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Ray (film)

Ray is a 2004 biographical film of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles.
 * Directed and produced by Taylor Hackford. Written by James L. White.

The extraordinary life of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went further than anyone thought possible. Taglines

Ray Charles

 * [about his love for country music] I love the stories. You know about fallin' in love and have love knock you around, and then the pressures of the world on you so tough, it makes you feel small. You just want to give your soul to God. You might as well, your ass belongs to Him.
 * George, I miss you. I miss you, George.

Others

 * Aretha Robinson: Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothin' turn you into no cripple.
 * Della Bea Robinson: [about one of Ray's sons] He isn't my gift to you, he's your son.

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 * Quincy Jones: Say, daddy-o, what axe you play?
 * Ray Charles: Uh, piano. Just blew in from Tampa, Florida. Me and my partner, Gossie McGee, came here, you know, want to fatten up our style. Cop some licks from some more experienced cats, you dig?
 * Quincy Jones: You know what? Why don't you let me take you inside? You know, show you around.
 * Ray Charles: All right. Perfect gentleman.
 * Quincy Jones: Yeah, this is just like my place. So, what's your name?
 * Ray Charles: Ray Robinson.
 * Quincy Jones: I'm Quincy Jones.

 * Ray Charles: Could you do me a favor and close that bag?
 * Quincy Jones: What's wrong with you? You got two hands. You can close it yourself.
 * Ray Charles: I got two feet too. Could you close that bag?
 * Quincy Jones: [chuckling] I got it.

 * Gossie McGee: [about Jack Lauderdale] You need watching out for and he ain't got time to look after you the way I been looking after you.
 * Ray Charles: Is that what you been doing, Gossie, watching out for me? Is that why you get paid double what I do?
 * Gossie McGee: Who told you that?
 * Ray Charles: Well it's true, ain't it? You and Marlene been gaming me since I got here.
 * Marlene Andres: Ray, baby, listen...
 * Ray Charles: I ain't got to listen to you!
 * Gossie McGee: Listen Ray, I been meaning to talk to you about that.
 * Ray Charles: Then why aren't you talking?
 * Gossie McGee: Look Ray, let's do nothing stupid.
 * Ray Charles: I might be blind but I ain't stupid!

 * [Jerry and Ahmet listen to Ray perform "I Got a Woman".]
 * Jerry Wexler: Ahmet.
 * Ahmet Ertegun: Yeah?
 * Jerry Wexler: We gotta get this on wax.
 * Ahmet Ertegun: Oh, yeah.

 * Ray Charles: I hear like you see. Like that hummingbird outside the window, for instance.
 * Della Bea Robinson: [astonished] I can't hear her.
 * Ray Charles: You have to listen.
 * Della Bea Robinson: [closes her eyes and hears the hummingbird] Yes!
 * Ray Charles: Yeah. Yes, you can... Uh-oh. Did you hear that?
 * Della Bea Robinson: What?
 * Ray Charles: Her heart just skipped a beat.

 * Ray Charles: Miss Antoine, it's been two weeks.
 * Della Bea Robinson: It's been three.
 * [They kiss and she pushes him inside]
 * Ray Charles: Well, where's the preacher at and the wife?
 * Della Bea Robinson: They're in Dallas till Monday.
 * Ray Charles: Well, hallelujah!

 * [After Ray and Della Bea finish making love]
 * Ray Charles: I want you to promise me something. Promise me you're gonna always tell me the truth just like you did before. Don't feel sorry for me just because I'm blind.
 * Della Bea Robinson: How can I pity someone I admire?

 * George Robinson: I'm a giant! [falls into a washtub]
 * Young Ray Robinson: Some giant.

 * Aretha Robinson: Somebody'll fetch you when the bus gets to St. Augustine. When your there, show 'em this. [shows Ray a name tag] Tell them your name is Ray Charles Robinson. An' them sandwiches I made, don't eat them all at once... ya hear me?
 * Young Ray Robinson: [starting to cry] Mama... please don't make me go away. I'll keep up with the normal kids. I'll be good, just like George.
 * Aretha Robinson: This ain't got nothin' to do with George... I've taken you as far as I can, baby. The teachers at St. Augustine know things I can't teach you. An' you need an education in this world.
 * Young Ray Robinson: I don't want no education!
 * Aretha Robinson: Shh! don't say that!
 * Young Ray Robinson: I don't! I wanna stay here with you!
 * Aretha Robinson: Stop it, Ray! I won't have you livin' hand to mouth like me, you hear? [Ray nods] Now... If you wanna do something to make Mama proud, promise me you'll never let nobody turn you into no cripple... You won't become no charity case. An’ you will always stand on your own two feet.
 * Young Ray Robinson: I promise.
 * Aretha Robinson: I love you baby... I'm so proud of you.

 * Ray Charles: I have a question for all of you: How would like to go on the road with me?
 * Margie Hendricks: Um, how much are you gonna pay us?
 * Ray Charles: Ahmet takes care of all of that.
 * Margie Hendricks: You mean he don't listen to you?
 * Ray Charles: You better know he does. Don't worry about it. Brother Ray will take care of all of you.
 * Margie Hendricks: Well my mama taught me to take care of myself, honey.
 * Ray Charles: Well is your mother here?
 * Margie Hendricks: No she's not, but I speak for us.
 * Ray Charles: Okay Speak For Us, how about $20 a week?
 * Margie Hendricks: We'll take $40. Each.
 * Ray Charles: $40 each?
 * Margie Hendricks: You heard me.
 * Ray Charles: Naw! How about $25?
 * Margie Hendricks: We'll take $30.
 * Ray Charles: I better say yes before you talk me out of my drawers.
 * [The Cookies cheer and laugh]
 * Ray Charles: Is it a deal?
 * Margie Hendricks: Oh! Yeah!
 * Ray Charles: From now on you guys are gonna be called the Raylettes.
 * Margie Hendricks: Does that mean we have to "let Ray"?
 * Ray Charles: Oh, what am I gonna do with you?
 * Margie Hendricks: I'm sure you'll think of something.

 * Della Bea Robinson: [just discovered Ray's drug problem] That stuff kills people, Ray. Now you've gotta stop it.
 * Ray Charles: I don't have to do a GODDAMN thing!

 * Ray Charles: Margie is drunk, Jeff. You should go home and sleep it off.
 * Jeff Brown: Margie, come on now, let me take you home.
 * Margie Hendricks: No, I'll leave when I'm good and goddamn ready to!
 * Ray Charles: She's good and goddamn ready right now.
 * Margie Hendricks: Why don't you make me leave this, sucker! Teach you to treat me like some piece of meat!

 * [Ray is recording "Georgia on My Mind".]
 * Margie Hendricks: Listen to that crap. I thought you said ABC wasn't gonna force that nothing on him.
 * Jeff Brown: They didn't. It was Ray's idea. Something new.
 * Margie Hendricks: Well, what are we then, Jeff? Something old?
 * Fathead Newman: Yeah, what about us? We got to eat too.

 * Ray Charles: You know what they're saying about me? Said I lost something. Said I've gone middle-of-the-road. They might as well say the same thing about you. You were the soul of this band, now every time you're around, you're just drunk. The drunk soul of a blind junkie. What a lovely couple. Why don't you just get outta here?
 * Margie Hendricks: I ain't drunk, Ray. I'm pregnant. Yeah, that's right. I'm having your baby.

 * Ray Charles: There's some things you're not understandin'...
 * Della Bea Robinson: Well, make me understand, Ray!
 * Ray Charles: Baby, when I walk out that door, I walk out alone in the dark! I'm trying to do something that ain't nobody ever done in music and business. But I can't do it if I'm alone everwhere I go. I don't want to be alone here, Bea. Not in my own home. Look, Bea, if you don't understand me, then who will?
 * Della Bea Robinson: I don't know, Ray.

