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Michael Collins (Irish leader)

Michael Collins (in Irish Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance in the Irish Republic, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations, both as Chairman of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army.

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 * When you have sweated, toiled, had mad dreams, hopeless nightmares, you find yourself in London's streets, cold and dank in the night air. Think — what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have done the job five years ago.
 * Cathal Liam (2006) Blood on the Shamrock: A Novel of Ireland's Continued Struggle for Freedom 1921-1924, St. Padraic Press, p. 194.

 * Now as one of the signatories of the document I naturally recommend its acceptance. I do not recommend it for more than it is. Equally I do not recommend it for less than it is. In my opinion it gives us freedom, not the ultimate freedom that all nations desire and develop to, but the freedom to achieve it.
 * Regarding the Anglo-Irish Treaty during a parliamentary debate (Dáil Éireann - Volume T - 19 December, 1921 (DEBATE ON TREATY))

 * How could one argue with a man who was always drawing lines and circles to explain the position; who, one day, drew a diagram [here Michael illustrated with pen and paper] saying 'take a point A, draw a straight line to point B, now three-fourths of the way up the line take a point C. The straight line AB is the road to the Republic; C is where we have got to along the road, we canot move any further along the straight road to our goal B; take a point out there, D [off the line AB]. Now if we bend the line a bit from C to D then we can bend it a little further, to another point E and if we can bend it to CE that will get us around Cathal Brugha which is what we want!' How could you talk to a man like that?
 * Referring to Eamon de Valera in conversation with Michael Hayes, at the debates over the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921
 * Michael Hayes Papers, P53/299, UCDA
 * Quoted in Gabriel Doherty and Dermot Keogh (2006) Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State, Mercier Press, p. 153.

 * There is no British Government anymore in Ireland. It is gone. It is no longer the enemy. We have now a native government, constitutionally elected, and it is the duty of every Irish man and woman to obey it. Anyone who fails to obey is an enemy of the people and must expect to be treated as such. We have to learn that attitudes and actions which were justifiable when directed against alien administration, holding its position by force, are wholly unjustifiable against a native government which exists only to carry out the people's will, and can be changed the moment it ceases to do so. We have to learn that freedom imposes responsibilities.
 * A Path to Freedom (1968 [2010]), p. 14

 * The Treaty is already vindicating itself. The English Die-hards said to Mr. Lloyd George and his Cabinet: "You have surrendered". Our own Die-hards said to us: "You have surrendered". There is a simple test. Those who are left in possession of the battlefield have won.
 * A Path to Freedom (1968 [2010]), p. 23

 * The European War, which began in 1914, is now generally recognized to have been a war between two rival empires, an old one and a new, the new becoming such a successful rival of the old, commercially and militarily, that the world-stage was, or was thought to be, not large enough for both. Germany spoke frankly of her need for expansion, and for new fields of enterprise for her surplus population. England, who likes to fight under a high-sounding title, got her opportunity in the invasion of Belgium. She was entering the war 'in defense of the freedom of small nationalities'. America at first looked on, but she accepted the motive in good faith, and she ultimately joined in as the champion of the weak against the strong. She concentrated attention upon the principle of self-determination and the reign of law based upon the consent of the governed. "Shall", asked President Wilson, "the military power of any small nation, or group of nations, be suffered to determine the fortunes of peoples over whom they have no right to rule except the right of force?" But the most flagrant instance of violation of this principle did not seem to strike the imagination of President Wilson, and he led the American nation- peopled so largely by Irish men and women who had fled from British oppression- into the battle and to the side of the nation that for hundreds of years had determined the fortunes of the Irish people against their wish, and had ruled them, and was still ruling them, by no other right than the right of force.
 * A Path to Freedom (2010), p. 38

 * Our army, if it exists for honorable purposes only, will draw to it honorable men. It will call to it the best men of our race- men of skill and culture. It will not be recruited as so many modern nations are, from those who are industrially useless.
 * A Path to Freedom (1968 [2010]), p. 64

 * We are a small nation. Our military strength in proportion to the mighty armaments of modern nations can never be considerable. Our strength as a nation will depend upon our economic freedom, and upon our moral and intellectual force. In these we can become a shining light in the world.
 * A Path to Freedom (1968 [2010]), p. 64

Quotes about Collins

 * In alphabetical order by author or source.

 * We beat them in the cities and we whipped them in the streets
 * And the world hailed Michael Collins, our commander and chief
 * And they sent you off to London to negotiate a deal
 * And to gain us a Republic, united, boys, and real
 * But the women and the drink, Mick, they must have got to you
 * 'cause you came back with a country divided up in two
 * Black 47, Big Fellah (1989)

 * We had to turn against you, Mick, there was nothing we could do
 * 'Cause we couldn't betray the Republic like Arthur Griffith and you
 * We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood
 * But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood
 * And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth
 * I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all
 * Black 47, Big Fellah (1989)

 * On January 21 they met in my room at the Colonial office, which, despite its enormous size, seemed overcharged with electricity. They both glowered magnificently, but after a short, commonplace talk I slipped away upon some excuse and left them together. What these two Irishmen, separated by such gulfs of religion, sentiment, and conduct, said to each other I cannot tell. But it took them a long time, and, as I did not wish to disturb them, mutton chops, etc. were tactfully introduced at about one o'clock. At four o'clock the Private Secretary reported signs of movement on the All-Ireland front and I ventured to look in. They announced to me complete agreement reduced to writing. They were to help each other in every way; they were to settle outstanding points by personal discussion; they were to stand ogether within the limits agreed against all disturbers of the peace.We three three then joined in the best of all pledges, to wit, 'To try to make things work'.
 * Winston Churchill, describing a day in which Michael Collins of the emerging Irish Free State and Sir James Craig of the six counties of Northern Ireland met for the first time on 21 January 1922. As quoted by James Mackey in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 248-249

 * From his earliest days Michael seems to have wanted to be the leader in everything that went on around him. His cousin Michael O'Brien wrote of him in their childhood days that Collins would always 'insist on running the show at Woodfield when we were kids, even to holding the pike (fork) when we endeavoured to spear salmon'. (There were only small trout in the river.) The family history abounds with doting anecdotes of the young Collins. Celestine, going away to be a nun in England, recalls the little boy waving goodbye until the pony and trap took her around the bend and out of sight. Mary tells of being left to look after the household for a day of drudgery during which she forgot to dig the potatoes until evening. Wearily forcing herself to the kitchen garden she was met by her three-year-old brother dragging behind him a bucket of potatoes that he had somehow managed to dig up by himself. Johnny remembers his prowess with horses, in particular, being found one day while still a baby curled up fast asleep in a stable between the hoofs of a notoriously vicious animal. His father on his deathbed told his grieving family to mind Michael because, 'One day he'll be a great man. He'll do great work for Ireland.' Michael was six years old at the time.
 * Tim Pat Coogan Michael Collins: The Man Who made Ireland (1992), p. 9

