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The Invisibles

The Invisibles (1994-2000) is a comic book series by Grant Morrison and various artists, following a group of occult terrorists who must overthrow a secret global conspiracy before the world ends in 2012.

Volume 1, issue #17, Gideon Stargrave in Entropy in the U.K., Part 1: Dandy

 * Sir Miles Delacourt: By god, but you're the most pathetic, ludicrous, ugly creature I've ever seen.
 * Lord Fanny: You really must work on those pick-up lines if you want to score, darling.

 * Gideon Stargrave: And did you see that old goat Reagan describing me as "a false Christ" in his emergency broadcast last night? I'm really peeved.
 * Genevieve Stargrave: Never mind, sweetheart. We've still got each other.
 * Gideon Stargrave: Mmm, we'll always have incest.
 * Narrator: And as Genevieve and Gideon Stargrave press tongue to tongue, it must be kept in mind that incest has long been the sacred prerogative of royalties and divinities.

Volume 1, issue #18, Gideon Stargrave in Entropy in the U.K., Part 2: Messiah

 * Gideon Stargrave: All things considered, there's absolutely no escape from this hellish situation. I'm prepared to take the coward's way out if you are. It's reincarnation or nothing.
 * Doctor Gupta: What? But what about my bloody karma, you crazy colonial oppressive bastard? What if I'm reborn as a white man?

Volume 1, issue #19, Gideon Stargrave in Entropy in the U.K., Part 3: Assassin

 * Sir Miles Delacourt: Have you ever wondered why we talk of "spelling"? There is a spell word implanted in the brain of every English-speaking child, the root mantra of restriction, the secret name of a mighty hidden demon: "eybeesee-dee-ee-eff-geeaitcheye-jai-kayell-emenn-ohpeequeue-are-ess-tee-youveedouble-you-ex-wyezed". That name and all the names it generates were designed to set limits upon humanity's ability to express abstract thought. What you see depends entirely upon the words you have to describe what you see. Nothing exists unless we say it.

 * Boy: Maybe I'm being just a little superstitious, but the idea of riding around in a hearse is kinda less than thrilling, you know?
 * Jim Crow: We all gonna ride in one someday, sister. Might as well get comfortable.

Volume 1, issue #20, How I Became Invisible

 * Boy: That's the thing about conspiracy nuts; you start off laughing at them and then a strange thing happens... you wind up seeing them in the mirror.

 * Boy: The beast is still out there. I can't smell it too well but I can hear its breathing now and I can see its tracks. Making me disappear was its big mistake. See, I'm invisible now. I leave no traces, no footprints. I'm invisible now. I'm a hunter with nothing left to lose. And that bastard, that smug and self-satisfied beast, can't see me coming.

Volume 1, issue #24, Good-Bye Baby Rabbits

 * Barbelith: I am not the god of your fathers. I am the hidden stone and break all hearts. Break open your own heart. Come from below. Rise unto the heights, descend again with knowledge. You must return below.
 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: Is that you, Jesus? Fucking hell, man.

 * Mister Six: This has been a bastard of a day, don't you think? What about the room? Sir Miles?
 * King Mob: I dealt with him. I tore his aura away. He won't be able to survive long without it. Every etheric parasite from here to the Abominable Plateau of Leng should be sniffing him out by now.
 * Mister Six: You're twitchy.

Volume 1, issue #25, And Half a Dozen of the Other

 * Jack Flint: It's like Flann O'Brien. That's what it reminds me of. Flann O'Brien. Know what I mean?
 * George Harper: Haven't a clue, guv'nor. I knew an IRA bloke called O'Brien once. He'd no left arm and one night, when he was pissed as a fart, he actually let me hear the sound of one hand clapping. Pity I had to shoot him.
 * Jack Flint: Christ, but you're an uneducated bastard! Flann O'Brien only wrote "The Third Policeman", which is one of the greatest books in the English language. You'd like it, George. It's a comedy, like your bloody haircut.

Volume 2, issue #1, Black Science, Part 1: Bangin'

 * Narrator: It's the end of the word as we know it.

 * Billy-Bob: Which one of you sick fucks thought that was funny? Goddamn fucking she-male standing there, looking at me like I'm the faggot.
 * Mason Lang: Hey, come on. It's too early in the morning for this, and we're leaving anyway. Why don't I buy you and your friends a drink?
 * Billy-Bob: Why don't you just shut the fuck up, Yankee? I'll get to you just as soon as I get done with the she-male and the bald cock-sucker here.
 * King Mob: Well, is that you, John Wayne? Is this me?
 * Billy-Bob: Fuck you trynna-- *ikk*
 * (King Mob has grabbed hold of Billy-Bob's testicles)
 * King Mob: I'm telling you that you're in the wrong film, fatboy. You're not in the cowboy film you thought you were in. This is a different kind of movie. And you're in the scene where the redneck shitkicker picks on the stranger in town, only it turns out to be big Arnie or a gang of vampires. I'll bet you've seen that a million times, cowboy.
 * Billy-Bob: Sure.
 * King Mob: So here's the deal: you've just made the mistake of your life but you can wash away your sins by apologizing to the lady. Otherwise I squeeze, you pop and guess who's singing castrato in church on Sunday?
 * Billy-Bob: I... ah... I called you a faggot and... ah... well, I'm sorry. Fuck.
 * Lord Fanny: That's all right, darling. I am a faggot. And you do have a lovely dick.

Volume 2, issue #2, Black Science, Part 2: Kickin'

 * Mason Lang: "I am become death. The shatterer of worlds." That's what Oppenheimer said when the first atom bomb was detonated out there somewhere. Twenty miles away from ground zero, a girl called Georgia Green, blind all her life, saw a brief light. The Rio Grande looks like chocolate flowing. How did that happen?
 * King Mob: It's just the drugs, Mason.

 * King Mob: Elephant head. Elephant head. I WORSHIP A GOD WITH AN ELEPHANT HEAD!

Volume 2, issue #3, Black Science, Part 3: Sorted

 * Demon: Your mother fucks Hitler in Hell.
 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: Yeah? My mother'd fuck Hitler in fucking Harrogate if she thought she'd get a McDonald's Happy Meal and a packet of fags out of it.

Volume 2, issue #4

 * Colonel Friday: Hear this: When our masters' work is done, every living thing will have the status of a machine. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. We will replace contact with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. We will cover the earth with steel and with concrete, this planet will be a factory farm producing morons to fuel and mantain the factory engines and feed our masters. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve and die in anguish and ignorance. Look around you, the process is already in its final stages. And you, like everyone else, will take your place on the production line.

Volume 2, issue #7, The Sound of the Atom Splitting

 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: You're all right, Fanny. For a bloke in a dress and that. You're all right.
 * Lord Fanny: So some "fucking poofs" are all right now? It's a start.
 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: I said they're all right, man! I'm a fucking space cadet, all right? I said they're all right. I don't wanna be one.
 * Lord Fanny: Who's asking you to be one? Jack, I like you, but you're not my type.
 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: ...so what's the matter with me?

 * King Mob: Oi, Buddha!
 * (He shoots the head off a Buddha statue)
 * King Mob: Meditate on that.

Volume 2, issue #14, Only Lovers Left Alive

 * Sir Miles Delacourt: Middle-class parents are terrified of non-existant child killers; soon we'll have them so terrified they'll gladly allow us to electronically tag all newborn infants. We are engineering sick, obese, passive consumers. Even the video games they obsessvely play contain demoralising subliminals. A weak-willed child is easy to manipulate using product hypnosis. Look at their clothing, for instance. The new breed are simply mobile hoardings, advertising the multi-national corporations which control their minds.
 * Colonel Friday: Children are the hope of the future, Sir Miles. Our future.

 * Colonel Friday: You wonder why the children of America are so obsessed with death? You wonder why rock groups that look like corpses and zombie comic-book heroes are so goddamn popular here? It's just the same way your Victorians loved their tombs and seances and murders. The American Empire is dead and does not know it. Like your empire before it, it's only aware of it in its sleep.

 * Lord Fanny: Put the drinks over there, Jack! His name's Bleuurwah something. He's not only gorgeous, darling... he's an idiot. My tits are bigger than his IQ.

Volume 2, issue #19, Black Science II, Part 3: Pavlov's Dogs

 * The Blind Chessman: Here, on one side, the dreadful guardians of the black iron prison, condensing their macro-geometry into these protomaterial jigsaw forms; the great King-Archons of this eon. The custodians of your reality. "The Forgotten Ones". And here, the sons of light, mustered in radiant battalions. I don't suppose you know what "manichaean" means yet?
 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: Yeah, it's somebody from Manchester. Are you trying to hypnotise me, ey?

Volume 2, issue #20, Black Science II, Part 4: Schrodinger's Cats

 * Lord Fanny: When you shut your eyes, afraid to see yourself as you truly are... That is when you see only darkness.