 * Fathead Newman: Ray, this fool, Joe Adams, is trying to fine for me for being late.
 * Ray Charles: What time did you get here?
 * Fathead Newman: What? Just now. The band's still setting up. Jeff never...
 * Joe Adams: I'm not Jeff.
 * Fathead Newman: That's a fact, Jack.
 * Jeff Brown: Ray, you said the band was my thing.
 * Ray Charles: That's right, I did.
 * Jeff Brown: Fathead, you go on back to rehearsal.
 * Fathead Newman: Ray! You know how it is, you've been there.
 * Jeff Brown: Fathead, go on now. I'll take care of this. Ray, you want to tell me what the hell is going on.
 * Joe Adams: I'm not doing anything I haven't been asked to do. Ray's running a business. He shouldn't have to waste time hearing why people were late.
 * Jeff Brown: I'm not talking to you, Joe. I'm talking to Ray.

 * Jeff Brown: Ray, I know that jealous bastard planted that lie in your head, but I've never stolen from you, Ray, and I never will. I got myself a small business loan. And, yeah, Milt Shaw was giving me a little extra, but I'm not a thief, Ray.
 * Ray Charles: [accuses Jeff of stealing] Then, what about that, Jeff, huh? Promoters swearing that you did side deals with them so that you could strip my overages. How could you do that? We've been through so much. We were like brothers.
 * Jeff Brown: You know what, Ray... if we were like brothers, why are you paying Joe more than you're paying me?
 * Ray Charles: Damn all that. You broke my heart, man.
 * Jeff Brown: Well, you know what, Ray? You broke mine a long goddamn time ago.
 * Ray Charles: Well, there it is.
 * Jeff Brown: [walks away] You know something, Ray? You're gonna get yours one day. And I pray to God he has mercy on your soul, you son of a bitch!
 * Joe Adams: [walks out of his office] Everything all right, Ray?
 * Ray Charles: How the hell do you think it is?

 * Della Bea Robinson: The only thing that can help you is God, Ray!
 * Ray Charles: Don't you talk about God! You have any idea how it feels to go blind and still be afraid of the dark? And every day, you stand and pray just for a little light, and you don't get nothing. Cause God don't listen to people like me.
 * Della Bea Robinson: Stop talking like that, Ray.
 * Ray Charles: As far as I'm concerned, me and God is even, and I do what I damn well please. And goddamnit, if I wanna shoot, I'm gonna shoot up.

 * [Della Bea talks about Ray's drug problem.]
 * Della Bea Robinson: You have got to stop this now.
 * Ray Charles: No, don't say that, Bea. You know I love you more then anythin'.
 * Della Bea Robinson: There is something that you love more then me and them boys, more then all the women you ever slept with on the road, more then all the dope you ever took.
 * Ray Charles: What are you talkin' about?
 * Della Bea Robinson: [shouts] It's your music! And if you keep usin' that needle, they're gonna take away your music and put you in jail. [starts to cry] Is that poison worth losin' everything?

 * [last lines]
 * Della Bea Robinson: If only your mama was here.
 * Ray Charles: She's here. She ain't never left.

 * [last title card]
 * Title card: Ray kept his promise. He never touched heroin again.
 * Title card: As celebrated as he became, he never forgot his roots, contributing over $20 million to African-American Colleges and charities for the deaf and blind.

Taglines

 * The extraordinary life of Ray Charles. A man who fought harder and went further than anyone could imagine.
 * The one thing more extraordinary than the music is the man behind it: Ray Charles.

Cast

 * Jamie Foxx - Ray Charles
 * Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson
 * Kerry Washington - Della Bea Robinson
 * Regina King - Margie Hendricks
 * Larenz Tate - Quincy Jones
 * Curtis Armstrong - Ahmet Ertegun
 * Richard Schiff - Jerry Wexler
 * C.J. Sanders - Young Ray Robinson

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Agnosticism

 is the view that, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable.

 * See also:
 * Listings of Agnostics

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 * Alphabetized by author

 * I say that I am an agnostic. People think that's pusillanimous and covering your bets. But it's not based on any belief or yearning for an afterlife but on the fact that we actually know so little about the cosmos. It is a tribute to the complexity and, at our present stage of development, the unknowability of the universe.
 * Martin Amis, in "The New Amis" in The Telegraph (13 May 2000).

 * Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
 * Martin Amis, "The voice of the lonely crowd", The Guardian (1 June 2002).

 * 'Agnosticism', which is simply and solely the word for a disclaimer, a renunciation of both affirmations and denials about what lies outside the reach of human thought, is usually treated in practice as the ground for a virtual atheism, as by the Victorian agnostics, or for a virtual theism, as (in different ways) by Jaspers, Marcel, and Buber. It is a counsel of perfection to say that this is indefensible, for one has to come to a practical conclusion in order to live. Nevertheless, in all rigour, agnosticism is the only defensible position, and it does not advance anybody one step on the road to atheism or one step on the road to theism.
 * H. J. Blackham, Objections to Humanism (1963), ed. H. J. Blackham, "Introduction". Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965, p. 14.

 * Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong.
 * James Branch Cabell, in The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions (1917).

Colbert: Isn't that just an atheist without balls?
 * Stephen Colbert: So you're an agnostic?
 * "Bart Ehrman", The Colbert Report (20 June 2006).

 * I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
 * Clarence Darrow, Speech in Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925), defending John T. Scopes, on trial for teaching Darwinian concepts of Evolution.

 * I am a skeptic about everything, including God and atheism. I am not certain about issues of cosmology. Sometimes I believe that our universe is the result of random forces. Other times I believe that there must be some order or purpose, though I do not begin to understand what or who it could be. I do not expect that these cosmic doubts will ever be resolved in my mind. I am more certain that the miraculous stories that form the basis of most religious beliefs are myths. Yet I respect the Bible and enjoy reading and teaching it. Indeed, I find it even more fascinating as a human creation than as a divine revelation. I consider myself a committed Jew, but I do not believe that being a Jew requires belief in the supernatural. When I attend synagogue, as I often do, or conduct Sabbath, Passover, or Chanukah services at home, I recite prayers. I am comfortable with these apparent contradictions. I am part of a long tradition that links to my heritage through the words and melodies of prayer. Indeed, it is while praying that I experience my greatest doubts about God, and it is while looking at the stars that I make the leap of faith. But it is not faith in the empirical truths of religious stories or in the authority of hierarchical religious organizations. If there is a governing force, He (or She or It) is certainly not in touch with those who purport to be speaking on His behalf.
 * Alan Dershowitz, in "Taking Disbelief out of the Closet" in Free Inquiry, Vol. 19, (Summer 1999).

 * I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.
 * Diogenes of Sinope, as quoted in The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern (1937) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.

 * As a matter of fact agnosticism is a theory of knowledge: it is defined as that theory of knowledge which ends in doubt, or disbelief of some or all of the powers of knowing possessed by the human mind. In a word, it is the opposite to gnosticism. Gnosticism attributed to the human mind a greater power of knowing than it actually possessed. Agnosticism denies to the human mind a power of attaining knowledge which it does possess. It is important to remember that agnosticism, as such, is a theory about knowledge and not about religion. This fact is frequently overlooked and the probe of empiric test confined illegitimately to the sphere of religious knowledge.
 * Richard Downey, Critical and Constructive Essays (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1934), p. 5.

 * Strictly speaking, agnosticism is not an interpretation of the universe at all, but a sophisticated re-statement of the question.
 * Richard Downey, Critical and Constructive Essays (London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, 1934), p. 5.

 * One should not have the arrogance to declare that God does not exist.
 * Umberto Eco, quoted in "Belief or Nonbelief? : A Confrontation By Umberto Eco and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini" in The Los Angeles Times (18 March 2000).

 * No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
 * E. M. Forster, The Longest Journey (1907), Section X.