 * Dr. Cagney, who had served through the Great War and had 'a wide knowledge of bullet wounds' told McGarry that Collins was killed by a .303 rifle bullet. The bullet entered behind the left ear, making a small entrance wound, and exited above the left ear making 'a ragged wound' on the left side of his head. Collins' long hair hid the entrance wound. It was his fate to die, almost accidentally, in his home county, at the hands of men who admired him, in one of the most avoidable, badly organized ambushes of the period. Any one of his assailants could have fired the fatal shot. None of them would have been proud to do so.
 * Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who made Ireland (1992), p. 421

 * What would have happened if Michael Collins had lived? This again is a question asked incessantly in Ireland and though I have already dealt exhaustively with questions of speculation, and hesitate to weary the reader with issues which, by definition, must be totally matters of opinion, some evaluation is called for. Obviously he had a greater grasp of economics than his contemporaries and would have brought more drive, efficiency and imagination to bear upon the task of building up the country after the civil war than did anyone in any government or party that came after him. My opinion, and it has to be based purely on speculation, is that Ireland would have benefited enormously had he lived. Unlike de Valera whose talent lay in getting and holding power, Collins asked himself the question, 'All this for what?', and tried to provide the answers. However practical or impractical his recorded thoughts may have been they were the thoughts of a still-young man, capable of great development; a man who, in the eye of the storm, was able to take time to try to plot a course for his people and his country.
 * Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who made Ireland (1992), p. 421-422

 * De Valera paused before replying to the suggestion. It had been his Karma to live a long and distinguished public life. Although he was then in his eighty-fifth year he was looking forward to a second seven-year term as President of Ireland. But he knew that before the bar of history his name and fame were inextricably linked with a man whose allotted span had been destined to be but a third of his own. He knew that the story of Eamon de Valera could not be told without that of Michael Collins. Already he had embarked on what he knew in his heart was a futile effort to influence the record for the benefit of posterity. His newspaper and political empires had published innumerable favourable articles, histories and recollections. And in the years ahead he planned to ensure that much more favourable comment and chronology would be collated and set down. He had fashioned a vigorous dialectic of de Valerism that would bulwark him against critical re-appraisal long into the future. But de Valera was a realist, a man whose doodlings on the back of documents took the form of mathematical symbols. He realised only too well that his party, his newspapers, his Constitution even, had grown out of his opposition to Michael Collins and the resultant civil war. He knew that eventually, in the truthful telling of history, two and two would make four. Torn between his own clarity of vision and the myths he had spun around himself, de Valera struggled painfully for words to express himself. Then he said, 'I can't see my way to becoming Patron of the Michael Collins Foundation. It's my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.' He could be right.
 * Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins: The Man Who made Ireland (1992), p. 432

 * Republican and statesman. Born in Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Collins moved to London in 1906 where he worked as a clerk in the Post Office and later for a firm of stockbrokers. While in London he became involved with the Irish Republican Brotherhood. He returned to Ireland in 1915 and fought in the General Post Office during the rising of 1916. On his release he became increasingly influential in Sinn Féin and the Irish Volunteers. He was elected to the first Dáil for South Cork and for Tyrone, first becoming minister for home affairs and from April 1919 minister for finance. In the latter function he organized the Dáil Loan which financed the republicans' alternative government. As director of organization and intelligence for the IRA he played a leading part in the co-ordination of the military campaign in the Anglo-Irish War. His intelligence network in Dublin was renowned, and he was responsible for the 'Squad' which eliminated government intelligence. His success and determination to get things done brought him into conflict with some other leaders such as de Valera and Cathal Brugha.
 * S.J. Connolly (editor), The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998), p. 102

 * Collins was a reluctant delegate to the negotiations that produced the Anglo Irish treaty, but accepted their outcome and was appointed chairman and minister for finance of the Provisional Government responsible for the establishment of the new Irish state. He regarded the treaty only as a means toward obtaining a 32-county republic. His conspiratorial nature came to the fore in his secret arrangement with the anty-treatyites to attack Northern Ireland while officially recognizing it. He became commander-in-chief of the Free State army when the Irish Civil War broke out, and was killed on 22 August 1922 at Beal na Blath, Co. Cork, during an inspection tour of the south. Generally seen as a man of action, he commanded great respect, admiration, and loyalty among those around him. He has been much idealized since his death, often described as the man who singe-handedly defeated the British forces. This view has been challenged in more recent writing. The widespread admiration for him has nevertheless, fuelled much speculation about what Ireland would have been like if he had lived. Such speculation emphasizes his view of the treaty as a stepping stone, his progressive social views, and his potential to reunite a divided republican movement.
 * S.J. Connolly (editor), The Oxford Companion to Irish History (1998), p. 102

 * It was widely believed there was a reward of £10,000 for the capture of Collins, which was as much as most Irish people could then expect to earn in a lifetime. The Black and Tans, for instance, were considered well paid, but the supposed reward amounted to more than they could earn in fifty years, working seven days a week and fifty-two weeks a year. As a result there was always the danger someone might betray Collins for the money.
 * T. Ryle Dwyer, Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War (1990), p. 129

 * His engaging personality won friendships even amongst those who first met him as foes, and to all who met him the news of his death comes as a personal sorrow.
 * David Lloyd George, in his message of sympathy to William Cosgrave, Acting Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State, in the aftermath of Collins' death. As quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 296

 * He was the man whose matchless energy, whose indomitable will, carried Ireland through the terrible crisis; and though I have not now, and never had, an ambition about either political affairs or history, if my name is to go down in history I want it to be associated with the name of Michael Collins.
 * Arthur Griffith, giving a rebuttal to Cathal Brugha's attack on Michael Collins during the debates in the Dáil over the Anglo-Irish Treaty in January 1922. As quoted by James Mackay Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 240

 * Collins' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude- his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.
 * Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (1988), p. 178

 * The government had lost its one popular leader- the man who had made the Treaty's acceptance a probability. He has been all too easily glamourised, both by contemporaries and by historians; yet he remains, of all modern Irish national heroes, the one with whom ordinary people feel the greatest affinity. De Valera's appeal lay partly in his detachment and his remoteness; Collins, by contrast, was a back-slapper and a drinking companion. Both Cosgrave and Mulcahy were to admit that they also were vastly different characters from Collins- they could not hope to achieve Collins' personal appeal. Collins had dominated the army and government so much that he was clearly going to be difficult to replace. Though possessing much of Collins' dynamism and strength of purpose, O'Higgins was never to be remotely as popular.
 * Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (1988), p. 178