Volume 2, issue #22, The Tower

 * Mason Lang: I remember looking at the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia when I was a little kid. That's what I love about illusions; they're right up there in front of you but somehow you don't see them... until suddenly you do... and I saw that I lived in a world where the symbol was more important than the reality. Where the menu was supposed to taste better than the meal. They're bombing planet Hollywood... those terrorists know exactly where the power lies. None of it's real. Kennedy was a good man. Nixon was a bad man. Is that true or is that just what we've been told is true? Half of the stars in Hollywood are gay pretending to be straight... (Walt Disney) was a shit. The moon landings happened in a studio. The America I thought I lived in was a trick; I'd only ever really seen it on TV, in comic books and movies... especially movies. The Rosicrucians who built this country wouldn't know where they were if you brought them here, would they? Not until you showed them Independence Day. That night when I pissed down over Manhattan, I saw time. I saw time itself... America has been in a declared state of national emergency since March 9th, 1933, giving the president powers to suspend freedom of speech and take control away from all communications media at any time. Who cares? Bruce Willis is here to save us all. The more I looked, the less real America became. And the less real it became, the stronger it got. Planet Hollywood.

 * Mason Lang: One of their agents said to me... "however things turn out, you'll be working for us." That's what I was hoping he'd say. When they discover that the liquid processors in the decoy time suit work, they'll have to call me. I'll have to give them all my technology. They haven't quite figured out how to fight the wars of the 21st century yet... too bad. My homeopathic processors will be standard military issue by 2005. I've already installed trapdoor access into all of those systems. By 2012 I'll have control of the entire western military industrial complex.

Volume 3, issue #12, Satanstorm, Part 1: Common People

 * Purves: All right then, no farting about: you need a hardcore fortune teller. I can see skeletons at the elbows of half the OAPs in Safeways. "Blow your pension on crack and whores!" I tell 'em, but they never listen. Dead in days... What do I get, Jack?
 * Jack Flint: Friends call me Jack, and I don't see any of them in here, Purves. People like you get to call me Detective Inspector Flint. So, are we talking business or are you just gonna block my view of Candice's tits?
 * Purves: I'll tell you your fortune... you haven't got one. In your drink. Ten minutes ago. Barman got an offer, Detective Inspector Flint. We didn't tell him what the stuff was.

 * Mister Six: We lied. We are not at war. There is no enemy. This is a rescue operation.

Volume 3, issue #11, Satanstorm, Part 2: Cold Britannia

 * Mister Six: Police. Stay perfectly still while I read your minds.

Volume 3, issue #10, Satanstorm, Part 3: The 'It' Girls

 * Mister Six: You slept with King Mob just like that? How very modern.
 * Helga: He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.
 * Mister Six: [dubiously] How extraordinary.
 * Helga: It was wonderful.
 * Mister Six: What sort of potato was it?
 * Helga: Ayrshire Blue.

Volume 3, issue #09, Satanstorm, Part 4: Digging Up Beryl

 * Sir Patrick Crowley: The press has enough on you, Miles, to turn you into a bigger public laughing stock than David Icke and Monica Lewinsky on a bicycle made for two!
 * Sir Miles Delacourt: Really? You, Sir Patrick, are like an ant perched on the edge of a teacup, perched on the rim of a volcano; you have no concept...
 * Sir Patrick Crowley: ...Of what you're bloody well talking about? Dead right! But I do know this: your masters have washed their hands of you. As for your bloody pet monster, we'll have that put to sleep by a qualified veterinary surgeon.

Volume 3, issue #08, Karmageddon, Part 1: Tantrika

 * Marquis de Sade: Regard! A whole ballroom devoted to the arts of farting and shitting! I find my humor is particularly sustained by the sight of others at their most bestial.
 * Lady Edith Manning: I once lived with six cats and an Irish wolfhound, monsieur. Public farting and shitting do not constitute a radical confrontation with the psyche to me.

 * (A conversation by e-mail)
 * King Mob: May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Balkans while India and Pakistan threaten one another with nukes. "Dead From the Waist Down" on MTV. The humidity's making me horny and mad. I miss Robin. In his new book, Ken Wilbur calls is "skin hunger". I feel like I'm building up a charge. Monsoon's on its way.
 * Lady Edith Manning: Dearest Gideon - I shan't succumb to your steamy prose. You've had me once and my yawns were heard throughout eternity.

Volume 3, issue #07, Karmageddon, Part 2: Type Ω

 * (On a video showing Sir Miles tied to a chair while a man wearing only a judge's wig, a thong and suspenders yells "GUILTY!")
 * Helga: We sent a copy to his wife and one to his daughter in Barcelona, and one to Crimewatch UK. I told them, "KOMBAT 666 WILL RELEASE THE HOSTAGE IN EXCHANGE FOR A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS." Who knows?

 * The King in Yellow: This was a road to the otherworld in old times when our organisation was introduced. Two hundred million years ago, in the triassic period, the salt pans stretch in every direction. We still meet here. Those who search for us become us. Here, in the bowels of the city, here in the cellars and in the subways. Have you made your decision?
 * Mister Six: For all I know you could be asking me to betray everything and everyone I ever cared about for the sake of... what, exactly? Still... you know me. I'll try anything twice. Show me these bowels of yours.

Volume 3, issue #05, Karmageddon, Part 4: Smile

 * Jack: These fuckers are about to go on a fucking time-joyride, man! ...You all right about hearing this? It makes your skull vibrate and your nose bleed.
 * Jolly Roger: Fuck you. Sounds just like one of my orgasms.

 * King Mob: Every eleven years the sun floods the solar system with radiation. The storms have been getting worse all this century. The last storm of the century started a week ago. Know what they call it? Cycle 23. Here comes the summer.

Volume 3, issue #04, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 1: Planet Stepford

 * Rossiter: Latest on the eclipse: it's in the tenth house, which is bad for government and entrenched power structures.
 * Sir Miles Delacourt: Are you suggesting that we do not proceed?
 * Rossiter: Of course not. We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. That's why I voted for Tony Blair.

 * Jack: Elfayed said I was an avatar of Horus, the "lord of force and fire." I told him to fuck off.
 * Fanny: Good for you, Jack. I never saw you as the messiah type. Jesus had size 8 feet and never swore, darling.
 * Jack: I'd make a great messiah, me. I'd give all the kids free sweets and everybody the week off. Horus is a kid, right? He comes on all fucking attitude, but all he wants to do is play in the end.

 * King Mob: An unbroken chain of bloody mayhem since the 1920s. Invisiblism, the Club des Invisibles, the Unseen Faculty, the I.T., the I.T.O.... Us. This is it. A spell as long as the century, with Edith at the tail and us at the head end. I thought I'd save my official retirement from active farting about until 2000, but just in case we all get taken away in a flying saucer on Wednesday... I've been in the best band in the world. That's what it feels like. Honestly, all the mad days and nights we've been together. Magic in hotel rooms. Here's to the blank badge. And to everything around it that makes it seem blank. No more then. No more now. To chaos.

Volume 3, issue #03, The Invisible Kingdom, Part 2: Goodbye Rag

 * Jack: I'm glad I got into all this. I'm staying even if you go. We can do it without money just as easy now. We can make the world a better place for everybody. Without the guns.
 * King Mob: Yeah. I knew you'd be the one to figure out how to do that, Jack. D'you think we can stop bastards like us telling everybody how to live their lives - without killing them?
 * Jack: You just gotta make friends with 'em. Make friends with them until they beg for mercy.

 * Jack: You can't go back, to what you were, can you? I wouldn't know who the fuck he was. He'd think I was a fucking prick... Gods, ey?
 * Fuckers don't even know I'm coming.

Volume 3, issue #01, Glitterdammerung!

 * King Mob: Nice and smooth.

 * Unnamed Drag Queen: What do people do when they know they're on camera? They ACT! That's why the world's turning into a science fiction movie. Surveillance makes us all into stars. The world's a set and the cameras are everywhere as Aleister Crowley wrote in Liber AL Chapter One!! As confirmed by the Kabbalah! 'Every number is infinite, there is no difference...'

 * King Mob: Fanny. They'll never kill you, baby. You're too enormous to die.

 * Dane "Jack Frost" MacGowan: Reynard and me would argue all the time in this little Indian restaurant they had in San Francisco. There was a picture of Bill Clinton on the wall. There's no difference between fate and free will. Here I am; put here, come here. No difference. Same thing. Nothing ends that isn't something else starting. So which side are you on? Do you know yet? Anyhow. I've said my bit and it's your go now... so while you're thinking about it, think about this... my mate Elfayed told me something when I was little and wanking about twenty times a day: "We made gods and jailers because we felt small and alone", he said. "We let them try us and judge us and, like lambs to the slaughter, we allowed ourselves to be... sentenced. See! Now! Our sentence is up".

Invisibles Special: And We're All Policemen Now

 * Girl: Gideon! In your song "Aggression as a Well-Integrated Part of Primate Social Relationships", what did you mean by "sex versus non-sex versus parasite"?
 * King Mob: I was taking the piss, love.

 * TV Voiceover: Third world children are plentiful. Fossil fuels are scarce. We need to burn something.

