. Not as boring as chicken. She knew stuff like that.
 * You never know, lightning could strike.
 * I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
 * You're not Death. You're just a kid in a suit.
 * Thank you, Drew. Yeah. I did enjoy—or rather I was interested in meeting John Bontecou, yesterday. And—impressive, I suppose. But... But, it did get me to thinking. See, I started in this business because this is what I wanted to do. I knew I wasn't going to write the great American novel, but I also knew there was more to life than buying something for a dollar and selling it for two. I'd hoped to create something, something which could be held to the highest standards. And what I realized was I wanted to give the news to the world, and I wanted to give it unvarnished. The more we all know about each other, the greater the chance we will survive. Sure, I want to make a profit. You can't exist without one. But John Bontecou is all profit. Now if we give him license to absorb Parrish Communications, and he has his eye on a few others after us, in order to reach the world you will have to go through John Bontecou. And not only will you have to pay him to do this, far more important, you'll have to agree with him. Reporting the news is a privilege and a responsibility, and it is not exploitable. Parrish Communications has earned this privilege. John Bontecou wants to buy it. As your Chairman, I urge you to agree this company is not for sale.

Joe Black

 * Easy Bill, you'll give yourself a heart attack and ruin my vacation.
 * Thank you for loving me.
 * I can't believe you people. I come for you, and you want to stay, I let you stay and you want to go.
 * Make no mistake, should you choose to test my resolve in this matter, you will be looking at an outcome that will have a finality that is beyond your comprehension, and you will not be counting the days, or the months, or the years, but millenniums, in a place with no doors.
 * You got enough nice pictures?
 * Hello Bill.
 * Do you have any peanut butter?

Others

 * Allison: I should have my head examined again.
 * Susan Parrish: Love, passion, obsession, all those things you told me to wait for, well, they've arrived. What are you afraid of, Dad? That I'll fall head over heels for Joe? Well, I have.
 * Jamaican Woman: It nice it happen to you. Like you come to the island and had a holiday. Sun didn't burn you red-red, just brown. You sleep and no mosquito eat you. But the truth is, it bound to happen if you stay long enough. So take that nice picture you got in your head home with you, but don't be fooled. We lonely here mostly too. If we lucky, maybe, we got some nice pictures to take with us.

Dialogue

 * William Parrish: Hello? Is anyone here? [Louder] I said is anyone here?
 * Death: [Bill's voice] Quiet down
 * William Parrish: Where are you?
 * Death: I'm here
 * William Parrish: What is this a joke, right? Some kind of elaborate practical joke? Heh, at my fortieth reunion we delivered a casket to the class presidents hotel room and uh--
 * Death: Quiet
 * William Parrish: [Backing out of library]
 * Death: Where are you going, Bill?
 * William Parrish: I uh...
 * Death: The great Bill Parrish at a loss of words? The man from whose lips fall "rapture" and "passion" and "obsession"? All those admonitions about being "deliriously happy, that there is no sense in living your life without" all the sparks and energy you give off, the rosy advice you dispense in round pear shaped tones.
 * William Parrish: What the hell is this? [Creaking, a shape appears in faded window] Who are you?
 * Death: Just think of millenniums, multiplied by eons, compounded by time without end. I've been around that long. But it's only recently your affairs here have piqued my interest. Call it boredom. The natural curiosity of me, the most lasting and significant element in existence has come to see you.
 * William Parrish: About what?
 * Death: I want to have a look around before I take you.
 * William Parrish: Take me where?
 * Death: It requires competence wisdom and experience, all those things they say about you in testimonials. And you’re the one.
 * William Parrish: The one to do what?
 * Death: Show me around, be my guide. And in return you get...
 * William Parrish: I get what?
 * Death: Time. Minutes, days, weeks, let's not get encumbered by detail, what matters is that I stay interested. [Pause] Yes...
 * William Parrish: 'Yes' what?
 * Death: 'Yes' is the answer to your question.
 * William Parrish: What question?
 * Death: Oh Bill, come on. The question. The question you've been asking yourself with increased regularity, at odd moments, panting through the extra game of handball, when you ran for the plane in Delhi, when you sat up in bed last night and hit the floor in the office this morning. The question that is in the back of your throat, choking the blood to your brain, ringing in your ears over and over as you put it to yourself.
 * William Parrish: 'The question'...
 * Death: Yes Bill. The question. [Moves from behind the glass into shadowy area] The question.
 * William Parrish: ...'Am I going to die?'
 * Joe Black: [Steps out of the shadows, appearing as Joe Black for the first time] Yes.