 * As Collins was only thirty-one at the time of his death, there has been much debate about whether he would have matured int a major statesman if he had lived, or whether he would have become a military dictator. He had shown considerable impatience with politicians and negotiations, often telling friends that he had little aptitude for politics. He did have definite administrative talents and great gifts of communication. He had demonstrated no desire to establish a military dictatorship. Collins had little consciousness of any need for wide-ranging social and economic change, despite being a severe critic of some aspects of Irish society. Major parts of his speeches were taken up with a simple articulation of Gaelic revivalism. Although they were genuinely alarmed about the possible consequences of Collins' death, British politicians and civil servants were to be relieved that they no longer had to deal with what Sir Samuel Hoare described as Collins' 'film-star attitudinising'. They were to contrast Cosgrave's straightforwardness and reliability with Collins' stridency. Anglo-Irish relations were to improve under Cosgrave and O'Higgins. The Northern government had every reason to be grateful for Collins' death. Collins could, perhaps, have helped to heal wounds within the Twenty-Six Counties- many believed that he would not have allowed an executions policy. He might well, however, have increased tensions between North and South in the post-war period. Meanwhile, for many old volunteers in the army the loss of their leader meant that their position appeared to be threatened, and it increased their fears that the old republican ideals were to be ignored.
 * Michael Hopkinson, Green Against Green: The Irish Civil War (1988), p. 179

 * Where was Michael Collins during the Great War? He would have been worth a dozen brass-hats.
 * Thomas Jones, British civil servant who served as Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet under four British Prime Ministers, as quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 161

 * I was allowed to paint him in death. Any grossness in his features, even the peculiar dent near the point of his nose, had disappeared. He might have been Napoleon in marble as he lay in his uniform, covered by the Free State flag, with a crucifix on his breast. Four soldiers stood around the bier. The stillness was broken at long intervals by someone entering the chapel on tiptoe, kissing the brow, and then slipping to the door where I could hear a burst of suppressed grief. One woman kissed the dead lips, making it hard for me to continue my work.
 * Sir John Lavery on his work painting Michael Collins: Love of Ireland in 1922 following Collins' death. As quoted by James Mackay, Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 294

 * Good luck be with you, Michael Collins
 * Or stay or go you far away;
 * Or stay you with the folk of fairy,
 * Or come with ghosts another day.
 * Sir John Randolph Leslie, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Shane Leslie, on seeing Sir John Lavery's portrait Michael Collins, Love of Ireland, which was painted by Lavery following Collins' assassination on 22 August 1922. As quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 265

 * He passed the great test for any adult in that children loved him.
 * P.S. O'Hagerty, in a statement after Collins' death. As quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 296

 * A concern for others would be an outstanding characteristic of Michael Collins to the end of his life, and it is idle to speculate that some of the worst excesses of the civil war, perpetrated after his death, might have been avoided. There are also many anecdotes that illustrate his total absence of fear, even as a very small child. These stories, however, probably reflect the attitudes of the raconteur rather than revealing the truth about Michael; for an absence of fear is a dangerous quality and this, indeed, may have been ultimately his undoing. Certainly, the story told by his brother Johnny, of the toddler wandering off and subsequently being found asleep amid the straw on the floor of the stall housing a vicious stallion which only old Michael John could control, suggests foolhardiness born of ignorance. Astonishingly, little Michael was found curled up, fast asleep, between the animal's hooves.
 * James Mackay, Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 20

 * From the beginning Michael was targeted by the anti-Treaty faction and as the sessions wore on the issue became not so much the Treaty itself, but the personal standing of Mick Collins. In the end, and to a very large extent, the voting reflected the love or hatred for him- there could be no half measures- of the individual deputies. During the stormy sessions, Michael was for the most part calm and dignified, even stoical at times; but now and then his famous temper would explode. Strangely enough, or perhaps characteristically, what seemed to rouse his ire most of all was the inability of deputies to arrive for each session on time, there by delaying the start of proceedings. With immense forcefulness he reminded them that punctuality was a great thing. Two factors were immediately apparent: the disagreement was set to divide opinion right across the country, and if Michael were the chief target of opprobrium he was not going to take it lying down.
 * James Mackay, Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 230-231

 * Seldom in the history of any country has a single unlucky bullet so utterly altered the course of events. Indeed, it would be no exaggeration to say that Ireland suffers the consequences to this day. Had Michael lived, it is highly probable that he would have brought the civil war to a speedy conclusion and succeeded in healing the breach with the North, leading t the removal of partition which few politicians, from Lloyd George and Churchill downwards, regarded as anything other than a purely temporary measure in 1922. After Michael's death, however, the South had no one with the breadth of vision and the negotiating skills to tackle Sir James Craig, and as time passed, the breach between North and South widened. Michael would almost certainly have prevented the Ulster boundary crisis of 1925, with its tragic consequences for Anglo-Irish relations over the ensuing seven decades. This arose when the report of the Boundary Commission was published, revealing that not an inch of Northern Ireland was to be ceded to the Free State, despite the wishes of at least a third of the inhabitants of the Six Counties. This bombshell reopened old wounds and almost triggered off a renewal of civil war in southern Ireland.
 * James Mackay, Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 302

 * In Glasnevin cemetery Michael is at rest in the plot reserved for the dead of Óglaigh na hÉireann, the Irish armed forces, from the civil war right down to soldiers killed on active service with the UN peace-keeping forces in many parts of the world. Somehow it seems fitting that Michael lies here among the warrior dead of Ireland.
 * James Mackay, Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 303

 * The curlew stood silent and unseen
 * In the long damp grass
 * And he looked down on the road below him
 * That wound its way through Beal Na mBlath
 * And he heard the young men shouting and cursing
 * Running backwards and forwards
 * Dodging and weaving and ducking the bullets
 * That rained down on them
 * From the hillside opposite.

 * Just as quickly as it started the firing stopped
 * And a terrible silence hung over the valley
 * A lone figure lay on the roadside
 * In the drizzling August rain
 * Dressed in green cape coat, leggings,
 * And brown hobnail boots
 * That would never again
 * Set the sparks flying from the kitchen flagstones
 * As he danced his way through a half-set

 * A hurried whispered act of contrition
 * And the firing breaks out again
 * The curlew takes to flight
 * And as he flies out over the empty sad fields of West Cork
 * With his lonesome call
 * He must tell the world
 * That the Big Fellow has fallen
 * And that Michael is gone.
 * Irish singer Johnny McEvoy, in his song Michael (1989)

 * Candles dripping blood, they placed beside your shoulders
 * Rosary beads like teardrops on your fingers
 * Friends and comrades standing by, in their grief they wonder why
 * Michael, in their hour of need you had to go
 * Michael, in their hour of need, why did you go?
 * Irish singer Johnny McEvoy, in his song Michael (1989)

 * During the course of their negotiations, the British government made it clear that although they would concede Dominion status to Ireland, they would not coerce the newly created statelet of Northern Ireland into an all-Ireland republic or relinquish the strategically important naval bases. To press home the significance of these ports, Lloyd George invited the Royal Navy's most distinguished officer, Admiral Beatty, to impress upon Michael Collins their importance to Britain. According to Winston Churchill, during the course of these discussions with Admiral Beatty, Collins commented "Of course you must have the ports- they are necessary for your life." Collins knew that in the recent war Britain had lost over 11 million tons of merchant and naval shipping. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Collins was no doctrinaire nationalist but a courageous pragmatist who had a clear grasp of the strategic value of these naval facilities to Britain. He seemed to appreciate that the British could not and would not concede on the issue of naval facilities in Ireland.
 * Aidan McIvor A History of the Irish Naval Service (1994), p. 39