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If anyone can find a notable attribution for: "There's nothing more entirely fascinating than a library, for it is there that a million stories, a million lives, rest serenely, waiting for someone daring enough to pick up the dusty book in which they are contained and let them come alive once more." -Anonymous

Please add it back. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 22:44, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

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 * It's better to be barefoot than without books.
 * Icelandic proverb

 * A book holds a house of gold.
 * Chinese proverb

 * A book is a garden you can carry in your pocket.
 * Arabian proverb

 * Books are keys to wisdom's treasure; Books are gates to lands of pleasure; Books are paths that upward lead; Books are friends; Come, let us read.
 * Emile Poulsson

 * A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
 * Salman Rushdie

 * A room without books is like a body without a soul.
 * Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) (originally in Latin)
 * Also attributed to G.K. Chesterton, English author and mystery novelist, 1874-1936

 * A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
 * Robertson Davies

 * All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
 * Carl Sandburg

 * An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books..and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
 * Augustine Birrell

 * Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
 * Paxton Hood

 * Book-love...never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
 * Holbrook Jackson

 * Books are uniquely portable magic.
 * Stephen King

 * Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
 * Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Proposition touching Amendment of Laws

 * Disparage no book, for it is also a part of the world.
 * Nachman of Breslav

 * Don't deny a book a place in your collection simply because you may not find time to read it.

 * Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
 * Dwight D, Eisenhower, U.S. General and President, 1890-1969

 * For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...and when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.
 * Anonymous "curse" on book thieves from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain

 * I cannot live without books.
 * Thomas Jefferson

 * I think it's an essential need of the human being to hear another human being tell them a story...it makes us feel there's somebody else here with us.
 * George Guidall

 * I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
 * Charles De Secondat, French lawyer and political philosopher, (1689 - 1755)

 * In all things I have sought rest, and nowhere have I found it save in a corner with a book.
 * Original Latin: "In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro."
 * Thomas à Kempis

 * If they cannot be your friends, let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.
 * Winston Churchill

 * Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
 * Mark Twain, (1835 - 1910)

 * Learn as much by writing as by reading.
 * Lord Acton

 * Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
 * G.K. Chesterton, English author and mystery novelist, 1874-1936

 * Live always in the best company when you read.
 * Sydney Smith, English Essayist,(1771 - 1845)

 * Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.
 * Atwood H. Townsend, NYU Professor, chair of group that created Good Reading: A Helpful Guide for Serious Readers

 * Never judge a book by its movie.
 * J.W. Eagan

 * Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
 * John Witherspoon, US clergyman, educator, and politician, (1723 - 1794)

 * Oh for a book and a shady nook...
 * John Wilson, Scottish Author, (1785 - 1854)

 * One cannot begin too soon to buy one's own books, if for no other reason (and there are many more) than the freedom which they give you ton use their fly-leaves for your own private index of those matters in their pages which are particularly yours--those things which the index-makers never by any possibility include. To be able to turn at will, in a book of your own, to those passages which count for you, is to have your wealth at instant command, and your books become a record of your intellectual adventures...
 * John Livingston Lowes

 * One hour of steady thinking over a subject (a solitary walk is as good an opportunity for the process as any other) is worth two or three of reading only.
 * Lewis Carroll, on allowing time for what you're reading to sink in before you dive back in

 * Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
 * Ezra Pound, U.S. poet, 1985-1972

 * Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
 * Christopher Morley, U.S. author and journalist, 1890-1957

 * Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
 * Mas Oyama

 * Read in order to live.
 * Gustave Flaubert

 * Read not to contradict and confute…nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
 * Sir Francis Bacon, (1561 - 1626), O Magazine, April 2003

 * Read, read, read. Do, do, do.
 * Louis L'Amour

 * Read the best books first, or (for) you may not have the chance to read them again.
 * Anonymous

 * Reading confirms your aliveness. It's very validating. That's what book groups ultimately are; you get validated in the human condition--the conditions and puzzles, the good stuff and the bad stuff, the aspirations and hopes and despairs. You're not alone out there.
 * Rachel Jacobsen

 * Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
 * Sir Richard Steele

 * Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
 * Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), U.S. educator

 * Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
 * W. H. Auden, US (English-born) critic and poet, (1907 - 1973)

 * The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes

 * The book remains the carrier of civilization, the voice of the individual.
 * Barbara Tuchman

 * The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
 * Anatole Broyard

 * The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn how to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.
 * Goethe

 * The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
 * Mark Twain, (1835 - 1910)

 * The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
 * Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, and satirist (1694 - 1778)

 * The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
 * Henry James (1843 - 1916), U.S. author

 * There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
 * G.K. Chesterton, English author and mystery novelist, 1874-1936

 * There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
 * Christopher Morley, U.S. author and journalist, 1890-1957

 * We are a listening animal. The human animal has had millenia listening to stories before there were books.
 * Duvall Hecht

 * Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
 * Austin Phelps

 * What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading.
 * Eleanor Roosevelt

 * When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
 * Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, (1533 - 1592)

 * When one stops to consider what life would be like without the ability to read after age forty or thereabouts, and the consequences for the life of the mind in general, eyeglasses suddenly appear as important as the wheel.
 * Barbara Tuchman

 * Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
 * Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. abolitionist and clergyman (1813 - 1887)

 * Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
 * Thomas Bartholin

 * Woe be to him that reads but one book.
 * George Herbet, English clergyman, metaphysical poet, 1593-1633

 * You can cover a great deal of country in books.
 * Andrew Lang, Scottish author and scholar, (1844 - 1912)

 * You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend.
 * Anonymous

 * Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
 * Horace Mann

 * We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.
 * Zimmermann

 * When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
 * La Bruyère

 * When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
 * Colton

 * We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.
 * Sydney Smith

 * If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
 * Sir John Herschel

 * Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
 * Bacon

 * Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.
 * Dugald Stewart

 * Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. "It has been by that means," said he to a boy at our house one day, "that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk."
 * Mrs. Piozzi

 * Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
 * Lytton

 * Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
 * Collect

 * Much reading is like much eating,—wholly useless without digestion.
 * South

 * A book should never be lent from one person to another. For in the lending a sense of urgency or deadline for return is imparted, whether one truly exists is irrelevant, and this is anathema to the true joy of literature. Books should be read at ones leisure, marked upon, put down and picked up again, started and re-started, dog-eared, coffee stained and pregnant with the individual character of the owner. Truly books can only be given with the hope that the recipient will enjoy it in their own way and at their own pace, and that one day perhaps will pass the book along to another party to make their own mark on the work
 * Erik Dobrovolsky

Humourous

 * Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
 * P. J. O'Rourke, (1947 - )

 * Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
 * Mark Twain, (1835 - 1910)

 * Books have a sense of honor. If they are lent out, they will not come back.
 * Original German: "Bücher haben Ehrgefühl. Wenn man sie verleiht, kommen sie nicht mehr zurück."
 * Theodor Fontane (1819-1898)

 * From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
 * Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

 * I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
 * Groucho Marx, 1890-1977

 * I have read your book and much like it.
 * Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)

 * I read part of it all the way through.
 * Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)

 * It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
 * Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), English novelist

 * Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
 * Evan Esar, American humorist, 1899-1995

 * Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
 * Groucho Marx

 * Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
 * Ralph Novak

 * Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
 * Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)

 * This book fills a much-needed gap.
 * Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)

 * This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
 * Dorothy Parker, US author, humorist, poet, and wit (1893 - 1967)

 * This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
 * Alfred Hitchcock, (1899 - 1980)

 * I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.
 * E. M. Forster

 * So many people I know say they hate reading. What they seem not to get is that a book is an alternate universe, where you can go anywhere, or choose to just set the book down and leave that universe alone.
 * Zeke Willey

 * A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.
 * Mick Foley

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text:
Brandon Boyd

Brandon Boyd (born February 15, 1976) is the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus.

Quotes

 * We have all the elements of being the worst band in the world: a bass player who’s got some slap-bass shit, heavy riff guitars, a DJ scratching on the songs, a crazy drummer, and a singer who’s in touch with his feminine side. Even our band name is the worst name ever: it evokes imagery of ‘Incubus’ in death-metal writing, with bullet belts across our chests.
 * RS, being satirical on how his band ‘comes off’ from his most objective view

 * She is a girl so I wouldn’t slap her. I would lock her in a room full of spiders and let her think about what she’s doing to the youth of America.
 * On what he would do if he met Britney Spears

 * The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
 * Rolling Stone, on his “ideal” soulmate

 * Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.
 * RS, on some of his favorite female artists such as Ani DiFranco and Bjork

 * Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing-we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
 * More on why his favorite singers are mostly women

 * I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness
 * MTV's Diary, on his motivation

 * We don't know much about him. We do know that he came from a sperm meeting an egg. Actually, his name is Charles Mulholland. We don't know what he does, but he sure looks like he knows something.
 * On Chuck, Smother 1997

 * She has a fascination with Mayan prophecies, and she's writing a book that's sort of her remembrance of her past incarnation. Whatever she applies herself to, she makes it this beautiful, glorious world around her. All of us kids have always been artistic because of her influence.
 * on his mom, Dolly Wiseman. Spin (October 2001)

 * When we're making music together, it's like five men making love-in a very platonic sense. It's very erotic, because your spirits are intermingling, you're becoming one. It's also why it can get so heated. You're tapping into this electricity that's very primal.
 * citing reasons for the band's group therapy Spin (October 2001)