 * William Parrish: You want me to be your guide?
 * Joe Black: You fit the bill, Bill.

 * Joe Black: I want to be friends.
 * Susan Parrish: I have many friends.
 * Joe Black: I have none.

 * William Parrish: [Walking along a crowded sidewalk] You know, I got to thinking. With you here and seemingly occupied, how's your work going, I mean, elsewhere?
 * Joe Black: While you were shaving this morning, you weren't just shaving.
 * William Parrish: What do you mean?
 * Joe Black: You were hatching ideas, making plans, arriving at decisions, right?
 * William Parrish: Yeah, I guess so
 * Joe Black: So you get the concept. While part of you is doing one thing, another part of you is doing another, perhaps even attending to the problems of your work. Correct?
 * William Parrish: Of course
 * Joe Black: So you understand the idea. Congratulations, Bill. Now multiply that by infinity, take that to the depth of forever, and you still will barely have a glimpse of what I'm talking about. [Bill stops, Joe keeps walking, Bill takes Joes arm and stops him from getting hit by a car...again]

 * Drew: ...the truth is, joining John Bontecou is every bit as certain as death and taxes.
 * Joe Black: Death and taxes?
 * Drew: Yes.
 * Joe Black: Death and taxes?
 * Drew: Yes.
 * Joe Black: What an odd pairing.

 * William Parrish: You know about money, don't you?
 * Joe Black: It can't buy happiness?

 * Jamaican woman: Obeah.
 * Joe Black: [Jamaican accent] Rahtid. Obeah evil. I not evil, woman.
 * Jamaican woman: And what you is then?
 * Joe Black: I from that next place.
 * Jamaican woman: You waitin' here to take us? Like you is the bus driver to there?
 * Joe Black: No, man, I on 'oliday.
 * Jamaican woman: Some spot you pick. [Groans faintly] The pain. Pain is bad, bad.
 * Joe Black: I don't have nothin' to do with these things, you know.
 * Jamaican woman: Make it go away.
 * Joe Black: Doctor Lady make it alright.
 * Jamaican woman: Uh-uh. Not this pain. This pain go through and through me. Make it go away.
 * Joe Black: I can't, sister.
 * Jamaican woman: You can, mister. Take me to that next place.
 * Joe Black: It's not your time now.
 * Jamaican woman: Make it time!
 * Joe Black: You can't fool with the way things got to be.
 * Jamaican woman: [Whimpering] Please...
 * Joe Black: [Pauses] Close your eyes. Go on, sister. [Puts his hands on her, woman smiles and opens her eyes slowly] Soon.

 * Drew: And who would've thought... you, an IRS agent.
 * Joe Black: Death and Taxes.

 * Susan Parrish: Tell me you love me now.
 * Joe Black: I love you now. I love you always.

 * Joe Black: I don't care, Bill. I love her.
 * William Parrish: How perfect for you - to take whatever you want because it pleases you. That's not love.
 * Joe Black: Then what is it?
 * William Parrish: Some aimless infatuation which, for the moment, you feel like indulging - it's missing everything that matters.
 * Joe Black: Which is what?
 * William Parrish: Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.
 * Joe Black: So that's what love is, according to William Parrish?
 * William Parrish: Multiply it by infinity, and take it to the depth of forever, and you will still have barely a glimpse of what I'm talking about.
 * Joe Black: Those were my words.
 * William Parrish: They're mine now.