 * I honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief. "I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe." Period. It’s a declaration. But in science we don’t really do declarations. We say, "Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that." And so an agnostic would say, look, I have no evidence for God or any kind of god (What god, first of all? The Maori gods, or the Jewish or Christian or Muslim God? Which god is that?) But on the other hand, an agnostic would acknowledge no right to make a final statement about something he or she doesn’t know about. "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," and all that. This positions me very much against all of the "New Atheist" guys.
 * Marcelo Gleiser, "Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says", Scientific Method (March 20, 2019).

 * The very word Agnostic is a nineteenth-century coinage; and, if popular usage identifies it with Sceptic, that was not Huxley's intention when he launched the word. Nor, one may add, was it the idea of the ancient inventors of the term Sceptic that it should imply the dogmatism of the closed book, the affair judged, the case dismissed.
 * T. R. Glover, Progress in Religion to the Christian Era (London: Student Christian Movement, 1922), p. 211.

 * Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.
 * Elizabeth Goudge, The Scent of Water (1963), Ch. XIII.2; "she" is the novel's protagonist, Mary Lindsay.

 * There are people whose mind would recoil from actual negation, but who have no objection to complete indifference; and it is this that is the most to be feared, for, to deny something, one must think about it to some extent, however little that may be, whereas an attitude of indifference makes it possible not to think about it at all.
 * René Guénon, The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 103.

 * Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason; because, though rational argument may take us to the edge of belief, we require a "leap of faith" to jump the chasm.
 * Sydney J. Harris, in "Atheists, Like Fundamentalists, are Dogmatic" in Pieces of Eight (1982).

 * A friend of my own, who was much pressed to say how much of the Athanasian Creed he still accepted, once said that he clung to the idea "that there was a sort of a something." In homely words such as the unlearned can understand,that is precisely what the religion of the Agnostic comes to, "the belief that there is a sort of a something about which we can know nothing."
 * Frederic Harrison, "The Ghost of Religion", The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XV (March 1884), p. 496.

 * Agnosticism […] is the mere disembodied spirit of dead religion.
 * Frederic Harrison, "The Ghost of Religion", The Nineteenth Century, Vol. XV (March 1884), p. 496.

 * When I reached intellectual maturity, and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist or a pantheist, a materialist or an idealist, a Christian or a freethinker, I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing on which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis" — had more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure that I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble.
 * Thomas Huxley, in Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy'' (1889).

 * I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant. To my great satisfaction the term took.
 * Thomas Huxley, in Christianity and Agnosticism: A Controversy'' (1889).

 * Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to agnosticism.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, in "Agnosticsim" published in The Nineteenth Century (February 1889) ; also in Christianity and Agnosticism (1889)

 * Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
 * Thomas Henry Huxley, quoted in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 345.

 * Idealism in philosophy is a defence, sometimes extremely elaborate, sometimes less so, of clericalism, of a doctrine that places faith above science, or side by side with science, or in some way or another gives faith a place. Agnosticism (from the Greek words “a” no and “gnosis” knowledge) is vacillation between materialism and idealism, i.e., in practice it is vacillation between materialist science and clericalism.
 * Vladimir Lenin, "Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Death of Joseph Dietzgen," in Pravda No. 102, May 5, 1913.

 * With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
 * Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, in Notebook L (1793-1796), aphorism 81.

 * In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the mind, there are no limits... In the province of connected minds, what the network believes to be true, either is true or becomes true within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the network's mind there are no limits.
 * John C. Lilly, in The Human Biocomputer (1974).

 * The mistake of agnosticism, so it seems to me, has been that it has said not merely "I do not know," but "I will not consider." Such a position, I think, is hampering, not only to life, but to truth.
 * G. Lowes Dickinson, Religion: A Criticism and a Forecast (New York: McLure, Phillips & Co., 1905), p. x.

 * [P]eople who say, “I am an agnostic,” proudly. From the Greek, “one who doesn’t know.” They do, “I’m an agnostic.” You hear people say that. You know what the Latin word for “agnostic” is? Ignoramus. You hear anybody say, “I am an ignoramus”? Really?
 * John F. MacArthur, "God’s Own Defense of Scripture, Part 1" (26 August 2007), Grace to You

 * You hear people say, “Well, I’m an agnostic.” Really?  You shouldn’t be proud to be an agnostic because the Latin equivalent is ignoramus.  It’s the same word.  I’ve never heard anybody say, “I’m personally an ignoramus.”
 * John F. MacArthur, "Scripture Is Sufficient" (1 March 2015), Grace to You

 * "Clear views and certain," Mr. Thomas Hardy once wrote of his own agnosticism. Well, we cannot all have the certainty of agnostics.
 * Alfred Noyes, in The Unknown God (1934); London: Sheed & Ward, 1949, p. 6.
 * The Hardy quote is from the last stanza of the poem "He Abjures Love" (1883).

 * The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know".
 * Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root and the Flower (London: George Bell and Sons, 1895), "Aurea Dicta LIV", p. 17.

 * I was much cheered, on my arrival, by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion and I replied 'agnostic'. He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.
 * Bertrand Russell on his first experience in prison, related in The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967–9), Ch. 8: The First War, p. 257.

 * Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.
 * Francis Thompson, in "Paganism: Old and New", A Renegade Poet and Other Essays (Boston: The Ball Publishing Co., 1910), p. 47.

 * The essence of agnosticism is not to be dogmatic. It would be un-agnostic to dictate that people define themselves only in the way that we think they should. We can certainly argue against any position that we believe to be illogical, but there is a significant difference between arguing and dictating. There is a significant difference between "I believe that you are wrong and here is my argument why" and "you cannot think this way." … It's important to remember that Thomas Huxley recognized Socrates as the first agnostic. Socrates very much believed in a God, although his deity was somewhat vague and outside of his people's polytheistic religion. Philosophically Socrates was the very essence of agnosticism.
 * James Kirk Wall, in Agnosticism: The Battle Against Shameless Ignorance (2011), p. 10.

 * It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
 * Robert Anton Wilson, in "Robert Anton Wilson : Searching For Cosmic Intelligence" - interview by Jeffrey Elliot (1980).

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The Green Mile (film)

The Green Mile (1999), is an adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Stephen King; adapted and directed by Frank Darabont, it stars Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecomb, a death row corrections officer, and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey, a huge, powerful, but mentally challenged black prisoner convicted of the rape and murder of two young white girls.

Paul Edgecomb

 * I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not. Usually, death row was called "the last mile"; we called ours "the Green Mile" — the floor was the color of faded limes. We had the electric chair — "Old Sparky," we called it. Oh, I've lived a lot of years, Ellie, but 1935 — that takes the prize. That year, I had the worst urinary infection of my life, and that was also the year of John Coffey and the two dead girls.
 * What happens on the Mile, stays on the Mile. Always has.
 * Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block!
 * [about Percy] The man is mean and careless and stupid, and that's a bad combination in a place like this. Sooner or later, he's gonna get somebody hurt, or worse.
 * A big man is ripping your ears off, Percy — I'd do as he says.
 * [grabs Percy, who is trying to turn away from the botched execution he caused] No, you watch, you son-of-a-bitch!
 * I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell.
 * Elaine — you'll die, too. And my curse is knowing that I'll be there to see it. It's my atonement, you see — it's my punishment for lettin' John Coffey ride the lightning. For killing a miracle of God. You'll be gone like all the others, and I'll have to stay. Oh, I'll die eventually; of that, I'm sure. I have no illusions of immortality. But I will have wished for death long before Death finds me. In truth, I wish for it already.
 * We each owe a death — there are no exceptions. But, oh God, sometimes the Green Mile seems so long.
 * Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
 * I think about all of us. Walking our own Green Mile, each in our own time.
 * On the day of my judgement, when I stand before God, and he asks me why... did I ... did I kill one of his true ... miracles... what am I going to say? That it was my job? It was my job...