 * Morning View is I think collectively probably our favorite record that we have made as a band because it was the most effortless... um... in its conception... you know? It was a lot less slaving over parts and trying to just get together in this big beautiful room with a view of the ocean and parts and sounds and melodies and lyrics would just happen... they would just sort of spill out of us without us really trying... so to me that's sort of the most amazing way to write music or do any kind of art, which is by letting it happen... but one of the most important parts in any sort of.. uh... journey so to speak.. Is uh... the ride... and we've had a really good time riding to where ever it is we are going... and I don't even think any of us know particularly where it is going to take us... But it's been really fun sort of chasing it.
 * Discussing Morning View on Boogie TV interview was done the day of their concert at Vega, Copenhagen

 * Jose just got a tattoo of an ass tattooed on his ass the other day. It's actually quite fascinating. Confusing, but fascinating. When you come to the show, ask him about it. He'll show you.
 * Brandon, Rockline interview

 * If I forgot some stuff, please excuse me; I ate the brown acid at Woodstock '69 and can scarcely remember my own name.
 * In his "Thanks" for the MV album

 * I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it.
 * On writing the song Pardon Me

 * I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
 * Meaning behind the song New Skin

 * Lyrically speaking, I know that there were a lot of things going on in and around the world and there were some very specific people in my mind coming dangerously close to having megolomaniacal tendancies and so I did my best to write those thoughts down."
 * On the song Megalomaniac

 * I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down.
 * His influence on writing the song Talk Shows on Mute

 * I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstance and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
 * Excerpt from his book White Fluffy Clouds.

 * To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything. So do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.
 * Excerpt from White Fluffy Clouds.

 * I need a new pair of shoes : I need a new shiny car : I need to buy until I fry : I can not name what I'm trying to : I want my cock an inch bigger : I want new, flawless tits : I'm not enough as I was made, please complete my partial mind : I want my money back, this product has a hole.
 * Excerpt from White Fluffy Clouds.

 * In my opinion, so much of it is really about what you had in mind when you got into it: was it only that you wanted to be a rockstar and see your name in lights? I never really had those kinds of dreams. I knew I loved music and I knew that when I sang in a certain way it made my chest and my whole stomach tickle and I liked it.  It still does that same thing to me; I know I’m doing it right when it makes my core tingle a little bit. I get the same feeling when I’m painting a picture or when I get into that almost hypnotic state of writing – those things are incredible and those are the kinds of things that attract me to creativity.
 * When asked about intention for a magazine in Berlin (http://www.pulse-berlin.com/)

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. (1997)

 * Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink, Now think of your body as the pen where the ink resides. Fuse the two - Kapow! What are you now? You're the human magic marker, won't you please surprise my eyes?
 * I'm sick of limiting myself to fit your definition.
 * On the surface you hate, but you know you need me.
 * You can't make me think like you, mundane.
 * You act as if there's blinders on your eyes!
 * Can someone please explain to me your ever-present lack of speed?
 * I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate!
 * You've been raised in limitation, but that glove never fit quite right.
 * Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.
 * When we get there, We're going to fly so far away Making sure to laugh while we experience Anti-gravity.
 * Society must let the artist go, to wander off into their nebula.
 * Your tangerine of electricity is ripe and on a vine!
 * I'm born, I'm alive, I breathe, In a moment or two I realize, That the sphere upon which I reside Is asleep on its feet, Should I go back to sleep?

Make Yourself (1999)

 * the day you were born, you were born free. That is your privilege.
 * Maybe if I looked in my heart, I could find a back door.
 * Will I ever get to where I'm going? If I do, will I know when I'm there? If the wind blew me in the right direction, Would I even care? I would.
 * It seems as though I'm going nowhere really fucking fast.
 * You think that you're on the brink? The shit hasn't even begun to hit the fan.
 * Consequence, you'll see, will be stranger than a gang of drunken mimes.
 * Don't let the world bring you down. Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Remember why you came, and while you're alive, Experience the warmth before you grow old.
 * It feels like trading brains with an imbecile.
 * Just when you thought it was safe to think, in comes mental piracy!
 * What I'm looking for cannot be sold to me.
 * What I want, and what I need, is and will always be free.
 * Meet me in outer space.
 * If you let them make you, They'll make you paper mache. At a distance, you're strong, until the wind comes Then you crumble and blow away.
 * If you really want to live, why not try and make yourself?
 * Sometimes I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear.
 * Lately I'm beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.
 * When I drive myself, my light is found.
 * Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there with open arms and open eyes.
 * I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.
 * I need a map of your head, translated into English, so I can learn to not make you frown.
 * I've had all that I can take and exploding seems like a definite possibility to me.
 * Pardon me while I burst into flames I've had enough of the world and its people's mindless games. So pardon me while I burn and rise above the flames. Pardon me, pardon me. I'll never be the same.
 * I've been thinking of combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of planet Earth - like gravity, hypocrisy, the perils of being in 3-D, and thinking so much differently.
 * To resist is to piss in the wind. Anyone who does, will end up smelling. Knowing this, why do I defy? Because my inner voice is yelling. There is a fist pressing against Anyone who thinks something compelling. Our intuit we're taught to deny Yes, our soul, we're told's for selling.
 * Get out from under precipice and see the sky.
 * If you let them fuck you, there will be no foreplay.

Morning View (2001)

 * Perspective prys her once-weighty eyes and it gives you wings.
 * I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy.
 * ''The world's a rollercoaster, And I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, But my hands are busy in the air!
 * I am bottled, fizzy water, and you are shaking me up.
 * Temporaryism has been the Black Plague and the Jesus of our age.
 * Forgive my indecision. I am only a man.
 * Seeing you is like pulling teeth, and hearing your voice is like chewing tin foil!
 * Kudos to those who see through sickness.
 * I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
 * My biggest fear will be the rescue of me.
 * On the back of every right, there's a wrong looming.
 * I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.
 * If this is right, I'd rather be wrong. If this is sight, I'd rather be blind.
 * I marvel at the stars, and feel my heart overflow.
 * Floating down a river named Emotion...will I make it back to shore, or drift into the unknown?

A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)

 * If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.
 * All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.
 * Look. Find. Free.
 * Even straight roads meander.
 * Put down your hollow tips, And kiss your lover's lips, And know that fate is what we make of it.
 * It's just another day in the life of apes with ego trips.
 * You're so much more endearing with the sound turned off.
 * The world is a drought when out of love.
 * I have an open-door policy when it comes to blame.
 * My secret arsenal is an infinite, ageless ink well. It's a fountain of youth and a patriot's weapon of choice.
 * If you're looking for an open book - Look no further, I am yours.
 * It pains me to believe that you have never stepped out of the skin you live with.
 * This island isn't big enough for both of us...so who will swim in eel-infested oceans?
 * Price tags advertise your pride.
 * Since when did what we paid for colored cloth gauge our gravity?
 * Insecurites are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.
 * This isn't coincidence. There's no such thing.
 * This party is old and uninviting Participants all in black and white You enter in full-blown techincolor Nothing is the same after tonight.
 * Your love is a verb here in my room.
 * I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

Light Grenades (2006)

 * Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand.
 * Bring your mouth and selective irreverence - We'll both see stars.
 * Kill your doubt with the coldest of weapons: Confidence.
 * If I turn into another, Dig me up from under what is covering the better part of me. Sing this song. Remind me that we'll always have each other When everything else is gone.
 * Girl, it's time we met and made a mess.
 * Wait, there is a light, there is a fire, illuminated attic. Fate or something better, I could care less,Just stay with me a while
 * To get their attention, start lobbing the light grenades (That burst and blind them with the truth! An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth!)
 * Have a heart and try me, cause without love I won't survive.
 * I'm not an alarmist, but someone should break the glass, and pull that red T-Lever down!
 * Before you swim, you gotta be okay to sink.
 * Just undo yourself and see a second sun ascend.
 * Give it time, girl, the fire feels divine. The sweetest things, they burn before they shine.
 * I'm keeping an eye on the future, an eye on the past, and the present in my pocket.
 * Songs of liberation echo from the dust.
 * You're about as reliable as paper shoes in bad weather.
 * On a burning bridge, your options are minimal at best Depending on where you're standing And how much breath is in your chest If it came down to it Would you high-tail home and hide? Or dance on fire and enjoy the ride?
 * Life's a match in a gas tank. Don't ever mourn the ebbing tide.
 * There's so much more to get than wronged.
 * Earth to Bella - You're treading water successfully. But are you really? Don't you want to see the deep? It's not so hard. Just forgive yourself and feel the water open in.

title: Brandon Boyd


text:
The Filth

The Filth (2003) is a 13 issue comic book series by Grant Morrison and Chris Weston in which a lonely middle-aged man discovers that he is actually just a "holiday persona" for a secret agent.

Issue 1, Us vs. Them

 * Miami Nil: What a disgusting disguise, Slade. No wonder it took me months to find you. Behold: I got bored and gave myself a combover. Does it turn you on seeing me look like an old bald man? Well, that's as how much you turn me on right now.