 * William Parrish: You're at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong woman!
 * Joe Black: Are you threatening me?
 * William Parrish: Yeah, I certainly hope so.

 * William Parrish: It's hard to let go, isn't it?
 * Joe Black: Yes it is, Bill.
 * William Parrish: Well, that's life.  What can I tell you?

 * Susan Parrish: What will we do now?
 * The Man from the Coffee Shop: It'll come to us.

 * William Parrish: Should I be afraid?
 * Joe Black: Not a man like you.

Taglines

 * No one can die - while he loves!
 * He's Expecting You.
 * Meet Joe Black: Sooner or Later Everyone Does.

Cast

 * Brad Pitt - Joe Black
 * Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish
 * Claire Forlani - Susan Parrish
 * Jake Weber - Drew
 * Marcia Gay Harden - Allison Parrish
 * Jeffrey Tambor - Quince
 * David S. Howard - Eddie Sloane
 * Lois Kelly-Miller - Jamaican Woman.

title: Meet Joe Black


text:
Talk:Michael Jackson

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 * Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.

 * The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

 * Why not just tell people I'm an alien from Mars. Tell them I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight. They'll believe anything you say, because you're a reporter. But if I, Michael Jackson, were to say, "I'm an alien from Mars and I eat live chickens and do a voodoo dance at midnight," people would say, "Oh, man, that Michael Jackson is nuts. He's cracked up. You can't believe a damn word that comes out of his mouth."

 * Whatever I sing, that's what I really mean. Like, I'm singing a song, I don't sing it if I don't mean it.

 * Personally, I liked to be called Pop Eye Carmichael Jackson. It reminds me of my childhood.

 * There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

Dancing and performing

 * I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out that inner feeling through your mood. A lot of people don't think about the importance of it, but there's a whole psychological thing to just letting loose. Dancing is important, like laughing, to back off tension. Escapism...it's great.

 * When I get on stage, I don't know what happens. It feels so good, it's like the safest place in the world for me.

 * I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

About himself

 * I'm happy to be alive I'm happy to be who I am.

 * It’s like when a mother sends her child off to war, they don’t know if they’re ever gonna come back, you know? how can we look at such things happening, and not, you know, want to do something? how can we turn our heads and pretend as if we don’t see it? you know? i can’t see people in pain and pretend as if it’s not there.

 * Know what I also love? Mannequins. I guess I want to bring them to life. I like to imagine talking to them. You know what I think it is? Yeah, I think I'll say it. I think I'm accompanying myself with friends I never had. I probably have two friends. And I just got them. Being an entertainer, you just can't tell who is your friend. And they see you so differently. A star instead of a next-door neighbor. That's what it is. I surround myself with people that want to be my friends. And I can do that with mannequins. I'll talk to them.
 * I sit there and say, 'Please don't call me up, I am too shy.' But once I get up there, I take control of myself. Being onstage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is.
 * Snakes are very misunderstood. Snakes, I suggest, may be the oldest victims of bad press.

 * I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.

 * I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

 * When I was a kid, I was denied not only a childhood, but I was denied love. When I reached out to hug my father, he didn't hug me back. When I was scared on an airplane, he didn't put his arm around me and say, "Michael, don't worry. It's going to be OK." When I was scared to go on stage, he said, "get your ass on that stage." … I will never deny a child love. If it means that I have to be crucified or put in jail for it, then that's just what they're going to have to do.
 * Remark to producer Cory Rooney, as repeated to Chris Yandek.

--Neneh (talk) 03:58, 5 November 2013 (UTC)=== About other people === 0:34 >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=07ctpjw2iIE
 * David Blaine your magic is real and I believe in you.