John Coffey

 * John Coffey, just like the drink, only not spelled the same.
 * I tried to take it back, but it was too late. (crying)
 * You be still, now ... you be so quiet and so still.
 * Why, they's angels. Angels, just like up in heaven.
 * Entranced, watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing "Cheek to Cheek" in Top Hat.
 * I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. 'Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time''. Can you understand?
 * He killed them with their love. That's how it is every day, all over the world.
 * Heaven … I'm in heaven … heaven …

William "Wild Bill" Wharton

 * Barbecue! Me and you! Stinky-pinky, Pew-Pew-Pew! Weren't Billy, Jilly, Hilly, or Pa! It was a French-fried Cajun named Delacroix! WOO!
 * All I wanted me was a little corn bread, you motherfuckers! All I wanted me was a little corn bread!
 * You can come in here on your legs, but you'll go out on your backs. Billy the Kid gonna guarantee ya that.

Percy Wetmore

 * Dead man walking, we got a dead man walking here.
 * Adios, Chief. Drop us a card from Hell. Let us know if it's hot enough, you motherfuckin' sonavabitch.

Dialogue

 * Old Man [Disgusted at watching people arguing on The Jerry Springer Show at the retirement home]: Why do we always watch this stuff?
 * Old Woman: It's interesting.
 * Old Man: "Interesting"? A bunch of inbred trailer trash? All they ever talk about is fucking.

 * Paul: Your name is John Coffey?
 * John Coffey: Yessir, boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.
 * Paul: Oh, you can spell, can you?
 * John Coffey: Just my name, boss. J-O...

 * [Rehearsing Bitterbuck's execution, with Toot-Toot standing in for him]
 * Brutal: Arlen Bitterbuck, you have been condemned to die in the electric chair by a jury of your peers, sentence imposed by a judge in good standing in this state. Do you have anything to say before sentence is carried out?
 * Toot-Toot: Yeah. I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, and I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face 'cause I'm one horny motherfucker!

 * Paul: [After John enters his cell for the first time] Percy, they're moving house in the infirmary. Why don't you go see if they could use some help?
 * Percy Wetmore: Well, they got all the men they need.
 * Paul: Why don't you just go and make sure?
 * Percy: Uh-uh.
 * Paul: I don't care where you go, Percy, just as long as it's not here at this very moment. [Percy nods and walks down the Mile; Del grins at him as he walks by, so Percy smacks Del's fingers with a nightstick and makes Del scream in pain]
 * Eduard Delacroix: [crying] God, he bust my finger!
 * Percy: I wiped that grin off ya shit-poke face, didn't I?!
 * Paul: Goddamn it, Percy, get the hell off my block! [Percy looks at him, nods and leaves]

 * [Coffey seizes Paul's groin for a few moments, then spews a mysterious insect-like cloud, which dissipates overhead]
 * Paul: What did you just do to me?
 * John Coffey: I helped it. Didn't I help it? I just took it back, is all. Awful tired now, boss...dog-tired.

 * [After Percy empties the restraint room, trying to catch Mr. Jingles]
 * Paul: Percy, you want to think about what you were doing just now?
 * Percy: [looks at Paul] I was trying to get the mouse. Are you blind?
 * Harry Terwilliger: You also scared the living crap out of me and Bill. Not to mention the inmates. [nods towards the inmate cells]
 * Percy: So what? They aren't in cradle-school, in case you didn't notice. [to Paul] Although you treat them that way half the time.
 * Brutus: We don't scare 'em any more than we have to, Percy. They're under enough strain as it is.
 * Paul: Men under strain can snap. Hurt themselves and hurt others. That's why our job is talking, not yelling. You'll do better to think of this place like an intensive care ward of a hospital.
 * Percy: I think of it as a bucket of piss to drown rats in, that's all. [scans their faces] Anybody doesn't like it, hm? You can kiss my ass. [Brutus grabs him by his collar and pushes him up against the wall] Don't. Yeah, you try it. Go on, try it. You'll be on the bread lines before the week is out.
 * Paul: [puts his hand on Brutus's arm] Okay, Brutal.
 * [Brutus looks towards Paul, then back towards Percy, then lets go of him]
 * Paul: [steps close] We all know who your connections are, Percy. But you ever threaten a man on this block again, we all gonna have a go. Job be damned.
 * Percy: You done?
 * Paul: [Contemptuously] Get all this shit back in the restraining room, Percy. You're cluttering up my Mile.

 * [Percy sees Mr. Jingles alive again and storms back to Paul and Howell]
 * Percy: You switched 'em! You switched 'em somehow, you bastards!
 * Brutus: [grinning] I always keep a spare mouse in my wallet for occasions such as this.

 * [Paul has the men over for lunch, as he hatches his plan for Moores' terminally-ill wife]
 * Paul: You all saw what he did to the mouse.
 * Brutus: I coulda gone the rest of the day without you bringin' that up.
 * Dean: I coulda gone the rest of the year.
 * Paul: He did the same thing to me. He put his hands on me...and he took my bladder infection away.
 * Jan: 'S true. When he came home that day, he was... [pauses and half-smiles] all better. [Paul gives her a sly look]
 * Dean: Aw, wait. You're talkin' about a...an authentic healin'? A praise-Jesus miracle?
 * Paul: I am.
 * Jan: [barely suppressing a grin] Oh, yeah.

 * Harry: Now, w-what if he escapes? I'd hate to lose my job or go to prison...but I'd hate worse to have a dead child on my conscience.
 * Paul: I don't think that's gonna happen. In fact...I don't think he did it at all. I do not see God putting a...gift like that, in the hands of a man who could kill a child.

 * [Percy, staring vacantly, is unresponsive after shooting and killing Wild Bill]
 * Bill Dodge: Percy. Percy Wetmore. Son, can ya hear me?
 * Sheriff McGee: Speak up if you can hear us.
 * Bill Dodge: [to the bystanders] I think this boy's cheese slid off his cracker.

 * Paul: John, tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out of here? Just let you run away, see how far you could get?
 * John Coffey: [scornful] Why would you do such a foolish thing?
 * Paul: On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I...did I kill one of his true miracles — what am I gonna say? That it was my job? [disgustedly] It was my job.
 * John Coffey: You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. [puts his hand on Paul's wrung ones] I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on you. But you oughta quit on it now. I want it over and done with, I do. I'm tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with, to tell me where we's going to or coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it — it's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?
 * Paul: Yes, John, I think I can.

 * Elaine [Feeding a slow but still active Mr. Jingles]: He...infected you with life?
 * Paul: That's as good a word as any.

Cast

 * Tom Hanks — Paul Edgecomb
 * David Morse — Brutus "Brutal" Howell
 * Bonnie Hunt — Jan Edgecomb
 * Michael Clarke Duncan — John Coffey
 * James Cromwell — Warden Hal Moores
 * Doug Hutchison — Percy Wetmore
 * Sam Rockwell — "Wild Bill" Wharton
 * Michael Jeter — Eduard "Del" Delacroix
 * Barry Pepper — Dean Stanton
 * Jeffrey DeMunn — Harry Terwilliger
 * Patricia Clarkson — Melinda Moores
 * Harry Dean Stanton — Toot-Toot
 * Dabbs Greer — Old Paul Edgecomb
 * Eve Brent — Elaine Connelly

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by LucasArts.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Part 1

 * N.B. Revan's quotes are variable, since the player controls his or her responses.

 * Revan: Death is such a small impediment.

 * [Dark Side ending]
 * Bastila Shan: Malak is dead! All hail the return of Darth Revan, the true Lord of the Sith!

 * Bastila Shan: I saw your service records when you transferred aboard The Endar Spire, but nothing beyond that. I know very little about you.  I'd like to ask you some questions, given our relationship.
 * Revan: What do you want to know?
 * Bastila Shan: What kind of background do you have.
 * Revan: I was a scout with the fleet.
 * Bastila Shan: On which planet were you born?
 * Revan: Deralia. It's in a remote system in the Outer Rim.
 * Bastila Shan: Your age is?
 * Revan: I'm twenty, though my service record says twenty-five. Bastila, this isn't getting to know me better. What is going on?
 * Bastila Shan: Yes, well---The truth is I was studying how you responded to my questions.
 * Revan: And what did you find out?
 * Bastila Shan You were honest, which is good. And you treated this as a serious matter, which it is. This bond we share will shape both our destinies; it is not to be taken lightly.