 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Slow down! There's a fucking wall in my face!
 * Miami Nil: This is ninth gear. Faster than the speed of wall.

 * Sharon Jones: Simon had my right eye taken out and replaced with this Panasonic DV lens. I'm proud to be Simon's bizarre human camera. He's the world's richest and most perverted man, you know. [Pointing to implant on throat] He can speak through here. "Ooh, Baby! I used to make $750,00 a year as a lawyer until Simon paid for my gradual transformation into a mindless living machine." Simon Says he likes to make me talk crap all the time. [Whispering] Please help me...My name's Sharon Jones...I was taking the train home from work...
 * Spartacus Hughes: Yeah, yeah, I've heard it all before, love.

 * Miami Nil: Can't you just act?
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Act? Act? What's my fucking motivation?

 * Sharon Jones: The money's yours. He has to have it. And... and would you like to clinch the deal with some uninhibited oral sex? I'll tape it for the Internet with my artificial eye...
 * Spartacus Hughes: You couldn't handle the competition, love. My old man... now there was a cock-sucker.

Issue 2, Perfect Victim

 * Mother Dirt: Our people are often exposed to sick places, bad people, unnatural things. As a result of his dedication to duty, one of our finest officers has become... contaminated. The knowledge he possesses makes him a grave threat to global sanitation.
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Two words. One question: "so" "fucking" "what"?

 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Are we on another planet? Just tell me; I can take it. Am I in the future? Or in virtual reality? Am I in a state ward, wanking in front of relatives?

 * Mother Dirt: Doctor Li Soon died three days ago. Her creations have been denied sunlight for a month. They've had to cannibalise her corpse for energy. The entire process of decay was shown live on the internet where necro-pornography is big this year, it seems.
 * Miami Nil: This truly is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

 * Hand Officer: Frequency negotiators went in there to talk Spartacus Hughes down, sir. They all came out acting like retarded children: shitting themselves, spouting gibberish and generally letting the side down. We're leading them into the quarantine tent by playing early '90s techno.

 * Dmitri 9: Shit chimp! Hrr Hurrn -- Shit chimp, kill! Kill! Kill for Khrushchev!

Issue 3, Structures and Ultrastructures

 * [Secret Original looks down on the living comic book from whence he came.]
 * Secret Original: Oh, Eve. If only I could see you. If only I could talk to you again, but I flew too high and broke against the walls of Heaven, Eve. You were right. I see the cruel reality behind all our hopes and dreams now. I know us for what we truly are. Not supermen but super-slaves in a synthetic prison. Playing out crummy meaningless adventures written by amoral monsters. They farm us, Eve; they farm us for the wonders we simply accept in our ignorance. There are even pornographic versions of our lives, my love. Alternative continuities where you let the entire Status Quorum gangbang you for money to pay your rent. Sick sex situations I'd never even thought of until I found Mercury's files... the sideways lives he'd written us to live... I pull out and run those rotten stories every night, Eve. I can't help it. I... I love to watch you lose your cool and your decency every night because it's the closest I can get... to how it once felt to love you. Man-Ro help me. I keep thinking I'll find a way to save us all. Then I just waste another five hours checking out sleazy sex comix.

 * Dmitri 9: Do you ever watch the Discovery Channel shows where one disgusting lion is fucking another filthy beast just like himself and for no money at all? That's about as interesting it is for me to watch smelly human trash mounting one another for bad drugs.

 * Dmitri 9: You cannot run from what you are, Comrade. Especially if what you are Includes the legs you run with!

 * Dmitri 9: You are Slade, officer 999; special negotiator of The Hand. I am the chimpanzee who shot alpha primate Kennedy. So don't fuck with me, man-turd.

Issue 4, S**t Happens

 * [On what is literally a mountain of pornography]
 * Hand agent: Biological waste, sticky used porn and dead junkies who got flushed by mistake. This'd be a wonderful life if I hadn't grown up dreaming of a job as a glamor photographer.

 * Doctor Arno von Vermun: The bacteria in our bellies are responsible for the farts that shame us. Tiny monsters shitting in their billions all over our pure skin create the acid reek of "our" sweat. And Slade: when the "inner voices" tell us we're unworthy or instruct us to "love" and "hate", despite our best interests... are these incessant, distracting thoughts our own? Or do we only hear the voice of the eternal germ, screaming in our heads?

Issue 5, Pornomancer

 * Anders Klimakks: Who would give a floating fuck to see these crazy movies where people with strict religious principles get turned into shit-worshipping perverts by the Devil? Only the staunch Fundamentalists of the world. And that is lucky for me. Today is "Anal Quakers" sequels two and three. Five Hours for me in makeup to become the prince of darkness and fuck some girl. I feel like I am the elephant man of sex.

 * Woman: Please... you cannot kill this man. Do you realise he has a ten-inch penis?
 * Jenesis Jones: Oh, yes I do. Stand away! Anders Klimakks: you have been identified as a potentially lethal anti-person!
 * Anders Klimakks: Ah. Maybe this is why my spunk has been grown to enormous size and used as a weapon.

Issue 6, The World of Anders Klimakks

 * [On the giant, dog-sized flying sperm attacking Beverly Hills]
 * Hand Officer: They're attacking everything with a fertile womb! All women officers out of the hotzone! Everybody out! There's nothing to see! You're imagining this and you need immediate psychiatric help!

 * Police cordon tape reads: DANGER! FUCK OFF! DANGER! FUCK OFF! DANGER...

 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: What about the Tex Porneau connection? Is that all shit?
 * Anders Klimakks: Yeah, this Porneau! This crazy guy who is making the movies where the sperm is grown to monster size!
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Mercury?
 * Moog Mercury: Give me a second... ur... Tex Porneau, director of Butt Invaders, Butt Conqueror, Assquest, Buttkrieg, Asskrieg, Ass Destroyer, Butt Breaker...
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: A clear picture of the man and his moods is beginning to form, Moog. You can stop there. Miami?
 * Miami Nil: Got that. Tex Porneau? Did he make that movie where the guy loses a bet with God and has to fuck himself up the ass for all time? Get me that weapon response as soon as you can, Ned. I have dumptrucks circling in spray formation and two hours of movie to describe in mind-numbing detail if you don't...

 * [The giant sperm are about to converge on Tex Porneau]
 * Miami Nil: Repeat after me: Nobody fucks with the Filth.

 * Anders Klimakks: [Points to his bag] This is the proof of me! The whole life of Anders Klimakks is all here. in these movies. I know for sure that I have lived.
 * Dmitri-9: Shut up. [Shoots Him] I have a headache.

 * Anders Klimakks' Voice: Hey! Forget the Puritanical disgust of this one guy!
 * Anders Klimakks Baby 1: Feast your eyes on the future.
 * Anders Klimakks Baby 2: In his crazy, headlong life of five years, Anders Klimakks has seduced, fucked, and made babies with 824 women.
 * Anders Klimakks Baby 3: Every single black sperm, and all the babies, are copies of Anders Klimakks and have read the same books and watched the same movies also as Anders.
 * Anders Klimakks Baby 4: Who would believe this? That a nobody is the guy who will one day become the ultimate Everybody?
 * Anders Klimakks Baby 5: All you need is Fuck, Yeah?
 * Anders Klimakks Child 1: One day soon, the engines of the cars, the airplanes and the high-heeled moon modules.
 * Anders Klimakks Child 2: All will run on the boiling black baby juice of Anders Klimakks.
 * Anders Klimakks Child 3: Instead of money, there will be blowjobs.
 * Anders Klimakks' Voice: The lonely and the suicidal will be gang-banged back to sanity online.
 * Anders Klimakks' Voice: The job of everybody will be to fuck everybody else for the camera to watch.
 * Anders Klimakks' Voice: And the cum will flow like no tomorrow, so everybody's happy.
 * Anders Klimakks' Voice: In the world of Anders Klimakks.

Issue 7, Zero Democracy

 * Neville Quain: I know. I know I was the wrong man to lead a boy scout troop into the sewage system under Minneapolis, I know that now. But I think it's safe to say I learned some very harsh and unforgettable lessons at the hands of my fellow inmates in the years that followed.

 * President: I'm the President...I'm a powerful man...[Whispering]Please don't...I hate needles...I have money in my jacket...
 * Neville Quain: [Shoves needle into President's eyeball] First Hit's always Free, sir.
 * President: NAAAUU
 * Surgeon: Money means nothing; art is our God.
 * Surgeon 2: We're giving the president breasts, Mister Quain, whether he likes it or not. Magnificent breasts! Bigger than the sun!
 * President: AUUU
 * Neville Quain: Ever since I was a powerless little boy I've had a dream. I've wanted to fuck the President in the Ass while he sings 'Happy Birthday', just like Marilyn Monroe.
 * Surgeon 3: [Lowering Scapel onto President] Make it so.

 * The President: Happy Birthday, Dear Neville...