 * My Dear Miss Collins- Don't let them make you miserable about it: how could a born soldier die better than at the victorious end of a good fight, falling to the shot of another Irishman- a damned fool, but all the same an Irishman who thought he was fighting for Ireland- 'A Roman to a Roman'? I met Michael for the first and last time on Saturday last, and am very glad I did. I rejoice in his memory, and will not be so disloyal as to snivel over his valiant death. So treat up your mourning and hang up your brightest colours in his honour; let us all praise God that he did not die in a snuffy bed of a trumpery cough, weakened by age, and saddened by the disappointments that would have attended his work had he lived.
 * George Bernard Shaw, in a letter to Collins' sister Hannie on 25 August 1922, as quoted by James Mackay in Michael Collins: A Life (1996), p. 297

 * Oh long will old Ireland be seeking in vain
 * Ere we find a new leader to match the man slain
 * A true son of Grainne his name long will shine
 * O gallant Mick Collins cut off in his prime
 * Irish rebel music band The Wolfe Tones, in their song Michael Collins (1983)

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 * I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
 * Woody Allen

 * Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
 * Victor Borge

 * A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.
 * Thomas Carlyle

 * The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
 * e. e. cummings

 * First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, next they fight you. Then you win.
 * Mahatma Gandhi

 * Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
 * Johann Wolfgang Goethe

 * Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
 * Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

 * At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
 * Jean Houston

 * Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
 * Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

 * A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
 * Charles Lamb

 * A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.
 * Roger Rabbit

 * They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
 * Carl Sagan

 * Don't be an olive-wreath stuffer—let it out!
 * Anonymous

 * One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
 * Thomas De Witt Talmage

 * Nobody ever died of laughter.
 * Max Beerbohm

 * In a comedy, laughs don't hurt.
 * David Picker

 * It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
 * Seneca

 * I'm laughing because crying would be sad.
 * Conan O'Brien

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 * Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
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This following quote was taken from a speech given by O’Donovan Rossa, in 1858, at an anniversary meeting of the Phoenix National Society, in Dundalk. In this brief quote we here the echo “the sword is truly mightier than the pen,” a quote by those who supported the primacy of the Republican physical force tradition, over the constitutional path advocated by others.

“We are the most cosmopolitan race in the whole universe; but Irishmen should have a country; they have a right to the country of their birth. By the use and aid of one steel—the pen—our committee have taken possession of that right, and as their title one day may be disputed, I trust they will be able and willing to prove it by the aid of another steel—the sword (loud cheers).”

I will undertake to reference this article as it comes within the scope of my main interest, the Young Ireland movement, the precursor of the Fenian’s. Without Rossa, we lose the context for Pearse’s speech in Glasnevin cemetery in 1915. As you can imagine I will attempt to cover a lot of ground, time and patience is required. Regards --Domer48 10:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


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I'm intrested in the period of history covered by the Young Irelanders, or correctly titled Irish Confederation. This is a deeply interesting stage in Irish History. In it we find the origins of the Republican physical force tradition. Through their writings we see the evolution of Irish Nationalism forged into a coherently articulated force. While they have left us a boundless spring of primary sources, the misconceptions created around them by unscrupulous writers, who believe they can shape the present by manipulating our understanding of the past is a challenge to all right thinking people who believe that history belongs to us all.

Through the far lands we roam,

Through the wastes, wild and barren;

We are strangers at home,

We are exiles in Erin.

''“Perhaps in no country, but only Ireland, would a plain narrative of wars and revolutions that are past and gone two centuries and a half ago, run any risk of being construed as an attempt to foster enmity between the descendants of two races that fought so long since for mastery in the land. Yet the writer of this short record of the life of the greatest Irish chieftain [Hugh O’Neil] is warned that such construction may, and by some assuredly will, be put upon the following story and the writer’s manner of telling it. But as to the narrative itself undoubtedly the only question ought to be—is it true? And if so—is the truth to be told, or hidden —Is it not at all times, in all places, above all things, desirable to hear the truth instead of a lie?”''

John Mitchel

''“There are transactions in history so falsified and misunderstood, that the chief difficulty in dealing with them springs from the rooted prepossessions of the reader. Whenever important interests have been in conflict and one has succumbed, the facts are certain to be misjudged by the next generation, who commonly hear only the story of the successful competitor…Of the period which I am now about to describe a fixed idea has got possession of the public mind—that certain immature politicians, of whom it is not clear, to critical persons, whether they were generous enthusiasts or only rash and contumacious youngsters, broke away from the veteran leader of the Irish people, set up a theory of physical force in opposition to his constitutional doctrines, and having unfortunately got the lead, led the country to disgrace and disaster…And yet in all history there is no theory fatally contradicted by the facts of the case, when the facts come to be known.”''

Charles Gavan Duffy

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User talk:Domer48

Hi. Welcome to English Wikiquote. Enjoy! Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
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Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
Can I encourage you to add the quotation you found to Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa quickly, and any other relevant quotations? The article is only being considered for deletion because it has remained devoid of actual quotes, and if there are some then the arguments for deletion will fall away. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:08, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Patrick Pearse
You may be interested in adding to this also. Well done on your careful referencing. Unfortunately, Wikiquote has adopted a different referencing system to Wikipedia, and it should look like the current page in Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, which I think you've saved from deletion. One quote in it seems to have a typo: "this transplanting of the from their native home". Tyrenius 01:03, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I have formatted it. Tyrenius 03:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

If there are any significant figures with worthwhile quotes, you can start an article on them. Tyrenius 04:27, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

 * You said Wikisource - I presume you mean the new article by you on Wikiquote. I will look. Tyrenius 23:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Wow! Looks pretty damn good to me. I've done a couple of minor fixups. Added EL link section for WP box and category, tooks out speech marks round the quotes, removed you EL to the WP article and coded the name to link. That's standard on WQ. But hey, good stuff. I'm pretty new here myself actually. Oh, one small point - it's good to try to mention the original date of the quote or book where it was originally published and put them in date order, but the sources are there which is the big +++++++++ When there are no dates, alphabetical order does the trick. 00:00, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikisource
I've replied on your talk page there. I rarely look at it, so let me know on WQ or WP if you leave any messages for me on WS. Tyrenius 00:00, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/LittleKuriboh

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: speedy delete. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

LittleKuriboh
This is an attempt to revive Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series by making a page for its creator. It should be deleted for the same reasons. - InvisibleSun 11:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 12:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed early. Speedy deleted, unremarkable subject, as indicated in both our Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series and Wikipedia's deletion log. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 11:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 11:14, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:24.252.68.20

~ UDScott 12:44, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Flicka

Its ok daddy. you can kill us

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User:Vinch

Favorite Movie
Some of my Favorite Movies

 * 300
 * Fight Club
 * Snatch
 * Office Space
 * Trainspotting
 * The Departed
 * Blood Diamond
 * Clockwork Orange
 * Requiem for a Dream

Favorite Quotes

 * From the Movie Fight Club
 * * "If you woke up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"
 * * "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels."
 * * "This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time."