 * HK-47: Affirmation: Correct, master. Sith protocols maintain that all knowledge be deleted before assassination missions, and restored upon return.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Part 2
Please note that the Exile's responses are variable, as the player is the Jedi Exile, and chooses his or her responses.

 * Darth Sion: I sense you my master. Faint, weak.

 * Kreia: Your senses betray you, as you betrayed me.

 * Darth Sion: After all that has happened, still you live. You are difficult to kill.

 * Kreia: For one as limited as you, perhaps. To have fallen so far and learned nothing, that is your failing.

 * Darth Sion: The failure is yours. No longer do your whispers crawl within my skull. No longer do I suffer beneath teachings that weaken us. And now, you run in search of the Jedi. They are all dead, save one, and one broken Jedi cannot stop the darkness that is to come.

 * Kreia: Perhaps. We shall see.

 * The Jedi Exile: To teach, one must be willing to learn.

 * Kreia: Enough! Step away from her!

 * Master Vrook: Wha...?

 * Kreia: Step away! She has brought truth and you condemn it? The arrogance! You will not harm her, you will not harm her ever again!

 * Master Kavar: I thought you had died in the Mandalorian Wars.

 * Kreia: Died? No. Became stronger? Yes!

 * Master Vrook: Is this your new master, Exile? If so then you follow Revan's path. Her teachings will cause you to fall as surely as he did.

 * Master Zez-Kai Ell: We sought to lure the Sith out and now they have come to us.

 * Kreia: As you would pass judgment on her, I have come to pass judgement on you all. Do you wish to feel the teachings born of the Mandalorian Wars, of all wars, of all tragedies that scream across the galaxy? Let me show you, you, who have forever seen the galaxy through the Force. See it through the eyes of the Exile.

 * [As Talia and Vaklu fight in the Royal Palace throne room]
 * Queen Talia: You would sacrifice everything just for your ambition, Vaklu. The Republic, Iziz- everything!
 * General Vaklu: That is a gross simplification, Talia. Change is a painful process. A price must be paid. But Onderon will have a new destiny, one larger than you can imagine.

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Talk:Hebraic proverbs

where are all the Old Testament proverbs?

 * Hello, we have some at The Bible. You can help us to add your favourite ones to it. Be bold and edit ;-) --Aphaia 13:30, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

I added a variant: an Old Testament-inspired proverb which would only make sense in Hebrew. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 14:09, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

"Errata"
Moved from "Hebraic proverbs/Erratta" (now deleted)

"Phrases to Add"

 * מכל מלמדי השכלתי, ומתלמידי יותר מכולם.
 * איזהו גיבור - הכובש את יצרו
 * עם חברים כאלה - מי צריך אויבים?
 * אם אין לחם - אין תורה.
 * אם אין תורה - אין לחם.
 * עברנו את פרעה - נעבור גם את זה.
 * אין דבר העומד בפני הרצון.
 * טוב שם טוב משמן טוב.
 * אל יתהלל חוגר כמפתח.
 * אם תרצו, אין זו אגדה.
 * טוב ארוחת ירק ואהבה שם, משור אבוס ושנאה בו.
 * נפל בין הכסאות
 * נולד עם כפית של כסף בפה. (מכסף? "כפית כסף")
 * חוסך שבטו - שונא בנו.
 * כבודו במקומו מונח.
 * יישר כוחך.
 * מן המסד ועד הטפחות.

phrases are not proverbs
many of the list are phrases and not proverbs. I advise to delete them. Uziel302 19:50, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:63.172.4.6

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Your request to delete an article titled Republic will shortly be removed, primarily because there is no such article, so it can't be deleted. Nor is there an article title People Republic of China, or any obvious variation on that name. It would appear that you are referring to some other article or section of an article. If you could make this clearer, it might be possible to consider your complaint. — Jeff Q (talk) 10:03, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

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Queen of the Damned

Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film based on the novels The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice.

 * Written by Anne Rice (novels) and Scott Abbott (screenplay). Directed by Michael Rymer.

The Mother Of All Vampires.

Lestat

 * [At start and voice over] There comes a time for every vampire when the idea of eternity becomes momentarily unbearable. Living in the shadows, feeding in the darkness with only your own company to keep, rots into a solitary, hollow existence. Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realize you're going to spend it alone. So I went to sleep, hoping that the sounds of the passing eras would fade out, and a sort of death might happen. But as I lay there, the world didn't sound like the place I had left, but something different. [rock music starts] Better. It became worthwhile to rise again as new gods were born and worshipped. Night and day, they were never alone. I would become one of them. [feeds on pimp] Whether it was that first meal, or a hundred years of rest, I'm not sure. But suddenly I was feeling better than ever. My senses so high they led me straight to the instrument of my resurrection, playing in my old house.
 * From that moment on, they were my friends, my children, my band. Giving the world a new god... me.
 * Many times since then I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless precession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.
 * Boo back [smiles]
 * [in a TV interview cast worldwide, talking to all the vampires listening] Come out, come out, wherever you are.
 * (To Jessie) Well, I can fix that.
 * The question provoked an irresistible urge...I am the vampire Lestat. It just rolled out of my mouth. With one simple sentence I had betrayed everything about my kind. Betrayed our code of secrecy.
 * Maybe I'm trying to resurrect a few old friends. Daring them to come out.
 * I impressed my maker with my thirst for things. He set out to educate me in the unknown. Taught me all about the world, its hidden history... and about myself
 * My senses run amok, like a newborn child. And as for my new powers,I was beside myself with the pleasure of it all...
 * But why must we hide, Marius? We are the powerful, we are the immortal. We should walk fearless in the open!
 * The faces of my victims haunted me, reminding me of my fate... For nights and nights I played, furious. Never again I would participate in the simple joys of life. I was meant for more than this.
 * Come, let me show you what it means to live in the light.
 * Such reverence for mortals! Then you should have left me as one!
 * This may be painful for a mortal. You're still attached to your skin.
 * Clever librarian.

Akasha

 * Join me or die!
 * I know that you crave to have the world at your feet. And I have come to give it to you.
 * I'd like for you to kill her. (To Lestat, regarding Jesse)
 * See my children, remember your real family, or join hers.
 * You kill me, you kill yourselves.
 * Just the same, I'd like you to kill her.
 * You still dare to challenge me, Maharet?
 * My children... it warms my blood to see you all gathered, plotting against me.
 * Come, my love. We have a score to settle.
 * They believed in nothing, now they are nothing. But you and I will change all that. We will give the world something to believe in.
 * We live everywhere and anywhere we choose. The world is our garden.

Marius

 * She takes pleasure in only one thing: destroying life.
 * Appreciate your prey. [While teaching Lestat how to kill]

Dialogue

 * Lestat: But I never understood until I met you.
 * Jessie: What do you mean?
 * Lestat: You’re beautiful to me because you’re human. Your frailty, your short years, your heart; even as you think it’s breaking. All that seems suddenly more precious than anything I’ve ever known.
 * Jessie: Not as precious as you think.

 * Lestat: How did you manage to slip through the 50's in red velvet?
 * Marius: I slept.
 * Lestat: You didn't miss much.
 * Marius: ...Elvis.
 * Lestat: Elvis, yes.

 * Jesse: Boo.
 * Lestat: Boo back.

 * Lifestyle Journalist: Do you have anything you want to say to the other vampires listening out there?
 * Lestat: Yes, as a matter of fact, I do. Come out, come out, wherever you are.

 * Lestat: I don't have time for this.
 * Jessie: All a vampire has is time.
 * Lestat: Not this one!