Issue 8, æ*%$ Police

 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: I'm just trying to explain it! I've been caught up in all this. They want Tony dead... they've got a man who's my doppleganger...
 * Policeman: Get him in there. I'll tell the guv'nor.
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Tony's my cat... when I'm Greg... I'm Greg at home, see? And Ned at work...
 * Policeman: It's like listening to the Yorkshire Ripper tapes. He'll want a crack at the nutter with those nunchucks he brung back from compassionate leave in Myanmar.

 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: You'll be laughing on the other side of your faces when he turns up and starts calling you all a bunch of ugly human Bastards! They'll be coming back to reel me in! I never have long to wait!

 * Dmitri-9: What are you looking at, you ugly Human Bastard?

 * Spartacus Hughes: [After Dmitri-9 has shot the president] Bastard! He always deliberately misses first time.
 * Dmitri-9: Hey Spartacus! There is a hole in the boat and your mother is a KGB Ass-Whore in the Dungeons of Kremlin!
 * Spartacus Hughes: The fucking Assasin! Bane of my Life!
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: Dmitri! For fuck's sake! You shot the president!
 * Dmitri 9: For me this is not the first time. Another asshole will take his place and no one will smell the difference.

 * Moog Mercury: I think we got everything we need to stop this from happening again. [whispering] But in the process my septum has fucking collapsed.

Issue 9, Inside the Hand

 * Taxi driver: Pets are funny, aren't they? Mate of mine from school used to have a tarantula spider that did an impression of Winston Churchill if you poked its face with a pencil...
 * [Later]
 * Taxi driver: ...and then try burying a horse in a shoebox in the back garden. You won't get far before self-doubt starts creeping in.

 * [After Greg/Ned's described how he wants to buy some flowers for his dead cat.]
 * Cameron Spector: Aye but then... imagine this... just as they're wrapping poor wee Tony's flowers, one of the nice wummen spots the headline... PEDO-FEELY! "Greg Feely, weird cat-loving cunt, knobs and throttles another minor down the allotments..." Thay lovely wee wummin wid turn intay murderous fukken harpies and huv yoo chibbed tay chunks wey thurr beaks in 4/4 time, pal.
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: And what if they knew none of it was true, they'd hide him under the floorboards! What's your point?
 * Cameron Spector: Mind you fukken hing abit Androcles; whurr eez pulling the skelf oot the lion's feet, lik a fukken loony? Wull, winny bumped intay his big lion mate in the Roman arena yeerz latur? Know what the fukken kingy the beasts did next? did it buy umm a pint urr did it tear his fukken heed aff an eat his stupit brains oot, wan hemisphere at a time? Ya saft cunt, yih.

Issue 10, Man Made God

 * Journalist: What's going on in there, officer? Who's the guy with the bat-wings and what's all the smoke pouring out of his brains?
 * Policeman: Hold on. There's no official statement at the moment but... well... I'm going to have to ask you to consider the possibility of a maniac with an undying hard-on of hate and his own sackful of genetically modified super anthrax. The streets are staying closed until we can be absolutely sure that there's nothing like that going on. That's what the people in the day-glo suits told me to tell you.

Issue 11, A Very English Nervous Breakdown

 * Dmitri 9: Atomic death ensues!

 * Dmitri 9: Shit in Lenin's briefcase! [Touches the corpse of Feely's double, draws in from his cigarette, and sniffs] Poor shit man. [The real Feely whacks him in the head with an umbrella]

Issue 12, Schizotype

 * Spartacus Hughes: I am the world's first super-hero when you stop to think about it. Imagine me in my own comic: Hughes Plus. Detoxed, scrubbed clean, disinfected and then handed the genetic keys to Max Thunderstone's superbly buffed and waxed body, which I have earmarked for devastation at the hands of alcohol, tobacco, hard drugs and voraciously incurable STDs.

 * Moog Mercury: ...They recycled me...
 * Super Original: So? I was a mighty do-gooder. I lived in the Sky and evryone loved me. Now I piss in my trunks and no-one changes me for days. All this time trying hard to smile through the pain, to stay true to my characterization...and then just the other day, I looked in the contents of my Bowel Bag and I realised...I'm not a handsome hero, anymore, Moog. I'm and ugly villain. And I want to Fuck your World Up the way you Fucked mine.

 * Eve: [Slowly disintegrating from her transgression to the Third Dimension] AD-HUM! I FEEL FUNNY.
 * Super Original: Eve. Darling. I can explain everything.
 * [He shoots himself]]

 * Super Original: In 2-Space I'm invulnerable to all feeling; here, every single moment of existence is agony and blinding, obscene arousal. I don't want "first contact" with my past life. I want things to stay this way forever.

 * Captain Church: Heidi... I can't feel my legs... could... could you do it for me, darling?

Issue 13, THEM vs US

 * Mother Dirt: Selection process for my officers is ruthless but necessary. A new not-self entered the system; in developing a response it was necessary to expose you to the antigen.
 * Greg Feely/Ned Slade: I don't care; you took everything I had. And I wanted an explanation. Wanted it all to make sense but it's just shit. [Greg picks up some horrible filth] What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do with this?
 * Mother Dirt: Spread it on your flowers, Greg.

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You've Got Mail

You've Got Mail is a 1998 romantic comedy about two rival book shop owners who meet in a chat room and begin communicating via e-mail, unaware of each other's true identities.
 * Directed by Nora Ephron and written by Nora Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron.

Joe Fox

 * [to Kathleen Kelly] I would have asked for your number… and I wouldn't have been able to wait 24 hours before calling and asking, "How about coffee, drinks, dinner, a movie, for as long as we both shall live?"
 * [to Kathleen Kelly about her internet friend NY152] Maybe he is fat. Yup. He's fat. He's a fatty.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly] Timing is everything. He waited until you were primed. Until you knew there was no other man you could ever love.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies.  I would send you a bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.  On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could pass all my zingers to you and then I would never behave badly and you could behave badly all the time and we'd both be happy? On the other hand, I must warn you that when you finally have the pleasure of saying the thing you mean to say at the moment you mean to say it, remorse inevitably follows.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in instant message] The Godfather is the I Ching. The Godfather is the sum of all wisdom.  The Godfather is the answer to any question. What should I pack for my summer vacation?  'Leave the gun, take the cannoli.' What day of the week is it? 'Maunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday.' And the answer to your question is 'Go to the mattresses.' You're at war. 'It's not personal, it's business. It's not personal it's business.'  Recite that to yourself every time you feel you're losing your nerve. I know you worry about being brave, this is your chance. Fight. Fight to the death.
 * [to Kevin] I love Patricia. Patricia's amazing. Patricia makes coffee nervous.
 * [to Kevin] I said we were a piazza, where people could mingle and mix and be…I was eloquent.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly] I met a man in an elevator today who knew exactly what he wanted. And I found myself wishing I were as lucky as he.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly (Shopgirl) in email] The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are, can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self: Tall! Decaf! Cappuccino!
 * [to Kathleen Kelly at bookstore, describing his 4-year-old half-brother Matthew and 11-year-old aunt Annabel] Matt is my father's son. Annabel is my grandfather's daughter. We are -- an American family.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly at bookstore] '(Balloons get caught in the door)' Good thing it wasn't the fish!

Kathleen Kelly

 * [to Joe Fox, after first meeting him in "The Shop Around the Corner"] I started helping my mother after school here when I was six years old. And I used to watch her. And it wasn't that she was just selling books, it was that she was helping people become whoever it was (that) they were going to turn out to be. Because when you read a book as a child it becomes part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does...
 * [to Joe Fox] You were spying on me, weren't you? You probably rented those children.
 * [to Joe Fox] 'Joe. Just call me Joe.' As if you were one of those stupid 22-year-old girls with no last name. 'Hi, I'm Kimberley.' 'Hi, I'm Janice.' Don't they know you're supposed to have a last name?  It's like they're an entire generation of cocktail waitresses.
 * [to Joe Fox (NY152) in email] The odd thing about this form of communication is that you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.
 * [to Joe Fox (NY152) in email] Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable, but small.  And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave?  So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don’t really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So goodnight, dear void.
 * [to Joe Fox (NY152) in email] Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today I saw one. I couldn't believe it. It got on at 42nd -- and got off at 59th, where I assume it was going to Bloomingdale's to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake.  As almost all hats are.
 * [to Christina] It will be really easy to stop seeing him, because .... I'm not.
 * [to Joe Fox] I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.

Frank Navasky

 * [to Kathleen Kelly] Listen to this -- the entire workforce of the state of Virginia had to have solitaire removed from their computers -- because they hadn't done any work in six weeks.… You know what this is, you know what we're seeing here? We're seeing the end of Western civilization as we know it.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly]The Olympia Report deluxe Electric. Report…as in gunshot.
 * [to Kathleen Kelly, typing]You are a lone reed, standing tall, waving boldly, in the corrupt sands of commerce.
 * [to Sidney-Ann Strongin on television] Technologically speaking, the world's out of hand. Take the VCR.  The whole idea of a VCR is that it makes it possible for you to tape what's on television while you're out of the house.  But the whole point of being out of the house is so you can miss what's on television. Radio.  Now there's a medium I can get behind.
 * [to Sidney-Ann Strongin on television] Thank your.