Quotes about Jackson (unsourced)

 * I kinda felt like no-one understands what a good father he was.
 * He made the best French toast in the world.
 * He was the best cook ever.
 * I sometimes do improvs...well I used to do them with my Dad.
 * (In response to: 'Did you appreciate or like being behind the veil or mask at the time?) I appreciated it. It wasn't always comfortable but, yeah. (It was to protect you?) Yeah.
 * (Her favourite memory of her father) I'd have to say spending some 'quality time' away from the two just me and him. One time we went on the roof when we were in Las Vegas of our house and we just saw the Luxor lights, all the city the lights, and we were eating Snickers and we had some soda...
 * He tried to raise us without knowing who he has was, but that didn't really go so well.
 * (In response to: What kind of a dad was he? Was he a strict disciplinarian or could you get away with anything with him?) He was strict.
 * (When you would have quality time what would you do?) Sometimes he would take me to an art museum, because we both loved art. We would do like a lot, we would, as a family we would play tag outside. And he got us Kenya (a brown labrador) four years ago.

 * I never saw any songs he wrote, but I always knew he could. there was an instrumental hit out, "love is blue", in about 1970 (Michael was 12 years old). He came in one day and asked me about this section of the song he found interesting. So I showed it to him on piano. He couldn´t play, but he was able to pick it out with one finger on the piano. He was able to learn this part and  would sit there  picking it out.  There is a certain talent that goes with writing a song, and I could see he had it
 * Freddie Perren(songwriter)

 * I think Michael Jackson is the best entertainer to ever walk this planet. He dances, sings and writes songs. He is one true legend.
 * Ashley Todd

 * When God was giving out talent, He gave all of it to Michael Jackson.
 * Babyface

 * He is what every artist looks up to...to be... one time become the next King of Pop.
 * Backstreet Boys

 * Michael I believed in you when you, were a little kid, I believe in you now and I'll never stop believing in you!
 * Berry Gordy

 * He taught us so much and it's such a blessing.
 * Beyonce

 * When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.
 * Bob Geldof

 * All this stuff about Michael being a weirdo — it's a pile of goddamn... I've recorded a whole lot of these pop-musicians and this guy's the straightest of the goddamn lot.
 * Bruce Swedien

 * I'd be proud to have that kid (Michael) as my son any day.
 * Bruce Swedien

 * There isn’t an artist out now that hasn't been influenced or inspired by Michael Jackson. [He's] as close to perfection as an artist can be.
 * Chris Brown

 * Michael is a genius, a creative being in a whole other reality...
 * Chris Tucker

 * Michael is magic and all magic people are somehow eccentric. Michael is one of the most lovable, kind and natural people I've ever known. I took him deeply to my heart. I would do everything for him and he would do everything for me.
 * Elizabeth Taylor

 * He is a very smart cookie, Michael. He knows what he wants, he knows what he is doing. I have nothing but admiration. Also, he is a very kind person.
 * Elton John

 * Ethics can be argued. You may think it's right. I may think it's wrong. The law is there to decide if it's allowed. Period. Yes. I would have bought the Beatles publishing rights if I had the opportunity.
 * Gene Simmons

 * Everybody wants to be near Michael. Every celebrity wants to meet Michael. He's the King of Pop for a reason. He's a mystery.
 * Justin Timberlake

 * Michael is a generous, honest, and sensitive human being, filled with amazing insight and the capacity for love. If this is weird, I want to go live on another planet.
 * Karen Faye

 * He's a gifted dancer, singer, and performer. He's always had a wonderful spirit about him.
 * Kenny Rogers

 * Michael Jackson is the King of Pop.
 * Lisa Marie Presley

 * My feelings about Michael Jackson are simple: I think that he's a human being like everyone else and I'm a huge fan of him.
 * LL Cool J

 * He's my biggest influence...
 * Missy Elliott

 * He may know something none of us really know. Let's just wait it out. You just never know. Let's just make a home for him.
 * Prince