Articles I worked on

 * Coach Carter
 * Forrest Gump
 * Face/Off
 * Ocean's Twelve
 * Broken Arrow
 * Requiem for a Dream
 * Ladder 49
 * Swordfish

Articles I Created

 * Bad Boys II
 * Behind Enemy Lines

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User talk:68.61.66.228

~ UDScott 15:30, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Criminal Minds
Thank you for your additions to this page, but can you try to improve the spelling and capitalization of them? It is just causing cleanup wokr for someone to come behind you and fix the quotes you have added. Thanks. ~ UDScott 15:30, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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The clean up is done... Vinch 17:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel

Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (born 1945) is the speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Quotes

 * There is no doubt in our minds that the United States spares no effort to put pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran...The best indication of United States' support to a particular terrorist group [...].
 * U.S. supports "terrorists", Iranian speaker says Apr 5, 2007

 * The Zionist regime has adopted measures to change population structure of the city of divine religions and cradle of peace. It has resorted to racism and expansionist policies including expulsion of Palestinian people and construction of Jewish settlements and the separation wall. The regime has posed serious danger to everyday life of the Palestinians.
 *

Video clips

 * Iranian Official: "No Place in Israel Will Be Safe"

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Donnie Brasco (film)

Donnie Brasco is a 1997 film about an FBI undercover agent trying for six years to infiltrate the New York Mafia. The plot is based on real-life events of Joseph D. Pistone, an FBI agent.

 * ''Directed by Mike Newell. Written by Paul Attanasio

"Forget about it." (taglines)

Donnie Brasco

 * "Forget about it," it's like, uh, if you agree with someone. You know, like, "Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass, forget about it." But then, if you disagree, like, "A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!" You know? But then, it's also like, if something is the greatest thing in the world, like, "Minghia, those peppers! Forget about it!" But it's also like saying "go to hell," too. You know, like, uh, "Hey, Paulie, you got a one-inch pecker," and Paulie says, "Forget about it!"... Sometimes it just means, uh, "forget about it."
 * If I come out alive, this guy, Lefty, ends up dead. That's the same thing as me putting the bullet in his head myself.
 * All my life I've tried to be the good guy, the guy in the white fucking hat. And for what? For nothing. I'm not becoming like them; I am them.

Lefty

 * In all the five boroughs, I'm known, forget about it. I'm known all over the fuckin' world. Anybody, ask anybody about Lefty from Mulberry Street, eh? You pissin' up the wrong fuckin' tree, my friend.
 * I never hear from my boss until he dies, then my whole life gets turned upside down!
 * In our thing, you get sent for, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
 * How much money did you give that guy? A wiseguy never pays for his drinks.
 * Who the fuck am I? Who am I? I'm a, a spoke on a wheel. And so was he, and so are you.
 * And listen to me, if Donnie calls..., tell him... if it was gonna be anyone, I'm glad it was him. All right?
 * A wise guy's always right. Even when he's wrong, he's right.
 * I'd die with you, Donnie.
 * I got cancer of the prick.
 * [talking to Donnie] When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now if I said instead, "This is a friend of ours," that would mean you're a made guy. A Capisce?
 * Anywhere you go, all around the world, all the best cooks are men.
 * I wish I had that boat again, that Bertram. I'd get in my car with Annette, I'd drive down to the pier... I'd get on that boat, and I'd go. East, west, north, south, nobody ever finding me.

Nicky

 * C'mon Donnie. Help me fillet this fat fuck. [Lefty kills him]
 * The good news is, my dick is now a popsicle!

Dialogue

 * Sonny Black: How can John Wayne die?
 * Lefty: Fuckin' Indians got him.

 * Lefty: There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works?
 * Donnie Brasco: Yeah, it's like in the army.
 * Lefty: Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.

 * [Lefty is trying to break open a parking meter]
 * Sonny Black: Hey, will you fuckin' stop that?
 * Lefty: How am I gonna get this thing open?
 * [looks back at the meter]
 * Lefty: Open Sesame!

 * Japanese Waiter: Take your shoes off.
 * Donnie Brasco: Take my shoes off? You take your pants off, what the fuck.

 * Donnie Brasco: [as Lefty points a revolver at him] You think I'm a fuckin' rat?
 * Lefty: How many times I have you into my own house?
 * Donnie Brasco: Twice a week. Twice a week, at least.
 * Lefty: There it is. "At least." I cook for you.
 * Donnie Brasco: Yeah.
 * Lefty: If ever I had any money, I'd give you... I never had any money, but if ever I had a hundred bucks in my pocket, I'd give you fifty, right?
 * Donnie Brasco: Yeah, you did.
 * Lefty: If you're a rat... [puts revolver to his own head] ...if you're a rat, then I'm the biggest fuckin' mutt in the history of the Mafia.

Taglines

 * Donnie Brasco. Based On A True Story.
 * In 1978, the US government waged a war against organized crime. One man was left behind the lines.

Cast

 * Al Pacino - Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero
 * Johnny Depp - Donnie Brasco/Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone
 * Michael Madsen - Sonny Black
 * Bruno Kirby - Nicky
 * Robert Miano - Sonny Red

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Talk:Karol Szymanowski

Please confirm that the translation is not a copyright violation before moving to Wikisource--68.95.70.31 19:58, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Neutral point of view
Quotes in this article are not from Szymanowski's most famous works, and seem to have been selected to make a point. ~ Ningauble 15:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

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Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French Symbolist painter, famous for his illustration of biblical and mythological figures.