 * Jessie: Thanks.
 * Lestat: For what?
 * Jessie: You saved me.
 * Lestat: How presumptuous.

 * Lestat: Well, that makes you a very clever librarian, Talamascan. I knew I left that journal somewhere. So, was it a good read?
 * Jessie: It touched me.
 * Lestat: Did it now? Don't worry, Jessie. Your kind never satisfied my thirst.

 * Akasha: You're bold like your music. You lived your life in the open like I did, long ago, when I had a king.
 * Lestat: Had a king?
 * Akasha: He's no more. Now you are my consort.

 * Lestat: A London goth. It's funny. I would have pegged you for a Talamascan.
 * Jessie: Maybe in another lifetime.
 * LA Groupie: I'm an a Episcopalian!
 * Roger: And I'm a friggin Buddhist. Uh, Lestat...
 * Lestat: Roger, would you take our little Episcopalian back to church?

 * Lestat: So, you know Marius?
 * Jessie: I know a lot of things.
 * Lestat: Not how to stay alive, apparently.
 * Jessie: O, I guess we have that in common, though I think I'm a little ahead of the race, here.
 * Lestat: Well, I can fix that.
 * Jessie: Your song "Redeemer" is about the girl with the violin?
 * Lestat: Is it. And what else do you think you know?
 * Jessie: You want...
 * Lestat: What do I want?
 * Jessie: You yearn...
 * Lestat: What do I yearn... what do I yearn...
 * Jessie: To walk with the living... out of the cold dark waste land of eternity.
 * Lestat: Well, that makes you a very clever librarian Talamascan. I knew I left that journal somewhere.

 * Lestat: Akasha!
 * Akasha: Why so surprised, my love. You've called, I've come.
 * Lestat: My love?

 * Marius: In all those years I've kept them not once have they moved.
 * Lestat: Until tonight, and she chose me. Marius: I chose you!

 * Club Vampire: You like him do you?
 * Akasha: He reminds me of someone.
 * Club Vampire: Well all he's going to remind you of is a pile of bones. We're going to dismember him, bleed him dry.
 * Akasha: Really? Is that what you're going to do?

 * David Talbot: Can I ask...?
 * Jessie: What's it like?
 * David Talbot: Yes.
 * Jessie: Do you want to find out?
 * David Talbot: Me? No, no - I'm too old to live forever.

 * [Maharet has just become a living statue]
 * Armand: She drank Akasha's last drop. She took Akasha's death into herself.
 * Marius: No, she's not dead. She sleeps.

 * Journalist: Yes, but these other vampires, aren't they going to be pissed off at you giving away their secrets?
 * Lestat: Mmmmm... I imagine they are... Yes...!

About Queen of the Damned

 * It's definitely fun to explore that side of yourself and that side of yourself that you keep hidden in your everyday life because you know you're not supposed to go there unless it's absolutely necessary
 * And yes, it's fun to just be that mean, evil and see how far you can really go.
 * I think everybody has a bit of a fascination with the dark side and I myself have always loved the dark side as well.
 * Aaliyah

 * I wanted to, like, grab her off the screen and sit her right down next to me but couldn't,
 * Rashad

 * So I was never worried about comparisons or intimidated by Tom Cruise doing this because it's like the rock 'n' roll, tongue-in-cheek version.
 * Stuart Townsend

Cast

 * Aaliyah — Queen Akasha (film final role)
 * Stuart Townsend — Lestat de Lioncourt
 * Marguerite Moreau — Jessica 'Jesse' Reeves
 * Vincent Perez — Marius de Romanus
 * Paul McGann — David Talbot
 * Lena Olin — Maharet
 * Christian Manon — Mael
 * Claudia Black — Pandora
 * Bruce Spence — Khayman
 * Matthew Newton — Armand
 * Tiriel Mora — Roger

title: Queen of the Damned


text:
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 film in which the Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. It is the third installment in the National Lampoon Griswold family series.
 * Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. Written by John Hughes.

Yule crack up! Taglines

Clark W. Griswold

 * Well I'm gonna park the cars and get the luggage, and well, I'll be outside for the season.
 * [as an entourage of suits - led by Clark's boss - passes by single file] Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.
 * [the newel post is wobbly so Clark cuts it off with a chain saw] Fixed the newel post.
 * LOTTA SAP in here. [spits then gives an a-ok sign] Looks great! Little full, Lotta sap!
 * I dedicate this house to the Griswold Family Christmas.
 * [handing Christmas lights to Russ] Unravel these. We need to check every bulb. [pulls out a huge tangle of lights] Oop. Little knot here, you can work on that. [hands it to Russ]
 * Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, bloodsucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! HALLELUJAH! HOLY SHIT! Where's the Tylenol?
 * Going for a new amateur recreational saucer sled land speed record, Clark W. Griswold, Jr. Remember, don't try this at home kids; I am a professional. Later dudes. Let 'er rip. Hang ten!
 * [last lines] I did it.

Cousin Eddie

 * If that thing had nine lives, he just spent 'em all. Whoo!
 * Tha right there is a RV, I got it off my buddy of mine. He took my house, I took the RV.
 * I don't know if I oughta go sailin' down no hill with nothin' between the ground and my brain but a piece of government plastic.
 * 'Yeah...I got the daughter in the clinic, gettin' cured off of the Wild Turkey, and the older boy, bless his soul is preparing for his career.
 * Clark, I'd like to try to fumigate this here chair, it's a good quality item. If you don't mind my askin', how much did she set you back?
 * He's cute ain't he? Only problem is, he's got a little bit a Mississippi leg hound in 'im. If the mood catches him right, he'll grab your leg and just go to town. You don't want him around if you're wearing short pants, if you know what I mean. Word of warning though, if he does lay into ya, it's best to just let 'im finish.
 * [after finding out that Clark is getting to be a member of the Jelly of the Month Club instead of getting his bonus] Clark, that's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.

Others

 * Audrey Griswold: Would it be indecent to ask the grandparents to stay at a hotel?
 * Ellen Griswold: I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
 * Ellen Griswold: Welcome to our home - what's left of it.
 * Art: Hurry up, Clark. I'm freezing my baguettes off.
 * Mr. Shirley: [picks up the phone receiver] Get me somebody. Anybody. And get me somebody while I'm waiting.
 * Clark W. Griswold, Sr.: [extreme close-up] SQUIRREL!!!!

Dialogue

 * Ellen: Clark, Audrey's frozen from the waist down.
 * Clark: That's all part of the experience, honey.

 * Todd Chester: [mockingly] Hey Griswold. Where do you think you're gonna put a tree that big?
 * Clark: [lifts up the mask] Bend over and I'll show you.
 * Todd Chester: [angrily] You've got a lot of nerve talking to me like that, Griswold.
 * Clark: I wasn't talking to you. [looking at his wife, Margo]

 * Ellen: You set standards that no family activity can live up to.
 * Clark: When have I ever done that?
 * Ellen: Parties, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, holidays, vacations, graduations...

 * [Clark is looking at lingerie, as a voluptuous saleswoman approaches]
 * Mary: Can I show you something?
 * Clark: Oh, I was just smelling - smiling. I was just blouse - browsing.
 * Mary: For your wife? For your girlfriend?
 * Clark: Uh...huh? What happened? I, uh, heh heh. [mops his forehead with a pair of panties] Well, I guess it just wouldn't... [realizes what he'd done and puts the panties back] Oh hee hee, it wouldn't be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn't it?
 * Mary: You have your coat on.
 * Clark: Yes, oh do I? How'd that happen?
 * Mary: Because it's cold out?
 * Clark: Yes, Yes, it is a bit nipply out. I mean 'nippy out.' [laughs] What am I saying, nipple? Ah, there is a nip in the air, though.

 * Clark: 'Tis the season to be merry.
 * Mary: That's my name.
 * Clark: No shit.