Patricia Eden

 * [to Joe Fox] I'm late. Random House fired Dick Atkins. Good riddance. Murray Chilton died. Which makes one less person I'm not speaking to -- (she drains a cup of espresso as a second starts to come out of the machine) Vince got a great review.  He'll be insufferable.  Tonight, PEN dinner…

 * [to Frank Navasky, at dinner party] You know, what's always fascinated me about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is how old they looked when they were really just our age.

George Papas

 * [to Christina and Kathleen Kelly] As far as I'm concerned, the Internet is just another way to be rejected by a woman.
 * [to Christina and Kathleen Kelly] This place is a tomb. I'm going to the nutshop where it's fun.
 * [to Christina and Kathleen Kelly] Should I get sausage for the meat sauce or chopped meat..? No, you know what, I'm gonna get clam sauce, 'cuz this is a big date.

Dialogue

 * Schuyler Fox: Your father is getting married.
 * Joe Fox: Really?
 * Nelson Fox: Yes.
 * Joe Fox: Congratulations!
 * Nelson Fox: Thank you.
 * Joe Fox: Why?
 * Nelson Fox: Who knows?
 * Joe Fox: Love?
 * Nelson Fox: Possible.

 * Kathleen Kelly: I'm not nothing, I have a little money saved.
 * Birdie Conrad: If you need more, ask me. I'm very rich, I bought Intel at 6!

 * Kevin: The electrical contractor called, his truck hit a deer last night, so he's not gonna be here until tomorrow. And the upstairs shelves are delayed because the shipment of pine we ordered has beetles.
 * Joe Fox: Very good, *very* good.
 * Kevin: And we got a 50,000 dollar ticket for construction workers peeing off the roof.
 * Joe Fox: Great, that is great. Is the electrician here today?

 * Joe Fox: I'm sure you must be late for something - volunteering at the Henry Street Settlement, or rolling bandages for Bosnian Refugees.
 * Gillian Quinn: I am. I'm having my eggs harvested.
 * Joe Fox: And getting those eggs harvested.

 * Nelson Fox: Perfect. Keep those West Side, liberal, nuts, pseudo- intellectuals...
 * Joe Fox: Readers, Dad, they're called readers.
 * Nelson Fox: Don't do that son, don't romanticize them.

 * Joe Fox: [on Kathleen's missing date] So who is he, I wonder? Certainly not, I gather, the world's greatest living expert on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But somebody else entirely different. Will you be mean to him, too?

 * Kathleen Kelly: No, I will not. Because the man who is coming here tonight is completely unlike you. The man who is coming here tonight is kind and funny, he has the most wonderful sense of humor...

 * Joe Fox: But... he's not here.

 * Kathleen Kelly: Well... if he's not here, he has a reason, because there is not a cruel or careless bone in his body. But I wouldn't expect you to understand anybody like that. You with your theme park, multi-level, homogenize-the-world mochaccino land. You've deluded yourself into thinking that you're some sort of benefactor, bringing books to the masses. But no one will ever remember you, Joe Fox. And maybe no one will remember me, either, but plenty of people remember my mother, and they think she was fine, and they think her store was something special. You are nothing but a suit!

 * [pause]

 * Joe Fox: [gets up, crestfallen] That's my cue.

 * Kathleen Kelly: The truth is, he was the one who made me start thinking about writing --
 * Joe Fox: Mister 152 Felony Indictments --
 * Kathleen Kelly: Mister 152... insights into my soul.
 * Joe Fox: Yeah. Well.  Can't compete with that.
 * Kathleen Kelly: Well. I keep bumping into you. Hope your mango's ripe.
 * Joe Fox: I think it is.

 * Frank Navasky: Technology! Name me one thing, one that we've gained from technology.
 * Kathleen Kelly: Electricity.
 * Frank Navasky: That's one. You think this machine's your friend, but it's not.

 * Joe Fox: It wasn’t personal.
 * Kathleen Kelly: What is that supposed to mean? I am so sick of that! All that means is that it wasn’t personal to you! But it was personal to me! It’s personal to a lot of people! And what’s wrong with being personal anyway?
 * Joe Fox: Uh, nothing.
 * Kathleen Kelly: Whatever else anything is, it ought to begin by being personal.

 * Frank Navasky: She fell in love with Generalissimo Franco?!
 * Kathleen Kelly: Don't say that...really, we don't know that.
 * Frank Navasky: Who else could it have been?! It was probably around 1960 --
 * Kathleen Kelly: Do you want some popcorn?
 * Frank Navasky: I can't believe this! I mean it's not like he was something normal like a socialist or an anarchist or something...
 * Kathleen Kelly: It happened in Spain. People do really stupid things in foreign countries.
 * Frank Navasky: Absolutely! They buy leather jackets for much more than they’re worth, but they don't fall in love with fascist dictators.

 * Christina: You are so lucky.
 * George: You could be dead.
 * Kathleen Kelly: Are you crazy? This man couldn't possibly be the rooftop killer.
 * Christina: Remember when you thought Frank might be the Unabomber?
 * Kathleen Kelly: That was different.

 * Frank Navasky: You are a lone reed standing tall, waving boldly in the corrupt sands of commerce.
 * Kathleen Kelly: I am a lone reed?
 * Frank Navasky: Lone reed.
 * Kathleen Kelly: I am a lone reed.

 * Joe Fox: What's his handle?
 * Kathleen Kelly: Uh...
 * Joe Fox: I'm not gonna write him if that's what you're worried about.
 * Kathleen Kelly: Alright, N-Y-1-5-2.
 * Joe Fox: N-Y-1-5-2. 152. He's 152 years old. He's had 152 moles removed so now he has 152 pockmarks on his face.
 * Kathleen Kelly: The number of people who think he looks like Clark Gable.
 * Joe Fox: 152 people who thinks he looks like a Clark Bar.

Cast

 * Joe Fox - Tom Hanks
 * Kathleen Kelly - Meg Ryan
 * Frank Navasky - Greg Kinnear
 * Patricia Eden - Parker Posey
 * Birdie Conrad - Jean Stapleton
 * George Pappas - Steve Zahn
 * Christina Plutzker - Heather Burns
 * Kevin Jackson - Dave Chappelle
 * Nelson Fox - Dabney Coleman
 * Schuyler Fox - John Randolph
 * Veronica Grant - Deborah Rush
 * Annabel Fox - Hallee Hirsh
 * Matthew Fox - Jeffrey Scaperrotta
 * Gillian Quinn	- Cara Seymour

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User talk:Mister Six~enwikiquote

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:04, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Comics
Hi. I'm happy to find another comics fan here, and especially a DC/Vertigo fan, since my own interests run more in the Marvel direction, and I am happy to have a counterweight. If you are interested in formatting comics and having standard guidelines, I would love to share thoughts with you. You may want to inspect Spider-Girl, Runaways, Ctrl Alt Del, The Order of the Stick, Ultimate X-Men, Dinosaur Comics and others to see some decisions I've made, and the appropriate section in Firefly to see what some others did. See Guide to layout for general layout advice and you can have a look at Templates/TV shows for where I get most of my inspiration for comic-book quotation formatting. Please also see my edits on The Filth, where I tried to clean up the formatting - please let me know if you think it looks better or worse. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 15:28, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Is this the official style or just your own? I notice Spider-Girl doesn't have issue titles. I think it would be better to put the titles before the issue number, since that's the formatting people seem to use on most other sites. Also, the current layout suggests that there's a comic or multi-issue storyline called "Them vs Us" and that quote is taken from its first issue. Actually, I've got to be perfectly honest and say that I hate the new version. It looks cramped and overbearing, especially when there's only one quote per issue. There's a lot of black text anyway, and adding the issue headings on top of that makes it difficult on the eye (don't think I'm being precious about "my" design - I actually stole it off another article by someone else). Also, in series with more than 13 issues, that menu bar is going to be enormous. --Mister Six 16:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

 * My problem is that there is no "official" style. Not enough people other than me, until now, were actually interested. I am happy you take an interest, even if you disagree with me. Please feel free to revert the article to what you believe is a nicer style -- wikiquote is a collaborative effort. The general guidelines I try to go for are "clarity of source" and "a lot of encouragement for new editors to add quotations in a way they can be verified". Please add any comments you have to Wikiquote talk:Guide to layout. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS. There is actually an official style -- as comic books are literary works, they would have to follow the style of literary works. Luckily, this is so obviously unsuitable, that nobody even dares to bring up that alternative :) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 16:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories
Please do not add supercategories: an article which is in Category:Marvel comics should not be in Category:Comics. There has been much discussion on that issue, and this is the agreed-upon guideline. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 15:34, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * What's the logic behind that decision? I would have thought the most practical thing would be to make it so that anyone interested in browsing through the comic quotes in Wikipedia can look at the main list, but those who want a more refined search can use the DC/Marvel/whatever subdivisions? Also, what about adding "literary works" to the comic articles? That's not quite the same thing... is it? --Mister Six 16:22, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see User talk:UDScott/Archive01. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk)

Ω
The Omega sign can be entered in various ways; using Unicode designations, copying and pasting existing occurrences, such as those here, or in my case simply typing Option-z on a Macintosh keyboard: Ω. ~ Kalki 22:43, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'm not a dirty Mac use like you, but it'll do. ;) --Mister Six 18:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Mister Six. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Mister Six~enwikiquote that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:31, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Please note that wikiquote is NOT a personal web space. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:05, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Monarchy

The word "monarch" brings itself from Greek monos archein, meaning "one ruler," and referred to an absolute ruler in ancient Greece. With time, the word has been succeeded in this meaning by others, like autocrat or dictator, and the word monarch in modern usage almost always refers to a traditional system of hereditary rulership ---

Unsourced

 * Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.
 * Margaret Thatcher (November 1995).