 * I've said it before, The '80s were ours.
 * Quincy Jones

 * Michael is the wisest and at the same time most naive person I know.
 * Quincy Jones

 * All that I know comes from Michael Jackson.
 * Ricky Martin

 * There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
 * Seth Green

 * The thing about Michael is he's hands down one of the most professional, most talented performers I have ever worked with. All the brouhaha aside, when it comes down to it you can have 60 choreographed dancers up there and you know which one Michael is.
 * Slash

 * Michael Jackson is still the king of pop. He has not abdicated the throne, nor has he been usurped.
 * Stephen Colbert

 * Michael's a natural. He's a very hard worker and a super performer. But most of all he's a real human being.
 * Stevie Wonder

 * But when I heard "I Want You Back"I was inspired. I wanted to sing like Michael, to be like Mike.
 * Usher

 * You always just dream of meeting him, let alone working with him. I wouldn't have believed it.
 * Will.i.am

 * I just wanted to say, ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine and I just wanted to say I love him so much.
 * Paris Katherine Jackson at Michael's Memorial

 * We had him. Beautiful, delighting our eyes... He gave us all he had been given... We are missing Michael Jackson. But we do know, we had him — and we are the world.
 * Maya Angelou's Poem, "We Had Him" as read by Queen Latifah

 * Wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with!
 * The Rev. Al Sharpton to Michael's children at his memorial

 * He always wanted to just bring people together… And the concept came about holding hands, like uniting, making this long chain, people getting together…that connection as one. … "This life don’t last forever" (verse from song) ... you gotta make the best of it and leave something behind that people can really cherish.
 * Akon, on the unreleased song "Hold My Hand" (not a verifiable, published source)

 * You're an angry dancer. There's rage in your feet.
 * Fred Astaire, after watching Jackson's performance at Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (25 March 1983)

 * Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him...so much.
 * Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's memorial service (7 July 2009)

 * Maybe now Michael, they will leave you alone.
 * Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson memorial, Jul 7, 2009

 * There was nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with, but he dealt with it.
 * Reverend Al Sharpton to Michael's children, Michael Jackson's memorial service (7 July 2009)

 * He was a very caring guy who would go out of his way to help the sick. One night in London he wanted to see some homeless people. He sent them loads of pizzas in secret. The guy had a good heart.
 * Matt Fiddes, former Bodyguard, on his Twitter Page

 * This guy had the biggest heart of anybody and really really did care about improving the human condition, especially for children, and that was part of his mission. While he was on tour, he always wanted to know what he could do in each place, so that when he left, he left a place better, having been there … and how many people can you say that about?”
 * Kenny Ortega, producer, director, choreographer

 * Now the King of Pop must bow his knee to the King of Kings.
 * Rev. Lucious Smith, Michael Jackson's memorial service (7 July 2009)

Most of those quotes aren´t unsourced, and they are all good to portray the personality of MJ. Please stop deleting them, because I am going to put them again...

 * They most certainly are unsourced: They do not cite any published sources at all. Please stop adding them back to the article without providing reliable and precise sources. ~ Ningauble 18:17, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, you want sources? here you have some:

sources:

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Quotes requiring editorial work

 * However you felt about the man, whatever your opinions are, I believe we—as a people—should make a rule that once you die … whatever derisive nickname that we used for you, it dies with you. So can we stop calling him 'Jacko' now? … After you die, can a brother get a 'Mr. Jackson'?

 * There are two kinds of people in this world;Michael Jackson fans and losers.
 * Seth Green

 * Anastacia is someone the world will understand.

 * Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say that I love him...so much.
 * Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson's memorial service (7 July 2009)*.

Unnecessary categories
I agree with Vilho that "Singer-songwriter" tells that he's a singer and songwriter. We don't need unnecessary categories.