 * Audrey: Do you sleep with your brother? Do you know how sick and twisted that is?
 * Ellen: Well, I'm sleeping with your father. Don't be so dramatic.
 * Audrey: I have nightmares about what he does in his bed alone when I'm not lying right next to him.

 * Todd: Well, obviously something had to break the window, SOMETHING had to hit the stereo!
 * Margo: And why is the carpet all wet, Todd?
 * Todd: I don't KNOW, Margo.

 * [Aafter Clark fails at lighting all the exterior Christmas lights at the "lighting ceremony" in front of the entire family]
 * Art: [sarcastically] Beautiful, Clark.
 * Frances: Talk about pissing your money away. I hope you kids see what a silly waste of resources this was.
 * Audrey Griswold: He worked really hard, Grandma.
 * Art: So do washing machines.

 * Clark: Russ, we checked every bulb, didn't we?
 * Rusty: Sure, Dad.
 * Clark: Hmm...Maybe we ought to just go up there and check...
 * Rusty: Oh, woo. Look at the time. I gotta get to bed. I still gotta brush my teeth, feed the hog, still got some homework to do, still got those bills to pay, wash the car...

 * Art: The little lights aren't twinkling.
 * Clark: I know, Art. And thanks for noticing.

 * Eddie: [talking about Snots, Eddie's dog] If you scratch his belly, Clark, he'll love you till the day you die.
 * Clark: I really shouldn't, Eddie, my hands are all chapped.

 * Eddie: You surprised to see us, Clark?
 * Clark: Surprised Eddie?...If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now.

 * Clark: Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere, leave you for dead?
 * Eddie: Naw, I'm doing just fine, Clark.

 * Eddie: [describing the metal plate in his head] I had to have it replaced 'cause every time Katherine revved up the microwave, I'd piss my pants and forget who I was for a half-hour or so. So, the put in a plastic one, and it ain't as strong, so...I don't know if I oughta go sailin' down no hill with nothin' between the ground and my brains but a piece of government plastic.
 * Clark: Do you really think it matters, Eddie?
 * Eddie: [gesturing over the left side of his head] Well, you see, the plate runs underneath my part here, and over here is... [bangs his right side] Nothing. But here, if this gets dented, then my hair just ain't gonna look right.
 * Clark: ...Yeah, I know the feeling.

 * Ruby Sue: Rocky bit my thumb. Him's nervous because Christmas is almost here.
 * Clark: Nervous or excited?
 * Ruby Sue: Shitting bricks.
 * Clark: You shouldn't use that word.
 * Ruby Sue: Sorry. Shitting rocks.

 * Ruby Sue: Uncle Clark, are you sure you ain't Santa Claus?
 * Clark: I'm sure...I can't even afford to be an elf.

 * Ellen: What are you looking at?
 * Clark: Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn...the clean, cool chill of the holiday air...an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer.
 * [He and Ellen see out the window was Eddie, in the driveway, wearing his bathrobe, is draining the RV's toilet]
 * Eddie: [lifting his glass of eggnog] Shitter was full!
 * Clark: Ah, yeah. You checked our shitters, honey?
 * Ellen: Clark, please. He doesn't know any better.
 * Clark: He oughta know it's illegal. That's a storm sewer. If it fills with gas, I pity the person who lights a match within ten yards of it.

 * Aunt Bethany: Is your house on fire, Clark?
 * Clark: No, Aunt Bethany, those are the Christmas lights.
 * Aunt Bethany: Don't throw me down, Clark.
 * Clark: I'll try not to, Aunt Bethany.,
 * Aunt Bethany: Is this the airport, Clark?
 * Clark: [inside the house] We're here!
 * Uncle Lewis: Hey Gris, me and Bethany figured out the perfect gift for you.
 * Clark: Aw, you didn't have to get me anything.
 * Uncle Lewis: Dammit, Bethany, he guessed it.

 * Ellen: Oh, Aunt Bethany, you shouldn't have done that.
 * Aunt Bethany: Oh dear, did I break wind?
 * Uncle Lewis: Jesus, did the room clear out, Bethany? Hell, No, she means presents. You shouldn't have brought presents!

 * Aunt Bethany: This house is bigger than your old one. Is Rusty still in the Navy?
 * Ellen: Aunt Bethany, why don't you go with Frances and Catherine into the living room and say hello to everybody.
 * Aunt Bethany: Hello, everybody?
 * Ellen: Just in the living room...
 * Aunt Bethany: I should say it?
 * Ellen: You should say it.
 * Aunt Bethany: Hello, everybody!
 * Ellen: Hello, everybody.

 * Russ: Dad.
 * Clark: Yeah.
 * Russ: This box is meowing.
 * Clark: Let me see. [takes the present, shakes it, and a cat wildly meows] She wrapped up her damn cat!
 * Ellen: Well, take it to the kitchen and open it up.
 * Clark: Then we'll have a cat running around the house.
 * Ellen: We can't leave it in the box.
 * Russ: Why would somebody put a cat in a box?
 * Ellen: She gets confused, Rusty. She's old. She and Uncle Louis don't have much money, so she takes things from around the house, wraps them up, and gives them away as presents.
 * Russ: [mock enthusiasm] Great! Can't wait to see what I got.
 * Eddie: [comes in with another of Aunt Bethany's gifts] This one here, it's leakin'. [Ellen touches the liquid coming out with her finger and Eddie licks it] It's lime!
 * Ellen: That would be her Jell-O mold.

 * Clark: Since this is Aunt Bethany's 80th Christmas, I think she should lead us in the saying of Grace.
 * Aunt Bethany: What dear?
 * Nora: Grace!
 * Aunt Bethany: Grace? Ohhh...She passed away thirty years ago...
 * Uncle Lewis: They want you to say grace.... [Bethany looks confused; emphasizes his words] The BLESS-ING!!!
 * Aunt Bethany: Oh. [everyone at the table folds their hands in prayer and reverently bows their heads] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, [Clark makes a confused face towards Aunt Bethany] and to the republic for which it stands - one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
 * Clark: [annoyed] Amen.

 * [Snots is choking under the table making it shake]
 * Clark: Uh, Eddie? What's wrong with the dog?
 * [Snots gags again, table shakes]
 * Eddie: [looks under table] Oh, he's just yakkin' on a bone. [Snots coughs up the bone] He got it up. He's alright, now.

 * Clark: Hey, kids, I heard on the news that an airline pilot spotted Santa's sleigh on its way in from New York City.
 * [The kids sit up excitedly]
 * Eddie: [after a pause] You serious, Clark?

 * Uncle Lewis: Hey Gris, if you're not doing anything constructive, run into the living room and get my stogies.
 * Clark: Is there anything else I can do for you, Uncle Lewis?
 * Ellen: He's an old man. This may be his last Christmas.
 * Clark: If he keeps it up, it will be his last Christmas.

 * [While eating dinner, Uncle Lewis smokes a cigar and drops it. A flame engulfs in the living room for a split second. Clark notices it and walks into the living room]
 * Clark: Lewis?? [tears up when he sees that his Christmas tree has been burnt into a crisp] MY TREE!
 * Uncle Lewis: So? What's the matter with you?
 * Clark: Look what you've done to my tree!!! [notices that Lewis is on fire in the back of his clothes] LEWIS! [uses a curtain, grabs Lewis and pats his back to put out the fire]
 * [Others come in and look at the destroyed tree]
 * Art: It was an ugly tree anyway.
 * Uncle Lewis: At least it's out of its misery!

 * [Clark has just lost his tree and found out he had been stiffed on his Christmas bonus. He stalks outside the house, with his chainsaw]
 * Audrey: Uh oh, he's got that crazy look in his eye.
 * Russ: I told you we should've gone to Hawaii!
 * Ellen: CLARK, TURN THAT THING OFF AND GET IN THE HOUSE!
 * Russ: I'll go talk to him. [walks up to Clark] You know, Dad, I've been thinking... [Clark turns and stares crazily at him, his running chainsaw pointed in his direction] ...Good talk, Dad!