Why so much Hitchens?
His section takes up over a full page-view. Did someone just think his book was a world masterpiece? Ought the number of quotes be cut down a bit?

Definitely. Two or three quotes will be enough to make clear that he hates the idea of monarchy, so he is only likely to be quoted by those who share his hatred.--Carandol (talk) 15:40, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:59, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Pure Pwnage

As of 08:23, 11 December 2005, all quotes are in chronological order. Tried to present ones with impact so little explanation is required. Verified everything within the episodes, and thought it would be important to make efforts to capture Jeremy's distinct lingual style.

Quotation from series should be organized by episode, not series, and use standard dialogue formatting: see notes and example. Thanks ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

needs serious cleanup
these new quotes look pretty empty. most of them don't make sense to someone who hasn't seen where they came from, unlike notable quotes. and why the inconsistent bold parts, capital parts, and exc. marks?
 * More than one article on Wikiquote is laced like that. It may be the work of anon vandals. 65.145.213.61 09:37, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Episode 10 Quotes
Episode 10 quotes have been added as of March 13th 2006. The Episode will be released on the internet on March 16th 2006.

For this reason some quotes may not make sense to all readers.

About article cleanup
Please start using the following page to put quotes/edit/cleanup:

Thanks (again) --ShadowSlave 23:07, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

I also forgot to mention this (twice) that all previous quotes that I did not put up can be put up by others (I either couldn't find the episode it was for while listening to them or they are incorrect quotations). --ShadowSlave 23:10, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

You can also edit by, clicking on the edit tab while browsing through the page. (edit tabs are on the right of each episode) --ShadowSlave 18:32, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:70.156.72.53

~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:32, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

why don't you take a look at what i've done or the talk page? humor isn't vandalism, asshole.

 * Please note that it is not considered proper to engage at personal attacks on Wikiquote. Thanks in advance. If you do not want your edits to be mistaken for vandalism, please use more accurate edit summaries: the edit summary of the summary I reverted was "i'm pretty much liek a to'l pro at ownin wikiquote nstuff rite". A better edit summary might have been "Sorted quotations according to character. All quotations kept, though some have been capitalized properly." Thanks for your co-operation ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 08:57, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

 * content before format, my friend. you won't admit any fault in deleting before looking. if my personal attack offended you, i apologize, but i was very insulted that my hours of work were just so briefly disregarded. i'm not cooperating, and when you talk about or within a human and society supported project, it may be beneficial not to use such an institutionalized and mechanical tone. but if you really think it's appropriate, i'll take a not that it isn't proper to engage at personal attacks on wikiquote.

Hi. I wanted to ask you to sign comments in talk pages. The easiest way to sign is to add ~ at the end -- it is automatically transformed to your IP address with a timestamp or, if you register, to a username and a timestamp. This makes it much easier to track discussions, and is the common practice here. Thanks. ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

really no need. i'm not here for identity or recognition-- just trying to improve content. in case you were wondering, i took the format by example of the simpsons. wasn't aware what the current standard is. not the type to get into these little fights, but i see you're here for the cause, and ensuingly i'm sorry about it. so that you won't need to be paranoid of someone posing, this'll be my last entry. p.s. (sorry) little quickie, but "TV" isn't really appropriate for pure pwnage. webisode?

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Talk:David Gilmour

Commented-out one quote about Roger Waters circa 1988 . . ..
1987, '88, maybe even '89 -- These were ugly times for those of us who loved Roger and David equally. They were ugly because Waters and Gilmour were saying ugly things about each other. I tend to think Roger did less quipping to the press, and concentrated on instigating vigorous lawsuits to end their careers as Pink Floyd. This is probably why I see Gilmour as the "winner" -- he understood that the court of public opinion mattered more, and that the only victory Waters could possibly attain in courts of law would be increased royalties for himself. For the life of me, I don't understand how a band can go out and play songs like "Money" or "Another Brick in the Wall" if the one man who wrote those songs, Waters, doesn't want them to, and asks the court to stop them. There's a lot about that time period and those issues that I still don't understand; I still find myself fuming, "Why couldn't Gilmour leave well enough alone, when he was making such great solo albums?!?" or "God, Roger, why did you release the two worst songs from Radio KAOS as singles? And then make such shitty videos for them, at a time when you actually needed attention from MTV?"

Here is my point: That was an era which is now over. Pink Floyd is finally laid to rest. They will not work again, even though Roger Waters now apparently wants to. It's history. Yes, history IS to be preserved, and yes, Wikipedia/Wikiquote is an appropriate place for such archiving of the past, but the David Gilmour quote I removed. . . Well, see for yourself:

 * Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to.
 * Penthouse, September 1988; regarding Roger Waters

I felt this quote could and should be axed because, for one, it is a vast oversimplification of Waters's former position, an oversimplification nearly as idiotic and anti-intellectual as "The terrorists hate us for our freedom". Roger Waters was trying to force Pink Floyd to end with The Final Cut. Not to stop Gilmour from going out and playing "Comfortably Numb", "Run Like Hell", and "Money" every night as a solo artist. Not to stop Gilmour's career, but Pink Floyd's. This is a concept that can be understood, even if not agreed with. So Gilmour's Dubyaesque oversimplification doesn't make him look very good, much less Roger Waters. I felt it was ugly and stupid. Gilmour said much better things about these issues than that quotation. I like to think I'm making room for a better quote by removing this one.

The reason I only commented it out, instead of actually removing it, is this: If even only one person wants to restore this quote to this article, I wanted to make it as easy as possible for him/her to do so. I'm not going to argue about it. I'm not 100% certain the quote should have been removed, just certain enough to try it and see what everyone else thinks. I AM, however, 100% certain that David said much more intelligent, incisive things during the "Floyd Wars", and maybe I'll find one and put it in myself.

Something he said to Musician magazine at the time, about his playing bass on the record, when he was asked about "Hey You": "Roger playing a fretless bass? Please!" Now, see, that's mean-spirited, but it's funny. It gets its point across, for those of us prone to arguing about Pink Floyd. I have no doubt David also played the bass on "Pigs [Three Different Ones]", and not because such-and-such source said so, but because it is simply too difficult to be Roger's playing (and some of it, at least, is also fretless). That's a quote from the Floyd-Wars era I wouldn't mind being in this article. --Ben Culture (talk) 10:19, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

get shot
One quote currently says: "... that image hangs on and we can't seem to get shot of it." Now I think the correct spelling would have to be get shod, as in shedding onseself of sth., but I'm not about to change something which claims to be a direct quote... -- BjKa@

Unsourced

 * "I like our music to feel three-dimensional. It's about trying to invoke emotions in people, I suppose. You feel larger than life in some sort of way. Let's face it — none of us in Pink Floyd are technically brilliant musicians, with great chops who can change rhythms, fifteen or sixteen bars here, there, and everywhere. And we're not terribly good at complicated chord structures. A lot of it is just very simple stuff dressed up. We stopped trying to make overtly 'spacey' music and trip people out in that way in the 60's. But that image hangs on and we can't seem to get shot of it."

 * "There are people who say we [Pink Floyd] should make room for younger bands. That's not the way it works. They can make their own room."

 * "It is the way that some of us express ourselves best"
 * During an interview conducted by the BBC; in response to the possibility that the guitar could have become part of his personality.

Two new problems
I don't think anyone reads the Talk pages of Wikiquote articles, but anyway. . . We have two problems:

1. We have virtually quoted the entire lyric to the song "Childhood's End". Is this not a copyright issue? Wikiquote is not an excuse to post lyrics, is it?

Worse, it's a song that Roger Waters stepped in on and finished the lyrics for David Gilmour, but gallantly (or otherwise) went uncredited. My source on that is Dave Thompson's Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall, which has its iffy moments, but I think he knows what he's talking about in making this bold assertion. (Then again, Nicholas Schaffner has us all believing Bob Ezrin composed "Is There Anybody Out There?", and that's clearly untrue, as Roger's home demos prove.)

2. We have a number of quotations cited as taking place during "The Dark Side of the Moon sessions", as seen in Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii. Well, those weren't real sessions. The album was completed, but for whatever reason, they staged some pretend sessions. That's why you have Gilmour playing riffs that never appear in "Brain Damage" and so on (They're also all one semitone too sharp). I don't know how to change this in keeping with Wikiquote style, but I may have a go at it.

--Ben Culture (talk) 23:32, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

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One day I'll get rid of all the bold on the comic quotes articles because it looks ugly when transferred into this medium.

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