Quotes of Gustave Moreau

 * I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.
 * As quoted at the J. Paul Getty Museum

 * I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.
 * As quoted in "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff in Smithsonian magazine (August 1999)

Gustave Moreau (1972)
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 * Quotes from Gustave Moreau, Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierre - transl. Bettina Wadia; Praeger, New York, 1972

 * I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.
 * p. 32

Sleep, though sad, is gentler than tears which, though painful, are gentler than death. Ecstasy is more delightful than song, which is gentler than work. Prayer is superior to dreaming which is more elevated than manual work.'''
 * I have designed a decorative and monumental work as a group of subjects representing the three ages of sacred and profane mythology: the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the Iron Age. I have symbolised these different ages by dividing each one into compositions representing the three phases of the day: morning, noon and evening.
 * The Golden Age comprises three compositions (Adam and childhood):
 * 1. Prayer at sunrise.
 * 2. A walk in Paradise or the ecstasy before nature.
 * 3. All nature asleep.
 * The Silver Age. The second phase is taken from pagan mythology (Orpheus and youth):
 * 1. The dream nature is revealed to the senses of the inspired poet.
 * 2. The song.
 * 3. Orpheus in the forest, his lyre broken and he longs for unknown countries and immortality.
 * The Iron Age (Cain and the maturity of man):
 * 1. The Sower making the earth productive (production).
 * 2. The Ploughman (work).
 * 3. Death (Cain and Abel).
 * Fourth panel:
 * The Triumph of Christ.
 * These three periods of humanity also correspond to the three periods in the life of a man:
 * The purity of childhood: Adam –
 * The poetic and unhappy aspirations of youth: Orpheus –
 * The grievous sufferings and death of mature age: Cain with the redemption of Christ.
 * D— thought it was an extremely ingenious and intelligent device to have used a figure from pagan antiquity for the cycle of youth and poetry instead of a Biblical figure, because intelligence and poetry are far better personified in these periods which were devoted to art and the imagination than in the Bible which is all sentiment and religiosity.
 * The Golden Age: the beginning of the world, naïveté, candour, purity. The morning: prayer. Noon: ecstasy and evening: sleep. No passion, nothing but elementary feelings. —
 * The Silver Age, corresponding to the civilization of humanity, already begins to feel emotion; it is the age of poets. I can only find this cycle in Greece. The morning: inspiration. Noon: song. Evening: tears. —
 * The Iron Age. Decadence and fall of humanity. I shall represent Cain ploughing and Abel sowing. Noon: Cain rests while Abel tends the altar of the Lord from which smoke, a symbol of purity, rises straight to the heavens. The evening: death at the hands of Cain.
 * The first death corresponds to the other deaths in the two other paintings: '''sleep and death of the senses; tears and the death of the heart. Do you understand the progression?
 * Notes to his mother, on The Life of Humanity (1884-6), his composition of a ten image polyptych, p. 48 · Photo of its exhibition on the 3rd Floor of Musée National Gustave Moreau

 * No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...
 * p. 62

 * This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. This woman, walking nonchalantly in a vegetal, bestial manner, through the gardens that have just been stained by a horrible murder, which has frightened the executioner himself and made him flee distracted.... When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.
 * On Salomé, p. 113

Quotes about Moreau

 * sorted chronologically, by date of the quote of Gustave Moreau

 * One would have to coin a word for the occasion if one wished to characterise the talent of Gustave Moreau, the word colourism for example, which would well convey all that is excessive, superb and prodigious in his love for colour.. .It is as if one were in the presence of an illuminator who had been a jeweler before becoming a painter and who, having yielded to the intoxication of colour, had ground rubies, sapphires, emeralds, topazes, opals, pearls and mother of pearl to make up his palette.
 * Quote of Charles Blanc in Le Temps, 15 May 1881

 * ..that distinguished aesthete [Gustave Moreau] who paints nothing than rubbish, it is because his dreams are suggested not by the inspiration of Nature, but by what he has seen in the museums.. ..I should like to have that good man under my wing, to point out to him the doctrine of a development of art by contact with Nature. It's so sane, so comforting, the only just conception of art.
 * Quote by Paul Cézanne, in: a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896, as quoted in 'Cezanne', by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 66

 * He didn't set his pupils on the right road, he took them off it. He made them uneasy.. .He didn't show us how to paint; he roused our imagination.
 * Henri Matisse as quoted in "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff in Smithsonian magazine (August 1999)

 * Moreau's figures are ambiguous; it is hardly possible to distinguish at the first glance which of two lovers is the man, which the woman; all his characters are linked by subtle bonds of relationship.. ..lovers look as though they were related, brothers as though they were lovers, men have the faces of virgins, virgins the faces of youths; the symbols of Good and Evil are entwined and equivocally confused.
 * Mario Praz in The Romantic Agony (1930)

 * My discovery, at the age of sixteen, of the Gustave Moreau museum influenced forever my idea of love... Beauty and love were first revealed to me there through the medium of a few faces, the poses of a few women.
 * André Breton (1961)

 * He believed that, in order to produce art that signifies at the exalted level he envisaged, the painter must develop the "eyes of the soul and spirit as well as the body." Moreau associated this inner vision with the predominant role of the imagination; following current ideas, he apparently connected this faculty with "psychological penetration" and the unconscious.... Moreau wrote that his "greatest effort" was devoted to directing his imaginative energies, to channeling "this outpouring of oneself."
 * Douglas W. Druick, in "Moreau's Symbolist Ideal", an essay used in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream (1999)

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User:Jerry Lavoie~enwikiquote

Jerry Lavoie is also user:Jerry on the English language Wikipedia. He prefers to receive any and all communication on his tallk page there. Jerry Lavoie 20:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Jerry Lavoie~enwikiquote

Jerry Lavoie is also user:Jerry on the English language Wikipedia. He prefers to receive any and all communication on his tallk page there. Jerry Lavoie 20:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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User:Jerry (usurped)~enwikiquote

Please contact me regarding possible usurpation of this account. I am User:Jerry on most other wikimedia projects. Thanks, Jerry@lavoie.com  Jerry Lavoie 20:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Jerry lavoie

Please contact User_talk:Jerry_lavoie Jerry Lavoie 20:27, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Jerry (usurped)~enwikiquote

Please contact me regarding possible usurpation of this account. I am User:Jerry on most other wikimedia projects. Thanks, Jerry@lavoie.com  Jerry Lavoie 20:31, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikiquote:Quote of the day/April 6, 2007

I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ Gustave Moreau


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Kasha Rigby

Kasha Rigby (1970 – February 13, 2024) was an American telemark skier and mountaineer.

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 * Alpine skiers look like their feet are stuck in cement. Telly skiing is about mobility, rhythm, and balance.
 * Interview with Outside Magazine (February 1996)

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User talk:71.108.132.54

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Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Luca Turilli

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Luca Turilli
The quote given does not merit retention. It does not appear any more on the musician's home page. It is not even apparent that when it did it was by him anyway, as opposed to e.g. a web designer. It is unlikely that this will become a proper article. Tyrenius 01:35, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 11:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete unless more, sourced quotes can be added. - Koweja 15:53, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Not sure if my vote counts or not, but I'm a fan of Turilli, and even I'd like to see a better quote section for him. 68.9.197.232 17:09, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.--Poetlister 20:39, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless improved per Koweja.--Jusjih 15:47, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Tyrenius--Cato 19:46, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:Gutworth

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User talk:Strznc~enwikiquote

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User talk:Italo-Americana

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User talk:Alan7388~enwikiquote

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User talk:Bendavis97140

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User talk:Deedee~enwikiquote

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User talk:Quotemanz

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User talk:Prasan 2582~enwikiquote

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User talk:Abubakar~enwikiquote

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User talk:Armysoldierone~enwikiquote

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User talk:SamuraiMaster

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Rove (TV series)

Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show.