Why is there no discussion about this on the talkpage?
 * Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions and writes lyrics for songs. If you think the category is unnecessary and no need to maintain two categories for the same purpose you should nominate it for deletion. Akhiljaxxn (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
 * We should have the same categories as Wikipedia.--Vilho-Veli (talk) 14:23, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

NPOV tag
The subject already covered on the bottom. and what else you need to add?. I think we have a duty to keep tabloid sensationalism to a minimum and keep the page focused on his musicianship and legacy, which is at the center of his notability. Unless you can produce mainstream journalism that indicates these allegations found wrong on the court of law as notable as his musical career. Akhiljaxxn (talk) 11:42, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

 * It is not mentioned in the bottom. Tabloid sensationalism? Akhiljaxxn, you have persistently and blatantly whitewashed quotes about child sex abuse and Leaving Neverland from this article, even with edit-warring.

 * But it demonstrably received far, far more attention in reliable sources than anything related to Michael Jackson in a decade, and had a profound impact on how his legacy is assessed. Leaving Neverland should be in the article. The film is a major piece of contemporary discussions of Jackson. The film obviously is an important event in the history of Jackson and his legacy with the film having won 3 film awards, having a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, being positively reviewed in Vanity Fair and the Washington Post, and ongoing legal action by the Jackson estate against the film's publisher. Leaving Neverland should be covered as a significant turn in the narrative of child sexual abuse allegations which is a major part of his biographical narrative.

 * Trying to shut down, whitewash and censor quotes about Jackson's sexual abuse based on claims of " tabloid sensationalism" is really inappropriate and tasteless from Akhiljaxxn and Akhiljaxxn's socks or meatpuppets. --დამოკიდებულება (talk) 10:50, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Trying to censor the falsely accused not here to defend himself by referring to likely false allegations and admitted perjurers, as victims is precisely the reason for the world’s overcrowded prisons and innocent people on death row. Tabloid sensationalism is what it is. This discussion is being turned into a forum. That is what Wikipedia is not. Akhil presents very valid points. Leaving Neverland died in 2019. The impact, or lack thereof, to Jackson’s legacy was minor and temporary. Focus need to be on things that actually matter. TruthGuardians (talk) 03:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

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Talk:Half-Life

The G-Man speaks in a most inhuman manner - this is not reflected in the punctuation of the quotes of him.

On the original (scrapped) opening
Can someone find a citation and mention that the original opening was supposed to be on an icebreaker ship? Robdumas 05:08, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Robdumas, are you sure you're talking about the original Half-Life? I think the cut icebreaker was in Half-Life 2.

Declining the Offer
Are you sure that the G-Man says all of that stuff about the survivors of his personal holocaust who want to meet the man responsible for the annihilation of their race? Whenever I get to that part of the game, all he says is, "No regrets, Mr. Freeman", and that's it.

In Half-Life sound files, one can find a sound where G speaks about the holocaust (but he says "who would like the chance to meet)... But in thw game itself, he only says "no regrets."84.10.103.180 10:42, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

the dialouge is from the alternet ending to half life if you decline the G-Man's offer

JUST HL1
Some guy has put the G-Man's quotes from ALL the Half-Life games in this article. Read the first phrase: JUST FOR HL1, OP4 AND BLUE SHIFT.

People
You could have separate parts for Barney phrases, Scientist phrases, and Soldier phrases.

Gman mumbling interpretations
I think this should be deleted. Its purely speculative. There are other things he could have been saying, so i think its best if this wasnt part of the article.--124.187.118.100 10:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

H.E.V. quotes?
As we all know, Gordon's H.E.V. suit produces voices too. For instance:

"Major fracture detected. Morphine administered."

I really think the H.E.V. quotes should be in here too.

here is a source with all the sounds of the HEV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL-eWNAGzLg&feature=related

Black Mesa Transit System Announcer
Someone took the automated monologue from the opening sequence out. I think it should be restored, as it contains extensive information about the world of Black Mesa.

G-man Quotes
Shouldn't we have a seperate article for Gman quotes? He says quite alot.

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