 * Clark: I simply solved the problem. We needed a coffin...Er, a tree. There are no lots open on Christmas Eve. Lewis burned down my tree so I replaced it as best I could. Voilà.
 * Ellen: Are you okay?

 * Aunt Bethany: What's that sound? [everybody looks up, and returns to activities, then Clark starts hearing it] Do you hear it?! It's a funny, squeaking sound.
 * Uncle Lewis: You couldn't hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant!

 * [A squirrel is loose in the house]
 * Clark: Where is Eddie? He usually eats these goddamn things.
 * Catherine: Not recently, Clark, he read that squirrels were high in cholesterol.

 * Clark: [tries to catch the loose squirrel] Russ!
 * Russ: Right here, dad
 * Clark: Go get the hammer.
 * Ellen: Clark, what do you need a hammer for?
 * Clark: I'm gonna catch it in the coat...And smack it with the hammer.
 * Ellen: You are not going to kill that squirrel in front of all these kids!
 * Clark: Well honey, what do you suggest?

 * Clark: Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no! We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're gonna press on, and we're gonna have the hap, hap, happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fucking Kaye. [Ellen gives him a glare for his language] And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse! [his eyes twitch]
 * Art: You're goofy.
 * Clark: Don't piss me off, Art.
 * Ellen: Clark, it's over.
 * Clark: Not according to Santa's watch, it isn't.
 * Clark Sr.: Clark.
 * Clark: Stay out of this, Dad.
 * Ellen: Clark, I think it's be best if everyone went home...before things get worse.
 * Clark: Worse?! How could things get any worse?! Take a look around you, Ellen! We're at the threshold of Hell!

 * Clark: Our holidays were always such a mess.
 * Clark Sr.: Oh, yeah.
 * Clark: How'd you get through it?
 * Clark Sr.: I had a lot of help from Jack Daniels.

 * Mr. Shirley: I have never been treated like this in my life!
 * Ellen: I'm sorry. This is our family's first kidnapping.
 * Mr. Shirley: [to Clark] You're fired! And where's the phone?! I'm calling the police!
 * Eddie: Now, just hold your wad there, fella. Clark had nothin' to do with this. This here, was my idea.
 * Mr. Shirley: All right, he's still fired. And you are going to jail!
 * [Eddie scoffs in clear disbelief]
 * Clark: No, Eddie. It was my fault. I lost my temper when I got my bonus and I guess I said a few thing I shouldn't have.
 * Mr. Shirley: Bonus? How did you get a bonus? I cut out bonuses this year.
 * Clark: Yeah. Thanks for telling us. I was expecting a check. Instead I got enrolled in a jelly club. 17 years with the company. I've gotten a Christmas bonus every year but this one. You don't want to give bonuses, fine. But when people count on them as their salary, well what you did just plain...
 * Russ: Sucks.
 * Clark: Thank you, Russ. My cousin-in-law, whose heart is bigger than his brain...
 * Eddie: I appreciate that, Clark.
 * Clark: ...is innocent. I'll be more than happy to take the rap on this, on behalf of myself and every other employee you rear-ended this Christmas.
 * Mr. Shirley: [having a change of heart] Look uh, sometimes things look good on paper. But lose their luster when you see how it affects real folks. I guess a healthy bottom line doesn't mean much if to get it you have to hurt the ones you depend on. It's people that make the difference. Little people like you. So...Clark, whatever you got last year...add twenty percent.
 * [Clark faints in relief as everyone cheers]

 * Clark: I think you've made a terrible mistake.
 * SWAT officer: I told you to freeze, mister!
 * Clark: May we blink?
 * Mrs. Shirley: Frank.
 * Mr. Shirley: Helen!
 * Mrs. Shirley: Oh, Thank God, You're all right.
 * Mr. Shirley: Oh, I'm fine. I'm just fine. It was a big misunderstanding tonight.
 * Swat Captain: Excuse me. Would you and Mrs. Shirley like to step outside. so we can take care of business here?
 * Mr. Shirley: There's no business. I'm not pressing any charges.
 * Mrs. Shirley: What?
 * Mr. Shirley: It was a mistake.
 * Mrs. Shirley: Mistake? Frank, honey, you were kidnapped.
 * Mr. Shirley: I did something I shouldn't have, and these people called me on it. This is Clark Griswold and his family.
 * Ellen: Welcome to our home. [Mrs. Shirley shakes her hand] What's left of it.
 * Swat Captain: Release B Squad.
 * Mrs. Shirley: What's going on here?
 * Mr. Shirley: Remember I was toying with the notion of suspending the Christmas bonuses?
 * Mrs. Shirley: You didn't. Well, of all the cheap, lousy ways to save a buck!
 * Swat Captain: That's pretty low, mister. If I had a rubber hose, I would beat you to...
 * Mr. Shirley: I changed my mind! I'm reinstating the bonuses.

Taglines

 * Yule crack up!
 * There's No Place Like Home For A Holiday!

Cast

 * Chevy Chase - Clark Wilhelm "Sparky" Griswold, Jr.
 * Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
 * Juliette Lewis - Audrey Griswold
 * Johnny Galecki - Russell 'Rusty/Russ' Griswold
 * John Randolph - Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Sr.
 * Diane Ladd - Nora Griswold
 * E.G. Marshall - Art Smith
 * Doris Roberts - Frances Smith
 * Randy Quaid - Cousin Edward "Eddie" Johnson
 * Miriam Flynn - Cousin Catherine Johnson
 * Cody Burger - Cousin Rocky Johnson
 * Ellen Hamilton Latzen - Cousin Ruby Sue Johnson
 * William Hickey - Uncle Lewis
 * Mae Questel - Aunt Bethany (final role)
 * Nicholas Guest - Todd Chester
 * Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Margo Chester
 * Brian Doyle-Murray - Mr. Frank Shirley

title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation


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John Bardeen

John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in Physics, in 1956 for the transistor, along with William Shockley and, and in 1972 for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity together with and , now called BCS theory.

Quotes
Further, science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
 * Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Any particular advance has been preceded by the contributions of those from many lands who have set firm foundations for further developments. The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
 * Banquet Speech, John Bardeen, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972

 * ... I can't work well under the conditions at Bell Labs. Walter and I are looking at a few questions relating to point-contact transistors, but Shockley keeps all the interesting problems for himself.
 * told to Frederick Seitz as quoted by Lillian Hoddeson in No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes, University of Illinois Press 2004 (quote page 242)

Quotes about John Bardeen

 * On the morning of 1 November 1956 the US physicist John Bardeen dropped the frying-pan of eggs that he was cooking for breakfast, scattering its contents on the kitchen floor. He had just heard that he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics along with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for their invention of the transistor. That evening Bardeen was startled again, this time by a parade of his colleagues from the University of Illinois marching to the door of his home bearing champagne and singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".
 * Lillian Hoddeson in John Bardeen: an extraordinary physicist, Physics World 2008, vol. 21, no. 04, p. 22

 * John Bardeen was an avid golfer and a good one. Whenever possible, he sought out golf courses during research or consulting trips. According to the stories, he was as proud of hitting a "hole in one" as he was to win a second Nobel Prize.
 * Lillian Hoddeson in No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes, University of Illinois Press 2004 (quote page 257)

title: John Bardeen


text:
William A. Patterson

William A. "Pat" Patterson (October, 1899 — June 13, 1980) was the president of United Airlines from 1934 to 1966.

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 * When you have an idea, hang on to it. It's the most valuable thing in the world. Nurture it. Test it. And remember: you can grow a toadstool overnight, but it takes time to grow an oak.

 * I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world — aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a tiny two-seater plane soaring gracefully through the sky. Our great airlines awe me. Yet I know they were not produced in a day or a decade.

 * It may take years to put your idea into action. But if it has real worth, time will prove it, and you will have something that will endure.

title: William A. Patterson