Quotes

 * Say hi to your mum for me!
 * - Rove McManus, used to sign off each show.

Carrie Bickmore

 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I know where babies come from.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, call me, call me now.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, just like a chocolate milkshake, only newsy.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore and earlier today, I ate Wa-wa.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, part of your complete breakfast.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and Luke, I am your father.
 * I'm Peter Harvey, all those stories and more on 60 Minutes.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, just like Sandra Sully - only, drunker.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, creeply watching you while you sleep.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I like saying the word 'mufti'.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and frankly I'm busting for the toilet so let's make this quick.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and without makeup, I look like Kevin Bacon
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I've had sex with Pauline Hanson too.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I let the dogs out.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I won 5 grand on the cup, which is nearly enough to cover my poker debt.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and while I may look like Natasha Stott Despoja, at least I'm no quitter.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, and I'm gaging to news your brains out.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, where lowest prices are just the beginning.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, except in the past tense where I'm Carried Bickmore.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, you may now kiss the news.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, you can't stop the news-ic, nobody can stop the news-ic.
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, olay olay, olay olay, Bickmore, Bickmore"
 * I'm Carrie Bickmore, famous for the catchphrase "Good evening, I'm Carrie Bickmore.

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Bad Boys II

Bad Boys II is a 2003 American film the sequel to 1995 film Bad Boys about two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigating the flow of ecstacy into Florida from a Cuban drug cartel.
 * Directed by Michael Bay. Written by Jerry Stahl and Ron Shelton.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of Miami. (taglines)

Det. Mike Lowrey

 * [During a car chase] You know, Dan Marino should definitely buy this car. Well, not this one, 'cause I'm gonna fuck this one up, but he should definitely get one like it.

Det. Marcus Burnett

 * [Face down on a stretcher, on the way to the hospital] You know, unlike you, Mike, my parents didn't leave me no trust fund. I got real-world issues to deal with, man. I'm not in it for the thrills. [Behind him, Mike is mouthing every word in perfect synchrony and rolling his eyes]

Dialogue

 * [Mike and Marcus pose as Klansmen during a drug drop; they expose their cover and point their guns at the launderers]
 * Marcus Burnett: Blue power, motherfuckers! Miami PD!
 * Mike Lowery: Aw, damn. It's the Negroes!
 * Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett: [Singing] Bad boys, bad boys/What ya gonna do?/What ya gonna do when we come for you?
 * Mike Lowery: [Referring to Marcus habitually ad-libbing the first verse] Dude, you gotta learn the words.
 * Burnett: We usually only do the chorus.

 * Marcus Burnett: [After Mike accidentally shots Marcus in the butt] What you mean, "We"? Motherfucker shot me in the ass, man.
 * Mike Lowery: Who shot you in the ass?
 * Burnett: Who? That "who" would be you.
 * Lowery: Me? I shot you?
 * Burnett: Yeah.
 * Lowery: I mean, I was shooting... Yeah, I was... I did a lot of shooting. I mean, I ain't saying that I shot you in the ass. I mean, I ain't saying I didn't shoot you... [Looks] but damn! Somebody shot you in the ass!
 * Burnett: Tell me about it.

 * Marcus Burnett: [During a gunfight] Sir, we just want to talk!
 * Mike Lowery: You want to talk?! All right, go ahead, go ahead.
 * Burnett: We're not Immigration!
 * Lowery: [Gunfire continues] They can't hear you 'cause they still shootin' at you!
 * Burnett: Fucking Haitians in a fucking little-ass room with fucking guns! Shit!

 * [Mike & Marcus take the dealers' surveillance video to nearest electronics store and go to a private testing room to see everything, but somehow personal issues come out]
 * Mike Lowery: [Describes with hands] Look here. This is our little boundary box. So we gonna take the word flaccid and we're gonna put it in there with my mom's titties with your erection problems, and we're gonna close this box and we're gonna throw this bitch in the ocean. And the only way that you can get to this box is you got to be motherfucking Jacques Cousteau. We cool? [Suddenly realizes that they're now being watched all the while by store customers] Oh shit. We gotta go.
 * Mother: [Complaining to manager] In front of my babies, you got porno and homo shows up in here?! What kinda freak-ass store is this?! [Sees Lowery and Burnett as they leave] And you two motherfuckers need Jesus! [To children] Cover your ears, baby.

 * Marcus Burnett: Megan, what's the name of this boy taking you to the movies?
 * Mike Lowery: Reggie. Daddy, please don't embarrass me and ask him a lot of questions. Everybody knows you're a cop, and it makes people nervous.
 * Marcus Burnett: Well, why nervous? He on crack? [Opens door to Mike Lowery while holding golf club] It's cool? Yeah. Come in.
 * Mike Lowery: What'd you...? I got a sneak and peek. Judge Sinclair said we can go into the mortuary tonight. We can't touch nothing, but if we find something... he'll give us a righteous warrant.
 * Marcus Burnett: You love pissing Captain Howard off, don't you?
 * Mike Lowery: It's what I do. So when you start playing golf? Hey, so you real serious about this transfer thing, huh? I mean, you been quitting for 10 years. I just always thought it was... how you dealt with all this shit.
 * Marcus Burnett: It's what's best for me and my family. Look, I'm gonna get my stuff, man.
 * Mike Lowery: [Looking through a high school yearbook picture of himself looking extremely nerdy, voice over of his signing] "We ride together, we die together. [Aloud] Bad boys for life."
 * Marcus Burnett: [Walking to front door] We getting old, Mike. One of them young punks coming to take my baby out on her first date. [Slams open both front doors] Who the FUCK are you?!
 * Reggie: Hi Mr. Burnett, I'm Reggie.
 * Marcus Burnett: Watcha doin' here?!
 * Reggie: I'm here to take out Megan.
 * Marcus Burnett: [Tilts head to Reggie to hear him clearer] What?!
 * Reggie: I'm here to take out Megan.
 * Marcus Burnett: How old are you?
 * Reggie: I'm fifteen, Mr. Burnett
 * Marcus Burnett: Motherfucker, you look thirty! Show some ID.
 * Reggie: I don't have none on me.
 * Marcus Burnett: You don't "have no ID", [Shoves Reggie against door] git'cho ass up against that wall. [Starts patting him down] What is your problem? You think you know it all. Little young Thundercats. Got joints on you?
 * Reggie: No.
 * Marcus Burnett: You smoke that shit? !
 * Reggie: No, sir.
 * Marcus Burnett: You trying to get my daughter high?! Do you smoke that shit?!
 * Mike Lowery: [Pretending to be drunk from foyer holding bottle] Marcus! Nigga, who that is at the door?
 * Marcus Burnett: It's Reggie!
 * Mike Lowery: Who the fuck is Reggie?!
 * Marcus Burnett: Came to take Megan out!
 * Mike Lowery: [Walks over to Reggie] What you want, nigga?!
 * Reggie: I'm here to take his daughter out.
 * Mike Lowery: What's your name?!
 * Reggie: Reggie.
 * Mike Lowery: Man, I heard the motherfucker say your name Reggie! You wanna be takin' Megan out?!
 * Reggie: Yes, sir.
 * Mike Lowery: How old is you?!
 * Reggie: 15.
 * Mike Lowery: Shit, nigga, you at least thirty!
 * Marcus Burnett: This is Mike.
 * Mike Lowery: Can you fight?
 * Reggie: Yeah.
 * Mike Lowery: You can fight? [Intimidatingly jerks head forward] Boo, motherfucker. You can't fight. Look at you...
 * Marcus Burnett: Cut it out.
 * Mike Lowery: I want to know if... when somebody taking my niece out, I want to know if he can fight. Somebody might come say something, the nigga can't fight, she can't go.
 * Marcus Burnett: This is Megan's godfather, okay? He just got out the joint.
 * Mike Lowery: Why you putting all my business in the street?
 * Marcus Burnett: They call him...
 * Mike Lowery: Why you putting all... [Draws pistol waving it around] I got out of jail! I ain't going back! I ain't going back! What's wrong with you? You're scared. [Points gun near Reggie's head who dodges repeatedly] You ain't seen a gun before?
 * Marcus Burnett: Stop pointing the gun at the boy.
 * Mike Lowery: Look, don't you disrespect me in front of company. Let the gun go off. Nigga, you a big, tall, Ludacris-looking motherfucker, ain't you? You rap? Move. Get outta tha' way. If I see you on tha' highway, get tha' fuck out of my way...
 * Reggie: No.
 * Marcus Burnett: Hey, Mike! [To Reggie] Now, listen. Have my daughter home at 10:01. If she ain't home at 10:01, I'm in the car, okay? Lock, loaded and hunting your motherfucking ass down. Do you hear me? Speak the fuck up, Reggie!
 * Mike Lowery: I'll go with him. If I'm there, know what it'll be? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, nigga. That's what it'll be. Marcus!
 * Theresa Burnett: [Walking up with Megan] Reggie, baby, I am so sorry. Forgive Megan's dad and his silly friend.
 * Marcus Burnett: [To Reggie] You a virgin?
 * Reggie: Yes.
 * Marcus Burnett: Good. Keep it that way! Ain't gonna be no fucking tonight!
 * Theresa Burnett: Baby, the red shirt's nice. You guys have a good time.
 * Mike Lowery: You ever made love to a man?
 * Reggie: No.
 * Mike Lowery: You want to?
 * Reggie: [Whimperingly] No, sir.
 * Marcus Burnett: [To Megan] Hey, have a good time, baby. Go. Go.

 * [At the Spanish Palms Mortuary, Mike lifts a sheet covering a dead woman's corpse and sees [[w:breast implants|her huge breasts]
 * Marcus Burnett: Mike, have some dignity!
 * Mike Lowery: What? I ain't doin' nothin'.
 * Burnett: Cover the titties.
 * Lowery: What-what-what am I gonna do with these big-ass dead titties?
 * Burnett: But you're lookin' at them.
 * Lowery: There's...something's seriously wrong with your brain, man.
 * Burnett: Just cover up the titties.
 * Lowery: God...damn!

 * [While posing as pest-control workers at Tapia's house, Marcus sees two rats mating]
 * Marcus Burnett: Mike! There's a papa rat humping the shit out of this mama rat. No, he's straight pile-driving her!
 * Mike Lowrey: Now, how is that information gonna help me do my job?
 * Burnett: They fuck just like us!

 * [At the lobby of Mike's apartment, he comes out wearing a new purple suit preparing for his and Marcus' meeting with Syd]
 * Marcus Burnett: What are you a cop or a model?
 * Mike Lowery: What you talking about, man? I put something on, I like lookin' good, what?
 * Burnett: For who?
 * Lowery: Hey, don't hate the playa, hate the game.
 * Burnett: I hate the tailor.

 * [Burnett is irritated at how the State Department wants to handle Syd's kidnapping and return]
 * Marcus Burnett: You know, by the time y'all finish being diplomatic, my sister could be in a fucking box. This is bullshit! [storms off; Mike follows him in another room.]
 * Mike Lowery: He ain't getting away from us that easy. [Looks at Marcus] We ride together, we die together. Bad boys for life. [Moves to a teary-eyed Marcus and they embrace each other] We just gotta do it ourselves, man.
 * [DEA and SWAT operatives enter room]
 * DEA Agent Tony Dodd: Don't know you. You look like you're about to do something stupid. I'm in.
 * TNT Agent Fanuti: Dodd here tell you how fucking crazy us ex-Delta guys are?
 * Det. Marco Vargas: Hey Marcus, my brother Tito, lives in Cuba. He's a little crazy, but he's hooked up with the underground. Weapons, men, a safe house. Whatever we need.
 * Det. Yul Vazquez: [Steps in] And you can forget about passports baby and all that stuff, because if the Cubans catch us, we're all dead.

 * Mike Lowery: Vargas, we're not gonna make it to the tunnel! Go to Plan B! We're going to Plan B!
 * Marcus Burnett: What Plan B?!
 * Lowery: [Pause] Man, you don't pay attention to shit, do you?!
 * Syd: [As they start arguing in the middle of the gunfight] Are you fucking shitting me?! Let's go!
 * Detective Mateo Reyes: [In the escape tunnel] Plan B? What the hell is Plan B?

 * Marcus Burnett: [Driving with Mike down a hill, through cocaine-processing shacks, in a stolen Hummer] Is this still Plan B?
 * Mike Lowery: Naw, this is definitely Plan C!

Cast

 * Martin Lawrence — Detective Lieutenant Marcus Miles Burnett
 * Will Smith — Detective Lieutenant Michael Eugene 'Mike' Lowrey
 * Jordi Mollà — Hector Juan Carlos 'Johnny' Tapia
 * Gabrielle Union — DEA Special Agent Sydney 'Syd' Burnett
 * Peter Stormare — Alexei
 * Theresa Randle — Theresa Burnett
 * Joe Pantoliano — Captain Conrad Howard
 * Otto Sanchez - Carlos
 * Jon Seda - Roberto
 * Oleg Taktarov - Josef Kuninskavich
 * Michael Shannon - Floyd Poteet

 * Jason Manuel Olazabal - Detective Marco Vargas
 * Yul Vazquez - Detective Mateo Reyes
 * Treva Etienne - 'Icepick'
 * Kiko Ellsworth - 'Blondie Dread'
 * Timothy Adams - DEA van agent
 * Henry Rollins - TNT leader
 * Ivelin Giro - Mike's police psychologist
 * Dennis Greene - Reggie McDonald
 * John Salley - Fletcher
 * Dan Marino - Himself

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